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Star Wars: Legacy: 25: The Hidden Temple, Part 1

What is it ? : As the Mynock travels through Hyperspace to the Hidden Temple, Rawk writes home talking about the crew of the ship, how Jariah hates Jedi for some unknown reason, how Cade is messed up by his time with the Sith but at least he has Deliah and the love of a good woman, and Azlyn is hiding something.
The Temple is hidden in a canyon on a planet in the Zhar system, which messes with sensors, and they had to plant a transceiver outside the canyon to stop the temple from being completely cut off, but as they arrive Azlyn drops a tracker in the trash and dumps it just outside the canyon. In the canyon they find the temple is a collection of starships, Interdictor Cruisers, Mon Cal Cruisers, Corellian Corvettes, etc.
They land and disembark to be met by Wold Sazen and Shado Vao, but the Jedi light their sabers, as a second vessel has also landed, with Marisiah Fel, Antares Draco and Ganner Krieg aboard it. A scuffle breaks out, but is soon ended as the Imperials want to speak to the Jedi Council about working together against the Sith, and Cade has his plan he wants to discuss with the Jedi Council.
Cade outs Azlyn as the spy who told the Imperials where to come, and Marisiah tells him that Azlyn is an Imperial Knight undercover but loyal to the Fel Empire. And Antares Draco reveals that the location of the Hidden Temple has been sent to Roan Fel, as they could not take Marisiah into danger without keeping her father informed.
Cade meets with the Jedi Council and tells them that the Sith are disorganised, and by taking out Krayt a civil war will remove the Sith as an organised force. The Jedi are reluctant to kill someone through assassination as they feel that their job is to protect all life, even Sith life. But with arguments from the Imperials and Cade in mind will debate his plan and make a decision.
Marisiah and the other Imperial Knights decide that whatever the Jedi Council agrees, they will help Cade as the death of Krayt would leave Roan Fel as the only candidate with a legitimate claim on the throne so would allow them to reclaim the rest of the Empire.
Deliah meets a young Jedi and wanders off with him to get some entertainment, which Jariah watches with disgust. Azlyn meets her old Jedi Master from Coruscant, and as they catch up, Jariah recognises him as the Jedi that killed his father, and prepares to kill him.

High Points : So Marisiah comes back into the storyline, and the coalition against the Sith seems to be building, with potentially the remains of the Galactic Alliance, The Fel Empire and the Jedi all prepared to work together, with Cade having a plan to decapitate the Sith Empire and throw it into a civil war.
I also really like the structure of the Hidden Temple, a bunch of decommissioned starships lashed together, with plazas and landing areas connecting them into a large structure. Sadly the artists don't carry that through, with it looking like a city, instead of different areas looking like different starships, the bright white corridors of a Corellian Corvette, the organised grey rooms of an Imperial vessel, etc, they all look very different.

Low Points : Something I thought I'd really like is that one of the Jedi Council is a Neti, the plant aliens we've seen before in the form of Odd Bnar who featured in the Tales of the Jedi series and in the Dark Empire Series. The Neti are plants, who act very much like other creatures in their seed phase, but at some point they put down their roots and live for millennia, which is how Odd Bnar features in two series set some 4000 years apart. This is something I really liked, as Neti cannot move once they put their roots down, so become advisors and teachers rather than active participants in stories.
This Neti Jedi however, still seems to be kind of active and still remains humanoid (where Odd Bnar looked much like a tree), as they mention she put down her roots at Anzat, although obviously now is at the Hidden Temple. Either they forgot that Neti become immobile trees when they put their roots down, or the Jedi have put her in some kind of plant pot they move around with her in.

I was also very annoyed by the appearance of Marisiah and the other Imperial Knights, they arrive at the hidden temple within seconds of Cade arriving, so have been tailing them extremely closely. So why did Azlyn need to drop a beacon outside the Temple (unless she's also working for someone else)? And Marisiah is a terrible diplomat, turning up to negotiate with the Jedi, having already given away their biggest secret, having informed her father of the Hidden Temple's location, something which the Jedi seem fine about, so I guess hiding the Hidden Temple wasn't really that important.

So what do you really think ? : The Jedi are resistant to Cade's plan, as they revere all life, even that of the Sith. I know this is long established lore, but it still seems damn silly for a bunch of people who train to fight, who took up positions as Generals in the Clone Wars (as at least 2 of the 3 member Jedi Council actually did) to be hesitant about killing people. Really, have they not learned their lesson yet?

Final Words : So fairly obviously the Jedi will refuse Cade's plan, with Marisiah and the Imperial Knights instead accompanying him, taking it back to the characters established in the first few issues, taking almost half the run of the entire series to get us back here.
But instead of moaning, I should be happy that finally the series has gotten going and we've got a storyline to follow.

Score : 8.5/10

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