The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
The book that killed a main character and moved the licence to Del Rey.
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new jedi order
43 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
- 7books
- 2comics
- 32dossiers
- 2dispatches
From the library
Books (7)
All booksThe 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.
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Dossiers (32)
All dossiersAnakin Solo
Named after his grandfather, killed off at the exact moment readers decided he was the best of the three.
Ben Skywalker
Luke and Mara’s son, born mid-invasion, and the Legends shelf’s answer to what the next Skywalker looks like.
Borsk Fey’lya
Twenty years as the Expanded Universe’s designated political villain, and then the best death in the New Jedi Order.
Cal Omas
The last Chief of State of the New Republic and the first of the government that replaced it.
Cilghal
A diplomat who turned out to be the first true Jedi healer the new Order had.
Danni Quee
The scientist who was watching for extragalactic life when it arrived and killed most of her colleagues.
Dorsk 81
The eighty-first identical copy of a man, and the first one to want something different.
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.
Jacen Solo
The Solo son who reasoned his way, step by defensible step, into becoming a Sith Lord.
Jagged Fel
Raised by the Chiss, married a Solo, and ended up running the Empire his grandfather never got to.
Jaina Solo
Pilot, mechanic, Sword of the Jedi — and the person the story eventually points at her own brother.
Kam Solusar
A Jedi who went dark under the Empire, came back, and spent the rest of his life running the training floor.
Kirana Ti
A Dathomiri witch of the Singing Mountain Clan who joined the Jedi and kept the rancor.
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.
Lowbacca
Chewbacca’s nephew, a Wookiee Jedi, and the best slicer in his year.
Mara Jade
The Emperor’s assassin who became Luke Skywalker’s wife — and the best case for reading Legends.
Nen Yim
A biotechnologist who commits heresy because the sacred protocols have stopped working.
Nom Anor
The advance agent who spent years destabilising the New Republic before anyone knew his species existed.
Octa Ramis
Trained by the Solusars rather than by Luke Skywalker — the Order’s second generation, doing the fighting.
Onimi
The court jester who was running the invasion, and the reason it happened at all.
Raynar Thul
A rich boy in bright robes who became something the Order had no word for.
Saba Sebatyne
A reptilian hunter who laughs by hissing, and the first non-human to lead the Jedi.
Shimrra Jamaane
The Supreme Overlord of an invading species, and a puppet who does not know it.
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.
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.
Tionne
The weakest Force talent at the academy, and the one who rebuilt the Order’s entire memory.
Tsavong Lah
The Warmaster who told the galaxy it could buy peace by handing over its Jedi.
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.
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.
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Comics (2)
All comicsStar 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: 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…
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Dispatches (2)
All dispatchesThe 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.
