Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm
Twenty-five thousand years before the films, and nobody has invented the word Jedi yet.
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Books (63)
All booksStar Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Prisoner of Bogan
The second arc, and the one where the Je’daii start disagreeing about balance.
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Force War
The Je’daii become the Jedi, and it costs them the argument they were founded on.
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void
The only prose novel ever set in the franchise’s deepest past.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The first serious attempt to give Star Wars a deep past.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
The first tie-in novel for the MMO, and it has to introduce everything at once.
Star Wars: Red Harvest
Horror at the Sith academy, three and a half thousand years before anyone can help.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
The novel behind the Sacking of Coruscant trailer.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
The game’s lead writer comes back to answer the question the game left open.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation
A spy thriller with a superweapon in it, which is the Old Republic line in one sentence.
Star Wars: Knight Errant
One Jedi, alone, behind the lines of a galaxy the Republic has already written off.
Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
How one miner decided a thousand Sith were nine hundred and ninety-nine too many.
Darth Bane: Rule of Two
The doctrine survives its first contact with an actual apprentice.
Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
The Rule of Two comes due.
Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
A generation of readers met Obi-Wan Kenobi here first.
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
Fifty years of Sith project management, and it is riveting.
Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
A thriller in which the monster is the one doing the hunting, and he is very good at it.
Star Wars: Maul: Lockdown
Darth Maul in a prison-fighting pit, on an errand for his master.
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace
A bestselling fantasy novelist adapts the most scrutinised film of the decade.
Star Wars: Outbound Flight
Six Dreadnaughts, fifty thousand colonists, and one Chiss commander with a decision to make.
Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones
The novelization that tries to make the romance work, and very nearly does.
Star Wars: Shatterpoint
Mace Windu goes home, and Star Wars goes somewhere it had never been.
Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact
Four clone commandos, one sabotage mission, and no Jedi worth the name.
Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
The first weeks inside the suit, written as a man discovering what he agreed to.
Star Wars: Kenobi
A Western about a man who cannot help himself.
Han Solo at Stars’ End
Pure pulp, written before anyone decided Star Wars had rules.
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
The strangest thing Del Rey published in the eighties, and it is not close.
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
The first Star Wars book, published six months before the first Star Wars film.
Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
The sequel that was written in case the first film flopped.
Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
Better than its reputation, and the first prose to state the thing out loud.
Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi
The one with the extra Anakin, and a surprisingly interior Vader.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
A multimedia campaign with a novel bolted to the front of it.
Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters
Five background characters from one scene, given five whole lives.
Star Wars: Death Troopers
Star Wars does a zombie novel, entirely straight-faced.
Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
A hundred ships, two pages each, and a generation of readers memorising all of it.
Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
Cutaway photography, annotated props, and the best-designed Star Wars books ever made.
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas
Somebody sat down and drew the whole galaxy. Properly.
Star Wars: Dark Empire
The comic that brought the Emperor back, and got away with it for about a decade.
Heir to the Empire
The book that proved Star Wars could live on a shelf instead of a screen.
Dark Force Rising
The middle book, and unusually the one where the politics get interesting.
The Last Command
The campaign ends the way good campaigns end: because of one person’s judgement.
Jedi Search
Luke goes looking for students, and Legends gets its Jedi Order back.
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars discovers the workplace novel, and it is about fighter pilots.
X-Wing: Wraith Squadron
A squadron built entirely out of pilots nobody else wanted.
Star Wars: Specter of the Past
Nine years on, and a rumour that Thrawn is alive is nearly as effective as Thrawn.
Star Wars: Vision of the Future
The end of the Bantam era, and the closing argument on Legends Thrawn.
I, Jedi
The first Star Wars novel written in first person, and it uses the trick properly.
Star Wars: Survivor’s Quest
Luke and Mara go looking for a wreck, and find out what the Chiss have been doing with it.
The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
The book that killed a main character and moved the licence to Del Rey.
The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide I: Onslaught
The Jedi start arguing about what they are for, which is the series in miniature.
The New Jedi Order: Balance Point
The Battle of Duro, and a refugee crisis the New Republic cannot administer.
The New Jedi Order: Star by Star
The one where the series stops bluffing.
The New Jedi Order: Traitor
A prisoner, a teacher, and the most radical thing anyone has written about the Force.
The New Jedi Order: Destiny’s Way
A working science-fiction novelist arrives and rebuilds the war from the strategy up.
The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force
Nineteen books, four years, and an ending that actually lands.
Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
The Solo family starts coming apart, slowly and on purpose.
Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines
Boba Fett gets a family, and the Mandalorians get a foreign policy.
Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice
The book the whole nine-volume series was built to make possible.
Legacy of the Force: Invincible
A sister hunts her twin brother, and the series does not blink.
Fate of the Jedi: Outcast
Luke Skywalker is exiled from the government he helped build.
Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse
Nine books of Abeloth resolve, and the Jedi finally leave Coruscant behind.
Star Wars: Crucible
Luke, Han and Leia, in their sixties, closing the shelf they opened in 1991.
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Dossiers (212)
All dossiers2-1B
The surgical droid who puts Luke back together twice, on Hoth and after Bespin.
4-LOM
A protocol droid whose logic glitched its way out of its own programming and into the bounty trade.
Aayla Secura
Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
Abeloth
Not a Sith, not a Jedi, and considerably older than either — the thing the Maw was built to hold.
Adi Gallia
The Council’s line into Republic intelligence, killed twice in two continuities.
Admiral Ackbar
The Alliance’s fleet commander, and the only major film character who debuted in a newspaper comic strip.
Afsheen Makati
Spent his last years hunting a fraudulent prophet, and shot a space station to pieces to get him.
Agen Kolar
One of the four Masters who walked into Palpatine’s office, and the first of them to fall.
Airen Cracken
The Rebellion’s spymaster, who reached print in a tabletop sourcebook rather than a novel.
Ajunta Pall
The first Dark Lord of the Sith, and the only one the setting lets take it back.
Aleema Keto
A bored aristocrat who found a Sith book and started a cult with it.
Allana Solo
A Sith Lord's daughter, hidden in plain sight as Han and Leia's granddaughter.
