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The series is notable for being the only major piece of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' visual media to depict the Yuuzhan Vong War (the primary subject of the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' novels) in great detail, with its events overlapping significantly with the timeframe of the ''New Jedi Order'' books. Despite playing a major role in the timeline of the ''Legends'' continuity, the Yuuzhan Vong themselves were otherwise largely absent from official ''Star Wars'' comic books, video games, and toylines, only making a handful of brief appearances in the comic books ''Chewbacca'', ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonEmpire Crimson Empire II]]'', and ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy''. And with the cancellation of the ''Legends'' franchise following Creator/{{Disney}}'s purchase of Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012, the series also has the distinction of being the ''last'' major ''Star Wars'' work to feature the Vong.

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The series is notable for being the only major piece of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' visual media to depict the Yuuzhan Vong War (the primary subject of the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' novels) in great detail, with its events overlapping significantly with the timeframe of the ''New Jedi Order'' books. Despite playing a major role in the timeline of the ''Legends'' continuity, the Yuuzhan Vong themselves were otherwise largely absent from official ''Star Wars'' comic books, video games, and toylines, only making a handful of brief appearances in the comic books ''Chewbacca'', ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonEmpire Crimson Empire II]]'', and ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy''. And with With the cancellation of the ''Legends'' franchise following Creator/{{Disney}}'s purchase of Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012, the series also has the distinction of being the ''last'' major ''Star Wars'' work to feature the Vong.
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The series is notable for being the only major piece of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' visual media to depict the Yuuzhan Vong War (the primary subject of the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' novels) in great detail, with its events overlapping significantly with the timeframe of the ''New Jedi Order'' books. Despite playing a major role in the timeline of the ''Legends'' continuity, the Yuuzhan Vong themselves were otherwise largely absent from official ''Star Wars'' comic books, video games, and toylines, only making a handful of brief appearances in the comic books ''Chewbacca'', ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsCrimsonEmpire Crimson Empire II]]'', and ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy''. And with the cancellation of the ''Legends'' franchise following Creator/{{Disney}}'s purchase of Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012, the series also has the distinction of being the ''last'' major ''Star Wars'' work to feature the Vong.
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* KillEmAll: In order to prevent Kaye from rescuing the prisoners on Diabrook, Commander Tsalok orders them to be gassed and made BrainwashedAndCrazy. When Nina finds out, she destroys the entire compound with an orbital bombardment.
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* ForbiddenLove: The Yuuzhan Vong Warrior Tsalok and the Master Shaper Nagme had some form of relationship in the past and still harbor feelings for each other, but are prohibited from acting on them because inter-caste relationships are forbidden in Vong culture.
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* LaResistance: Nina, Kaye and the other prisoners of the Vong slave ship

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* LaResistance: Nina, Kaye and the other prisoners of the Vong slave ship stage an uprising against their captors, commandeer the ship, and set off to rescue other prisoners and refugees while making themselves as much of a problem for the Vong as they can manage.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The comic was cancelled partway through, and as as such the last issue ends with a number of plot threads -- such as precisely what's going on with the Galfridian siblings, Finn's reaction to [[spoiler:his adoptive mother being a Vong]], Kaye and Nina's damaged relationship, and the Vong's secret weapon -- left open and dangling.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The mysterious Master Dray acts like an absent-minded hobo, spouting non-sequiturs and bizarre comments.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The comic was cancelled partway through, and as as such the last issue ends with a number of plot threads -- such as precisely what's going on with the Galfridian siblings, Finn's reaction to [[spoiler:his adoptive mother being a Vong]], Kaye and Nina's damaged relationship, Master Dray's plans, and the Vong's secret weapon -- left open and dangling.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The mysterious Master Dray acts like an absent-minded hobo, spouting non-sequiturs and bizarre comments.comments punctuated by lucid moments. Notably, this characterization persists [[spoiler:even after he's revealed to be a Dark Jedi]].
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The comic was cancelled partway through due to poor sales, and as as such the last issue ends with a number of plot threads -- such as precisely what's going on with the Galfridian siblings, Finn's reaction to [[spoiler:his adoptive mother being a Vong]], Kaye and Nina's damaged relationship, and the Vong's secret weapon -- left open and dangling.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The comic was cancelled partway through due to poor sales, through, and as as such the last issue ends with a number of plot threads -- such as precisely what's going on with the Galfridian siblings, Finn's reaction to [[spoiler:his adoptive mother being a Vong]], Kaye and Nina's damaged relationship, and the Vong's secret weapon -- left open and dangling.
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* UnderwaterBase: The resistance on Artorias is based in a complex under its seas, the only place left unscathed by the Vong's HostileTerraformig.

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* UnderwaterBase: The resistance on Artorias is based in a complex under its seas, the only place left unscathed by the Vong's HostileTerraformig.HostileTerraforming.

