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The Thrawn Trilogy

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The Thrawn Trilogy	comment	A trilogy of novels written by Timothy Zahn that form part of Star Wars Legends, the original Star Wars Expanded Universe. Heir to the Empire (1991, hardcover) Dark Force Rising (1992, hardcover) The Last Command (1993, hardcover)This trilogy was one of the cornerstones of the now Alternate Continuity Legends, being the first major work set after Return of the Jedi (five years after to be exact), the first truly popular entry of the franchise since Return of the Jedi, and serving as the introduction of some of the most beloved figures in Legends canon, like Grand Admiral Thrawn, Mara Jade, Gilad Pellaeon and Talon Karrde. Back before the Sequel Trilogy was made, many fans considered these stories to be the closest thing to an Episode VII, Episode VIII, and Episode IX that they would ever get. Years later, these stories are still regarded highly despite showing their age in some places.Given the Big Bad is an alien, this trilogy introduced a slightly more human Galactic Empire — still certainly villainous, but no longer a 0% Approval Rating organization. In movie terms, it is somewhat closer to Admiral Piett and Captain Needa than Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin. Thrawn himself (the aforementioned alien Big Bad) was certainly a Magnificent Bastard of the highest caliber, one whom the reader did not hesitate in respecting. The trilogy also reflected the Real Life movement into the Information Age, with Thrawn (and Karrde opposite him) being able to connect esoteric and obscure bits of data together into a much larger picture. Thrawn in particular was able to practice an almost obscene version of psychoanalysis on people and cultures by studying their artwork, using it to identify weaknesses in their thinking or perception patterns, and then exploiting said weaknesses in devastating ways. The trilogy, as implied by its name, concerns the adventures of the New Republic, particularly Luke, Han and Leia, to deal with Thrawn's plans, leadership and genius.A comic-book adaptation of the trilogy was also produced, with six issues allotted per book. The art for Heir to the Empire is kind of questionable. The art for Dark Force Rising is much prettier, but it has problems of its own. The art for the last book is pretty decent; less realistic, but more expressive. The comics are a very Compressed Adaptation, with some pages having a Wall of Text and somehow still leaving out some important elements, but they do fairly well at sticking to the narrative.For an idea of just how much of Legends canon got its start in these books, go here, here and here and note how many times the phrase "first appearance" comes up. These novels basically invented the New Republic that the Rebellion became. A few years later, Zahn wrote the Hand of Thrawn duology.On June 21, 2011, the 20th anniversary edition of Heir to the Empire was released, including a new novella featuring Thrawn, Crisis of Faith, and some interesting notes by Zahn himself on the process of the writing of the novel.Thrawn appeared in Season Three of Star Wars Rebels (voiced by Lars Mikkelsen) and in a new non-Legends novel by Timothy Zahn, making him the first major post-Jedi Legends character to be transitioned back into the new timeline.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Averted by some of the planet names. Zahn isn't scared of having some very consonant-heavy and undervoweled planet names, like Bpfassh, presumably named so by their alien populations who, you know, don't speak English. Or Basic, as it's called. Plenty of aliens speak in their own languages, and at one point Leia has to brush up on her Shyriiwook for a trip to Kashyyyk. Luckily, the local Wookiee diplomat has something of a speech impediment that makes it easier for non-Wookiees to understand him (Leia actually understands the Wookiee language better than she thinks, the problem is their accent is indecipherable to most outsiders).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1206d299	comment	When Mara reveals to Luke that she wants him dead for killing the Emperor, Luke privately notes that he's only indirectly responsible for the Emperor's death, but decides it's probably a bad idea to argue over semantics, especially considering the situation they're in. It's only when they revisit the topic two books later that Luke learns that Mara meant it entirely literally, as the result of a fake vision in which he and Vader simultaneously attacked the Emperor.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: Something very strange happened on Wayland between the Emperor's last visit and Thrawn's arrival there. A gestating clone of Jorus C'Baoth (why was he being grown?) broke free from his restraints, fought and killed the Dark Side user that the Emperor left to guard the facility and took it over. Zahn's notes in the annotated 20th Anniversary Edition dispel the fan-theory that Joruus actually was the guardian of the mountain, and forgot it (and Outbound Flight makes it very likely that Joruus didn't even have much "clone madness", since his behavior was very similar to that of the real Jorus C'Baoth, if more erratic and unpredictable). He also implies that the guardian of the mountain was actually a Sith, and not a specially-trained Force-user like Mara Jade. Unfortunately no more clues to what happened are ever offered.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_14780a0b	type	I Don't Pay You to Think
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_14780a0b	comment	I Don't Pay You to Think: In The Last Command, Fingal and Governor Staffa of Berchest have a chat after they spot Luke Skywalker poking around on the planet. Fingal asks Staffa if he thinks that Skywalker saw the special transport they were using to carry clones for the Empire and Staffa replies that of course he saw it, wondering if Fingal thought Skywalker was hanging around for his health. At this, Fingal comments "I only thought..." only to be cut off by Staffa telling him to not think, as he isn't properly equipped for it. Not directly stated, but this is a major undertone between Thrawn and Niles Ferrier. The latter often screws up his assigned tasks due to his Small Name, Big Ego tendencies, and the former displays barely-concealed contempt for him. When discussing the idea to frame Karrde, Thrawn outlines a plan that minimizes Ferrier's direct involvement, while shooting down all of Ferrier's suggestions as stupid. And of course, the plan fails due to Ferrier being unable to keep his mouth shut.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Grand Admiral Thrawn is a tactical genius who manages to rise through the ranks of the Imperial military to appoint himself de facto Galactic Emperor after the Empire's leadership crumbles during a period of chaos, despite being a Chiss serving in a human supremacist military that generally looks down on aliens. He's essentially an alien NapolÃ©on Bonaparte, right down to the distinctive white military uniform, the protective instinct towards his troops, and the strong opposition to democracy. Like Napoleon, he even abandons his "foreign" birth name to make it easier for his troops to accept him, and ultimately goes by a simple mononym; the Corsican-born "Napoleone di Buonaparte" adopted the French name "NapolÃ©on Bonaparte", and eventually just "NapolÃ©on", while the Chiss "Mitth'raw'nuruodo" simply calls himself "Thrawn".
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_17975d1b	type	Unstable Equilibrium
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_17975d1b	comment	Played straight in the numbers of ships aspect, which was apparent in the original trilogy. For the size of the galaxy, the 200 ship strong Katana Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser fleet should barely be considered a picket force, much less one that could turn the tables in a galaxy spanning war. Later sources clarify that at this point, the Republic and the Empire are almost perfectly matched in terms of materiel. The Katana fleet might not be much, but it's just enough to free up some other ships that are needed elsewhere, which will gradually lead to a snowballing effect and an insurmountable advantage.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_17bc68ed	type	Covert Emergency Call
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_17bc68ed	comment	Covert Emergency Call: During The Last Command, Talon Karrde is held at gunpoint at the helm of his ship, but he's able to covertly flash the ship's landing lights on and off, drawing the attention of people nearby. For bonus points, he then tricks his captor into believing that one of the light controls is a Dead Man's Switch.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_17ce80aa	comment	The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook mentions that this Mind Trick was several degrees nastier than what Obi-Wan and Luke were willing to do. Pellaeon's willpower was permanently reduced by what C'baoth did—though considering the things he was willing to work for in later books, it must have been formidable from the start.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Ysalamiri negate the Force whenever they appear. Thrawn uses Ysalamiri to completely negate C'Baoth's Force lightning, and uses them to keep the insane Dark Jedi cooperative across the trilogy. Luke is unable to use the Force on Myrkr due to the high number of Ysalamiri. While not a combat purpose, Thrawn uses Ysalamiri to negate a resonance in the Force that would make clones grown too quickly crazy.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Played With. In The Last Command, Pellaeon muses about how at the end of Dark Force Rising C'baoth declared himself "the true heir to the Empire." The phrase Dark Force Rising is never spoken, but the Katana fleet Dreadnoughts are often referred to by the "Dark Force" nickname. Finally, after Mara Jade kills the evil clone Luuke Skywalker, the narration notes that she's "finally fulfilled the Emperor's last command."
