Star Wars: Legacy: 40: Tatooine part 4
What is it ? : Outside the Lars Moisture Farm, Morrigan Corde fights the insectoid Assassin, Ku Vrat, poisoning him, but he fights on until Jariah slashes his neck open with a couple of thrown thud bugs. Inside Gunn fights the female assassin, Nakia Yoru, while Cade fights Sint Yoru who has drawn a lightsaber. However Cade is far more skilled and easily dispatches Sint, the shock of which stuns Nakia, allowing them to capture her.
Outside, Morrigan berates Gunn for her actions, revealing that her contacting the local Moff endangered their mission, as the Moff was sent to this remote location due to corruption, and the Assassin's locating them so quickly is evidence that she told the assassins where to find them.
Cade threatens Nakia to take them to the Black Sun Vigo who hired the assassins, while elsewhere Deliah takes the man she met from the Imperial Mission back to the Mynock where he reveals he knows she's not Astraal Vao as he's met her, but he helps Deliah anyway.
As they travel aboard the Anzat ship, Morrigan and Cade talk, and Cade expresses his hatred for her, that she works for the people that killed his father, but Morrigan tells him that his father accepted her for who she was and loved her for it, and she loved his father and Cade.
Gunn visits the Moff, Nieve Gromia, who pulls a gun on her and reveals that she knows that Morrigan Corde is the secret identity of Gunn's mother Nyna Calixte, and was also the wife of Kol Skywalker, and therefore Cade's mother. Gunn claims these are lies, but in the struggle Moff Gromia is wounded and as she breathes her last asks Gunn to use Nyna Calixte's secrets to ruin her.
Visiting the Vigo on a space station, Cade makes a deal, that the Vigo will feed him information on his rivals, and Cade will pirate them the same way he was pirating this Vigo, but on agreement Morrigan guns down the Vigo, claiming he would never have kept his word.
Cade gets angry and seems ready to kill Morrigan, but Jariah talks him down, and Cade says that this isn't how he wants to be, but Morrigan is nothing to him.
Meanwhile on Coruscant, the head of the Imperial Mission, Konrad Rus is summoned to see Darth Wyyrlok, who tells him the mission will now teach the Sith code across the galaxy, much to his distress.
Back on Tatooine, Jariah and Cade rendezvous with Deliah aboard the repaired Mynock, and Cade tells them he wants to be any place which isn't Tatooine. . .
High Points : Last issue I said I couldn't see how the story would take more than a few pages to wrap up, as they were already fighting the assassins, but this issue does take us off in some interesting directions. I love that Gunn Yage now knows who Morrigan Corde / Nyna Calixte really is, and her connection to Cade.
Even Cade trying to make a deal with the Black Sun Vigo is interesting, as all he's trying to do is continue his scam of pretending to come to the rescue of pirated ships and stealing their cargo after defeating the pirates, but putting the blame on those same pirates. But I do think Morrigan is right, as the Vigo would betray them sooner or later.
Low Points : I really thought after his encounter with Luke last issue, that Cade was going to be back on a more heroic path, but straight away he's just trying to set up a new deal so he can keep being a pirate. This leaves the plot of the series still somewhere adrift, instead of us having a clear goal for our main character, instead Legacy continues to just having him blundering from encounter to encounter, just happening to get involved with some of the most powerful people in the galaxy at the time.
So what do you really think ? : I thought the ending to this story arc was pretty powerful, the clash between Cade and his mother was pretty emotional, and there's a very interesting set up with Gunn having knowledge of her mother's true identity and past. There's a lot going on here, and I'm interested to see how it all works out.
Final Words : I've expressed it before, and probably will again, the directionless nature of Legacy annoys me, I find it hard to connect to a character whose motivations are so vague and random as Cade's. We're 80% through the main series already, and while there's loads of things going on, our main character isn't really involved with any of them. There's a galactic war going on, which he has nothing to do with, there's Darth Wyyrloks takeover of the Sith, which Cade is nothing to do with, there's conflict between the Galactic Alliance and Fel Empire in their alliance, which Cade is nothing to do with. The characters which seemed set up at the beginning to be major parts of the storyline, haven't been mentioned in many issues (for example, Princess Marisiah. She's the daughter of Roan Fel, romantically linked to Antares Draco, she's an Imperial Knight, is accompanied by Astraal Vao, who is the sister of one of the remaining Jedi, who is connected to Cade. She seems to be set up to be a core character, but after being in the initial run of issues, she became a minor character and she hasn't been seen at all in over a years worth of issues).
Score : 9/10
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