Comics Dark Empire Trilogy

Some folks running around thinking Legends was universally loved and forgetting that a lot of us were very discontent with the post-NJO. After Invincible I took a break because I hated the way that story ended. Hated it. Then I let myself get suckered into FOTJ, which ended up being even more of what I hated in LOTF.

 

Reading through it all for myself for the first time, I know pieces of the post-Dark Empire EU, but not details. But I generally have enjoyed all Star Wars, so...

 

Are a lot of the people with that opinion those that liked the post NJO? When those people that were fighting to get the legends continuity going again were still active I noticed a lot of them seemed to really like the last few series of the continuity (either that or they were just trying to be as positive towards legends as possible).

 

I have a few DE/Legends continuity and lore questions.

Are the "Dark Jedi" in DE2/3 given any other titles? Like, acolytes or Inquisitors?

Do we know what Rogue and Wraith Squadron were up to?

What about Mara and Kyle?

I have two OneCanon questions as well:

What would Mas Amedda have been up to? Would he have been on Byss? Or setting-up shop on Coruscant?

And why would Palpatine not go to Exegol now? What prevents him from retreating there and trying later *before* he is defeated again?

 

"The Dark Side Elite" is such a silly name though...

 

Very, very Gulf War 90s.

 

The sad thing is that Chewie had a much better death then the Big Three did.

 

So... Did anyone noticed the kriffing amazing new statue from Hot Toys?

https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/star-wars-luke-skywalker-dark-empire-hot-toys-913364

We now only a need DE Sheev, with the Dracula collar and all.

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That's not a statue. It's an action figure.

 

Rise of Skywalker is more important for the Disney Universe than Dark Empire is for the EU Dark Empire in the EU and the resurrection of Palpatine is a filler story the only important thing that happens in Dark Empire is the birth of Anakin Solo Luke becoming a Jedi Master and Kam Solusar joining Luke while most of the content in the Disney Canon is trying to explain Palpatine resurrection

 

It's too big to be an action figure.

 

Action Sculpture

 

Thrawn Trilogy was more important for the EU but you need to read Dark Empire to see how Anakin Solo is born and how Luke becomes a Jedi Master but i think you can skip Dark Empire unlike Thrawn Trilogy

 

Interesting I think the reverse. TTT is a filler arc that introduces some charaters, but DE is about Luke becoming a full jedi master and deciding to rebuild the jedi (leia also gets a great arc about coming into her own power), which leads directly into Jedi Academy Trilogy which is THE pivotal story of the post RotJ EU.

 

Thrawn Trilogy is more important for the Post ROTJ EU due to the introduction of Mara Jade Talon Karrde Jacen and Jaina Palpatine return in the EU is just another Villain for the New Republic

 

Talon and mara are just side characters, until Mara marries Luke just before NJO, while Talon is just a minor character, Booster could replace him. Jacen and Jaina are babies in the story.

Palpatine leads to character arcs and growth for Luke and Leia, something TTT lacks.

DE is focused on the ot3 with some side characters. It is very much a story about Luke, Leia and Han, Lando.

 

Dark Empire created Nar Shaddaa, is the primary reason why Boba is back from the sarlacc for good, served as a turning point in the meta narrative of the Bantam Era where all warlords were reduced to some squabbling deep core warlords and a pathetic rump state, led directly to Luke finally creating the Jedi academy with help from Vodo-Baas's holocron, Emphasized and set in stone how pathetically unstable the Empire was without palpatines guiding hand with constant fragmentation (a theme that defined the empire for much of Legends while say TTT depicts it as a stable monolith with thrawn never dealing with any rival warlords)

Dismissing it as irrelevant feels petty at best.

 

Actually thinking about it some more, pretty sure Dark Empire is the first time the Hutts were depicted as a polity worthy of respect even by the Rebellion, rather than Jabba just being one guy.

Zorba in comparison is just some guy doing mild petty nonsense. With Dark Empire who knows if we would even have the Hutt Clans as a concept.

 

How long does Mas Amedda live in your headcanon?

 

I like to think he was. Would lay the ground work for the Sith working with the Empire also gives Palpatine a Legacy in the Legacy Comics.

 

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