Expounded Universe

Jabba is making his move!  The collapse becomes ever more dramatic as new players enter with the same speed that old ones are dispatched.  Maul meanwhile is the man in the box.

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The dizzying spiral of decay and chaos that perpetuates the writings of Joe Schreiber continues ever downwards.  Characters are now dying left and right.  We near the end as Maul just stomps around killing people and being dour.  It’s great.

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Well, Maul finally finds his way to the “inner circle” but everyone in there is just commanding everyone else in there to kill everyone else in there, so that’s fun times.  Also Jabba makes the scene!  In the gross flesh!

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Is it me or do these fights get less interesting over time instead of more?  We started with like a Yuuzhan Vong and a monster Wampa and now we’re fighting a Weequay and his shoulder bird?  If I wanna get into fights with shoulder bird guys I’ll just go to any street festival and fight recumbent bike guys until the mid-boss spawns, thanks.  Also Smight survived.

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Time for a bit of the old “surprisingly goopy for Star Wars” violence as gang leaders start tearing guards to bit.  Meanwhile Maul just keeps cleaning up loose ends.  Is this book the original escape room?

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Lots of setup this time, but we do meet an exciting new character.  Or maybe just some nameless bruiser?  Who knows at this point?  It’s like 90% red herrings in this prison by weight.

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The big fights just keep coming, and this time we’re diving into some filth water with Darth Maul (at this point I’d frankly be surprised if there were even one Maul-less match in this book) and discovering yet more secrets about the mysterious Iram Radique.

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Things are about to get cryptic.  Turns out our Chadra-Fan buddy Coyle is some sort of statue-crafting bone mystic, and things are just devolving into riddles and puzzles.  But even as things slow down briefly, there’s promise of a cool battles soon to come!

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The story is in high gear now!  Artagan and his son begin to effect their daring escape but it sure goes wrong!  Also there’s spies all over, so that’s sorta cool.  Who is this Iram Radique, and why is everyone so worried that he keeps making grenades?  Aren’t grenades pretty easy to buy?  Well, we’ll find out!

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One thing about these books, they move along.  The last episode ended with Maul promising to deal with the gangs, this one starts with him doing it.  Then a bunch of other stuff happens too.  Guard intrigue, hacking, and holy crap we leave the prison to see some other characters you might know and love, if only the Jedi would or maybe not, since they are not a story the Jedi would tell you.

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