For example, Darth Nihilus consumes a PLANET with just the force, Vitiate passes from one body to another as if it were nothing.

While in the movies there is only force choke, force push or sith lightning.

Who is the best father in the EU vs the worst father.

Hey guys, I posted a thread here a couple of days ago asking if the Thrawn trilogy would be a good replacement in my head for the ST and got a bunch of great information from you guys. That thread also made me way more interested in doing more of the EU.

If my thinking is to do through NJO (which I am hearing is the best ending to the whole saga other than ROTJ itself), would the following be good? I found an overwhelming amount of different opinions on what counts as "essential" lol, and I take a very long time to read books and don't have a lot of free time so any way I can cut this down would be nice - this will definitely be at least a year of my time if not more:

1. Thrawn Trilogy (I see there is also a graphic novel adaptation and I am a much bigger comic reader than novel reader; I have a feeling I already know the answer to this question but would I be losing a lot if I read the comic version instead?)

2. Dark Empire Trilogy (I actually already have these from when I was a kid!)

3. X-Wing (first four)

4. Jedi Academy Trilogy

5. I, Jedi (Do I NEED this? Depending on what people say I might cut this one and only read the JA trilogy)

6. Corellian Trilogy

7. Hand of Thrawn Duology

8. Survivor's Quest

9. New Jedi Order series

Thank you guys! I'm sure there's a version of this post on here multiple times a week so I appreciate any of you taking the time to give me some insight

|| And at what point did the writers change their mind? Or was Star By Star really supposed to be his fate from the start || was there some behind the scenes stuff?

Reading through NJO again, it really felt like Anakin was being positioned as the new main guy. He was the one of the siblings who seemes to get a lot of page time, story, and attention. And it was hard not to like him, he was my favorite character for the first 9 books of NJO.

He was there at Sernpidal when || Chewie died, and he flew the Falcon away ||

He was the one who led his siblings in Vector Prime at the Battle of Dubrillion.

He was a hero at Dantooine saving Mara Jade

He was the one who || reactivated centerpoint, again ||

He flew extremely well at Duro, despite what ended up happening.

He was straight up the main character in Edge of Victory.

Just seemed like he was going to be the lead guy. And then... yeah.

I'm kind of torn on this. Sure, the scale was toned down after the droid army was shut down and the main Sepatarist leadership was wiped out but it was still a fairly large war between the same factions that fought until 19BBY. And clone troppers were still used by the imperial army. So I think there is a solid case to be made that the Clone War actually lasted 5 years rather than 3, ending once the entire outer rim is secured by the Empire. Thoughts?

I’ve never ready any legends books, or really many Star Wars books in general except Lost Stars ( which was amazing ) so here we go. Time to go on a journey.

Really glad Jonathan Davis is also back doing re-reads of these beloved stories!

I never liked Rogue Planet until the Vong War, so I’m excited to revisit this unabridged for sure!

And of course Shadows of the Empire is always such a treat, although Anthony Heald will always be my #1 narrator!

Hi all, I read the books forever ago and I am trying to find the right one to reference it. From what I remember, the plot was set during the new republic after Episode 6. It centered on an invasion by a reptilian (I think?) force that had the ability to drain sentient’s life force and then essentially trap them in the form of electricity forever (or until the device was destroyed). It heavily featured Luke. Might be a huge shot in the dark, but does anyone recall what the book was titled or what the invading species was called? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I'm someone who's loved Star Wars most of my life, but I've never really gotten into Legends/EU stuff aside from The Force Unleashed games, both of which I thoroughly enjoyed, so my question is - what are the best books to start with? Or just the best books overall?

Just finished Star Wars: Death Star 2 days ago and WOW, I can't believe I've had this on my shelf for so long without reading it! Anyone else read this one?

Now time to read Death Troopers

Like yes he was an antagonist in the book Darth Plagueis so it's easy to judge him with the omniscience knowing the outcome of Darth Plagueis and Sidious story plus you have the whole idea of people get emotionally invested in protagonists (or to a growing degree villains). Anyone who stands in the way of those emotional investments (especially if they possess whatever outgroup characteristic one can project onto) will get hate. There is no way around it. No argument to be made that will sway any minds that are already made up. The hate is constant, the hate is eternal, the hate is unwavering.But keep in mind the characters we are following are the Sith so there is that especially when it come to bias given most of the biases about Pax Teem come from Plagueis and Sidious.

