I just finished reading the series, and if I had to sum up the experience in a word I'd say confused.

The events of this series were so hard to follow, with the characters and framing bouncing back and forth all over the place. The new characters are so unmemorable that when someone shows up that I don't recognize I'm not sure if it's because they're new or I just forgot about their appearance a few issues ago. When Therissa Alern appears in #11 from... somewhere? Just to die 2 pages into #12, I know it's supposed to be sad because Rynn says "Nooooo!" but it feels meaningless.

So many things seem pointlessly shoved in - Aphra and Valance's appearances especially. I also was very confused why Adelhard kept being allowed to come back, the attempts at having him be defeated multiple times throughout the story without actually losing just don't make sense. I'm also confused why Luke is going to so much effort to try and save him specifically at the end - why are we trying to give this random imperial the Vader treatment over any other grunt?

Sorry if this was a bit rambly, I really wanted to like this series because I was really interested in the idea of the battle of Jakku back when TFA and BF2 came out, but I was really disappointed with this. I know this series has some tie in with Aftermath, which I never got around to reading - does that improve the experience at all?