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Fatal Alliance (Star Wars: The Old Republic, #3)
by Sean Williams (Goodreads Author)
by Sean Williams (Goodreads Author)
I am giving this two stars only because it is a Star Wars book and I like Star Wars a lot. It's based on a video game that may very well be fun and enjoyable but the book pretty much wasn't. In the story a jedi. a sith, a mandalorian, an envoy and a smugggler have to team up to stop some killer droids. I didn't find the premise very believable. Or I should say I found it more beleivable when Captain Picard and the Klingons had to team up to stop the borg. It's more or less the same story. But there were other problems besides that. First it had the lamest name in the Star Wars universe, Jet Nebula. Second, I don't think that the Sith and Jedi would ever team up for anything. Third, the mandalorian is able to take on those droids, the smuggler, the jedi and the sith single-handedly. In Return of the Jedi, Bobba Fett who wears Mandalorian armor is defeated by a blind Han Solo accidentally bumping his jet-pack and in Episode II Jango Fett, also wearing Mandalorian armor has his head easily severed by Mace Windu. These Mandalorians really aren't that tough. Finally, they kept doing the exact same scene from like five perspectives so you see the Mandalorian destroy the droid, see what the trooper watching him do it thinks about it, see what the Jedi is doing while the droid is destroyed, find out what the sith does while the Jedi is doing what he does while the droid is destroyed etc. It was like playing a first level of a video game with five different characters over and over before you could move on in the game.
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Dec 11, 2010 09:15pm
lol, you're right about bounnty hunters in a fight but just thought that I should point out that jango and bolba aren't mandalorian, they just wear the armor. (still agree though.)
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Yeah I think I worded it poorly in one spot but I knew that was the case. Maybe real Mandalorians are tougher.
<<< Second, I don't think that the Sith and Jedi would ever team up for anything>>In this case, I hope you aren't reading the Fate of the Jedi series....
I don't mean to found rude, and I know this is an old topic, but I can't let a falsehood go uncorrected. For one, Jango and Boba are real Mando's. Anyone can be a Mando regardless of birth or age. It's not a culture that you are specifically born into. On top of that, Boba was Mandalore later in his life. I don't know who you have to be to be the leader of the Mando's but I'm going with a Mando. Second, yes, the vault was a bit extreme but Mandos are tough, their armor is lightsaber resistant and they are the best fighters in the galaxy. So, realistically, a well outfitted Mando, especially with a jetpack, could fight Jedi, Sith and hexes at once. Although, Dao was not doing this because the Jedi and Sith were not fighting Dao while the hexes were around.
