This arc was important for several reasons. Darth Krayt had been introduced in the series preview issue #0, and, after a year, readers would finally learn his identity. It had been teased for awhile that Krayt was someone who knew Anakin Skywalker; there were many guesses on the various message boards on who it was and how they were alive some 160 years after the events in Revenge of The Sith. We not only learn who the Sith lord is, it’s someone readers who had read earlier Star Wars were familiar with, but I won’t spoil that here.
Not only does this arc reveal who Darth Krayt is, we get some back-story on one of the greatest Jedis of all time, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and we learn the identity of Cade’s mother, who left because she was called back into service by the empire and abandoned her family. It’s someone Cade had run into in a previous issue and was another great revelation that only the readers were privy to.
Star Wars: Legacy took a gamble by jumping the Star Wars saga 100 years past what we knew about it and it has paid off. It’s a great series. In the hands of Ostrander and Duursema, readers won’t know what to expect, but they will get a great story worthy of the name Star Wars!
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