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-->'''Cade Skywalker:''' Like it was over Ossus the night you died, dad. The night I should've died. Circle's complete. Everything's right. I'm all right. Maybe this is what the vision meant. Just me at the end... [[Pun Walkin' in the sky]]...

-->'''Darth Krayt''': "Now Skywalker, strike your father's killer down! Give into your anger and feel the power of the Dark Side!"

-->'''Cade''': "No."
-->'''Krayt''': "Why?!?"
-->'''Cade''': "Because YOU want me to!!"

* ScrewDestiny: Ania does it much, much better than Cade.

''Star Wars: Legacy'' is an American comic book series set in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. The series, published by Creator/DarkHorseComics, is written by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema, and illustrated by Duursema and others, with inks by Dan Parsons and color by Brad Anderson. Issue #0, which cost 25 cents and introduced the setting and major characters, was released on 7 June 2006. Despite being Dark Horse's second best-selling title (after the ''Buffy'' comics) the series was canceled for unknown reasons in early 2010. The final issue, ''Star Wars Legacy 50: Extremes, Part 3'', was released July 28, 2010, with a follow-up miniseries, ''Star Wars: Legacy--War'', released in December and concluding the following May concluding the series.

The Cade Skywalker series was reprinted by Creator/MarvelComics as part of the ''Epic Collection'' in three omnibus volumes beginning in 2016.

* ParentalMarraigeVeto: Emperor Roan Fel tells Antares Draco to his face to stay away from Princess Marasiah, who is mutually attracted to him. [[spoiler:It becomes moot when Draco is forced to kill Roan at the end of the series.]]

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The protagonists are byronic, the Jedi are hiding away and focused on surviving, and the Empire is pretty grey. But none of them really equal the Sith, who overall are about as evil as ever.
** More accurately, this could be described as a GreyAndGrayMorality setting with clearly-defined villains. Eventually, it shifts closer to BlackAndWhiteMorality.

* CardCarryingVillain: The One Sith are all fanatics who claim to be working for Order in the galaxy but occasionally act like total psychopaths for no reason except to inspire fear. One example is Darth Maleval trying to force a man to kill his own brother in an extreme test of loyalty.

** [[SubvertedTrooe And that's just one Sith, the other Sith are a lot "nicer", just insanely loyal to the cause]]. A lot of them even think [[spoiler:what Krayt did to the Mon Calamari was stupid and pointless.]]
* CallARabbitASmeerp: This series includes a lot more slang than other ''Legends'' works (to the point of the dialogue becoming borderline unintelligible at times): e.g. the foul-mouthed Cade telling Jariah to "shut your yaw and let me concentrate!" after Darth Krayt infects him and Deliah with yorik coral seeds. Some of it sounds like Basic words influenced by Huttese, for example a pool scene involving Deliah and several other Zeltron women calling Cade over for a "smoocha".
* CasanovaWannabe: Morlish Veed not only becomes lovers with another Moff's ex-wife but attempts to seduce his mistress' agent. [[spoiler:Unaware they're the same person.]]
* TheChosenOne: Nicely subverted. Everyone feels Cade Skywalker is when the entire point of his story arc seems to be to show how manifestly untrue this is. As does Cade himself, whenever pestered about the matter.

* CivilWarVersusArmageddon: The Galactic Alliance (the successor state to the New Republic) and the New Galactic Empire (a constitutional monarchy descended from TheRemnant of Palpatine's Galactic Empire) were manipulated into a renewed war by Darth Krayt and his One Sith order, which then launches a coup against the Empire after capturing Coruscant and sacking the Jedi Temple on Ossus. The Alliance is reduced to a remnant fleet led by Admiral Gar Stazi, while the Empire breaks into a civil war between the backers of Emperor Roan Fel and those of the Sith. Stazi and Fel, and the Jedi and Imperial Knights, all struggle to put aside their differences to effectively combat Darth Krayt.

** The One Sith are almost all tattooed red and black like Darth Maul. This is {{exploited}} twice in the series, when people use this to pass themselves off as Sith to the Sith themselves. One of them's not even Force sensitive.

