Lit Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm #1 (of 5)

Could someone clarify for me, but when reading the issue again, when the Rakata Tul'Kar has just killed the Rakata messenger he says "Have the body properly prepared. All this activity has given me an appetite" is he referring to the boy his guards just killed or the Rakata messenger?

 

I took it to mean he wanted to eat the boy . I like the idea of Rakatans as cannibals.

 

Tul'kar was referring to the Rakatan messenger.

 

Great job on the issue, Jan. The visuals were stunning as usual! Really digging both the Shikaawka warships and the Rataka warships.

--Adm. Nick

 

Wow!!!! So the Rakata are Cannibalistic? Sweet! So what did the Rakata need with the small boy then? Oh, and BTW Jan (and John) the first issue was amazingly epic, seriously good work form you and the team =)

 

Ah,yes, the Kumumgah boy the Rakata took.... Poor lad.

 

It's not like he felt it

 

I think this is what I appreciated the most about this issue and you summed it up quite nicely. A story of this weight and scale shouldn't be rushed and the deliberate pace that John has set suits it very well.

And it was beautiful, Jan!

Looking forward to more!

 

Didn't this come up in KOTOR?

I thought The One ate the heart of the village leader who he first ousted?

 

Mmmmm... Rakatan hearts...

No wonder Darth Drear believed in his weekly dish of Heart aux Midis. He must have dug up an old Rakatan cook book.

Gotta keep those midi-chlorian levels topped up, you know?

 

It probably shows how much I played the game that I can remember exactly what the Lore Master Said when describing the rise of The One.



Slightly off topic, do these Rakatan have the same accent as the ones in KOTOR?

 

Rakatan cannibalism may have come up in KotOR... but One's tribe were devolved primitives some 20,000ish years separated from the Infinite Empire that knew next to nothing about their ancestors.

I'd consider what we've learnt of their diet this issue to be worthy of "whoa...", rather than "We knew that"

 

I wonder, though, if this indicates the rakata as a whole are cannibals, or just this particular one.

 

Well... on one hand, Jan said they're going for stereotype breaking characters.

But on the other hand, stereotypes can still be cool when it means the Rakata are an entire race of evil brain eating cannibals.

 

It just takes one.

 

I've never played KOTOR, but the Rakatan remind me of E.R. Burrough's "Therns", powerful, ancient, cannibalistic beings.

 

I knew the Rakata in KOTOR were cannibalistic but I just assumed that this was because there society had reduced itself over the millennia to barbarism. Weird now that they may have been the whole time.

So if he ate the Rakata messenger, why did he kill the young boy on Tatooine?

 

Because he could.






Oh, wait. That was the cannibal guy in Dark Times. Probably the Rakata just have big appetites. Neither the boy nor the messenger alone would be enough, but together...

 

And yet they keep so slim.

 

Maybe the Rakata simply enjoy dessert? We can all afford to splurge, every once in awhile.

The whole "conquer and pillage worlds" routine is a great way to burn calories. Even so, it is recommended that you have 4-6 meals a day, consisting of singular body parts, rather than eating an entire human in one meal.

 

And you know what all Rakata moms say--eat your veggies! Neti anyone?

 

That dark side stuff takes a big toll on your weight too, always wasting away... need to keep the calories up, right?

 

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many dress sizes some consider to be... unnatural.

 

Now we know why there are hardly any of the tree people left. ^^