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7/19 c40 Kurt
Thanks a bunch! This is good chapter. I sorry. English is not normal language.
7/8 c39 3TheTrueMPK
Mostly just to say I'm catching the updates. Hate to be a fanboy about it, but I check for a new chapters pretty much every day.

The use of italics does make the newer chapters easier to follow.

Forgot to mention it before, that's a fucking unbeatable quote by the bread factory guy Nullan: "Goodness got nothing to do with it. We do what's right, not what's good."
6/1 c8 laptopcoffee
Cripes, how does this not have more reviews? I clicked this story almost at random. Thank goodness I did! This is fanfic done right.
5/14 c35 GrumpyFeanor
Wow... just caught up with the last several chapters. These boys are in up to their necks now! Devin's a curmudgeonly, good-hearted madman. I love the way your protagonists stumble through their conflicts, internal and external - they're deeply imperfect in a way that's much more raw and interesting than the typical "character has a flaw because characters should have flaws" formula. I love how the story is meshing perfectly with the world... surfacing all the juicy, gnarly little facets that a galaxy should have with trillions of sentients all living together not-very-harmoniously.

Chapter 32 had me giggling every few paragraphs. Fucktwerp Bannison and the bread mafia! This is by far the best story running on this site right now. Thank you... looking forward to the next update :D
4/18 c33 TheTrueMPK
Favorited. Despite the story's heft and the length of the individual chapters, I found it addictive. As others have noted, it works. It fits. I can really believe that these events and these characters are happening offscreen, simultaneous with the heroism and high adventures of the Jedi in the Clone Wars.

Dramatic irony is employed to great effect throughout. Such as how the two protagonist's narratives run parallel for a good while before intersecting, and the different characters coming to wrong conclusions about what's going on, which are nevertheless reasonable based on what information is available to him (like how Krev assumes for some time that Vad is working for his father).

Of course, the dramatic irony is that much better if the reader's enough of an EU junkie to catch all the references. (My personal favorite is the conspiracy theorist who knows about the Gatherings on Sojourn.) Each chapter seems to ratchet up the overall tension a notch, as the characters half-blindly grope their way along the peripheries of the Sith conspiracy, realizing that it's something huge but having no idea how right they are. Even with the sense of futility that there's no way Vad and Krev will stop what's going to happen, the suspense is still Grade-A; it's about how deep they're going to get into this and how/if they will survive when the shit finally hits the fan.

What I like best about Vad Alnam is that this jaded, ballsy, hardboiled, divorced cop is not a caricature. He's not going to take down a whole room of gunmen by himself, he's not always ready to drop a witty remark in the middle of a crisis, and he hasn't got unbreakable nerves of steel. He's killed two people so far in this story, neither of them even good people, but it's fucking eating him because he's just a human being.

I have only one complaint: sometimes the narrative confuses me, when it goes into those second-person bits where it seems to be the POV character talking/thinking to himself. Catches me off-guard; if it was marked by italics or something else to distinguish it from the rest of the narrative, it would help.

Anyway, overall this is absolute dope. Can't wait to see where it ends up.
4/5 c32 Guest
WTF? How the hell did you manage to fit a fucking noir crime story into the Star Wars Universe. This fits so fucking well! You used real branches of the Old Republic and fit them perfectly into the story. This is great. I mean to even come up with the idea and to execute it perfectly is just sheer genius. Both Vad and Krev are reasonable characters. They’re believable, they’re humorous, they’re realistic. This is just sheer fucking genius. Vad’s Father Problems are aligned perfectly with the storyline and Krev’s drug habits add a sense of actual grim, underworldly vibes to the plot. The plot is fully in tune with the movies and both the OG “Legends” Classic Star Wars and the new “Canon” one(as far as I know, Haven’t read any of the new books) The Jedi are. noted in this story, but unlike many of the books, fan fictions, and other media, the Jedi are not key to the plot so far. This makes the characters’ task much more realistic and harder than it would be if there was just helpful Jedi to find out information or arrest the bad guys. I thought this story would be fucking cheesy, BUT IT WORKS SO FUCKING WELL!
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1/13 c21 GrumpyFeanor
Absolutely fantastic story! A hidden gem on this site. I love how you've built a plot and a scene that's both eminently Star Wars-y, yet thoroughly original. I'm hooked — can't wait for the next chapter!
12/29/2020 c20 Guest
Lovely. Simply. Lovely.
11/26/2020 c17 Your Reader
Thank you! This is such a great story. Kind of a noir space thriller. This is fubking awesome!
8/25/2020 c2 2KensingtonBlock
Wow!
I'm so glad your story turned up in my recommended stories when it did, I love reading pieces that delve into not-so-prominently featured themes, organizations and species in the Star Wars universe.
Reading your story makes me feel like I'm watching a Star Wars film noir. Can't wait for the scene when the protagonists face each other for the first time!

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