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aka: Legacy

"Exploring the galaxy… Solo style!"

Luke Skywalker: I know all about the dark side, Cade. More than you do. You wouldn't have to go there to heal, not if you were at peace with yourself. If you completed your training, if you had just accepted your legacy—
Cade Skywalker: Be a Skywalker?! That's turned out real well for our family, hasn't it?!

Star Wars: Legacy is an American comic book series set in Star Wars Legends. The series, initially published by Dark Horse Comics (and later reprinted by Marvel Comics), 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.

Star Wars: Legacy begins 126 years after Return of the Jedi and many decades after everything else that happened since. In the aftermath of a failed terraforming project spearheaded by the New Jedi Order and a group of Yuuzhan Vong reformists, the Galactic Empire (now a less dictatorial, constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperor Roan Fel) has again declared war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (the successor state to the New Republic), 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 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, 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 Space Pirates led by Rav, who takes him as an apprentice to Work Off the Debt.

Seven years later, Cade is the leader of a Bounty Hunter crew with his best friend Jariah Syn and his on-again-off-again girlfriend Deliah Blue, having degraded into a venal, harsh and 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 fights a guerrilla war against the Sith Empire, while Emperor Fel (who escaped by means of a Body Double) and his Imperial Knights (basically Imperial Jedi bodyguards) work to hang on to what remains of his own Empire, and both struggle to overcome the bad blood from the recent conflict to defeat Darth Krayt and once again restore freedom to the galaxy.

Its revival/sequel was announced on December 3, 2012, and its first issue was released March 20, 2013. Written by Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko, Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 shifts focus away from Cade and onto Ania Solo, the great-great-granddaughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo.

Collectively, Legacy is considered to serve as the Grand Finale to the Expanded Universe — no stories chronologically took place in the EU after these stories. Given that Disney now owns the franchise, and that they have declared the old EU to be an Alternate Continuity in respect to their new films, it is unlikely that any story taking place after these events will be published — although, thankfully, the story ends on a conclusive and victorious note.

The Cade Skywalker series was reprinted by Marvel Comics as part of the Epic Collection in three omnibus volumes beginning in 2016.

Not to be confused with Legacy of the Force, which is set about 90 years before this series starts but is loosely tied to it and also features a renewed Galactic Civil War.

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The stories contain the following tropes:

The Legacy-era in general contains:

In General

• Elite Agents Above the Law: The Galactic Empire's Imperial Knights are Force-users who answer directly to the Emperor. However, they use the light side (and dislike the term "gray Jedi" used for them by the Galactic Alliance's mainstream Jedi Order), and also have the responsibility of stopping the Emperor should he ever fall to the dark side.
• Legacy Character:
  • Cade, his father Kol, and his uncle Nat are descendants of Luke and Mara through Ben.
  • Marasiah and her father Roan are descendants of Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel.
  • Ania is the great-great-granddaughter of Han and Leia, but whether this is through Jaina or Jacen is never revealed, with even Marasiah having no idea who she is beyond a vague relation.
• No Romantic Resolution: Marasiah and Antares Draco are in love in Part I, and though Emperor Roan issues a Parental Marriage Veto because he doesn't like Draco, his opinion becomes moot when Draco kills him for falling to the dark side at the end of the series. However, we never find out whether they got together because they're both Demoted to Extra in Part II.
• The Purge: 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 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 really wiped out.
• Tangled Family Tree: 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, Allana Solo, was born in the Dark Nest Trilogy).

Legacy volume one contains:

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• Aborted Arc: 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 despite setting up a plot thread involving a conspiracy by their current leader.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Despite having all kinds of problems. Cade Skywalker has scored with three very attractive women during the series, most of the other major female cast being related to him.
  • Which could arguably mean that his sex appeal is In the Blood, judging by Luke before he married Mara, and Ben in Invincible.
    • Or a subtle deconstruction of the trilogies, as Luke and Leia originally appear a couple, and Anakin and Amidala are, despite the male half of both parings being incredibly whiny and immature.
  • And of course, at least one of those women (Darth Talon) likes him because he has issues, rather than in spite of it.
• Anti-Hero: Cade, so very much.
• Anti-Villain: Some Imperials who serve the Sith-ruled Empire are actually honorable, if misguided, individuals.
• Arc Words: "We take what is given".
• Artifact of Doom: The Muur Talisman.
• Ascended Extra: Remember A'Sharad Hett, that Tusken Jedi who was a supporting character for 2-3 issues from the Republic series? Turns out he's the Dark Lord of the Sith of this era and the main antagonist of the entire series.
• Ascended Meme: Jedi Master K'Kruhk and his Freakin' Sweet Hat make several appearances in the Legacy comic. In Issues #45 and #46, Roan Fel and the Imperial Knights also wear Freakin' Sweet Hats.
• As Long as There Is Evil: At the end of the series, Nihl, succeeding Krayt as Dark Lord of the Sith after Krayt is killed, orders all remaining Sith to go into hiding and infiltrate the governments so that the group may live on. Talon and Maladi are among the survivors.
• As You Know: The series can have a tendency to have exposition-laden dialogue to this effect, such as Cade and Bantha's talking about how Bantha is his uncle and left the Jedi Order, or the crew of the Mynock talking about how Bantha's adopted son was a former slave who lost his legs.
• Author Appeal: 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 Mate or Die with Darth Talon.
• Back from the Dead: Darth Krayt. Then when Cade kills him again, he makes sure Krayt won't come back again by sticking his body on a shuttle and sending it straight into Coruscant's sun!
• Badass Boast: Jariah Syn on the topic of Stuff Blowing Up "I am 'Boom's' daddy!"
• Badass Longcoat: Cade's trademark trenchcoat, of course.
• Badass Normal: Rookie Imperial Stormtrooper Anson 'Noob' Trask, who manages to take out a Sith Lord.
• Band of Brothers: Rogue Squadron, also Skull Squadron and Joker Squad.
• Batman Gambit Hogrum Chalk getting Roan Fel to use Omega Red on the Sith. He knew that Fel would use it. He also knew that Fel would get killed off because he crossed a line. He wanted Fel killed off because he was getting too old, too controversial and had too many enemies. He knew Marasiah would be a much better ruler overall than her father at the end of the war.
• Becoming the Mask: Morrigan Corde took on the Nyna Calixte identity for decades until Grand Moff Veed "kills" her.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Krayt turned to the Dark Side after being captured and horribly tortured by a Yuuzhan Vong scout ship, whereupon he had his vision of the One Sith. Justified in that he'd been running dangerously close to the edge for decades already; this just knocked him off.
• Big Bad: Darth Krayt.
  • Played with. Cade Skywalker and company (with a little help from Darth Wyyrlok) kill him, making it appear Wyyrlok will take the role, but Krayt comes back in a big way in the end.
• Big Brother Mentor: Wolf Sazen.
• Black-and-Grey Morality: The protagonists are byronic, the Jedi are hiding away and focused on surviving, and the Empire is pretty grey, far more than they were under Palpatine. But none of them really equal the Sith, who overall are about as evil as ever.
  • More accurately, this could be described as a Grey-and-Gray Morality setting with clearly-defined villains. Eventually, it shifts closer to Black-and-White Morality as the war against the Sith continues.
• Blood Knight: Darth Nihl, Darth Stryfe, Darth Maleval, Darth Rauder.
• Boisterous Weakling: The Malevolence Cult that guards Darth Anddedu's true tomb. They boast how they've been soaking the place's dark side aura for generations in order to increase their power, but in truth they're just a bunch of emanciated, half-crazed thugs with barely any formal training in either the Force or lightsaber combat. Darth Wyyrlok probably wasn't exagerating when he said that he only needed to use "a mere iota of his full power" to inflict a Curb-Stomp Battle on them.
• Book Ends: Cade's journey begins and ends in the same situation: floating in space, over a planet, after a major battle has happened. Cade himself mentions this.
  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...
• Bounty Hunter: Cade Skywalker and crew, along with Azlyn Rae.
• The Captain: Gar Stazi is technically an Admiral but has all of these qualities.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Subverted 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.
  • 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 jerkasses of galactic proportions. And then there's the fact that 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 what Krayt did to the Mon Calamari was stupid and pointless.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": 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". Omnibus collections even come with a dictionary for the jargon the characters use.
• Casanova Wannabe: Morlish Veed not only becomes lovers with another Moff's ex-wife, but attempts to seduce his mistress' agent. Unaware they're the same person.
• The Chosen One: Nicely subverted. Everyone feels Cade Skywalker is this 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.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Astraal Vao and to a lesser extent Rav.
• Civil War vs. Armageddon: The Galactic Alliance (the successor state to the New Republic) and the New Galactic Empire (a constitutional monarchy descended from The Remnant 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.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience:
  • The One Sith are almost all tattooed red and black just 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. Or perhaps the green kind was even cheaper.
• The Consigliere: Darth Wyyrlok to Darth Krayt. until he becomes The Starscream. Nyna Calixte to Morlish Veed. until he finds out she's The Mole. Hogrum Chalk to Emperor Fel. also, another example of The Mole.
• Continuity Nod: In flashbacks, we see that Cade's deceased father Kol Skywalker had red hair—just like Ben Skywalker and his mother Mara Jade.
• Cool Old Guy: "Bantha" Rawk. a.k.a. Nat Skywalker.
  • It is too bad he had to die in a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Crapsack Galaxy: The Empire once again rules the galaxy but instead of two Sith, there are thousands of them.
• Cross Through: Legacy is the final part of Star Wars: Vector.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus - The Imperial Missionaries, at least before Darth Wrrylock decided to remake it into a Religion of Evil to spread Sith teachings.
• Dark Action Girl: Darth Talon. Darth Maladi is one too, but only when she has to- by inclination, she's more of a Mad Scientist. Darth Rauder also qualifies.
• Dark Lord: Darth Krayt even has the armor.
• A Day in the Limelight: Some supporting and minor characters get some issues focused on them.
  • Issue 4 Noob focuses on the minor character Anson Trask, a fresh out of training Imperial Stormtrooper who's squad is caught up in the civil war between Fel and Krayt's factions.
  • Issue 13 Ready to Die focuses on Emperor Roan Fel.
  • The Claws of the Dragon six-issue arc (issues 14-19) focuses on Darth Krayt and explains his backstory.
  • The Indomitable two parter (issues 20-21) focuses on Admiral Gar Stazi.
  • Issue 27 Into the Core focuses on Darth Wyyrlok III.
  • The Fight Another Day two parter (issues 32-33) focuses on Imperial Knight Treis Sinde.
  • Issue 41 Rogue's End focuses on Mandalorian turned Stormtrooper turned Alliance pilot turned Mandalorian again Hondo Karr.
• Deader than Dead: After Cade kills Darth Krayt for the second time, he flies his body into Coruscant's sun, just to be sure he can't come back again.
• Deal with the Devil: Roan Fel has Darth Maladi create the bio-weapon Omega Red (which is like Alpha Red, only much worse)so he can use this on Coruscant. In return, he has to promise her the head of Cade Skywalker. It comes back to bite him. Fel decides to use it on Coruscant regardless of collateral damage, and Antares Draco has to kill him to prevent that from happening.