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Thrawn, while not to the degree of other examples on the trope page, certainly compared to what most of the Imperial commanders show in other works. This is hammered in during the third book, after the tractor beam incident and the operator's promotion for thinking outside the box and the manual even though his idea didn't work. In fact, it's lampshaded by Zahn. The Noghri, on the other hand, have something to say about this after they find out he's been lying to them for years to manipulate them into being his Elite Mooks.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The backstory of the fabled Katana fleet, AKA the Dark Force of 200 Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers built by the Republic Navy before the Clone Wars. They were designed with greater automation than most warships, in an attempt to cut down the large number of crewers per ship (from over 16000 on a standard Dreadnaught to around 2000). They also used slave circuits, allowing one ship to take remote control of another in an emergency. This came back to bite them hard when a case of Space Madness broke out among the fleet, and the flagship Katana's crew made a random hyperspace jump, taking the entire fleet with them.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: Thrawn, at least by this point, is not a good person: he has absolutely no qualms about betraying Mara to get to Karrde in Dark Force Rising, kidnapping someone's children and delivering them to be corrupted by an Ax-Crazy clone, and his military strategy involves growing his own slave soldiers by the thousands and throwing them at the Republic. But unlike most imperials, he's not a Card-Carrying Villain. There is also a practical reason for this in that by the time the Thrawn trilogy took place the Empire no longer had endless reserves of beings and equipment, meaning the Empire could not recklessly throw away the lives of its soldiers.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1b44c21	type	GrayAndGreyMorality
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1b44c21	comment	Gray-and-Grey Morality: Although this trope is not fully embraced, the trilogy does depart from the movies' general Black-and-White Morality tone. The Anti-Villain tropes appear, and the Loveable Rogue types are no longer the only ones to qualify for Anti-Hero. Some of the people who aided the Rebellion turn out to have done so for selfish reasons, and some of those who serve the Empire are shown as Well-Intentioned Extremist or My Country, Right or Wrong types. There is no Card-Carrying Villain, and while Luke and Leia don't venture into Anti-Hero territory they are shown to have doubts and temptations.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Mara is wounded at the end of "Dark Force Rising" and spends a month recovering, during which time she misses out on what Thrawn is doing. Winter fills her in one his new victories, but fails to mention he's using clones—the source of which Mara would know. Mara only finds out about the clones after Thrawn has discredited her in the Republic's eyes using a Xanatos Gambit, setting up the prison break and our-heroes-stand-alone endgame of "The Last Command".note Somewhat odd, given that Winter's perfect memory should have resulted in her realizing that Mara was unconscious for the entire time that Thrawn's use of clones was a big story in the media. Then again, theoretically there wasn't much actually stopping Mara from learning about the clones during the time she was conscious; for whatever reason, the subject was never brought up. Also, "perfect recall" does not necessarily mean "puts every piece together". When Mara reveals to Luke that she wants him dead for killing the Emperor, Luke privately notes that he's only indirectly responsible for the Emperor's death, but decides it's probably a bad idea to argue over semantics, especially considering the situation they're in. It's only when they revisit the topic two books later that Luke learns that Mara meant it entirely literally, as the result of a fake vision in which he and Vader simultaneously attacked the Emperor. How long Honoghr has been a desolate wasteland isn't clarified thanks to some near misses in communication between the maitrakh and Leia. The maitrakh mentions Khabarakh is her "thirdson" which Leia assumes to be third born son when it really means the son of her son's son, or great-grandson. More subtly, Chewie expresses that the decontamination of Honoghr looks like it's been progressing for about eight years, with Leia noting that places the initial disaster well within the war against the Empire. But he obviously says this in Shyriiwook which the maitrakh can't understand so she takes Leia's admission the Empire probably isn't delaying the cleansing of the land at face value.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c4adce1	type	The Siege
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c4adce1	comment	The Siege: Thrawn besieges Coruscant with cloaked asteroids.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Thrawn, so very much. Hell, he weaponized it.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c81c658	type	Paranoia Gambit
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1c81c658	comment	Paranoia Gambit: In The Last Command, Thrawn captures one of Karrde's would-be allies and tells him... the truth. Or at least just enough of the truth, such as how Thrawn didn't order the attack on Karrde and co earlier in the book. Then he lets the man go, knowing his mistrust of Talon will do the legwork for him. Would've worked if Niles Ferrier hadn't screwed up.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Prompted by a Force suggestion from Mara, Leia surrenders to the Imperial commandos attempting to kidnap her and the twins early in The Last Command. Once the shooting stops, Mara is able to come in behind the commandos and gun them down without getting herself caught in the crossfire. In fairness, Leia herself didn't attack them; if they didn't watch their backs, that's their own mistake.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1ed1bead	type	Domed Hometown
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1ed1bead	comment	Domed Hometown: On New Cov, cities are built under large domes of transparent metal to keep out the dense and hostile jungles that cover the planet. Inside they're Hive Cities, with their volumes filled by multiple stacked levels given to distinct functions. Access is through large chutes on their tops, which spaceships can fly in and out of to access the hangar levels at the top.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1ef8bd9a	type	Compromising Call
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_1ef8bd9a	comment	Compromising Call: Discussed then averted. Han goes off to follow a suspicious looking character, leaving Lando and Luke on their own. Han tells Lando not to call him, as he might be somewhere he wouldn't want a callbeep going off. Lando later tries to comm Han anyway, since there's an Imperial raid happening, but it's moot because the Empire is jamming comm traffic and Han had his comlink taken by the suspicious-looking character's associates anyway.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Compared to the Imperials from the movies, and to the Imperials written by just about every other Expanded Universe author, Zahn's Imperials really aren't that bad. They're...people, who happen to be the enemies of our heroes, and who do things our heroes wouldn't do.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Joruus C'baoth.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Talon Karrde is definitely a gentleman. He treats his people well, honors his debts, and holds himself to the rules of hospitality ("They've sat at our table and eaten our food. That puts them under our protection.") He's also the commander of the top smuggling group. Zahn tried to create a top smuggler who's the direct opposite of Jabba the Hutt (or, perhaps, who Han Solo might have eventually turned into if he hadn't happened to be in the Mos Eisley Cantina that particular day). He succeeded very well.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: Leia's slow progress in the Force. To a certain extent, Mara as well, as her abilities come and go.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Katana Fleet, Delta Source, ch'hala trees. A particularly obvious one is the "small, almost trivial piece of technology" mentioned several times that Thrawn hoped to find in Mount Tantiss in addition to the cloaking shield. This turns out to be the Spaarti Cylinders, which are a critical part of Thrawn's plans.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Luke and Mara at the end of The Last Command. Having gone through all the experiences they've shared and having the lies the Emperor constructed around Mara shattered leaves remarkably chummy, considering Mara started the books wanting nothing more than to murder Luke.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_24feb95d	type	Fantastic Fallout
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_24feb95d	comment	Despite Honoghr, the trope is played straight with the titular planet of Endor. Leia stops by to meet a contact at one point, yet no mention of any damage to the moon. (The books note, with the above scenario, that it's mostly Clone Wars era ships that had a lot of toxic chemicals that could ruin an environment if a ship crashed. That said the primary argument regarding the classic Endor holocaust argument is the sheer size of the Death Star and the debris resultant from its destruction.) In orbit around the moon, of course, is a bit of a different story, and for a different reason...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_25a6c734	comment	Not in This for Your Revolution: Kardde repeatedly insists he is not on the New Republic's side, and any help he gives them is purely for the money he will make doing so. Leia, remembering Han making similar statements, is amused.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_26e5c183	comment	Polluted Wasteland: Honoghr, the result of a Clone wars era cruiser crash-landing on it and venting fuel and coolant everywhere. (It's stated that modern starships are much less likely to Chernobylize a planet when they crash.) The Empire then took steps to keep it that way so they could keep the natives as Battle Thralls.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_26fd153	type	Early Adaptation Weirdness
