Star Wars Republic 27: Starcrash
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Randy Green, Andy Owens, Dave McCaig |
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Scott Allie, Michael Carriglitto (Asst.) |
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32 |
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C |
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27 |
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Starcrash is the twenty-seventh issue in the Star Wars: Republic series of comics. It was published on February 28, 2001 by Dark Horse Comics.
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[edit] Publisher's summary
This issue, meet Jedi Yoshi Raph-Elan. On his way to a meeting of Jedi, Yoshi is attacked by an unknown enemy. Stranded without even a lightsaber, he must find out what this new threat wants. Along the way, he meets the beautiful princess Lourdes, and learns a lesson about trusting ancient prophecies. And it's all brought to you by Doug Petrie (Buffy: Ring of Fire and writer for the Buffy TVS TV series), Randy Green (Witchblade), and Andy Owens (Buffy and Angel).
[edit] Plot summary
In transit, newly Knighted Jedi Yoshi Raph-Elan finds himself attacked by unknown assailants. One of the ships hits him, disabling his craft, and forcing him to crash-land on a nearby planet. After finding his ship worthless, and his lightsaber smashed, Yoshi heads off for a nearby village. Upon his arrival, Yoshi finds a small child about to be shot by a battle-droid. After saving the child and dispatching the droid, he heads off in search of the droid's master. His search takes him to a large castle. In an attempt to infiltrate the castle, Yoshi is discovered by Princess Lourdes, who is intended to marry the droids' master, Lord Gar-Oth. The princess brings Yoshi with her to a reception of Lord Gar-Oth, in hopes he can help against the conqueror. But when Gar-Oth declares his intentions to marry Lourdes right then and there, Yoshi lies, saying he is her husband. Gar-Oth attacks him, but upon realizing he is a Jedi, he unveils his giant Goliath droid, which he orders to attack the Jedi. After the princess kills Gor-Ath, Yoshi is able to use the giant droid's own circuitry to repair his lightsaber, which he uses to destroy the droid. Later, a republic ship is sent to rescue the young Jedi.
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- Jedi Order
- Jedi Council (Mentioned only)
- Yahk-Tosh Empire
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The storyline, the setting, and the characters seem to have a lot in common with The Legend of Zelda. The designs seem to echo the ones presented in the popular videogame series, including showing a shot of a villager who is dressed almost exactly like Link.
During the comic, the speech of a number of aliens was depicted as Greek letters jumbled together.
This issue is one of the few Republic comics that have not been published in a TPB. The events of this comic as they relate to Princess Lourdes are retold in The Official Star Wars Fact File 128.
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