Heir to the Empire
The book that proved Star Wars could live on a shelf instead of a screen.
Topic
new republic
54 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
- 9books
- 6comics
- 39dossiers
- 0dispatches
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Books (9)
All booksDark 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.
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.
Star Wars: Aftermath
The Empire loses at Endor and then has to work out what losing means.
Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron
Five pilots, five different starfighters, and a war that has technically already ended.
Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End
The Battle of Jakku, finally dramatised.
Star Wars: Bloodline
A senate procedural about the republic that is about to lose everything.
Who is involved
Dossiers (39)
All dossiersAdmiral Ackbar
The Alliance’s fleet commander, and the only major film character who debuted in a newspaper comic strip.
Airen Cracken
The Rebellion’s spymaster, who reached print in a tabletop sourcebook rather than a novel.
Baylan Skoll
A survivor of the purge working as a mercenary, and looking for something older than either order.
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.
Cara Dune
An Alderaanian shock trooper with no planet to go home to and no war left to fight.
Chass na Chadic
A B-wing pilot who has watched her entire squadron die twice, and flies with the music turned up.
Del Meeko
An Imperial engineer who met Luke Skywalker once and never entirely got over it.
Derek “Hobbie” Klivian
Crash-prone, relentlessly pessimistic, and still flying decades after everyone expected him to stop.
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.
General Madine
The man who built the Empire’s commandos, then planned the raid that finished it.
Greer Sonnel
A champion racing pilot who took a desk job rather than tell anyone she was ill.
Halla Ettyk
A well-known Alderaanian attorney, prosecuting an Alderaanian pilot for betraying the people who destroyed their world.
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.
Isolder
Arrived to buy Leia Organa with sixty-three worlds, and left having lost the argument to a smuggler.
Jas Emari
A bounty hunter who keeps taking jobs from the winning side and insisting it is a coincidence.
Jom Barell
The only member of the crew with an actual commission, and the least comfortable with the rest of them.
Joph Seastriker
A young New Republic pilot who has never fought a war and cannot quite believe the last one was real.
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.
Kairos
A silent U-wing pilot in black, behind a mask that hides every expression — including, for a long time, her species.
Lady Carise Sindian
The aristocrat who leaked Leia’s parentage and helped hand the galaxy to the First Order.
Leia Organa
A politician first, a fighter by necessity, and the character the novels have served best.
Marrok
A silent ex-Inquisitor selling his services after the Empire stopped paying.
Mister Bones
A Separatist battle droid rebuilt by a teenager into something considerably worse.
Mon Mothma
The one founder of the Rebellion who had to build it inside the building she was trying to destroy.
Nath Tensent
A roguish pilot who outlasted his own squadron and has been charging the galaxy for it ever since.
Norra Wexley
Flew at Endor, came home to a son who had stopped waiting — the New Republic’s most human recruit.
Pash Cracken
Sent into the Imperial Academy by his own father, he graduated and defected with an entire wing behind him.
Ransolm Casterfo
A Centrist senator who collects Imperial memorabilia and turns out to be the most decent person in the chamber.
Shin Hati
Trained to surpass the Jedi by a master who then walked off and left her on another planet.
Sinjir Rath Velus
Trained to find disloyalty in other Imperials, and quit the moment he found it in himself.
Temmin “Snap” Wexley
A teenage scrapyard trader in a 2015 novel, and a Resistance wing commander in a 2015 film.
Tycho Celchu
Put on trial for treason and murder by the government he had already given everything to.
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.
Wyl Lark
A veteran in an A-wing cockpit who mostly just wants to go home.
Yrica Quell
An Imperial TIE pilot who flew in Operation: Cinder, defected, and spent three novels failing to explain herself.
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Comics (6)
All comicsStar 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…
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: 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: Battle of Jakku — Insurgency Rising
The first four chapters of Marvel’s twelve-issue Battle of Jakku trilogy: the Empire after Endor, refusing to accept that it has lost.
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Last Stand
Chapters IX to XII: the battle itself, on a desert world that will still be full of wreckage thirty years later when a scavenger called Rey walks…
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Republic Under Siege
Chapters V to VIII: the young New Republic discovers that winning a war and running a government are different jobs.