* TangledFamilyTree: The series features three branches of the Skywalker-Solo clan. Cade Skywalker is a male-line descendant of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade via their son Ben. The new Imperial royal family (Emperor Roan and Princess/Empress Marasiah) are female-line descendants of Leia Organa and Han Solo via their daughter Jaina, who married Imperial fighter ace Soontir Fel's son Jagged. Ania Solo is ''probably'' a descendant of Jaina's twin brother Jacen via his lover Tenel Ka Djo (their daughter, raised as Allana Solo, was born in the ''Literature/DarkNestTrilogy'').

* AbortedArc: We're introduced to Hondo Karr, a Mandalorian, and briefly see what the Mandalorians are up to during this time period, but this is never followed up on again.

* AscendedExtra: Remember A'Sharad Hett, that Tusken Jedi who was a supporting character for 2-3 issues from the ''Republic'' series? [[spoiler:Turns out he's the BigBad Dark Lord of the entire series.]]

* ThePoliticalOfficer: The Sith Lords fill a similar role in the Imperial Military, ensuring that Admirals and Generals do not defect and follow the will of Darth Krayt.
** Complete with an [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} "oops, sorry sir" style]] fragging of Darth Maleval when he acts a little overzealous.

* UhOhEyes: As is typical with other StarWars works, characters will exhibit SupernaturalGoldEyes whenever they channel TheDarkSide. Notably, this happens to Celeste Morne's eyes, combined with BlackEyesOfEvil, perhaps as an indication of [[DemonicPossession Muur's influence]] on her during her battle with Darth Krayt. Cade's eyes turn red when he uses his healing power for too long.

%%** The Sith-aligned Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Xenoc Quad.

* AuthorAppeal: Subverted, of all things. Delilah Blue comes from a polyamorous culture but she is very quick to be jealous when Cade gets attention from other women.
** Even when he gets in a MateOrDie with Darth Talon.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** Roan Fel [[spoiler:kills a Sith Lord by himself with ''his bare hands'' (and a hidden blaster) in a duel that's typically solved only by Force powers and a lightsaber.]]
** Darth Krayt is the current Dark Lord of the Sith, and naturally is the most powerful of them all.

* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Darth Krayt]] is fried by Force lightning, stabbed in the back of the neck with a lightsaber, tossed off a cliff, and finally fried by Force lightning ''again''.
** [[spoiler:And he ''still doesn't die!'']]
*** [[spoiler:Finally seems to be destroyed at the series end when Cade stabs him though the chest then [[NoKillLikeOverkill FLIES HIS BODY INTO THE SUN.]]]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Celeste Morne]] finds peace in the Force before being executed by Cade. Note that unlike his many other dubious actions, [[spoiler:this is NOT a KickTheDog moment for Cade. Celeste unambiguously wants it, and there is no alternative way to prevent an ancient sith spirit from taking over her body]].
** Cade's also not a dick about it. He says "I know" rather gently, instead of in his snarky jokey way; might have been one of the most compassionate things he's ever done.

* KarmaHoudini: By the end of Legacy-War, [[spoiler:[[DragonAscendant Darth Nihl]], [[FakingTheDead Darth Talon]], [[YouKilledMyFather Darth Havoc]], [[HeelFaceMole Darth Maladi]], many other Sith, and [[TheMole Hogrum Chalk]]]].

* DeconReconSwitch: Initially a complete flip of the usual ''Franchise/StarWars'' structure, with good Imperials, a jerkass Skywalker who refuses to be the hero or the villain, and The Jedi are arguably better off without him. And despite StarWars having always been about "Light side vs Dark side", Legacy has MANY shades of Grey. The series pivots at the ''Vector'' sub-series, and by the end ''Legacy'' pretty much reconstructs ''Franchise/StarWars'' after ''decades'' of {{Deconstruction}}. [[spoiler:Cade Skywalker rejects the DarkSide and becomes a better man, Krayt is overthrown and meets an ignominious end, and the Alliance, made up of genuine believers in the restoration of democratic government, score a magnificent final victory.]]

