The outbound flight and Jorus would be easy enough to explain in the canon timeline, but the clone wars being an army of Mandalorian clones attacking the republic? Maybe there were 2 clone wars that Kenobi fought in? I don't know how or if the EU tried making the history in the Thrawn Trilogy fit or if they just kind of ignored the background that did not fit with the "new" canon from the prequels.

It really had no direct effect on Thrawn himself, just the trilogy and it's cloning storyline drew on a completely different 'clone wars' than what became canon.

You are telling me that a large selection of reading material with such expansive information and canon has some bad writers amongst the ranks *sarcastic gasp*

Meanwhile Claudia Grey with Lost Stars is tearing **** up imho

Absolutely. Lost Stars rocks the house down. Such a better portrayal of the issues and the factions involved.

I don't believe they were all tactical genies. I think Thrawn was special even for a Chiss. That said I haven't read much of the content that specifically included them in a long time.

Both, in fact. As a species, they were superior tacticians, and Thrawn was smarter than the average Chiss.

I don't believe they were all tactical genies. I think Thrawn was special even for a Chiss. That said I haven't read much of the content that specifically included them in a long time.

Both, in fact. As a species, they were superior tacticians, and Thrawn was smarter than the average Chiss.

So he was the Yogi Bear of Chiss?

Randomly I noticed that Thrawn is Scots dialect for 'twisted' or 'corrupted'. Kind of cool, huh?

You are telling me that a large selection of reading material with such expansive information and canon has some bad writers amongst the ranks *sarcastic gasp*

Meanwhile Claudia Grey with Lost Stars is tearing **** up imho

Absolutely. Lost Stars rocks the house down. Such a better portrayal of the issues and the factions involved.

That said, was not blown away. And my gripe is not an unforgivable one. She dove into the nitty gritty of life in the imperial navy and a lot worked and some didn't, particularly the promotion track (yes losing two moon sized space stations will allow for a lot of battlefield promotions). The other was that the book seemed to try to cram to much into the original trilogy timeframe. If the characters had gone to the academy 5 years earlier it probably would have worked better.