It’s a great installment of old Star Wars Expanded Universe and it was made to be an epic (with all its hits and misses included). Tom Veitch writing emulates the dialogues from the classical trilogy (episodes IV, V and VI) and the artwork by Cam Kannedy is amazing.

There are some minor loopholes here and there and some bad design choices for starships and vehicles. I must also mention Empatojayos Brand, one of the most bizarre character designs I’ve ever seen. The main villain is also poorly written, despite being a major villain in Star Wars universe. I can't understand why, if the great villain, who claims to predict the whole future, lets slip so many banal things.

The first two thirds of this trilogy are great, mostly because of Veitch/Kennedy collaboration. Kennedy’s artwork is really remarkable and stands off everything else.

Nonetheless, despite its flaws, it has a lot of accolades. The Dark Empire trilogy was responsible to revamp the Star Wars vibe in the 1990s’ altogether with Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy and it’s a big deal because it launched the old Expanded Universe (called Legends nowadays). It is a must read to every Star Wars fan.