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The Hand of Thrawn

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The Hand of Thrawn	comment	The Hand of Thrawn is a duology of Star Wars Legends books, Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future, both written by Timothy Zahn. They take place ten years after The Thrawn Trilogy (hence, fifteen years after Return of the Jedi and nineteen years after A New Hope).After two decades of constant war, Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon looks at the Imperial Remnant, the scraps of a once-proud Galactic Empire, and concludes that there is one and only one way it may be saved: a peace treaty with the New Republic. But other Imperials are unwilling, and try to sabotage his effort by capturing the messenger Pellaeon is sending. While the Supreme Commander waits for a response, they contrive to make it seem as if Grand Admiral Thrawn has come Back from the Dead.Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, the head of the New Jedi Order, joins his old friend Han Solo for a diplomatic mission—and in the process helps fight off a gang of pirates. Luke holds back, having decided recently to not be so profligate with his abilities, and notices something he might otherwise not have—he can feel a "distortion" in the Force, which as far as he knows is caused only by clones, aboard the pirates' ships.And taking a much-needed vacation on Wayland, the world that the Emperor used as a trophy case, Senator Leia Organa Solo and her children run into a smuggler who has stumbled across a cache of datacards, one of them the Caamas document.The Caamasi people were a group of peaceful Actual Pacifists, so respected by even some warlike species that "caamasi" was a word for "friend from afar" or similar in numerous languages, and there is even a legend that the first Jedi came to the Caamasi to learn ethical use of the Force. Shortly after the Clone Wars, their planet's surface was razed; the few survivors were offworld or didn't see what initiated the Holocaust, but the genocide had long been believed to have been directed by Emperor Palpatine. Palpatine's copy of the Caamas document confirms this—but more importantly, notes that a number of Bothans, working for him, helped to lower Caamas's planetary shields, allowing the destruction. Unfortunately, the document Leia has found is corrupted, and the actual list of names is lost. When the news gets out, the New Republic is engulfed by demands for justice — but without knowing who the perpetrators are, for some species the solution is to punish the entire Bothan race, while others consider that unacceptable. The heatedness of the debate, with leaders of entire species coming down on either side, leads to a resurging of old inter-species rivalries, and the New Republic begins to fracture... just as word arrives on Coruscant that Grand Admiral Thrawn has returned.Before the Caamas crisis rose up, this would have caused the New Republic to react decisively and overwhelm the pathetic fleets still guarding what is left of the Empire, but in the current political climate, there is no consensus on if it is even real. The Imperial conspirators spin their webs larger yet tighter. Luke's clone hunt falls short, and he learns that Mara Jade has vanished on a hunt for a mysterious alien ship that's buzzed her twice. Taking a chance, rather than lending his efforts to the larger danger, he listens to the Force and goes after her. Leia struggles desperately to keep the Republic from collapsing into all-out civil war, and Han mainly works to keep Leia from going crazy. Pellaeon waits, wondering why the New Republic general he's waiting for in an isolated area of space hasn't responded, and utterly annihilates the fleet the conspirators send after him.That's set up early in the first book. Just another few weeks in the galaxy.This duology was written in parallel with Michael A. Stackpole's I, Jedi (set several years earlier during and after the Jedi Academy Trilogy) and forms a sort of Two-Part Trilogy with it, notably sharing the character Elegos A'kla.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Luke and Mara get engaged while fighting their way out of the Hand of Thrawn, and are planning their wedding at the end of the story.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_17e530e1	type	Punctuation Shaker
The Hand of Thrawn / int_17e530e1	comment	Punctuation Shaker: Almost any time Zahn renders an alien language, there are apostrophes in it.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_185f3995	type	Memetic Badass
The Hand of Thrawn / int_185f3995	comment	Memetic Badass: In-Universe example. Thrawn is perhaps the most terrifying (non-Force-sensitive) figure the galaxy has ever seen, so even his impersonator's appearance freaks out Lando and others who see him. It takes Pellaeon, who knew Thrawn best and is not threatened by him, to ferret him out.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "The Hand of Thrawn" is the only uncorrupted sentence found on one of the damaged Imperial datacards unearthed at the beginning of Specter of the Past. Everyone speculates about what it might mean, but Luke and Mara only find out when the latter realises what the damaged Chiss fortress on Nirauan, with its five remaining towers, looks like... The phrase "vision of the future" is also used at the end of the eponymous book.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Hand of Thrawn / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: When the triumvirate's plot finally becomes unraveled, Flim is relatively calm, compared to Disra and especially Tierce. Flim even gives a last speech in-character as Thrawn in order to help resolve the situation smoothly.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
The Hand of Thrawn / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: After their world of Emberlene was devastated, the Mistryl people created the "Shadow Guard", a group of elite female mercenaries who hire out their services as bodyguards. Since there are no usable resources left on Emberlene, the planet's meager economy is wholly dependent on these mercenaries' earnings.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Hand of Thrawn / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Represents the final chapter in the story of the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the New Republic. On a meta level, also represents the final publication of the EU under Bantam Books.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
The Hand of Thrawn / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Well, YMMV on how much he's "reformed", but Fey'lya is much less a Smug Snake here than he was in The Thrawn Trilogy, as stated above in Character Development. Further, when the Caamas crisis first comes to light, he explains to Leia that the Bothan race were as horrified as everyone else to learn that some of their own had collaborated with Palpatine, and that the Bothans were never able to learn their identities. Nonetheless, Fey'lya correctly concludes early on that the galaxy at large will not be quick to believe this, due to the Bothan's (well-deserved) reputation as a Planet of Smug Snakes.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_1ee33a59	type	Sequel Series
