Crosscurrent by Paul S. Kemp Discussion

Hmm, I'm not sure I like the idea of time travelling Sith, or time travelling anything for that matter! I mean, for the most part, the SW saga has stayed away from stuff like that, apart from the Mace Windu story in Tales and maybe one other thing (which probably comes under infinities anyway). Isn't time travel supposed to be impossible?
Thinking of how the Great Hyperspace War and post-LOTF could be connected in a single novel, well, what if they had some kind of threat that wound its way through the millennia in between the two periods, in essence, take the same approach that was used with the Vector comics, except in novel form?
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I don't like a time-travel idea either. I'm glad Star Wars has stayed away from that. That's one of the many things I don't like about Star Trek. They can practically accomplish anything! And they all speak English...I heard somebody say on a movie once:

"Of course Irish people don't speak English. But for the sake of our story, we will make everyone speak English, like in Star Trek!" Very Happy

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"It's not about the legacy you leave, it's about the life you live." ~Mara Jade Skywalker

Hopefully, it will be flashbacks or something. I agree, time travel would be pretty bad.
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With the new comment by the author, I'm thinking flashbacks of the character, or simply flashbacks for the reader's benefit.
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"It's not about the legacy you leave, it's about the life you live." ~Mara Jade Skywalker

So it seems that Jaden Korr is a human male, yes? Check out the cover and blurb:

I'm tired of the ponytails. Can't they ever have short hair? But anyway.

So according to the blurb, it looks like they are going to touch on time travel.

The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someone — or something — appears to be in distress.

But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaught — bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jedi — has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The ship’s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.

How do you guys feel about that? Personally, I don't like it. But I guess I'll have to hold my official opinion for the book itself. I don't know, though...they shouldn't mess with time travel. It's just...messy.
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"It's not about the legacy you leave, it's about the life you live." ~Mara Jade Skywalker

Interesting. I'm assuming these are the same Sith from Omen?! Could be wrong.
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Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4419 Location: Korriban

Yeah this blurb isn't doin it for me. And I'm with Mara, ditch the ponytails.
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I have no problem with time travel and ponytails, but this ore that make darksiders nearly invincible...well, that could be problematic. Darksiders are usually hard to stop as is. How they heck are they going to stop a whole ship of nearly unstoppable ore enhanced Sith?
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Blow the ship up. Give 'em the old Death Star treatment.
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Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

Heh, yep. That'll do it. Too bad they got rid of the Sun Crusher. Smile

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"It's not about the legacy you leave, it's about the life you live." ~Mara Jade Skywalker

Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4419 Location: Korriban

So how do you guys feel about the sequel. To me, a Jaden Korr novel was weird enough without a sequel, but we'll see how it goes. Who knows it might be really good.
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Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

The more the merrier. Of course, if this first novel stinks, that won't bode well for the sequel at all. It all depends on whether he can sell the character to the readers.
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Master Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 1349

Time travel is a brilliant idea if they do it right. I've been waiting for a major story that involves time travel in the Star Wars universe! Very Happy

But WHY did they have to use Jaden Korr? Jedi Academy was not good enough to have a sequel... Rolling Eyes

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