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''Literature/NewJediOrder'' gaiden! Follow the story of Finn Galfridian, a Force-sensitive prince trying to avenge his home planet after the Yuuzhan Vong take it over.

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''Star Wars: Invasion'' is a comic series set concurrently with the early parts of the
''Literature/NewJediOrder'' gaiden! Follow novels, during the initial stages of Yuuzhan Vong's full invasion of the galaxy. It follow the story of the Galfridian royal family as their lives are rocked by the war when the Yuuzhan Vong invade their planet, with two primary threads:

Finn Galfridian, a Force-sensitive prince trying to avenge prince, is taken in by the Jedi for training. During this time, he struggles with his home planet after own feelings of rage and vengeance and his desire to rescue his father, and is drawn to follow an oracular but also probably insane man who seems to have knowledge of his future. Kaye Galfridian, his sister, is among the prisoners taken aboard the Yuuzhan Vong take it over.
slave ship ''Tsam P'ah'', but leads a revolt that seizes control of the vessel and becomes the main leader of the newly formed resistance group. Both siblings also find themselves dealing with sudden and terrifying changes to their bodies, as well as the revelations that people close to them aren't quite what they seem.

''Invasion'' was released by Creator/DarkHorse in 2009, running in alternating story arcs with ''ComicBook/DarkTimes'', as part of a large number of comics released following the success of the ''Star Wars: Vector'' CrossThrough in 2008. However, the series was cancelled partway through its story in 2011.




* ActionGirl: Kaye Galfridian killed a Yuuzhan Vong warrior with nothing more than a ''knife''.
* AlienInvasion: The name of the series kinda gives it away.
* BadassFamily
* BodyHorror: The slave seeds implanted in Yuuzhan Vong prisoners make them grow spikes and other growths.
** [[spoiler: Kaye and Finn, when their Yuuzhan Vong parentage first becomes apparent.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What the Yuuzhan Vong experiments do to their subjects.

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\n* ActionGirl: Kaye Galfridian killed a Yuuzhan Vong warrior with nothing more than a ''knife''.
knife, and later kills two stormtroopers with her bare hands. It's implied that [[spoiler:this strength is due at least in part due to being an artificial Vong hybrid]].
* AlienInvasion: The name series focuses on the early days of the series kinda gives it away.
Vong's relentless invasion of the galaxy.
* BadassFamily
AndroclesLion: In Issue 2, Finn, Lowbacca and the Solo kids are attacked by a tuk'ata when they encroach on its cave. During the confrontation, Jacen notes a piece of wood embedded in its side and, when the beast is distracted attacking someone else, he darts in to remove it. The tuk'ata largely calms down after this, and retreats back into its cave.
* BodyHorror: BadassFamily: In the wake of the Vong's invasion, Called Galfridian becomes a resistance leader on a Vong-occupied planet, his wife Nina becomes the pilot and primary planner of the captured Vong ship, their daughter Kaye becomes the leader of the refugee group, and their son Finn begins training as a Jedi.
* BodyHorror:
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The slave seeds implanted in Yuuzhan Vong prisoners make them grow spikes and other growths.
** [[spoiler: Kaye and Finn, when their Yuuzhan Vong The first sign of [[spoiler:Finn's part-Vong parentage first becomes apparent.]]
apparent as moving growths beneath his skin]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What the Yuuzhan Vong experiments do to transform their subjects.subjects into mindlessly aggressive berserkers.



* CaptainErsatz: Finn looks and dresses a lot like a young Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII.

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* CaptainErsatz: Finn looks and dresses a lot like a young Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII.''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''.
* CatFolk: The IntrepidReporter Cianba belongs to a species resembling humanoid felines covered in thick black fur, with large ears, slitted yellow eyes and prominent fangs.



* CloudCuckoolander: The mysterious Master Dray.
* CutShort: Cancelled at the end of its third story arc, just as Finn's mother officially reveals her true Vong heritage to others and forms an Outer Rim Alliance to help defend against her invading people. At least four more years of the war were left at the end.
* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid: Kaye and Finn.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kaye and Arbeloa, as a non-romantic example. In one issue, she asks him to relay issues to an army, only for him to tell her that ''she'' is their leader. She then points out that the height difference isn't very helpful for leading.
* HumanResources: Arbeloa turns a Yuuzhan Vong's head into a ''hat''.
* JerkAss: Captain Ogden
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Caled Galfridian]]
* KillEmAll: In order to prevent Kaye from rescuing the prisoners on Diabrook, Commander Tsalok orders them to be gassed and made BrainwashedAndCrazy. When Nina found out, she destroyed the entire compound with an orbital bombardment.
* LaResistance
* LastOfHisKind: Arbeloa
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Dulac]]
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:Jedi Master Lar Le'Ung]]
* RelativeError: Finn initially thinks Jacen and Jaina are lovers.
* RobotBuddy: Prowl is this to Finn.
* {{Royals Who Actually Do Something}}: The whole Galfridian royal family all resist the Vong in their own way and none of them are afraid to get their hands dirty.