The Hand of Thrawn / int_1ee33a59	comment	There are also several to the events of The Thrawn Trilogy, naturally, as a Sequel Series.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_253daa59	type	Multiple-Choice Future
The Hand of Thrawn / int_253daa59	comment	Multiple-Choice Future: Luke at one point uses the Force to meditate on the future and try to decide his next move. He perceives nearly infinite possible futures and wonders if this is what Yoda saw while Luke was fixated on his vision of Darth Vader capturing Han and Leia at Cloud City back in The Empire Strikes Back. He ultimately selects the only course of action he saw that didn't appear to lead to complete chaos, which ends up leading him to both an intact copy of the Caamas Document from Thrawn's archives, and a Relationship Upgrade with Mara Jade.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Hand of Thrawn / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Possibly unintentional, but Lando is the one most suspicious of the clones. In the early drafts of The Empire Strikes Back, Lando was himself a clone left over from the Clone Wars.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_26b0a73	type	Legendary in the Sequel
The Hand of Thrawn / int_26b0a73	comment	Legendary in the Sequel: Luke is well-known, and although he may not be instantly recognizable by the entire galaxy, his green lightsaber for damn sure is. The New Jedi Order itself is now taken seriously enough that the Cavrilhu Pirates built a trap into their base specifically to hold Jedi. Luke only escapes by using telekinesis to hotwire a pair of blaster power packs and blast his way out. Zahn takes a potshot at the Sueification of Grand Admiral Thrawn by writing that his reputation has grown over the years to the point where the mere rumor he's Back from the Dead has half the galaxy running scared. The main characters all scoff that Thrawn was never that good.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_2a3aa1a5	type	Peace Conference
The Hand of Thrawn / int_2a3aa1a5	comment	Peace Conference: What Pellaeon's working towards. Too bad that the more militant elements of the Empire are conspiring to prevent the New Republic from showing up.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Hand of Thrawn / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Since his death, Thrawn's reputation has grown to the point where a rumor that he's returned is enough to send half the galaxy into a frenzied panic. However, the main characters are quick to point out that it's not entirely deserved. While Thrawn was extremely successful, he had his share of defeats and mistakes, including the ones that lead to his (apparent) death. Jorj Car'das, Kardde's former boss, and who he is utterly terrified of. Turns out the man's actually long since had a Heel Realization, and is perfectly nice. Something in the Unknown Regions has Thrawn's followers spooked and terrified. Not surprising given they know about the Yuuzhan Vong.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
The Hand of Thrawn / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: To escape the pirate base, Luke puts himself into a hibernation trance and catapults himself through space, into the hangar bay of Mara's ship. Mara is there to catch him and he ends up lying on top of her. She teases that he seems to be taking his time getting off her, and Luke - still a farm boy at heart - hurriedly apologizes.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3114c1e5	comment	Bel Iblis to Booster Terrik near the end: "And we're going to ram it".
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: In Vision of the Future, Lando thinks to himself that when he and Tendra Risant had first proposed adding an observation gallery to his underwater mining operation on Varn, her family had felt the idea was ridiculous because "no one pays good money to watch miners mining, even aquatic miners in the admittedly unusual locale of the Varn ocean floor". Naturally, the observation gallery proves one of the more profitable portions of the operation.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_315a2d0f	comment	AstroTurf: The shadowy "Vengeance Organization" fomenting riots and supposedly working to sabotage any plans that lets the Bothans off the hook for the destruction of Caamas is actually nothing more than a small handful of Imperial Intelligence agents planted by Tierce to increase instability in the New Republic.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Hand of Thrawn / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Han, at least, ships Karrde with Shada.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
The Hand of Thrawn / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: Pellaeon does this to Tierce in the climax of Vision of the Future. His lecture consists of pointing out that Tierce is nothing more than a vision-less, vengeance-obssessed, manipulative, tactically brilliant, flawed clone of a Imperial Guard with some of Thrawn's cunning who doesn't have what it takes to be a true Magnificent Bastard like Thrawn. This causes Tierce's full-blown Villainous Breakdown and Pellaeon shoots down Tierce's Motive Rant during the lecture.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Hand of Thrawn / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: At the end of Specter of the Past, Pellaeon shows how much he learned from Thrawn. The conspirators have staged an attack on the Chimaera to make it look like General Bel Iblis has rejected Pellaeon's offer and is attacking him. Pellaeon creates a new variation on one of Bel Iblis' own tactics, the "A-wing slash" from the Thrawn Trilogy, and uses it successfully against his attackers—thus proving they can't possibly be led by Bel Iblis because he wouldn't have fallen for his own trick. At the climax of Vision of the Future, as the Battle of Bothawui escalates due to the reveal of the three cloaked Star Destroyers, Han remembers "Thrawn" dropping a little tidbit about Borsk Fey'lya having his own private army, and contacts the Bothan to state that, should a Bothan play a major role in turning back this attack, he'd have a lot of political leverage. Unfortunately, there was a lot of signal leakage thanks to damage to the Falcon, so half of Bothawui heard this. And of course, no self-respecting Bothan is going to sit back and let Fey'lya claim all the credit... The net result is every private militia, personal starfighter, and defense ship left on Bothawui launching in aid of the fleet.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Pellaeon has overcome his earlier anti-alien racism (which fits with him being involved in Daala's opening up of the Empire to other races in Darksaber). Fey'lya has also become more rounded from his earlier It's All About Me Smug Snake Obstructive Bureaucrat persona. Unfortunately, later authors undid this in the New Jedi Order series.