Anakin Solo
Named after his grandfather, killed off at the exact moment readers decided he was the best of the three.
Antares Draco
An Imperial Knight who served the Emperor rather than the Force, and was not remotely conflicted about it.
Ar'alani
The admiral in the white uniform — the officer who gave up her family name to command.
Ardus Kaine
Decided the Empire was not worth fighting for and built a smaller, tidier one in the Outer Rim instead.
Armand Isard
Ran the Republic’s intelligence service into the Empire — and in Legends, was executed on his daughter’s word.
Ars Dangor
One of the robes behind the throne, in wide hats, closing shipping lanes to Ghorman.
Asajj Ventress
Count Dooku’s assassin in two incompatible versions — the clearest case of the reboot rewriting someone entirely.
Asyr Sei’lar
A Bothan Rogue whose relationship with a human pilot made the squadron argue about species in public.
Atris
A Jedi historian who collected Sith holocrons to understand the enemy, and listened to them for years.
Aurra Sing
A background extra at a podrace who became one of the animated era’s most reliable killers.
Bail Organa
Raised the galaxy’s most dangerous adopted daughter and died before she needed him to explain why.
Bant Eerin
Obi-Wan’s oldest friend at the Temple, and one of the few Jedi Apprentice names canon kept.
Barriss Offee
The padawan who bombed the Jedi Temple, framed her friend, and made the best argument against the Order anyone in the fiction has made.
Beilert Valance
Marvel’s first original Star Wars villain: a cyborg who hates droids because he has become one.
Biggs Darklighter
Luke’s best friend, cut from the film, partly restored in 1997, and dead in ninety seconds either way.
Boba Fett
Four lines of dialogue and a helmet, and somehow the most merchandised man in the galaxy.
Bolla Ropal
Died rather than open a holocron listing every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy.
Booster Terrik
The only private citizen in the galaxy who owns an Imperial Star Destroyer, and he runs it as a shopping centre.
Borsk Fey’lya
Twenty years as the Expanded Universe’s designated political villain, and then the best death in the New Jedi Order.
Bossk
One of the six hunters on the Executor’s bridge, and the only one with a grudge that predates the war.
Bror Jace
A Thyferran from a bacta dynasty, and the best pilot in the squadron according to the only person asked.
Bruck Chun
The Temple bully who grew into a traitor, and died at thirteen for a man who never valued him.
C-3PO
Built by a nine-year-old slave on Tatooine and present, terrified, at every turning point for the next seventy years.
Cade Skywalker
A Skywalker who is a bounty hunter, a spice addict, and absolutely not interested in the family business.
Cal Omas
The last Chief of State of the New Republic and the first of the government that replaced it.
Carnor Jax
A Royal Guardsman with dark side training who murdered the Emperor by letting his clones rot.
Castin Donn
The squadron’s slicer, recruited for what he could do to a computer rather than what he could do to a TIE.
Chewbacca
Fifty years of screen time without a single line of translated dialogue, and nobody has ever misread him.
Cilghal
A diplomat who turned out to be the first true Jedi healer the new Order had.
Cin Drallig
The Jedi who taught the Order to fight, killed on the Temple steps by his best student’s student.
Coleman Kcaj
A Council seat that spent years being called the wrong name.
Coleman Trebor
Took the Council seat left empty by Yarael Poof, and lasted one scene.
Commander Cody
Executed Order 66 on his own general, served the Empire anyway, and eventually walked out of it in the night.
Danetta Pitta
Preached Human High Culture to cover the fact that he did not qualify for it.
Danni Quee
The scientist who was watching for extragalactic life when it arrived and killed most of her colleagues.
Darra Thel-Tanis
One of the four padawans of Jedi Quest, and the one the series was willing to kill.
Darth Bane
The Sith Lord who destroyed the Sith in order to save them — author of the Rule of Two.
Darth Cognus
An assassin hired to hunt Darth Bane who decided she would rather inherit from him.
Darth Krayt
A Jedi raised by Tusken Raiders who ended as the emperor of a Sith order a thousand strong.
Darth Malak
The apprentice who took the throne by shooting his master in the back, and never grew into it.
Darth Malgus
The Sith Lord who sacked Coruscant, and then decided the Empire was the thing holding him back.
Darth Maul
Killed off in his first film, and rebuilt by twenty-five years of books and television into something better.
Darth Nihilus
The Lord of Hunger — a wound in the Force wearing a mask, and not much else.
Darth Nihl
A Nagai warlord recruited into the One Sith and kept there as its blunt instrument.
Darth Plagueis
A banker who tried to defeat death, and taught the apprentice who killed him.
Darth Scabrous
Chased immortality through Sith alchemy and produced a zombie outbreak in his own school.
Darth Sion
The Lord of Pain — a corpse that refuses to finish dying, out of spite.
Darth Talon
Raised from birth inside the Sith order, with no self to fall away from.
Darth Tenebrous
A Sith engineer who treated the Rule of Two as a redundancy problem, and kept a spare apprentice.
Darth Venamis
The spare apprentice, kept alive in a coma for years as laboratory stock.
Darth Wyyrlok
Krayt’s lore master and closest ally, which in a Sith order is a job with a fixed term.
Darth Zannah
The first apprentice of the Rule of Two, and the proof that it works.
Dash Rendar
A mercenary with a fast freighter and a droid co-pilot, built to be Han Solo while Han Solo was in a slab.
Deliah Blue
Chief mechanic of the Mynock, reputedly able to fix anything with a hydrospanner.
Demetrius Zaarin
Designed the Empire’s best starfighters, then tried to use them on the Emperor.
Dengar
Firepower over finesse, a head full of bandages, and the longest continuous career of anyone in the line-up.
Depa Billaba
A silent Council seat in 1999; two decades later, the master who dies so Kanan Jarrus can live.
Derek “Hobbie” Klivian
Crash-prone, relentlessly pessimistic, and still flying decades after everyone expected him to stop.
Dia Passik
A former slave in a squadron of last chances, carrying a grudge the New Republic could not process.
Dorsk 81
The eighty-first identical copy of a man, and the first one to want something different.
