The Sentrys of Terrene Prequel has its own Star Wars tragedy
The Star Wars tragedy shown throughout the prequel and original trilogies inspired the Sentrys of Terrene plotlines to a T.
One of the easiest traps with fantasy prequels is pretending they exist only to explain the “real” story.
That’s how you end up with a prequel that feels like homework and just shows what a series told. The reader finishes it and says, “Okay, now I understand how we got there,” but they don’t feel the tragedy in their bones.
That is the danger I want to avoid with my Sentrys of Terrene prequel series.
Yes, the story explains how the old order fell, what made the Sentry Order collapse, how the Venn Order rose from the shadows, and how it twisted a world that once had a guardian class devoted to peace into something more militarized and controlled.
If that lore sounds familiar, you’re right. It’s a loose retelling of Star Wars. It doesn’t copy it, and you’ll notice that in seconds. The politics, magical system, and ideological roots are different. It’s also not a space opera. But the emotional architecture rhymes.
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In the prequel, the Sentry Order rejects a gifted warrior, who lapses into one of the most consequential figures in a world war. A woman born into elite power tries to expose corruption from within, only to discover that the people closest to her helped build the machine. A hidden order waits in the dark until the existing guardians are weak enough to destroy, and a trusted politician turns out to be something much worse than another career climber.
So, for readers familiar with Star Wars, here’s how the major players in the Sentrys of Terrene prequel line up spiritually with their closest equivalents. And be on the lookout for how YOU can get your eyes in front of it.
Lars Ras-Svendson is Anakin Skywalker before Darth Vader fully emerges
Lars already knows he’s powerful. He’s insulted by the old order’s refusal to recognize him the way he thinks it should.
Like Anakin Skywalker, Lars is gifted beyond his peers. He’s dangerous in battle, emotionally volatile, possessive, proud, and capable of tremendous heroism. He can save lives and still carry the moral instincts of someone who doesn’t naturally value life as sacred.
Lars is especially heroic during the Avarian Wars. History may remember him as a savior and the warrior who nearly turned the tide. But heroism on a battlefield doesn’t automatically cleanse the soul.
He can rescue allies, win wars, protect the woman he loves, and still carry the shadow of Darth Vader long before he ever puts on the metaphorical mask.
Sage Kahne is Padmé Amidala with more revolutionary teeth
Sage is Padmé because she’s the political conscience standing inside a corrupt system that’s rotting around her. She was born into power and understands ceremony, hierarchy, optics, public legitimacy, and when institutions lie.
But Sage has something Padmé often lacked on-screen: a sharper revolutionary function.
Sage moves to end her own family’s hereditary power. That makes the betrayal of her father more painful and more politically explosive. She chooses truth over bloodline, peace over inheritance, and public exposure over personal comfort. Sage is rejecting the father whose name gave her everything.
Liam Yn-Grans is Qui-Gon Jinn
Liam’s the mentor who sees the truth before the younger characters can fully process it. He has a Qui-Gon quality to him because he’ll move outside official expectations when the institution itself gets compromised.
Liam understands that rules mean little when the people writing them already sold the truth. He’s one of the few men inside the Sentry Order who can still tell the difference between peacekeeping and empire management.
Ren Elk-Jaer is Obi-Wan Kenobi
Ren starts closer to the loyal student. He believes the official version, trusts Avarice’s role in the world, and thinks sanctions, military presence, and Sentry authority exist to preserve peace. Then Liam drags him through the lie, and Ren has to watch the world he believed in crack open.
That makes him spiritually close to Obi-Wan in the prequel tragedy. The younger Obi-Wan watching the system collapse from inside while still trying to remain honorable.
Ren’s tragedy is that he inherits Liam’s burden without Liam’s certainty.
Misha Hagg is Palpatine
There’s no need to overcomplicate this one. Misha’s the hidden operator, the trusted political figure, and the woman Sage thinks she can trust with power.
Misha’s the reformer who looks useful until the mask falls. She understands timing, public fear, and how to let one order discredit itself before presenting another as the solution. By the time the Venn Order reveals itself, Misha’s already positioned herself as the answer to the chaos she helped exploit.
Lord Kaaos is Count Dooku
Kaaos occupies the public-facing enemy role while deeper forces move behind him. He leads the United Alliance of Dissident States, also called the Coalition, while secretly tying into the larger Venn corruption moving through Terrene’s political machinery.
The captured assassin Juusse Tammikuu (Jango Fett equivalent) reveals that Kaaos funded efforts connected to Sage’s assassination plot, with the plan functioning as a false flag to blame on the UADS. He also reveals that Kaaos operates under someone corrupting Avarice’s Congress: “Venn Akka,” who is acting on instructions from the unseen World of Eidolon.
The Dooku parallel gets even stronger because Kaaos is powerful, theatrical, and personally dangerous. When Lars, Ren, and Rana confront him, he emerges from the shadows with total confidence, calls himself the best duelist in the World of Terrene, accepts a three-on-one fight, shatters Ren’s spirit shield with his fist, and casually overwhelms both Ren and Rana before turning the fight toward Lars.