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* CloudCuckoolander: {{Cliffhanger}}: The comic was cancelled partway through due to poor sales, and as as such the last issue ends with a number of plot threads -- such as precisely what's going on with the Galfridian siblings, Finn's reaction to [[spoiler:his adoptive mother being a Vong]], Kaye and Nina's damaged relationship, and the Vong's secret weapon -- left open and dangling.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
The mysterious Master Dray.
Dray acts like an absent-minded hobo, spouting non-sequiturs and bizarre comments.
* CutShort: Cancelled The comic was cancelled at the end of its third story arc, just as Finn's mother officially [[spoiler:officially reveals her true Vong heritage to others others]] and forms an Outer Rim Alliance to help defend against her invading people. At least four more years of the war were left at the end.
* [[spoiler: DeathWorld: Dibrook's atmosphere is toxic, as is its rain. Nothing can survive there without heavy protective equipment or being specially bioengineered to breathe its air.
* EnemyMine: During the battle at Shramar, Admiral Bylsma's distress call results in almost every vessel in the area arriving to defend the planet, resulting in a ragtag fleet of Republic vessels, Imperial vessels, pirates, mercenaries and private ships joining together to oppose a common threat.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: A recurring theme in the comic is that the Vong, who are raised in a merciless ProudWarriorRace culture, have a difficult time grasping ideas like mercy or valuing lives for reasons other than cold pragmatism. Tsalok cannot for the life of him understand why Finn didn't kill him when he had him at his mercy, and the Vong outpost on Dibrook later has a difficult time working out why a large Republic force has entered a hostile environment to storm an enemy fortress just to rescue malnourished, unarmed civilians who can't possibly be of use to them in the war. A Vong Shaper compares this to another puzzling incident earlier when their prisoners rose up in a hopeless revolt when the Shapers started experiment on a captive child.
* GenuineHumanHide: After the slave revolt takes over the ''Tsam P'ah'', Arbeloa makes himself a hat out of the scalp and upper face of the slave ship's Yuuzhan Vong master.
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HalfHumanHybrid: Kaye [[spoiler:Kaye and Finn.Finn are revealed to be part-Vong hybrids.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the battle on Dibrook, Tsalok sends a message to his New Republic foes by hoisting one of their soldiers over his head, making sure he's well in view of them, and ripping him in half.
* HonorBeforeReason: Defied. As a large Republic force advances on their outpost, Tsalok orders the retreat, intending to relocate the base to a recently conquered world. Nagme the Shaper acidly asks why Tsalok, a warrior of the Vong, is running away from the enemy. Tsalok snaps back that there is a difference between running away and a tactical retreat; they will cost the Republic as many lives as they can as they fall back, but they have no hope of winning outright, and losing their lives, resources and research there for the sake of pride would only be stupid.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kaye and Arbeloa, as a non-romantic example. In one issue, she asks him to relay issues to an army, only for him to tell her that ''she'' is their leader. She then points out that she wanted him to signal because he's the height difference isn't one tall enough to be seen over several rows of heads.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In Issue 3, during the battle for Rychel, Finn spares the life of the Vong warrior Tsalok when he has him at his mercy. Tsalok is left
very helpful for leading.
confused by this, since he cannot understand why anybody would show mercy to a defeated foe, and the text builds this up to make it seem like he is about to reach some internal revelation... but he promptly goes back to slaughtering helpless captives soon afterwards.
-->''Tsalok has never ''heard'' of mercy, let alone ''employed'' it -- he is not about to start now.''
* HumanResources: Arbeloa turns IntrepidReporter: Cianba, a Yuuzhan Vong's head into reporter with a ''hat''.
particular chip on her shoulder about the Republic's nonexistent response to the Vong invasion, makes a point of reporting live from refugee camps and active warzones in order to make it as clear as possible how much of a threat the Vong are and expose how the Republic is leaving entire worlds to die.
* JerkAss: Captain Ogden
Ogden is presented mainly as a pompous, unhelpful and snide jerk who keeps getting in the way of the main characters' attempt to rescue refugees and fight the Vong.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Caled Galfridian]]
Galfridian]] dies to a Vong assassin partway through the second arc.
* KillEmAll: In order to prevent Kaye from rescuing the prisoners on Diabrook, Commander Tsalok orders them to be gassed and made BrainwashedAndCrazy. When Nina found finds out, she destroyed destroys the entire compound with an orbital bombardment.
* LaResistance
LaResistance: Nina, Kaye and the other prisoners of the Vong slave ship
* LastOfHisKind: Arbeloa
Arbeloa is the last survivor of the Cilare people after their genocide at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Dulac]]
LastSecondWordSwap: In Issue 3 of ''Revelations'', one of the ships responding to Admiral Bylsma's distress call starts to introduce itself as a pirate ship before cutting off partway to state that it's a ''private contracting ship''.
* MeaningfulName: Subverted and lampshaded in Issue 5, where the characters meet a Vratix named Spraug, which means "Fearless". The others note that Spraug is visibly shaking when talking to them, and he replies that it's just a name. He's also generally depicted as a coward.
-->'''Spraug:''' My name is Spraug. It means Fearless.\\
'''Leia:''' You're ''shaking'', Spraug.\\
'''Spraug:''' It's just a name.
* TheMole:
** [[spoiler:Dulac]] is revealed to be a Vong agent who has spent decades pretending to be a human in order to weaken resistance from the inside.
** [[spoiler:The Imperial ambassador]] is likewise a Vong agent sent to keep the Republic leadership distracted from the invasion.
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:Jedi Master Lar Le'Ung]]
Le'Ung]] is killed a few issues after his introduction to establish the threat posed by the Vong.
* RelativeError: Finn initially thinks that the twins Jacen and Jaina are lovers.
* RobotBuddy: Prowl is this Finn's robotic companion, linked to Finn.
him by a pair of remote goggles that let Finn see what he does, and acting as a snarky sidekick.
* {{Royals Who Actually Do Something}}: RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The whole Galfridian royal family all resist take part in actively resisting the Vong in their own way and none of them are afraid to get ways -- Dulac leads their hands dirty.homeworld's resistance after the Vong takeover, Nina and Kaye lead the refugee group in fighting the Vong offworld, and Finn is a Jedi trainee who mostly pursues his own missions in sabotaging Vong projects.



