Star Wars: Outbound Flight
Six Dreadnaughts, fifty thousand colonists, and one Chiss commander with a decision to make.
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timothy zahn
46 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
- 13books
- 5comics
- 23dossiers
- 5dispatches
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Books (13)
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.
Star Wars: Survivor’s Quest
Luke and Mara go looking for a wreck, and find out what the Chiss have been doing with it.
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Dossiers (23)
All dossiersAfsheen Makati
Spent his last years hunting a fraudulent prophet, and shot a space station to pieces to get him.
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.
Borsk Fey’lya
Twenty years as the Expanded Universe’s designated political villain, and then the best death in the New Jedi Order.
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.
Garm Bel Iblis
A founder of the Rebellion who spent years running his own private war rather than serve under Mon Mothma.
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.
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.
Karoly D’ulin
The other Tonnika sister — which is to say, not a Tonnika sister at all.
Karyn Faro
Thrawn’s second aboard the Chimaera, promoted out of the job just before it stopped existing.
Manda D’ulin
Led the six-woman Mistryl team hired to guard a piece of the second Death Star.
Mara Jade
The Emperor’s assassin who became Luke Skywalker’s wife — and the best case for reading Legends.
Moff Disra
Tried to restart the war with a con man in a Grand Admiral’s uniform.
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.
Shada D’ukal
One of the two women in the Mos Eisley cantina, retconned into a bodyguard from a murdered world.
Talon Karrde
Information broker, smuggler chief, and the galaxy’s most careful neutral party.
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.
Valin Horn
Corran Horn’s son, and the Jedi whose breakdown starts the last Legends series.
Winter
A perfect memory, weaponised — the least conspicuous intelligence asset the Rebellion ever fielded.
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Comics (5)
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: 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: Thrawn: The Manga
A manga adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel Thrawn, adapted by Man Tsang.
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Dispatches (5)
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.
Heir to the Empire at thirty-five
A retrospective on the 1991 novel that turned a dormant film franchise into a publishing programme.
Review roundup: where the shelf stands
A pass back over the reviews posted so far, and what they suggest about this site’s taste.
Review roundup: reading both Thrawns
Our reviews of the 1991 Legends novel and the 2017 canon novel, read against each other.
