http://www.viewpoints.com/Joel-McNeely-Royal-Scottish-National-Orchestra-and-Chorus-Star-Wars-Shadows-of-the-Empire-reviews Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:57:53 GMT Latest reviews about Joel McNeely/Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus - Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire http://www.viewpoints.com/Joel-McNeely-Royal-Scottish-National-Orchestra-and-Chorus-Star-Wars-Shadows-of-the-Empire-review-9f3b3 <p>In the summer of 1996, several months before Lucasfilm Limited and 20th Century Fox released the 20th Anniversary <strong>Special Edition </strong>of the <em>Star Wars Trilogy, </em>Bantam Spectra published Steve Perry's novel <em>Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, </em>a noir-ish tale of revenge and intrigue pitting Lord Darth Vader against a powerful rival, Prince Xizor, who seeks to displace the man once known as Anakin Skywalker from his position as the Emperor's top servant. A reptilian Falleen who plans his every move carefully and seemingly without passion, Xizor is motivated not just by ambition or lust for power, but by revenge; a decade earlier, years before the Battle of Yavin, Vader had been running a bio-weapons lab on Xizor's home world of Falleen. Something went wrong, and Vader was forced to sterilize the area around the lab by bombarding it from orbit with a Star Destroyer's turbolasers. Most of the planet survived...but among the thousands killed during the "sterilization" were Xizor's family.</p><p> Set between...</p>... Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:57:53 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Joel-McNeely-Royal-Scottish-National-Orchestra-and-Chorus-Star-Wars-Shadows-of-the-Empire-review-9f3b3 Fardreamer 4