Episode #427 -- Smooth Operator

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You're listening to Star Wars Splash Page Comics in Review.
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This is episode number four hundred and twenty seven, and
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we are sieging the Republic. Hi Jeff, how are you big.
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Stage? I'm hum.
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Park on no one since running.
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The gast scene. I feel adequately sieged. Matt. I feel
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abslutely sieged. It's been a while. I did one week
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solo and you did one week solo, and now we're
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back and you're sick and I'm tired. So we are
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now sick and tired.
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We're name of the podcast Star Wars Comics. I can tired.
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I did. I did podcast a little bit. Last week.
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I was on Star Wars Reactions with with Dave and
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Uh and Aaron Aaron Harris, our buddies from our old
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Coffee with Knoby Days and to discuss the first two
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episodes of Skeleton Crew spoiler alert. Loved it so much fun.
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Yeah, nothing beats the original Skeleton Crew Uncle Lars and Amperu.
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But yeah, you're you're wrong for that. But it's funny.
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But no, if you haven't watched the show, it's a
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lot of fun. I I'm gonna go ahead and say
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anybody who can't who doesn't enjoy this show has lost
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touch with joy.
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Yeah, seriously, I loved the first two episodes.
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I've heard people complain and I just don't get it.
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Yeah, neither do I, you know, because I just I'm
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just I'm loving. I'm loving the knots of subtle nods
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to some of the you know, like the Easter eggs,
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like you know s M three three me me yeah.
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And you know, did you notice that the the the
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Circus Acrobats and the Holiday special are now canon?
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Yeah, which is very cool. And then of course what
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Jod's name kind of reminded you know, that's got to
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be a reference to along John Silver so.
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Well probably so yeah, because it has totally got a
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Treasure Island vibe. I really, I really dig it.
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Yeah, man, I just I just I just enjoy it
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very much. And I just one of the things I
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thought was really interesting was how every road on at
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Atton is basically like a tram. You just got that
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little built in network rail, so.
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You know they're doing that. And I believe it's Japan
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and maybe China, but lave with Japan where they have
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a tram that runs on there is a paint that's
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on the magnetized paint on the street that it runs on,
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so there's no rail.
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I wouldn't be surprised.
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Yeah, blew my mind. As far as other movies, the
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only movie I've gone to see in the last couple
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of weeks was Interstellar. Movie is ten years old and
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came in fifth at the box office over the weekend.
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Yeah, they re released it for the weekend, right. Yeah.
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We went to see it in imax, which is the
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way to see it. I had never seen it until
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earlier this year. Pam and I watched it earlier this
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year for the first time.
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It's such a movie being able to see.
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It in imax. It's not without its flaws, but it
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is It is a It is in typical Nolan fashion.
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It is an epic. It is a lot of fun
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to watch, and the effects and sound and everything are
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just top notch. So if you do get a chance
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to go see it sometime before it leaves the theaters,
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I highly recommend it.
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Yeah, that's a that's a classic. I Ali and I
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went to the library and checked out the DVD if.
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The film was made by John Krasinsky and stars Ryan Reynolds.
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Ran Reynold just a host of a notable actors voice.
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It was cute.
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It was very super cute, and we both loved it. Yeah, so.
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If you like that, you should check out Foster's Home
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for Imaginary Friends, a cartoon that was on the Cartoon
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Network about twenty years ago.
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Oh yeah, we used to watch that a lot.
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I get a lot of that from from it. Yeah,
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it is a lot of fun as well.
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Good stuff, good stuff.
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Oh and I did want to say we did go
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to see Red One a couple of weeks ago on
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Pam has defined it as a perfect movie. So if
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you get a chance to see that, do so as well.
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Excellent, excellent.
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All right, So we only have one book to discuss
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this week, which is good because next week we have
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five five We have Star Wars The Battle of Jaku
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Republic under Siege number four of four, slash eight of twelve,
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slash one more of too many. But I'll keep my
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thoughts until the end of the discussion. But man, what
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kind of news do we have to report this week?
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Well, we have thankfully gotten the rest of our Black
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History Month variants from Marble. Three of them we had
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already known, one was going to be one was Mother
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Anisia Anisea from the Acolyte on Legacy of Vader number one.
