When we first meet him, on page six of Heir to the Empire, he’s sitting in his command room aboard his flagship, Chimera. This scene right here is about as much character development as our newly-minted Admiral Piett gets.īut Zahn elevates Thrawn in his books, lavishing him with attention. He does it via conference call, and then promotes Piett before the body’s cold. How many officers did Vader chastise, Force-choke or otherwise kill off in the original trilogy? In The Empire Strike s Back Vader can’t even be troubled to show up in person to strangle Admiral Ozzel. But after that they’re all pretty much disposable. How many Imperials, aside from Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, do we really get to know in the movies? There’s Grand Moff Tarkin, of course. He was as brilliant as he was brutal, and he gave life to the bridge of an Imperial starship. He was a well-rounded, influential and fascinating villain that didn’t rely on the Force to get ahead. First introduced in the 1991 best-seller Heir To The Empire, written by prolific science fiction author Timothy Zahn, the blue-skinned alien officer brought something to Star Wars that had never existed before. Eventually.īut Thrawn was a different story. So I mourned for the gunslinging smuggler Talon Karrde, I poured one out for the Emperor’s Hand, Mara Jade, and I made peace with the idea of letting J.J. Turns out that when you’re a multi-billion dollar entertainment company you get to do what you want.
George Lucas had ceded control of the Star Wars universe post- Return of the Jedi, and by the gods that was just something Disney was going to have to live with.
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