STAR WARS LEGACY 27: INTO THE CORE
November 10th 2008 21:40
Category: Graphic Novels/Comics
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Production Team: John Ostrander – script, Omar Francia – art & cover art, Brad Anderson – colours & Michael Heisler – letters.
Cost: AU $7.95/US $2.99
In the immediate aftermath of Cade Skywalker’s escape/extraction from the Sith temple on Coruscant Darth Krayt the new dark lord and emperor of the galaxy is not at all happy with the mess that has been left in the wake of Skywalker’s absence. The window that overlooks the vast planetary cityscape has been shattered, Darth Nihil has had an arm cut off, Darth Talon lies unconscious but badly wounded and the Dark Lord of the Sith feels as depressed as Canterbury Bulldogs supporter in the wake of Season 2008. Things do not look to good for the new Sith Order and Darth Krayt once he has made his displeasure clear and is beyond the sight of his minions’ calls upon the aid of Darth Wyyrlok to help into the Stasis chamber.
You see Darth Krayt even though he is the mightiest known wielder of the Dark Side in the known galaxy has a secret that only his most trusted minion knows. In the initial phases of the invasion of the galaxy by the savage Yuuzhan Vong species some hundred or more years ago a former Jedi master by the name of A’Sharad Hett, was captured by this extragalactic species and imprisoned aboard one of their vessels. As with all their prisoners the Vong conducted various tests and procedures on Hett eventually implanting him with biots for some unknown purpose. Eventually Hett managed to escape but he was never able to rid himself of the biots and over time as he became Darth Krayt these organisms have slowly been consuming him and altering him to some undefinable blueprint and agenda.
Now in the wake of the confrontation with Skywalker he manages to project a façade of strength but in reality the fight has left him weakened and debilitated. Time it seems is running out, his best hope for a cure was Cade Skywalker but now it seems that that avenue may be placed beyond his reach. Still it seems that his trust in the Chagrian Sith Lord Darth Wyyrlok has not been misplaced, this worthy wielder of the dark side and Sith techniques takes it upon himself to try and find a means or source of knowledge that will help his master overcome the ravages of the alien biots.
Of course the ways and means of the Sith are not quite like those of other people, even other force users. Anyone else when confronted by the possibility that someone who they hold in high esteem is being eaten alive by a malignant virus of unknown origin would probably scour various medical databases and research facilities looking for a cure or at least means of holding back the infection. Not Darth Wyyrlok, he goes and consults some ancient Sith tomes and scrolls that he has stashed near his dark lords stasis chamber within the deeps of the temple. When perusing these ancient works proves fruitless he turns to the collection of various holocrons that the Sith have managed to retrieve from various sources down through the years.
Shaped like an ebon pyramid a Sith holocron is a holographic repository of various personalities each with their own area of expertise, one personality usually serving as the gatekeeper for the entire holocron and thus hopefully preventing the uninitiated from gaining access to things that they should not be perusing. Of course sometimes a holocron only has a single personality within its core and in this case the holocron Wyyrlok consults falls into that category, it is the holocron of Darth Andeddu, an ancient Sith Lord of the days before the Great Hyperspace War and Darth Revan. Sith legend claims that somehow Darth Andeddu managed to preserves his essence after death and used it to animate his body after death. Naturally the secret of this technique would be a boon to the current Dark Lord and Wyyrlok seeks to discover it through discourse with Andeddu’s hologram.
After his discourse with the ancient Sith Lord Wyyrlok boards his starship and journeys forth into the deep core, the region of the galaxy into which the deceased Darth Sidious and the Empire had established various facilities and research centres. It is on the world of Prakith that the Chagrian eventually arrives at, in a region far from the nearest Prakith community, at a forbidding looking keep in a region that makes the term badlands look positively tame. It is this place that is home to the true tomb of Darth Andeddu, the Sith Lord unlike many of his other predecessors did not have his remains interred on Korriban like many others of his ilk.
Such a location is not without its dangers; there are those who dwell within the keeps shadowy depths and for some considerable time. In the passing of that time they have become steeped in the ways of the dark side but as Wyyrlok points out to them, they are nothing in comparison to him. He is a Sith, he is what the pretend to be, an individual who can walk the walk along with talking the talk. Making swift work of these puny guardians Wyyrlok binds the sole survivor to his will and compels him to lead him further into the keeps depths. Thus like Theseus moving deeper and deeper into the heart of the labyrinth Wyyrlok goes on behalf of his ailing master, seeking some means to cure him or at least prolong his existence whilst a cure can be found.
