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To be honest, I like the idea that she was first a Jedi but became disillusioned with them and eventfully became a Sith.
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It seems that they've tried to dull her down in that Denning keeps trying to write her as a Sith rather than keep it ambiguous, to such an extent that in Vortex Luke calls her a "Sith infiltrator." Considering that he knows nothing more about her now than he did in The Joiner King when Denning had Luke freely following what he claimed was her teachings, I found it to be bad writing...
Her Sith backstory doesn't make any sense either. She is a new Jedi Knight in Cloak of Deception shortly before Episode I, and in Episode I Darth Maul dies, necessitating his replacement. Dooku is selected as his replacement in that same year, since the the events of Bounty Hunter -- that is, the selection process for the prime clone -- as well as the start of the clone army also begins that year. So what little Sith training she received would have been in a very small amount of time -- not to mention that she was a "candidate" so who is to say she was trained at all?
That she was event being considered as Maul's placeholder replacement instead of Dooku, whom doesn't require extensive training, has his extensive birthright on Serenno, and is charismatic, doesn't make a whole lot of sense on Palpatine's part. Then we're told she attempted to kill Palpatine, which resulted in Dooku's selection. Consequently, she took the assignment to Zonama Sekot to flee Palpatine's assassins... two years later. Which doesn't even make sense, because she's an active Jedi Knight, and it's my understanding that the Jedi Council was looking for the second Sith Lord, and if Vergere wanted Palpatine dead, well... |
Don't forget that mysterious group of Sith they showed in Legacy of the Force. Those hiding on Korriban, I believe, and the ones that Ship rejected in Fare of the Jedi. I don't know if there's anything out there explaining them, but from what little I've read about them they don't fit in with that either. And since I hate the Rule of Two idea, I like the idea of a group of Sith hiding from those that follow that rule. Vergere could easily be part of that group.
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| The idea that she met up with Lumiya during the YVW doesn't make any sense either, because the time in which it would have happened would have been after she used the escape pod on the Millennium Falcon and it landed on a lifeless moon, IIRC, and the story implied it was recovered by a Yuuzhan Vong warship since subsequent searches by the New Republic did not recover it. It's not as if after this time Vergere was at liberty to explore the galaxy and find Lumiya -- she wouldn't have known Lumiya before this, and wouldn't have been able to set up some sort of meeting in that situation. |
Is that talked about in an E book, for I don't remember anything about the Vong picking her up. In fact I remember, in Star by Star I believe, that the Vong had doubts about her because it took so long for her to return to the Vong after the mission failed. Unless there's more I miss, I have no problem with her sneaking off to meet up with the hidden Sith group.
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| The overall lack of corroborating evidence didn't make sense to me except if the writers were going for the idea to leave it ambiguous as to whether Lumiya is lying -- but Denning's apparent insistence as late as Vortex by having Luke make the claim on information he doesn't have suggests otherwise. Not to mention the general non sequitur of the premise of Luke's exile: if he knows that Vergere was a "Sith infiltrator," then what more does he hope to find that made Jacen turn dark than what he already "knows"? |
I can't argue with that. There's no way for Luke to know Vergere was a Sith. But since I read comics, I'm more then used to characters knowing things that they shouldn't know and chalk it up to the fact these books, while authored by one person are plotted by several.
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