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We have Veil from Star Wars Outlaws on Ahsoka number eight,
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and then we have Orlando cal Risian on the cover
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for the Rise of Skywalker adaptation number one. But the
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big one was Star Wars The High Republic Fear of
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the Jedi number one, and it features Osha and May
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from the Acolyte, and it is a banger of a cover. So,
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of course it's a little bit bittersweet given the fact
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that they canceled The Acolyte, but still the fact that
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we're getting, you know, three characters from the show as
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part of these variants looks pretty sure. Of course, these
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variants will all come out in February, which is when
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Black History Month is, and you can see pictures of
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those on our Blue Sky feed or on the Facebook page.
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I highly recommend to do that. If you do want them,
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you can go ahead and order them now through your
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local comic shop. I would recommend to do so. Reese
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Hannigan and Michael Morezzi. I have been showing off some
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interior pages that are unlettered but colored by Michael Attia
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from February fifth. Hyperspace stories, the Bad Batch Ghost Squadron
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number one looks really good, looks it's gonna be a
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lot of fun too. So and again you can see
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those on the Facebook page of the Blue Sky Feed.
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Our friends over at Near Mint Condition revealed that coming
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in August, the Star Wars Visions comics will be collected
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in a Treasury edition. Oh nice, yeah, that and that
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is a proper way to do that. Those books justice,
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you know, of course, you know that's gonna include Star
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Wars Visions, Star Wars Visions Peach Momoco, and Star Wars
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Visions Takeshi Okazaki, as well as the material from Star
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Wars Darth Vader, Black, White, and Red number one. So yeah,
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and of course, you know, why is this a big
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deal because Treasury editions are basically eight and a half
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inches wide and thirteen inches tall, so you can, you know,
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you just you know, it's bigger pages. Yeah, a lot,
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you know, kind of difficult to file away. Will not
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fit in a short box or a long box, but
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you'll have to, you know, put it on your bookshelf.
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But it's definitely definitely worthwhile, so definitely keep an eye
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out for that. We don't have the exact date yet
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we just know that it's sometime in August. Speaking of publishing,
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we have some no surprise, some slight changes for Dark
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Horses upcoming publications schedule. The High Republic Adventures Phase three
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number fourteen is now due out January twenty second. Bad
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Batch Ghost Agents one is now due out February fifth,
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High Republican Adventures Phase three number sixteen is now due
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out March twelfth, and then of course the Bad Batch
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Ghost Agent's number two is now due out March nineteenth.
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The Equis a Fear trade paperback has been pushed back
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a week to April twenty second, and it looks like
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the Crash Zone trade paperback, which collects those two one shots,
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is now due out April twenty ninth. No real reason
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as to why people will have conjecture, Well, most of
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that conjecture will be formless and baseless, but you know,
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what can you do now? Not a whole lot. So
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we've also if you head over the Facebook page, Mark Benicia,
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Marvel Star Wars Comics Line editor has been dropping some
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short preview pages from Free Comic Book Day twenty twenty five,
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and we've got a page there so of art that
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shows qui Gon and it seems to be a scene
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straight up out of the Living Force novel, so definitely
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you want to check that out. And then, of course
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we've also seen some he's also dropped some pages. Not
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a lot you panel here, you know, maybe a full
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page here from Legacy of Vader number one that shows
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Kylo ren agonizing, you know, head in hands with Luke
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Skywalker above him and Ray below him, you know. And
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a lot of this is too drum up interest in
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final order cutoff, which is important, so especially because that
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helps the publisher decide, all right, we're going to keep
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this series going or not. Uh. And then last, but
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not least one thing can be noticed or at least
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I noticed on the I think I can't say it
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with authority, but I think starting with January's Marvel Star
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Wars Comics, we get this great little cool logo, uh
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that will be uh where the corner box is or
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was in the comics of your and you know it
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says Star Wars Marvel ten years and yeah, because you know,
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next month is the tenth anniversary of Marvel's resumption publishing
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Star Wars comics. Hard believe it's been ten years, so
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which means our our ten year anniversary is not that
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far out either, coming up next year. Yeah, what June.
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I believe so, because that's when we first dropped. So
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there's a lot of episodes ago.
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Yes, a lot of time.
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So and I think that is it as always, you know,
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just you know, bookmark the Facebook page, follow us on
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splash page, you know, on on on on Blue Sky.
