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I enjoyed #0 very much. I was a little unsure if all the #0s are like this one, so I couldn't be sure if it was very informative or not very informative, comparatively speaking. OMb's review makes me think that it's the former, and in that case, it has me very excited for this series. It has me thinking that there'll be an overarching plot, rather than be a collection of random ministories. It provides brief synopses on the planet Tython, as well as the other planets in the system. It gives a brief backstory of the events, like the Despot War - which sounds interesting enough that it could have been a small series of comics itself. It gives a summary of the different Je'Daii temples. The temples themselves are situated in nexuses of the Force, usually in geologically hazardous places - like above an active volcano - and are near to a Tho Yor. A Tho Yor is a pyramidal flying ship that we've seen on the cover of one comic book. There are 8 of these, with one huge one. The comic then details briefly the weapons, technology and ships that we'll probably see in the series. It also gives a small biography of - I'm assuming - the main characters. The most interesting one, for me, is the Red Sith Sek'nos Rath. I'm hoping he turns out to be a good guy, simply because that'd be an interesting twist.
Several other things I wish to point out: the artwork inside is a mixture of hand-drawn and CGI, with no hints as to what the artwork inside the actual upcoming comic books will be like. But these pictures are very good. The only one I didn't like was the picture of Shae Koda. Something's off with regards to her face.
It seems likely that there will be a Rakatan Star Forge featuring in this series. The being wielding a weapon that looks suspiciously like a lightsabre but isn't is called a Force Hound. Force Hounds were Force sensitive beings the Rakata used to find and enslave worlds that were strong in the Force. The not-a-lightsabre weapon is called a Forcesaber. From the comic:
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| The Rakata also created Forcesabers, powerful weapons that channeled [sic] the dark side of the Force through ebon laboratory-grown crystals into glowing energy blades. The basic principles of this technology would later evolve into the lightsabers used by the Jedi. |
I'd highly recommend this simply for the wealth of information. For instance, Tython has two moons called Ashla and Bogan. It states that if a Je'Daii strays too far to the light - or the dark - they are deemed out of balance. Those who veer too much to the light are sent to bright Ashla to contemplate Bogan, and those who walk too far into the dark are sent to dark Bogan to contemplate Ashla. And the names, too. They sound familiar - like Anil Kesh - to real world words (though sadly I can't remember just what exactly those real world words are at the moment), and so that makes me think that they've put a great deal of thought into it all.
Having said that, I do have some worries about what's hinted at in the story. And I can see a few getting wound up on possible continuity errors.
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