Bruton Kahne is Finis Valorum
Bruton has shades of Palpatine because of his manipulations, and shades of the decaying Galactic Senate because he represents inherited institutional corruption. He also has a personal role that loosely aligns with Valorum: he’s the leader Sage must betray, the man she once wanted to believe in, and the face of the system before the mask comes off.
The Venn Assassin is Darth Maul
Maul appears in The Phantom Menace as proof that the Sith aren’t extinct. His arrival tells the Jedi that something ancient and supposedly dead has returned.
The Venn Assassin does the same thing. The Venn Order is supposed to be gone. Then the Assassin appears with the golden bear insignia and a level of power that forces the Sentrys to confront a terrible possibility. The enemy was waiting in the shadows.
The Venn Order is the Sith
The Venn Order has the clearest institutional parallel to the Sith, but with an important twist: The Sith destroy the Jedi and retool the Republic into the Empire. Just like Venn Order rises by replacing the Sentry Order after accusing it of corruption and positioning itself as the necessary successor.
They become the official answer after discrediting the old guardians. That’s how tyranny often works in our own world. Sometimes it arrives as reform, security, justice, or emergency necessity.
Ern Kjaergaard is Bail Organa
Ern helps preserve what survives after the collapse. Bail Organa’s relevant in Star Wars because he protects the future.
Ern has that same function. He’s the loyal ally, a stabilizing presence, and one of the people trusted with the vulnerable remnants of a shattered order.
In a tragedy, those characters matter more than they first appear to.
Minch Ware is Yoda
Minch Ware’s the ancient Sentry authority figure, which naturally makes him the Yoda equivalent. But again, this comparison works best spiritually, not cosmetically.
Minch represents old knowledge. He knows the prophecies, rituals, deeper stakes, and the long memory of the Sentry Order. When the world collapses into war and hidden identities, Minch becomes one of the few remaining links between the old order and whatever future he can save.
Like Yoda, he carries wisdom. Also like Yoda, he can’t stop the collapse with wisdom.
Amon-Ra Salaam is Mace Windu
Amon-Ra’s authoritative, serious, high-ranking, and tied to the institutional side of the Sentry Order. He operates from the assumption that the old order still has enough strength and legitimacy to confront the threat directly. The tragedy is that institutional strength often looks solid right until the floor disappears under it.
Rana Saul is Ahsoka Tano with a darker twist
Ahsoka exists in the shadow of Anakin’s fall without being swallowed by it. She’s connected to the old order, trained near its center, and shaped by the tragedy before eventually becoming something outside the system that failed.
But Rana has a twist that Ahsoka does not. She becomes a vessel of legacy in a much more literal and disturbing way. Sage’s memory, identity, and genetic continuity complicate Rana’s role. She never walks away like Ahsoka does. Instead, Rana’s what remains after the broken order tries to preserve itself through memory, blood, and identity.
She’s tied to the tragedy without belonging cleanly to either trilogy and connected to the fallen generation, but not defined by the same battlefield as Tage and Sabre. Like Ahsoka, she’s a bridge character. Someone whose presence expands the mythology beyond the clean parent-child structure.
Tage Ras-Svendson is Leia Organa — co-protagonist in the trilogy
Like Leia, Tage is the political threat. He’s an organizer, a rebel leader, the one who understands that empires fall because someone intercepts plans, builds networks, takes risks, and refuses to bend when captured.
In The Rebellion Awakens (Book I in the Sentrys of Terrene trilogy), Tage is the one looking to dismantle the Fusion Bomb (Death Star equivalent) by intercepting its blueprint. That puts him directly in the Leia position from A New Hope. He’s carrying the information the ruling power can’t afford to lose and captured because of it.
Sabre Ras-Svendson (Sabre Kjaergaard) is Luke Skywalker – co-protagonist in the trilogy
Sabre carries the mythic center of the original story. Luke begins as the one pulled into a larger conflict and forced to confront an inheritance he doesn’t fully understand. He becomes the emotional and spiritual counterweight to Vader.
Sabre serves that function in Sentrys of Terrene. If Tage is the rebel operator carrying the stolen plans, Sabre’s the one whose arc carries the larger Skywalker-style weight.
Sabre’s the future that Rhine can’t fully control. That makes the comparison sharper because it mirrors the emotional structure of Star Wars: the next generation must face the consequences of the fallen one.
Venn Rhine is Darth Vader after the choice
Once Lars becomes Rhine, the comparison stops being subtle. Rhine is Vader because he represents the completed moral turn. He’s the warrior who believes he has chosen order, family, and necessity. He can rationalize violence because he thinks the alternative is worse, and can look at the woman who loves him and insist that betrayal’s protection.
The frightening thing about Rhine is that he doesn’t see himself as evil, but as the man willing to do what weaker people refuse to do. That’s one of a few characteristics that makes him more frightening than Darth Vader.
The real Star Wars parallel is tragedy-to-tragedy.
The Sentrys of Terrene prequel’s about a guardian order that fails to see the full scope of the threat until the threat’s already inside the walls, political corruption creating the conditions for something worse, war giving ambitious people the excuse they need, a gifted young warrior whose heroism can’t save his soul, and a woman who sees the truth too late to save the world she loves. Keep an eye out for its re-release.
And in the meantime…
