A look at Star Wars #1 - Prelude to Rebellion
Cerea is a quiet planet, far removed from other civilizations, and equally distant in its attitudes toward advanced technologies. Isolation and its lack of communication with and travel between other planets have plagued this lonely planet, making trade with others next to impossible. Yet for eons, Cereans have maintained the vast and formidable distance between themselves and other peoples, and in this unstable time of hostile takeovers by the expanding Republic, that physical separation might well be their salvation from the unwanted invasion of other worlds.
Still, others have taken notice of this peaceful, well-preserved planet, and the burgeoning Republic has begun its advance into the lives of Cereans. Outsider Citadels have been built far from the Cerean capital of Tecave City, but the foreign influences have not gone unfelt. The citadels are cramped and polluted, overrun with motorized vehicles and unsavory characters, and full of all the new technology that elder Cereans despise - and younger Cereans crave. In the citadels, technology is an important part of everyday life, and young Cereans have experimented with its pleasures the way curious youth will, reveling in the mysterious glamour of it all, and wishing more than anything that they, too, could share in the wealth of exotic toys and high-tech playthings that their foreign neighbors can't seem to live without.
What these youth fail to recognize is the expense these new toys and the associated lifestyle will cost their once-peaceful planet. Cerea is a self-sufficient planet, but the planet's mineral wealth has long been the target of unsavory outsiders who would plunder the rare mineral resources if only given the chance to get close enough.
In the midst of this growing turmoil stands a lone Jedi - Ki-Adi-Mundi - a Cerean elder and a father to seven impressionable daughters. His eldest daughter, Sylvn, has begun her explorations into the lives of the technology-loving outsiders, and much to the chagrin of her dedicated father, she has chosen the same path as too many other young Cereans - she, too, wishes to join the culture of the technology-driven outsiders.
This latest Star Wars series is written by veteran writer/screenwriter/slave-to-the-writing-bug Jan Strnad, who has worked on Star Wars projects for Dark Horse before, but may be best known for his creator-owned comics series Dalgoda, published by Fantagraphics for a couple of years in the
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