End with Crucible. It's the final book of the Skywalker saga in Legends. Disney ended it here. We were supposed to get books after it but they were canceled. Street Fighter may show easy wisdom in the case of Ryu, where his evil clone is named... Evil Ryu!!! See? Easy! Anyone will be able to say... “Aaah! Sure! You’re Evil Ryu!” (Of course, besides the clear name, you have a cool dark aura, but still…) it’s not like Evil Ryu appears and he says... “I’m Ryuu!” and people would just hear the name as “Ryu” without knowing that there is a dang extra vowel “u” in the name! Geez!!! The original, working title for Heir to the Empire was "Wild Card", which was rejected by Lucasfilm because they believed it was too similar to Bantam's Wild Cards series. The alternate name "The Emperor's Hand" was also rejected. [13] [15] Warlord's Gambit was also a potential title, but ultimately Heir to the Empire was chosen, which according to Zahn was suggested by Aronica. [15] [16] Adaptations [ edit ] The concept of the ysalamiri even seems to have changed since Heir. In Heir, Luke never senses the dark void the ysalamiri create, allowing himself to be captured. Here, Luke and Mara can sense that Mount Tantiss is shrouded in darkness, meaning they wouldn't be able to use the Force.

a b "How the Thrawn Trilogy Changed Star Wars Forever". CBR. 21 March 2021 . Retrieved 24 July 2022. a b c Hansen-Raj, Linda (August 2, 2016). "Who Is Thrawn?". StarWars.com . Retrieved March 17, 2017. My favourite part of the whole trilogy are definitely the new characters. Mara Jade, Talon Karrde, Aves and other smugglers, Bel Iblis, Nogri population, not to mention Grand Admiral Thrawn (the best villain of all times!), they're all amazing. I love them deeply and I need more stories about this bunch of people. They're simply memorable and became a significant part of the Star Wars universe. Besides, in my humble opinion, they deserve a movie, or animated tv show or something like altered universe for another new Star Wars trilogy. The Thrawn trilogy is widely credited with revitalizing the Star Wars franchise, [26] [27] [21] although Zahn himself was skeptical of this. [12] In The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that this renewed interest was a factor in George Lucas' decision to create the Star Wars prequel trilogy. [21] [28] The trilogy's success has been cited as beginning the Star Wars Expanded Universe. [5] Finally, Thrawn’s seemingly all-seeing strategy begins to fail, thanks to some wild cards, including the interference of Leia with the Noghri, and the increasingly erratic Joruus C’baoth, who insists that he, not Thrawn, will rule the new Empire. C’baoth absconds to Wayland to set a trap for Luke and the other fledgling Jedi, including Mara Jade. Pretty much all the story threads come to a head here, including the clones and the ysalamiri, and it’s also where Mara’s emotional arc climaxes, as she finally defeats the specter of the dead Emperor in her head, and becomes her own person once again.

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I mean, without making any spoiler (don’t worry), there are clones there, okay? But their names is basically the same name of their original counterparts but just adding an extra vowel (a,e,i,o or u) in their names, and while there are some vowels where when you have a distinct sound (Geez! I feel like doing a Sesame Street segment!) there are some vowels that even having two of them, the sound would be pretty much the same. Sure, in a prose novel like this one, you can easily differentiate them from your comfy position as reader... Incluso conoceremos la introducción tan emotiva en este tercer libro de un pareja de gemelos que retorcerán el statu quo de la Galaxia en el futuro, para bien y para mal, como son Jaina Solo y Jacen Solo, los hijos de Han Solo y Leia Organa Solo. Aún queda un tercero, Anakin Solo, pero ese nacerá más adelante, en la trilogía de comics de Imperio Oscuro (-pero ¿y Kylo Ren? – ¡Herejía!, ese nombre está prohibido aquí). Todos ellos personajes interesantes y algunos de ellos en futuras historias evolucionaran y tendrán mucho protagonismo.

But Thrawn is just one of many things that works about this novel. In addition to Thrawn's master plan, multiple sub-plots introduced in the first two books are realized in a superb fashion. Princess Leia's pregnancy, smuggler Talon Karrde's efforts to rally his fellow rogues against the Empire, Thrawn's mysterious informant within the Republic, and of course, Mara's mission to kill Luke...Zahn was juggling a lot in the trilogy's final episode. Fortunately, rather than collapse under its own weight, the book weaves all the various plot-threads together, leading each to a more-than-satisfying conclusion. In addition, the minor problems I had with the last two books were resolved this time around. While the previous two books dragged at times, this one was paced beautifully, so much so that I never once found my interest waning. Classic characters like Han and Leia were handled better and no longer felt outshone by Zahn's original characters like Mara and Karrde. Even dark Jedi C'Baoth, who I found more annoying in the past, came across as a far more intimidating adversary this time around. Yes, if there was any flaw this time around, it was that the ending came a little too abruptly, but it was hard to get too upset about that, considering it was so artistically done! I’m really glad I re-read this series, and I’m really excited to revisit the sequel duology in a couple of months. I rmember it being even better than this series, so we’ll see! The answer? These books are good. Are they the epic masterworks that they are often hyped up to be? Not even close. They have problems-Talon Karrde, the Ysalamiri, some moments that feel too much like retreads from the original trilogy, and some problems with pacing. But the stuff that works is mostly pretty strong.Gonzales, Dave (December 22, 2016). "The Greatest 'Star Wars' Spinoff Movie Was Everything but a Movie". Thrillist . Retrieved March 24, 2019. One of my favorite things about this series is how the books work together to tell one story (acting as initial conflict, rising tension, and climax, respectively), and yet each book has its own separate arc as well. As they go, the books escalate in tension and in the scale of the final climax of those arcs. In book one, it’s as small as a fight between Luke and Mara in the jungles of a small planet, trying to escape, and a single unit of Stormtroopers trying to apprehend them. In book two, it’s a fight between two Star Destroyers, two squadrons of X-Wings, and several ships of the Katana fleet. And here, everyone piles up in several places for several huge conflicts, and the arcs for all of the characters emotionally all have pretty nice closers as well. Luke Skywalker teams up with Mara Jade to figure out how to put an end to the cloning advantage held by the empire. Accompanied by Han Solo, Chewbacca, the droids, and Lando Calrissian, they travel to Wayland to destroy the emperor's cloning pods and put an end to the empire's new endless army. Cool things I want to comment on: See more space battles, even if they're not as visual as on a screen. Finally see lightsaber clashes. The resolution of the mystery about who the spy Delta source was (sneaky trees). Everything that has had to do with the clone of Luke created from his lost hand in Bespin, although it is somewhat forced, I liked seeing that fight, and how they resolved the situation of Mara wanting to kill Luke (in the end it did not matter the real or the clone) and how she keeps Anakin's famous lightsaber for now. The death of Thrawn, unexpected but very poetic.