Eeth Koth
A Zabrak Master out of the Nar Shaddaa slums, and the Jedi Grievous kept alive on camera.
Emperor Roan Fel
A deposed emperor running a government from Bastion, and the least villainous Imperial in the setting.
Ennix Devian
Planned to blow up Coruscant and frame the last Royal Guard for it.
Erisi Dlarit
The Rogue who was working for the other side the whole time, with a bacta cartel behind her.
EV-9D9
The droid overseer in Jabba’s basement, running a torture chamber for machines.
Even Piell
A metre tall, one eye short, and the most openly aggressive Master in the chamber.
Exar Kun
A Jedi who read too much, and the first Dark Lord the Expanded Universe built from scratch.
Falynn Sandskimmer
Talented, competitive, and on her last chance before the New Republic discharged her.
Ferus Olin
The padawan who was better than Anakin Skywalker at everything, and left the Order anyway.
Freedon Nadd
Dead for four hundred years and still running Onderon through the people who dug him up.
Ganner Rhysode
Spent his career as the Jedi who believed his own publicity, and then earned every word of it in one doorway.
Gantoris
The first student Luke Skywalker lost, and the warning the academy did not heed.
Gara Petothel
An Imperial intelligence agent who infiltrated the Wraiths and then could not decide which identity to keep.
Garen Muln
One of the Temple friends, and a reminder that most Jedi were never main characters.
Garik “Face” Loran
A child star of Imperial propaganda films who grew up into the New Republic’s best undercover officer.
Garm Bel Iblis
A founder of the Rebellion who spent years running his own private war rather than serve under Mon Mothma.
Gavin Darklighter
The youngest Rogue in the room, carrying a surname that had already died once at Yavin.
General Dodonna
He read the stolen plans, found the exhaust port, and gave the briefing every Star Wars mission scene has copied since.
General Madine
The man who built the Empire’s commandos, then planned the raid that finished it.
General Rieekan
The officer who called the evacuation of Hoth, and the reason anyone got off it.
Gilad Pellaeon
The Imperial officer who finally signed the peace — and the rare Star Wars character both continuities decided to keep.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
The Empire’s only alien Grand Admiral, and the one commander it could never quite trust.
Guri
A machine built to be indistinguishable from a woman, who spends a sequel trying to find out if she is one.
Halla Ettyk
A well-known Alderaanian attorney, prosecuting an Alderaanian pilot for betraying the people who destroyed their world.
HK-47
An assassin droid who prefaces every sentence with its own emotional label and calls you a meatbag.
Horton Salm
The bomber commander who thought Rogue Squadron was overrated, and judged one of its pilots for treason.
Iella Wessiri
A police detective who became a spy, in a series that never once put her in a cockpit.
IG-88
A chrome assassin droid in the bounty hunter line-up, with about four seconds of film and forty years of backstory.
Ishin-Il-Raz
Promoted for his speeches rather than his seamanship, and killed 37,000 people proving he knew it.
Isolder
Arrived to buy Leia Organa with sixty-three worlds, and left having lost the argument to a smuggler.
Jagged Fel
Raised by the Chiss, married a Solo, and ended up running the Empire his grandfather never got to.
Jango Fett
The best bounty hunter in the galaxy, hired to be the template for the army that ends the Republic.
Jariah Syn
Cade Skywalker’s partner in the bounty trade, and no friend at all of the Jedi.
Jek Tono Porkins
Red Six, four lines of dialogue, and one of the most stubbornly beloved bit parts in the franchise.
Jerec
A blind Jedi archaeologist who became the Empire’s High Inquisitor and went looking for a battery of souls.
Jocasta Nu
Six lines of dialogue that diagnose the entire Order: if it is not in the Archives, it does not exist.
Jodo Kast
A bounty hunter who wore Mandalorian armour and let people assume, which turned out to be a fatal business model.
Joruus C'baoth
A mad clone of a dead Jedi Master, grown too fast in a cylinder and left alone on Wayland for a decade.
Josef Grunger
Declared himself Emperor, then rammed his flagship into a rival Grand Admiral and killed them both.
K’Kruhk
Survived the Clone Wars, the Purge, and roughly 150 years of Legends history in a very large hat.
Kam Solusar
A Jedi who went dark under the Empire, came back, and spent the rest of his life running the training floor.
Karness Muur
Left behind a talisman that turns people into a plague, and the plague outlived him by millennia.
Karoly D’ulin
The other Tonnika sister — which is to say, not a Tonnika sister at all.
Kell Tainer
A demolitions specialist in a fighter squadron, which is exactly the sort of hire the Wraiths were invented to make.
Ki-Adi-Mundi
The one Council member who reached the screen from a comic — and the one the films never bothered to explain.
Kir Kanos
The last Royal Guard, keeping a blood oath to an Emperor who never deserved one.
Kirana Ti
A Dathomiri witch of the Singing Mountain Clan who joined the Jedi and kept the rancor.
Kit Fisto
The only Jedi in the prequels who looks like he is enjoying himself.
Kol Skywalker
Killed in the first issue so that the series could be about what his son did next.
Kreia
The Lord of Betrayal — a teacher whose whole curriculum is that you should stop needing teachers.
Kyp Durron
Destroyed a star system with millions of people on it, was forgiven, and became a Jedi Master. Legends never fully resolved that, and neither has fandom.
Lando Calrissian
A con man who became an administrator, betrayed his friends, and then spent the rest of his life paying it back.
Lowbacca
Chewbacca’s nephew, a Wookiee Jedi, and the best slicer in his year.
Ludo Kressh
The Sith Lord who argued for hiding, and was right.
Luke Skywalker
The farm boy the whole shelf is built around — and the character the two continuities disagree about most.
Luminara Unduli
Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.
Lumiya
An Imperial agent who infiltrated Rogue Squadron, was shot down by Luke Skywalker, and came back twenty-five years later to take his nephew.
Mace Windu
The Order’s champion, right about Palpatine and wrong about how to handle him, in that order.
Manda D’ulin
Led the six-woman Mistryl team hired to guard a piece of the second Death Star.
