Legacies of Betrayal: Let the Galaxy Burn (Horus Heresy)

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Very intriguing from the beginning, it turned out way too short. It felt like a piece of a longer story, not whole. Corellia is Han Solo’s home planet. He is “technically” a retired war veteran and former smuggler who is married to a Jedi Knight who is sworn to uphold the laws of the Galactic Alliance. Corellia has a single central government that manages all 5 planets in its solar system, with Corellia proper being the primary seat of power. Corellian’s populace, like Han’s nature as a Corellian, are inherently independent. As a member of the G.A., they receive certain benefits and are expected to contribute to the G.A. as well. In exchange for doing certain things that benefit the G.A. and its member worlds, Corellia receives protection from outside threats via the G.A. military. But Corellia has been speaking out of both sides of its mouth and are building an army to prepare for a potential conflict in which they will seek to separate from that alliance... This is because they don’t want to lose the benefits of membership. Think Brexit, except with spaceships. And this was written in 2006. So Corellia would be like a stand-in for modern-day Britain wanting to break from the E.U. (in this case the G.A.). 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... Because the thing that ends up making Jacen go rogue is having one conversation with the Sith woman immediately after he's met her which causes him to kill a friend to keep her silent about his change of allegiance. This doesn't work for so many reasons:

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. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-06-23 00:10:47 Autocrop_version 0.0.15_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40992923 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier It might have been a dull book if it had not been for the fact that these many betrayals happened in my lifetime involving government officials who were in the news ... as happens frequently, what is reported by the mass media often is a coverup ... especially when the Washington Post is rumored to have been controlled by the CIA. Records and activities that did not make sense, double agents and sleepers, lies, danger, and ultimately, implied threats against his family ... but Bagley's calling as a researcher and his deep desire to know the truth would not allow him to let go of this search until he found the truth.

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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… I The Solar War • II The Lost and the Damned • III The First Wall • Sons of the Selenar • IV Saturnine • Fury of Magnus • V Mortis • VI Warhawk • VII Echoes of Eternity • Garro: Knight of Grey • VIII The End and the Death ( Volume I • Volume II • Volume III) Many stories in the Star Wars expanded universe seem to be in sets of 3’s, like the trilogies we see in theaters. If the novels had been made into movies (they should have been), then the “Thrawn Trilogy” could have been episodes 7, 8, and 9. Then there were several story arc’s leading to this current book. Betrayal introduces the two main conflicts of the Legacy of the Force series: the beginning of a civil war between the Galactic Alliance and some of its member systems, as well as the beginning of Jacen’s fall, courtesy of the Dark Lady Lumiya. There are also big revelations about Vergere’s nature that will have ramifications for everything to come (although your mileage may vary what you think of those). I did feel that Betrayal was trying to do too much at times—that in trying to set up both Jacen's downfall and this galaxy-wide war, the book ended up with a bunch of exposition about long-standing tensions that have been simmering below the surface, without actually showing us many concrete examples of these tensions before the Galactic Alliance vs Corellia standoff.

One man may hold the key to finding out. Tennent “Pete” Bagley was once a rising star in America’s spy aristocracy, and many expected he’d eventually become CIA director. But the star that burned so brightly exploded when Bagley—who suspected a mole had burrowed deep into the agency’s core—was believed himself to be the mole. After a year-long investigation, Bagley was finally exonerated, but the accusations tarnished his reputation and tainted his career.Objectively, this is a great book full of some really, really good stories; they vary widely in terms of subject matter, time frame and story length, but they all work well and are absolutely worth reading for anyone who isn’t fully caught-up with the Heresy. If you haven’t read Riven, Kryptos or The Divine Word, or if you’ve missed any of the audio dramas, then this will be an absolute treasure trove of new material shedding light on various aspects of the Heresy and linking in with the full-length novels. It’s also an absolute treat to get some of the best audio dramas in prose version, especially Honour to the Dead and Censure (perhaps some of the best stories in the whole series to date), and more than anything the overriding impression upon completion is how strong the storytelling is getting with the audios. So, I was quite surprised to see how much I enjoyed the late Aaron Alston's first book in the series. While note everything necessarily works -- Jacen's turn, while well foreshadowed still seems sudden, and Lumiya, a little know EU character's sudden appearance and large role left even me, who has a encyclopedic knowledge of the Star Wars universe, confused. To make this plot point work you would have to do one of two things. Either firmly established that Jacen saw no other way to prevent the death of billions of people other than becoming a Sith and doing awful things or make Jacen a sociopath. Whew! Half-way through now, I think. Let's get on with the second major development and the characters put through it. A collection of previously available short stories, novellas and text versions of audio dramas. A good way to catch some of the stuff you may have missed whether you don't enjoy the audio dramas, haven't gotten hold of the "exclusives" or refuse to pay the outlandish prices charged for the micro short stories. A few of them are bit out of place though, Lone Wolf and Lucius the Eternal Blade Master are bit farther in the future than anything previously published as Horus Heresy, into the Scouring for Lone Wolf perhaps and even further for Lucius.