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The Crystal Star

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The Crystal Star	comment	The Crystal Star is an oddity in Star Wars Legends. Released in The '90s during the indecisive seeming period before the release of The Phantom Menace, this book was the work of science-fiction author Vonda N. McIntyre. She had previously written a number of books set in the Star Trek Expanded Universe, and the influence certainly shows.In a Star Wars galaxy now populated by centaurs, "wyrwulfs" and strange creatures from other universes, The Crystal Star involves Luke and Han investigating a bizarre cult while Leia searches for her and Han's kidnapped children. There's also something about anti-Force, Han's ex-girlfriend and Imperial revivalists.
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The Crystal Star / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Crystal Star / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Substitute magic for the Force, and you've got the general gist of it.
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The Crystal Star / int_3122e918	type	Genocide from the Inside
The Crystal Star / int_3122e918	comment	Genocide from the Inside: Hethrir destroyed his own planet and people in an attempt to curry favor with his master.
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The Crystal Star / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Crystal Star / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Hethrir is particularly racist against nonhumans despite being one himself.
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The Crystal Star / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Crystal Star / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: For all the criticism the book gets, it is often praised for its characterisation of Han at the very end of the Hethrir plot; Luke and Leia have been consumed by Waru and Han realises he has to go in after them after asking Chewie to look after his family.
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The Crystal Star / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Crystal Star / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Hethrir sounds a lot like "Hitler"; Waru is apparently Japanese for "bad".
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The Crystal Star / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Crystal Star / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Zigzagged — the background of the cover shows Luke standing in front of what looks like the center of a spiral galaxy. Crseih Station, where the action takes place, is nowhere near the center of the galaxy. However, the "galaxy" also appears similar to the whirlpool deep within Waru's innards, with a seeming "black hole" at its core, which Luke is nearly drawn into near the end of the book before Han and Leia rescue him. The cover also depicts Han Solo as clean-shaven. Within the book, he's disguised himself by growing a beard for this mission.
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The Crystal Star / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Crystal Star / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: The ships containing what's left of the Firrerreos jump to hyperspace and are basically ignored by the rest of the book. The Essential Guide to Alien Species eventually established that they found asylum on the planets Belderone and Kinooine. A happy ending? Not so much: Force Heretic I: Remnant gave a throwaway mention that Belderone was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, who enslaved the Belderonians and rendered the Firrerreos functionally extinct on that planet. While it seems the Kinooine settlers miraculously survived the Yuuzhan Vong, it is stated that Firrerreos have become even rarer at the time of the Second Galactic Civil War.
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The Crystal Star / int_7d88c452	type	Academy of Evil
The Crystal Star / int_7d88c452	comment	Academy of Evil: Hethrir operates a Dark Side Academy on his worldcraft, seeking to train young Jedi to use the Dark Side and serve his Empire Reborn.
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The Crystal Star / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Crystal Star / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Almost nothing about this book is ever even referred to again by later material.
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The Crystal Star / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Crystal Star / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Waru, a blob-shaped being covered in golden scales, who hails from another universe entirely and effectively houses a mini-dimension inside itself, letting it steal or give energy from those it absorbed. As described in the book:
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The Crystal Star / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Crystal Star / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Crseih Station, an abandoned Imperial research facility which once investigates alternate dimensions and becomes the residence of its only discovery, Waru, who is central to Hethrir's plans and has a cult dedicated to his veneration.
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The Crystal Star / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
The Crystal Star / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Hethrir commands the Rebirth, effectively a mobile planet. While officially a space station, it has real terrain inside, along with a miniature "sun" to mimic the effects of an actual planet.
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The Crystal Star / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
The Crystal Star / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: The "Cult of Waru", which mainly consists of beings coming to Waru to be healed by the energy within him. However, it's really just a facade of benevolence, as Waru willingly murders some of the believers in order to sustain himself, buying time until Hethrir can bring a Force-strong person to him who can give him enough energy to return home.
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The Crystal Star / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Crystal Star / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Hethrir believes he has to sacrifice a baby to become this. No, seriously. To be fair, the baby is Anakin Solo.
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The Crystal Star / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Crystal Star / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Luke's lightsaber is blue in this book. He lost said blue lightsaber in The Empire Strikes Back and built a green one in Return of the Jedi. Although he got the blue one back in The Thrawn Trilogy, he gave it to Mara Jade. Also, because this book was written before the chronologically-earlier Callista Trilogy—which ended only a year before Crystal Star—the early chapters in which Han ribs Luke about finding a woman and having Jedi children (even making jokes about what Obi-Wan was like in his youth) come across as rather mean-spirited even for the smuggler. (I.e., Luke is just coming off of losing Callista, the woman he thought was the love of his life.)
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The Crystal Star / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Crystal Star / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Waru, Type II and IV. It simply wants to return to its home, and while it did heal people, it needed from time to time their energy to sustain itself, killing them.
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The Crystal Star / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Crystal Star / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Hethrir was the one who summoned Waru, so it's only fitting that in the end Waru eats him.
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The Crystal Star / int_e0111a63	type	Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements
The Crystal Star / int_e0111a63	comment	Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements: Hethrir and Rillao's lightsabers lack a traditional on/off switch. Instead, igniting them requires one to use the Force to complete an internal electrical circuit. Hethrir uses the ability to do so as a test for his apprentices (and isn't above rigging it if he doesn't like the apprentice).
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The Crystal Star / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Crystal Star / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Leia. As noted in Abel G. Pena's blog, McIntyre's characterisation of Leia as a mother is one of the better examples in the EU.
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