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  Champions of the Force Stupid cover, stupid title, stupid book I thought I'd at least finished this trilogy before I stopped doing these blogs. Oops. Whatever, you're not missing much, KJA continues to be a garbage writer. Summary: Kyp blows up the system an Imperial academy is in. This is apparently a bad thing, but we're never given any info that there's anything else in the system (and the population is lower than the population of some states in 1994). His brother dies in the process, which drives him even more dark side/crazy. The destruction of the planet creates a disturbance in the Force, which partially wakes Luke from his Force-com (basically leaving him as a Force Ghost). Exar Kun tries to destroy his body, but the trainees are able to protect him, and eventually banish Kun's spirit, which allows Luke to return to his body. (He was out for like half a book!) The Imperials find out where Anakin is being hidden thanks to their control over Terpfen (Ackbar...

  Dark Apprentice Why is there an Invader  jumpship from Battletech on the cover ? I gave KJA a lot of shit about the last book because... it as a shit book. So, I'll give him a little credit on Dark Apprentice for at least avoiding any kind of sophomore slump, middle book syndrome, whatever you call it.  Summary: Luke officially starts the Jedi Academy, Exar Kun (moderately successfully) tries to corrupt his students, Kyp Durron steal the Sun Crusher  (which the New Republic stashed inside Yavin), Admiral Ackbar goes into exile after crashing into a cathedral, Wedge and Qui Xux get closer, Mon Mothman is sick, Daala blows stuff up, Kyp blows more stuff up and puts Luke in a Force coma. What It Introduces: The Cathedral of the Winds and the Vors aliens. They're bird people. Vodo-Siosk Baas: An Old Republic era Jedi Master who shows up a bunch in KJA's other stuff. Wookiepedia says this is the first time Anakin Solo is named, though he showed up in Dark Empire  f...

  Jedi Search Who ya gonna call when you need a questionable tie-in novel? Summary: Two years post the Thrawn campaign (does the date jumping settle down later? I don't remember, but I sure hope so) and the year after Palpatine's last death, Luke is working to start a new Jedi academy. Leia tries to balance being a mother and a politician (Anderson is not good at women). Han goes back to Kessel to try to negotiate with the underworld there, but winds up getting captured. He escapes with the help of the Force-sensitive Kyp Durron, but only to get re-captured at The Maw Installation a secret Imperial laboratory in the middle of a nest of black holes. There, he finds the latest Imperial superweapon, The Sun Crusher. Admiral Daala, commander of the security force there, charges out to take revenge on the Rebellion for the Death of Grand Moff Tarkin. What It Introduces: The Maw and Maw Installation: The Maw is a cluster of black holes "near" (space distances are awkward) K...

  The Truce at Bakura I should start tracking the "stock" Star Wars novel plots that get used over and over again and when they first appear. 0. The Empire builds a superweapon ( ANH 1977) 1. A lost Imperial warlord, general, etc. shows up and kicks the New Republic's ass ( HttE  1991) 2. Somehow, Palpatine returned. ( DE 1991) 3. Aliens show up, forcing the Empire and New Republic to work together ( The Truce at Bakura 1993) This is the first post Thrawn trilogy adult Star Wars novel, so some big shoes to fill.  Summary: Bakura, an Imperial frontier world, is attacked and sends a message to the Emperor. It arrives the day after  RotJ and is intercepted  by a race of lizard aliens called the Ssi-ruuk who are definitely into BDSM. Leia says they should go help them to try and bring them into the fledgling New Republic. Luke (as is required at this point in the EU) gets the hots for a local, Senator Gaeriel Captison. She believes in THE COSMIC BALANCE, w...

 The first young readers series. Kids these days will never know the joy of monthly paperbacks of questionable (and possibly ghost written) quality via Scholastic catalog. These are actually really weird compared to the others, for the simple reason that they basically got chucked out of canon. Unlike Dark Empire  I don't think the necessarily deserved it. Long story short, "Ken" is a young Jedi raised by droids in a hidden city under Yavin IV. This is probably the biggest canon hurdle. Luke sets up his academy there, and there's supposed to be a whole Jedi library and stuff there? They could've destroyed it. It gets pretty badly damaged by the end of the books. He hangs around with Luke, Han (who is in maximum "cool bachelor" mode in these books), etc. as kid sidekicks were wont to do in these sorts of stories. They deal with some Imperial Moffs (who have a Moffship, a Mofference, and say "dark greetings" to each other), the Prophets of the Da...

  Dark Empire II  is... aggressively similar to the first one. Somehow, Palpatine returned, again! He has a new superweapon! (A much cooler one at least.) Empire's End is really just DEII issues 7 and 8, but with a new (slightly better) artist. Luke is trying to bring back the Jedi, Palpatine wants Anakin, etc. It's also really bad, like the first one. Boba Fett is still useless. Therefore, this entry will be mostly me mocking screencaps again. At least these are fairly fun/easy.  As opposed to before when it helped blow up both Death Stars and stuff. Guess who this is: It's Wedge Don't show them actually hitting or anything. Boba Fett: Stormtrooper? Boba Fett: Badass? Boba Fett: Bitch Chewie casually murders a droid This could've been such a cool panel if the Falcon was perpendicular Brrraaaaainsssss I know we didn't have a young Palp reference yet, but Dracula is a choice. Did they just skip a whole panel? Spoilers: Almost nothing in these comics ever comes up...