• Death by Origin Story: Kol Skywalker is introduced specifically to die at the hands of the Sith and ruin Cade's life.
• Decon-Recon Switch: Initially a complete flip of the usual Star Wars 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 Star Wars having always been about "Light side vs Dark side", Legacy has MANY shades of Grey where very few people are genuinely good or evil. The series pivots at the Vector sub-series, and by the end Legacy pretty much reconstructs the franchise after decades of Deconstruction. Cade Skywalker rejects The Dark Side and becomes a better man, Krayt is overthrown and meets an ignominious end, and a new galactic government is formed made up of the Alliance, Jedi and Empire with the goal of restoring peace and democracy.
• Demonic Possession: Darth Krayt's spirit reveals that he'll simply possess Cade Skywalker when he launched Krayt's remains into the sun, which resulted in Cade's attempted Heroic Sacrifice until Luke intervened.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Darth Krayt, upon finding that the Mon Calamari shipyards have lost 1/3rd of their operating capacity he orders the entire Mon Calamari race to be put into work camps until they're dead. He also orders the immediate execution of 1/10th of the race.
• Divided We Fall: In the backstory, the Galactic Alliance was made of this trope - worlds were breaking away to be neutral during the war, because of disagreements over the failure of the Ossus Project, and sabotage from the Sith. In a more personal example, the schism between the Galactic Empire and the Jedi Order is also indicative of a rift in the Skywalker family; Cade Skywalker and Emperor Roan Fel are actually distant cousins (Cade is a direct descendant of Luke, Roan is a direct descendent of Leia), but they end up on opposite sides of the new Galactic Civil War.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Azlyn Rae's relationship with Ganner Krieg. Krieg, unfortunately, is utterly ignored for Cade right up until Rae becomes a Vader-esque cyborg monstrosity due to Cade's unwillingness to honor her wish to let her die.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: Darth Krayt, Big Bad and basically the final boss of this Star Wars canon, reveals he is A'Sharad Hett, a Jedi from the Clone Wars era who was not particularly important and you would probably assumed died of old age even had he survived Order 66.
• The Dragon: Darth Nihl, Darth Talon, and Darth Stryfe all fulfill this function for Darth Krayt. Interestingly, a rare non-evil example is Antares Draco for Roan Fel.
  • While Nihl, Talon, and Stryfe fill the "enforcer" role of The Dragon, Wyyrlok is a better fit for the "most powerful and loyal servant" part... until a little incident on Had Abaddon... in which Wyyrlok pulls a The Starscream.
  • Lord Nihl shortly became Wyyrlok's Dragon. He ended up as Krayt's co-Dragon with Darth Talon.
• Dragon Ascendant : When Krayt is defeated and near death, his loyal dragon, Darth Wyyrlok, finishes him and sought take up his role.
  • After Darth Krayt's final death at the end of the series, Darth Nihl becomes the new leader of the now forced-into-hiding One Sith.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: Darth Krayt during the Massacre of the Mon Calamari Council.
• During the War: The Sith-Imperial War is what started this entire thing. We only see it in flashbacks.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: It certainly does not come without cost, but this series ends on a high note — and, fittingly, it and its subsequent volume also serve as the last chronological stories told in the original Expanded Universe/Legends continuity.
• Enemy Civil War: Cade hopes that the Sith will fall into this after Krayt dies. Subverted in that they don't- not only are these Sith at least somewhat loyal to each other, Wyyrlok keeps the secret of Krayt's death from getting out (his habit of routinely going into stasis to prolong his life helps).
  • Subverted: While Darth Maladi takes some moves to possibly support Nihl against Wyyrlok, the true reckoning comes when Krayt himself returns. Even then, the two leaders, Krayt and Wyyrlok, soon face each other face to face with winner take all rather than tearing the Sith apart in a long struggle.
• Enemy Mine: Cade and his half-sister Gunner team up very grudgingly against a gang of Black Sun assassins in the Tattooine arc.
• Even Evil Has Standards: A lot of the Imperials were disgusted with Darth Krayt's decision to commit genocide against the planet Dac.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Jerkass Neutral: The Sith have a spectacularly poor track record when it comes to tempting Cade, not because he has no vices (boy does he ever have those), but because he has no real interest in power, which is completely alien to the Sith mindset.
  • Cade's complete disinterest in the usual Jedi versus Sith nonsense is best exemplified during this exchange, where a Force-user finally takes the logical third route when confronted with this situation:
  Darth Krayt: Now Skywalker, strike your father's killer down! Give into your anger and feel the power of the Dark Side!
  *Cade knocks him out, stops fighting.*
  Cade: No.
  Krayt: Why?!?
  Cade: Because YOU want me to!!
• Evil Chancellor: Darth Wyyrlok, Nyna Calixte.
• Evil Old Folks: Darth Krayt.
• Evil Sorcerer: All Sith qualify to a degree, but Darth Wyyrlok in particular is very much into the more esoteric powers of The Dark Side.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • While he wasn't fond of Jedi Moff Rulf Yage really intended to negociate with them on Ossus and was horrified and devastated when the Sith overruled him and attacked the Jedi, massacring many of them including children. He's later disgusted when the Sith poison Da Soocha and order him to bombard Napdu and then send Stormtroopers to finish any possible survivor off. After his daughter's defection he finally takes the chance to switch sides and join Roan Fel's forces.
  • At the beggining of the Mon Calamari genocide a Quarren representant begs Darth Azard to stop, saying that even if he doesn't like the Mon Calamari they don't deserve this. Darth Azard immediatly slice him in two.
  • Despite their loyalty and oath to serve their emperor as Imperial Knights Azlyn Rae and Ganner Krieg refused to follow Roan Fel's order of taking and bringing him the Muur Talisman, rightfully seeing it as an evil item and something that could corrupt their emperor.
  • Despite his grudge against Jedi for the death of his father, Jariah Syn admits that he hates the Sith even more.
  • Despite being a species of ruthless crime lords and slavers even the Hutt are disgusted by the Sith poisonning of Mon Calamari and even accept to host a portion of Mon Calamari refugees.
  • While they remain neutral the Chiss, Hapes Consortium and Kiffar guardians refuse to have any relation with the Sith Empire after the poisonning of Dac and Da Soocha.
• 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.
• Fate Worse than Death: Azlyn Rae becomes another Darth Vader, though she gets better when she's given new armour that leaves her head uncovered.
  • Darth Havok threatens Princess Sia with this.
• Feuding Families: Though it's only made clear in the supplementary materials, the Fel family and the Skywalker family are actually two different branches of the Skywalker-Solo clan that split off and took two vastly different paths. It's implied that Roan Fel's grandmother Jaina Solo turned her back on the Jedi Order when she married Jagged Fel and decided to help him establish a new Galactic Empire, while her cousin Ben Skywalker stayed loyal to the legacy of the Old Republic. By the time of this series, they're on opposite sides of a new Galactic Civil War, and they're only willing to cooperate when they have the Sith as a common enemy.
• Final Solution: The Genocide on Dac is the Star Wars equivalent of this. It's even called the "Final Protocol."
• Foe Romance Subtext: Darth Talon and Cade have this. They even sleep together at one point.
• Forgotten Framing Device: Downplayed. The narration of the first issue makes it appear as if the story is being told by Darth Krayt's holocron some time after his death. No such reference is made again after that.
• For the Evulz: Darth Krayt's actions against Mon Calamari are viewed as excessive even by some other Sith, and then Wyyrlok completely tops them.