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: One attempt to avenge the past leads to a host of ethnic conflicts flaring up, nearly destroying the New Republic. Justified in that for most species, the Caamas crisis really served as an excuse to legally get at longstanding enemies and rivals. For example, the Diamala and Ishori, between whom Han and Luke try to mediate an argument early in Specter, take opposite sides on the debate, partly due to their racial outlooks, but mostly because their opponent is on the opposite side. Not a lot of people cared that profoundly about something that had happened so long ago. The opinions of the surviving Caamasi themselves (who being Perfect Pacifist People wanted to forget and forgive) are ignored by both sides.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Leia has a private comm channel in the Senate which is meant for emergencies only. Apparently Anakin has used it, on more than one occasion, to bug mom about eating junk food. In fairness, he is a little kid.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Shada versus Tierce. Considering how much of a badass the latter is supposed to be, it's surprising he was defeated so quickly — but he was blinded by rage at the time. And "good enough to blindside a politician who tried to pull a gun" is a different standard from "good enough to fight a Mistryl shadow guard."
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: The Devist "family" are clones of Imperial Ace Pilot Soontir Fel who were planted as a sleeper cell on a backwater farm world by Thrawn as a hedge against defeat. They unexpectedly inherited Fel's love of farming, and decide when ordered by Moff Disra to activate that their loyalty to their families and land far outweighs whatever loyalty they were expected to have to the Imperial Remnant. They switch sides to the New Republic in exchange for immunity.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Hand of Thrawn / int_40bb59d0	comment	At the climax of Vision of the Future, as the Battle of Bothawui escalates due to the reveal of the three cloaked Star Destroyers, Han remembers "Thrawn" dropping a little tidbit about Borsk Fey'lya having his own private army, and contacts the Bothan to state that, should a Bothan play a major role in turning back this attack, he'd have a lot of political leverage. Unfortunately, there was a lot of signal leakage thanks to damage to the Falcon, so half of Bothawui heard this. And of course, no self-respecting Bothan is going to sit back and let Fey'lya claim all the credit... The net result is every private militia, personal starfighter, and defense ship left on Bothawui launching in aid of the fleet.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Hand of Thrawn / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Tierce. Pellaeon points out in his Breaking Speech that Tierce is just a vision-less manipulator instead of a true leader. Pellaeon further reveals that the reason for Tierce being the only enhanced clone was not, as Tierce believed, because of Thrawn's premature death. It was because the enhancement didn't work as planned. Thrawn wanted order, stability and unity for the galaxy to give it the strength it needed to face future threats. For that he needed subordinates who shared not just his tactical skill but also his leadership and vision, and one out of three wasn't good enough. Rather than "the first of a new breed", as Tierce described himself, he was merely a failed prototype.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Hand of Thrawn / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: The clones of Soontir Fel. They're part of a sleeper cell, becoming farmers... and they loved the soil too much to return to duty. Which turned out to be Thrawn's objective — if/when any powerful alien species from the Unknown Regions or outside the galaxy invaded, the sleeper cells would be there to stop them, and would fight all the harder because they'd be fighting for their homes.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_44db43ce	type	Staged Shooting
The Hand of Thrawn / int_44db43ce	comment	Staged Shooting: Inverted - Imperial agents on Bothawui implicate Han on a balcony in shooting at a crowd by using a blaster that fires an invisible (but otherwise real) bolt to hit a device planted next to him on the wall, designed to reflect the shot back towards the crowd as a visible bolt.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
The Hand of Thrawn / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In-Universe example. Luke and Mara stumble upon a clone of Thrawn housed just beneath the fortress on Nirauan, which is almost fully mature and about to wake up. Considering the state of matters in the galaxy and what they just learned within the fortress, both of them nearly decide on just letting it live to continue Thrawn's work. Unfortunately, their snooping happens to wake up a pair of very formidable guard droids, and the ensuing battle results in the clone being destroyed anyway.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
The Hand of Thrawn / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: Parck tells Mara that there's a massive threat looming that would "freeze her blood" if she knew about it, and there's fighting already going on in the Unknown Regions. This is later revealed to be the Yuuzhan Vong.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_47463de7	type	Nazi Hunter
The Hand of Thrawn / int_47463de7	comment	Nazi Hunter: The pursuit of an intact version of the Caamas Document is similar to this trope, as it would name the Bothans who sabotaged Caamas's planetary Deflector Shield, allowing the Empire to glass the planet. (That's for the parties for whom it isn't a Pretext for War against old enemies, e.g. the Diamalans and Ishori.) After Luke and Mara find a copy on Nirauan, it turns out that many of the Bothans involved are still alive, and they're tried for war crimes offscreen.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_4bfd2125	comment	Straw Vulcan: The very, very calm Diamala species, who naturally are in conflict with the very emotional Ishori.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Hand of Thrawn / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Bel Iblis to Booster Terrik near the end: "And we're going to ram it". Luke, also near the end: "Thrawn's copy of the Caamas Document". The closing lines of Pellaeon's glowing description of Major Tierce's distinguished military career: And that, as part of a stormtrooper unit in Thrawn's campaign against Generis, he died in combat. Ten years ago.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Hand of Thrawn / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Released in 1998, so before even The Phantom Menace. This results in some oddities, such as how Leia mentions her adoptive father got suspicious of Palpatine (just "chancellor", not "supreme chancellor") in the early days of the transition between the Old Republic and the Empire because of the Camaas incident. As opposed to the whole "wipe out the Jedi, declare himself Emperor" thing.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Hand of Thrawn / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Disra, who's smart, but not nearly as on top of things as he thinks he is, or would like to be. Also, Tierce, oddly enough. Once you know that he's got part of Thrawn's mind, you realize just how much he acts like the man... except that he's not as good at hiding smug satisfaction, and he makes many more predictions that don't turn out as planned. And isn't as good at adapting when something goes wrong. Instead of reacting calmly to even disastrously bad news and working out the best response, like Thrawn did, when it was exposed that the real Tierce had died a decade earlier and the one present now is a modified clone, Tierce responds by going berserk and trying to strangle the person who revealed his secret.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