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_26fd153	comment	Early Adaptation Weirdness: Zahn did all this writing before there really was much canon outside the Original Trilogy, and almost a decade before Episode 1 came out, so there are a few things in the story that ended up invalidated by canon: Zahn asserts that in the Clone Wars, it was discovered that clones would go insane if they were grown too fast (due to resonance in the Force between the mind of the clone and that of the original). Nobody else has ever acknowledged this as being true or, for that matter, happening. Zahn also has Mara claim that the Death Star I debacle is why Vader lost his right hand: in punishment for his failure. Zahn and a couple others actually did Retcon a form of this back into canon. A comic had a battle between Republic forces (including Pellaeon) and besieged Separatist aliens who were quick-growing clones of their warriors in tubes, and as they compressed the growth cycle further and further the clones started getting disjointed. The Empire started moving away from Kamino cloning to experiment with Spaarti cylinders, an entirely different tech, and growing clones too quickly in those tends to make them insane. The Thrawn Trilogy attributes this to interference from too many identical Force presences in the same place (a problem which Thrawn solves through the use of Force-suppressing ysalamiri). It also helps that he was vague about all of that the first time around. Another short story has Vader lose his (already mechanical) right hand after the Death Star is destroyed, so this could be blamed on Mara assuming that he still had a biological hand at this point. Averted in that the "rule of thumb" for safe cloning is a minimum of one year, and ideally three to five years. Fast forward (or rewind) to Attack of the Clones, and the Kaminoan system results in a clone trooper taking about ten years to reach maturity. The two systems also produce completely different kinds of clones. Spaarti clones are exact duplicates with memories and skills intact, while Kamino clones are just a bunch of guys with the same DNA (and optionally growth acceleration) who have to be trained from scratch. The biggest Clone Wars related issue is that Zahn sets them over a decade before the eventual timeline established by the prequels. This was actually Lucas's fault rather than Zahn's—as Zahn revealed in his annotations in the 20th anniversary edition, Lucas hadn't yet settled on a concrete timeline for the series pre-A New Hope and eventually compressed it from the more expansive one he'd given Zahn at the time. Related, a grievous math error takes place when the Noghri claim in Dark Force Rising that Vader came to them and "helped" them forty-four years ago. At the point in the continuity the books took place, Luke and Leia could be no older than twenty-eight, meaning Vader would have been a fallen Jedi for at least sixteen years before Luke and Leia were even born. It could be put down to miscounting, but they specifically say it's been forty-eight Noghri years, and in the "years of the Emperor", forty-four. The Essential Guide to Alien Species later clarifies that Honoghr has a shorter year, and they were using Honoghr years rather than standard. Zahn also writes from the not-unreasonable assumption that the Clone Wars involved an evil clone army attacking the galaxy. Everyone automatically assumes Thrawn's use of clones will lead to Clone Wars II even though the origins of the wars wound up being completely different—the Empire's a hostile enemy state while the original conflict was a civil war. Not to mention that the clones turned out to be the "good" guys in the Clone Wars, so to speak. Zahn describes Coruscant as having hills, isolated towers, greenery, and mountain ranges—later books describe it as a planet-wide city (Shadows of the Empire specifically mentions the peak of the tallest mountain on the planet is the centerpiece of an otherwise normal city plaza), and the movies locked that in. Jawas are common enough not only on Coruscant, but in the Imperial Palace itself, for their robes and hoods to make viable disguises for Leia's cadre of Noghri bodyguards. Though the original trilogy depicts Jawas only on Tatooine, the assumption that Jawas could be found underfoot on nearly any planet with a spaceport, was not unreasonable. Later materials establish Jawas as native only to Tatooine.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_27a047a6	type	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_27a047a6	comment	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Jacen and Jaina.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Mara turns out to be an unknowing case of this. As the Emperor's Hand, she believed herself his top agent, equal in power to Vader himself. Thrawn reveals that there were other Hands, all of whom Palpatine manipulated into believing they were his only one. While Thrawn is perhaps overly dismissive of Mara's position — she still has secret command codes to access any computer system on any Imperial ship, including the one she's on right that second — Mara herself is unquestionably not the indispensible one-of-a-kind asset she assumed herself to be.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Talon Karrde's pet vornskrs are named Sturm and Drang. Those are not words of some made up alien language but German words that, when showing up together, refer to a certain movement in German literature.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Han, allowing him to slot into the role of The Smart Guy when alongside his Ambadassador wife and Kung-Fu Jesus brother-in-law. Each of the three mains has elements of this, since Zahn writes all of them as being very intelligent, but Han's most prominent.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Originally, it was just called "The Star Wars Trilogy", as it was the first Expanded Universe novel that actually tried to continue from where the movies left off. Later, it had to be retitled "The Thrawn Trilogy" to differentiate it from the hundreds of other books set after Return of the Jedi.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2d3016e8	type	Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2d3016e8	comment	Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: Talon Karrde is suspected of hiring Imperials that attacked a smuggler meeting because data was planted in his ship implicating him. Once Niles Ferrier says the name of the Imperial Lieutenant despite nobody mentioning it, everyone realizes that Niles was actually responsible, proving Karrde's innocence.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2e0c3dae	type	Huge Holographic Head
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_2e0c3dae	comment	Huge Holographic Head: C'Baoth uses this through a holoterminal to talk to Thrawn, something Thrawn referred as "the Emperor's setting". Pelleon notes that the setting also amplifies facial expressions of hesitation and doubt, making the setting counterproductive without full control of yourself. For the Emperor, of course, this was not a problem; for someone as unstable as C'Baoth...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3079b64	type	Author Catchphrase
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3079b64	comment	Author Catchphrase: Using "the other" as an alternative to a character name when describing dialogue (as in, "...Han said to the other"), as well as "Luke reached out with the Force" and "...it was all over". Also, a very large proportion of his characters are "sardonic" in some way or have "wry" smiles.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Senator Fey'lya is not literally a traitor (he isn't paid by the Empire), but overlooks no chance to pursue his own interests, even if by doing so he damages the broader interests of the Republic.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: In Dark Force Rising the Imperial Star Destroyer Peremptory is destroyed when a remote-controlled Katana Fleet Dreadnaught rams her.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Zahn is fond of using these. Many of them proved to be Canon Fodder for later authors, especially Michael Stackpole. A few were never followed up on, but their number is tiny compared to the ones that did.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity: Despite not being that important of a character in the first book, C'baoth is featured the most prominently on the cover, while Thrawn is given a very small space in the corner. While not quite the standard use of the trope since C'baoth was a new character, the publishers were probably going for "hey, look! a Jedi!". Oddly enough, even though it is in the later two books where the majority of his arc takes place, he gets much less cover space on the final book and isn't even on the cover of the second. (Except for the Hungarian cover◊ which prominently features the Grand Admiral... but not C'baoth!) The 2016 covers similarly show Thrawn prominently with no C'baoth.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_341cdc31	type	Worshipped for Great Deeds
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_341cdc31	comment	Worshipped for Great Deeds: The Noghri see Darth Vader as a figure of reverence, both for his immense skill in combat, and because he's the face of the Empire that saved them after a great disaster. This becomes a Spanner in the Works for Thrawn, since this reverence transfers to his daughter.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Thrawn asks the Noghri maitrakh if she needs a reminder of what it means to defy The Empire. When she says no, Thrawn gives her one anyway by launching an Orbital Bombardment on Honoghr.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: C'baoth is powerful enough in direct physical combat, but not a game breaker ... but his mental superpowers that can mind-control tens of thousands of people at once over lightyears of distance soundly qualify him as this.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Zahn introduces several sayings, which on the whole tend to be fairly quiet. The oldest trick on the list. Killing two lizards with one throw.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Used in-universe. Thrawn has unexpectedly come calling on Talon Karrde (while Karrde is hosting Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, and trying to keep them from discovering that he's accidentally holding Luke Skywalker captive). Thrawn's visual flickers momentarily, and a few paragraphs later, Thrawn notes that he and Karrde can continue their discussion when he arrives. Karrde suddenly realizes that the flicker was the shuttle Thrawn was communicating from launching from the Chimaera, and signs off in a hurry to make sure that none of his guests, invited or otherwise, will run into each other.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_38bf28e3	comment	Engineered Public Confession: How Leia and Karrde reveal Fey'lya's selfishness to the military officers he's duped.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Thrawn is master of these, usually working out from an enemy's artwork how they will respond to a given tactic. He also realizes our heroes' penchant for choosing strategies on the basis of "our enemies can't possibly believe we'd be that crazy", and uses it to deduce that they'll hit the heavily defended shipyards at Bilbringi rather than the less-defended Tangrene. His trick of faking the ability to fire through planetary shields relies on choosing a target psychologically prone to panic when they think they've seen something impossible without examining it too closely. When a recording of the attack makes it to the New Republic they figure out how it was done immediately, but by then the Empire has secured the planet. The Republic's side also gets some examples. In The Last Command we are introduced to "The Cracken Twist", used to transmit coordinates for a rendezvous point when the enemy is listening in. An order is given: "Cracken Twist: on two, one, two!" The ships all pull off a Cool Maneuver that the enemy will think is the Twist, but it's actually code for "add the number 2 to the second digit of the coordinates I'm transmitting to get the real place".