  • Somewhat ironically, Krayt warns Maladi against falling into this after she masterminded a failed assassination attempt on Roan Fel. Apparently he failed to take his own advice...
  • Vul Isen is the embodiment of this trope.
• Four-Star Badass: Admiral Stazi, General Jaeger.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Even before the Sith came back out of the woodwork, the Fel Dynasty had already rebuilt the small, isolated Imperial Remnant of Grand Admiral Pellaeon's era back into a galactic superpower.
• Gainax Ending: Enforced twice. Firstly, Dark Horse insisted that this series end roughly concurrently with Knights of the Old Republic, with the War arc was a subversion, being a partially successful attempt at defying this. The second was caused by the Disney buyout, and unfortunately also served as one for the entire EU.
• Gambit Pileup: Everyone has a plan for the Sith's new Star Destroyer prototype, but nobody's on the same page for it. This leads to a suicide, an exile, a genocide, and one of the three factions twice nearly losing its key member.
• Ghostly Death Reveal: Although Force users can live for centuries, even human ones, Luke Skywalker is revealed to the audience to have died during the Time Skip between Crucible (chronologically the previous work in Star Wars Legends) and Legacy, as he appears to Cade as a Force ghost.
• Good is Not Nice: While Cade certainly isn't good, Gar Stazi and Roan Fel both are willing to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
  • There is a critical difference between Gar Stazi and Roan Fel. Gar Stazi acts mean at times because he is trying to save the Galactic Alliance, as well as try to help as many people outside the group as he can. Roan Fel acts mean at times because he is trying to save his portion of the Empire, and he is also a Knight Templar combined with an It's All About Me attitude. Gar Stazi not only survives the war, but he becomes a member of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate. Roan Fel crosses the Moral Event Horizon and gets killed off.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Now in Star Wars. The Empire is split into Darth Krayt's empire (the evil) and Roan Fel's empire (dictatorial but not really evil).
  • For that matter, although they're definitely the most "good" faction in the series (save perhaps for the Jedi) it's hard to see many traces of a functional democracy left in Admiral Stazi's Galactic Alliance Remnant. (by way of comparison, even in the days of the Rebellion, Admiral Ackbar was subordinate to civilian leaders such as Mon Mothma).
• The Good Kingdom: The newest incarnation of the Galactic Empire is—somewhat ironically—much more an example of this trope than it is of The Empire. It's still not democratic, and it's still ruled by a monarch, but said monarch is actually an intelligent, cultured man who genuinely cares about his people, tries to rule them with an even hand, and has no prejudice towards non-humans (he allows women and aliens to serve as Stormtroopers, unlike his predecessors). Just to drive the point home, his private force of Jedi (the Imperial Knights) actually wear full suits of armor, just like the medieval knights of yore.
• Grand Finale: As mentioned above, this series was written as the last hurrah of the old Expanded Universe — a Distant Finale chronicling the final, absolute defeat of the Sith and their imitators.
  • The six-issue miniseries Legacy: War. Also, Anyone Can Die. Darth Wyyrlok, Sgt. Harkas, Moff Geist, presumably Anson Trask, Darth Rauder, Master T'ra Saa, Nat Skywalker, Andurgo, Morlish Veed, Darth Stryfe, Wolf Sazen, and in the final issue even Roan Fel and Krayt!
  • Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 18 serves as such for the entire series.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Andurgo, a Dug Rogue Squadron pilot.
• Heel–Face Turn: A large portion of the Galactic Empire are now joining the ranks of the good guys.
  • Would you believe the Hutts get this treatment?
• Heel Realization: Cade Skywalker finally begins to reconsider his actions when Luke Skywalker's ghost tells him that he is already nearly a Sith, and shows a vision of him, dressed in full Sith regalia, standing over the corpses of all his friends.
  • 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, it takes a lot to get through to a hardened Force-using death stick junkie.
• Heroic Neutral: Cade just wants to be left alone. Though the Sith have a good reason for bothering him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Kol Skywalker in the first issue
  • Jaius Yorub pulls one to save Admiral Stazi AND cripple the Mon Calamari Shipyards.
  • "Bantha" Rawk a.k.a. Nat Skywalker and T'ra Saa during the Fall of the Hidden Temple.
  • Subverted with Cade Skywalker. He planned to have himself die when having his ship launched into the sun with Darth Krayt's remains in order to ensure that Krayt never returns to haunt the Galaxy again (Krayt had earlier revealed that he would possess Cade Skywalker should he succeed in launching Krayt's remains into the sun). However, Luke Skywalker's ghost eventually talks him out of it, and suggests he live and not worry about Krayt's return.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick:
  • Nyna Calixte is much smarter than her boyfriend and puppet, Morlish Veed. Wyyrlok is also one for Krayt- Krayt provides the vision and the charisma, but it is Wyyrlok's calm, careful planning that keeps the Sith Empire afloat.
  • Both fall apart when Veed takes on the position of Regent Emperor from Darth Wyyrlok out of greed and stops listening to Calixte as much, and Wyyrlok becomes boss himself and ends up more extreme than Krayt.
• I Am Your Opponent: When Cade and Wolf Sazen burst into Vul Isen’s lab in the last issue of the main series, this exchange ensues:
  Darth Azard: I will deal with these fools! Release the toxin, Isen!
  Wolf Sazen: You will deal with me, monster! Cade…
  Cade: On it! (chases after the fleeing Isen while Wolf holds Darth Azard at bay)
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Cade Skywalker's refrain. Nat Skywalker actually succeeds in doing this and largely just blasts Cade for claiming he wants to be normal but using his Force powers whenever he feels like it.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Moff Calixte persuades Roan Fel that killing her would make him no different than the Sith, leading him to spare her life.
• Informed Ability: Morlish Veed is a military genius. We never get to see this.
• Insistent Terminology: Imperial Knights get quite annoyed when they're mistaken for Jedi, which happens quite often. To be fair, the Imperial Knights and the Jedi Knights are in fact two separate orders. But alas, they both use lightsabers.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Cade, in a conversation with Luke's Force ghost, points out that the Jedi always help the galaxy to protect it from evil, but they get screwed over every time the Sith manage to maintain a position of influence and they just keep coming back.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Roan Fel becomes more and more ruthless, culminating with attempting to utilize a genocidal toxin on Coruscant to wipe out the Sith, heedless of any collateral damage.
• Karma Houdini: By the end of Legacy-War, Darth Nihl, Darth Talon, Darth Havoc, Darth Maladi, many other Sith, and Hogrum Chalk.
• Kick the Dog: Darth Krayt seems to be a Designated Antagonist with his mainly menacing only Cade Skywalker and Imperials. Then he orders the wholesale genocide of all Mon Calamari.
  • Cade also has a number of these, most notably turning captive Jedi Hosk Trey'lis over to the Sith, in addition to generally acts of jerkiness.
    • Not to mention talking Blue into scamming the Imperial Misson aka the group that turned Jabba's palace into a homeless shelter
• Knight of Cerebus: Vul Isen, whose introduction signals a shift for a much darker tone. Things get particularly bleak with his genocidal poisoning of Dac.
• Knight Templar: Roan Fel will do some pretty questionable deeds to get his throne back from the Dark Lords of the Sith.
  • Toned down by a scene in the current Monster arc where Imperial Knight Treis Sind, has a refreshing chat about the importance of keeping to the Light after Emperor Fel suggested acquiring the dark Muur Talisman to use as a weapon.
    • Played straight in the final issue, in which he plans to unleash Maladi's toxin on Coruscant. Unbeknowst to him, Sith are immune to it by design. Luckily, Antares stops his Master by killing him.
  • Admiral Edouard Fenel, who serves the rightful Emperor, but is not above commiting war crimes against the disloyal officers of Krayt's Empire.

