Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac

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Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac is a forthcoming novel written by Star Wars fan fiction novelist Brandon Rhea. Set to be released sometime in 2010, the novel is the first in a trilogy that serves as a follow up to the also-forthcoming Chronicles of the Great War series. The novel is set during the canonical Old Republic era, although it is non-canon in Star Wars canon due to it being a work of fan fiction. Despite this, it is canon in the Alternative Star Wars Saga, and it focuses on the lives of Ussej Padric Bac, Laili Jeyna Rendar and Aletra Jekkura after their departure into the Unknown Regions at the end of Chronicles of the Great War. The novel also introduces Ussej Padric Bac II, the son of Ussej Padric Bac and Laili Jeyna Rendar, and it serves as a set-up to the events of a sequel, Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac II.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Appearances 2.1 Dramatis personae 2.2 Locations 2.3 Organizations 3 Development 3.1 Pre-production 3.2 Production 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Summary

In the early days of the Clone Wars, the Shaman of the ancient Order of the Whills, Ussej Padric Bac, began an effort to mentor Annikin Skywalker into fulfilling his role as the Chosen One of an ancient prophecy. Nearly four thousand years earlier, following his escape from the evil Third Sith Empire, Ussej will reluctantly begin his quest to become the Shaman of the Whills as he joins the Bendu Order, a once peaceful monastic order in the Ashlan Expanse now dominated by religious fanaticism. With family problems, a High Priestess out to ensure that he fails in all efforts to become a Bendu Knight, and a war brewing on the neighboring world of Had Abaddon, Ussej must face what could become the most devastating trials of his life...

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Dramatis personae

• Ussej Padric Bac
• Laili Jeyna Rendar
• Aletra Jekkura
• Ussej Padric Bac II (First appearance)
• Shamus Malachor (First appearance)
• Andromeda Dulerium (First appearance)
• Husen Al-Dubrir (First appearance)
• Tesiana Al-Dubrir (First appearance)
• Mathias Helsdain
• Kit Corwin Rendar (Mentioned only)
• Damien Nightblade (Mentioned only)

[edit] Locations

• Kal'Shabbol
• Had Abaddon
• Coruscant (Mentioned only)

[edit] Organizations

• Bendu Order
• Shadows of the Phoenix (First appearance)
• Jedi Order (Mentioned only)
• Order of the Jedi Bendu of the Ophuchi (Mentioned only)

[edit] Development

[edit] Pre-production

The original ideas and intentions of and for Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac came from The Star Wars RP, a ProBoards role-playing site and the precursor to TheStarWarsRP.Com, in middle-to-late 2005. In July of that year, author Brandon Rhea created his first role-playing character, Ussej Padric Bac, for the role-playing timeline that became the Great Territorial War. He role-played with this character for approximately five months until the role-playing timeline shifted seventy-five years into what is now called the Great Sovereign Crusades.

Before the timeline shift had occurred, Rhea began considering adapting the role-plays between Ussej Padric Bac, Laili Jeyna Rendar and Kit Corwin Rendar, the latter of whom was called Darth Ravinos at the time, into a novel that had been tentatively titled Star Wars: The Promise of Love. Because the role-playing timeline ended before a resolution to the storyline was created, the plans for the novel were put on hold until early 2006, although the novel was not canceled.

[edit] Production

In the winter of 2006, Rhea began releasing the first draft of what he had titled Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac. Save for rewrites necessitated by the deletion of role-playing threads and the ending created for the novel due to the lack of timeline resolution, the novel followed the role-play almost identically, with very little being changed in either the narrative, dialogue or anything else. Rhea worked on this first draft until the end of 2006, at which point he decided to start over due to being dissatisfied with the quality of the writing.

The following winter, in 2007, Rhea began working on the second draft of the novel. He decided to put more focus on why Kit Rendar fell to the dark side of the Force and become Darth Ravinos, beginning with a prologue depicting the Bombing of Pho Ph'eah. Rhea also added in another element that was not part of the role-play, the Medallion of the Saarai-kaar, that helped create a former friendship between Bac and Ravinos. The draft was met with generally positive reviews, although stronger reviews came from Will Enser, who felt that the draft could have been improved. Rhea eventually agreed with Enser and again scrapped the draft.

Immediately beginning work on a rewrite, Rhea released the first part of the third draft in September 2007, although he only finished one third to one half of the novel before putting it on an indefinite hold in the winter of 2008 in favor of Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One. However, also in 2008, Rhea announced the pre-production process for a series of novels titled Star Wars: Chronicles of the Great War which would document the Great Territorial War. The events of the first three drafts of The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac were eventually merged into the final two novels of Chronicles of the Great War, and the first half of the original, unwritten version of Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac II became the upcoming fourth and final draft of The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac.

[edit] See also

• Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac (original), the culmination of the first three novel drafts

[edit] External links

• TheStarWarsRP.Com, the origination of The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac