Star Wars: Invasion

Star Wars: Invasion is an upcoming monthly comic book series, written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Colin Wilson. Published by Dark Horse Comics, this new ongoing series will be set in the New Jedi Order era and depict the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War. Just like another ongoing series by Dark Horse - Star Wars: Legacy - it is confirmed to include various ties to the novels by Del Rey, while still remaining accessibe to new readers. It will launch with two online-only preview issues on StarWars.com in May and June 2009. The first printed issue is scheduled to be published on July 1, 2009.

Story


The series will cover the story of the Yuuzhan Vong War by focusing on the Galfridian family, a family from a peaceful world of Artorias, one of the first to fall under the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, which resulted in its entire population being evacuated, enslaved, or killed. A young man named Finn Galfridian will be set on the Jedi path by Luke Skywalker, while things for his sister Kaye Galfridian and the rest of the family "don’t go so well." Many characters from The New Jedi Order series, such as Luke Skywalker, Jaina Solo and Jacen Solo are also confirmed to be featured in the series.

Conception
Colin Wilson, who had already drawn several Star Wars comics for Dark Horse in the past, was working with Australian writer Tom Taylor on a comic book adaptation of his play "The Example" and suggested him to contact Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley. After doing so, Taylor was quickly accepted into the Dark Horse creative team, Taylor worked for some time on an unidentified Star Wars project which eventually got cancelled before he ended up writing "Invasion." The series was first announced by Dark Horse Comics on February 7, 2009 during the New York Comic Con. The addition of another monthly series to an already significant number of Star Wars comic book series' was possible due to the large sucess of the Star Wars: Vector crossover published by Dark Horse in 2008.

Characters

 * Finn Galfridian
 * Kaye Galfridian
 * Jacen Solo
 * Jaina Solo
 * Sparky
 * Luke Skywalker

Locations

 * Artorias
 * Communications Center

Sentient species

 * Chiss
 * Human
 * Wookiee
 * Yuuzhan Vong

Creatures

 * Amphistaff

Weapons and technology

 * Blaster pistol
 * Comm interlink
 * Vonduun crab armor
 * Wrench