Jacen Solo’s Sith Name is..Darth Caedus! May 18, 2007
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Thnx to jwash24 who posted as a comment. ShowMeSciFi has now been able to independently verify that indeed Darth Caedus is Jacen Solo’s Sith name.
Jacen’s Sith name was chosen by a contest and follows his long descent into the dark side in the Legacy of the Force series (which is the most awesome Star Wars series in years if not of ALL TIME).
He takes his Sith name in Sacrifice set to come out in just a few weeks, but early copies are all already being leaked by the publisher.
So who does Jacen have to Sacrifice to get his Sith name…i could hardly believe it myself (and if you really want to know just look at the cover of the book and it’s quite obvious)..and i’m actually going to suspend dis-belief if you don’t mind until i get my hands on a copy of Sacrifice on May 29th.
*UPDATE* Got a copy of this on May 28th
Here’s the line you have to wait 367 pages to get too..
“Now was the time for a man who’d once been Jacen Solo to shoulder that responsibility for the galaxy’s sake.
Jacen took off the helmet, looked into his own eyes and didn’t flinch.
“Caedus,” he said. “My name is Darth Caedus.”
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good thing dave the insomniac has NOTHING to do with writing star wars novels
Personal insults aside, the novels of NJO and Legacy of the Force have reached a new level of interesting storytelling. Why? Because they don’t pull the kind of inane crap that so many of the Bantam series books did. Don’t get me wrong; my favorite Star Wars books have always been (and, in all likelihood, always WILL be) the Thrawn Trilogy; but some of the later Bantam books, as well as lots of the comic book storylines, were downright corny. Multiple clones of the Emperor?!? Can we say “reaching for plot”?
The NJO and Legacy of the Force are original and unique in the Star Wars universe… but that would no longer be true if they simply decided, instead of being creative, that they’d just “bring Anakin Solo back.” That’s just… dumb. It’s uninspired, unoriginal, and it SERVES NO PURPOSE. Seriously!
I understand the fanboy urge… I’m a fanboy myself. I did the Carlton Dance when I read Jacen and Tenel Ka hooking up in the Dark Nest Trilogy. I understand that fanboy urge to defy logic. Sometimes, I have the urge to say: “Forget good storytelling! It’d be AWESOME if they brought Grand Admiral Thrawn back to life!” But it WOULDN’T be. As great of a character as he is, bringing him back would only be a Mary Sue/Deus Ex Machina that devalued the storyline.
They will think of an original, inspired way to bring a long-lost character back into the spotlight… which means that the brave, noble Anakin Solo stays brave, noble… and dead.
I notice that, while you aren’t above personal jabs, you weren’t quite able to refute anything that I said. The point, I’m afraid, goes to me.
By the way… what is your fascination with Anakin Solo? Your thoughts on him don’t even make sense. On this forum, you claim he’s going to come back and have a reckoning with his brother, Jacen. But in the one talking about who Darth Krayt is, you claim that Anakin Solo IS Darth Krayt. Mind explaining to me why the writers of Legacy and Legacy of the Force would do something so wildly uninventive as bring Anakin Solo back, only to have him fight his Sith brother… THEN, inexplicably, become Sith himself?
Your ideas confuse me…
you know the authors have made little hints that luke is going to die in the seeries, and i was wondering will ben become the next anakin solo and kill jacen
Ben might kill Jacen Solo. It would be a tragic end, but more or less fitting. I personally hope Jacen somehow makes it through the entire series; his views on the Unifying Force are revolutionary and, quite honestly, fantastic. But if he has to die, Ben is the one set up to do it. Not Luke, not Leia… but here’s a wild idea: what if HAN had to kill him? Had his ship at his mercy, and was forced to fire on–and kill–Darth Caedus? Strange candy for the mind, eh?
