Taral Books and Comics

Not all stories can be grouped thematically. Sometimes I am forced to combine novels and comics that do not fit together into one blog post. It provides variety at the expense of cohesion.  The era between Episodes I and II were full of odd stories. The Phantom Menace had provided us with a setting, explaining how the galaxy worked in this time period. The film and its tie-in stories also offered hooks for telling more tales across the Republic. Furthermore, several novels written in the 1990s made reference to this era, which could now be explored more fully.  This post covers a handful of novels and comics that do not fit thematically in with earlier stories. They do not pertain to bounty hunters. They are not in the immediate years following Episode I. They do not feature Quinlan Vos or any one other unifying character. They are not direct prequels to Episode II.  Nym on the cover of Starfighter: Crossbones 1 . Image from Wookieepedia. For this post, I consumed the following storie

With the 1999 release of The Phantom Menace , Star Wars fans were finally treated to what the Jedi originally looked like before their Order was destroyed. Prior to that, all we had seen were Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda after two decades of exile and whatever Luke Skywalker created in the years after Return of the Jedi . Episode I changed that, by showing us the Jedi Order, a group of righteous beings that fought for peace and justice in the name of the Galactic Republic and its Senate. They were wise and fair. They served the Light in all ways. We had not seen much of them yet, but we knew what a standard Jedi was all about.   But going against what is expected is often a great source of drama in a story. In that vein, a Jedi who does not strictly follow the light, but instead worked in the shadows. Not the righteous warrior-monk but the one who lived among the criminals whose efforts he was trying to undermine. That Jedi in Darkness is Quinlan Vos, a Jedi who first appeared in the ninete