Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
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Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement is the first story arc in the Knights of the Old Republic series of comic books written by John Jackson Miller. The first of the six issues was published on 25 January 2006 by Dark Horse Comics. The series is set 3,964 years before the Battle of Yavin in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and eight years prior to the events in the Knights of the Old Republic video game
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[edit] Issues
- Knights of the Old Republic #1: Commencement, Part 1
- Knights of the Old Republic #2: Commencement, Part 2
- Knights of the Old Republic #3: Commencement, Part 3
- Knights of the Old Republic #4: Commencement, Part 4
- Knights of the Old Republic #5: Commencement, Part 5
- Knights of the Old Republic #6: Commencement, Part 6
[edit] Synopsis
While trying to make a sale, Marn Hierogryph is taken off-guard by Zayne Carrick, a Jedi Padawan assigned to bring the Snivvian to justice. "Gryph" manages to slip away from Zayne, who plummets off of a high building. The phased Jedi manages to end up at a banquet held by the Jedi. After confronting his master about the ordeal, Zayne is assigned to paying for dinner and the damage to the restaurant. Later, Zayne finds Gryph, and arrests the Snivvian, bringing him to the Taris Jedi Temple, only to find his friends murdered, with the Jedi Masters standing over them with lightsabers raised.
Zayne as he flees through the city on his speeder, with Gryph in tow. They lose the masters' pursuit in a restaurant but fall down a garbage shaft that leads to the Lower City. Zayne tries explains to Gryph what happened, and why his masters are trying to catch him. Gryph cuts down a surveillance droid with Zayne's lightsaber. As they go out into the street, they see a large wanted bulletin for Zayne's arrest for killing the Padawans, with Gryph listed as accessory (to his chagrin). Gryph leads Zayne to a Kedorzhan pub, where they're sure not to be seen, since the Kedorzhans can't see well after working in the mines. Zayne decides that they need to get offworld, and Gryph says that the only way offplanet is through the Undercity. Back at the Temple, the masters are in meditation, eavesdropping on the fugitives' conversation, and prepare to go after Zayne.
During a dream, Zayne recounts a previous experience with his fellow Padawans, their final exercise as learners in an asteroid belt, when Gryph wakes him. They're riding in the back of a Wookiee's garbage wagon in the Lower City. As soon as they get out, they're accosted by Vulkar thugs who wish to collect their bounty. Gryph talks them out of it, saying there is spice sewn in the Wookiee's harness. He also tells Zayne about having spread a trail up to the gate to the Undercity, then continuing past the gate, since it would be crazy to go into the Undercity, because of the plague and the Rakghouls. Meanwhile in the Undercity, Masters Lucien Draay, Q'Anilia, Feln, and Raana Tey are fighting off hordes of Rakghouls, having been misled by Gryph's deception. Master Xamar reports in that the fugitives have been spotted in the refugee camps. Gryph leads Zayne to the Last Resort, the home of someone who's helped him before, only to be attacked by Jarael, who tells them to leave. As Gryph is talking to Camper, an addled old mechanic, the Jedi Masters arrive with the Taris authorities. Camper fires up the Last Resort, which is actually an old junk hauler, and they all flee to space. As soon as they clear atmosphere, the power on the ship fails.
As the Taris orbital patrol ships are closing in, Camper fixes the power, and they flee to hide in an asteroid belt. When everyone else goes to sleep, Zayne flies clear of the asteroid belt's interference and calls Master Vandar Tokare, the master that taught him before he was apprenticed to Master Draay. He explains to him what really happened, but Master Vandar doesn't believe him and tells him he should turn himself in. Jarael knocks him out and flies them back into the belt. Zayne realizes that all of the masters are Consulars except Lucien. He decides they need to go to the last place the Padawans were before they were killed: the Rogue Moon, a low-gravity moon in the asteroid belt under perpetual bombardment from debris, and the site of the Padawans' final trial. When they get there, Zayne remembers that Elbee, the Jedi's loader droid, had fallen over a cliff, but would have seen what had happened to the masters there. They go to recover his remains, and Zayne realizes that Elbee had been thrown down, since the moon doesn't have enough gravity to have done that much damage to him. As they are gathering up the parts, the Masters descend on them from a patrol craft.
Despite managing to escape the Council, Zayne is convinced by Jarael that he has to turn himself in, for the Jedi shall never stop hunting him and eventually all he cares about will be destroyed in his attempts to flee. Returning to Coruscant along with a bounty hunter, Zayne is brought before the Council, and it is revealed that the other Padawans were killed not because Zayne was late, but rather because of their number had arrived late, noticing that the Masters wore their lightsabers and that Lucien Draay was present. He deduced what the Masters planned to do and attempted to attack them, leading to their deaths ahead of the plan.
As he resigns himself to his fate, Zayne is rescued by Jarael weilding his lightsaber and disguised as the 'Sith' from the vision. The Council is taken by surprise and fail to prevent their escape. As he leaves the system aboard the Last Resort, Zayne leaves a message informing the Jedi that they had no need to search for him, for he would hunt them until he learned the truth behind their actions.
[edit] Characters
- Bala Nisi
- Benno (Mentioned only)
- Camper
- Exar Kun (Mentioned only)
- Feln
- Gharn
- Jarael
- Jervo
- Kamlin
- Lucien Draay
- Marn Hierogryph
- Oojoh
- Q'Anilia
- Raana Tey
- Saul Karath (Mentioned only)
- Senator of Taris
- Shad Jelavan
- Shel Jelavan
- Sowrs (Mentioned only)
- Squint
- T1-LB
- Valius Ying
- Vandar Tokare
- Vodo-Siosk Baas (Mentioned only)
- Vrook Lamar
- Xamar
- Zayne Carrick
- Zayne Carrick's mother (Flashback only)
- Zhar Lestin
- Zovius Mendu (Mentioned only)
[edit] Covers
 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1: Commencement, Part 1 |
 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: Commencement, Part 2 |
 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 3: Commencement, Part 3 |
 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 4: Commencement, Part 4 |
 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 5: Commencement, Part 5 |
 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6 |
