Thrawn Alliances
I did a reading of the excerpt in a video last night. Cool stuff! Soooo hyped. So very hyped.
Thrawndo: what plants crave.
I never read a SW novel and comics books. Why? I have no idea, I love SW and I watch the movies, the shows, I play the games.
First time I met Thrawn was in Tie Fighter and I really enjoyed him at the Rebels.
2 hours ago, Crabbok said:I did a reading of the excerpt in a video last night. Cool stuff! Soooo hyped. So very hy ped.
Thanks for your excellent reading Crabbok, I am really interested to read the upcoming book, but a big question,
Since I never read anythig, should I start with Heir to the Empire before reading this upcoming book?
2 hours ago, LostFleet said:I never read a SW novel and comics books. Why? I have no idea, I love SW and I watch the movies, the shows, I play the games.
First time I met Thrawn was in Tie Fighter and I really enjoyed him at the Rebels.
Thanks for your excellent reading Crabbok, I am really interested to read the upcoming book, but a big question,
Since I never read anythig, should I start with Heir to the Empire before reading this upcoming book?
I would just read Thrawn. This and Alliances represent a different continuity separate to Heir to the Empire
17 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:
Aha, it's:
Mitth’raw’ ñ uruodo
10 hours ago, LostFleet said:Since I never read anythig, should I start with Heir to the Empire before reading this upcoming book?
PLEASE DO. It is an exceptional book in its own right.
All we know today as Grand Admiral Thrawn were birthed on those pages. I could not readily advocate another EU book as this one. The whole Thrawn Trilogy is worth your time.
Short story.
I was working at West End Games when we were informed that an author was about to come out with a New Star Wars Trilogy.
We were a little excited, for a LONG while we West End Games was the sole source of new Star Wars material, and we were very niche even for the Star Wars community, remember these were the days Pre Wookieepedia and the huge Star Wars renaissance.
We were contacted by the publisher and later the author who was at the time unknown to us.
They politely requested all the materials we had on ... well everything.
Some very key questions came up, about Interdictors , what was the capital of The Galaxy, what did a Sith look like. (I won’t spoil some of the major plot points here.)
About 18 months past and we then got a few advanced copies of the book know as Heir to The Empire . Let me tell you how we fought over who for to read those early copies.
This book is, and I mean this, one of the FINEST Star Wars novels ever made. It is The Empire Strikes Back of the EU Novels hands down.
Many of the material in the book is Canon again, and I strongly urge you to please read it.
I envy the fun you will have reading it the first time.
1 hour ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:I was working at West End Games
Wow, what were you doing there ? My first Star Wars book was the Sourcebook the 1987 edition. Although I never had a chance to play RPG, It was probably the only proper information I got about Star Wars and it was a great read.
Also thank you for sharing the story, did you had a chance to meet with the author?
As for Heir to the Empire, well after your comment how can I not read it now
1 hour ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:I was working at West End Games when we were informed that an author was about to come out with a New Star Wars Trilogy.
...We were contacted by the publisher and later the author who was at the time unknown to us.
They politely requested all the materials we had on ... well everything.
Some very key questions came up, about Interdictors , what was the capital of The Galaxy, what did a Sith look like. (I won’t spoil some of the major plot points here.)
Yeah, I had the chance to attend a promotional with Zahn speaking at a local bookstore a couple of years ago. Since he lives on the Oregon coast, he's semi-local here, but he travels all around to promote his books.
Anyway, the point is that I don't know if it was in response to my question, or that of someone else in the audience, but he said that - yes - he drew quite heavily on the West End Games material, because there was just so much there, and it relieved him of the task of reinventing things. He said that he did not have to draw from it, but his thought was: why not?
It seems to me that they (Disney, Lucasfilm, and everybody) win when they draw on stuff that is familiar to people, because that helps them project their fictional galaxy and make it easier for their audience to feel like they're 'in' it.
3 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:PLEASE DO. It is an exceptional book in its own right.
All we know today as Grand Admiral Thrawn were birthed on those pages. I could not readily advocate another EU book as this one. The whole Thrawn Trilogy is worth your time.
Short story.
I was working at West End Games when we were informed that an author was about to come out with a New Star Wars Trilogy.
We were a little excited, for a LONG while we West End Games was the sole source of new Star Wars material, and we were very niche even for the Star Wars community, remember these were the days Pre Wookieepedia and the huge Star Wars renaissance.
We were contacted by the publisher and later the author who was at the time unknown to us.
They politely requested all the materials we had on ... well everything.
Some very key questions came up, about Interdictors , what was the capital of The Galaxy, what did a Sith look like. (I won’t spoil some of the major plot points here.)
About 18 months past and we then got a few advanced copies of the book know as Heir to The Empire . Let me tell you how we fought over who for to read those early copies.
This book is, and I mean this, one of the FINEST Star Wars novels ever made. It is The Empire Strikes Back of the EU Novels hands down.
Many of the material in the book is Canon again, and I strongly urge you to please read it.
I envy the fun you will have reading it the first time.
epic story!
2 hours ago, Mikael Hasselstein said:It seems to me that they (Disney, Lucasfilm, and everybody) win when they draw on stuff that is familiar to people, because that helps them project their fictional galaxy and make it easier for their audience to feel like they're 'in' it.
Definetely, every new person entering either as a moviemaker, writer, game developer to a franchise, add his or her own interpretation of the story. If they sway too far from the core values than the audience will have hard time to associate with the original story. For me, I feel the affects of it in ship or squadron designs, some of them look like they belong to SW universe and some don't.
I am quite excited to read Heir to the Empire although now as far as I understand do not exist in official Star Wars universe. I am really curious, when Lucasfilm or George Lucas himself authorized books and comic books after Episode VI, did they ever consider following their storyline when they were going to actually shoot the next trilogy ( If I remember correctly there were some time he never thought of developing the next trilogy VII, VIII, IX).
1 hour ago, LostFleet said:Definetely, every new person entering either as a moviemaker, writer, game developer to a franchise, add his or her own interpretation of the story. If they sway too far from the core values than the audience will have hard time to associate with the original story. For me, I feel the affects of it in ship or squadron designs, some of them look like they belong to SW universe and some don't.
I am quite excited to read Heir to the Empire although now as far as I understand do not exist in official Star Wars universe. I am really curious, when Lucasfilm or George Lucas himself authorized books and comic books after Episode VI, did they ever consider following their storyline when they were going to actually shoot the next trilogy ( If I remember correctly there were some time he never thought of developing the next trilogy VII, VIII, IX).
For a time, George wasn’t going to do it.
For a time, George even said that if he WAS going to do it, itd be based on Heir ...
Mostly though, their actual “control” was more “very loose guidelines” and nothing compared to now... There was just little thought out to true canon continuity, because it was unimportant.
For the upcoming store championships one of our local stores is actually giving away a bunch of signed Timothy Zahn and Thrawn prizes- including a Chimaera ISD expansion with all the contents signed by Zahn. I thought it was a pretty cool prize for them to offer! I am really sad I am missing it, as like many of you I am a big Heir to the Empire and Thrawn fan, and the chance to get a Zahn Chimaera was something I thought was pretty cool.
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