The Lost Suns Review
Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen two webcomics, Threat of Peace and Blood of the Empire, both set before the events of the game. With The Lost Suns, the story unfolds alongside players’ stories in The Old Republic. The series is a five-part miniseries and is penned by SWTOR writer Alexander Freed. With all five issues now released, this review serves as an overview for the series as a whole. The Lost Suns is seen as a companion to the game, with the storyline similar to a class story. A word of caution: this review contains some spoilers. Read more»
The Lost Suns Comic Series Launches
The newest comic series covering The Old Republic, The Lost Suns, is due in Comic Book stores on June 8th. This five issue miniseries chronicles a top secret mission undertaken by Theron Shan, Republic Spy and son of Jedi Grandmaster Satele Shan -
The galaxy is at peace, but no one believes peace can last forever. To learn the truth behind the cease-fire between the democratic Galactic Republic and the tyrannical Sith Empire, the Republic’s espionage service has sent Theron Shan – a maverick spy and son of the Grand Master of the Jedi Order – on a mission into Imperial space.
To give both fans of Star Wars and TOR some more information, Alexander Freed, BioWare Senior Writer and author of this latest miniseries and Blood of the Empire, has been answering some questions over on the TOR website.
Upcoming Expanded Universe Books in The Old Republic
Sean Dahlberg had brought us some news concerning upcoming Expanded Universe publications set in The Old Republic’s timeline:
LucasArts and BioWare are forging a new Star Wars™ era of epic adventure with their forthcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. Set more than 3,500 years in the past of the far-away galaxy, the game occurs in a time when the Jedi and the Galactic Republic clashed with the Sith Empire. It is an era rich with storytelling opportunities not only for players, but for fans of Star Wars literature.
Already, online fans are aware of Threat of Peace™, the serialized web-comic written by BioWare’s Rob Chestney. This April, Dark Horse Comics begins collecting the comic into a 96-page trade paperback, Star Wars: The Old Republic Volume 1: Threat of Peace, with art by Alex Sanchez, and colors by Michael Atiyeh.
Threat of Peace author Rob Chestney is also slated to write a new, original The Old Republic short story for online publication here at StarWars.com.
Next July, Del Rey Books will publish in hardcover Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, a novel by bestselling author Sean Williams. Now in the early planning stages is a second novel set in the Old Republic time frame, written by Paul Kemp, author of the forthcoming Crosscurrent.
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Action figures and comics in SWTOR’s future?
Comments made to VG247.com are raising speculation about potential licensing additions for the upcoming game.
“We are looking forward to working with our partners in LucasFilm, that have worked with us previously on KOTOR in bringing the comic books to life, and action figures, and all kinds of things,” said Tom Nichols, executive in charge of LucasArts’s online games business. He continued to say that he thinks “the potential is there for us to have similar types of products and extensions from our licensing partners as well.”
What exactly are “extensions?” We’ll just have to wait and see because it looks like SW:TOR itself is still a long way off, much more so any spin-offs it might inspire.
Check out the original article from VG247.com.
