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(More customer reviews)I tried my best to get into this story given the art is pretty good and some of the characters are compelling but I kept finding myself looking for something very hard to bang my head against as I read the story.
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The general premise of the tale is that a Jedi Padawan, along with his friends, are set to become Jedi Knights in a matter of days. The key Padawan in the story is named Zayne Carrick, a clumsy but honorable young human male trying to find his way in the Jedi order. After failing to arrest a local minor criminal, Zayne arrives to the Knighting ceremony only to find his fellow Padawans have been slain by their masters. About to be slain himself Zayne flees the masters grasp and seeks a place where he can contact the Jedi order on Coruscant. After running and fighting and picking up a few friends along the way Zayne is able to fight off the Masters and flee Taris after vowing to seek them down and make them confess to their crimes.
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What I liked about this edition.
1) The art is great. The scenes are crisp and detailed. The coloring is well done as well.
2) The main character, Zayne, is a compelling character.
3) The settings on Taris where exciting and in keep with the KOTOR franchise.
What I didn't like about this edition.
1) THIS IS NOT WHAT JEDI DO!!! It was never established in the story that Taris was being used as a Jedi training ground. This made me wonder why there are so many Jedi in one place that is not at war. Sure, maybe the Jedi are trying to help the lower level beings from their plight, but nope, they are exploring the force on the planets moon and running a school???
2) The Jedi Masters are all seers and can see the future. Cool, does this mean they will see and then study what they have seen in order to understand the possible meaning of the vision like real Jedi masters are trained to do? Nope, as soon as they see a person in a space suit that looks like the one's the Padawns use they immediately decide to kill all the Padawans.
3) Eighty percent of the book goes by before the reader learns the reason for the Masters slaughtering their learners. All the while Zayne doesn't really seem to mind that his friends are dead or that the people he trusted most cut them down. His soul goal is to escape from their clutches only to swear to track them down at the end of the book. Why did this Padawan not ever break down or have any true emotional response other than the sister of one of the slain might not like him anymore?
4) After making contact with Coruscant to tell his side of the story, only to be cut of before he could say it wasn't him, the masters on Coruscant take no action to investigate the problems on Taris and at the end they just decide to close-up shop and abandon the planet all together just as the Mando's bring war to it.?!? WHAT???
5) In the undercity where people are dirt poor, crime rules and people are infected by horrible monsters there just happens to be a space craft that can take people off the planet but no one chooses to use it until a Jedi comes along needing a ride to the moon.
So disappointed in this one, I had very high hopes given the thousands of hours I have into KOTOR 1 and 2. Oh well, hope the next ones better.
All Feedback is Appreciated Thanks and Good Reading.
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Thousands of years before Luke Skywalker would destroy the Death Star in that fateful battle above Yavin 4, one lone Padawan would become a fugitive hunted by his own Masters, charged with murdering every one of his fellow Jedi-in-training! Zayne Carrick and his con-artist companion Gryph commit to a new course in exposing the dark actions of the secret Jedi Covenant. Yet doing so takes them not only to the homeworld of one of Zayne's murdering Masters, but into the most highly guarded place on the planet - a storehouse of Sith artifacts! Zayne's search for justice continues to Coruscant, where he'll confront his Master and the members of the Covenant in a showdown that could spell his own demise!
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