Star Wars Legacy of the Force : Invincible – Will Jaina Kill Jacen? February 2, 2008
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We’ve known since at least November that Jaina would be on the cover of the final book of the Legacy of the Force series.
Now the first images of the actual book cover are available and it looks to us that she’s going to have a showdown with her brother Jacen – Darth Caedus.
That is a confrontation that is – Inevitable – maybe that should’ve been the name of the book. Then again maybe Invincible refers to Jacen/Caedus….
Invincible’s release date is set for May 13, 2008. Amazon is already taking pre-orders on this the final installment of the Legacy of the Force – it’s a hardcover so it’s more dough than the paperbacks. Amazon currently has a neat offer though, they’re starting at 34% off list price and if you pre-order now they’ll give you an extra 5% discount. Sure beat paying full price the day it comes out..but i wonder if they’ll actually ship it to arrive on May 13th..
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Lord Maloch your right, Darth Caedus’s way of ruling the galaxy has worked before better than any other, and now with an example of how to do it and the mistakes to avoid that Palpatine didn’t see, he can make a new galaxy better than any other. Palpatine had the right idea for the galaxy just no one to follow so he had to carve the hard and unbroken ground of the empire he wanted, but all Caedus has to do is follow the path Palpatine was on and just avoid the hole Palpatine went down in. The other thing I was going to say is that we all know the galaxy has an order to it, for years at a time the light side rules, then the dark side has its chance at power, then back to the light, and now I think it is the dark side’s chance again we need to see a time when our invulnerable hero’s of the light get beat, taken down a notch, the books are more realistic that way and it makes you think the people aren’t always going to win so you keep thinking is this the last time for them? Don’t get me wrong the galaxy has had plenty of shakings with the YV war and others, but its been the same story for too long, the good guys always win, well I think its time for a change in that, who’s with me?
Cosal you are wrong the best way the galaxy was ever run was with the Old Republic. I mean look at how long it lasted.Look what it took to bring it down.
Exactly, “I mean look at how long it lasted.Look what it took to bring it down,” what did it take to bring it down? Palpatine took it down, but Palpatine’s was the most effective because there was no scrambling around with procedures before war was started, while in the mean time the galaxy was getting consumed, he just said go to war and it happened everything was organized, and no long boring political debates about power. In the very distant past of the old republic during the Mandalorian Wars, the Old Repuclic would have crumbled if not for the revan so, no you aren’t right it wasn’t the most effective it was just pure dumb luck and lots of skilled jedi that held it together for a long time and more than half of the time it nearly collapsed due to internal struggles.
There are different aspects of how to run a galaxy. Your right revanchist when you say that the Old Republic ran the galaxy the best. their was peace for thousands of years. You had your wars of course, usually started by the sith in one way or another, then defeated by the Jedi. And the reason the Old republic fell was because of palpatine/sidious. He started to get control of the senators, made them do what he wanted and eventually got elected chancellor. The galaxy was in a good state until sidious took it over. He took over the galaxy for his own personnal power and to eliminate the Jedi order completely. He ruled with fear and destruction. The sith way. When he was defeated, the galaxy never became stable again. War after war, bickering and bickering. Civil war after civil war. The galaxy is in chaos. And does anyone see that changing? No. The jedi can’t change it. Doing what Caedus is doing is the only way to change the galaxy. Jacen knew that and that is why he did what he did. Who is to say that the galaxy wouldn’t be better with Caedus ruling it? Can he bring peace without the fear that palpatine brought? Only time will tell. Caedus is Sith, so can he buck the trend of becoming totally evil like all Sith do? I don’t think so. But he is what the galaxy needs. The Sith shall rule once more and there will be peace.
We don’t know that, the Old Jedi told Revan to wait, which probably meant that they had a plan, and had revan listened we would not have had the new Jedi Civil War.
We can’t know that, but it doesn’t matter either way the Old Republic would have crumbled if not for the jedi.
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Don’t think the Jedi had a plan at all. That’s why Revan acted the way he did, just like Caedus. The Jedi are just pawns of the republic, in the old republic and during Luke’s reign as Jedi master. They never do what needs to be done, especially in dangerous times. They might say that they answer only to the force, but ultimately they answer to politicians and heads of states. They know what’s right, but they play politics. Guess that’s why they are not sith. They do not force changes for the better, just give suggestions.
Cosal, you are right when you say that the old republic would have crumbled without the Jedi. But those times have passed. Its been over 40 years since palpatine was defeated and it is just the same mess and chaos. Maybe even worse shape than palpatine’s reign. And you know and I know it was going to change anytime soon.
Correction things did not run well under the old republic. There was corruption and evil permeating the entire structure of the Senate and the Republic. The only thing holding the rotting deacaying corpse of government up was the Jedi Coucil. That is why the Jedi couldn’t detect Sideous in the force because the whole structure they were a part of was of the Dark Side, Sideous just blended in with all the other Senators. What the Galaxy needs is a revolution of the people for the people by the people. What the Galaxy doesn’t need is another war between the Jedi and the Sith like the one developing now. You would think that the population of the Galaxy having just thrown off the Vong almost single handedly with no help from the Jedi or the Sith or the New Republic would be feircely independent like the American Colonists after the French and Indian War. What needs to happen is for the Jedi and the Sith to both go into exile and leave the regular people to govern themselves. Perhaps a world that is populated only by Jedi and Sith that is interdicted and sealed off from the rest of the Galaxy. Perhaps Zonoma Sekot since Sekot is the most powerful force user in the entire Galaxy having an entire planet of beings with medichlorions to draw upon. Sekot would be able to keep both groups in line and can keep them out of Galactic politics. If the Situation called for it Sekot could release a few Jedi or Sith to help the galaxy in some way.