Marasiah Fel
The princess the Sith keep trying to assassinate, and the heir who outlasts them.
Marka Ragnos
A century on the throne, and the succession crisis that ended his empire began at his funeral.
Martio Batch
The "invisible admiral", who chased a working cloaking device and was murdered by his own crew.
Mirax Terrik
A smuggler’s daughter who married the son of the officer who put her father in prison.
Moff Disra
Tried to restart the war with a con man in a Grand Admiral’s uniform.
Mon Mothma
The one founder of the Rebellion who had to build it inside the building she was trying to destroy.
Mother Talzin
Not a Sith, and that is exactly the point — a dark side tradition the Sith never controlled.
Myn Donos
The sole survivor of Talon Squadron, and the Wraith the series uses to write about grief.
Naga Sadow
The Sith Lord who found the Republic by accident and lost an empire trying to conquer it.
Nahdar Vebb
Kit Fisto’s former padawan, promoted by a war and killed by it in the same episode.
Natasi Daala
The Empire’s only female admiral, hidden in a black-hole cluster for a decade, and later head of state of the government she spent her career trying to destroy.
Nawara Ven
A trial lawyer who flies an X-wing, and the only reason Tycho Celchu got a defence at all.
Nen Yim
A biotechnologist who commits heresy because the sacred protocols have stopped working.
Nial Declann
A Force-sensitive Grand Admiral who ran battle meditation for an entire fleet at Endor, and died with the station.
Nien Nunb
He flew the Falcon into the second Death Star and laughed, and nobody has ever needed the subtitles.
Nom Anor
The advance agent who spent years destabilising the New Republic before anyone knew his species existed.
Nyna Calixte
Director of Imperial Intelligence, and — under another name entirely — Cade Skywalker’s mother.
Octa Ramis
Trained by the Solusars rather than by Luke Skywalker — the Order’s second generation, doing the fighting.
Octavian Grant
Outlived every other Grand Admiral by refusing to fight any of them.
Odan-Urr
Built the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, and lived long enough to watch it burn.
Onimi
The court jester who was running the invasion, and the reason it happened at all.
Ooryl Qrygg
A Gand who refers to himself in the third person until his deeds entitle him to stop.
Oppo Rancisis
The serpentine Master in the corner — royalty, in the Legends telling, who gave it up for the Order.
Oss Wilum
Thon’s apprentice, and one of the Jedi Exar Kun took alive.
Osvald Teshik
Three-quarters cybernetic, the last Grand Admiral still shooting at Endor, and executed for it.
Pash Cracken
Sent into the Imperial Academy by his own father, he graduated and defected with an entire wing behind him.
Peccati Syn
Raised a pacifist, promoted for tactics, and killed at Kashyyyk chasing a religion.
Plo Koon
A background mask in the films; in the Clone Wars, the Jedi the clones actually liked.
Pong Krell
A Jedi General who spent clone lives deliberately, hoping the waste would get him noticed by Dooku.
Prince Xizor
The third most powerful being in the Empire, and the only one of the three who is not a Sith.
Quinlan Vos
A Jedi tracker who reads objects for memories, sent undercover into the dark side and left there too long.
R2-D2
The most consequential character in Star Wars, and the only one who never explains himself.
R5-D4
The droid Luke almost bought. Its motivator blows, and the galaxy changes.
Raynar Thul
A rich boy in bright robes who became something the Order had no word for.
Rhysati Ynr
Rogue Seven, from Bespin — one of the twelve pilots the first X-Wing novel had to characterise at once.
Rufaan Tigellinus
Befriended Thrawn, betrayed Thrawn, and was disposed of by the man who taught him how.
Rukh
Thrawn’s bodyguard in both continuities, and his killer in one of them.
Ry-Gaul
The quietest Master in the Jedi Quest books, and the one the padawans watched most closely.
Saba Sebatyne
A reptilian hunter who laughs by hissing, and the first non-human to lead the Jedi.
Saesee Tiin
The Council’s pilot, from a moon whose people see the future and rarely mention it.
Satal Keto
Heir to a throne he took early, using a stolen book he barely understood.
Sate Pestage
One of the robed men behind the throne — and in Legends, the man who briefly inherited it.
Sedriss QL
A mercenary promoted to Executor of the resurrected Emperor, and disposed of like one.
Shaak Ti
The Jedi assigned to Kamino — which is to say, the Jedi who watched the trap being manufactured.
Shada D’ukal
One of the two women in the Mos Eisley cantina, retconned into a bodyguard from a murdered world.
Shalla Nelprin
A commando first and a pilot second, which is the whole point of the unit.
Shimrra Jamaane
The Supreme Overlord of an invading species, and a puppet who does not know it.
Sifo-Dyas
A name dropped once in 2002 that turned out to be the load-bearing beam of the whole prequel plot.
Siri Tachi
A Legends love interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2000, quietly restored to canon in 2022.
Stass Allie
Adi Gallia’s kinswoman, a Council healer, and one of the Order 66 deaths the film actually shows.
Streen
A gas prospector who could hear everyone’s thoughts at once, and moved to a cloud to make it stop.
Tahiri Veila
A barefoot Tatooine orphan the Yuuzhan Vong tried to overwrite with someone else, and half succeeded.
Tahl
Blinded on Melida/Daan, and the reason Qui-Gon Jinn is the way he is.
Tenebrae
Ate a planet to stop aging, then ran an empire from behind a curtain for thirteen centuries.
Tenel Ka Djo
Raised by a Dathomiri witch and a Hapan prince, and made to choose between a throne and a lightsaber roughly once a book.
Teneniel Djo
A Dathomiri witch who captured Luke Skywalker, married a prince, and ended up ruling sixty-three worlds.
Tera Sinube
An elderly Jedi who solves a crime by walking slowly and listening to people.
Thon
A four-legged, armour-plated Jedi Master who trained a woman who would not carry a lightsaber.
Thrass
Thrawn’s brother, and the politician who has to keep explaining him to the Ruling Families.
Tionne
The weakest Force talent at the academy, and the one who rebuilt the Order’s entire memory.
Ton Phanan
The Wraith who is held together by prosthetics and gallows humour, in roughly equal measure.
