Star Wars: Outbound Flight
Six Dreadnaughts, fifty thousand colonists, and one Chiss commander with a decision to make.
Topic
thrawn
31 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
- 12books
- 4comics
- 12dossiers
- 3dispatches
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Books (12)
All booksStar Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising
Thrawn at home, in a society with rules he is constantly, politely breaking.
Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good
Chiss politics, at length, with a fleet action attached.
Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
The Ascendancy trilogy closes, and explains how a Chiss officer ends up in Imperial uniform.
Thrawn
Zahn rebuilds his own creation for a new continuity, and finds a better story in the climb.
Thrawn: Alliances
Two timelines, one grudging partnership, and Darth Vader in a very bad mood.
Thrawn: Treason
Budget politics at the top of the Imperial Navy, which is more gripping than it sounds.
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.
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.
Who is involved
Dossiers (12)
All dossiersAdmiral Konstantine
Held a sector command against six people in a freighter and lost, then resented the man sent to fix it.
Ar'alani
The admiral in the white uniform — the officer who gave up her family name to command.
Arihnda Pryce
A local girl who lost her family’s mine to the Empire and spent the rest of her life climbing the thing that took it.
Che'ri
A child navigator whose Force sensitivity is the Ascendancy’s hyperdrive, and expires with puberty.
Eli Vanto
Assigned as a translator because of an accent, and ended up as the Empire’s only man inside the Chiss Ascendancy.
Gilad Pellaeon
The Imperial officer who finally signed the peace — and the rare Star Wars character both continuities decided to keep.
Karyn Faro
Thrawn’s second aboard the Chimaera, promoted out of the job just before it stopped existing.
Rukh
Thrawn’s bodyguard in both continuities, and his killer in one of them.
Samakro
The first officer who resents his captain, and slowly works out that the captain is right.
Thalias
A retired sky-walker who came back to look after the child doing her old job.
Thrass
Thrawn’s brother, and the politician who has to keep explaining him to the Ruling Families.
Vult Skerris
The Empire’s best TIE pilot, killed disobeying an order from the one commander who could have saved him.
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Comics (4)
All comicsStar 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: 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: 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: Thrawn: The Manga
A manga adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel Thrawn, adapted by Man Tsang.
Written about it
Dispatches (3)
All dispatchesHow 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.
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.
Review roundup: reading both Thrawns
Our reviews of the 1991 Legends novel and the 2017 canon novel, read against each other.