The Hand of Thrawn / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: This is how Zahn saw the overpowered Jedi of the earlier books. He couldn't retcon them into more Yoda-like power levels (pulling a starfighter out of a swamp wasn't easy), so he insinuated that demigod Jedi are relying so heavily on sheer power that they've blinded themselves to the subtler sides of the Force, like precognition (both in the immediate sense — as an awareness of danger before it hits — and in the longer-term, as visions) and that Luke was drawing on the Dark Side by using the Force as a solution for every problem. Zahn was telling other EU authors that they were making Luke out to be a Mary Sue and cheapening the Force by making it a source of cool powers and nothing more.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Hand of Thrawn / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Of a long-running variety. The Thrawn Trilogy ends with Luke and Mara having a heart-to-heart on the roof of the Imperial Palace, before Luke goes downstairs to make an appearance among the delegates working to pick up the pieces after Thrawn's offensive. Mara, deciding to put her past behind her and embrace a future which includes the New Republic, ends the book by saying "Wait. I'll come with you." Vision of the Future ends with Luke and Mara discussing the peace treaty between the New Republic and Empire, the future of the Jedi Order, the Unknown Regions, and their impending marriage, before Luke heads out to make an appearance before the assorted delegates working one of those things out. Mara ends the book by saying "Hold on. I'll come with you."
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_564c1500	type	Red String of Fate
The Hand of Thrawn / int_564c1500	comment	Red String of Fate: Luke and Mara, as literal as possible with the Force.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_5bba0339	type	Telekinesis
The Hand of Thrawn / int_5bba0339	comment	Luke is well-known, and although he may not be instantly recognizable by the entire galaxy, his green lightsaber for damn sure is. The New Jedi Order itself is now taken seriously enough that the Cavrilhu Pirates built a trap into their base specifically to hold Jedi. Luke only escapes by using telekinesis to hotwire a pair of blaster power packs and blast his way out.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
The Hand of Thrawn / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Tierce was the product of an experiment, combining stormtrooper combat strength and loyalty with Thrawn's tactical genius. It failed, since Tierce had Thrawn's tactical mind but not his leadership or vision.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_5ed3ace2	type	Batman Can Breathe in Space
The Hand of Thrawn / int_5ed3ace2	comment	Batman Can Breathe in Space: To escape the Cavrilhu Pirates' base after the hangar bay decompresses during his escape, Luke vacuum-jumps without a spacesuit to Mara Jade's ship, and survives with no ill effects. Justified in that he puts himself into a Jedi healing trance first.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The Hand of Thrawn / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: At one point during Vision Of The Future, Han Solo arranged to meet Lando secretly. Knowing that Imperial forces may be monitoring his communications, he instructed Lando to meet him "Ten clicks out from Galactic Center, from the place where you had no choice." In other words, ten clicks out from Galactic Center from Bespin, where Lando "had no choice" but to betray Han and his allies.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Hand of Thrawn / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: The majority of the Empire by the end, and Supreme Commander Pellaeon right at the beginning. Sort of. Even in his first appearance, Pellaeon's Heel status was in doubt. Sure, he was an Imperial, but under Zahn, that doesn't by itself make a character evil or even a Punch-Clock Villain. Here, Pellaeon's unambiguously one of the good guys, but even in Zahn's earlier work Pellaeon (and other Imperials) was always depicted as a good man, with some fair for the Empire Fantastic Racism, he just happens to work for very bad people.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_627f7c90	type	Genghis Gambit
The Hand of Thrawn / int_627f7c90	comment	Genghis Gambit: New Republic President Gavrisom is so despondent at his chances of maintaining the peace during the Caamas Document Crisis that he seriously contemplates using Thrawn's return as a call to unite against the Empire, despite Leia's horrified warning that the Empire's military resources are so paltry that attacking them would be murder, not war. It is a sign of how desperate things have become that Gavrisom, a genuine pacifist, could even consider such a course of action.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Hand of Thrawn / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The mysterious threat in the Unknown Regions that has Thrawn's followers spooked will later be revealed to be the Yuuzhan Vong. The ending leads immediately into Star Wars: Union.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Hand of Thrawn / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: A literary example, discussing the events that will later be depicted in Outbound Flight:
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Hand of Thrawn / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: The Diamala are one of the more notable races of Jerkasses in the galaxy. They don't like Jedi in general and Luke Skywalker in particular, and refuse to allow Luke to be present at the talks between the Diamala and the Ishori. This is on the grounds that many Jedi use their abilities too much and Jedi who do that always fall to the dark side. When Han tells Luke this was the reason why the Diamala don't like Luke or want him at the talks, it causes the Jedi Master to reevaluate his usage of his Force abilities and come to the conclusion that he had been using them more than was healthy and in some cases in an unethical manner. As a result Luke makes a conscious decision to cut back on how much he uses his Force abilities.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Hand of Thrawn / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Flim, the con artist. Con artists are also known as "flim-flam artists".