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Han absolutely takes on this role in the trilogy. Luke is the Jedi Knight, Leia is following in his footsteps and showing that she's her father's daughter as well as the diplomat who may be holding the Republic together through force of will... but Han, instead of being Overshadowed by Awesome, is generally the one giving the orders to Skywalkers because he's the one with all the plans. (That being said, Han mentions that most men he'd known would be offended by a wife who could outsmart them, when he, after she figures out a way to confirm they're talking to who they think they are, wouldn't have it any other way.)
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_397c85c2	type	Our Clones Are Different
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_397c85c2	comment	Our Clones Are Different: Grand Admiral Thrawn uses Spaarti cylinders recovered from an Imperial tech cache on Wayland to create cloned soldiers to bolster Imperial numbers. It's explained that, due to a quirk of the Force, clones that are grown to adulthood too fast (less than a standard year) tend to go insane, which Thrawn solves by importing Force-negating creatures called ysalamiri from Myrkr. Luke Skywalker perceives the resulting clone troops as producing a sort of buzzing in his Force perception.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3a730620	type	Untranslated Catchphrase
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3a730620	comment	Untranslated Catchphrase: Leia is the Mal'ary'ush. The Noghri who recognizes her as such immediately clarifies, saying that she is the daughter and heir of the Lord Darth Vader. Later it's clarified further to mean that she is heir to his authority and power. Supplemental material reveals that the word actually means "Heir of the Savior".
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3b113b7	comment	Mara has a mild case of this in the beginning; part of her Character Development is learning to look beyond herself and think about other people.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Averted with the Katana fleet. When it's rediscovered, many of the ships have serious problems with their engines and weapons systems, and it's noted that they'll need a major overhaul before they're ready to put into service.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Winter's Photographic Memory. She's Alderaanian and remembers the destruction of her homeworld with as much clarity as if it happened yesterday, as well as a number of other unpleasant incidents in her life.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Pellaeon contrasts Vader being one with the fact that Thrawn isn't. Which doesn't mean Thrawn isn't above a You Have Failed Me on occasion (reference the situation with the tractor beam operator), he's just more pragmatic about it.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: Upon seeing C'baoth controlling several Imperial task forces at once, Pellaeon muses that this was how the fleet was quickly defeated in the battle of Endor after Palpatine's death, if Palpatine controlled them in the same way. Zahn says the idea was inspired by how Sauron controlled his forces in The Lord of the Rings. Thrawn had already proposed the theory in the first book, which Pellaeon refused to accept until seeing C'baoth in action.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Thrawn does this with art, deducing facts not about the artist, but their entire culture. This even works for specific individuals... by studying art a specific person collects (Karrde/Bel Iblis) or has made (Ackbar), Thrawn can deduce how that person will respond to various tactics.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3f0310d6	type	Magikarp Power
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3f0310d6	comment	C'Baoth's original question to Thrawn as to why he should help him conquer the galaxy. C'Baoth states that he has no desire to rule over millions of people he will never meet, preferring a smaller and more intimate society that he can micromanage down to the last shirt button. Subverted when C'Baoth's rapidly expanding powers allow him to take control of people's minds from great distances. And Then What? gets thrown out the window, as now he has the means to mentally dominate everyone in the entire galaxy. In a way, his victory would be far worse than Thrawn's, as C'Baoth would control everyone in the galaxy, mind, body, and soul.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: C'baoth, though his insanity means he can't stay focused on his manipulations for long. When they fail, he generally falls back on Mind Rape. Borsk Fey'lya as well. Thrawn himself is more of The Chessmaster, but he occasionally showed tendencies of this as when he personally manipulated Mara Jade and Mazzic.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_40fec5b4	type	Default to Good
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_40fec5b4	comment	Default to Good: Karrde, and most of the Smugglers' Alliance.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Both subverted and inverted in The Last Command. When diplomatic negotiations by Luke's party with the natives of Wayland are threatened by a predator attack, Chewbacca draws his bowcaster—in violation of the rules of the meeting—and shoots the predator. This puts the natives in an uproar, and it seems at first that negotiations are about to go in the garbage masher. It turns out that Chewie's action is the key to securing an agreement with the natives; the Wookiee slaves used by the Empire—a previous occupier—weren't allowed to use weapons, and the fact that Chewie has a weapon is proof that the newcomers are not the same as the Empire.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_443b78cd	comment	C'baoth has a more traditional one after Mara kills the Luke clone, albeit one where he passes into Tranquil Fury instead of another hissyfit.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess / Gambit Pileup: Karrde desperately trying to keep Han and Lando from finding Luke and vice versa, and then trying to keep all three hidden from Thrawn while still not letting them become aware of each other. The raid for the CGT at the end of the trilogy had the Empire, Republic, and the fringe trying to outwit each other. Then it all came down to the main characters' battle with C'baoth on the other side of the galaxy triggering a completely unrelated Noghri plot.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In-Universe examples: Pellaeon wonders how the Battle of Endor would have turned out if Thrawn had been in command. Considering how close the actual Battle of Endor was and how brilliant Thrawn is, the answer would almost certainly have been "so long, Rebel scum." A later book has Thrawn and the Emperor explicitly discussing the latter's plans for Endor shortly before the Battle of Hoth. Thrawn quickly picks up on the Emperor's ploy to leave Endor's shield generator lightly defended as a lure for the Rebels, and warns him about the possibility of the locals siding with the Rebels. The Emperor, of course, dismisses the primitives as posing no threat. During Luke's trip to Dagobah in Heir. While in the Dark Side Cave, Luke experiences a vision of the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon. He sees what would have happened if Mara had managed to board the Sail Barge.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Fey'lya. Backstabbing politicking seems to be a Bothan trait. Even more so when it got flanderized in subsequent books.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, used as a weapon by Thrawn when he forces Coruscant to cut itself off with its planetary shield by putting cloaked asteroids in orbit. He uses trickery to make it look like he launched many times more than he actually did—so the New Republic has no way of knowing how many asteroids there really are or if they've accounted for them all.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: A conversation with Bel Iblis establishes that Han Solo went through officer training in the Imperial Navy before becoming a smuggler. The Han Solo Trilogy would later show what happened to cause Han to leave.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_471fdb9e	type	Defeat Equals Explosion
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_471fdb9e	comment	Defeat Equals Explosion: C'Baoth blows up when Mara kills him.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Done straight in the first book, then subverted in the third. The first was a Blofeld Ploy, but it's not capricious - the situation is ambiguous, and Thrawn explains why he considered the Mook to be the one at fault. He was checking if the Mook was badly trained, or just an idiot who can't take blame. When he confirmed it was the latter, he had the mook killed, and had the trainer prepare a replacement. Efficiency went up afterward. The second time, the situation was similar, but the mook had shown quick thinking and inventiveness, even if he'd failed. Instead of killing him, Thrawn promoted him and told him to work on solving the problem that had beaten them. (He did.) Further, the first was a situation whose solution was known, while the second hadn't been solved by anyone yet. The second officer also took responsibility for their failure. The first (a conscript, who might have been resentful of having to serve) tried to pin the blame on the superior officer who trained him. (The officer, for his part, claims he tries to treat conscripts and volunteers equally, and admitted he couldn't remember specifically putting the crewman through that training situation, though it was definitely part of standard training packages.) One speculates whether he would have kept his head, if not his post, if he'd just admitted his mistake; Thrawn doesn't punish failure with summary execution. To Thrawn, doing this the way Vader and Palpatine did is stupid because killing failures leads to less innovation, and people fight more effectively when their leader inspires them. To be more clear, he doesn't punish failure, he punishes fault. And trying to make your superior officer look bad in front of his superior to deflect blame from your own laxness in failing to Read the Freaking Manual is a capital fault. As he eloquently explains: His reactions based on hypothetical scenarios so as to flesh out what Thrawn is actually punishing - failure to act in the best interests of duty and position (so, incompetence): It's likely to note that Vader would likely have killed all of them for failing (at least, if they'd failed to capture Luke). There's also the commander of the Bilbringi shipyards, who clearly expects to be on the receiving end of this trope after some smugglers blow up a nearly-completed Star Destroyer. Instead, Thrawn gives him until the Chimaera leaves the system to design and implement a new security system to prevent such a thing from happening again, at which point he'll make his decision. Thrawn notes that this particular officer is quite competent, but simply has a tendency to get complacent... a tendency which, for the moment at least, he should be cured of. (This one actually doesn't pan out too well for him. In the finale, Bilbringi is infiltrated by the nascent Smugglers' Alliance, though it's not known if they would have been so successful without a full-scale Republic assault happening.)
