Booknote: Star Wars: The Stark Hyperspace War

John Ostrander, et.al., Star Wars: the Stark HyperspaceWar. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 2004. ISBN: 1569719853.

Genre: comics and graphic novels
Subgenre: Star Wars, science fiction
Format: paperback
Source: I got this at Half Price Books

The description says this was "another major battle" before the Clone Wars. It was not quite. In a nutshell, Iaco Stark, pirate, smuggler, and shady trader, schemes to limit the supply and create a monopoly on bacta, a crucial healing agent. He gets together a bunch of other pirates and smugglers into a "commercial combine" to carry out his plan. The Trade Federation hopes to use Stark's aggressions to their own ends. Naturally it falls to the Jedi to stop it.

Overall, the main issue is that the story is not that good, and the plots can get messy at times. The story is told as a flashback of older Jedi telling the story to younger ones. This frame device makes no difference; the author could have done the story without it. Aside from seeing some favorite Jedi in younger days, like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlon Vos, the story is not much. For me, this was just OK. This is definitely a book to borrow and move on.

2 out of 5 stars.