L-Z

• Large Ham: 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.
• Legacy Character: The "Darth Wyyrlok" name has been employed by three generations of the same Chagrian family line. The original Darth Wyyrlok, his daughter, and his grandson (the current Darth Wyyrlok). The latter's daughter, Saarai, is meant to be the fourth Wyyrlok.
• Long Lost Sibling: Cade Skywalker and Gunn Yage.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Nyna Calixte is the mother of both Cade Skywalker and Gunn Yage. Cade doesn't know the former
• Mad Scientist:
  • Darth Maladi is a Sith Alchemist, which is basically Mad Scientist + Evil Sorcerer + Torture Technician. Her laboratory is a scary, scary place.
  • Vul Isen, who puts Maladi to shame in the mad department, though not so much the science department.
  • The Sith-aligned Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Xenoc Quad, who serves as Darth Maladi's right-hand and helped her sabotage the Ossus Project.
• Make Way for the New Villains: 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
• Mauve Shirt: Stormtrooper NCOs Sergeant Harkas and Coporal Trask show up a few times after their first appearance in a stormie-centric issue.
• May It Never Happen Again: During the gap between volumes 1 (Cade Skywalker's story) and 2 (Ania Solo's story), the Galactic Alliance, the Empire, and the Jedi Order set up a Triumvirate to serve as a Fictional United Nations to keep the peace between the galaxy's superpowers so that a repeat of the Imperial-Republic War that led to the main conflict of volume 1 can't happen.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Darth Krayt is roughly the equivalent of "Darth Dragon" and is turning into a creature very much like it, in addition to being the dominant predator on his home planet of Tatooine.
  • Darth Wyyrlok is an eldritch wizard.
  • Darth Maladi spreads disease and maladies, Darth Talon strikes swiftly, Darth Kruhl is a brutal assassin.
  • Roan Fel, the morally ambiguous leader of the Empire.
  • Deliah Blue has blue hair and blue lips.
• Missing Mom: No one ever talks about Empress Elliah Fel, the wife of Emperor Roan and the mother of Princess Sia. 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."
• Morality Kitchen Sink: You've got the One Sith, the Jedi, the Fel Imperials, the Alliance Remnant, the Crew of the Mynok...
• Mouth of Sauron: One of the roles of the line of Darth Wyyrloks is to serve as the "Voice" for Darth Krayt whenever he goes into stasis.
• Ms. Fanservice: Deliah Blue and Darth Talon. Both of them are very attractive alien beauties, are huge flirts, and have a penchant for wearing very revealing clothes.
• My Empire, Right or Wrong: Several Imperial officers of Krayt's Empire, who are actually honorable men. They serve the throne, regardless of who is sitting upon it. Examples of this are Captain Vaclen Tor, Admiral Peto Kelsan, and Chief Mechanic Bor Alsek.
• Mythology Gag: Let's say this isn't the first time a Skywalker hits on a girl who turns out to be his sister (well, half-sister in this case).
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: If you thought the Galactic Empire was the Star Wars equivalent of Nazi Germany, wait till you see what the One Sith did.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Cade Skywalker destroys the life of his girlfriend, gets a Jedi Master killed, and generally wrecks everything he touches.
  • Also creates an even more dangerous Big Bad in Darth Wyyrlok by giving said Darth a chance to finish off his master, the current Big Bad - only because his master Darth Krayt had been stabbed, fried with lightning and thrown off a cliff in Cade Skywalker's trap.
  • The Galactic Alliance (or what's left of it) gets one after stealing a Sith Super Prototype Star Destroyer, turns out the Empire already set it to blow up making it look like a malfunction thus preventing any blame on the Mon Calamari
    • Though the Alliance managed to disarm said explosives after putting a team on the ship BEFORE attacking the planet that went after the explosives beforehand.
• Not Me This Time: A variation pertaining to an entire race: Before the events of the series took place, the Galactic Republic became angered when the Yuuzhan Vong's terraforming project resulted in various bone-like deformities occuring on the wildlife and on the people, thinking they deliberately botched the terraforming (it doesn't help that they were still sore with the Yuuzhan Vong from their atrocities during the Yuuzhan Vong war). However, they insisted that they didn't intentionally botch the project, and they are just as shocked at what happened, with only the Jedi believing them. It was the One Sith who sabotaged the Yuuzahn Vong terraforming project.
• Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Subverted the Moff Council actually has no real power anymore and mostly just gets together in order to b*tch about the galaxy's present situation.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: The last issue of the main series reveals that Darth Krayt has spent decades building a fleet of ships and fighters which outperform anything else in the galaxy, along with an army of fanatically loyal Force-sensitive cyborg super-soldiers to pilot said ships. He somehow kept this a secret from everyone, including his own Empire and his Sith underlings, and managed to do this while also spending long periods of time in stasis because of his infection.
• Older Than They Look: Both Darth Krayt and Celeste Morne. Specially Celeste Morne, who is Really 700 Years Old (actually thousands years old). Considering she was active around 3964 BBY (The Padawan Massacre), one can assume Celeste was between 20 and 40 years old at the time. Giving her an upper bound of having been born around 4004 BBY. Legacy occurs around 138 ABY, so she has been alive for a bit under 4200 years. And she was up and conscious for well over a century of that time, and fighting a Sith Lord for control of her mind for most of those years.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Basically, Krayt's new plan for the Galaxy is to become this so the Galaxy will undergo what he did: the pain of death and the rapture of rebirth.
• Opening Narration: The first issue begins with a page-long monologue from Darth Krayt which lays out the status quo of the series. It's a hundred years after the events of New Jedi Order, the Empire and the Sith have both returned, the Galactic Alliance has fallen, and the Jedi are about to be wiped out once again.
• Ordered to Die: Darth Krayt demonstrates the fanatical obedience of his Sith Troopers by ordering one to kill itself. The Trooper puts the hilt of its lightsaber under its chin and switches it on without a moment's hesitation.
• Out with a Bang: Darth Nihl implies that if he and Darth Maladi were to ever hook up, they'd shag each other to death.
• Pet the Dog: Cade's Mercy Killing of Celeste.
• Parental Marriage Veto: Emperor Roan Fel tells Antares Draco to his face to stay away from Princess Marasiah, who is mutually attracted to him. It becomes moot when Draco is forced to kill Roan at the end of the series.