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* TortureAlwaysWorks
TortureAlwaysWorks: The Vong, who are experts in inducing and enduring agony, use a number of intense torture devices to break their prisoners, which invariably ends up working.
* UnderwaterBaseUnderwaterBase: The resistance on Artorias is based in a complex under its seas, the only place left unscathed by the Vong's HostileTerraformig.
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* Cameo: Finn spars with the Solo children at Luke's Praxeum on the same training course shown in VideoGame/StarWarsJediAcademy.

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* Cameo: TheCameo: Finn spars with the Solo children at Luke's Praxeum on the same training course shown in VideoGame/StarWarsJediAcademy.''VideoGame/StarWarsJediAcademy''.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kaye Galfridian.
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* RobotBuddy: Prowl is this to Finn

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* RelativeError: Finn initially thinks Jacen and Jaina are lovers.
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* {{Twincest}}: Finn initially thinks Jacen and Jaina are lovers.
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* {{Action Girl}}: Kaye Galfridian killed a Yuuzhan Vong warrior with nothing more than a ''knife''.
* AlienInvasion: The name of the series kinda gives it away.
* [[HumanResources Alien Resources]]: Arbeloa turns a Yuuzhan Vong's head into a ''hat''.
* BadAss
** BadAssFamily
* BodyHorror: The slave seeds implanted in Yuuzhan Vong prisoners make them grow spikes and other growths.
** [[spoiler: Kaye and Finn, when their Yuuzhan Vong parentage first becomes apparent.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What the Yuuzhan Vong experiments do to their subjects.
* CaptainErsatz: Finn looks and dresses a lot like a young Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII.
* ChestBurster: Something certainly seemed to want to get out of [[spoiler:Finn's]] chest.
* CloudCuckoolander: The mysterious Master Dray.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kaye Galfridian.
* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid: Kaye and Finn.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kaye and Arbeloa, as a non-romantic example. In one issue, she asks him to relay issues to an army, only for him to tell her that ''she'' is their leader. She then points out that the height difference isn't very helpful for leading.
* JerkAss: Captain Ogden
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Caled Galfridian]]
* KillEmAll: In order to prevent Kaye from rescuing the prisoners on Diabrook, Commander Tsalok orders them to be gassed and made BrainwashedAndCrazy. When Nina found out, she destroyed the entire compound with an orbital bombardment.
* LaResistance
* LastOfHisKind: Arbeloa
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Dulac]]
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:Jedi Master Lar Le'Ung]]
* RobotBuddy: Prowl is this to Finn
* {{Royals Who Actually Do Something}}: The whole Galfridian royal family all resist the Vong in their own way and none of them are afraid to get their hands dirty.
* SadistTeacher: Luke, upon seeing Finn levitate a pebble, places a huge boulder on top of it, and tells him to lift ''his'' rock again.
* TortureAlwaysWorks
* {{Twincest}}: Finn initially thinks Jacen and Jaina are lovers.
* UnderwaterBase

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