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
The Hand of Thrawn / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Disra deduces that a flight of ships attacking one of his Star Destroyers are Diamalan by working backwards from intelligence reports on recent starship purchases. He then realizes that they're trying to find out if the rumors of Thrawn's return are true, and convinces them by finding in Thrawn's logs the tactics he used against the Diamalans during his invasion nine years earlier. The Diamalans quickly bug out. Leia's Noghri bodyguards manage to work out the specific make of rifle used to frame Han as starting a riot simply by his description of what it did. They already had a hunch, but Han's description helps cinch it. Han tactfully chooses not to ask whether the Noghri used the rifles themselves when they served the Empire.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_740ff9d0	type	Metal Detector Checkpoint
The Hand of Thrawn / int_740ff9d0	comment	Metal Detector Checkpoint: Mara remarks that they'll probably need one of these at the entrance to their wedding with all the smugglers and government officials who will likely be attending the ceremony.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Hand of Thrawn / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Averted. One of the things Pellaeon brings up while arguing in favor of opening peace negotiations with the New Republic is that the eight sectors that remain to the Empire, while comprising about a thousand star systems, only have a single major shipyard. This shipyard can't even keep up with the demand for starfighters, let alone capital ships, hence why the Chimaera carries SoroSuub Preybirds bought on the open market in these two novels, rather than TIE variants. This is foreshadowing: Moff Disra is buying the Preybirds from the Cavrilhu Pirates, who have their own shipyard.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
The Hand of Thrawn / int_746704c9	comment	Divided for Publication: The German translation of Vision of the Future was split into two volumes, as due to the nature of German compound words, translated books can end up 10-30% longer by page count than their English language texts.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
The Hand of Thrawn / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: Thanks to their Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, the Bothans are not a popular species in the galaxy, making them a very good target for a frame-up. Pretty much everyone has some kind of grievance against them.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Hand of Thrawn / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mara gives a mild one to Luke criticizing him over some of his past actions, such as taking on students while still under the influence of the dark side, or not treating Kyp Durron like a "tipped turbolaser" when he fell to the dark side. Flim calls out Disra and Tierce's Moral Myopia, disdaining him as a con artist while ignoring the fact that their entire scheme to take control of the Empire and collapse the New Republic is built on con tricks. Just to rub salt into the wound, he reminds them that they've really got no choice but to rely on con tricks - and by extension him, regardless of how long they keep using his Thrawn masquerade - since the Empire doesn't have even a fraction of the resources it had during Thrawn's campaign, and neither of them has a shred of Thrawn's leadership or military genius. Talon Karrde cuts Paloma D'asima, the Mistryl's arrogant envoy, down to size, by pointing out that she was about to ally their Proud Warrior Race with a group of con artists (which would have inevitably doomed their planet), so the least she could do is show a smidgen of gratitude to Shada for saving her life, and Karrde for exposing the fraud.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Hand of Thrawn / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Jorj Car'das tried threatening Yoda. Yoda. He's quite lucky Yoda was simply disappointed in him.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
The Hand of Thrawn / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: Where can we find an intact copy of the Caamas Document? (Technically this is really 'Which Bothans were involved in the attack on Caamas?', but in practice this is resolved offscreen once the Document is found.)
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Hand of Thrawn / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Empire under Pellaeon is but a small portion of its maximum size at its height.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Hand of Thrawn / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to Carib Devist and the other Fel clones after they chose their side?
