(For trivia buffs, the 12 “Episode I” Jedi Council members are Yoda, Mace Windu, Yaddle, Saesee Tiin, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Oppo Rancisis, Adi Gallia, Even Piell, Eeth Koth, Yarael Poof, Plo Koon and Depa Billaba.) Perhaps recognizing the absurdity of having all dozen of them go on one mission, he only sends half of them to Malastare. It seems that Truman really wanted to play with the 12 Jedi Council members.

(But I can’t be totally dismissive of that thread, as it’s a nice lead-in to Matthew Stover’s Mace Windu novel “Shatterpoint,” which I recall as being pretty good.) Truman doesn’t seem all that invested in it himself, as the plot is wrapped up after four issues, leaving a strange two-issue add-on of Mace Windu and Depa Billaba investigating the smuggling of akk dogs from Mace’s home planet of Haruun Kal to the underground fighting rings of Nar Shaddaa. Despite being written by Tim Truman, author of the excellent “Outlander,” “Emissaries to Malastare” is a confusingly plotted hodgepodge.Įven though I read it within the last week, I can’t recount the exact nature of the conflict the Jedi are dispatched to mediate on Malastare.

The third and fourth arcs of “Star Wars: Republic” - “Emissaries to Malastare” (1999-2000) and “Twilight” (2000) – continue the trend of one mediocre arc followed by one great arc.

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