Legacy of the Force also known as LOTF, is a 9-book series contained in the Legacy era, set five years after the events of the Dark Nest Crisis. It deals with the fall of Jacen Solo to the dark side of the Force, mentored by the returning villain Lumiya. The backdrop to this story arc is the conflict between Corellia and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, which later erupts into a full-scale war. The books are written in a cycle of Aaron Allston, Karen Traviss, Troy Denning repeated three times, with Denning finishing the series with the ninth novel, Invincible. Also, books one, five, and nine are hardcovers, giving each author the opportunity to write a hard-bound book.
Legacy of the Force also saw the return of Boba Fett, Lando Calrissian, Thrackan Sal-Solo, and Natasi Daala, amongst other characters. The new generation was being primed, which in turn lead to speculation that one of the major movie characters (Luke, Leia, Han) would die. Ultimately, however, all three survived to the end of the series.
The novels Crosscurrent, Millennium Falcon, and the 9-book hardcover series Fate of the Jedi will be a follow up to the series, further expanding the Legacy era.
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Legacy of the Force has seen the re-emergence of several characters, both from the EU and from the films, who had until the series been untouched by EU literature for some time. Most notably the Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya made her first appearance in a novel in Betrayal, and Boba Fett, last seen in a cameo role in The Unifying Force, re-entered the galactic scene in Bloodlines. Other characters, such as Thrackan Sal-Solo, Gilad Pellaeon, and Ailyn Vel, as well as Lumiya, had their story-arcs brought to a conclusion.
The series saw a number of major character deaths, more than even the New Jedi Order series, which was longer and itself controversial for the number of deaths in it.
As in The New Jedi Order, there were several characters whose deaths were mentioned but not depicted, including Lensi, Twool, Liegeus Vorn, the World Brain, which was wounded in Tempest and who is mentioned as dead, and Reh'mwa, who never made an appearance in a novel but is mentioned previously and is mentioned as dying in the series.
| Character | Introduction | Death |
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| Ailyn Vel | Outbid But Never Outgunned | Bloodlines |
| Thrackan Sal-Solo | Ambush at Corellia | Bloodlines |
| World Brain | Traitor | Tempest |
| Reh'mwa | Dark Nest I: The Joiner King | Tempest |
| Tresina Lobi | Balance Point | Tempest |
| Cakhmaim | The Last Command | Tempest |
| Meewahl | Edge of Victory II: Rebirth | Tempest |
| Mara Jade Skywalker | Heir to the Empire | Sacrifice |
| Lumiya | Star Wars 56: Coffin in the Clouds | Sacrifice |
| Cal Omas | Vector Prime | Inferno |
| Alema Rar | Star by Star | Fury |
| Twool | Dark Nest I: The Joiner King | Fury |
| Lensi | Edge of Victory II: Rebirth | Fury |
| Liegeus Vorn | Planet of Twilight | Revelation |
| Gilad Pellaeon | Heir to the Empire | Revelation |
| Isolder | The Courtship of Princess Leia | Invincible |
| Jacen Solo | The Last Command | Invincible |
As the series concluded many issues were yet to be resolved, and many questions unanswered although it is likely that these issues will be resolved in the Fate of the Jedi series.
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When a nine-book series was first proposed in 2004, it was originally slated to be set in the Sith Era.[1] It is unknown when in the era the series would have taken place, but Sue Rostoni said the following on the forums at starwars.com:
About a month later, Rostoni posted the following information in the thread:
Post NJO: A Trilogy of Authors on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
"Don't Read This!!!!!!" - "Had a slight weapons malfunction. But everything's perfectly all right now.", Sue Rostoni's StarWars.com Blog|
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