• Phlegmings: Quite common with the Sith. Protagonist Cade will get this too at the times he's leaning more towards the dark.
• Pink Is Erotic: Deliah Blue is a pink-skinned alien babe. Her people are the Zeltrons 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:
  When you've been in this business as long as I have, you learn a few things: Nothing's more dangerous than arguing with a Wookiee, nothing's more foolish than gambling with a Jedi, and nothing's more alluring than a Twi'lek dancer. But I'm here to tell you that the last one is wrong. If you like your humanoids flexible, svelte, enthusiastic, and in multiple shades of red, then the most beautiful people in the galaxy are on Zeltros. Who needs Twi'leks?
• The Political Officer: 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 "oops, sorry sir" style fragging of Darth Maleval when he acts a little overzealous.
• Polyamory: Deliah madly loves Cade, and he returns her feelings more strongly over time, but she doesn't have much problem with him cavorting with other women—part of Zeltron culture. She just doesn't want him sleeping with Darth Talon, for completely understandable reasons.
• The Power of Love: helps Cade heal Blue from a Vong biot implanted on her by Darth Maladi without falling into the Dark Side. Later, the Power of Love helps him heal his mother after he forgives her.
• Power Trio:
  • The crew of the Mynock, Cade Skywalker, Deliah Blue and Jariah Syn.
  • The Imperial Knights usually form one as well, with Draco Antares and Ganner Krieg as the more permanent members, with Princess Fel and Azlyn Rae taking the third spot at times.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Hondo Karr, bordering on Warrior Poet
• Rank Scales with Asskicking:
  • Roan Fel 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.
• Rasputinian Death: 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. And he still doesn't die! Finally seems to be destroyed at the series' end when Cade stabs him though the chest then FLIES HIS BODY INTO THE SUN.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Roan Fel, leader of the Fel Empire and Gar Stazi, leader of the Galactic Alliance Remnant.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Moff Nieve Gromia was reassigned to the Tatooine after a corruption scandal on Coruscant.
• Rebel Leader: Gar Stazi
• Recurring Location: Unsurprisingly, there's a four chapter arc that takes place at Tatooine. It's simply titled "Tatooine".
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Most members of the One Sith dye their entire skin red with black patterns, similar to Darth Maul. Two heroic characters take advantage of this and use make-up to pretend they're Sith for infiltration purposes, one of them not even being a Force sensitive.
• Redemption Equals Death: Celeste Morne finds peace in the Force before being executed by Cade. Note that unlike his many other dubious actions, this is NOT a Kick the Dog 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.
• Red Shirt: Many of the Sith die the same issue they debut, such as Darth Maleval, Darth Kruh and Darth Reave, among others.
• Religion of Evil: As mentioned elsewhere, the Sith are a bit better at teamwork now, but they're still one of the quintessential examples of this trope.
• The Remnant: The Galactic Alliance Remnant is a good version and slowly gaining ground again. Though forced to make morally ambiguous decisions for tactical reasons, they still embody the The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified trope.
  • The Sith in the end.
• The Reveal: Darth Krayt is Jedi Master A'Sharad Hett, a supporting character in the Clone Wars-era Expanded Universe and a friend of Anakin, Obi-Wan and other famous Jedi.
• Saintly Church: The Imperial Mission, pretty much the only group left that actually wants to (and does) help people because its the right thing to do.
  • Not for much longer, if Wryylok has his way, it will soon be a Religion of Evil and Path of Inspiration.
• Screw Destiny: Cade may as well be the embodiment of this trope, and he tries really hard to keep it that way, too.
• Secret Identity: Nyna Calixte is Morrigan Cade in one of the Woah moments of the series.
  • Also, Darth Krayt is A'sharad Hett, the Tusken Jedi from earlier comic series.
• Sequel Hook: The One Sith are beaten and scattered at the end of the series, but far from destroyed. Numerous high ranking named Sith survive and plan to wage a shadow war on the Triumvirate, in an eerily similar callback to Darth Bane's Rule of Two Order.
• Shout-Out: Plenty, but a notable example is the rich and varied vocabulary of alien profanity peppering the dialogue of Cade and his foul-mouthed associates, which draws from sources including Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, and The Pirates of Dark Water.
  • A possible shoutout to Terminator 2 occurs in volume Nine: Monster with Calixte's "I need your hat, your cloak, and your beast" line
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Cade Skywalker, when he says that he finds all of Darth Krayt's nerfshavit to be....well nerfshavit. Darth Wyyrlok also does this to an ancient Sith Lord.
• Smug Snake: Morlish Veed thinks he's a villainous mastermind. Unfortunately, he's pretty much clueless about everything.
• The Social Darwinist: As usual, this is the Sith philosophy in a nutshell. The topic comes up when two minor Sith discuss the aftermath of a battle, with one claiming that the fact so many Jedi and Imperial Knights died is proof that both groups are weaker than the Sith. When his companion points out that Sith died as well, he dismisses them as weaklings that deserved to be culled.
• The Spymaster: Moff Nyna Calixte
• The Starscream: Morlish Veed is plotting to take over the Empire. It seems to be obvious to everyone that he is, yet he still has his job. Also, Darth Wyyrlok turns out to be one, but only to further his master's plans.. Also Darth Nihl might have his own agenda, specially after being warned by Maladi that Wyyrlok might get rid of the two for not having been born Sith
  • During the late stages of the Second Imperial Civil War Hogrum Chalk becomes this to Emperor Fel, apparently goading him into falling to the dark side so the Imperial Knights will be forced to kill him.
• Stripperiffic: Pretty much every female chracter in the comic wears a stripperiffic outfit at some point.
  • Darth Talon's costume is basically a leather bikini and opera gloves.
  • Morrigan Corde's outfit is like that for very good reason, as revealed when she meets Calixte's ex-husband, who comes on to her without recognizing his own wife. The less people look at the face, the better.
  • Except Darth Maladi, whose original costume was redesigned because it looked too stripperiffic.
• Super-Soldier: Darth Krayt’s Sith Troopers are a far cry from the ersatz stormtroopers of other Sith Empires. They are individuals strong in the Force who were taken at birth, modified with extensive cybernetics, and indoctrinated to be fanatically loyal and obedient. They have lightsabers too, and individual Sith Troopers can take on seasoned Jedi and win.