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4aaffbd5	comment	Later on Thrawn tries to salvage the situation. When Thrawn sends Ferrier back in to frame Karrde for the attack, Ferrier's I Never Said It Was Poison slip-up only unites the smugglers even more firmly against the Empire, contributing meaningfully to Thrawn's later defeat.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: The Republic tries one on Thrawn, by quietly gathering forces to make it look like they're attacking Tangrene, when they're really going after Bilbringi. Clever plan, but it fails spectacularly because, well, it's Thrawn. However, both sides also manage to shuffle the smugglers, which helps win the day.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: Not quite as dramatic a reveal as usual for this trope, with no ticking clock or imminent explosion, but the Republic scrambles against time to find the Katana fleet before Thrawn, and engages in a vicious battle when a Star Destroyer arrives to stop them, but once it is over they discover that Thrawn had already discovered the fleet hours, if not days ago, and has already claimed ninety percent of the fleet.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4cf1658	type	Commander Contrarian
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4cf1658	comment	Commander Contrarian: Pellaeon is a positive example, questioning Thrawn's conclusions and plans not because he has no faith in his CO, but because Thrawn loves having someone try and poke holes in his reasoning. If they fail, the reasoning is sound. If they succeed, he needs to reevaluate.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4d1bad5	type	Minion Manipulated into Villainy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4d1bad5	comment	Minion Manipulated into Villainy: The Noghri, who serve as the scarily competent bodyguards or assassins of Thrawn and other high-ranking Imperials, worship the late Darth Vader as the semi-divine protector of their planet, because he prevented their extinction after a major ecological catastrophe. The heroes later learn that this catastrophe was actually caused by a space battle above the planet during the Clone Wars, and that Vader manipulated the Noghri into eternal Undying Loyalty to him by then pretending he is helping them, but actually the droids sent to restore their vegetation were really poisoning it to keep the Noghri needing the Empire forever. Once they learn this due to Leia, the Noghri turn on the Imperials.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: A few examples. One is where the Noghri maitrakh reveals to Leia that "thirdson" does not mean "third-born son" but "great-grandson", revealing that the Noghri have deliberately been kept in, at best, indentured servitude by the Empire for generations.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4f23179	type	Hit-and-Run Tactics
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4f23179	comment	Thrawn not only uses Star Destroyers for Hit-and-Run Tactics, when conventional military doctrine says they should basically be mobile siege platforms, but he gathers them mere fractions of a light-year outside the target system, making a very precise hyperspace jump to their target. Pellaeon notes in his internal monologue that he and Thrawn had "a long and barely-civilized argument" over it when Thrawn first started adding it to their list of standard tactics, but after long practice the crew are actually very good at it.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Pellaeon is depicted as clean-shaven in the comic adaptation and there is no mention of facial hair in the novels. Practically every◊ picture◊ and◊ description◊ since◊ (including Zahn's later books) have described Pellaeon as having a distinctive bushy mustache to the extent that at least one unnamed Imperial officer in a later comic was thought to be him just because he had a bushy mustache. Pellaeon also expressed a degree of distaste for (most) non-humans that's nowhere to be found in his later appearances. In a broader sense there are several examples of this trope for Star Wars Legends as a whole, as this is the first canon post-Return of the Jedi work. For instance, the idea that Jabba the Hutt was the galaxy's biggest crime lord — later works present him as the most powerful of the Hutts, but also depict the Hutts as being able to be pushed around by more powerful organizations such as Black Sun. (But then most of the bigger fish died before Jabba did, so it's possible that by Return of the Jedi he really was the top crime lord in the galaxy.) Rogue Squadron is treated as just another fighter squadron and Wedge Antilles is specifically called out as a "lowly starfighter wing commander" and Luke has to remind the Council who he is. Later novels drastically increased the importance and recognition of Wedge and the Rogues (for example, in later stories that take place chronologically earlier, Wedge is nearly Admiral Ackbar's right hand, with the latter having expressed a desire to make that status official and promote Wedge to generalnote Something that chronologically would happen just days after Thrawn's defeat, in the eighth book of the X-Wing Series., and instrumental to liberating Coruscant), Zahn was careful to include this in Hand of Thrawn, where Rogue Squadron is composed of the best pilots in the galaxy, are never depicted losing one of their number, and are attached to the task force under the command of the Republic's most respected active field commander. In a society more like modern Earth's, a "lowly starfighter wing commander" would be about right, but given Wedge's own record and that Zahn himself noted in Heir to the Empire that the Republic tends to rely too much on symbols, it would make a lot of sense for the Rogues to have no small amount of fame. Hyperdrive speeds are quoted as "Point Three, Point Four, Point Four Five, Point Five" in increasing order of speed — this being based on the line in the first Star Wars film that "The Falcon can push point five past lightspeed". This was based on a logarithmic scale Zahn devised where 0 was a dead stop and 1 was infinite speed. Later Star Wars material changed this to the (arguably less logical) setup that the lower the number is, the faster it is — specifically, it's all based on the idea of 1 as the "baseline" hyperdrive speed, so the "number" of a hyperdrive became the modifier to travel time. i.e., the Falcon is about twice as fast in hyperspace as most ships. This comes from the West End Games Star Wars RPG, where a ship's hyperspace speed was listed as a "Hyperdrive Multiplier," a x1 hyperdrive was a military or really good civilian model, x2 was good, x5 was okay, x12 or x24 was good only for a backup, and x.5 was the fastest you could get. If the hyperlane between, say, Tattooine and Alderaan was stated to take 12 hours, a x1 would make the trip in 12 hours, x2 in 24, and so on, while the Millennium Falcon with its x.5 would get there in six hours. A plot-significant one is that it is not widely known to the galaxy's people that Darth Vader was Luke's father or that Luke and Leia are siblings, and it's even not certain to most people that he's dead. Many Legends writers instead assumed that "everyone in the galaxy had seen the films" as far as information about the main characters were concerned; if this was true the Mara-Luke plot arc and the Noghri kidnapping arc couldn't exist — for instance, the Noghri arc relies heavily on Thrawn not being aware that Leia is in any way related to Vader. Thrawn is mentioned as being part human to explain his being a Human Alien other than skin color and glowing eyes. However, this was presently speculation by Han — that he was "at least, not entirely" human — not necessarily as the definitive truth. It would still be used later on, with the Emperor falsifying his records to say he was of mixed blood to try and explain why he made an apparent nonhuman a Grand Admiral, despite his xenophobic policies. (Thrawn was just too good not to use in that position, and being part human would mitigate some of the disagreement of the other Grand Admirals). It also helps that Thrawn was one of the earliest Human Alien characters in the series; when the book first came out the setting was notable for avoiding it, with even the most humanoid species having at least one really weird feature (such as the head-tails of Twi'leks). Later Legends material established the concept of Near-Humans, Human Subspecies descended from ancient human colonies, which include Thrawn's species. Zahn based his description of Talon Karrde on the character of Avon from Blake's 7, who was clean-shaven. Thus, there was no mention of Karrde having facial hair. However over time the depictions of Karrde have given him beards and/or mustaches (possibly because, rightly or wrongly, artists suspected that Karrde was something of an Author Avatar). Zahn's view of stormtroopers comes from the original meaning of the word, referring to elite soldiers. The deployment of stormtrooper squads is treated like a significant display of force and the potential squandering of a precious resource, a sharp contrast to how they are treated as generic mooks in pretty much all other Star Wars media. The term seemed to be come into use originally because of its link to the Nazis. (Since the later Lucasfilm era and the Great Mouse Adjustment, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Solo film have somewhat vindicated this portrayal. In Clone Wars, the troopers, obvious forerunners of the stormtroopers, really are elite soldiers; and in Solo the "mudtroopers" on Mimban are not actual stormtroopers but part of the Imperial Army. Default stormtroopers, however, are little more effective than they ever were, at least against heroes.) Later entries by Zahn would relegate most of that reputation to elites like the Royal Guard, but he still portrays the image of stormtroopers in their armor as still distinctly unsettling as reminder of the Empire's tyranny to people in the Republic even after the war ends. With the limited number of