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Hand of Thrawn / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Having heard much about the glory of the brand spanking new New Republic, after a few days getting the runaround with their bureaucracy, Shada is quickly disillusioned.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_884c48a6	type	Non-Answer
The Hand of Thrawn / int_884c48a6	comment	Non-Answer: After Lando and Senator Miatamia are captured by the person they think is Thrawn, the latter deflects several of Lando's questions and tries to switch topics, only for Miatamia to keenly point out that the questions remain unanswered. "Thrawn" is grudgingly forced to address the issue, praising the famous Diamala intellect.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_8b9e6d7a	type	Confronting Your Imposter
The Hand of Thrawn / int_8b9e6d7a	comment	Confronting Your Imposter: As part of Garm Bel Iblis's attempt to capture an intact copy of the Caamas Document, he has the Errant Venture, an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer owned by Booster Terrik, masquerade as the ISD Tyrannic fleeing Republic attack, as New Republic Intelligence has the actual Tyrannic listed as missing in action. Moff Disra doesn't fall for it because he's using the Tyrannic as part of his own Batman Gambit, and knows exactly where she is.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
The Hand of Thrawn / int_8ed601a6	comment	Two-Part Trilogy: Zahn wrote this duology (originally a single novel that got big enough he broke it in half) at the same time that his friend Michael A. Stackpole was writing I, Jedi. The two collaborated to share characters and toss Continuity Nods back and forth between their books (for example, Caamasi diplomat Elegos A'kla has a significant role in both), making Zahn's duology in effect something of a Distant Sequel to I, Jedi. In publication order, Specter came first, followed by I, Jedi, followed by Vision.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Hand of Thrawn / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Defied by Flim, who sees the writing on the wall rather late in the story and calls out Tierce and Disra for acting as if they're above the need for employing fringe elements of the galaxy in their scheme, when half of their plans outright depended on it. Also serve's as Flim's bid for equal standing in The Plan - even if "Thrawn" is no longer necessary to continue, Flim's knowledge of the underworld will be.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_94b11537	type	The Convenient Store Next Door
The Hand of Thrawn / int_94b11537	comment	The Convenient Store Next Door: Variant in the second book, in that it's not a robbery. Bothawui's capital city, Drev'starn, is home to the planet's planetary shield generators, and there's a Ho'Din tapcafe two blocks away from the shield generator building... but it's sitting right on top of one of the power cable conduits to the generator building. So a couple of the villains manage to get access to the tapcafe's basement and dig down to the conduit, then use that to send lizards with bombs attached through it and into the generator building to destroy it, bringing down the shields right as a massive space battle breaks out overhead, which could devastate the planet's surface.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Hand of Thrawn / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Tierce has a rather impressive one, combined with a Motive Rant that gets a lot of his oddities to make sense, when everything gets blown.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Hand of Thrawn / int_9591377d	comment	Jorj Car'das, Kardde's former boss, and who he is utterly terrified of. Turns out the man's actually long since had a Heel Realization, and is perfectly nice.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
The Hand of Thrawn / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Hinted at between Talon Karrde and Shada D'ukal. Shada finds herself wondering when she began to think of Karrde as a friend, and Karrde later blushes when Han teases him about the possibility.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
The Hand of Thrawn / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: Shavit. Also "kriff", introduced in these books, has since become Star Wars Legends fanon's answer to "frak" in its many contexts.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Hand of Thrawn / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: There are three people working to create and maintain the illusion that Thrawn has returned, but of the three, Disra and Tierce are the ones at odds. Flim mostly serves as The Watson, though he gets his own jabs in now and again. At the end it turns out that Tierce contributed more to the scheme than anyone else could have realized.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_97e17ec4	type	I Will Fight Some More Forever
The Hand of Thrawn / int_97e17ec4	comment	I Will Fight Some More Forever: One of Pallaeon's problems with the various Moffs. They'd rather go down swinging in 'glorious' combat than surrender to the New Republic. Pallaeon, being one of the few sane men in the room, has to point out repeatedly this is stupid; better to try and surrender now while they still have territory, rather than give the New Republic reason to just finally get fed up of their nonsense, march in and steamroll them.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Flim, taking part of the villain's plans disguised as Admiral Thrawn. He sometimes upsets Disra and Tierce by accurately referring to their plan as The Con and saying they shouldn't act like it's anything else.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Weary though he is, Pellaeon has become a highly capable commander in his own way in the years since we first saw him.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: All of Tierce's little tics. More distantly, there are vague references to the impending Yuuzhan Vong invasion.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Very frequent. Zahn read the rest of the EU. It's not hard to tell which parts he liked and which he didn't. There are also several to the events of The Thrawn Trilogy, naturally, as a Sequel Series. Early on, the New Republic Senate building is still not entirely rebuilt from the bombing it sustained in The New Rebellion. Late in Spectre, as everyone wonders how Thrawn could be alive, they wonder if it's something like Guri from Shadows of the Empire.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
