Star Wars: Legacy: 5: Broken Part 4
What is it ? : Darth Krayt is on Korriban and calls on former Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Andeddu, Darth Nihilus and Darth Bane to help him remove the Yuuzhan Vong creatures which are infesting his body. They refuse as he has broken Darth Bane's Rule of Two, and he leaves seeking a cure elsewhere.
On Vendaxa Cade has taken Princess Marisiah and Astraal Vao to their rendezvous point, which is the wreckage of a starship whose location Astraal shares with her brother. She reveals she knows that Cade has probably identified her as the daughter of Roan Fel, and that he has probably identified the high bounty on her head, so will not allow him to locate her father, and will pay him when he leaves.
Just then Jedi arrive, Shado Vao and Wolf Sazen, and Cade tries to slip away, telling Jariah and Deliah that they should take the deal.
Just then there is a disturbance nearby as Wolf and Shado's ship explodes, and Darth Talon attacks controlling local creatures, she defeats Shado and Wolf, but before she can dispatch them, Marisiah leaps to their defence, although is also easily defeated. Although events turn round when Cade uses the force to throw a large piece of scrap at her crushing her beneath it.
So everyone flees back to Cade's ship, which they discover has been sabotaged. While Deliah works on repairs, Astraal heads to a communication unit to call her superiors in the Imperial Mission to get help. The superior agrees to inform the rightful head of the Empire, and it is revealed to us that he is standing with Darth Krayt as the Imperial Mission now serves him. . .
High Points : Well we're getting the strands of the storyline together quickly, one of my earlier criticisms was that there were so many storylines that it was distracting to keep track of them all, but already they're coming together, and I can only imagine the others will be tied in within a few issues.
The story in this issue is fast moving, and the characters actions make a lot of sense, with Cade actually acting in a fairly logical manner for the motivations we've seen laid out, trying to hide his identity from Wolf, who not only is a Jedi, but someone Cade knew fairly well, saving his life when they escaped from Ossus, and being the cause of Cade giving up on the force, something he easily slips back into using here when enraged at the appearance of a Sith, who he know killed his father.
Low Points : Okay first up an annoyance of mine, we are told on the very first page that Korriban is the graveworld and homeworld of the Sith. No it isn't, Xiost was the homeworld of the Sith Empire, Korriban is merely the graveworld (I personally have a theory that the Sith are so egotistical that they buried the Sith Lords on another world so they wouldn't constantly have the force ghosts bothering them (Sith Force ghosts seem to haunt their tombs, unlike Jedi Force Ghosts which haunt people), nothing like the guy you murdered to get his job constantly commenting on how poor a job you are doing).
Also why are Andeddu and Nihilus bothered about the Rule of Two. I don't know much about Andeddu, but Nihilus was one of a group of Sith Lords at his time. At least the Rule of Two is presented in a better fashion here than in Jedi vs Sith, as here it's power Bane says is diluted when you share it with others, whereas originally it was presented as if there was only a finite amount of the Dark Side, so more Sith mean less power for each. This at least makes some sense, even if you look at real world examples of dictators, you'll find that it is incorrect.
And how did Marisiah know her mind trick had failed? Last issue she tried to mind trick Cade into taking them to Vendaxa for free, and he played along as he thought that people being chased by the Sith might be worth something to a bounty hunter. But this issue she knows that was his plan? How did she work it out? Is he actually lousy at pretending? Is there some way that you know if you've failed (the way a player might if they saw the way their dice rolled?).
And Krayt, a Sith Lord and leader of the Empire, just happens to be stood next to the leader of the Imperial Mission at the very moment that Astraal Vao calls, hell of a coincidence.
So what do you really think ? : Although not as good as last issue, this one I enjoyed more than the others dealing with the main cast, Cade might actually behave heroically, and with Wolf not aboard his ship we might get some interesting scenes to explain why he's totally abandoned the Jedi order and his former training. As currently we're not seeing any real motivation for his actions, and it's difficult to get behind a character whose actions so far have been to become a pirate, a bounty hunter, and to insult Luke Skywalker.
Final Words : While the story is easy to see where it's going so far, I can't really see the long term story goal at the moment beyond the overthrow of Darth Krayt. In the Knights of the Old Republic Comic it was obvious that Zayne was trying to clear his name, and we'd get various storylines involving the other cast members, and schemes that Gryph came up with along the way. The hero had a goal, and we could get behind that, but so far, apart from maybe avenging his fathers death, we can't see anything for Cade. I suppose we'll have to wait and see how things progress.
Score : 8.5/10
Comments made about this Article!
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12/Mar/2025 17:34:26
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Posted by catsi563
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See for me the rule of two should come about because of what we see in Star Wars the Old Republic MMO and KOTOR and similar elements. namely which is the notion that the sith SEEK POWER they cannot help it its like blood in the water for sharks and the more the dark side takes them the more they seek it to the point where they will slaughter entire populations including their own loved ones to take it.
this leads to the Sith basically ALWAYS failing because they will Inevitably back slide into backstabbing and treachery and murder at the drop of a hat. so, while they may temporarily align along common goals such as destroying the jedi or the republic they WILL turn on one another because one will always try to dominate or control the other for more power
thus Bane seeing how the order would always undercut its own goals because one of them would turn on the others for their own gain said enough is enough, he gathers them together and kills all of them save him and his apprentice. then he institutes the rule of two. only two will their ever be a master to gather power and an apprentice to seek it from the master,
its why i can see bane saying no to krayt because its like Dammit man didn you learn NOTHING from my teachings youre starting this nonsense again and its going to blow up in your face
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12/Mar/2025 22:44:58
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Posted by Freddy
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This way makes more sense, but definitely isn't what Bane sees or does in Jedi vs Sith.
The Sith army is working as a unit in that story, no Sith is turning on one another except Bane himself, who convinces them to set off the Force Bomb, killing all the Sith (and a lot of the Jedi).
He explains it as there is only so much Dark Side power to go around, and that the masses of Sith all drawing from it makes them all weaker than the Sith of legend.
So he has slaughtered the Sith so only him and his apprentice (who he doesn't select until afterwards) have access to all the power of the Dark Side to themselves.
I know lots of people really like Darth Bane, but the only story I've read with him in is Jedi vs Sith, and he really comes across as kind of dumb in that. I'm a Naga Sadow fan all the way.
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