Jedi and other Force users in the movies at that point, a lot of C'baoth's portrayal as a Jedi had to be created from whole cloth. Some discrepancies, like his use of Force Lightning, can be excused by Luke not knowing enough about being a Jedi to see the problem. Others, like the fact that the records claimed C'baoth started his Jedi training when he was in his twenties, are more difficult to handwave. The very concept of "Dark Jedi", as the Sith did not exist yet. There's a throwaway line about how Vader and his Dark Jedi hunted down the remaining Jedi, when the prequels and later Legends material would establish that Vader was a Sith. The concept of Dark Jedi remained in use in some later Legends works as a catch-all term for Dark Side Force-users who weren't formally affiliated with a specific tradition, but fell out of favor over time due to being fairly ill-defined. Zahn's implication that Jedi Masters like C'baoth and Yoda did not employ lightsabers (Yoda's battle with a Dark Jedi on Dagobah is described as "a full-scale Force war"), as the only two Jedi Masters featured in the movies, Yoda and the Emperor, didn't use the iconic weapon (Old Ben was not, at the time, identified as a Master) and instead relied entirely upon the Force. When C'baoth dies, his body explodes in an energy of blue fire just like Palpatineâ€™s body did. The implication of C'baothâ€™s death is that all dark side masters explode when they die. This never happens again. For that matter, there's Luke's status as a Jedi. By the end of Return of the Jedi, there's pretty much no doubt that Luke is a full-fledged Jedi Knight, and even more so five years later when this trilogy takes place; yet he is still plagued by doubts and insecurities, particularly over his ability to train new Jedi, and he himself is still learning. Come the next major Star Wars story, Dark Empire, Luke has eliminated all his doubts and promoted himself to Jedi Master — even though, in Dark Force Rising, he actually scoffs at the notion that C'baoth had done essentially the same thing. (Later, in Hand of Thrawn, Mara Jade actually rips Luke a new one for presuming to declare himself "a Jedi Master with less than ten years on the job.") Winter states that "Targeter" was only one of her many Rebellion-era codenames, and she used it for only a few weeks, on one planet, before abandoning it when that particular Rebel cell was attacked and dissolved. However, since she never specifies what any of the other codenames were, she's referred to as Targeter in many stories that take place during the war, including X-Wing Rogue Squadron and Zahn's own Star Wars: Allegiance. Cloaking shields in Star Wars were generally unknown save that small ships were believed to be unable to use them. Zahn described them as being impractical for another reason: they created a double-blind effect. You couldn't see or detect a cloaked ship, but they couldn't see or detect anything beyond the cloaking effect, either. Then the prequels and Clone Wars came along and some ships were described as having cloaking shields that didn't have this effect. The Legends continuity would explain that these were two different kinds of cloaking tech, with the one that wasn't double-blind being much more expensive and relying on very rare and delicate materials. With the Legends continuity now non-canon, there is no discrepancy. When discussing the Katana fleet, Dark Force Rising mentions that the Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers that make it up where the backbone of the Old Republic's fleets until the rise of the Empire, where they were displaced by the new and more powerful Star Destroyers. In later years, however, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, and The Clone Wars all depicted the Old Republic's navy as already relying primarily on an early model of Star Destroyer, the Venator-class, by the time the Clone Wars began, which makes up the majority of Republic warships seen on-screen, while no cruisers appear. Later guidebooks attempt to reconcile this by stating the the Star Destroyers were reserved for clone crews and the most loyal officers, while the Dreadnought-class made up the bulk of planetary defense fleets. When the books were written, canon information on the Clone Wars was limited a single line by Obi-Wan in A New Hope, which established that they happened, clones were involved, at least some Jedi fought in them, and not much else. The dominant assumption was that they were wars against clones, and this colors the mentions made of them in the novels — Pellaeon reminisces about his experiences battling clones in the first novel, for instance.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Niles Ferrier and Borsk Fey'lya.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: C'baoth's harsh judgments on the people of Jomark, which provide Luke with the first clue that he's actually an insane clone.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_510cac49	type	Do I Really Sound Like That?
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_510cac49	comment	Do I Really Sound Like That?: Leia's reaction to hearing C-3P0 programmed with her voice.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Thrawn. A Four-Star Badass Magnificent Bastard who is much more dangerous commanding his troops than personally leading them. Some of the later novels which elaborate on Thrawn's backstory, however, reveal that his abilities in personal combat are nothing to sneeze at either, at least when he was younger. He simply doesn't have any need to stroke his ego by putting himself in personal combat when there's no strategic benefit to it, and none of the original three heroes ever meet Thrawn face-to-face; the best Han and Leia ever get are glimpses at a distance, and Luke doesn't interact with him at all (when he was re-introduced to the Disney continuity, he was made into a formidable close combat opponent, training against combat droids and able to defeat other characters who are skillful melee fighters. Even so, he does not seek out such battles).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The trilogy opens with a scene where Luke goes up onto the roof of the Imperial Palace to think about the future, and when somebody comes up for a conversation he knows who it is from the Force before he turns to look. In the closing scene of the trilogy, Mara Jade is up on the roof thinking about the future and does the same thing when Luke comes up for a conversation.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Thrawn. Debatable with Pellaeon, since he became a pretty good guy later on.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5439b0e	type	Swords to Plowshares
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5439b0e	comment	Swords to Plowshares: Since the New Republic is not engaged in much active combat, and trade is struggling, they take several dozen capital ships, remove a bunch of equipment to make more space, and use them to haul cargo. Unfortunately, since it wouldn't be hard to convert them back, they're a prime target for theft by the ascendant Grand Admiral Thrawn.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_556a4e20	comment	While Joruus is otherwise a dead-on example, he sees no appeal to the idea of ruling over millions of people he'll never even meet, considering total control over people he personally interacts with on a daily basis to be the true meaning of power. Which is what happens when you work with The Empire. He changes his mind once he realizes he can personally put most of his minions under Mind Control, made even easier by the legion of clones who have near-identical minds.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5581b443	type	The Walls Are Closing In
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5581b443	comment	The Walls Are Closing In: In a callback to the trash compactor scene from A New Hope, Luke heads into one and as the walls close in he hopes that Mara, who is controlling the trash compactor and previously stated her desire to kill him, won't let her hatred overcome her. She stops the walls a meter apart, and he rock-chimneys up and saves her boss.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_566e0367	type	Bodyguard Legacy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_566e0367	comment	Bodyguard Legacy: The Noghri serve the Galactic Empire as Over-the-Top Secret commandos and bodyguards to repay Darth Vader for saving them from extinction after a Clone Wars-era starship crash poisoned their homeworld Honoghr's environment. Vader later gave the Noghris' reins over to Grand Admiral Thrawn. After Leia Organa Solo, whom a Noghri recognized by her scent as Vader's daughter, proves that the Empire has only been pretending to decontaminate the planet, they switch their allegiance to her and her brother Luke.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: If it doesn't introduce the theme into the series, it definitely makes clear that the Empire was incredibly speciesist, and Thrawn is a major exception instead to the rule. Even then, he's relegated to clearing up the Unknown Regions instead of running things closer to home... although that's later called into question. (Indeed, for someone as ruthlessly pragmatic as the Emperor, speciesism isn't particularly believable; more likely, to some, that he simply encouraged it as another means of division and control.) Ironically, Thrawn shows what could be speciesism himself in his dealings with the Noghri, though that could just be (as exemplified in later books) Chiss Cultural Posturing: while recognzing their skill and understanding important aspects of their culture, he clearly shows little interest or respect for them as people.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Mara's view of constantly being forced to work with Luke. The smugglers ultimately team up with each other and the New Republic after an Imperial raid on a meeting of several major smugglers which was actually masterminded by Niles Ferrier so he could get closer to the major smugglers. Thrawn does not approve, having specifically ordered his troops to leave the meeting alone to avoid exactly this outcome.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: An in-universe example when Khabarakh is recounting the first contact between the Noghri and the Empire to Leia, describing how some of the primitive Noghri warriors attacked Darth Vader's landing party of stormtroopers. Leia attempts to finish the story herself, grimly concluding that the Noghri were ruthlessly slaughtered- and is subsequently shocked to hear that the Noghri instead killed many of Vader's party with minimal losses, forcing Vader himself to join the conflict and defeat them. She's also quite terrified to realise the Noghri are that good at killing.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5b47f992	type	Monochromatic Eyes
