A fan trilogy set within the Star Wars Legends continuity and after the author's own Sword of the Jedi Fan Trilogy, this series, written by HandofThrawn45, is set 70 years after the death of Darth Vader, and follows the story of Ben Skywalker's daughter Jade, as the children of Luke, Han, and Leia pass the torch to the next generation of heroes. Bridging the gape between the the Sword of the Jedi Trilogy and the Legacy comics, it also features the story of the rise of Darth Krayt's One Sith Empire, as well as the formation of the Fel Empire.
The Trilogy spans three books, A Shadowed Peace
, Empire of Light, and The Waiting Dark. The has author also written a follow up story Legacy's Edge, which is a direct prequel to the Star Wars Legacy comics, depicting the fall of the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi and the official rise of Darth Krayt's Sith Empire.
This fanfic provides examples of the following tropes, which may include unmarked spoilers.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: The Senex Juvex Lords are one example, and the Hapan nobles (especially Serissa) are the other prominent example.
- Asshole Victim: Saydel's purge of the Hapan aristocracy is ridiculously cruel.....and yet the people on the receiving end are corrupt aristocrats who cheerfully involved themselves in selfish power games.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Darth Xoran and Darth Saydel are the ones who break the Senex Juvex Lords and Hapan Aristocracy, which ultimately end up paving the way for more egalitarian governments even if that wasn't what either one of them intended.
- Big Good: Allana Djo.
- Boomerang Bigot: Serissa Lohr is a Hapan Blue Blood.....and yet she utterly despises her social class to the point she commits genocide against them.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Darth Kroan was the CEO of Kuat Drive Yards before he joined the Sith.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Saydel might be an evil bitch, but she DOES genuinely mourn her mother, and even admits that it's the main reason she sought to kill her grandmother.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Darth Avanc is in many ways a typical Sith; cruel, vicious, manipulative and elitist. However, even he realizes that Abeloth is too dangerous to use, and so actually intends to deal with the Jedi in good faith until she's gone.
- Face–Heel Turn: Wharn falls to the dark side and becomes Darth Terrid.
- The Friend No One Likes: While Saydel is viewed as a valuable member of the Sith due to providing them a home and staying loyal, very few of the Sith leadership actually LIKE her on a personal level, both because she wasn't born into the Sith AND because she's incredibly arrogant.
- Genocide from the Inside: Saydel is a Hapan Noble who nevertheless is actively involved in exterminating her own social class out of contempt for them.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Serissa Lohr aka Darth Saydel gains the throne of Hapes.....and then proceeds to initiate an 8 year long reign of terror that utterly decimates the aristocracy.
- Hidden Depths: Serissa Lohr comes across as just another arrogant scheming noble. While that isn't entirely wrong she DOES have a genuine vision for Hapan society and she ultimately chooses loyalty to Krayt over her teacher.
- Hot for Student: Darth Terrid is Serissa Lohr's teacher....and lover.
- Lonely at the Top: Demia Lohr (the Sith pawn who rules Hapes before Serissa kills her) counts. She bitterly realizes that while she wanted power she didn't realize it involved responsibility (or that it would make her own daughter and granddaughter plot to kill her.)
- Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The final confrontation of the trilogy involves Allana (who's in her mid 60s) against Darth Saydel (who's 26).
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Xoran's treatment of the Senex-Juvex Lords is this given that they enslaved her as a child, as well as countless others.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Darth Avanc fully intends to deal with the Jedi in good faith simply because he knows that Abeloth is THAT dangerous. Too bad Wharn had other ideas.
- Smug Snake: Serissa is a downplayed example. She's by no means stupid, but she's also INCREDIBLY full of herself and her first gambit to make contact with the Sith very nearly gets her killed (if it weren't for her having the force they WOULD have handed her over to her grandmother for execution rather than faking her death.)
- Teens Are Monsters: Serissa Lohr is 17 years old when she attempts to assassinate her own grandmother; after the Sith recruit her she becomes MUCH worse very quickly.
- The Vamp: Serissa Lohr is a seductress par excellence even BEFORE the Sith recruit her. She also seduces her teacher.
- Villain Has a Point: Darth Xoran is entirely right when she says that the Senex Juvex Lords were brutal autocrats who needed to go. Saydel meanwhile also sees the Hapan aristocracy as selfish children who keep Hapes stagnant while being too cowardly to act on their ambitions.
- Villainous Legacy: Saydel dies in this story, but her actions indirectly helped lead to Hogrum Chalk's villainy, which has devastating consequences in Legacy'sEnd.
- Visionary Villain: While Saydel is very much an egotistical Blue Blood, she DOES genuinely want to change Hapan society into something less stagnant, and is openly disdainful of her fellow aristocrats for being shallow petty creatures unwilling to act on their ambitions. She also (surprisingly) chooses to stay loyal to Darth Krayt rather than betray him for her own ambitions. Darth Xoran is another example, in that she wants to take down the Senex Juvex Lords who ruthlessly enslaved her and her family.
