#Star Wars legacy of the force

[ice-6caydesqueen]

🥺I love reading this all again

Traviss writing will always be my favourite

[irisofthemoon]

Jacen’s descent to sithdom is not selling me. At the beginning of the book he still thought of himself as a Jedi but less than 200 pages in and he’s already accepted it. The lackluster self flaggelation about his reasoning is not doing it for me.

ALSO what happened to correllia’s PRIME MINISTER?? Since when is Thracken head of state?! It honestly feels like there’s a whole book missing between betrayal and bloodlines I’m confused af

[syn0vial]

in legacy of the force: sacrifice, we see that removing one's boots before entering the house is a non-negotiable rule in the beviin-vasur household, including for fett.

this means that the majority of the scenes taking place in the farmhouse—including the most dramatic—must involve most of the mando characters (fett included) walking around in full armor and socks

[mamuzzy]

@ithillia found me a goldmine here. I haven't read the Legacy of the Force yet but we can get a glimpse here how Boba saw Kal as a kid.

If I remember correctly, Jango called him by Vau's recommendation but I have to reread that part.

Jango: SKIRATA

Rest of the Cuy'val Dar: how did he manage to do that...???

Vau: *reconsidering his life choices of recommending Kal*

Kal Skirata. Smol and angy and able to piss off Jango Fett too.

AGGRESSIVE LITTLE HUMAN I CAN'T-

(I can't believe I've actually found a pikachu-with-knife-gif)

I think Kal still haunts some of the kaminoans' dreams who dared to look at his children the wrong way. But according to Taun We's comment I have the feeling that sometimes they didn't have to give a reason. They just had to be kaminoans for that. Kal really hated them and found them all complicit in harming the clones regardless if they were actually involved in the research or not. Encountering Kina Ha is what starting change his mind about judging an entire race for the crime of the few.

Nulls: Hey, Bob'ika! No passing through this corridor unless you can answer this question.

Boba: [rolls eyes but answers anyway]

Nulls: [narrow eyes] IN MANDO'A.

Boba:

In short (lol)

Kal is short. He always gives the impression of being angry. He doesn't fight fair - I mean, his specialty is assassination, intelligence gathering, and psychological warfare.

He is a menace.

[ranahan]

Is it true that some of the Mandalorians in your LEGACY OF THE FORCE books are gay?

Yes.

Goran Beviin and Medrit Vasur are a gay couple. Homosexual men. Call it what you like, they're in a same-sex marriage.

Mandalorians are different colours, too. Black Mandos, brown Mandos, all kinds of Mandos. Some are from other species, not just humans. They're all ages, all types, and some of them are disabled. Because so many of them are soldiers, Mandos know all about dealing with disability.

…

karentraviss.com, FAQ

[iolaussharpe-24]

Who are you choosing to keep you safe?

[locitapurplepink]

Kanan and Ezra Moments

[high-mackrels-musings]

Forgiveness and the Jedi

I think one of the things that often gets forgotten about in Star Wars, is that the Jedi way is to forgive people for their actions. No matter how bad things may have gotten the Jedi usually offer a chance for redemption.  

I was re-reading Star Wars Legacy, which is a fantastic comic book which everyone interested in Star Wars legends should read. The force ghost of Kol Skywalker states perhaps one of my favorite quotes from the series. 

> One of the greatest lessons of the light side, is forgiveness. Through it we find redemption. 

Morrigan had abandoned her husband and child, and despite all this Kol, and eventually Cade were able to forgive her. The lesson of the Jedi is to hold no grudges. To be selfless is the Jedi way. 

And even in perhaps the most egregious of actions, we still see the path of redemption offered. When Yoda confronts Dooku in the novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, he and Dooku speak at length about the nature of the dark side and more. But I’ll highlight this piece from Yoda. 

> “The Count said, “I have gone too far down the dark path ever to return.”

> “Pfeh.” Yoda snapped his fingers. “The empty universe, where is it now? Alone are you, Count, and no one your master. Each instant the universe annihilates itself, and starts again.” He poked Dooku in the chest with his stick, hard. “Choose, and start again!”

And later Yoda adds:

> “Come,” Yoda said urgently. He put his hand once more on Dooku’s arm. “Catch you, I said I would. Believe you must: more forgiveness will you find from your old Master than from the new one.”

Forgiveness separates the Jedi from the Sith, in the end the Jedi are able to see people for more than their actions. To quote Obi-Wan, “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” Jedi are more open minded than all that. 

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Ben Skywalker: You killed my mom?! Jacen Solo: Actually, I believe she died of natural causes. Lumiya: [nods] Knife to the neck. Ben Skywalker: How is that "natural causes"?! Jacen Solo: There's nothing more natural than dying from a knife to the neck. Lumiya: What would be UN-natural is if she survived.

[vertigoartgore]

2020's Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren Vol.1 #4 cover by E.M. Gist.

[theya-art]

To accompany my custom dolls of Jaina Solo and Darth Caedus, I drew this illustration of them. With this drawing, I wanted to show their opposition.

[ice-6caydesqueen]

Reading legacy of the force again

And I get so happy reading all of travis writing on Jaina being on mandalor :)

I will always love Jaina sparring with kad at night being watched by jusik makes me so happy

I love how traviss writes Jaina getting to know the mandalorians and who they are

But her friendship with bevin and mirta is my fav thing next to her interactions with boba

[irisofthemoon]

Something really throwing me off with Bloodlines is that it’s riddled with a lot of story details about the result of increased conflict - between the GA and Corellia, amongst and across the Skywalker-Solo families - without any explicit conflict development.

The GA and Corellia are now gearing up for an impending war, but the end of Betrayal was Corellia’s successful operation to remove the GA beachhead chosen specifically to prevent further escalation and open the possibility of peace talks.

No one in the Skywalker and Solo families are getting along; there’s especially a divide between Han and Luke and Han and Jacen based on governmental loyalties. Except when we last saw everyone together on Toryaz Station, they may not have been ecstatic at each other’s choices, but they were still on good terms.

So what happened to cause all this? Bloodlines takes place only 16 days after the attack on Centerpoint Station, which puts it maybe a week or week and a half after the end of Betrayal. There’s been no mentioned of anything that could have happened in that blank week to change galactic and or familial relations. It’s reading like Karen Traviss didn’t like the direction Aaron Allston took Betrayal so she decided to spice things up without adding the necessary plot elements.

It’s almost like switching voices mid Star Wars project leads to narrative discrepancies… good thing they made the mistake here so future projects can learn by example!

oh wait...

[syn0vial]

between both beviin and sintas, i feel like the defining arc of boba's relationships in legacy of the force is just

boba: you only put up with me because you don't know about all the terrible shit i've done. once you find out, you'll rightfully despise me for it. events: /transpire beviin and sintas: okay, well, we know all that now, and it changes nothing. we still care about and want to help you. boba: ...this is worse, somehow

[constellation-skirmishes]

force-ghost padme raises luke :))) thats all :)))

this is one of the most important au's ever. to me. if you even care.

leia: hey luke just curious why do you wear nubian royal makeup?

luke: the what now

ok so basically, padme is luke's childhood "imaginary friend."

she can't speak so she can't tell him about everything, but he does find out that she's actually his mom. when he's like. 10 or something. i have a whole thing planned out for it.

yes she beats obi-wan's ass. yes it happened i saw it with my own eyes.

yes this au is also very much an excuse to draw luke in padme's makeup for the entirety of the ot and see how that changes things.

because it Does. very much so.

[trashy1turtle]

I love you adopted parent child relationships. I love you vague "kid-friendly" violence. I love you old-married-couple-that's-not-actually-married. I love you ex street rats. I love you fate. I love you lightsaber duels. I love you ice moons that turn you gay. I love you wacky space religions. I love you sibling relationships. I love you actually smart villains. I love you droids. I love you bounty hunters. I love you ex-smugglers. I love you complicated family tree. I love you grumpy father figures. I love you found family. I love you funky space creatures. I love you cults that don’t think they’re cults. I love you Star Wars.