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So it's actually you can find us at at Star
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Wars splash page dot com. Yeah. I don't know how
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much more simpler we can make it, so aside from
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maybe getting like, you know, a a fluorescent sign around
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around our logo or something.
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So right, right, oh yeah, there you go. All right,
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well we will take a short short break and be
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right back to discuss Star Wars A Battle of Jaku
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Republic under Siege number four of four, eight of twelve.
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I want to be right back, all right, So, Matt,
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in true Marvel fashion, we've followed a new character for
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eight issues only to have him, it seems, summarily dismissed
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in this one. And we found out that the real
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Big Bat Big Bad is actually someone else.
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Yeah, bit of a surprise.
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I don't know that I like it.
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Yeah, it's it's kind of odd, but you know, I mean,
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we got four more issues of the Battle of Jaku
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to go, and the ending of issue number four Republic
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under Siege is kind of left it a little bit nebulous.
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So but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
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So this is Star Wars the Battle of Jaku Republic
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under Siege, number four of four. For the Battle of
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Jaku MAXI series, it is number eight of twelve. This
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issue is called Final Fury. It is written by Alex Sigura.
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The art is by Stefano Rafaela. Colors are by Alex Sinclair.
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Letters of by Virtual Calligraphies. Joe Carolmania Tar and Clark
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is handling the main covers. There is a really cool
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variant cover by Ramon Rosanas and Guru E Effects that
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features Galias rax I imagine that is going to sell
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out very quickly. Book designer is Carlos Lao. The assistant
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editors Mikey J. Basso and Drew Bamgartner are the assistant editors.
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Danny Kasm is our associate editor. Mark Paninzia is our editor.
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C B. Sebelski is our editor in chief for Lucasfilm.
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It's a senior editor Robert Simpson, Associate editor Grace Urs,
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creative director Michael Siglane, art director Troy Alders. From the
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story group, it's Matt Martin, Papolo Hidalgo, and Amiskokhani and
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of course creative art manager is Phil Joe Stack. So
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this basically launches us right where we ended the last issue.
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We are on chendrill, a home of the New Republic.
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Man Mafba has recovered from the the I guess the
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assassination attempt by the now now named Trandosian bounty hunter
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crane Or, which appears to be a new character. Uh.
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And she and Gail Akbar are having a very significant
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discussion here about Adelhard and you know, and they're very
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you know, Akbar is very blunt. Look, we can't deal
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with a two front war, you know we you know
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we we We're defending the Boo from the imperial invasions.
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We're helping liberate cell Us, We're trying to break Rand's
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control over the exterior. And those are just the major touchstones.
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And if abel Heart's forces strikeout instead of continuing their
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defensive iron blockade, we will be unable to stop them
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maintain a strong enough fleet to finish off the Empire
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as we must, so, you know, and Monlatha realizes that,
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but she also realizes the very dire threat that Adelhart poses,
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although I still kind of puzzle as to why it's
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such an iron threat if he's just doing a defensive
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blockade of the Anolid sector, right, you know there are
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other sectors. Obviously Anoid is home to the Anolids shipyards,
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I think, is it not? You know, I think it's
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home went to the ku Watch shipyards are.
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In Corellia, now I know it as far as I know.
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That's where Vespin was.
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that's you know why Lando's got a thorn on this
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side over it. So, but so they're debating this and
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then you know, they get a speaking of Lando. Lando
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shows up, uh, you know, so with with the with
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Predy having escaped, you know, atal heart uh, and it's
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just the two of them, you know, it's just Lando
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and the Lady Luck, which is always great to see
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the Lady Luck and Prdy is of course in Predy's
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x wing. Uh, and Lando is thirsting for revenge She's upset,
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especially with the you know that they lost so many
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people on this small on this small strike mission, and uh,
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you know he's not gonna planning on forgetting that. So
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and then we cut to Luke and Lea, and Leah
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is is feeling the burden of leadership. Uh, and and
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Luke is trying to you know, offer you know, offer
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advice and consent. You know, we have to decide, Luke,
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I have to decide. I'm haunted by my options. Do
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I ask acbarta slice off a piece of our fleet
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to re engage with adel hard, weakening our forces as
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we braced for whatever the remaining Imperial forces have waiting
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for us. Or do I let him fester and hope
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he won't be a factor to we have the resources
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to eliminate him. And Luke, it was very it was
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very you know, very Jedi zen if you will, you know,
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since it's his post return of the Jedi, right, well,
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you're doing so much like you're trying to shore up
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a provisional government, creating a galactic Congress, while that madman
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kills would be senators and tries to murder us. And
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that's when, of course Ren walks in Luke Princess, I'm
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sorry to interrupt, never bother d what is it? I'm
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not sure, but man Mathma has summoned us all end. Well,
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it sounded dire, and you know what it is dire
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because you know what we saw of the last issue,
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the death of Calder Barons you know, you know he's
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killed on Crassus h You know, this was after he
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had just discovered the murder of Senator Galward Pironas, and
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of course from Mathma. And I'm worrying if we might
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see some of this in the second season of and
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or So.
