Tales #13 Discussion (Spoilers!)

I agree- Stones and Children of the Force were excellent.

Sith in Shadow wasn't that bad either.

Survivors was ok.

Secret of Tet Ami was fun.

I didn't care much for Puzzle Peace. Wasn't fond of the art style or Mace's solution to the problem- I mean, that was rather cruel I think.

I hope Children of the Force gets inserted into continuity...very good plot threads there, love to see it followed up on.

 

Should also add that, from Stones, Hurikane is probably the coolest planet name since Despayre :

Ok, summaries-

SPOILERS!!!!!!!


PUZZLE PEACE

In Yoda's quarters, he and Mace discuss Mace's talks with warring factions of Er'Stacians, who quarrel over a Megalith. Mace then tells what happened- after arriving there, he found himself in the midst of a large ground battle. He attempted to halt the fight with the force- and temporarily succeeds. They explain that they fight over which clan will own this megalith (a large religious statue of their god). Mace threatens to slice it in half so that both sides can have part of it. Then they start arguing about who would get what portions. After a stray bolt accidentally hits a chunk off the megalith (and the shooter shortly torn limb from limb by the crowd), Mace sees that they unite in repairing the small chunk back to the statue. Seeing this, Mace chops the statue into a thousand pieces, to give them alot to unite about.


SECRET OF TET-AMI

A holonet-like program starts, with an alien Geraldo-ish host who is reporting from the site where a 4,000 year old temple is being excavated and is about to be opened live. The temple is made in honor of Tet-Ami, the "Time Guardian" (shown to be someone weilding a lightsaber in wall craving depictions) who saved the armies of Carthas from a plague of evil beasts. They hope to find the body of Tet-Ami or perhaps even the legendary "Orb of Passage" that allowed him to control time.

Meanwhile, Mace uses a holomap to quietly naviagte through the archeaologists, and finds his way to a temple wall, sliding a rock lever, gaining access to the temple. He enters a passageway, accidentally activating a boobytrap of battledroids that were posing as statues. After disposing of them he enters another chamber where a statue of Mace Windu stands. Mace takes a glowimng green stone and places it in the outreached hand of the Mace statue. It glows bright green, engulfing Mace in light.

After the light fades, Mace wfinds himself in the midst of a battle between a Carthas army and a horde of attacking beasts. After 4 days of combat, he is cheered as Tet-Ami. Mace then is reengulfed in the light and returns to modern day just as the archealologists break through the wall.

Back on Coruscant in the council chamber, Yoda explains that the temple was first found by Jedi centuries ago, and protected its secrets by removing the Orb and storing it safe until they knew that a Jedi KNight called Mace Windu would be. So, the time paradox was maitained. A Jedi must always start the job he finishes.


SURVIVORS

Two permieter guards in a fortress watch as who they believe is a bounty hunter approaches the base, surviving several traps and dangers. Meanwhile a narration speaks of a man who had done terrible crimes and murdered many, many people, and how he must be held accountable for his crimes.Eentually Mace makes his way into the fortress (after using a jedi mind trick to convicne the permeter guards that they were meant to guard against outsiders from invading the fortress, and since he was already inside, he's obviously nota threat). Mace comes face to face with Uda-Khalid. He claims there was no evidence that he commited the crimes. No survivors, no witnesses. Mace replies "none?" as hundreds of ghostly apparitions of Uda's victims appear, marching behind Mace. Uda engages a wrist energy blade weapon and tries to battle Mace. Mace outmanuevers him and stabs Uda in his heart- even though it was a small target.


STONES

Basicly tells how Mace got his lightsaber crystal. It's him looking back at himself then- cocky and arrogant. He goes to Hurikane in search of a crystal to construct his lightsaber with. He's chased by and attacked by two rock-like aliens. Mace manages to elude them by jumping over a chasm. One tries to follow and falls down into it, breaking itself apart. Mace climbs his way down and reassambles the creature with an intense use of the force. Happy to be reunited with it's comrades, they give Mace his purple cryst

 

Puzzle Piece is hard to say when it takes place- probably between TPM and AOTC.

The Secret of Tet-Ami is proably the same...although possibly prior to TPM.

Survivors looks like it is before he was a master since he identifys himself as a Jedi Knight.

Stones takes place when he was 14 years old.

Hard to say when The Sith in the Shadow takes place...all we know is it's probably after he's joined the council.

Children of the Force is pre-TPM since Depa is still a padawan.