Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties

Oh! Oh! I know: a skifter. Does that mean you're doing a list of Star Wars gambling games too?

Zuckuss-class uncanny.

 

So much sin, so little time.

Zuckuss-class uncanny. [/quote]Now that's uncanny.

Take care,
Abel

 

Nifty Yoda Stories pics. And that Holiday Special site seems to have named some other characters after names they were given in some old LFL notes. A nice reference for any folks with a knack for revisting the obscure in official works!

 

Nonetheless, that is teh Belia

 

Heh heh. No big. She just doesn't have on her heavy armor there. She is a changeling, after all. That might not even be actual clothing on her.

 

Actually, just looking over the Evil Never Dies text, I realize something funny happened in my final edit of the piece. I originally had Belia chronologically as the first Sith Lord in the "New Sith Wars" section lineup, rather than the last. (A hint of this can be seen in the order in which I mention the Dark Lords of the New Sith Wars in the Ultimate Vader Guide). However, when Dan's manuscript for the New Essential Guide to Droids placed Belia hundreds of years closer to the Battle of Rusaan, I did some shuffling, and switched her spot out for the Dark Underlord.

As such, the DU got Belia's line:

"...he was a bloody marauder of the first quarter of the New Sith Wars."

e.g. Belia Darzu, the dark side marauder.

 

What sort of a shapeshifter was Belia? Shi'ido?

EDIT: Never mind, I just noticed that she's labelled a Shi'ido in UAA.

I got a chance to read the article recently, incidentally-- excellent work, Abel. The Belia retcon was particularly inspired, as was the history of Adas's holocron.

EDIT AGAIN: Does anyone else find it interesting that shapeshifters tend to stick with a human appearance as a default?

 

Presumably, as humans are among the most common sentients in the galaxy, it helps them blend in better.

 

Yep.

Thank you, 000. Adas and his holocron were particularly fun subjects to address. I didn't know how in the world I was going to explain the Sith coming up with holocron technology that far back in the timeline convincingly. Then the Rakata came along.

It was fun to drag Adas' holocron through the ages. Some folks might say it's improbable, but that's why it's the story that gets told.

Belia, Ruin, the Dark Underlord, and (when he was in the piece) Darth Revan all went through quite a number of species changes over the years. It was probably the thing about the article I changed the most. At one point, the Dark Underlord was the shapeshifter, Belia was a Zeltron, Ruin was a Weequay, and Revan was a Wroonian. I think it turned out best this way (after Joe Corroney's History of the Mandos illustration, the Zeltron became the DU's second in command).

C'mon, we're clearly the sexiest race out there.

Honestly, maybe it's because humans are so bland-looking in comparison to other races... less shapeshifting work.

Take care,
Abel

 

First Full Nude Scene in Star Wars!!


(Other than almost every Alien)

 

Cough, Darth Revan?

 

jei!

 

>>>Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it seemed pretty obvious to me that, with Lumiya vowing revenge on him and her being believed dead by the NR and Empire, his death was just disguised as a suicide when it was actually Lumiya who killed him (using a lightsaber so as not to reveal the possibility of her survival by using her lightwhip; not to mention a saber in Flint's hands is a more plausible suicide weapon than a lightwhip ). <<<

I think I was reading too much into it. Yeah, all is probably not as it seems.

 

Thanks 2ndQuest.

Good guess.

Getting Lumiya and Flint into a duel with each other to determinte the future of the Sith was one of the coolest things I got to do for this piece. In my continuity notes to Lucasfilm, I believe I cited the Darth Maul Journal as the source for vying Sith apprentices being chosen via duel and Resurrection as a kind of example of this.

You forgot Grand Admirals.

There's no question that lots of fans know their continuity to a degree that rivals Dan, Pablo, or myself. I've seen it on these boards and in the winning What's the Story entries.

Yeah, I love stuff like that. Sometimes I'll be reading Dan's work, and he seems to pull continuity ideas right from my brain. I feel validated.

Yup, the original age of END had a lot to do with it. As I might've mentioned, at one point I did have Lumiya's apprentice in there, although this was before she was slated to return to continuity in a big way. The apprentice was originally going to be a Jensaarai. At one point Vongerella was in there, but I decided to play it a little closer to the vest.

The future, Mr. Quest... the future!

 

Also, the fight between Maul and Silus in Tales: Marked seems to be another example of the Sith belief in "survival of the meanest."

 

Good point.

 

Anakin Vs. Dooku, Luke vs. Vader, etc....

 

Yup, only anakin vs. Dooku hadn't happened yet when I wrote that footnote, and I figured Luke vs. Vader would be inferred.

 

I've been there, and all I got was a stinking home appliance...

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In the year 2000, Abel G. Peña will write a book condemning Star Wars. Lucasfilm will label him an apostate, and declare all his Star Wars work non-canonical.

In the year 2000...

 

Is this before the Star Trek Wars and the Star Wars Trek?