• The End... Or Is It?: After the Alliance and Empire win the Battle of Coruscant and destroy Darth Krayt and his Sith Troopers, the survivors of the One Sith, who include Darth Wyrrlok's daughter and Darth Talon, go into hiding, planning to work to regain power from the shadows as Darth Bane once had.
• Thrown from the Zeppelin: To punish the Mon Calamari for resisting his rule, Krayt orders 10% of the species slaughtered, starting with the Mon Calamari members of the planet's ruling council. A few Quarren councilors refuse to condone the genocide and are immediately executed as well.
  Quarren councilor: My Lord! No! The Mon Calamari are not our species, and I am not overly fond of them, but they do not deserve this!"
  Darth Azard: I am not one of you! I am Sith!
  He cuts down the dissenter.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Imperial Knights are ordered to protect their sovereign. Should said sovereign fall to the Dark Side, they must turn them back or kill them if they cannot. Antares Draco ultimately chooses to be good when Roan Fel attempts to wipe out Coruscant, killing his liege when Fel is too far gone.
• Took a Level in Badass: The resurrected and rejuvenated Darth Krayt.
• Trojan Prisoner:
  • Cade Skywalker in the Sith Temple.
  • Ganner Kreig and Shado Vao to aid Antares Draco's infiltration of the Korriban Sith Temple
• "Uh-Oh" Eyes: As is typical with other Star Wars works, characters will exhibit Supernatural Gold Eyes whenever they channel The Dark Side. Notably, this happens to Celeste Morne's eyes, combined with Black Eyes of Evil, perhaps as an indication of 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.
• Undying Loyalty: Most of the Imperial Knights are this to emperor Roan Fel, though their oath also command them to kill him should the emperor loses himself to the dark side and cannot be brought back, which Antares Draco eventually has to do.
  • Darth Talon is unfaillingly loyal to Darth Krayt, killing her own master on his orders even after admitting that she was attached to and respected him, and said that she would rip her heart if he wanted.
  • Darth Wyrlock III was thought to be this to Krayt, which was indeed true at the beggining with him genuinely caring for Krayt's health and trying to find a cure for him. However it happens that Wyrlock was rather loyal to Krayt's ideology and vision, and that upon seeing that his master was betraying his own vision Wyrlock came to believe that he had to kill Krayt for his vision to come true and thus betrayed him.
  • The Sith Troopers are utterly loyal to Darth Krayt to the point that one of them kills himself on his order to make a demonstration of their devotion to him. The problem with that is that the troopers are loyal to Darth Krayt alone, and that Krayt's true death causes of all of them to go insane making them a threat for the rest of the Sith that are forced to destroy them.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Cade calls the entire galaxy out on this during a conversation with Luke's Force-ghost, pointing out that the Jedi sacrifice everything to protect the galaxy from evil, and when the galaxy spits in their faces and turns them over to the Sith, after the Sith are defeated they just keep coming back.
• Vague Age: It's difficult to say whether Morrigan Corde is too old or too young for their age.
• Villain Decay: Siths in general, in a way. Since Darth Bane established the Rule of Two, there were always two Siths—the Master and the Apprentice, both exceptionally skilled, and also the unspecified number of Dark Side users outside the Order, mostly without Sith training. After Darth Krayt took over, he enforced his own rule (which, ironically, was truer to original Sith ideology, as it came from XoXaan, who lived millennia before Bane). Results? There's peerless Krayt, his few powerful henchmen (Nihl, Wyyrlok, Stryfe, Talon) and plenty of wannabe Sith Lords, who get their asses kicked by non-Force sensitives, which was unthinkable during earlier eras. Granted, the entire reason that Bane created the Rule of Two in the first place was because (so he believed) the Dark Side's power was diluted when spread out among so many.
• The Virus: The Rakghoul plague is used effectively in this series.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Sith are overall a lot nicer now, loyalty to one another and put behind there old habits which proves to be a bit hard to break.
  • Roan Fel in the final issue.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Hondo Karr, Rav, Moffs Konrad Rus and Fehlauur. The most infamous example is Astraal Vao.
• What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Averted and deconstructed. The Galactic Alliance's key protagonists are almost entirely aliens, and they're generally also the most compassionate and thoughtful characters in the series, far more so than Designated Hero Cade.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Anj Dahl walks the line into such territory at times.
• Wild Card:
  • Moff Nyna Calixte/Morrigan Corde has helped and hindered just about every major faction in the series at one point or another. Her long-term goals remain a mystery. Ultimately, she's not so much on any particular faction's side, as she is on the side of her children—Cade Skywalker and Gunn Yage.
  • Try Hogrum Chalk. He seems to work for Roan Fel, but he actually passes on secrets to Morlish Veed. He crafts the armour worn by the Imperial Knights. He revealed to Veed that Calixte works for Roan Fel. He constructed armour for Azlyn Rae that did not even need a helmet. He manipulated Roan Fel into having Omega Red made to be used to kill the Sith - and this eventually resulted in Roan Fel's death. He delivered the eulogy at Roan Fel's funeral. He announced the formation of a Galactic Federation Triumvirate, led by Gar Stazi, Jedi Master K'Kruhk, and Empress Marasiah. He is close to his niece, Marasiah Fel. Why? Because she reminds him very much of his dead little sister, Elliah Fel. No one even knows that he betrayed Roan Fel, and his motivations for betraying Roan Fel have not been explained.
• You Have Failed Me: Averted a number of times with the Sith, as shocking as this seems.
  • Darth Talon spared after her failure in the Broken arc (methinks Krayt would never throw away something that hot); Darth Maladi after Roan Fel's decoy plor is discovered in Broken; Darth Nihl after Cade's escape from the Sith Temple (although he gets a demotion and a Mutant arm instead of his normal one that was severed).
• You Killed My Father:
  • Cade Skywalker has this with Darth Nihl. It's revealed Nihl talked his involvement up a lot and really only got a quick blast of lightning in.
  • Jariah Syn has this with Rasi Tuum, who killed Jariah's father Zareb. It's subverted with Rasi Tuum revealing, to no one's surprise, that Jariah Syn's father probably deserved to die and Jariah has been unhealthily lionizing him. Upon realizing all Rasi Tuum had done was defend innocent lives from a very evil man, Jariah ends the fight without a casualty.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Kol Skywalker makes a stand against the Sith at the foot of the Jedi Temple, buying time for the others.