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 126 years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' and many decades [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends after]] [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy everything]] [[Literature/HandOfThrawn else]] [[Literature/NewJediOrder that]] [[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce happened]] [[Literature/FateOfTheJedi afterwards]]. In the aftermath of a failed terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch reformists]], the Galactic Empire (now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo--) has again declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious [[BigBad Darth Krayt]]. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

...at which point [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Sith predictably mount a coup d'etat against Emperor Fel]] and lead an attack on the Jedi Temple on Ossus, where Luke Skywalker's descendant, main character [[AntiHero Cade Skywalker]], is training as a Jedi with his father. Most of the Jedi on Ossus are killed, but Cade is rescued from his crippled starfighter by Black Sun-affiliated SpacePirates led by Rav, who takes him as an apprentice to WorkOffTheDebt.

Not to be confused with ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'', which is set about 90 years before this series starts but is loosely tied to it.

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 126 years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' and many decades [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends after]] [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy everything]] [[Literature/HandOfThrawn else]] [[Literature/NewJediOrder that]] [[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce happened]] [[Literatire/FateOfTheJedi afterwards]]. In the aftermath of a failed terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch reformists]], the Galactic Empire (now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo--) has again declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious [[BigBad Darth Krayt]]. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 130 years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends and]] [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy all]] [[Literature/NewJediOrder that]] [[Literature/HandOfThrawn happens]] [[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce after]]. In the aftermath of a failed terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch reformists]], the Galactic Empire (now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo--) has again declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious [[BigBad Darth Krayt]]. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 130 years after ''Film/ANewHope''. In the aftermath of a failed terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch reformists]], the Galactic Empire (now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo--) has again declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious [[BigBad Darth Krayt]]. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

* PinkIsErotic: Deliah Blue is a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe pink-skinned alien babe]]. Her people are the Zeltrons [[PlanetOfHats whose culture was highly influenced by sexuality and the pursuit of pleasure in general]]. Most of their art and literature are devoted to the subject of sexuality, producing some of the raciest pieces in the galaxy. A talent agent named Ruudi Buundaz was particularly taken by their allure:

* LargeHam: Darth Krayt announcing on '''interstellar television''' that he's going to exterminate an entire race after working them to death.
** And then cut down their Senator on the stage floor with the camera droids looking on. His subordinates slaughtered the rest of the room's members of the targeted race.

* MadScientist: Darth Maladi is a Sith Alchemist, which is basically MadScientist + EvilSorcerer + TortureTechnician. Her laboratory is a scary, scary place.
** Also, Vul Isen, who puts Maladi to shame in the mad department, though not so much the science department.
** And the Sith-aligned Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Xenoc Quad
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[spoiler:Darth Wyyrlok kills Darth Krayt and takes control over the Sith, all in the name of "better realizing Krayt's own philosophy. This isn't played straight however, as Krayt was not actually killed and comes back to return the favor and take back control of his empire]]

* MeaningfulName: Darth Krayt is roughly the equivalent of "Darth Dragon" and is turning into a creature very much like it, [[spoiler:in addition to being the dominant predator on his home planet of Tatooine]], and Darth Wyyrlok is an eldritch wizard.

** Roan Fel, the morally ambiguous leader of the Empire; Deliah Blue, who has blue hair and blue lips
* MissingMom: No one ever talks about Empress Elliah Fel, the wife of Emperor Roan and the mother of Princess Sia. [[spoiler:Nyna Calixte/Morrigan Corde could qualify as this too, as she abandoned Cade and had almost nothing to do with Gunn.]]
** The final issue reveals that Darth Havok murdered her. Antares calls him out on it and Havok states that it was "regrettable, but necessary."

* AscendedMeme: Jedi Master K'Kruhk and his [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/K%27Kruhk#Cult_following Freakin' Sweet Hat]] make several appearances in the Legacy comic. In Issues #45 and #46, Roan Fel and the Imperial Knights also wear [[NiceHat Freakin' Sweet Hats]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: It certainly does not come without cost, but this series ends on a high note - and, fittingly, it's also the last chronological story told in the original Expanded Universe/Legends continuity.

