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Star Wars: Legacy: 44: Monster, Part 2

What is it ? : We begin seeing a Yuuzhan Vong Shaper after the end of the Vong War, where the rest of the Vong have surrendered, he intends to fight on, and he sees the Jedi efforts to reverse the effects of the Vongshaping of worlds and corrupts them to gain final victory.
Meanwhile now on Wayland, Cade, Deliah and Jariah are fighting their way through the corrupted biome of the planet when they are confronted by a corrupted native whose beats lets out a roar which knocks them all unconscious.
In space, Moff Yage is briefing a fighter squadron, of Sith Pilots to strike and take out Roan Fel and Princess Marasiah. Afterwards he comments that he no longer serves the Empire, he leads monsters. Gunn Yage has returned to her squadron, but one of the pilots comments she seems distracted since she returned from her mission to Tatooine. And Nyna Calixte is preparing something to be dropped onto Wayland.
Cade awakens, and takes control of one of the beasts as his companions are now both missing, and flies out across the planet in search.
Roan Fel is sparring against Treis Sinde who warns him that he is slipping close to the Dark Side, that his ambition for the Murr Talisman would have led to the Imperial Knights having to take him down, even as Fel argues that it would have freed the galaxy from the Sith.
Jariah awakens to find himself confronted by a normal human woman, Fionah Ti, who tells him she is the daughter of some Jedi who were on Zonama Sekot when it fled known space at the beginning of the Sith Imperial War, and while she is not a Jedi, she has been trained by them and Yuuzhan Vong Shapers.
Jariah speaks in Vong to an Amphistaff, taming it and revealing to Fionah that he served once with a Yuuzhan Vong who trained him.
High over Wayland, the Star Destroyer drops it's cargo and one of the containers splits open releasing a Starfighter piloted by Nyna Calixte. She thinks back to meeting Kol Skywalker again when her Star Destroyer rescued him over Wayland, and seeing Cade for the first time when he was still a child. But she harshly tells Kol that Cade is his son, and Morrigan's son, but she is now Nyna Calixte.
She pilots her fighter, spotting a structure among the chao of the surface, but has to leave as she plans to warn Roan Fel of the attack on his meeting with the Jedi.
Cade continues through the growths on Wayland, and senses Deliah nearby, but also senses Sith. . . .

High Points : There's a lot going on in this issue, and it's really interesting to see the scene remembered by Cade from his youth when the Empire rescued them from Wayland, from Nyna Calixte's point of view.

Low Points : But there's so much going on that it's confusing, we don't even know why Cade and his friends were sent to Wayland, we know that Rav offered them a contract, but not what they were actually to do when they got there. It's fairly obviously a trap, where they've been offered something too good to be true.
They also introduce Fionah Ti, and she gives her background as from Zonama Sekot, something not mentioned in the series before, and while I've got access to google to look it up, a series really should rely on readers having knowledge completely outside the series they're reading. And this just hooks up with Jariah displaying brand new skills, which do make some sense, as he's been using Vong Thud Bugs throughout the series, but now we find out he was trained by a Vong, and can speak their language, something they could have dropped in far earlier when they encountered the Vong back on Ossus (yes Jariah wasn't there, but a comment from Cade about his friend having mastered their weapons, or the like).

So what do you really think ? : Everything really feels in a rush, and while having loads going on is great, it does feel like they've run out of time to tell everything, so they're just jumping between characters, not fleshing out the storylines, and it's all muddled and confused (why was Nyna scanning Wayland, when she's actually planning to go to Roan Fel to warn him?), and what's going on with the new Sith Pilots? This feels like it is important and part of the entire Wyyrlok plan to make the entire Galaxy Sith, so he's integrating the Sith into the Empire. But where did he happen to find a squadron of elite trained Sith Pilots? Are they force sensitives, so just naturally good, or were these Pilots recently inducted into the Sith as part of this plan?

Final Words : With so much going on, we're sure to learn more next issue, and that's got to be a positive that I'm looking forwards to seeing the next issue even if it is to just make sense of what's going on. For whatever reason, I'm really interested in seeing what happens next.

Score : 8/10

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