Legacy volume two contains:

A-Z

• Badass Normal: Ania Solo absolutely, completely does not have the Force.
• Because Destiny Says So: Ania says this is a dumb attitude to have and she's successfully avoided it her entire life.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Darth Wredd hijacks the galaxy's equivalent of the internet in order to project the beheading of an Imperial Knight.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Marasiah Fel has a somewhat understated reaction to this as does the rest of the galaxy. Who the hell is Ania Solo? Given the way the Skywalker-Solo clan has affected the galaxy, this may not be an exaggerated attitude to discovering there's another Skywalker-Solo.
• Kick the Dog: Marasiah Fel has inherited some of her father's darker qualities.
• Klingon Promotion: Darth Wredd has made this an art, planning on exterminating every other Sith in the galaxy until he can re-institute the Rule of Two.
• Large Ham: Darth Wredd.
• Pragmatic Villainy: The Triumvirate (ostensibly good guys) argues this is the best answer to Darth Wredd since he's primarily interested in murdering his fellow Sith.
• Riddle for the Ages: Ania is Leia and Han's great-great-granddaughter, but we never learn if she's descended from them through Jacen (A kid born out of wedlock when he went rogue? Allana's descendant?) or Jaina (a Jaina/Jagged kid or grandkid that moved away from the Fel dynasty?). How exactly she ended up as a scavenger while Luke & Ben's line became Jedi and Jaina's became the leaders of the Fel Empire is also a mystery that's never answered.

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"My eyes are open. I have seen the vision. I understand now. No more doubts or questions. I know my place in the galaxy. I know who I am... I am a Jedi. And you are not my Master."

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