4006 BBY: Knights of the Old Republic #33: Vindication

For this post I read a Knights of the Old Republic #33 pages 2-11.  However, for the purpose of saving time later in my blog I read the entire issue.  I tried finding a physical copy of this issue but unfortunately it's out of print and my local comic book shop wasn't able to hunt down a copy for me.  I resulted to downloading the Dark Horse app for my tablet and downloading it there.  I would still like to get a physical copy of this issue for my collection so if you know of a way for me to obtain one, please leave me a comment below.  Let's get started with this post.

The pages that I needed to read were basically a flashback of Haazen. Haazen is a failed Jedi Padawan who turned to the dark side.  This flashback takes place when Haazen is still a padawan.  It shows us what happened to Haazen to make him become a Sith.  Based on Haazen's actions, he comes across as clumsy and awkward.  When we first see Haazen he is trying to follow Dossa, a smuggler who sells weapons on the black market.  She easily catches on to Haazen following here and decides to confront him.  This is where I observed Haazen being clumsy and awkward.  As a Jedi (even a padawan) you should be able to follow someone for a long time without being detected by them.  Being detected so easily by a smuggler makes me wonder why Haazen is even a Jedi.  So after he was detected by Dossa, she attacked him and beat him up. She even stole his lightsaber.  As she was fleeing the scene, she blasted the piller that Haazen was under.  At this point I was thinking that an easy for shove by Haazen would stop this pillar.  But he didn't do that.  Instead he coward in fear under it as it fell.  But luckily Barrison (another Jedi padawan) was there to stop the crumbling pillar.    

They return back to a large house where the people there are getting ready for a Knighting ceremony.  Two of Haazen's fellow padwans that he trained along side were Knighted, but he wasn't.  This made him go into an Anakin Skywalker like rant about why he should be a Jedi Knight (even though Anakin was argueing about becoming a master) like his peers.  At the end of this flashback, Haazen is made Barrison's pilot so that he could continue to be around him.

Even though I didn't really know what was happening around the flashback in this issue of KOTOR,  I found it enjoyable to be able to see what Haazen started out as in the beginning and how he was slowly changed into the monster we see on the cover as the years past.  The story line by John Jackson-Miller was very good also.  I see now how easy it is for a Jedi to turn to the darkside.  All it could take is someone they know and care about being lost or something like what happened to Haazen.  That's why the Jedi are not supposed to hold any emotional attachments to things.  They must keep there emotions under control or else they open up the door to the darkside.

I'm really looking forward to reading more issue's of Knights of the Old Republic.  The next piece that I will be looking at is Tales of the Jedi: Ulec Qel-Droma and the Beats Wars of Onderon.  Until My next post, may the Force be with you.........

4904 BBY: Galactic Timeline: Record 11: Rebirth of the Sith Empire

For this short post I watched another video featured on swtor.com.  It's called Rebirth of the Sith Empire.    One of the things that continues to amaze me about the Sith is how resilient they are.  On numerous occasions the Sith have been thought to be extinct only to come back and attack their enemy again.  The Sith also know how to hold a grudge very well.  That all started when they met up with the Republic for the first time.  From that moment, the epic battle began. Now, lets get to this video.

The video is narrated by Master Gnost-Dural.  He speaks of the very first Grand Moff and the role that he played in reviving the Sith Empire to its former glory.  This Moff is Odile Vaiken.  He played key roles in the expansion of the Sith Empire on Dromund Kaas and the rebuilding of the Sith navy.  One of the operations that he played a particpated in was when the Sith were killing the vicious creatures that were native to Dromund Kaas so that more room could be made for the rapidly growing Empire.  Vaiken also played a key role om rebuilding the Sith army.  Vaiken died during a mission that's objective was to conquer an alien role.

Master Gnost-Dural said that the Emperor played a small role in what Vaiken was doing.  I've read the Old Republic book Revan and it seems that the Emperor in that novel was much like the one that is in this video.  What I mean by this is that no one really knows much about him.  I guess this is his way of hiding his immense powers from everyone and only using them if someone rises up against him.  Now that I think about it further, most of the Emperors that I know of (like Emperor Palpatine) played a role in the beginning of reviving their Empire but soon vanished only to appear to give instructions.  I may be wrong with these statements because I don't really know what Palpatine was doing "behind the scene" of his rule, but there may also be some truth in what I have said.  I look forward to finding out.

For my next post I will be reading Knights of the Old Republic #33: Vindication.  Until my next post, may the Force be with you..........

4975 BBY: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Savior

In this post I will be looking at the Lost Tribe of the Sith: Savior.  So far I've really enjoyed reading these stories by John Jackson Miller.  Even though there's the  issue I pointed out in my previous post I find that if you really pay close attention to the story and the progression of the characters, it's a very good read.  This post will be short so let's get started.

Now it's been 25 years since the Omen crashed on Kesh and the Sith aboard claimed that they were the Skyborn (Gods) to the Kesh people.  But now the Keshiri are seeing through the web of lies that the Sith have woven.  In my last post I made a small prediction saying that the Keshiri would rise up against the Sith in a violent way but after thinking about that I believe I was wrong.  The Keshiri would never win in a fight against the Sith.  Unlike the Sith who have the Force and lightsabers, the Keshiri don't really have anything that would put up a good fight against the Sith.  The alternative way to strike at the Sith that happened in this story is a much better idea.  The Keshiri waited until most of the Sith were on the mountain top where the Omen crash landed.  Then at the exact same time, they stole the Sith's Uvaks (flying creatures native to Kesh) and rode off.  This left the Sith stuck at the top of the mountain and the only way back down was by foot.  

But another resistance was putting their plan into action at the same time as the Keshiri.  Seelah and Jariad Korsin were planning to over through Grand Lord Korsin.  This plan to kill the Grand Lord was going well until Nida Korsin (the Grand Lords Daughter) arrived towards the middle of the battle when everyone was injured or dead.  I seems that there were three plans that were trying to be put in motion because the Grand Lord was planning to make Nida his successor so that she may follow his plans for Kesh through.  In the end , the Grand Lord was killed along with Jariad Korsin and Seelah was left paralyzed from the waist down due to massive boulders that crushed her leg.

For my next post I will be looking at Galactic Timeline Record 11: Rebirth of the Sith Empire.  Like one of my posts on the Great Hyperspace War, this also a video featured on swtor.com.  Until my next post, may the Force be with you.........