I know it will never happen, but I would love for Kyp to come out of his self-imposed depression and show a little bit of that Carida spunk he had in Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy Trilogy. I’d also love to see Nom Anor come back, in one way or another; he’s the perfect slimy bureaucrat, the guy you love to hate. We need some of that old-school NJO flavor in the LotF mix.
And I think killing Luke would be appropriate, but they won’t do it. Lucas has refused time and again to even broach the topic. They wanted to do it in NJO, but he got mad and threatened to pull the plug on the entire project. He’s too connected to his own universe to really let authors play with it. Luke NEEDS to die… it will spark a wave of changes and new plot lines in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
i could see han taking yslamari to block the force and jacen tries to kill him.without the force noone can stop han solo.
believe it or not dave we agree on something.
lucas said luke is immortal,i dont know when but he said luke cant die. hes more powerful than yoda. i can see him being very old and just sending jedi out until hes needed.luke must live. other than that good idea with nom anor.he is missed greatly.
I would like to see Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus unify the jedi under the sith mantle in the end, A “Selfless” Sith in the end would be more at one with the force than any Jedi or self absorbed Sith because he would be more powerfull than a Jedi thanks to his knowledge of the darkside of the force and also through his absolution that anyone who needs to be sacrificed to unite everyone will be, and the other side of the coin, being selfless like a jedi, he doesnt want to rule, just to unite and save the galaxy from itself in essence, but in the end, he will probably fall off this path and resort to the same old train of thought that was the downfall of his grandfather and every other sith lord before him. Id like to see him prevail anyway, but it wont happen, for that to happen hed have to kill luke, and i just dont see it happening, thats Lucas’ prize character and he will never kill him off, but heres to hoping hahaha
p.s. even tho i am a fan of jacen/caedus i am not happy with him killing mara jade. Ever since the thrawn trilogy shes been one of my favorites so I VOTE BRING BACK MARA!!!
who says the dark side makes you stronger??
a little green friend of mine said its easier not stronger. i think luke will bring mara back to life afterhe sees a holo of vader saying he can create life. this would halt bens supposed path to the dark side.
luke or ben will tap into the ultimate force power to bring someone back to life.
lucas made this power up but we have not seen it used. ever.
it will be used by either jacen,luke, or ben. maybe even leia since shes lukes twin.
I would be ecstatic if Mara came back; I’m with you, Siniska, she has been one of my very favorite characters for a long time: I literally cried when she died…. It would be very interesting if she was brought back to life, especially if it was by Luke when the task has been pretty much labeled as a dark side act. There would also be a good twist if Jacen brought her back, thereby making Luke indebted to him and make him pressured not to kill him. However, if this did happen, it would make it seem that the authors have no real power to take out a character for good, therefore lessening any measure of suspense…
One thing that I missed though: is one’s body dissapearing into the Force a real last minute choice or is it controlled by other elements. At one point it was aluded to that Jacen knew the real reason why Mara did not meld into the force. What does this mean?
Jacen knew that Mara did not disappear into the force so that her body could be studied and autopsied in the hope that Jacen would somehow be found out.
As for raising others back to life, I am not sure that it was anything more than Darth Sidious trying to ensnare Anakin Skywalker. He himself said that “Plaeguis’ apprentice learned everything from his master, then killed him in his sleep.” If Sidious is indeed Plaeguis’ former apprentice (he is; read the novelization authorized by Lucas), then didn’t he learn “everything”? If he didn’t know how to keep people alive, as he told Vader, then neither did Plaeguis, which makes the whole thing popycock.
Of course, apparently Cade Skywalker can do it (see Legacy comics), so it’s technically possible… but I don’t think they’ll bring back Mara or anyone else with the technique. It just seems too… easy. If someone can be brought back, then there’s no longer any true danger. You never have to fear for a character’s life, or mourn their eternal loss, like we did with Chewbacca after “Vector Prime.” I just don’t see the “resurrection” power being employed in Mara’s case… wouldn’t that change the name of the book from “Sacrifice”?