Comics Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith #13-18: Burning Seas (6/6 Released)

Well, remember that Order 66 was very effective. Out of ten thousand Jedi Knights, we've seen a total of five survivors. That is a 99.95% mortality rate. Unlike Legends where Purge Survivors numbered in the double digits, Canon survivors have few and far between.

Vader probably spent most of his time between ROTS and ANH doing special missions for Palpatine. Which, as we saw in the first Vader series, could range from planetary coups to hunts for rogue scientists to simple extermination of underworld scum.

 

I see what you mean, it could feel a little more compressed... but gladly, at this point, there is no need for us to assume that everything of importance in this era happened shortly before ROTS. We are only seeing the first time Vader and the Inquisitors went to Mon Cala, and the eventual first attempt of the Calamari to secede, so there is still much to be told. The Rule of Five was an interesting story, yet fairly unimportant in the wide scope of the galaxy; I´m sure there are plenty of interesting stories to fill years and years of the Dark Times era in this comic, if they intented so.

The thing is, the opening crawl already stated that Vader and the Inquisitorius have been proven very successful, so the hunting of several Jedi was to already have taken place, in the originally intented timeline; To me, it´s still a rather exciting idea, to have the chance of actually seeing at least one or two of those hunts!

 

They shouldn't have changed the timeline to one year after ROTS, instead they should have retconned the 6th Brother.

The author intended this and subsequent stories to take place three years after ROTS, now the Story Group screwed it for him.

 

And both have a boring, goodie-good personality.

I liked Ahsoka in TCW but she really outlasted her welcome for me.

 

I see what you mean about the Jedi Purge being really effective, but it's not just the Jedi, but other important events. In Legends the Caamas Disaster, subjugation of Kashyyyk, and subjugation of Mon Calamari all happened that year. The Ghormann Massacre happened a year later.

I mean, I get that the early years of the Empire would be busy what with Jedi survivors, Separatist hold outs, ect. But just look at the Wookieepedia Legends Timeline. Even discounting all the Clone Wars battles, 19BBY was extremely busy compared to the other years of the Imperial Period.

It's just like how I hope the new Solo movie dosn't have him meet Chewie, meet Lando, win the Falcon, do the Kessel run, alienate Lando, join in the Battle of Taanab, AND make Jabba angry all within a few days of meeting Obi-wan in the Mos Eisley cantina. I'm fine with some important events in Vader's early life happening 16 or so BBY instead of 19 BBY.

 

The Solo movie will cover the period from 11 BBY to 5 BBY, so you don't have to be worried about that.

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Even people who are really good about continuity can occasionally make mistakes.

 

Nope, not at all. Soule intended for this story to take place three years after ROTS, not knowing about the 6th Brother already being dead. He even mentioned it in an interview.

Nobody in the Story Group noticed either and they realised their mistake only after fans started pointing it out to them on Twitter.

Their solution? Let's change the timeline to one year after ROTS so the 6th Brother can still be alive instead of changing the 6th Brother to someone else in the Ahsoka novel. Another mistake in the issue was calling Tarkin Grand Moff, even though he's supposed to get this title in the Tarkin novel, which is happening years later. Story Group didn't notice.

 

Makes sense, indeed, but how could they just change the Inquisitor from the novel? They said he was the Sixth Brother, and we saw the comic´s Sixth Brother in Coruscant training with the others as early as 19 BBY, and with a matching appereance, no less. They would have to go around and say "ohh, the novel was the Sixteenth Brother, it was a printing error, but no harm done, right?"

I imagine they figured it was better to fix the mistake right on, rather than retcon it and make the other, correct source, mistaken in turn because of it...

P.S.: Or just say that the Ahsoka novel happened in 16 BBY! It was a little weird that every clone trooper was replaced almost immediately with a stormtrooper anyway...

 

Someone should bring that to their attention too, so it can be corrected with an updated issue. The nice thing about digital comics is that little errors like these can be mended easily.

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It was edited to Governor, FUI.

 

Maybe there were two Sixth Brothers, and they were twins?

...don't worry, I would fire myself if I made that retcon too.

 

And with a powerful enough sibling bond, if they're both in the same place at the same time they become the Third Brother!

 

I approve of this retroactive editing. The Story Group is on the ball these days. Pablo probably has more time to do his job now that he's not trying to dodge Guttierez every day.

 

We all know that they were simply joking around with the whole Pablo avoiding Andi thing. It was clear as daylight

 

This comic is awesome. Dac City! Floating cities instead of only an underwater one!

The only thing I dislike is the Jedi Temple as the Imperial Palace.

Everything else is great.

 

The thing with retroactive editing like this is that it can be used to edit a bunch of Legends stories to fit with the canon. A lot of stories need minor edits like this issue did, and boom, they could be canon.

 

Great solution! Wouldn't mind if they would move the Ahsoka novel to 16 BBY. And it would also give them more space for a post-ROTS Ahsoka mini-series

 

Darth Vader #14 preview.

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Up to inquisitor number 10!

Does also show the imperial march in the first year was relentless. AT-AT's , AT-ST's etc.

 

Awesome preview!

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AT-AT's are up and running just a year after ROTS - a similar situation as in Legends, where a couple of months after the formation of the Empire, AT-AT's were being produced and in a testing phase. It's cool to see Clone Wars tech along side OT Imperial fighters in combat at the same time. I would have loved to see some V-Wings thrown into the mix too, but I guess there's still a chance for that. And the Tenth Brother is a miraluka, yes? He clearly lacks eyes, and it doesn't seem like that's due to some injury. I wonder why he's wearing a turtle neck (for a lack of a better term) over his mouth. It would be mindblowing if he is actually Jerec, and the covering of his mouth is so to not reveal his trademark tattoo's in order to keep us Legends fans guessing.

Can't wait for the full issue!

 

Although... wasn't the AT-AT in Rebels meant to be an early model, implying it was pretty new as of 4 BBY?

 

Maybe there are different types of AT-AT's? I'm not that much into Star Wars military tech & vehicles, so I wouldn't be able to answer this in detail. But, IIRC, the AT-AT's in Rebels are bigger than those from TESB. If so, that would imply that there are different models of AT-AT and maybe those in Rebels were indeed pretty new?

 

Is it just me or was that one Inquisitor a Tunroth?