Tsavong Lah
The Warmaster who told the galaxy it could buy peace by handing over its Jedi.
Tulak Hord
Called the greatest lightsaber duellist the Sith ever produced, and killed by his own apprentice anyway.
Tycho Celchu
Put on trial for treason and murder by the government he had already given everything to.
Tyria Sarkin
The worst pilot in the squadron on paper, kept on because flying was never the only thing being measured.
Ulic Qel-Droma
Volunteered to infiltrate the dark side, and the plan worked exactly as badly as you would expect.
Valin Horn
Corran Horn’s son, and the Jedi whose breakdown starts the last Legends series.
Vergere
The most argued-about character in Legends: teacher, torturer, Sith, or none of the above.
Vestara Khai
The Sith girl Luke Skywalker’s son fell in love with, which was exactly what her Tribe had planned.
Visas Marr
The only living thing left on Katarr after Nihilus ate it, and then his instrument.
Voort “Piggy” saBinring
A Gamorrean mathematician — which reads as a joke until you learn what was done to him to make it true.
Wedge Antilles
The only pilot to survive both Death Star runs, and the man an entire book series was built around.
Wes Janson
Ten seconds of screen time in 1980, and a decade of novels that made him the squadron’s standing hazard.
Winter
A perfect memory, weaponised — the least conspicuous intelligence asset the Rebellion ever fielded.
Xanatos
Qui-Gon Jinn’s first apprentice, and the reason he did not want a second.
XoXaan
One of the original exiles, and the one who worked out how to heal with the dark side.
Yarael Poof
The long-necked Master of Council chamber legend, gone between films without a scene.
Ysanne Isard
She executed her own father for treason, then ran what was left of the Empire as a spymaster rather than a general.
Zekk
The street kid the Shadow Academy got to first, and one of the few Star Wars characters allowed to come back from it slowly.
Zev Senesca
The pilot who found Luke and Han alive on the Hoth ice, and was dead by the end of the same battle.
Zuckuss
A findsman who tracks quarry by religious ritual, which is not a metaphor and does not always work.
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Comics (133)
All comicsMarvel Special Edition Featuring Star Wars
Treasury-sized reprints of the six-issue film adaptation, printed at roughly twice comic-book size — the largest Star Wars comics ever sold on a…
Star Wars
The first Star Wars comic: a six-issue adaptation of the 1977 film that immediately became an ongoing, and then spent nine years inventing what a…
Star Wars Weekly
The British weekly that reprinted the American run in black and white and, when it ran out of material, commissioned original UK strips to fill the…
Star Wars (newspaper strip)
Twenty-seven serialised storylines in daily and Sunday newspaper strips, most of them set between the first two films, and for four years the most…
Marvel Special Edition Featuring Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
A single treasury-sized volume carrying the complete Empire Strikes Back adaptation, published as issue 2 because there never was an issue 1.
Marvel Super Special (Star Wars issues)
Marvel’s magazine-format showcase carried two Star Wars issues: the complete Empire Strikes Back adaptation in 1980 and the complete Return of the…
The Empire Strikes Back Monthly
The monthly incarnation of Marvel UK’s Star Wars comic, and the strangest thing ever printed under the licence: seven short original strips, most of…
The Empire Strikes Back Weekly
The second title in Marvel UK’s single unbroken run of Star Wars weeklies, renamed to carry the Empire Strikes Back adaptation and continuing Star…
Marvel Movie Showcase Featuring Star Wars
A two-issue standard-format reprint of the 1977 film adaptation, put out five years later for readers who had missed it the first time.
Star Wars Monthly
The fourth title in Marvel UK’s continuous run, carrying the last original British strip and, from issue 167, Marvel’s Raiders of the Lost Ark…
Return of the Jedi Weekly
The fifth and last incarnation of Marvel UK’s Star Wars comic, and the only one to reset the numbering — 155 weekly issues in full colour.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The third film adaptation, and the only one Marvel published as a standalone limited series rather than inside the monthly — Archie Goodwin and Al…
Ewoks
Marvel’s children’s imprint spun the animated Ewoks series into a fourteen-issue comic set on the forest moon of Endor, years before the Battle of…
Droids
C-3PO and R2-D2 as the leads, drifting between owners in the years before the first film, adapted from the animated series for Marvel’s Star Comics…
Ewoks Monthly
The last Marvel UK Star Wars title: ten monthly issues reprinting the American Star Comics Ewoks series, out of order and unfinished.
Star Wars 3-D
Three stereoscopic issues published for the tenth anniversary of the first film, printed in red-and-blue anaglyph 3-D and packaged with glasses.
Star Wars: Dark Empire
Six years after Endor the Empire is still fighting, Luke Skywalker deliberately turns to the dark side to destroy it from inside, and the Emperor is…
Classic Star Wars
Dark Horse recolours, re-edits and reprints the Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson daily newspaper strip as a twenty-issue comic, with new panels and…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The line of linked miniseries that moved Star Wars thousands of years into its own past and invented the Old Republic as a setting rather than a…
Classic Star Wars: A New Hope
Marvel’s 1977 film adaptation, repackaged by Dark Horse as two oversized issues with new painted covers.
Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The 1983 Marvel adaptation of Return of the Jedi, reissued in two parts.
Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures
The Russ Manning newspaper strips of 1979 and 1980, coloured and reformatted — the earliest post-A New Hope adventures anyone published, back when…
Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson and Carlos Garzón’s 1980 adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, reissued as two oversized issues.
Star Wars: Dark Empire II
The reborn Emperor launches Operation Shadow Hand against the New Republic, Luke Skywalker goes looking for surviving Jedi, and Han and Leia try to…
Star Wars: Droids
R2-D2 and C-3PO as the leads, drifting between owners in the Kalarba system in the years before the first film. Dark Horse’s first attempt at the…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith
Two Jedi go looking for the Sith for the best of reasons. Exar Kun finds them on Onderon and Korriban and is remade; Ulic Qel-Droma infiltrates the…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising
On Onderon, a cult loyal to the long-dead Dark Lord Freedon Nadd seizes his sarcophagus, and the Jedi discover that the Sith are not a historical…
Classic Star Wars: The Vandelhelm Mission
A single-issue Dark Horse reprint of Marvel’s Star Wars #98 — "Supply and Demand", in which Han Solo escorts two passengers to a world whose…
Star Wars: Boba Fett
Dark Horse’s Boba Fett line: a trilogy of blackly comic bounty jobs by John Wagner and Cam Kennedy, plus two shorter pieces reprinted from magazines.