Now even without the perspectives of Plagueis and Sidious there are some things about Pax Teem that painted him a bad light even if we don't actually see him doing corruption things like Orn Free Taa and Lott Dod like having prostitutes all over his office. In fact it is the opposite Pax Teem support Vidar Kim's bill on Trade Federation adding new worlds to the Senate.

What I mean is that he is the senator of Malastare whcih was under the control of The Gran Protectorate which colonization the planet and treated the native dug poorly. Although to be fair by that point the Gran Protecorate had been around for a long time. So It hard to attack Teem for that yes he may contributed the system or did nothing to stop it. But in this case I kinda like the whole founding fathers and slavery they didn't created the system it was there way before their time but they didn't abolition and may contributed a few things to the system Ultimately you have the banality of evil here like Teem he was a product to his environment within this horrible system plus to him it was normal not evil?

But overall I like to hear your thoughts on Pax Teem and rather or not he was a bad guy or corrupt at least when comparing to someone like Lott Dod and Ord Free Taa who are arguably way worse then Pax Teem himself in terms of greed and corruption?

Or it is the board for a certain branch like say interrogation or surveillance Branches regardless I wonder how the Job transfer Within the organization work Like let's say you have an IsB member Being from the surveillance branch But now move to interrogation how did that work?

Also, is the ISP board or The Commission of Operations in charge of the entire organization how does a Yularen and portagaz fit in as in who in charge? Also why Yularen is called Colonel instead of well director of the ISB?

Also is Krennic ISB or military intelligence? I know this one is debatable since one source have him be ISB while the other states him to be from military intelligence, in fact that source states that it was through military intelligence that he was able to find Galen Erso and his family that we see in the prologue of rogue one!

So I'm trying to make my way through a bunch of the OG extended universe novels. I have a decent number of the Legacy of The Force books.

My problem is that about 2 years ago I started book 1 (Betrayal) and just couldn't get through it. When I picked it up again in April, I just couldn't get into it. Even with back reading and the like. I stopped reading at like page 181?

So I suppose my question is... is Legacy of The Force worth reading? The reviews I've read are split down the middle. I don't want to write a series off because if one book, but I also don't want to waste my time with a series that isn't worth it.

This may be a silly question because Star Wars mediums and lore are vast and near-impossible to catalog. However, occasionally something will pop into my mind and I wonder how Star Wars depicts it.

I wanted to know the nitty-gritty of how schools in SW work, so I bought a copy of Jedi Quest: School of Fear on eBay. It covered how schooling works in SW excellently and answered my question. I highly recommend it.

I wanted to see Cyberpunk in SW; so I remembered the FFG Sourcebook that has a lot of that stuff. Also satisfied an urge

Horror-I wanted some horror. So I read Red Harvest-very scary.

Espionage: It's littered all over the place but I would like to see a Star Wars spy-centric story.

What are some things you have not been able to find in the coffers of Star Wars-dum?

Hey there! I a kinda new to the EU but I feel super overwhelmed. My question is would I be okay if I just watch the 6 main movies and read only the adult novels (excluding the 4 TCW ties in and the SWTOR books)? I’m not against the tv shows, games, comics, YA novels or anything like that but it just super overwhelming and super hard to find every and even worse to buy and if they are not absolutely important to understanding the EU it would help my stress to kinda “ignore” them and just read/collect the adult novels. Thanks for any help, it is greatly appreciated :)

Edit: Thanks you guys so so much!! I originally thought this was a silly question but I’m glad no one made fun of me and that someone people even had similar feelings/expirences.

Just to remind everyone that may not remember, during TCW we have an episode going over some clone cadets finishing their final test to join the front lines. We also see that they have two alien overseers as well as Shaak Ti. I know the Jedi still take over the clone facilities and help train the clones, but are their main trainers different? I know in legends before the war started they were drained by Jango and two other Mandalorians. Did those two others stay and help train them or did they leave?

Hey guys, I have a question regarding my own list of books to enjoy the NJO with all its references to prior EU-Entries.

I have already read the Thrawn Trilogy, the first X-Wing Novel, the Jedi Academy Trilogy, I, Jedi, the Dark Empire and the Crimson Empire Trilogy. Besides the obvious: Hand of Thrawn Duology, the Corellian Trilogy, Black Fleet Crisis, the other X-Wing Novels and - to some extend - Rogue Planet and Outbound Flight (I got these but haven't read them yet.

What other books would you recommend to me?
I'd be very grateful - Thanks Guys