As has been often noted in the annals of Sith lore and history “Treachery is the way of the Sith” so it comes as no surprise that Darth Wyyrlok finds himself in something of a bit of a bind at the hands of what he believed was the hologram of Darth Andeddu. Instead it seems the Chagrian has been something of a patsy, the holocrons personality is in fact the very essence of the ancient dark lord seeking reunification with its body. You can just imagine Darth Wyyrlok thinking to himself as he is suddenly confronted with the reanimated Darth Andeddu “Well this sucks big time”. Still all is not as it seems and the eventual denouement is something of a surprise.
Production Team: John Ostrander – script, Omar Francia – art & cover art, Brad Anderson – colours & Michael Heisler – letters.
Cost: AU $7.95/US $2.99
In the immediate aftermath of Cade Skywalker’s escape/extraction from the Sith temple on Coruscant Darth Krayt the new dark lord and emperor of the galaxy is not at all happy with the mess that has been left in the wake of Skywalker’s absence. The window that overlooks the vast planetary cityscape has been shattered, Darth Nihil has had an arm cut off, Darth Talon lies unconscious but badly wounded and the Dark Lord of the Sith feels as depressed as Canterbury Bulldogs supporter in the wake of Season 2008. Things do not look to good for the new Sith Order and Darth Krayt once he has made his displeasure clear and is beyond the sight of his minions’ calls upon the aid of Darth Wyyrlok to help into the Stasis chamber.
Now in the wake of the confrontation with Skywalker he manages to project a façade of strength but in reality the fight has left him weakened and debilitated. Time it seems is running out, his best hope for a cure was Cade Skywalker but now it seems that that avenue may be placed beyond his reach. Still it seems that his trust in the Chagrian Sith Lord Darth Wyyrlok has not been misplaced, this worthy wielder of the dark side and Sith techniques takes it upon himself to try and find a means or source of knowledge that will help his master overcome the ravages of the alien biots.
Shaped like an ebon pyramid a Sith holocron is a holographic repository of various personalities each with their own area of expertise, one personality usually serving as the gatekeeper for the entire holocron and thus hopefully preventing the uninitiated from gaining access to things that they should not be perusing. Of course sometimes a holocron only has a single personality within its core and in this case the holocron Wyyrlok consults falls into that category, it is the holocron of Darth Andeddu, an ancient Sith Lord of the days before the Great Hyperspace War and Darth Revan. Sith legend claims that somehow Darth Andeddu managed to preserves his essence after death and used it to animate his body after death. Naturally the secret of this technique would be a boon to the current Dark Lord and Wyyrlok seeks to discover it through discourse with Andeddu’s hologram.
After his discourse with the ancient Sith Lord Wyyrlok boards his starship and journeys forth into the deep core, the region of the galaxy into which the deceased Darth Sidious and the Empire had established various facilities and research centres. It is on the world of Prakith that the Chagrian eventually arrives at, in a region far from the nearest Prakith community, at a forbidding looking keep in a region that makes the term badlands look positively tame. It is this place that is home to the true tomb of Darth Andeddu, the Sith Lord unlike many of his other predecessors did not have his remains interred on Korriban like many others of his ilk.
Such a location is not without its dangers; there are those who dwell within the keeps shadowy depths and for some considerable time. In the passing of that time they have become steeped in the ways of the dark side but as Wyyrlok points out to them, they are nothing in comparison to him. He is a Sith, he is what the pretend to be, an individual who can walk the walk along with talking the talk. Making swift work of these puny guardians Wyyrlok binds the sole survivor to his will and compels him to lead him further into the keeps depths. Thus like Theseus moving deeper and deeper into the heart of the labyrinth Wyyrlok goes on behalf of his ailing master, seeking some means to cure him or at least prolong his existence whilst a cure can be found.
As has been often noted in the annals of Sith lore and history “Treachery is the way of the Sith” so it comes as no surprise that Darth Wyyrlok finds himself in something of a bit of a bind at the hands of what he believed was the hologram of Darth Andeddu. Instead it seems the Chagrian has been something of a patsy, the holocrons personality is in fact the very essence of the ancient dark lord seeking reunification with its body. You can just imagine Darth Wyyrlok thinking to himself as he is suddenly confronted with the reanimated Darth Andeddu “Well this sucks big time”. Still all is not as it seems and the eventual denouement is something of a surprise.
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