In the frenzied lead-up to the final Star Wars film, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, several stories were commissioned to dovetail into the events of the film. James Luceno tackled Anakin and Obi-Wan's adventures in the novel, Labyrinth of Evil; Jan Duursema and John Ostrander dealt with Jedi Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura on Seleucami in the Republic series; while Paul Ens and Tom Hodges wrote and illustrated the Evasive Action webstrips, featuring several new padawans alongside known Jedi. (Gendy Tartakovsky also contributed with a third season of his Clone Wars animated series, though he did not coordinate with the other writers as they had done with each other).

The webstrips were published exclusively on Starwars.com's Hyperspace fan club. The strips ran from 2004 to 2006. "Prey" is the third of the four Evasive Action story arcs. The first, "Reversal of Fortune" takes place before and during the events of Revenge of the Sith, with "Recruitment" this arc, "Prey," and the final story "End Game," dealing with the aftermath of Order 66 and the early days of the Empire.

Although it was announced during the Star Wars Celebration IV convention in 2007 that Lucasfilm were considering having the stories collected, this never came to pass, and with the dissolution of Hyperspace, it was believed that the strips vanished forever... until now!

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Evasive Action: Prey

Continued in Evasive Action: End Game!

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