Star Wars: Droids (1995)
A second Droids series, running monthly through 1995, taking the pair from the Kalarba system into open opposition to the Empire.
Star Wars: Empire’s End
Two issues to finish the Dark Empire trilogy: Palpatine makes one last attempt at immortality by seizing the body of Han and Leia’s infant son, and…
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
The comics adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 1991 novel — Grand Admiral Thrawn’s campaign against the young New Republic, and Mara Jade’s standing order…
Star Wars: Jabba the Hutt
Four one-shots in which Jabba is the protagonist and the joke is that he is very good at his job: rival gangsters, a hungry princess, a dynastic…
Star Wars: River of Chaos
An Imperial officer posted to a mining world starts to notice what her own side is doing there, in a four-issue story built around an ordinary…
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
The comics adaptation of Alan Dean Foster’s 1978 novel — Luke and Leia stranded on a swamp world hunting a Force-amplifying crystal, written before…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War
Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma take their war to the Republic. It ends with a Jedi library world scorched, a fratricide, and a Dark Lord who cannot be…
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron
Wedge Antilles’ squadron between Endor and the liberation of Coruscant: thirty-five issues of fighter pilots doing unglamorous work, the first…
Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds
Two issues collecting the short, strange Star Wars stories Alan Moore and company wrote for Marvel UK at the start of the 1980s, recoloured and…
Star Wars: Battle of the Bounty Hunters
Boba Fett against IG-88 over the carbonite-frozen Han Solo, published as a pop-up book rather than a comic.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
The comics leg of the 1996 Shadows of the Empire multimedia project: Prince Xizor of Black Sun moves against Luke Skywalker while Vader hunts him…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith
Two hyperspace prospectors stumble out of the Republic and into the Sith Empire, which has spent two thousand years assuming it was alone in the…
Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars’ End
The 1980–81 newspaper strip adaptation of Brian Daley’s first Han Solo novel, collected into three comic-book issues.
Star Wars: A New Hope – The Special Edition
A brand-new comics adaptation of the 1997 Special Edition cut of the first film, timed to its theatrical re-release.
Star Wars: Crimson Empire
An exiled member of the Emperor’s Royal Guard tracks down the guardsman who let Palpatine die, in a revenge story that ends with a twelve-page duel.
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
The middle book of Zahn’s trilogy: the hunt for the lost Katana fleet, Thrawn’s clone cylinders, and a Jedi Master who has spent decades going…
Star Wars: Droids: The Protocol Offensive
C-3PO gets to negotiate a peace treaty, in a one-shot co-written by the actor who plays him.
Star Wars: Shadow Stalker
A one-shot expanding on Jix, the Imperial agent introduced in the Shadows of the Empire comic.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire
Naga Sadow invades the Republic, loses, and burns his own empire behind him — the war that supposedly ended the Sith and demonstrably did not.
Star Wars: The Last Command
The end of the Thrawn trilogy, and the best-drawn of the three adaptations: the assault on Coruscant, the cloning caves of Wayland, and a Grand…
Star Wars Handbook
Three companion volumes — character and hardware guides to X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Crimson Empire and Dark Empire, assembled from the comics…
Star Wars Manga: A New Hope
Hisao Tamaki redraws the 1977 film as shonen manga — same screenplay, entirely different visual grammar — in four fat black-and-white volumes.
Star Wars Special: The Constancia Affair
A twelve-page giveaway comic that reprinted the very first Star Wars newspaper storyline — a Sunday-only Russ Manning serial that had never been…
Star Wars: Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood
Kir Kanos, still the last loyal Royal Guardsman, is hired to protect the Imperial Interim Council — a body of warlords whose members keep being…
Star Wars: Jedi Academy: Leviathan
Four of Luke Skywalker’s students — Streen, Kyp Durron, Dorsk 82 and Kirana Ti — are sent to Corbos and find something old enough to have eaten a…
Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor’s Hand
Mara Jade’s last mission as the Emperor’s Hand, and what happens to an assassin whose employer dies mid-assignment and leaves a final order ringing…
Star Wars: Republic
Dark Horse’s prequel-era flagship: eighty-three issues that begin a year before The Phantom Menace, become the main Clone Wars comic at issue #49,…
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire: Evolution
Guri, Prince Xizor’s human-replica droid assassin, goes looking for the man who can rewrite her programming so she can stop being what she was built…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Redemption
Ulic Qel-Droma, cut off from the Force and living as a hermit, is found by the son of the man he killed. The last Tales of the Jedi miniseries and…
Star Wars: The Jabba Tape
Jabba is dead and his surviving retainers are fighting over the estate, which turns out to include a recording nobody wants released.
Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire
Darth Vader hires Boba Fett, then decides the bounty hunter knows too much — a chase story in which both hunters are the same person’s problem.
Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi
Shin-ichi Hiromoto’s adaptation of the 1983 film, and the most stylised of the four Dark Horse manga — closer to caricature than to likeness.
Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back
Toshiki Kudo’s manga adaptation of the 1980 film, adapted from the Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan screenplay.
Star Wars Manga: The Phantom Menace
Kia Asamiya — Silent Möbius, Batman: Child of Dreams — adapts the 1999 film in two volumes, and is the only one of the four manga artists to draw…
Star Wars Tales
A quarterly sixty-four-page anthology where the licence was allowed to be strange: gag strips, prestige short stories, and a standing policy that…
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace
The official four-issue adaptation of the first prequel, published weekly across May 1999 so that the last part landed a week after the film opened.
