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Star Wars: Legacy: 46: Monster, Part 4

What is it ? : In orbit around Agamar, Skull Squadron is skirmishing with the Fel Empire vessel and it's starfighters, which have transported Roan Fel to his meeting with the Jedi. One of the Fel pilots ejects, and Darth Rauder orders Gunn Yage to kill him, something she is reluctant to do as the pilot is defeated and no threat, one of her squadron do it instead, but Rauder is still annoyed as he commanded Gunn to do it.
Sith Warriors engage the Jedi and Imperial Knights on the surface, and Nyna Calixte uses her blaster, exclaiming that it's been too long since she killed a Sith.
On Wayland Wolf Sazen meets with Jariah and Fionah who are trying to enter Yuuzhan Vong research building, but Wolf just cuts his way in with his lightsaber.
Inside Cade is trying to heal Deliah, but the pain he is causing her is extreme, and Darth Maladi tells him to embrace it and channel it, burning him with Force Lightning to increase the pain. Zenoc Quah detects the intrusion, and Maladi senses that a Jedi has entered the building.
On Agamar, the Imperial Knights manage to get Roan Fel to a shuttle which launches, as some of the defenders fall in battle.
Meanwhile Maladi shows Cade a vision of how he would have been if the Sith never been around, that he would have turned to the Dark Side and killed his father in hatred. Zenoc Quah defends the installation against the intrusion, striking Fionah and knocking her to the ground before Jariah kills him using his amphistaff.
Cade turns the visions back on Maladi, projecting her own fears back to her, and she sees a powerful Sith version of Cade defeating her and telling her to fear him. He uses the Force to wipe her memory of everything she learned on Wayland, but she struggles free and activates a self destruct system on the installation.
As the Fel Star Destroyer explodes, sacrificing itself so Roan Fel's vessel can escape, Roan senses that his daughter, Marisiah, has survived the battle beneath but has been captured by the Sith and gets the Knights to pledge themselves to rescuing her.
Fionah, Jariah and Wolf arrive at Cade, Fionah says she cannot stop the self destruct system, and Wolf pleads with Cade to use the Lightside to heal Deliah. Cade says it isn't powerful enough, but Wolf tells him to have faith in it, as it led Wolf across the galaxy to this place to help Cade. With the building exploding around them, Fionah, Jariah and Wolf escape from the installation, but Cade remains behind to help Deliah. He channels the light side, and the love between them, how even when he'd given up on himself she never did and when he tried to drive her away, she still loved him. They kiss and the Vong implants shrivel up and die as the final explosion engulfs the facility.
Jariah watches, believing his friends are dead, but Cade carries Deliah out of the explosion untouched. Wolf asks him to return to the Jedi, but Cade tells him, that he isn't Jedi, he isn't Sith, but he is the Sith's worst nightmare and that it is time to make war.
On Korriban, Darth Nihl arrives at the chamber where Darth Krayt is supposedly healing, and Darth Talon tries to stop him entering, but when he says that Krayt has summoned him through the force, they enter together to discover the truth. Inside they discover Krayt's armour sitting empty inside the healing chamber and question where Krayt himself is?

High Points : So once again there's a lot going on in this issue, and it jumps between the storylines in a sensible cohesive fashion, allowing you keep track of everything that's going on. We finally seem to have Cade deciding to fight the Sith (with 4 issue to go) as they've hurt his friends, and while he claims to not be a Jedi, he does seem to have turned away from the Dark Side. And we're taking the Krayt storyline forwards, with him being missing, so either alive or his body has been taken by someone else.

Low Points : Now first of all, Cade heals Deliah through love, but this feels unearned, he's treated her terribly, and he's been with multiple other partners through the series, so while she's a Zeltron and doesn't feel jealousy, it really doesn't seem the way that you treat someone you love. It feels forced and fake, just because they're running out of issues, so suddenly he loves her.
The battle on Agamar is unresolved, with us only knowing the fate of those on Fel's shuttle, all the Jedi were just left fighting the Sith on the surface, stuck on a planet now surrounded by Sith Starfighters and a Fleet of Capital Ships.
And what was the point of Fionah? I know from her Wookiepedia article that she is never mentioned anywhere outside this 4 issue storyline, and since they were granting Jariah Yuuzhan Vong knowledge from his past, why not just have him know all of her expositionary dialogue, the interplay of Wolf and Jariah working together I think would have worked better without a third person just hanging around.

So what do you really think ? : While I enjoyed this issue, it does feel messy, and I definitely get the feeling that they knew the series was coming to an end, so were throwing all their future plans into the issues to get the story told, rather than it playing out in a planned way. Even so much as probably bringing Krayt back from the dead to give Cade a target, even though recent issues have been setting him against all of the Sith and building alliances between them which might have made some interesting storylines as he took them down.

Final Words : So looking forward, we've got a standalone issue, and then a series of three to wrap up this series, although it does return for a War series in the same way Knights of the Old Republic did, but I imagine that's going to be a standalone story unrelated to the main series, as that is the pattern set by Kotor. But I wonder if the writers will actually use it to wrap up the main storyline as it is seemingly so rushed at the moment, so an extra six issues would allow things to end in a more measured way.
That said, I am aware that they brought Legacy back years later for a series unconnected to Cade, so perhaps that is where the storylines finally end, I guess we'll see over the next few weeks as I move onto those.

Score : 8/10

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