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I hope so yeah, I.
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Mean it's it's a big ask, but it'd be kind
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of cool, you know as well. You know, we've lost
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one of our own, a truly unsung hero and most
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painfully to me, a your friend. And Mum says, well,
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I'm so sorry. Calder was a good man. Calder was
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also a wily sort, says Mathma, the kind of spy
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who relied on being three steps ahead. Before his untimely death,
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he sent along his last batch of inta. And this
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is where we get if you haven't read the Aftermath trilogy,
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this is where it all sort of comes into bear
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all comes into play here, you know. She says it
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contained two items of great important. One is about Adelhart's advisor,
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the acolyte of the beyond arna o'scure. It seems her
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loyalties are much more unpredictable than he might be aware.
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And we've detected some messages in on Zoti code coming
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from the Anouit sector. We've relayed the decryptive message with
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his messages with our agent of more, the Superstar Destroyer scepter.
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She knows how to act on it, and of course
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I'm I'm pretty sure that's Elesia. Calder's intel also confirmed
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some of the details we've leaned from conversations with the operator,
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an insider feeding US intelligence from within the Imperial cells
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that still remain. Now memory serves me correct, the operator
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is actually Gallias Rax because Gallious Ras as the one
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who is trying to He's doing Palpatine's bidding to get
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everything set up so that the remnants of the Imperials
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will take off for the unknown regions so that they
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can build, you know, ostensibly the first Order and then
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the Final Order, and then mon Mathma goes on to
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ad it all but confirms what's coming that the remaining
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strands of the Empire will combine their forces in the
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hope of serving a crippling blow to the new Republic.
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All our intelligence points to one unlikely place, jack Wu,
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And of course that should ring some bells. If this
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intelligence proves to be true, it is a battle we
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cannot risk losing. And of course Acmar's like Jacku, that's
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truly surprising. We must mobilize all our forces in that
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direction immediately, which means we have to decide what to
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do with the Anowisk sector. Are we in agreement? I am?
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Where do you stand? Leah asks Mathma, and Leah replies,
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this job is a series of tough choices, but we
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must destroy the Empire's last stand on Jaku hah, nice
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little nod to the next mini series or wherever they
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decide to make it, if we're truly to lead a
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new Republic. And then Luke says, well, so we can't
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strike the animate sector at the same time, and an
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actbart impossible. We cannot spare the ships, Luke, we don't
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have the strength to fight a war on two front.
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And Luke's like, look, there's a madman trying to undercut
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our goal of establishing this republic. Do we think by
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ignoring him will go away? You heard what Lando said.
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They barely got out alive. We just dope atal Hard disappears,
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we'll be sorely disappointed sooner than we'd like. And l
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I was like, well, what are you suggesting? Then Luke pauses,
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looks down. Let us Lando Wren pre d me put
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together a small attack force enough to matter, but not
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enough to derail everything else. We have to undercut the
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coalition he's built with the underworld, with the acolytes of
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the beyond. We go into the animate sector and show
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atle Hard that we see him and we're not afraid.
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And mon Moth is like, all right, is it possible, Admiral,
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can we get creative? Can we? Yes? Should we? I
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don't know. It was like, look, we're standing around here
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mourning our dead friend, gunned down by Adelhart's assassin. We've
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lost so much, Admiral, it's high time we hit back.
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That's where we get our two page.
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You know, we're finally at the credits, the way through
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the book.
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And then we head over to Anna to the scepter.
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And and I love this scene because this is where
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Lieutenant uh Alisha to tell adel Hard basically to to
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reveal to him that his his accolade of the Beyond,
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Rayna Aucksher is not even a double agent, she's a
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triple agent, and that she is in league with Is
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it Rand that's his name, right?
