Igniting the Stars

Igniting the Stars is the fourteenth installment in Sakaros's Untitled New Sith Wars series. Circumstances form an unlikely alliance of Sith and Jedi against an enemy to them all: the renegade Sith Lord and mass murderer, Darth Vandak.

Segments

 * Part 1
 * Part 2
 * Part 3
 * Part 4
 * Part 5


 * Part 6
 * Part 7
 * Part 8
 * Part 9
 * Part 10

Behind the Scenes
"The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars."

- Revenge of the Sith novelization

Igniting the Stars was named for the above quote from 's of.

Sakaros chose to include the s in Igniting the Stars as a hat-tip to one of his favorite fanoneers ever.

Narasi's philosophy that Jedi could "get further with a kind word and a lightsaber than with just a kind word" is a reference to a quote (perhaps mistakenly) attributed to gangster.

The climactic duel between the Jedi and Darth Vandak was originally envisioned exclusively as a lightsaber duel; Sakaros wound up incorporating a variety of dark side Force powers to demonstrate Vandak's mastery. In the duel itself, Vandak employs all : sun djem (destroying one of Cienis's lightsabers), shiim (several times, including multiple times against Krajjey), shiak (stabbing Cienis through the head), cho mai (cutting off Lishedra's sword hand), cho sun (cutting off Kirthi's sword arm), cho mok (amputating, among other things, Elmir's leg and one of Lishedra's s), sai cha (beheading Krajjey), sai tok (cutting Kirthi in half), and mou kei (sweeping off both of Krajjey's legs).

Tirien's comment that "Only fully trained Jedi, with the Force as their ally, could conquer Darth Vandak" is a take on a similar comment from to  in .