Interestingly, both volumes are considered to serve as the GrandFinale to the Expanded Universe - no stories chronologically took place in the EU after these stories. Given that Creator/{{Disney}} now owns the franchise, and that they have declared the old EU to be an AlternateContinuity in respect to their new films, it is unlikely that any story taking place after these events will be published - though, thankfully, [[EarnYourHappyEnding the story ends on a conclusive and victorious note]].

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 133 years after ''Film/ANewHope''. In the aftermath of the failure of a terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch reformists]], the Galactic Empire, now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo--declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious [[BigBad Darth Krayt]]. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

Seven years later, Cade is the leader of a BountyHunter crew with his best friend Jariah Syn and his on-again-off-again girlfriend Deliah Blue, having degraded into a venal, violent man who uses drugs to ward off the pangs of what's left of his conscience (not to mention the Force ghost of Luke Skywalker himself). Meanwhile, Alliance Admiral Gar Stazi has taken command of what's left of the Alliance military and [[LaResistance fights a guerrilla war against the Sith Empire]], while Emperor Fel (who escaped by means of a BodyDouble) and his Imperial Knights work to hang on to what remains of his own Empire, and both [[EnemyMine struggle to overcome the bad blood from the recent conflict]] to defeat Darth Krayt and once again restore freedom to the galaxy.

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 133 years after ''Film/ANewHope''. In the aftermath of the failure of a terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] reformists, the Galactic Empire, now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo--declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious [[BigBad Darth Krayt]]. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

''Star Wars: Legacy'' begins 133 years after ''Film/ANewHope''. In the aftermath of the failure of a terraforming project spearheaded by [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] reformists, the Galactic Empire, now a constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel--a descendant of Leia Organa and Han Solo--declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic formed during the Yuuzhan Vong War), gaining the assistance of a restored Sith Order led by the mysterious Darth Krayt. The story picks up shortly after the Empire has succeeded in recapturing Coruscant...

...at which point [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Sith predictably mount a coup d'etat against Emperor Fel]] and lead an attack on the Jedi Temple on Ossus, where Luke Skywalker's descendant, main character Cade Skywalker, is training as a Jedi with his father. Most of the Jedi on Ossus are killed, but Cade is rescued from his crippled starfighter by Black Sun-affiliated SpacePirates led by Rav, who takes him as an apprentice to WorkOffTheDebt.

Five years later, Cade is the leader of a BountyHunter crew with his best friend Jariah Syn and his on-again-off-again girlfriend Deliah Blue, having degraded into a venal, violent man who uses drugs to ward off the pangs of what's left of his conscience (not to mention the Force ghost of Luke Skywalker himself). Meanwhile, Alliance Admiral Gar Stazi has taken command of what's left of the Alliance military and [[LaResistance fights a guerrilla war against the Sith Empire]], while Emperor Fel (who escaped by means of a BodyDouble) and his Imperial Knights work to hang on to what remains of his own Empire, and both [[EnemyMine struggle to overcome the bad blood from the recent conflict]] to defeat Darth Krayt and restore freedom to the galaxy.

** Marasiah and her father Roan are descendants of Jaina and Jagged.
** Ania is the great-great-granddaughter of Han and Leia, but whether this is through Jaina or Jacen is never [[RiddleForTheAges revealed]], with Marasiah also having no idea who she is.
* ThePurge: The Jedi Order is killed off ''again'' at the start of Part I, and its survivors are scattered to the wind. This time, it's by an all-out attack by the One Sith, which was also preceded by one of their schemes to make [[HeroWithBadPublicity the Jedi look bad]] so that no one would care about them getting wiped out. This is also the least successful purge of the Jedi Order, who while scattered aren't wiped out.
* TangledFamilyTree: In all the series features three branches of the Skywalker-Solo clan. Cade Skywalker is a male-line descendant of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade via their son Ben. The Imperial royal family (Emperor Roan and Princess/Empress Marasiah) are female-line descendants of Leia Organa and Han Solo via their daughter Jaina, who married Imperial fighter ace Soontir Fel's son Jagged. Ania Solo is ''probably'' a descendant of Jaina's twin brother Jacen via his lover Tenel Ka Djo (their daughter, raised as Allana Solo, was born in the ''Literature/DarkNestTrilogy'').