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No, Rat, That's that's what we saw last issue because
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he's the one who U who who set Raina oscured
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to go in try to kill adel Heart an issue
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number three?
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Correct? Right? And uh and Adelhart just goes nuts. This
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image of his his face as he realizes then aulxtuer
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Shell pay please alert Commander bra his presence is required.
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Yeah, his eyes are wide all right, I'm upset, I'm
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very I'm very irket.
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And wasn't it the was it the last issue or
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the issue before where we saw where we saw Valance
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being uh being engaged?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah he and je Jalla so.
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And so from there we cut to the the fleetlet
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if you'll, if you will from the New Republic and
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we've got some some great ships here and the talk
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is about trying to get past the Iron blockade and
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Lucas saying, you know, call the barons might be dead.
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But he gave us a present, and one of the
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other ship says, do tell friend, and he says, are
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you there, Valance, And that's where we realize valances. He says,
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Jalla and I are here, Jedi, but let's keep chattering
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to a minimum. Sharper Eyes and Iris haven't made it
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past this blockade, and Renza not introduces herself to him,
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and she says, he says, you're telling me she was
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never mind that now, Well, I guess he's gonna say
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she's with whoever? Yeah, and he says uh. He says,
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what gives you any hope we can get an entire
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swarm of ships through And he says, well, a smuggler
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I know, kicked the door open, found a weak point
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for some credits. I was able to get that same
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route from a few on Savory characters, known characters on
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Burn and Kahan.
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Yeah, which is where we were last issue, if memory serves.
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Right, And they say, do I want to know how?
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He says, you don't, Skywalker, I lost some very close friends,
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so that would be tyrant the blockade if his comes
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with a deeper cost and a few Republic ships. And
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he says, if Barns hadn't hired me to swing through here.
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I might have done it on my own. This fraud
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owes me personally, and I love that when he says,
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this fraud is me personally. We cut back to Adelehard
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with Commander bra Alisha and Rayna Sure being summoned and
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uh she uh. She's like, oh, you summoned me and
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he says, well, you crossed me for the last time.
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She says, oh, is that so what broke you this time?
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And I love the way that she's She's just so
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dismissive of him. He says, you find humor in your
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find final moments, she says, I find humor in many things.
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An Zoti lived for centuries. The trials and challenges of
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mere men are worth a chuckle, nothing more. So I
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ask you again, Governor, why do you dare treat me
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in this manner? So she is not giving up any
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of her power, and he says, all your your betrayal,
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my own former imperial colleagues have been discovered. Your prail
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to them has been discovered. There's no denying it. And
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she says, ah, she figures out who did it. Elisha
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always quick to point the fingers so the spotlight shines
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away from her I should have guessed, and we she
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is one of the Elisha is one of the moles,
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right for the.
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Yeah, that's that's what we're led to believe. That's at
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least that's what we're supposed to believe. You know, that's
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it's implied because you know she and prey.
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And that's what I was thinking that, But it was
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obscure just enough that I wasn't sure one hundred percent.
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Yeah, but.
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She says I And she says to him, are you
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even surprised? I must play many hands in case one
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of them proves to be the winner these of course,
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he says, well, the winner shall be me. My forces
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are true to what the empire once was, to what
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the empire will be again. Vader said himself, I am
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the contingency plan. And she just laughs in his face.
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She says, oh, my, dear adel heard, you're far from that.
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If anything, you're the outlier. You're the one they didn't
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even consider because you're not even on the board. Rat
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Sloane ran. They all have bigger worries than you, Ubrick,
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false usurper, diluted and misinformed. You think because you were
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able to sway a weak willed general like louring that
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you wield some power and I love I'm just gonna
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read this. She says, you were upon from the beginning.
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Did you think that up Tashu's deflection was defection to
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other imperials was an aberration? Who's the fool now? Ubric
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who's been played like a seven string hallick set on me?
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Guess you don't even know what's coming about the plans
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for Jaiku? Why would you know? Is it sad you
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to know that I actually know more about your beloved
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empire's fate and this is where we find out he
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has just been not even really a pawn or a patsy.
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He's just been a distraction that they've been using this
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whole time. And again, we've seen this happen before, so
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it's it's not that uncommon. But I just feel like
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this is one time too many for me? I am I?
