Looking Back at The Scourge of the Nevoota Bee Trilogy

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! Now, what day might it be, you ask? Well, of course, it’s April Fools, the day where the best stuff happens! Of course, I have to make an amazing post for this day, so I have chosen a theme which was partially created on April Fools: The Scourge of the Nevoota Bee. This is the classic trilogy where Palpatine is reborn as an insane Wookiee clone, but what is the story? Read on! One day, Tom Veitch, author of the acclaimed Dark Horse Comics series (and one of my faves) Dark Empire was looking around on the America Online boards when one man asked the question “What is that buzzing noise in the background of A New Hope?” The quite obvious answer to the many viewers of this board was that this was simply a bad copy of the film, but Veitch decided to stir things up. He responded by saying that it was the Nevoota Bee, and from there it all developed. Then it came, the April Fools prank that changed it all. Rich Handley sent out an email to all of his friends, saying that Dark Horse Comics had commissioned a fourth entry in the Dark Empire saga, a sequel to Empire’s End, where Palpatine, who had been defeated by a Jedi named Empatojayos Brand at the end of Empire’s End, is resurrected as an insane clone of Chewbacca. His name is Palbacca. It is but this final entry that fully began the Scourge of the Nevoota Bee: Mike Beidler, who is the creator of the online Star Wars Literature Compendium, decided that he was going to have a laugh at both Veitch and Handley. He decided that he was going to create The Scourge of the Nevoota Bee Trilogy, series of three novels published by Del Rey, A Braand New Hope, The Empire Stangs Back and Return of the Yeti, along with a 50-part comic series (weekly from Dark Horse Comics, April 1 2000-March 10 2001) and an audiobook/dramatization series (Highbridge Audio). It is from this information that I have recreated the story and included new information that will change everything. One of my earlier pieces related to the Scourge storyline was my “synopsis” which can be found here. I took the information I had and tried to recreate the story and what you read is how it came out. Note that characters like King Ikemberidel (rearrange the letters and see what you get) and certain events were just created by me and are not part of the original jokes. Next, I have begun playing around with the history of the Nevoota, and so far I have already begun progressing. I have a bit of information about the Nevoota Extinction from a datacron in The Old Republic and I am hopefully soon going to post a bit. So far, this is what I have: Sometime before the Old Sith Wars, a group of Mandalorian Crusaders arrive at the planet Nevoota in the Balmorra system. The Mandalorians engage in battle with the native insectoid Nevoota, who pose a challenge against their enemy. The Nevoota fight a four-year campaign under the warlord Ithcharaka, but finally the Mandalorians hunt the Nevoota to their extinction. Somehow though, another swarm of Nevoota are still alive and begin watching over the galaxy from the Galactic Core for thousands of years, progressing every day, until, eleven years after the Battle of Yavin, they finally decide to strike. And then that’s where the original idea comes in. Well, if you have any questions, please comment on this post or email me at darth.fandom@gmail.com. Well, that’s a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!