The Hand of Thrawn / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Fix Fic: Like we said... Zahn read the rest of the EU. And it's easy to see which parts he liked and which he didn't.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_a3ec6101	comment	We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in the Future: Flim and Luke both subvert this, though Flim uses "self-powered surface inserts" to simulate Thrawn's glowing red monochromatic eyes. When Luke uses it, Zahn uses Mara's lines to deliver a concise Take That! to the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, in which Luke goes around warping people's minds to make them see another person to avoid him being recognised — not even when he's on a mission, just when he's walking the street — instead of, you know, wearing a disguise. Or just going In the Hood, like, um, every other Jedi ever. The fact that Luke has stopped using the Force for such things is the first sign to Mara that he's starting to get it.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Hand of Thrawn / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: An intact copy of the Caamas Document, which would name the Bothans responsible for the genocide and allow them to be put on trial so people stop blaming the race as a whole. Karrde tries to find one by searching out Jorj Car'das and his information archive, while Bel Iblis tries to get one by an information raid on the Imperial archives at Yaga Minor. In the end it's actually Luke and Mara who find one, by accident no less, in Thrawn's archives on Nirauan.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Hand of Thrawn / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Flim calls out Disra and Tierce's Moral Myopia, disdaining him as a con artist while ignoring the fact that their entire scheme to take control of the Empire and collapse the New Republic is built on con tricks. Just to rub salt into the wound, he reminds them that they've really got no choice but to rely on con tricks - and by extension him, regardless of how long they keep using his Thrawn masquerade - since the Empire doesn't have even a fraction of the resources it had during Thrawn's campaign, and neither of them has a shred of Thrawn's leadership or military genius.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Hand of Thrawn / int_b53077b3	comment	When Luke uses it, Zahn uses Mara's lines to deliver a concise Take That! to the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, in which Luke goes around warping people's minds to make them see another person to avoid him being recognised — not even when he's on a mission, just when he's walking the street — instead of, you know, wearing a disguise. Or just going In the Hood, like, um, every other Jedi ever. The fact that Luke has stopped using the Force for such things is the first sign to Mara that he's starting to get it.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
The Hand of Thrawn / int_b85c06f2	comment	Flim and Luke both subvert this, though Flim uses "self-powered surface inserts" to simulate Thrawn's glowing red monochromatic eyes.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Hand of Thrawn / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Chewie and Han and Leia's kids are absent for Spectre, being off with Chewie's family.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Hand of Thrawn / int_bb18a227	comment	Fey'lya has also become more rounded from his earlier It's All About Me Smug Snake Obstructive Bureaucrat persona. Unfortunately, later authors undid this in the New Jedi Order series.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Hand of Thrawn / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: During one of Luke's visions, he sees Mara lying lifeless in a pool of water. His vision comes true... but she's actually just unconscious, having been put into a Jedi healing trance by Luke himself shortly before, and emerges alive and well.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Hand of Thrawn / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Pellaeon's initial investigation of Disra is over where he's buying the new Preybird fighters (being constructed by an illegal shipyard Disra has a financial interest in, in violation of copyright). That investigation meant a later attack by the pirates who own the shipyard can be connected back to him, and reveals his connection to the main plot.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: Maybe it was only a ship, but it was a ship that meant everything to Mara.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Hand of Thrawn / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: In Vision of the Future. The protagonists are on the run from a powerful slaver fleet towards the planet of Exocron. If the slavers pursue them there the Aing-Tii monks, Force-users who usually don't go out of their territory but hate slavers, will destroy them with weird alien tech but if they see the trap and break off pursuit, that works too. Though the 'xanatos' aspect is downplayed for Batman Gambit; the people advising protagonists are counting on the Aing-Tii monks to save him.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_c3b418e9	type	Opinion Override
The Hand of Thrawn / int_c3b418e9	comment	Opinion Override: Played for Drama. The political question of what to do with the revelation of the Bothans' part in the Imperial genocide of the Caamasi is never properly posed to the Actual Pacifist Caamasi survivors themselves, mainly because it mostly stops actually being about Caamas pretty quickly: a lot of the participants, such as the Ishori and Diamalans, are just using it as an excuse to settle old grudges.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Hand of Thrawn / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Talon Karrde has lived in terror of his old boss Jorj Car'das's return, fearing that Car'das wants vengeance for Karrde taking over his organization. To the contrary, Car'das says Karrde has been a more Benevolent Boss than Car'das ever was, and gave his employees the pride and espirit de corps that Car'das was always too selfish to. Karrde didn't steal Car'das's work, he made it into something to be proud of, and Car'das has always wanted to thank him for it.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
The Hand of Thrawn / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: Kind of. Pellaeon, as The Watson to Thrawn, has managed to at least halfway match some of Thrawn's tactical genius (as seen at the end of Specter of the Past when he figures out that the pirate fleet couldn't possibly have been sent by Bel Iblis because he used one of Bel Iblis' own tactics to beat it). Lampshaded in that Pellaeon muses that Captain Ardiff is now in the same position that he was to Thrawn ten years ago.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_cac6d1d2	type	Mental Fusion
The Hand of Thrawn / int_cac6d1d2	comment	Mental Fusion: Luke and Mara do this in battle against Thrawn's sentinel droids, marking their truly becoming a Battle Couple.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Hand of Thrawn / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Pellaeon never wanted to lead the Empire, which is probably the reason why he was able to save it from final destruction; he was moved by a sense of duty while the likes of Disra were concerned only with power.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_d1b19b75	type	Debate and Switch