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Am I wrong there? Or do you think there's something
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too being a little disappointed that this is where we're
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going with it?
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Well, I don't think you're wrong. It just you know,
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just you know, it's it was kind of expected because
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we were sort of building up to it, So.
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Okay, I just I really wish that they would have.
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What I don't want to happen is for the victory
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that we know they have at the Battle of jack
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Wu to be the result of adle hard mucking things
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up for everybody else. I want it to be a
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solid victory for the New Republic. So US will wait
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and see what happens. I'm just hoping that that's not
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the way they're going to go with it.
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Well, I think it's gonna be very kind of difficult
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to do that because, uh, you know, it's uh, you know,
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I mean we know how the Battle of jack Who ends. Yeah,
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that's you know, that's definite. So but still, I mean,
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we still got to We've still got to check it out,
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you know, and and you know, make sure that there
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was nothing untoured, you know, you know, you know, it's
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you know, we're familiar with the Battle of Jacko from
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from Aftermath from Lost Stars, uh, and you know, and
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we know that the rebellion wins or the New Republic wins.
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But you know, I think what we're going to see
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with the last stand is just how maybe close to
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not winning they were.
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Okay, that's fair, that's fair because we have to assume
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it was it was. It was pretty dicey because the
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rebellion doesn't do anything the easy way.
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I'll never do you know, why why do something easily
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when you could do it you know, much harder? Right?
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So uh he tells Brod to remove her to the
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brig and she says, oh please, did you think I'd
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come unprepared for this? And he's then somebody steps out
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of the shadows. Your time has come, adle Hard, resign
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yourself and we know who that is. This is our
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our Trandosian bounty hunter. That this should be quick, Governor,
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unless you wish it to be painful. And of course
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Broad lays into him real quick, You're a fool spice
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runner and he uh, I won't say it makes quick
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work of him, but makes easy work of Commander bra
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and he says, uh he tries trusting Crane or your
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fate is sealed. Atal Hard when he gets some down
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on the ground, and that's when the attack hits. Atl
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Art says, we're under attack. I need to get to
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the bridge and uh, Rayda says, well you your needs
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are no longer relevant here. Enjoy your final breaths, my dear,
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I wish you piece of your final moments. She gives
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him a kiss because we found out last day, Sue
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that they've got they've been hooking up, and she says,
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you know what to do, make it quick. So does
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he do what she wants him to do, because we're
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gonna find out if the end he doesn't make it quick.
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And she turns to Elasia. She goes, you're with me,
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served me well, and I do as I ask, and
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perhaps you'll live. And he's and h Adelhart says, I
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you what kind of cat if you cast? What kind
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of spells? If you cast women? You can't do this,
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and he goes, I can and did. Ubric war is
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complex and fraud, my dear, and you must brace for
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the deadliest surprises. And so outside the rebels are saying,
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I'm still calling her rebels. They're saying balance got us here,
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But I wasn't expecting it to be almost easy. He says,
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The starry shower seems half asleep, and U ransoms, it
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doesn't matter. Hit it hard and off and we can't
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let up. And she says and says, if we can
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knock this imperial sell off the board, we might be
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able to make it back in time to fight help
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fight off our true foe, and then they see something
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moving from the star Destroyer, and Rin says it could
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be anything debris. Probably. What's got me worried is the
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mothership is powering up fast, which is not a good sign.
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And we get a message as new Republic forces be warned,
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Ubrick Adelhart is dead. I am now in command of
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this fleet. Am the annoit sector. Who would best serve
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you to retreat at this moment. Imperial forces around the
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way to augment my ships more than enough to destroy
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your paltry offensive, which I'm not sure is true.
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No, it's not true in the least, she.
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Says, I serve no one but myself, not the Empire,
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not the acolytes, not your feeble Republic. I will remove
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Adelhart's foolish iron blockade, but we warned. I will not
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be toyed with Leave now or prolong a battle that
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will cost you all greatly. She says, it done. Spice running,
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He says, yes, your words ring true. Spellcaster adle Heart
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and his loyalists are dead. But are they because Lando says,
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the Agbar wants us to pull back. He's logically, I
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get that, but my gut tells me we aren't done
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with the Annouit sector by a long shot. Luke says,
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copy that will do a quick spot check here before
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heading back, and so they do that. But they're going
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back to Gendrilla to prepare for the bigger battle to come,
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and then we cut to I guess this is Adelhart's
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uh inner monologue. So this is how it ends, betrayed
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by a known betrayer, left to die on a luftless,
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lifeless husk of a planet. So they've they've conned him,
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and by con I mean k h a n is
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in the Wrath of Khan.
