The story resumes with Jori arriving back into Republic space and she is instantly arrested because of her previous crimes. She is shipped to another world in the Koros system where prisoners are forced to work. Meanwhile, the Sith Empire is gearing up for war against the Republic. Before the Sith can leave Naga Sadow's base, Ludo Kressh returns to continue his fight. Gav hits a button on the wall that blows Ludo's ship out of the air.
Jori is able to escape the prison world by stealing a ship and makes her way to the palace of Empress Teta so that she can warn her of the impending attack from the Sith army. Since Odan-Urr expressed similar concerns, the Empress is very quick to react. Empress Teta rally's her army so that they can get ready to defend the republic. Soon after the Sith drop out of hyperspace and begin their assault on the Republic. The Sith make their attack on Coruscant while the Jedi Knights try to fend them off. With them, the Sith bring massive beasts that can crush all in their paths. That'ts the end of issue 1-3.
I'm surprised that more Jedi didn't see this attack coming. I would think that the vision that Odan-Urr received would be enough of an alert for the entire Republic to take action. But instead, they said he was dreaming and that the Sith were long extinct. Were they ever wrong. Not only did the Sith use trickery (their trademark) to get a foot hold into the Republic. But they managed to put together a full scale assault in a matter of days. To me that's pretty impressive. Their hatred of the Republic must have had something to do with that (It's fairly obvious). I have really enjoyed these comics and I can't wait to report on more of them as I go further into goal of looking at Star Wars from beginning to end.
For my next post, I will be reading Crosscurrent by Paul S. Kemp. I have read some his other Star Wars novels and look forward to reading this one. Until I finish the book, may the Force be with you......
Notice that only a small portion of Crosscurrent is set at this point. The majority of the novel is set after the New Jedi Order series.
ReplyDeleteYa, I did notice that. I forgot to mention that at the end of this post. According to the chronology website that I'm using I need to read chapters 1-4 and 8. Thanks for pointing it out to me and for commenting.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be best if you used the same system as MKB: Only read complete works unless the parts are completely separate, like in Jedi vs Sith. In this case they really aren't.
ReplyDeleteGoing through the timeline in complete works makes it much easier to deal with crowded timeline spots like 32 BBY.
Thanks for the tip Lugija. I will do what MKB has been doing. It makes more sense to read the whole piece if it's a novel or something that isn't completely separate anyway. I appreciate the advice.
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