Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune

EVASIVE ACTION: REVERSAL OF FORTUNE

Written by Paul Ens; Illustrated by Tom Hodges

Special thanks to Cryostar, who first posted these on "Fan Forum" in 2007.

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, an online fan club that members paid a fee to join, in exchange for exclusive new and out of print archived stories. The strips ran from 2004 to 2006. From strip #85 to #169 (the end of this arc), "Reversal of Fortune" takes place during the events of Revenge of the Sith. Yet, this is but the first of the four Evasive Action story arcs, with the next three, "Recruitment," "Prey" and "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!

For the ease of those following the order of events on the Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline, the following are delineated by section.

Our story begins in the final year of the Clone Wars, on the planet Felucia, where Separatist Leader Shu Mai has just arrived. Attending to her patients, Jedi healer Barriss Offee (apparently forgiven for her actions during the fifth season episode "The Wrong Jedi" of The Clone Wars animated series) and her new Selonian padawan Zonder know they must inform the Jedi Council of the latest events.

Webstrips 1-24