VECTOR PARTS 7 – 8 (STAR WARS: REBELLION ISSUES 15 -16)
November 2nd 2008 21:39
Category: Graphic Novels/Comics
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics.
Production Team: Rob Williams – script, Dustin Weaver – art, Wil Glass – colours, Michael Heisler – letters, Dan Scott & Travis Charest – cover art.
Cost: AU $7.95/US $2.99.
Twenty years have passed since Darth Vader made his abortive attempt to find an apprentice with whom he could cast down his master and truly assume the mantle of both ruler of the Empire and Dark Lord of the Sith. Celeste Morne would have been an apprentice worthy of some one such as himself, someone with whom it should have been easy to throw down Palpatine and remake the galaxy to a more suitable form rather than that which has been crafted by the wizened and Machiavellian former Supreme Chancellor. Unfortunately for Vader the legendary Jedi Knight was somewhat more than he had bargained for and so he was forced to beat a hasty retreat from the barren moon of Aridus on which he abandoned his potential ‘apprentice’.
Since that incident much has happened in the galaxy, the Rebellion has taken form attempting to cast down the Sith imposed tyranny that Palpatine and his apprentice have forged in the wake of the Clone Wars and Order 66. It is ironic that this rebellion begun as another attempt by Vader to train a suitable apprentice has only lead to a significant opposition to Imperial rule and the recent victory in which the Death Star was destroyed by a farm boy from the Outer Rim territories, a farm boy with the surname of Skywalker. Yet despite this major victory both Darth Vader and the Rebellion have other considerations on their minds, although the hero of that battle is aboard one of the many ships of the Rebel Fleet lost in reminiscing and wondering the path he should be walking, how he can learn the ways of the force now that Obi Wan is no more…
As has often occurred in the Star Wars saga there is a distinct element of mirroring here with these two issues, just as Darth Vader was manipulated indirectly by his own master he in turn is manipulating the Rebels, although he has no idea that his machinations may place someone he values in dire risk. As we see Luke trying to come to grips with his life and his role as a Jedi aboard a Rebel starship the story immediately turns back to Lord Vader receiving a transmission on Coruscant from an Imperial fleet commander, Captain Holt. The redoubtable captain commands a star destroyer that has approached a barren moon in the Aridus system, a moon that is all too familiar to Vader; he is informing that a flight of shuttles carrying heavily armed elite stormtroopers is making its way to the moons surface for a reconnaissance of said satellite.
The stormtroopers, the shuttle pilots and Captain Holt have no idea of what they are about to encounter, but their superior has some inkling. Somehow in the twenty odd years since he opened the infamous Jebble box the former Old Republic Jedi Knight Celeste Morne has managed to survive the isolation of this remote world. That is swiftly proved when the captain informs his superior that all contact has been lost with the landing party; anyone else would right this off as a bad option but not Vader even though its potentially catastrophic he can see that Celeste Morne will serve his purposes one way or another.
What he doesn’t realise is just what consequences the scheme he is about to hatch regarding Celeste, is going to have on the galaxy at large. After all four thousand years ago the fact that the infamous Muur talisman decided to attach itself to Celeste as well as the fact that it caused the Mandalorian forces occupying the ice world of Jebble to become Rakghouls was enough to see her end up imprisoned in the stasis chamber known as Lord Dreypa’s Oubliette. She was released from her stasis by Vader twenty years ago and it’s obvious that she is still as powerful now as she was when the dark lord first encountered her.
The great thing about the entire Vector storyline is the great coordination that has been achieved by the various teams who have worked on the various parts of the saga. After all a story that occurs over a span of at least four thousand years is not something to be taken lightly and could potentially lead to problems. Heck other publishers have often had problems just with coordinating a major saga that overlaps between various series but all taking place at the same time let alone trying to tell a story over an extended time period, so Dark Horse has kept it all nice and tight indicating that this may be a sign of things to come in their various Star Wars series. I’d doubt they’d opt to do another four thousand year plus saga but they could certainly do a storyline that spans from the Dark Times into Legacy as well Dark Times and Rebellion or Rebellion and Legacy. The possibilities are limitless.
Of course the story that unfolds in this particular instalment focuses primarily on moving the main menace that is Vector from where it has been out into the galaxy at large. Languishing on a barren moon for the last two decades naturally means that Celeste and the ancient Sith Lord whom she is bound to, Karness Muur, have not been any real threat to the rest of known space. In fact very few know of their existence and they do not seem likely to be going anywhere anytime soon, even after the abortive Imperial incursion. All that will change with Vader’s second intervention that will see the Rebels investigate this out of the way world. Using a traitor in the Rebel intelligence network Vader feeds information on an abandoned secret Imperial weapon to the Alliance.
Mustering a team of commandos’ together lead by the heroes of the Alliance, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker the Rebels naturally are keen to investigate this particular tidbit that has come to them via their intelligence network. Luke feels that the whole thing is a trap, but as Leia points out to this remark they cannot afford to pass up investigating this lead on just a vague suspicion. So aboard a Rebel shuttle that is backed up by the Millennium Falcon. As they approach the deserted moon and its ‘abandoned’ Imperial secret weapon they are unaware that the Empire has a vessel on station covertly monitoring them and standing by to make a suitable response should the need arise. Unlike the stormtroopers who attempted to disembark and reconnoitre the Rebels have a relatively easy landing. However once they are on the surface things begin to go a bit pear shaped to say the least, in fact it is as a result of the Rebel’s covert operation that Celeste is at last able to put the last twenty years of isolation behind her and embark into the galaxy at large, much to the consternation of the one who would make her his apprentice.
