One of the most influential tales in the history of Star Wars, Dark Empire II gets a brand new edition that includes Empire's End in the same volume for the first time! With the Empire in retreat, Luke Skywalker undertakes a quest to rebuild the Jedi. Yet, he has spent time as the Emperor's thrall, and the taint of the Dark Side still lurks in his mind. When Palpatine unveils an insidious plan to conquer the galaxy using Han and Leia's own children, will Luke be able to stop his one-time master? Luke and Lando, Han and Leia, Threepio and Boba Fett - the gang's all here in one of the most important stories of their lives!
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Worse than the first,
This review is from: Star Wars: Dark Empire II 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This second volume of the Dark Empire series is worse than the original. Far worse. And that's quite an accomplishment given how horrible the first one was.
The Emperor was killed in Return of the Jedi, revived and killed in Dark Empire, and returns yet again in Dark Empire II. As in previous incarnations, he's miraculously got another superweapon up his sleeve, this time a long-barreled ship that fires intelligently guided projectiles shaped like rifle ammunition, a weapon for which writer Tom Veitch could not come up with a better name that the Galaxy Gun. As the newly cloned Palpatine remarks, "Marvelous. It's a wonder we didn't think of it decades ago." The Emperor also has a new elite force of Dark Jedi who bumble around and manage to get knocked off one by one. The Empire fires its Galaxy Gun and destroys the moon housing the Rebel Alliance - but not before everyone escapes. A new space-faring race is discovered, one that employs old but tested technology to power its ships - steam engines. Luke discovers ancient Jedi texts, along with a few lost Jedi, and begins the process of reorganizing the Jedi Knights. Leia has her third child, which she names after her father, Anakin. And once again there is a useless subplot involving Boba Fett. But this time the ending is worse than you can possibly imagine. The Emperor escapes, leaving you with the sense of impending boredom in future volumes from Tom Veitch. #
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This review is from: Star Wars: Dark Empire II 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Excellent edition, highly recommended.
This edition includes the Hard to find out of print "Empire's End"
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I wasn't crazy about the first Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy HC (Star Wars (Dark Horse)), but thought it had some redeeming value. By contrast, Star Wars: Dark Empire II 2nd Edition is just bad. The main villains are a bunch of Dark Jedi working for Palpatine who can't seem to do anything right. There really isn't much of a plot. The worst part is the Galaxy Gun. If you're sick of super-duper weapons, you'll hate the plot device. The Galaxy Gun can just fire a single missile and take out any planet. It makes being a dictator all the easier. But it's also pretty unrealistic and silly. After all, if such a weapon were possible Star Wars, why wouldn't anybody else build one? Rather than conquer the galaxy, why not just destroy any planet that puts up any resistance? And why didn't Palpatine use the Galaxy Gun to destroy Mon Calamari? Unfortunately, superweapons in the Star Wars universe have become a substitute for a good plot and character development.
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