* AbortedArc: We're introduced to Hondo Karr, a Mandalorian, and briefly see what the Mandalorians are up to during this time period, but this is never followed up on.

** Roan Fel [[spoiler:Roan kills a Sith Lord by himself with ''his bare hands'' (and a hidden blaster) in a duel that's typically solved only by Force powers and a lightsaber.]]
** Darth Krayt is the lord of the Sith and the most powerful of them all.

* BadassNormal: Anson 'Noob' Trask manages to take out a Sith Lord.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The protagonists are byronic, the Jedi are hiding away and focused on surviving, and the Empire is pretty grey, but none of them really equal the Sith.

-->'''Cade Skywalker:''' Like it was over Ossus the night you died, dad. The night I should've died. Circle's complete. Everything's right. I'm all right. Maybe this is what the vision meant. Just me at the end...Walkin' in the sky...
* BountyHunter: Azlyn Rae. Cade Skywalker and crew.

** Justified because of the way Sith powers work- they literally draw their strength (or at least believe they do, which amounts to the same thing where the Force is concerned) from being [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] of galactic proportions. And then there's the fact that [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity no one ever got saner from using the dark side their whole life,either]].
** And that's just one Sith, the other Sith are a lot "nicer" just insanely loyal to the cause, a lot of them even think [[spoiler:what Krayt did to the Mon Calamari is stupid and pointless.]]

* CivilWarVersusArmageddon: The Galactic Alliance (the successor state to the New Republic) and the Galactic Empire (a constitutional monarchy descended from TheRemnant of Palpatine's Empire) were manipulated into a renewed war by Darth Krayt and his One Sith order, which then launches a coup against the Empire after capturing Coruscant and sacking the Jedi Temple on Ossus. The Alliance is reduced to a remnant fleet led by Admiral Gar Stazi, while the Empire breaks into a civil war between the backers of Emperor Roan Fel and those of the Sith. Stazi and Fel, and the Jedi and Imperial Knights, all struggle to put aside their differences to effectively combat Darth Krayt.

** The One Sith are almost all tattooed red like Darth Maul. This is {{exploited}} twice in the series, when people use this to pass themselves off as Sith to the Sith themselves. One of them's not even Force sensitive.
** Also, Galactic Alliance ships have green lasers and Imperial ships have red lasers. The GA Remnant apparently even has the resources to replace the lasers on ''Imperious'' with the appropriate color after stealing her.

** Issue 4 ''Noob'' focuses on the minor character Anson Trask, an imperial stormtrooper.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Darth Krayt, BigBad and basically final boss of this Star Wars canon, reveals he is [[spoiler: A'Sharad Hett, a Jedi from the Clone Wars era who was not particularly important who you would probably assumed died of old age even had he survived Order 66.]]

* {{Expy}}: Darth Azard is an unusual case of being an Expy of a character in the same series. He seems to be remake of the one-shot villain Darth Maleval who died after one issue.

* GhostlyDeathReveal: Although Force users can live for centuries, even human ones, Luke Skywalker is revealed to the audience to have died during the TimeSkip between ''[[Literature/StarWarsCrucible Crucible]]'' (the chronologically previous work in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'') and ''Legacy'' when he appears to Cade as a Force ghost.

** Strengthened by the fact that Cade had MANY chances to turn back fully into the light up until his encounter with Luke's ghost on Tatooine. Realistically takes a lot to get through to a hardened Force-using death stick junkie.

* GhostlyDeathReveal: Although Force users can live for centuries, even human ones, Luke Skywalker is revealed to the audience to have died during the TimeSkip between ''[[Literature/StarWarsCrucible|Crucible]]'' and ''Legacy'' when he appears to Cade as a Force ghost.