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5b47f992	comment	Monochromatic Eyes: Grand Admiral Thrawn's eyes are glowing red. The books don't specifically say that they're undifferentiated (no irises or pupils), but visual depictions such as the comic book adaptation usually show them as such.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Thrawn's tactics tend to be somewhat inventive. An example: traditional thought declared cloaking fields to be militarily useless as they interfere with the cloaked ships sensors as well as any others', preventing them from accomplishing much in battle. Thrawn comes up with no less than three methods of using them to practical effect. First, he uses it to hide a bunch of TIE fighters inside a freighter, causing the ship's hold to register as empty, then have the freighter show up at a Republic shipyard, making a neat Trojan Horse. Second, he uses C'baoth's Force skills to coordinate cloaked ships that have gotten through planetary shields by flying in well in advance of an attack, in order to make it look like his lasers can pierce said shields. The third, perhaps the most practical of his cloaking tricks, Thrawn got the idea to cloak a couple dozen asteroids and tractor them into orbit around Coruscant, essentially cutting the New Republic capital off from the rest of the war by forcing them to hide behind their planetary shield until the asteroids could be found and destroyed. This is especially because he has his ships fake the launching of additional asteroids, making it impossible for the New Republic to determine when they've caught them all. (The Siege is only lifted when they're able to get intelligence out of the shipyards where the asteroids were being worked on, including their exact number.) Then there's the "Thrawn Pincer". Interdictors create a No Warping Zone which yoinks enemies out of hyperspace — essentially, an inverted Hyperspeed Ambush. Thrawn uses this to his advantage by re-inverting the trope: by having his backup wait just outside the battle zone and having his Interdictors aim their gravity wells in certain directions, Thrawn can order the ships in on a heading that directly intercepts said gravity wells and essentially spawn reinforcements exactly where he wants them (usually right on top of unprepared enemy ships), with far more precision than even the most skilled pilots and navigators could manage, and with a much greater safety margin as well. (Hyperspace microjumps, especially in the vicinity of planets where most battles take place, are very dangerous maneuvers.) Other characters would borrow the tactic; Admiral Ackbar perhaps puts it to most effective use it in the chronologically next book X-Wing: Isard's Revenge. Thrawn not only uses Star Destroyers for Hit-and-Run Tactics, when conventional military doctrine says they should basically be mobile siege platforms, but he gathers them mere fractions of a light-year outside the target system, making a very precise hyperspace jump to their target. Pellaeon notes in his internal monologue that he and Thrawn had "a long and barely-civilized argument" over it when Thrawn first started adding it to their list of standard tactics, but after long practice the crew are actually very good at it. Not only is Thrawn a military maverick, but he encourages his people to be ones as well when dealing with unexpected situations, and is known to reward those under his command who think outside the box.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Thrawn, very much so. Also C'baoth, at least at first. He doesn't care for ruling a galaxy of strangers; he'll settle for a city where he can take a hands-on approach.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: When you are a guest of Talon Karrde, you are a guest of Talon Karrde. The same goes for the Noghri.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: In The Last Command, the New Republic tries a double bluff to make the Empire think they're going after the crystal gravfield trap at Tangrene when they're actually going after the one at Bilbringi. Thrawn sees through it, and would have beat the Republic forces at Bilbringi... except the Republic accidentally succeeded in fooling Karrde's Smugglers' Alliance, who think because the Republic is going to Tangrene, they can try for the one at Bilbringi (as Karrde points out, if the Republic is willing to stage a major military operation to capture a crystal gravfield trap, they'd surely also be willing to buy one for a huge pile of credits), and they end up in a position where they can open up a second front in the battle.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_608bf5a0	comment	In the Battle of Sluis Van at the end of Heir to the Empire, one of the Chimaera`s deflector shields fails, much to Pellaeon's concern. Thrawn orders his gunners to focus on one side of a nearby Republic frigate, blasting away all the weapons on one side, then gets his tractor beam operators to pull the ship in to fill the gap in the shields, the disarmed side facing towards the Chimaera, basically daring the Rebels to fire on their own ship.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_617eef78	type	Heel–Face Town
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_617eef78	comment	Heelâ€“Face Town: The planet of Abregado-Rae (or at least its main spaceport) had a reputation not unlike that of Mos Eisley. Thus it's a big surprise to Han and Lando when they find a nice, clean, peaceful place when they land there, though planetary security forces are plentiful and conspicuous. When Mara Jade visits there later, she notes the subtle but telltale signs that the peace and cleanliness is imposed from above instead of the result of a genuine desire from the citizens.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Averted in that Thrawn values his men's lives and does not waste them. He refused orders from the Emperor himself when he felt that carrying out an attack order would be a waste of ships and men. This consideration, however, does not extend to the Noghri, who he'll sacrifice blithely... though even then, he only sacrifices them when he's certain they have a legitimate chance of success. This is actually played with when Thrawn gets his cloning cylinders up and running, as he can use this trope to soften the blow for conquered worlds and, consequently, decrease the chance and severity of future resistance by stating that he will not need to institute a draft for the newly conquered world (thanks to the fact that, because he has clones, he has all the soldiers he'll ever need). A major plot point, especially in the first book, is that both sides are actually suffering a critical manpower shortage. The Empire is having to rely on half-trained conscripts even on the bridge of their flagship, while the Republic is leaning on dangerous levels of automation.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_631c7c38	type	Silent Antagonist
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_631c7c38	comment	Silent Antagonist: The only noise Luuke makes is a scream of rage when he gets a face full of exploding screen. Mainly because C'Baoth hasn't left any mind for anything more complex.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: In Heir to the Empire, Khabarakh is captured as he stops fighting, after he realizes that Leia is the Mal'ary'ush (the daughter and heir of the Lord Darth Vader, who they revere as the Messiah). It's never overtly said that he has some kind of suicide mechanism, but when Leia talks to him he says that his duty is to obey all of his orders—and Leia knows that for a captured commando facing interrogation, there could be only one order left to follow. She manages to talk him down by telling him that he now knows something none of his people are aware of—that Leia is the Mal'ary'ush—and he needs to live to bring the information to them.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_63ee8101	type	Reclaimed by Nature
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_63ee8101	comment	Reclaimed by Nature: When Luke returns to Yodaâ€™s home in search of anything that would help him train Leia, he discovers that this trope has occurred in the five years since heâ€™s been there, as there is virtually nothing of the house or any of Yodaâ€™s possessions left. Growing up on a desert planet, where an abandoned structure will last for a long time relatively intact, it didnâ€™t occur to him what would happen to the same structure after only a few years in a swamp.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: In Dark Force Rising, Luke Skywalker gets his group past a guard by using the Force to make the guard think he heard a noise and look towards it, letting them sneak by while his back is turned.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_66f69cd4	comment	In the first book, Thrawn secures the Emperor's storehouse on Wayland, which contains a working Invisibility Cloak, the bonus of a Jedi Master, and what Thrawn describes as "a small — almost trivial — bit of technology" called "Spaarti Cylinders." On the last page of the second book, Spaarti Cylinders turn out to be the Uterine Replicators of a complete and functioning cloning facility. (Luke, upon discovering this, "has a bad feeling about this.")
