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Separation Anxiety
Plot Synopsis
The crew splits up and encounters dangers as they look for clues to finding the Saber of Ages.
Plot Summary
This guest star heavy episode starts where left off with the search for the Saber of Ages. On Master Tobias's suggestion the crew splits up to find clues that will lead them to the Saber. The ship itself under the command of Captain Smith and with Master Tobias assistance and with Lt. Pascal's objection head to Qua'do to deal with a diplomatic issue before moving on toward Dokla to obtain the clue. Near Qua'do they pick up Ambassador Shayloo of the klendaythan to arrange a treaty en route to Dokla. At Dokla they ecounter some resistance from Darth Frigidaire on board the Lacrimator? but are saved when Ambassador Shayloo signals his people to bring their ship? in. Though the Klendaythan are pacificists, their ships are large and impressive and enough to scare away the Sith and allow Master Tobias to retrieve the clue from the planet's surface.
Shauna, after picking up Angrius from his Holodeck training with Master Tuggywuggylon, takes him and Robin to Jephto. After making contact with an old associate of hers Shauna leads them to Mr. Fithian and Mr. Rankin who after some convincing direct them to an alley. In this alley they find the clue but are ambushed by Darth Bitch and her troops. When all seems lost a mysterious person tosses Shauna a weapon? and the odds are evened slightly. While Angrius faces off against Darth Bitch, Shauna and Robin take down the rest of the troops, however Tiffany manages to escape with the clue, using one of her own troops as a human shield. The mysterious person turns out to be an old crew member of Shauna's, Deadeye. Deadeye tells them that their shuttle has been destroyed but that the Long Shadow? is waiting to take them back to their ship.
After being given weapons that could function on the tech dead world of Vego, Johnny, 46, and Iadgo set out to retrieve the next clue. On the world they find a raging three way war between a group of clone troopers, the prisoners of the planet and the synari soldiers the clone troopers were chasing when they crashed. During the first fight Iadgo accidentally slips away and finds his way to a cave which contains an alien computer, a powerful Jedi Master and eventually the threat of Darth Scarface. While Johnny and 46 aide the troopers in the battle, Iadgo faces off against Scarface and bests him. When Talkoni orders Iadgo to kill Scarface, Iadgo refuses, and this indicates to Talkoni that the nautolan is worthy of the clue. Scarface makes one final attack but Iadgo accidentally kills him in an act of self defense. Talkoni still gives Iadgo the clue and he returns to the others who quickly make haste to leave and allow the three way war to continue as they appear to be enjoying it.
After a brief stop over on Tocris to drop off Commander Commandy, Belinda moves on to the Jedi Temple on Wok. In the temple she finds her old apprentice Chthwurka and two of Chthwurka's own padawans, Kolmon Dom and Agendan Morris. She has a chance to inspect the final clue for a minute before she is interupted by Darth Noyance, Darth Pester and Darth Hilarious. The three Sith, along with their minions, attack the Jedi viciously and when they can not defeat them Darth Noyance brings the temple down around them after pulling the clue away. Leaving them in the rubble, Noyance assumes them to have died.
After the dust clears the Jedi pull themselves free and everyone heads back to the ship with their success or failure. Belinda was able to get a long enough look at her crew to recreate it and they begin to attempt researching the clues and determine where they might find the Saber of Ages.
Critical Reception
Due to perhaps the storyline or the overall tenor of the comic, traffic has been steadily decreasing during this storyline. In addition people have expressed a dislike of the format of some of the more action oriented comics. The experiment that was a first attempt at a "comic book" feel has failed and will be learned from.
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