by Kevin J. Anderson
Fall of the Sith Empire is the conclusion to The Golden Age of the Sith (read my review here), and tells the tale of the Great Hyperspace War when the Sith, led by Naga Sadow, launched a 2-prong attack on the Republic. Gav Daragon, now Sadow’s student of Sith arts, commands the flagship on its way to attack the Koros system while another fleet attacks Coruscant.
I would have liked this story better if Gav wasn’t such an idiot. Sadow didn’t need to seduce Gav to the dark side; all he had to do was trick him because Gav was too stupid to figure out what was going on. Even when he realizes he’s been tricked one too many times and is determined not to let it happen again, he falls for yet another trick. He’s as dumb as Billy Budd — more so. Billy Budd, at least, brought destruction only upon himself and Claggert, not the entire galaxy. (Interestingly, Terrence Stamp played Billy Budd in the 1962 movie; he also played Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace.)
The only cool thing about Fall of the Sith Empire is that the cover of each issue, when placed side by side, form a mural. I don’t know if the TPB contains the cover art, however.
In other Star Wars book news, I just got the latest book today: The Swarm War, which is the third book in the Dark Nest Trilogy. And I finally found a copy of Star Wars: Jedi — Mace Windu, a comic that I knew I should have bought last summer but didn’t.
Saw the Swarm War while picking up my comics the other day…
Are those really any good? It seems sometimes to me they’re really reaching for some of this stuff nowadays.
What happened to my Brian Daley Han Solo books?
am loving the new layout
dan, i quite like the Dark Nest Trilogy. Troy Denning is a good EU author. i like the way he brings characters from his other EU books into the current series, which takes place 35 years after A New Hope.
have you read the NJO series? you might need to read that first, though there are 19 books. maybe not, but it’s hard to say. in NJO the Jedi’s view of the Force is changed. ask Ratty–she’s reading them now.
anyway, take a look at the cover–Luke using Force lightning! how cool is that?
Ratty, thanks! i think i might adopt this as my “default” theme. tried to find a wintery one but couldn’t. oh, well.
dan, oh, um–which were you asking about? Swarm War or the comics? also, i don’t know what happened to your Brian Haley books. i didn’t borrow them. i have my own.
also have the comics adaptation of Stars’ End!