The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
The book that killed a main character and moved the licence to Del Rey.
Topic
23 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
The book that killed a main character and moved the licence to Del Rey.
The Jedi start arguing about what they are for, which is the series in miniature.
The Battle of Duro, and a refugee crisis the New Republic cannot administer.
The one where the series stops bluffing.
A working science-fiction novelist arrives and rebuilds the war from the strategy up.
Nineteen books, four years, and an ending that actually lands.
Who is involved
Named after his grandfather, killed off at the exact moment readers decided he was the best of the three.
The scientist who was watching for extragalactic life when it arrived and killed most of her colleagues.
Spent his career as the Jedi who believed his own publicity, and then earned every word of it in one doorway.
Destroyed a star system with millions of people on it, was forgiven, and became a Jedi Master. Legends never fully resolved that, and neither has fandom.
A biotechnologist who commits heresy because the sacred protocols have stopped working.
The advance agent who spent years destabilising the New Republic before anyone knew his species existed.
Trained by the Solusars rather than by Luke Skywalker — the Order’s second generation, doing the fighting.
The court jester who was running the invasion, and the reason it happened at all.
A reptilian hunter who laughs by hissing, and the first non-human to lead the Jedi.
The Supreme Overlord of an invading species, and a puppet who does not know it.
A barefoot Tatooine orphan the Yuuzhan Vong tried to overwrite with someone else, and half succeeded.
The Warmaster who told the galaxy it could buy peace by handing over its Jedi.
The most argued-about character in Legends: teacher, torturer, Sith, or none of the above.
From the database
Dark Horse’s only comics adaptation of the Yuuzhan Vong war, told from the ground: one family on one invaded world, watching the New Republic fail…
The second Invasion miniseries, in which the survivors of Artorias reach the Jedi and discover the war is worse than the one they escaped.
The third and final Invasion miniseries, which closes the Galfridian story well short of the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war.
Written about it
Nineteen novels, four years of publishing, and a decision to kill a character from the films in the opening book.