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Star Wars: Legacy is an American comic book series set in the Star Wars universe. The series, published by Dark Horse Comics, is written by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema, and illustrated by Duursema and others, with inks by Dan Parsons and color by Brad Anderson. Issue #0, which cost $.25 and introduced the setting and major characters, was released on June 7, 2006.

In the comic series Star Wars: Legacy, Darth Krayt is the new dark lord of the Sith. It has been 125 years since the fall of the old empire, and Darth Krayt wants the Sith to be in power again, just like it used to be. The Dark lord kills a double of the emperor Roan Fel and claims the throne to be his. As most troops fall to the new Dark lord, some troops stay loyal and fall back to defend the true emperor Roan Fel.

Publication history
Star Wars: Legacy was an ongoing series that ran from an issue #0 in June 2006 until #50 in August 2010.

Dark Horse Comics is finishing the Star Wars: Legacy story with a six-issue limited series dealing with the return of Darth Krayt titled Star Wars: Legacy War.

Plot synopsis
Star Wars: Legacy is set over 126 years after the film Return of the Jedi. The comics feature Cade Skywalker, a descendant of Luke Skywalker, who was trained as a Jedi but has abandoned the order. He apprenticed himself to the pirate Rav and lives among bounty hunters, smugglers and pirates. Cade has also dropped his last name. The series begins with an attack on the Jedi Temple and the overthrow of the Galactic Alliance by the One Sith order.

After a great and furious struggle, Cade and his friends manage to kill the evil Sith emperor, Darth Krayt. However, even without their leader, the Sith remain a powerful danger.

Collected editions
The series is being collected into trade paperbacks:


 * Broken (collects #1-3, 5-7, 144 pages, May 2007, ISBN 1-59307-716-5)
 * Shards (collects #4, 8-13, 176 pages, March 2008, ISBN 1-59307-879-X)
 * Claws of the Dragon (collects #14-19, 144 pages, June 2008, ISBN 1-59307-946-X)
 * Alliance (collects #20-22, 27, 104 pages, December 2008, ISBN 1-59582-223-2)
 * The Hidden Temple (collects #23-26, 104 pages, February 2009, ISBN 1-59582-224-0)
 * Vector (collects #28-31 & Star Wars: Rebellion #11-12, 144 pages, June 2009, ISBN 1-59582-226-7)
 * Storms (collects #32-36, 128 pages, November 2009, ISBN 1-59582-350-6)
 * Tatooine (collects #37-41, 104 pages, February 2010, ISBN 1-59582-414-6)
 * Monster (collects #42-46, 128 pages, June 2010, ISBN 1-59582-485-5)
 * Extremes (collects #47-50, 104 pages, December 2010, ISBN 1-59582-631-9)
 * War (collects Star Wars: Legacy: War #1-6, 144 pages, January 2012, ISBN 1-59582-802-8)

Continuation
A sequel, or second volume, to the series, which shares the same name as the original, has recently been announced. Written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, penciled by Hardman, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg, and published by Dark Horse Comics, it will star Ania Solo, a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo. The first issue will be released in March 2013, and it will then continue as a monthly, ongoing series.

Plot summary
The second iteration of Star Wars: Legacy will star Ania Solo, a descendant of Han and Leia Organa Solo. It will take place in the aftermath of Star Wars: Legacy&mdash;War, a comic miniseries which was set in the year 138 ABY. As the series begins, Solo will be running a junkyard on a backwater, Outer Rim planet and living a life far removed from Emperors and royalty. However, the first issue will see her come into possession of a lightsaber and an Imperial communications droid, and discover that she has been targeted for death, thus being launched into an adventure unlike any she has seen before. The backwater world will serve as a microcosm for greater galactic affairs, and the story will eventually expand outward from it, showing the reader what's happening in the highest levels of galactic government.

The first issue will open with a "giant lightsaber duel," and it will additionally feature the Imperial Knight Yalta Val&mdash;an agent of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate&mdash;running into trouble in the Outer Rim. Also within the pages will be the Mon Calamari refugee Sauk, a friend of Solo's who works at an ice mining facility and gets pulled into the adventure by Solo. In the second issue, Solo will be pursued both by local police and by an Imperial Knight determined to kill in order to get the lightsaber back. She will be aided by formidable friends she has made as a black market salvage dealer. The series will also feature Sith, and may eventually include an appearance by Cade Skywalker, the protagonist of the previous incarnation of Star Wars: Legacy.

Development
In August 2010, the fiftieth and final issue of the comic series Star Wars: Legacy was published by Dark Horse Comics. The six-issue miniseries Star Wars: Legacy&mdash;War followed; published from December 2010 to May 2011, it allowed authors John Ostrander and Jan Duursema an opportunity to wrap up the story they had been telling. On December 3, 2012, Comic Book Resources announced that a new incarnation of Legacy was coming in 2013, written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, and additionally penciled by Hardman. Dark Horse's Vice President of Publishing Randy Stradley soon after indicated that the project had been in the works for a number of months.

Bechko and Hardman have both indicated via their Twitter feeds how excited they are to be working on the project. They have both been Star Wars fans since the release of the original Star Wars film in 1977, which they cite as a major influence on their work. Dark Horse letterer Michael Heisler has praised their work and asserted that they "know what they're doing." Hardman has stated that he and Bechko will be "honoring and building on" the work done by Ostrander and Duursema in the original Legacy, but they have also stated that the series will be accessible to fans unfamiliar with Ostrander and Duursema's work.

The idea of a female protagonist did not originate with Hardman and Bechko, but after it was pitched to them, it played a significant role in drawing them to the project. Bechko has described Ania Solo as a character who "doesn't take a lot of guff," but who is nevertheless not a traditional badass female. Hardman asserts that she has the potential to be "an inspiring but very down-to-Earth human sort of character, as well." Rather than write a genealogy textbook, the two aim to tell a big adventure story that will eventually answer fans' questions about Solo's lineage.

Joining Bechko and Hardman will be Rachelle Rosenberg as a colorist and Dave Wilkins as a cover artist. The first issue, Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 1, will be released on March 20, 2013, and it will then continue as a monthly, ongoing series, with the second issue released on April 24. Neither Bechko nor Hardman are worried about the implications that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII will have on the Expanded Universe&mdash;their goal is to tell an exciting story that will work "no matter what", and they are reassured by the likelihood of Episode VII taking place decades before Legacy.