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“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even stop the ones he cared about from dying.”

— Supreme Chancellor Palpatine,
talking to Anakin Skywalker
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

If you are a fan of Star Wars to whatsoever degree at all, leave your chair right now and IMMEDIATELY go to your nearest bookstore and buy a copy of James Luceno’s Star Wars: Darth Plagueis. Or go to Amazon.com and order a copy from there. However the heck you must, well… you must! Because Star Wars: Darth Plagueis wildly exceeded my ridiculously high expectations for this novel: a ...

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It was all the way back in 2005, when Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was hitting theaters, that James Luceno first mentioned he was interested in writing a novel about Darth Plagueis. Plagueis, as we know, was the Sith Master of Darth Sidious: AKA Palpatine. And that’s darn nearly all that we’ve ever come to know about the mentor of one of fiction’s most infamous villains.

Well the novel has been on-again and off-again, but Star Wars: Darth Plagueis is hitting shelves this coming December 27th. And today we finally get to see what the cover looks like!

Behold the Dark Side in its glory…

That cover is… stunning. Just as much as I have been dying to read this book I have wondered how the cover art would be handled and it wildly exceeded anything that I was expecting. Just look at that: ...

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James Luceno is a happy man: word came out a few days ago that his long-simmering Star Wars novel about Darth Plagueis is going to be published at last! Release date at the moment: February 28th, 2012.

That’s a year and a half from now, but given what we’ve gone through already to see this book happen, it ain’t so bad. Around the same time that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was premiering in theaters five years ago, Luceno was talking in interviews about how he wanted to write a novel about Darth Plagueis: the Sith Master of Palpatine AKA Darth Sidious. Specifically, Luceno said at the time that he wanted to explore at length Plagueis’ search for the means to immortality (and how what Plagueis wanted differed from the immortality that Qui-Gon Jinn discovered). A year later it was announced that Luceno was writing ...

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Last week the new Star Wars book Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force came out. I haven’t bought it yet but might later this afternoon (and I found these images on Wookieepedia). Within it, hauntingly painted by Chris Trevas, there is the first-ever “canon” image (meaning it’s fully approved by Lucasfilm) of Darth Plagueis. If you saw Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith then you already know that Darth Plagueis was the Sith Master who trained Darth Sidious. He was also obsessed with stopping death.

So here it is: Chris Trevas’ portrait of Darth Plagueis (watching a young Sidious spar with a lightsaber):

And here’s a close-up of the face of Plagueis:

Even though that’s just one picture, that’s still an awful lot more about Plagueis than has been released since Episode III. There was going to be a novel about Darth ...

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Bad news from the Star Wars realm: the novel that James Luceno was writing about Darth Plagueis has been cancelled. The word given is that Lucasfilm “decided that this was not the right time to delve into Palpatine’s back story and Plagueis’s beginnings…”

Bummer. This was the one forthcoming Star Wars novel that I was seriously looking forward to. I was really intrigued by what little we learned about Darth Plagueis in Revenge of the Sith and have been dying to know more about him. Looks like it’s gonna be a long time before we find out anything more definitive about him. There is a positive side to this though, I’m thinking: if the book has been cancelled, then Plagueis may not necessarily have been a Muun, as he’s said to have been since the novel was announced. I think Plagueis should be human, and maybe there’s a ...

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