Star Wars: Episode I one-shots
Four character one-shots retelling The Phantom Menace from a single point of view apiece — Anakin, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Amidala — with a…
Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters
Three 1999 one-shots, each following a different bounty hunter: Aurra Sing before the prequels, Dengar in the original-trilogy years, and Kir Kanos…
Star Wars: Union
Luke Skywalker marries Mara Jade, and half the galaxy treats the wedding as an opportunity — for reconciliation, for politics, or for an…
Star Wars: Vader’s Quest
Darth Vader learns the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star and goes looking for him, in the weeks before he learns anything else about him.
Jedi Council: Acts of War
The Jedi Council as a body under pressure: a full Council delegation sent to stop a war, and a Republic that has forgotten what an army is for.
Star Wars: Chewbacca
An oral history of Chewbacca, told in short chapters by the people who knew him, each one drawn by a different artist.
Star Wars: Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika
Han Solo, Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Bossk, Dengar and Greedo sent after the same relic on a bet between two Hutts — a caper with the entire…
Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope
Luke’s proton torpedoes miss. The Death Star survives, and everything the trilogy assumed goes sideways from there.
Star Wars: Jedi Quest
Obi-Wan Kenobi and a teenage Anakin Skywalker on a training mission, in the gap the films skip over entirely.
Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back
Luke dies in the Hoth wampa cave, and the Rebellion has to win without him.
Star Wars: Empire
The original-trilogy companion to Republic: forty issues told largely from the Imperial side of the line, where the interesting question is not who…
Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones
The four-issue comics adaptation of the 2002 film, shipped weekly across the fortnight before it opened.
Star Wars: Jango Fett
A sixty-four-page digest-format Jango Fett caper, drawn in a deliberately un-Star-Wars cartoon line, about an artefact two bounty hunters both want.
Star Wars: Jango Fett: Open Seasons
Jango Fett’s origin as Legends told it: a Mandalorian orphan, a massacre on Galidraan, and a grudge against a Jedi that outlives the Jedi.
Star Wars: Zam Wesell
The other half of the same caper, from the shapeshifter’s side: Zam Wesell wants to sell the artefact, and Jango Fett wants it destroyed.
Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi
Leia’s attempt on Jabba goes wrong, and the third film unravels from the first act onward.
Star Wars: Jedi
Five Clone Wars one-shots, each handing a single Jedi — or a single Sith — a full issue and asking what the war has done to them.
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures
Ten pocket-sized digests of short Clone Wars stories drawn in the style of the Genndy Tartakovsky animated shorts, and aimed squarely at readers who…
Star Wars: Obsession
Obi-Wan Kenobi cannot let go of the belief that Asajj Ventress survived, and drags Anakin across the galaxy to prove it.
Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith
The four-issue adaptation of the 2005 film, drawn by Doug Wheatley and released weekly in the month before the premiere.
Star Wars: General Grievous
A hunt for a rogue Jedi, told from the point of view of the Separatists’ cyborg general in the months before Revenge of the Sith.
Star Wars: Purge
Darth Vader against a gathering of surviving Jedi, months after Order 66, drawn as a slaughter rather than a duel.
Star Wars: Visionaries
Eleven short stories written and drawn by the concept artists who designed Revenge of the Sith, given free rein and no continuity obligations.
Star Wars: Dark Times
The direct continuation of Republic, carrying its numbering on the inside cover from #84: a surviving Jedi, a crew of smugglers, and an Empire that…
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
A Padawan is framed for the murder of his own classmates, goes on the run with a con artist and a droid, and spends fifty issues discovering that…
Star Wars: Legacy
A Sith empire rules the galaxy openly, the Jedi are hunted again, and the last Skywalker is a bounty hunter and spice addict who wants no part of…
Star Wars: Rebellion
Empire’s replacement, and a tighter book: an Imperial officer and a Rebel childhood friend on opposite sides of the same war, plus the Vector…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The monthly tie-in to the animated series, drawn in the show’s style and pitched at the show’s audience, whose first arc the television series later…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Eleven digest-sized original graphic novels for younger readers, drawn in the animated series style and published alongside the monthly comic.
Star Wars: Vector
One character, one Sith artefact, and four thousand years: a crossover that runs straight through Knights of the Old Republic, Dark Times, Rebellion…
Star Wars Adventures
Six digest-sized all-ages graphic novels, each giving one of the original-trilogy leads a self-contained adventure.
Star Wars: Invasion
Dark Horse’s only comics adaptation of the Yuuzhan Vong war, told from the ground: one family on one invaded world, watching the New Republic fail…
Star Wars: Purge — Seconds to Die
A one-shot in Dark Horse’s Purge line: Sha Koon, niece of Plo Koon, refuses to hide from the Jedi purge.
Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace
A free webcomic published on the Old Republic game’s own site, covering the Treaty of Coruscant that sets up the MMO’s cold war.
Star Wars: Blood Ties — A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett
Two Fetts, two decades apart, and a fully painted four-issue miniseries about what a bounty hunter passes on.
Star Wars: Invasion — Rescues
The second Invasion miniseries, in which the survivors of Artorias reach the Jedi and discover the war is worse than the one they escaped.
Star Wars: Knight Errant — Aflame
A thousand years before the films, a Jedi Knight is stranded alone in Sith space between two warring brothers who each rule a slice of it.
Star Wars: Legacy — War
The six-issue finale to the first Legacy run: three galactic powers, one Sith Emperor who cannot be killed by ordinary means, and a Skywalker who…
Star Wars: Purge — The Hidden Blade
A Purge one-shot following the Jedi Master Bomo Greenbark’s contemporaries into hiding, painted throughout by Chris Scalf.
Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire
The second Old Republic webcomic, told from inside the Sith Empire rather than the Republic.
Star Wars: Agent of the Empire — Iron Eclipse
An Imperial Intelligence agent works the Corellian underworld in a series that is openly a James Bond pastiche and entirely unembarrassed about it.
Star Wars: Crimson Empire III — Empire Lost
Thirteen years after Endor, Kir Kanos is dragged back into Imperial politics for a third and final time, with the original creative team reassembled.