And thus the ground is laid for Vector moving into the Legacy era, precisely how this is going to occur and its eventual denouement has me in a Big Kev state of being…I’m very excited…to say the least. In fact considering the mirroring that has often been a feature of much of the Star Wars saga from the movies to these masterly crafted comics there has been considerable hints and aspects that indicate the approach of Vector into the Legacy era, the ghost of Luke Skywalker has warned his descendant Cade that danger is approaching…perhaps he is talking of Vector rather than simply Darth Krayt and his new Sith Order? Always in motion comic production is, hard to see how this story will eventually pan out but I have no doubt it well be well done and finely crafted.
Production Team: Rob Williams – script, Dustin Weaver – art, Wil Glass – colours, Michael Heisler – letters, Dan Scott & Travis Charest – cover art.
Cost: AU $7.95/US $2.99.
Twenty years have passed since Darth Vader made his abortive attempt to find an apprentice with whom he could cast down his master and truly assume the mantle of both ruler of the Empire and Dark Lord of the Sith. Celeste Morne would have been an apprentice worthy of some one such as himself, someone with whom it should have been easy to throw down Palpatine and remake the galaxy to a more suitable form rather than that which has been crafted by the wizened and Machiavellian former Supreme Chancellor. Unfortunately for Vader the legendary Jedi Knight was somewhat more than he had bargained for and so he was forced to beat a hasty retreat from the barren moon of Aridus on which he abandoned his potential ‘apprentice’.
The stormtroopers, the shuttle pilots and Captain Holt have no idea of what they are about to encounter, but their superior has some inkling. Somehow in the twenty odd years since he opened the infamous Jebble box the former Old Republic Jedi Knight Celeste Morne has managed to survive the isolation of this remote world. That is swiftly proved when the captain informs his superior that all contact has been lost with the landing party; anyone else would right this off as a bad option but not Vader even though its potentially catastrophic he can see that Celeste Morne will serve his purposes one way or another.
What he doesn’t realise is just what consequences the scheme he is about to hatch regarding Celeste, is going to have on the galaxy at large. After all four thousand years ago the fact that the infamous Muur talisman decided to attach itself to Celeste as well as the fact that it caused the Mandalorian forces occupying the ice world of Jebble to become Rakghouls was enough to see her end up imprisoned in the stasis chamber known as Lord Dreypa’s Oubliette. She was released from her stasis by Vader twenty years ago and it’s obvious that she is still as powerful now as she was when the dark lord first encountered her.
The great thing about the entire Vector storyline is the great coordination that has been achieved by the various teams who have worked on the various parts of the saga. After all a story that occurs over a span of at least four thousand years is not something to be taken lightly and could potentially lead to problems. Heck other publishers have often had problems just with coordinating a major saga that overlaps between various series but all taking place at the same time let alone trying to tell a story over an extended time period, so Dark Horse has kept it all nice and tight indicating that this may be a sign of things to come in their various Star Wars series. I’d doubt they’d opt to do another four thousand year plus saga but they could certainly do a storyline that spans from the Dark Times into Legacy as well Dark Times and Rebellion or Rebellion and Legacy. The possibilities are limitless.
Of course the story that unfolds in this particular instalment focuses primarily on moving the main menace that is Vector from where it has been out into the galaxy at large. Languishing on a barren moon for the last two decades naturally means that Celeste and the ancient Sith Lord whom she is bound to, Karness Muur, have not been any real threat to the rest of known space. In fact very few know of their existence and they do not seem likely to be going anywhere anytime soon, even after the abortive Imperial incursion. All that will change with Vader’s second intervention that will see the Rebels investigate this out of the way world. Using a traitor in the Rebel intelligence network Vader feeds information on an abandoned secret Imperial weapon to the Alliance.
Mustering a team of commandos’ together lead by the heroes of the Alliance, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker the Rebels naturally are keen to investigate this particular tidbit that has come to them via their intelligence network. Luke feels that the whole thing is a trap, but as Leia points out to this remark they cannot afford to pass up investigating this lead on just a vague suspicion. So aboard a Rebel shuttle that is backed up by the Millennium Falcon. As they approach the deserted moon and its ‘abandoned’ Imperial secret weapon they are unaware that the Empire has a vessel on station covertly monitoring them and standing by to make a suitable response should the need arise. Unlike the stormtroopers who attempted to disembark and reconnoitre the Rebels have a relatively easy landing. However once they are on the surface things begin to go a bit pear shaped to say the least, in fact it is as a result of the Rebel’s covert operation that Celeste is at last able to put the last twenty years of isolation behind her and embark into the galaxy at large, much to the consternation of the one who would make her his apprentice.
And thus the ground is laid for Vector moving into the Legacy era, precisely how this is going to occur and its eventual denouement has me in a Big Kev state of being…I’m very excited…to say the least. In fact considering the mirroring that has often been a feature of much of the Star Wars saga from the movies to these masterly crafted comics there has been considerable hints and aspects that indicate the approach of Vector into the Legacy era, the ghost of Luke Skywalker has warned his descendant Cade that danger is approaching…perhaps he is talking of Vector rather than simply Darth Krayt and his new Sith Order? Always in motion comic production is, hard to see how this story will eventually pan out but I have no doubt it well be well done and finely crafted.
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