Code Name: Starkiller… Real Name: Not Jacob Nion.. but Galen Marek??…
August 7, 2008 · Print This Article
This I thought was really interesting. According to a post on the LucasArts forum I found today, Jacob Nion is not the name of The Secret Apprentice. I guess Jacob Nion is the name of The Secret Apprentice in the German version of The Force Unleashed novel. Now apparently someone in Sweden got a hold of the English version of The Force Unleashed novel (How, I have no idea) and the name of The Secret Apprentice is Galen Marek.
Again, this is just a rumor, but there is a screenshot of the English version that seems to provide some solid evidence of this. Again, this can be easily photoshopped and what not, but I figured i’d post it anyway. There has been a bunch of rumors this week and quite honestly I have no idea which ones are accurate. Some, I figure, are just made up to provide some extra hype before the release of The Force Unleashed.
This was a post I picked up off TheForce.net mesage boards:
The SA’s true name is Galen Marek. (Galen means “crazy” in Swedish, so I suspect it is something similar in German, hence the renaming) About the existence of the Death Star: Galen learns the name and location from a vision, but I do not think it is ever said that he mentions the name to anyone. There is also no mention about the rebel prisoners seeing the superlaser-test. (Yes, they have a view over the dish, but it is not explicitly said that the lasers are actually made to converge in the test) The book is told using tight third-person POV of Juno and Galen, with a short passage from Vader if I remember correctly. So all insights about the nature of the Force and such are Galen’s own, and he is pretty kriffed-up and no denying it.
Personally, I liked the book. But it reads very much like a video-game walkthrough in parts. About the Force powers I didn’t find any single action of Galen to be too over-the-top, but the fact that he kept doing these incredible feats without ever slowing down or resting was a bit much. And also: two dying Jedi doing some kind of exploding/ghosting thingy? What was that about
Check out the picture below.
That does not look photoshopped. If it is, the guy’s a master. It’s got the same blur and it’s lined up like it was printed by a machine.
Thanks for linking that, I was beginning to wonder if he had a name at all.
I live in sweden and I bought the book today too.
I don’t know what page number that is and I don’t intend to spoil the entire story for myself so I won’t read more than half the book before I’ve played the game, but if I get the page number (which I couldn’t make out from the picture), I can take a look at my copy too xP
It isn’t a localized version of the book though, so “Galen” definitely isn’t meant to be the swedish word for “Crazy”.
The reason we can have the book at all is because a very big bookstore in our capital city apparently doesn’t care about the street date ;D
Yeah, that would be awesome if you could help us confirm this.
His name is Galen Marek in the US version of the novel. I just ran into his vision on Kashyyk.
They didn’t put his surname there, but his first name is indeed Galen so Jacob Nion really is just the german localized version.
Now to stop reading the novel so I won’t spoil the entire story for myself.
I can tell you that the midway twist is an awesome one in any case ^^
on wookiepedia it says the same thing