Star Wars: Dark Times — Out of the Wilderness
The fifth Dark Times arc, published under its own numbering: Dass Jennir taking the kind of work that leaves a trail, and the hunter who follows it.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command
The first of four Dark Horse miniseries with Darth Vader’s name on the cover: a search-and-rescue mission he does not want, close enough to Mustafar…
Star Wars: Invasion — Revelations
The third and final Invasion miniseries, which closes the Galfridian story well short of the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war.
Star Wars: Jedi — The Dark Side
Qui-Gon Jinn before Obi-Wan, on the mission to Telos IV that cost him his first apprentice.
Star Wars: Knight Errant — Deluge
The second Knight Errant miniseries, with Kerra Holt still behind Sith lines and still without a way home.
Star Wars: The Old Republic — The Lost Suns
The only printed comic miniseries tied to the Old Republic MMO, and the first appearance of Theron Shan.
Star Wars: Agent of the Empire — Hard Targets
The second Jahan Cross miniseries, in which the spy story turns into a succession thriller and the Empire stops looking like an employer.
Star Wars: Blood Ties — Boba Fett is Dead
A sequel miniseries built on a rumour: word goes round that Boba Fett has died, and everybody he ever crossed starts collecting.
Star Wars: Darth Maul — Death Sentence
Maul and Savage Opress loose in the middle of the Clone Wars with a bounty on them, in the first Dark Horse comic to use the revived Maul of the…
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison
A coup inside the first year of the Empire, a cadet who has to guard the Emperor, and a secret prison full of people the Republic never admitted…
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi — Force Storm
Twenty-five thousand years before the films, on a world where the Force has two moons and no orthodoxy, an order that is neither Jedi nor Sith meets…
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi — The Prisoner of Bogan
The second Dawn of the Jedi arc: the Je’daii exile system meets a man who has been on the dark moon long enough to build a philosophy out of it.
Star Wars: Knight Errant — Escape
The final Knight Errant miniseries, and the last Star Wars comic John Jackson Miller wrote for Dark Horse.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — War
A five-issue coda to the fifty-issue ongoing, dropping Zayne Carrick into the front line of the Mandalorian Wars he had spent the whole series…
Star Wars: Purge — The Tyrant’s Fist
The final Purge story, split across two issues: Darth Vader on an occupied world and the Jedi who does not get away.
Star Wars
Brian Wood’s ongoing, set in the months after A New Hope and written as though the Empire is a competent military organisation and the Rebellion is…
Star Wars: Dark Times — A Spark Remains
The last Dark Times story: the surviving Jedi stop hiding and go after Darth Vader, which goes about as well as it can.
Star Wars: Dark Times — Fire Carrier
A Jedi Master and a shipload of surviving Padawans hidden on a refugee world, in the Dark Times arc that is about children rather than soldiers.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows
The last of Dark Horse’s Vader miniseries, narrated by a clone trooper who worshipped the Jedi and then watched what replaced them.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin
A wealthy man loses a son to the Empire and spends his fortune hiring killers to reach Darth Vader, one at a time.
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi — Force War
The third and final Dawn of the Jedi arc, in which the Infinite Empire arrives in force and the Je’daii become something closer to what the films…
Star Wars: Ewoks — Shadows of Endor
An eighty-page all-ages graphic novel set on Endor shortly before Return of the Jedi, written and drawn by Zack Giallongo.
Star Wars: Legacy
A second Legacy series with a different lead: Ania Solo, a scrap dealer with no Force powers and no interest in destiny, who picks up a lightsaber…
The Star Wars
George Lucas’s 1974 rough-draft screenplay, adapted straight: General Luke Skywalker, a green-skinned Han Solo, Annikin Starkiller, and a Jedi-Bendu…
Star Wars: Darth Maul — Son of Dathomir
Four issues adapted from unproduced Clone Wars scripts, covering Maul’s war with Darth Sidious — and the only Dark Horse Star Wars comic that…
Star Wars: Rebel Heist
Four issues, four new characters, each narrating an encounter with Han, Leia, Luke or Chewbacca — and each finding the legend hard to work with.
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Dispatches (16)
All dispatchesWhy I am cataloguing the whole saga
A launch note: what this site is, what it will never do, and how a reading log ended up with a filing system attached.
Where to start with Star Wars books
Four honest doors into a shelf that has been growing since 1976, depending on which part of the saga you already like.
Canon and Legends, explained without the headache
What Lucasfilm actually announced on 25 April 2014, what stayed canon, and why a Legends book is still a real book.
How to read the Thrawn novels without losing the thread
Two continuities, one character, and a nine-book spine. A practical order for anyone starting from zero.
How to read the X-Wing novels
Ten Legends books, two authors and one squadron: a practical route through the series that made Wedge Antilles a lead character.
The reference shelf, from the Essential Guides to the Visual Dictionaries
The least discussed corner of Star Wars publishing is also the one that taught everybody else how the galaxy is supposed to work.
Matthew Stover and the best-written book on the shelf
An argument, clearly labelled as one, for the Revenge of the Sith novelisation as the high-water mark of Star Wars prose.
Zahn and the pleasure of watching someone be good at their job
Competence as a genre: how one author’s house style became the default register of Star Wars fiction.
Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and the sequel that never was
Alan Dean Foster’s 1978 novel was commissioned as insurance against failure. It became the first brick of the Expanded Universe instead.
Before Heir to the Empire: the expanded universe nobody talks about
Marvel comics, Corporate Sector heists, three Lando novels and a radio drama — what Star Wars publishing looked like from 1977 to 1990.
What the 2014 Legends decision actually changed
Twelve years on, a precise accounting of what moved, what stayed in print, and what quietly came back.
The Bantam years and the Del Rey years
Two publishing regimes, two completely different ideas of what a Star Wars novel is for.
The Yuuzhan Vong War and the risk the Expanded Universe took
Nineteen novels, four years of publishing, and a decision to kill a character from the films in the opening book.
Heir to the Empire at thirty-five
A retrospective on the 1991 novel that turned a dormant film franchise into a publishing programme.
Legends is not a consolation prize
Twelve years after the reset, the case for reading the old Expanded Universe on its own terms rather than as a might-have-been.
Review roundup: reading both Thrawns
Our reviews of the 1991 Legends novel and the 2017 canon novel, read against each other.
