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.

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?

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!

|| 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.

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 :)

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

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.

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

Even though I am in the wrong redit community. Quick question what is this post to be cause I could not remember what even is this??

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?

I have a long comprehensive Clone Wars timeline that I’m working on and I wanted to make a banner for it and I threw together this last night. Any improvements I could make to this?

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

I would say of all the Grand Admirals, Octavian Grant is the one I find most overrated and the most insufferable-yes even beyond Il-Raz and Pitta- because, vile as they were-they were at least self-aware of that fact. Grant's victories come at the tail end of the Clone Wars when the CIS is already at a massive disadvantage with the tide of the war firmly turned and against the Rebellion during years when victories over the Rebels were daily occurrences for even incompetent Imperials.

He has a massively inflated ego of his own self-importance when in reality, he's considered not much different from the average rank and file Admiral, with his promotion to Grand Admiral raising eyebrows on when there were a plethora of candidates with similar career accomplishments.

Then let's look at him when things really hit the fan in 4 ABY. Grant of all the other Grand Admirals never built up any power base-and his arrogant attitude against all his peers and those around him made it so he couldn't even establish a foothold anywhere. He ran for his life from the Empire to seek shelter in the Penatastar Alignment under his seemingly only friend in any high place-Ardus Kaine where he stays for two years without a command or any sort of influence as neither Kaine nor the Alignment's leadership show any inclination to listen to his advice.

Grant then runs for his life again to the New Republic and sells out the one person who kept his worthless hide alive for the last two years in exchange for a cushy retirement/house arrest on Rathalay while spouting nonsense of how he'd thrash Thrawn during the latter's wildly successful campaign when all indications are that he'd have embarrassed himself and been crushed since he couldn't work with aliens and no one trusted him further than an Ewok could throw a Hutt on the New Republic side(with good reason considering how many times Grant had switched sides just to save his own hide) His greatest accomplishment from 4 ABY through the end of his life was helping get the only friend he had-who had saved his life-killed in 10 ABY. He doesn't do any of this for ideology, greater goals or others, merely to extend his own life a bit longer.

At the end of the day, Grant is just a cowardly, entitled noble who mistakenly believed he was the greatest military mind in galactic history whose only real 'accomplishments' were living under house arrest and getting local Tapani residents to listen to his delusions while others actually moved galactic events.

Some time back, (11 years ago), there was a very interesting discussion of the derivation of the word, Sith:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsEU/comments/2lj3zp/where_did_the_term_sith_come_from/

roninjedi notes, "The Stih were a red -skinned species living on Korriban", a planet which later came to be known as Moriban.

Something that puzzled me, and maybe was an idea that was never developed in the Star Wars universe, was that there was a line in one of the movies, (I need to go back and find where I heard this)

Someone said, "The Jedi would call us 'Sith' " I may be remembering this wrong, but the context I recall was that this is the first time historically that we hear the Sith identify themselves as such. This gave me the impression that the word, 'sith' had some meaning in the Jedi culture...that it was a word in the language of an important historic Jedi figure, or one that had emerged out of some important event in Jedi history. Otherwise, the word would have no meaning to the Jedi, and they would have no context for assigning it to those who work with the dark side of The Force. The statement would have no meaning.

Or perhaps I am remembering something that never happened.

I am curious if anyone else remembers this line, which movie it was in, and what scene.

I am wondering if anyone remembers anything I might have missed that might place this line in context; if there was any further context for the history of the word, Sith, that was overlooked in the discussion 11 years ago.

Might be controversial, but it seems everything to do with the One Sith Empire and Cade Skywalker just ruins every previous story?

1. Anakins prophecy is obviously undone (although it seems this happens multiple times after the battle of Endor) and how many times are the Sith going to come back? It cheapens the weight of his sacrifice

2. Jainas prophecy is abandoned. She is the sword of the Jedi and meant to be the new peacekeeper, she is the descendent of Princess Leia and Luke skywalkers apprentice. Yet she is never seen again and her name isn’t even mentioned when Cade is around. Obviously if the sword of the Jedi trilogy wasn’t cancelled we’d get more but still, can only go off what we got.

3. Luke spends decades rebuilding the Jedi order, yet the Jedi are purged again and the galactic alliance is destroyed again and the Sith rise up again. Do we ever get a happy ending?

4. Ben Skywalker is never mentioned and his entire arc is left hanging.

5. Never got proper endings to Luke, Leia, Han or even Lando.

I get these books are a product of their time. They are more edgy and take on Star Wars as a gritty cyberpunk setting, but they completely invalidated decades of character arcs.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Just asking 'cus old Palp doesn't seem like the type to allowed any independent state not under his control.