Well, I am glad to have finished this trilogy. Kudos to Rich Kelly for the wonderful cover art depicting Grand Admiral Thrawn. I wish he’d been on the first book cover of the series, giving me a better image of the master-planning Imperial villain. Is it wrong of me to like Thrawn better than any of the good guys? But I do—he’s smart, he’s cultured, he’s emotionally controlled. And he is by far the most complex character in the trilogy. Thrawn is fantastic in this book, and this is the book where his hubris gets the better of him. He always is willing to listen to facts, and even is right just about the whole time. But that one piece of information he didn't know he didn't have cost him dearly, and was handled perfectly by Zahn. The trilogy allowed Lucasfilm to expand its non-film media into the mainstream, as opposed to the more niche comic book and role-playing game markets it was previously focusing on. [25] The success of the series prompted Lucasfilm to immediately commission more books to continue the Star Wars story. [12] Legacy [ edit ] Bacon, Tom (January 23, 2017). " Thrawn, The Next Star Wars Novel, Promises To Transform The Franchise". Moviepilot. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12 . Retrieved March 4, 2017. Pues concluyo la trilogía de la Nueva Republica que dio el pistolazo de salida hacia el universo expandido de Star Wars y que años después exploto en multitud de comics, libros, películas, videojuegos y lo que os queráis imaginar. Pero por mucha gratitud que le pueda tener al autor Timothy Zahn por llevar la marca de la guerra de las galaxias de nuevo a la moda en su momento, yo tengo que valorar su trilogía de forma honesta y sin ese poderoso velo llamado nostalgia. Por lo tanto debo empezar diciendo que la trilogía, si, está bien escrita y está lejos de ser un mal producto (de esos hay a rabiar en la saga), peeeeero para mi está lejos de ser la trilogía perfecta como muchísimos fans pregonan. Entiendo que en su momento fue un boom, y es verdad que es el mejor comienzo para leer el UE si quieres continuar la historia de Luke, Han y Leia después del Episodio 6. Pero fuera de eso no vas a encontrar una historia que rompa tus esquemas, sino aventuras y situaciones que beben mucho de la trilogía original.

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Rather then ending the Thrawn Trilogy with a whimper, Timothy Zahn saves the best for The Last Command! Several characters die. Luke, Han, Lando, Chewie, and Mara are sent to Wayland to destroy the cloning facility.

Esta trilogía ha tenido una estructura demasiado apegada a la trilogía original, algo que se achaca a las secuelas pero que aquí es igual de marcado. Con el primer volumen teníamos el inicio de la aventura, el segundo dejaba a los héroes muy tocados, y esta cierra muy similar al episodio VI. Algo bueno a destacar es el inicio de lo que vendría después, con el nacimiento de Jaina y Jacen, personajes muy importantes a futuro, y una vez más el personaje de Mara Jade. También me ha gustado ver más actitudes de Jedi tanto en Luke como en Leia, que echaba un poco en falta hasta ahora.

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Beh beh beh, a mio avviso il soggetto di partenza avrebbe anche potuto avere il suo perché, non regge ovviamente il confronto con la trilogia originaria di cui vuole essere il seguito, ma di suo, l'idea di questo temibile Grand'Ammiraglio Thrawn che cerca una leggendaria flotta dell'Era Repubblicana scomparsa nello spazio profondo e riattiva la produzione dei Cloni per far assurgere l'Impero a nuova gloria avrebbe del potenziale. a b "An interview with Timothy Zahn, author of Heir to the Empire". Zoklet.net. 1991. Archived from the original on May 21, 2010 . Retrieved March 1, 2017. Cierre de la trilogía de la Nueva República, que inició con Heredero del Imperio y siguió con El resurgir de la Fuerza Oscura, aquí tenemos el cierre a esta historia. Y aunque me ha parecido un gran cierre y una buena historia, me ha faltado ese algo tan especial que se comenta siempre. Será que en su momento era todo nuevo y ahora ya conozco demasiado a estos personajes, pero no ha sido tan redonda. Aún con eso, he disfrutado del viaje. Un viaje que nos lleva a La segunda estrella de la muerte y a infiltrarse en Endor para acabar con los malos Walyand de vuelta, en un enfrentamiento que todos esperamos y esta vez no ha decepcionado. Other characters to note are Bel Iblis, as a luminous counterpoint to Thrawn, and the smugglers. Mentioning the great admiral, his intelligence seemed very forced to me, something I had been complaining about in the previous ones, here he even gets it right without having a single reason for it and despite being told so clearly. One improvement over “source” material of ROTJ, is that this doesn’t feel as campy or kid-focused. It does feel like a war story with real stakes and impact. Portions of the narrative are gritty and gripping.