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Yes, they have, but my question is, is that is
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that Bra or is that actually Adelhart who is peeled
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bra out of the armor?
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Now I think it that's adle Hard because it looks
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like him. He's got you have the beer and everything.
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What do you mean, Oh no, I'm sorry, I'm I'm
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a pay I'm ahead of you. Oh yeah, no. They yeah,
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they've conned them. They're they're they're setting him, you know,
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and the star Wars and cloneent of the Botany Bay. Yeah.
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So they're heading down to this planet with with no controls,
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with with what looks like almost a squad of troopers
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and Commander Bra.
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Well, it's it's an escape pod, you know, it's a
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it's a it's a it's an updated escape pod.
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So we need to brace for impact or spending. Actor
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only of the Empire I gave my life for is dead.
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So it lands with a large crack of boom and
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he says in something else, something stronger, deadly or must rise,
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and we see this hand coming out. I guess this
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is what you're talking about where we're not sure if
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that's Bra or if that's him in BRA's armor.
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Yeah, it could be either one.
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So again, we haven't seen the last of them, and
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I'm anxious. I'm looking forward to seeing what they're going
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to do with him again. I just wish that we
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I feel like I got conned co O n n
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E D not kh A n E ED. I feel
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like I got conned a little bit over the last
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eight issues, following this guy and wondering what's going to happen.
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Well, well, we still don't know if he's gone or not.
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Though you know, true, I mean there's a chance he
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could that. You know, I'm sure he'll show up, But
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I mean, you know it's going to be interesting.
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Yeah, So I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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But again, other than Mikey misgivings about what they did
587
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with Adel Lart's character, really good issue. I really like
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the way this is going. Do you have any final
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thoughts on it, Matt, other than can't wait for Is
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it next week? We get the next one?
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No, unfortunately not. I don't think actually I don't think
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we get the next one. Let's see here, we get
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the last stand. Number one is coming out on oh yeah,
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December twenty fifth, Christmas Day.
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Of course, so of course, because everybody goes to the
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comic shop on Christmas Day.
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Well, I have a feeling this will probably be permitted
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to be sold on the twenty fourth.
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One would hope, one would hope. All right, we'll take
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another short break and then we'll be back to discuss
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what we have to look forward to for next week. Definitely,
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all right, Matt. We have a plethora of books to
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discuss next week, would you.
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00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:05.400
Say, I would definitely say so, Yeah, that's gonna be
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a lot, so definitely a lot, definitely, so many, so
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00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:12.440
too many.
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00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.079
Yeah, we got we have five books. We get three
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from dark Horse.
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Two from Marble, and then we have a trade paperback.
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So but here's what we got going on. This is
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this is what's important here, my goodness, we have a
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ton of books. So out Tuesday, December seventeenth, we have
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the Star Wars Legends Epic Collection, The Empire Volume two,
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which is a new printing. And then on Wednesday, December eighteenth,
615
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we have the High Republic Adventures The Wedding Spectacular one shot,
616
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which is gonna be a lot of fun. And then
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we have the Dispatches from the Occlusion Zone number three
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of four. We have Ahsoka number six of eight, and
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you know, again that's it. Follow us the last five issues.
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It'll take us about thirty five seconds. Then we have
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Ewoks number three of four four, and then last, but
622
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definitely not least, we have the High Republic Adventures Phase three,
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number thirteen, where you know, the Revolt on Balows should
624
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be really taking the root.
625
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Okay, So we'll be back next week, and we'll still
626
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be here the next week discussing those books. So I
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hope you're hope you're settled in, and we'll be back
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next week to discuss those and any other movies that
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we might see between here and there. And I have
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it on good authority. At least one of our listeners
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does enjoy our.
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Movie talk, so I don't think Pam counts.
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No, No, it was it was David from Star Wars
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Reactions that he actually loves our movie talk because he
635
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doesn't get out to see as many movies as he
636
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would like, and it helps him live vicariously through us.
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Oh wow, yeah, I think about that.
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I offered my condolences. Yeah, seriously, all right, we'll be
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back next week until they are for Star Wars slash page.
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