The Hand of Thrawn / int_d1b19b75	comment	Debate and Switch: Invoked with the search for an intact copy of the Caamas Document, which would allow the actual individuals involved in the Caamasi genocide to be tried for crimes against civilization. As it stands, the version recovered on Wayland is conveniently missing the part where Les Collaborateurs are named, making the debate ostensibly one over whether the entire Bothan state should be penalized for the actions of a few unknown individuals. Also for practical purposes the debate pretty quickly becomes a pretext for various members of the New Republic to settle old scores: many participants actually have no dog in the race and just pick a side because a traditional rival came down on the other.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Hand of Thrawn / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: As in The Thrawn Trilogy, averted. When Pellaeon bemoans the Empire's sorry state at the start of Specter, Captain Ardiff argues that even only eight sectors represents more than a thousand inhabited systems. Still a tiny fraction of what it was, small enough that it calls itself the Imperial Remnant, but not insignificant, even if the New Republic could invade and destroy it utterly if it wanted. The galaxy map indicates that only the central quarter of the galaxy is mapped and the rest is the Unknown Regions, in contrast to the now canon Star Wars galaxy map in which most of the galaxy is known and the Unknown regions are about a fifth of it.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_d5f31c75	type	Rabble Rouser
The Hand of Thrawn / int_d5f31c75	comment	Rabble Rouser: Imperial deep cover agents left behind by Grand Admiral Thrawn activated are after the discovery that a group of Bothans helped the Imps commit genocide of the pacifist Caamasi. The sleeper agents use this tactic, among others, to sow unrest: In one case they start a riot by basically having a guy holler "Justice for Caamas!" a bunch of times in a crowded town square (gathered for a demonstration at a Bothan-owned company) and start throwing fruit, and letting the crowds take it from there.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Hand of Thrawn / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Tierce, who is actually a partial clone of Thrawn, though his actual genetic material came from a former Royal Guardsman; it's just that his mental programming included elements taken from Thrawn's own mind. As Pellaeon points out, though, he lacks the charisma, vision, and leadership necessary to be a truly Magnificent Bastard.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_d9f477b2	type	Flanderisation
The Hand of Thrawn / int_d9f477b2	comment	Flanderisation: Lampshaded. Zahn mocks the other EU writers' treatment of Thrawn as omniscient and undefeatable by having several alien senators (whose worlds were never threatened by Thrawn the first time around) being terrified of his reputation, to which the main characters point out that he was never that good: he did, after all, lose in the end, and as clever as he was, Thrawn made a couple of key mistakes that were fatal in the end.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_dc167d72	type	Knowledge Broker
The Hand of Thrawn / int_dc167d72	comment	Knowledge Broker: This is a hat that gets tossed back and forth among half a dozen characters. Ultimately the persons holding the most valuable tidbits of information are Parck (who holds the keys to Thrawn's hidden empire in the Unknown Regions) and Jorj Car'das, who blows Disra and Tierce's masquerade wide open. Honorable mention must also go to Artoo, who defuses a galaxy-wide conflict by downloading the Caamas Document from Thrawn's files.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Hand of Thrawn / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Half the fun of this series is watching gambit after gambit get thrown on the pile, the bottom layer of which was laid by Grand Admiral freaking Thrawn over nine years ago.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Hand of Thrawn / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: The conspirators' plan to make everyone think Flim is Grand Admiral Thrawn works so well that it convinces General Bel Iblis... who, when the attempt at infiltrating the Yaga Minor shipyard goes awry, decides that stopping Thrawn is important enough to sacrifice his own ship and life and prepares to ram "Thrawn's." Fortunately for the conspirators, the situation is resolved before this can happen.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Hand of Thrawn / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: The monomolecular stiletto, previously seen in Stackpole and Zahn's novella Side Trip. They can cut through anything, but realistically are very fragile and tend to be ruined by even a single use. For that reason, Shada carries three of them when she breaks into Han and Leia's home.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Hand of Thrawn / int_e16cd24e	comment	Disra deduces that a flight of ships attacking one of his Star Destroyers are Diamalan by working backwards from intelligence reports on recent starship purchases. He then realizes that they're trying to find out if the rumors of Thrawn's return are true, and convinces them by finding in Thrawn's logs the tactics he used against the Diamalans during his invasion nine years earlier. The Diamalans quickly bug out.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Hand of Thrawn / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy / Xanatos Speed Chess: Constantly and everyone. Hero, villain, Heroic Neutral... everyone is madly struggling to get past the difficulties they throw at each other, all the time. None of the main characters are ever really certain or secure for long, though they give that impression to their enemies.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Hand of Thrawn / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Disra, Flim, Tierce, generally acting as Id, Ego, and Superego, respectively.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Bel Iblis uses these to reassure Booster Terrik about his continuing authority over his ship, the Errant Venture (an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer he captured back in The Bacta War), which Iblis plans to use as part of an infiltration mission.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Hand of Thrawn / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Pellaeon's arrival on the Relentless at Yaga Minor. Shown from the point of view of the Smug Snake villain, for added value.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: A successful version with Control of the pirate gang.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Hand of Thrawn / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: It takes a near-Civil War in the Republic but the Bothan collaborators are unmasked and brought to justice, the Republic and Empire sign a peace treaty, and Luke and Mara Jade get married.
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The Hand of Thrawn / int_fa4cfe0e	comment	Translation Punctuation: Vision has a passage where the various fleets of alien warships over Bothawui are given fraudulent orders to {Attack!}, [Attack!], and <Attack!>
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