Heir to the Empire Week Day 5: Closing Thoughts
Time to move to a close on this whole thing. This is going to sort of be in the vein of my regular entries. Things introduced to the EU (that I didn't already mention): Vornskr: Force hunting doggies. Named in German. Weird. Ysalamir: Anti-force salamanders. Noghri: Thrawn's kind of hobgoblin-esque bodyguards. I think one of the reasons I like HttE better than the rest of the series is that they're fairly minimally involved. Zahn goes all in on the cliche primitive honorable warrior race schtick, and doesn't even execute it that well. (I will complain about the end of The Last Command when I get there.) Action # transports: Would become the generic freighter of choice for much of the EU. Winter!: Missed her in my character roundup. Probably holds some kind of record for most appearances by an EU original non-Jedi character, given how early she shows up, how often other authors use her, and how she manages not to die. Plot Summary: Grand Admiral Thrawn is (as his name