My new favorite Star Wars era!

I've been reading Star Wars: Legacy, and that setting really struck a chord with me. I'll avoid spoiling the happenings of the comic book and focus on the setting details.

The New Republic has been replaced by an Empire, but one not run by the Sith (at first). This Empire has all the militaristic trappings of Palpatine's empire (stormtroopers, et al.), but also boast an order of Imperial Knights, trained in the use of the Force (but not necessarily evil).

Luke Skywalker´s New Jedi Order has dwindled rapidly, in no small part thanks to the onslaught of DOZENS of Sith!

The Emperor has been removed from office by the new Dark Lord of the Sith.

There's a new Rebellion, headed by... the displaced Emperor!

So you have three Force-using factions: the Jedi Knights, the Imperial Knights and the Sith.
You have two main political sides: the Sith-controlled Empire and Empire-controlled Rebellion.

Plus lots of people that don't care either way (where the main characters are).

I am liking this very much, and Cade Skywalker is a far cry from Luke or Anakin. He's more like Boba Fett than anything, with a pint of Han Solo.

How many years after RotJ is Legacy set?

Ive been meaning to pick this up. I heard it was something like 100 years after the New Republic era, not ROTJ.
But anyway sounds even better than i had originally heard.

It´s 137 years after the Battle of Yavin.

The setting feels so much more varied and with so many possibilities for a game, unlike the two-sided Empire vs. Rebellion conflict of the earlier eras.

Thanks, I might have to give that read then

Klaus said:

I've been reading Star Wars: Legacy, and that setting really struck a chord with me. I'll avoid spoiling the happenings of the comic book and focus on the setting details.

The New Republic has been replaced by an Empire, but one not run by the Sith (at first). This Empire has all the militaristic trappings of Palpatine's empire (stormtroopers, et al.), but also boast an order of Imperial Knights, trained in the use of the Force (but not necessarily evil).

Luke Skywalker´s New Jedi Order has dwindled rapidly, in no small part thanks to the onslaught of DOZENS of Sith!

The Emperor has been removed from office by the new Dark Lord of the Sith.

There's a new Rebellion, headed by... the displaced Emperor!

So you have three Force-using factions: the Jedi Knights, the Imperial Knights and the Sith.
You have two main political sides: the Sith-controlled Empire and Empire-controlled Rebellion.

Plus lots of people that don't care either way (where the main characters are).

I am liking this very much, and Cade Skywalker is a far cry from Luke or Anakin. He's more like Boba Fett than anything, with a pint of Han Solo.

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I am not yet convinced ... :/

How did the new Empire come into being?
Where are all the Sith from?

Mustrum_Ridcully said:

I am not yet convinced ... :/

How did the new Empire come into being?
Where are all the Sith from?

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I attached the recap box from the first issue.

The New Republic was invaded by an alien force, and the Empire rose during the chaos. The Sith were hiding in an isolated planet, and lent their strength to help overcome the aliens and the chaos that came after the war.

Mustrum_Ridcully said:

I am not yet convinced ... :/

How did the new Empire come into being?
Where are all the Sith from?

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This new Empire is the same empire as before, the one that was crushed down to being the Imperial Remnant, but after a century they had built up enough, and the Galactic Alliance had been weakened enough, that they made their play for galactic power. Gilead Pellaeon's rulership of the Imperial Remnant as Supreme Commander apparently morphs in the aftermath of the Yuuzhan Vong war into being a new Emperor, which is chosen by the Moffs.

As for the Imperial Knights, they were created when the Empire surged back to prominence, and instead of seeking the extermination of the Jedi, or even them turning to the Dark Side, the Empire demanded that the Jedi pledge their loyalty to the Emperor himself, and not the Jedi Order or the Jedi Code (thus they aren't inherently dark-side, but there's nothing to stop them, if not a encouragement from their Sith masters). The Imperial Knights have a uniform assigned to them by the Empire, a sort of red/black battle armor that evokes memories of both the Royal Guard and Darth Vader, and their lightsabers are all identical. Many Jedi refused this heresy, and they became fugitives for refusing to swear fealty to the Emperor (the headquarters of the Jedi Order on Ossus has been razed by the Empire).

As for the Sith, actually that's a nice thing in continuity, they didn't pull that out of nowhere, it had been set up literally two decades earlier. Before the "Rule of Two" was set down, in canon Star Wars there was a character who had been established as having recieved rudimentary Sith training from Darth Vader: Lumiya, from the old Star Wars Marvel Comics (which are considered C-Canon in the canon system), and was the only Sith not accounted for in the canon, so after Vader and Palpatine were both dead, she went into hiding/exile apparently for decades, until emerging to attempt to rebuild the Sith order.

Besides the Legacy comic books, there is the Legacy of the Force novels set at around 40 years after Yavin, which sets some of this up, like the Sith being rebuilt by Lumiya. Then they jump the timeline roughly 100 years. Given that from the prequels to the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the galaxy has been in a state of general war for almost 70 years, letting the setting have a few decades of relative peace after three cataclysmic wars (Clone Wars, Galactic Civil War, Yuuzhan Vong War) only makes sense, they are literally worn out (the books set after the Vong war all keep talking about how galactic civilization is worn out from so many major wars in such a relatively short time).

I'm not one so much for the Legacy era stuff myself, my personal favorite is the New Republic era: the Jedi Order is being rebuilt slowly (so Jedi are rare, but PC's can learn to be Jedi), the Empire is still a military might but it can be fought and won against in open warfare, The New Republic gives the rebels some attempt at legitimacy, the galaxy is torn between the "legitimate" Empire and the "free" New Republic and a lot of the galaxy is sitting it out and trying to be neutral or independent.

After re-reading #0, here's what happened before the series begin:

- New Republic is established in Coruscant and several other systems. The remaining imperialists retreat to the Outer Rim and name themselves the Imperial Remnant, and strike a peace with the New Republic.

- Galaxy is invaded by the extra-galactic Vong race, and the New Republic falls, being replaced by a Galactic Alliance. The Alliance and the Imperial Remnant join forces and defeat the Vong (who had conquered several worlds and altered their biospheres).

- The Jedi Order convinces the Alliance to let the Vong settle in a few worlds, including the Jedi world of Ossus. The Jedi succeed in terraforming Ossus back to its former biosphere.

- Something went wrong with the terraforming of subsequent worlds, and the Jedi suspected sabotage. The Imperial Remnant blamed the Vong, but the Jedi convinced the Alliance to back up the Vong. Enraged, the Imperial Remnant declared itself an Empire once again and a new star war began. Remembering the Vong invasion, several Alliance worlds defected to the Imperial side.

- When the Sith revealed themselves as allied to the Empire, the Jedi knew who sabotaged the terraforming initiative, but were unable to prove it.

- Within 3 years, the Alliance surrendered and was absorbed by the Empire. The Emperor called for the Jedi to surrender, but they refused to join an Empire allied with the Sith, so they withdrew to their world, Ossus.

- The Sith followed them there...

This is intriguing, and I think it has a lot of possibilities for role-playing campaigns. I've ordered all the in-print issues. Can't wait to get/read them. Maybe it'll inspire me to run a campiagn!