9. DARTH BANE SERIES
Some may recall Darth Bane from season six of The Clone Wars, when Master Yoda faced the Sith Lord as a Force ghost illusion. Bane was the maker of the well-known “rule of two.” This rule is followed by the villains all through the Star Wars adventure. This set of three of books has been commended for throwing some light on the historical backdrop of the secretive Sith and their initial conflicts with the Jedi.
Set over a thousand years before the occasions of A New Hope, the books is based on Darth Bane as he ascends the positions to end up as the best Sith Lord ever. The principal book, Path of Destruction, talks about the fall of the Sith as a order and their last fight with their foes. The second book focuses on Bane as he puts his “rule of two” into action. As it is, he takes in an apprentice with the expectation that she will succeed him in power. In the meantime, the Jedi are fixated on finding Bane and wiping out the Sith until the end of time. The last book concentrates on Bane’s endeavours to find a Sith Holocron that will show him the key to immortality.
8. LORDS OF THE SITH
Do you recollect how Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company makes Darth Vader appear? Indeed, that is the latest standard for the villian, as Lords of the Sith builds up the absolute power of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine as users of the Dark Side. Set between Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Rebels, the book is an independent story while tying into the new canon built up in 2012.
Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and a gang of Imperials are trapped by freedom fighters while going to the Twi’lek planet of Ryloth. They spend the remainder of the book attempting to cope on the threatening planet until reinforcements arrive. The magnificence of Lords of the Sith is the way it develops Vader and Palpatine’s relationship. This was something that we just got a little taste of in Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi. For instance, the Emperor orders Vader to butcher a whole town of innocent Twi’leks. This is a task which he reluctantly executes. It additionally makes a superb show with regards to of tying into The Clone Wars by including a noticeable character from the TV show as a lead.
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