When Games Workshop released The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth last year, there was a lot of excitement surrounding the set. This was largely because it provided plastic versions of many miniatures that had previously only been available in resin from Forge World.

I didn't have many memories of Betrayal. Since it came out in the summer of 2006, I probably got it from the library while I was on summer break. I knew the overarching plot, but there were a lot of things here that caught me by surprise. The argument which turns him isn't very convincing. It boils down to, "Hey maybe your entire belief system is skewed. All those Sith you know about were just bad apples. Wanna join the Dark side now"? Whereas the Dark Nest trilogy focused heavily on Han, Leia, and Luke, Betrayal was more focused on Han and Leia's story, Jacen and Ben's story, and then to a lesser extent Wedge Antilles and his oldest daughter Syal. In particular, Luke and Mara played much smaller roles than I expected, but perhaps the authors will cycle through different main characters in these books.I don’t come to Star Wars for Shakespeare or deep thought. Jacen is particularly unintelligent and prone to the justification of his actions, and Luke is an enabling boss and negligent father. Ben gets a pass at being naive as he’s a 13-year-old kid, and I know he is trusting of his master, so doesn’t question what’s going on much. But don’t these people have the Force? Well, first of all, the Force is presented differently in the books then it is in the movies, so go into this book (or all Star Wars books) expecting that. People complained about Rey having new force powers in episode 9, but that’s nothing new to these novels. Then we have John French’s micro-short Serpent which is a very brief snapshot of a Chaos ritual being performed by a priest of one of the Davinite Cults. We met the Davinites for the first time in Graham McNeill’s False Gods, the second novel in the series, when Horus was wounded during a battle on Davin and was attended to by the seemingly innocuous religious healers of the planet. Not quite sure what the relevance of the story is, but it is a decent look into the bloody rituals of those who have given away their all to the powers of Chaos.

The overwhelming majority of characters who have fought and sacrificed for so long to establish and defend first the New Republic and its present political entity the GA choose to remain loyal. Most notable are of course the Skywalkers. Luke and Mara are in my opinion well depicted and require no description on my part. However Betrayal features some newcomers. The one I liked the best is... urn:oclc:record:1392416246 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier legaciesofbetray0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s22rtr7fpqv Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781849708364Completely arbitrarily, I decided that I would resume my own personal SWEU reading challenge in 2021, starting with Aaron Allston’s “Betrayal”, the first book in a nine-book series entitled Legacy of the Force. Only from out of great conflict can true heroes arise. With the galaxy aflame and war on an unimaginable scale tearing the Imperium apart, champions of light and darkness venture onto countless fields of battle in service to their masters. They ask not for remembrance or reward – simply to meet their destiny head-on, and only by embracing that destiny will they come to learn what the unseen future may yet hold for them...

Since Luke does NOT seem to be finding out what is happening, that means either no one is telling him OR he doesn’t care. Which is also STOOPID. Mara is smart-smart-smart, though. I will leave it at that.Stranger things than xenos and mutants dwell in the dark places between the stars – things known only too well to the inhabitants of Davin. Cult priest Thoros calls upon the favour of his patron gods to aid him in casting out the pretenders and non-believers, for only the true disciples of Chaos can be allowed to rule the galaxy... [1] Related Articles That is certainly An Interpretation. I’m just not sure it’s an interpretation I buy. While Vergere did terrible, morally dubious things, she’s always felt more like a Gray figure to me—neither Jedi nor Sith. I’m not sure that this is what Matthew Stover intended, or even James Luceno and Walter Jon Williams intended, but stories always evolve over time. I may not like this retcon—I think it makes more sense that Lumiya is lying to Jacen and giving him events “from a certain point of view” to push him towards her desired outcome—but that’s definitely not the official LotF explanation. This entire book’s story would have fallen apart if, at any point, Luke had found out what Jacen had been up too. While the book mentions “private briefings and debriefings” behind closed doors, we never hear them because if the author had to write them, then the characters might have been put into a position where the reader thinks “why isn’t this character telling Luke about this horrible thing they did?!!” Six years after his retirement from the CIA, Bagley was startled by an unlikely coincidence. “Two deaths—each purportedly a suicide, each with its deep roots in the secret world, each with its own perplexing mysteries” caught his attention in 1978. Bagley was living in Brussels after stepping down as CIA station chief there. One of the men who died was a KGB defector who had provided invaluable information to the agency. The other was a long-serving CIA senior officer. In both cases, the circumstances made it clear to Bagley that suicide was unlikely. And as he dug deeply into the available (and sometimes secret) facts, he became convinced that neither had killed himself. A bigger issue: I think that Betrayal is trying to do too much here. Not only is Allston setting up Jacen's Sith journey, but this conflict between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia which will spiral out to other systems. That's a lot to do, and unfortunately the book throws us into this Galactic Alliance military action against Corellia with not a lot of setup. We jump from “Corellia is unhappy about centralization” to the Galactic Alliance parking a fleet in Corellian space and sending in Jedi teams to kidnap Corellian heads of state. I know that the Dark Nest trilogy was all about this Chiss/Killik conflict in the Unknown Regions, but I would have liked to see hints of this situation in those preceding books. It would have helped to have this built up, instead of dropping the reader into the middle of a conflict that we’ve been told has been brewing behind the scenes—with not many examples of it before everything explodes.

The trio end up meeting a mysterious woman named Brisha Syo who wants Jacen to travel to her home on a remote asteroid near Bimmiel. Revelations ensue. Turns out, Brisha Syo is actually the Dark Lady Lumiya, who appeared in the Marvel Star Wars comics that were released between 1977 and 1986. Lumiya was originally a young Rebel woman named Shira Brie who had a sort of romance with Luke Skywalker, and then was shot down by Luke because the Force told him that she was an enemy. And surprise, she had been an Imperial spy all along! She was saved by the use of cybernetics and trained in the dark side of the Force by Darth Vader, she wants revenge on Luke Skywalker, and she has a very distinctive outfit complete with a lightwhip instead of a lightsaber. Sure. I enjoyed it because I did not expect a smart story. I wanted one but didn’t expect it. But I did find it a FUN story. There was excitement and drama and moments where I was concerned for characters that I liked. Things were clear, and it was easy to understand what was happening if you paid attention. Serpent (**) Not sure about this one really. I might be missing the overall context w/in the HH setting. As an author of licensed material myself, I can understand the thin line an author walks when working with characters that are not only beloved but have a complex history that has existed oftentimes long before you had the chance to put pen to paper. In my humble opinion, they didn’t go about writing Jacen's story with intelligence. Jacen’s motivations and reasoning are lazy and poorly thought out. His philosophy doesn’t add up to the conclusions he reaches without completely throwing away REASONING POWERS. This is probably by design, showing that Jacen has been trained to focus on the wrong things. But if that’s the case, his training was STOOPID.

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hey man, the Sith are the cool ones....they can feel emotions and stuff. It's just a different way of doing the same thing, ect ect."