Zayne even comes to befriend future Sith Lord Malak before his fall, then known as Alek, granting a great deal more complexity to the villain of the first Knights of the Old Republic game.
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Zayne’s band of misfits always pull out a win by the skin of their teeth as they survive the Jedi Covenant, a Nazi-esque Arkanian eugenist, the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders’ relentless advance, and a rampant Sith-made biological plague let loose on Taris, just to name a few of the bigger highlights. An array of bounty hunters, Jedi cultists in league with Zayne’s masters, and even greater dangers provide a vibrant, breathless background of action and drama. The three of them all undergo substantial arcs, with Zayne trying to prove his innocence and his masters’ betrayal of the Jedi way, Jarael racing to escape her past life among a slaver collective, and Gryph always on some new get-rich-quick scheme. Even when it comes down to his former masters, he struggles to try to save them from a fate they’ve doomed themselves to.Įven better, Zayne and his closest allies, the pint-sized Snivvian Gryph and Arkanian Offshoot Jarael, are constantly Gilbert and Sullivan-ing through major and minor conflicts, organically exploring the setting in a digestible manner. He displays more emotions in a single comic issue than Cal Kestis does in an entire video game and always strives to find the least violent resolution to threats. The young Jedi combines the raw innocence of Luke Skywalker with genuine compassion. Zayne is the perfect audience stand-in for KOTOR. Now his only hope is to rely on the criminals and ne’er-do-wells he used to fail at arresting on the city-planet of Taris. He’s just an empathetic dork with absolutely terrible timing as he walks in to find his Jedi Masters slaughtering his fellow students, only for them to pin the blame on Zayne and accuse him of being the next Sith Lord rising. Zayne Carrick is not a master of the Force or a skilled duelist. For over 50 issues, Miller and a staggering array of artists at Dark Horse explored the Mandalorian Wars and the growing darkness within the Jedi Order through the eyes of the galaxy’s worst Jedi, Zayne. In a previous article about the origins of the Mandalorians, John Jackson Miller’s Knights of the Old Republic comics run was referenced. Setting aside Revan’s ambiguous status as a customizable RPG character, Dark Horse Comics has actually already created a better person to introduce more casual fans to the KOTOR era: Zayne Carrick. However, to avoid another Solo-sized mishap and to present KOTOR successfully to new audiences, the best thing would be not to make Darth Revan the main character of such a film. With Lucasfilm exploring script treatments of a KOTOR film, it’s enough to get every fan of the setting excited. The new canon has been careful to both acknowledge and not disrupt the setting’s iconic characters and themes from being able to integrate into the Disney continuity. Even as the original Expanded Universe was thrown under the “Legends” branding, with every in-progress project canceled, Star Wars: The Old Republic persisted and is still receiving new expansions.
There are numerous tie-in materials to the iconic setting within a setting. What started as BioWare’s earnest attempt to bring CRPGs to consoles has effectively become its own franchise. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is more than just an RPG.
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