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_67f26dcc	comment	Fey'lya. This is apparently the Bothans' hat, at least when it comes to politics. Han even tells him straight up that the rules of politics are different with people like Leia and Mon Mothma and that Bothan strategies will not work, but he's ignored.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: After leaving Myrkr, Han sets course for a stopover at Sluis Van on the way back to Coruscant, and remarks to Luke that things are going to get busy once they arrive at Coruscant so Sluis Van will be the last peace and quiet they'll get for a while. Cut to the Imperial fleet beginning its attack on Sluis Van.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6a1b7aee	type	Precision Crash
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6a1b7aee	comment	Precision Crash: Luke visits Dagobah in his X-Wing to see if there's anything useful left at Yoda's house, and recalls how his sensors mysteriously all went blank the first time he went there (during The Empire Strikes Back). He then wonders if Yoda didn't do that with the Force so he could direct him to the right location himself.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6a5aa9d0	type	Author Usurpation
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6a5aa9d0	comment	Author Usurpation: Timothy Zahn has written many other novels that have been critically and financially successful, yet fans only associate him with The Thrawn Trilogy. Even his other Star Wars books, including the sequel duology Hand of Thrawn, aren't cared about nearly as much.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6b4b3eba	type	Lady Land
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6b4b3eba	comment	Lady Land: Sort of; Noghri society is somewhat matriarchal, at least on the village and family level; of the dynasts (clan leaders), the only ones named are apparently male. This may be due to sheer attrition; most of the males are deployed in commando groups.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Noghri come from the planet Honoghr. The 'g' and 'h' in that name are silent, and that quality becomes well proven. Subverted with Garm Bel Iblis, perhaps because Han and Lando initially aren't sure if he's a good guy or not and there is tension in the narrative. (His name consists of the names of three evil beings in (Earth) religion and mythology—the hellhound Garm from Norse mythology, Bel being another form of Ba'al from The Bible, and Iblis is the Islamic name for Satan.) Mara means "bitter", and Jade is close to "jaded," both of which describe her personality, at first anyway. A "jade" can also mean a scorned, cast-aside woman, which definitely fits her at points. The Ubiqtorate, a branch of Imperial intelligence (in these books at least) has a name meant to inspire Paranoia Fuel—from 'ubiquitous', meaning 'present everywhere'. The annotated version has an explanation for why the ISD Chimaera is named as it is named. In Greek mythology the chimaera was a monster considered unconquerable, at least until Bellerophon killed it; these days it's something made of disparate parts, something wildly imaginary, or something illusory. Captain Pellaeon's name is taken from Pelleas, an idealistic young knight from Arthurian lore. Pellaeon here is middle aged by Star Wars standards, about sixty, and has lost a lot of his early idealism, but gains in hope as the trilogy goes on. He loses it at the end, but subsequent books show that he's not bad people.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: When C-3P0 is telling some Noghri the story of the Rebellion, Leia hopes he remembered to alter the story a bit to remove as much of Vader's villainy as possible, or at least make him out to be a victim of the Emperor's manipulations. The reason being that the Noghri see Darth Vader as their Crystal Dragon Jesus; they wouldn't take very well being told he was a ruthless mass-murderer.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: "...if possible. If not... If not, I'll understand." That being said, Talon Karrde actually does need to be retaken alive as he's the only one who knows where the Katana Fleet is. It's the people breaking him out whose survival is not necessary.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6d8b4e42	type	Fantastic Flora
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6d8b4e42	comment	Fantastic Flora: The hallways of the New Republic's headquarters on Coruscant are lined with potted ch'hala trees with transparent bark that, when touched, flare with red ripples that move outwardly from the point of contact.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Heir to the Empire suggests that Lando losing the radar dish atop the Falcon while flying it through the Death Star II is one of these, though at least with some justification:
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Thrawn runs the Empire/Imperial Remnants far more like a pirate captain than the ruler of a state, or even supreme commander of a military theater. He appears to make all plans by himself, with no signs of a military staff or regular chain of command; the only subordinate he regularly communicates with is Pellaeon, the captain of his own flagship. In fact, there are apparently no intermediate ranks or positions of authority between Flag Captain and Grand Admiral in his military, since command of the fleet is shown to default to Pellaeon as soon as Thrawn is indisposed (which is not how things typically work in the greater Star Wars Legends continuity, where the Empire uses a more-or-less standard system of military ranks, with a few senior flag ranks added to the top). The later Dark Empire Sourcebook does its best to excuse/justify/retcon these oddities.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Thrawn has a very limited collection of "real" art; most are holographic. One piece, which looks like thrashing liquid, he keeps to remind him of the one time that said art did not give him any insight into the race that made it - which he then casually adds he destroyed their home world. In the later days of the Legends continuity, it was hinted that this was the home world of General Grievous, but the full story was never told.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: Zigzagged. During one covert meeting, Wedge Antilles is brought along as backup; the other party quickly spots this and remarks on it. That Page and his commandos are also present, however, goes completely unnoticed.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6ff54932	type	Hereditary Twinhood
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_6ff54932	comment	Hereditary Twinhood: Leia is Luke's fraternal twin sister. In The Last Command, she births twins: Jacen and Jaina.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7280652a	type	Panicky Expectant Father
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7280652a	comment	Panicky Expectant Father: Han, of all people, in The Last Command. He's nervous and fluttery around Leia who, after hours of labor, would really like to just have this done with by now.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Thrawn letting Mara Jade live after betraying her. It doesn't turn out well. As well as anyone letting the aformentioned Niles Ferrier live. If not for him, the New Republic may have gotten the Katana Fleet in book two, and the smugglers wouldn't have been working against the Empire in book three. Letting C'baoth live after the battle over Coruscant. He never does anything else for them, and Thrawn has no plans for him in the near future, not to mention the fact that he has Force-nullifying animals on-board his ship. Thrawn sends C'Baoth to leave with General Covell and his handpicked best troops aboard a ship with no supervision and no ysalamiri. It does not end well for Covell. Particularly glaring because C'Baoth abused this power before... right in front of Thrawn... repeatedly! Basically, while Thrawn is definitely a villain and it's hard to forget in this trilogy, his moments of stupidity are all also moments of not killing someone once they are no longer useful. Thrawn himself lampshades this, stating that he's not in the habit of throwing away resources just because he can't see an immediate use for them. If anything, Thrawn's Idiot Ball moments are all him thinking more about the long-term big picture instead of what would be most expedient right now (another way in which he's the polar opposite of Darth Vader). One of the reasons Thrawn decides against having C'Baoth killed when he learned what C'Baoth had done to Covell was that he wanted time to collect proper genetic samples from the C'Baoth clone so that C'Baoth could be cloned again. However instead of another full grown clown, Thrawn planned for his new C'Baoth clone to be grown to childhood then raised at a normal rate until he became an adult. Pellaeon is visibly taken aback at the idea of having one or more young C'Baoth clones running around the galaxy. The deaths of both C'Baoth and Thrawn prevents this particular Imperial plan from going anywhere.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_72a6bff0	type	Eloquent in My Native Tongue
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_72a6bff0	comment	Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Inverted when the Wookie ambassador has a speech impediment that keeps him from speaking the native Wookie language, but allows him to speak Galactic Basic. He notes that Chewbacca is this trope played straight.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked. Several characters make points of how Thrawn actually relies just as much on Paranoia Fuel as his own cunning. While legitimately brilliant, he wins many of his victories largely because people start to overestimate him and think he's planned for everything.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Well, mislead. The Last Command shows Mara and Luke in a lightsaber duel. Mara is actually fighting Luuke, the clone of Luke. The key hint is that Luuke is depicted with a blue lightsaber (the one Luke lost when he fought Vader at Cloud City), not Luke's later green lightsaber.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_733f713f	type	HumanAlien
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_733f713f	comment	Thrawn is mentioned as being part human to explain his being a Human Alien other than skin color and glowing eyes. However, this was presently speculation by Han — that he was "at least, not entirely" human — not necessarily as the definitive truth. It would still be used later on, with the Emperor falsifying his records to say he was of mixed blood to try and explain why he made an apparent nonhuman a Grand Admiral, despite his xenophobic policies. (Thrawn was just too good not to use in that position, and being part human would mitigate some of the disagreement of the other Grand Admirals). It also helps that Thrawn was one of the earliest Human Alien characters in the series; when the book first came out the setting was notable for avoiding it, with even the most humanoid species having at least one really weird feature (such as the head-tails of Twi'leks). Later Legends material established the concept of Near-Humans, Human Subspecies descended from ancient human colonies, which include Thrawn's species.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7360a6b6	comment	In addition, later books flanderize him into more and more of a Noble Demon and Well-Intentioned Extremist, especially those where it's implied that his ultimate goal was to prepare the galaxy for the impending invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong; this time, Timothy Zahn actually endorses this new view, but since the Yuuzhan Vong weren't even conceived when this novel was written it is obviously an example of Canon Welding. The Thrawn of this trilogy is less Noble Demon than pragmatic villain, and seems to be trying to destroy the rebellion from a combination of Lawful Evil and for the sheer intellectual thrill, and further makes offhand and unapologetic references to committing xenocide in times past, to say nothing of his treatment of the Noghri. So while he was a very Affably Evil and disciplined villain, he was still very, very much a villain. Still, he did seem to express some remorse, in private, for destroying that particular unnamed race, though it seems less because he actually found destroying them abhorrent, and more that he was ashamed he was unable to gain the kind of insight from their art that he does from every other species. Given canon exploration in later books, it's also possible that Thrawn as he is in his trilogy is simply what happens when you take a brilliant young mind and give it to Palpatine for refinement.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Thrawn gleans details about a species' psychology from the works of art they create, and even about an individual's psychology from the works of art they collect, and uses this knowledge to discern weaknesses and predict behaviors with uncanny accuracy. Karrde absorbs information, knowledge, rumors, and tales and compiles seemingly disparate pieces of trivial information into actionable intelligence.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Pellaeon. Done positively, in that Thrawn respects his second and would not have an idiot in such a position. And just like the original Watson, Pellaeon sometimes thinks or notices something Thrawn doesn't, or comes up with a new idea, which Thrawn finds very handy. Fully intentional on Zahn's part. The 20th Anniversary annotations note that he made the conscious decision to only use humans as viewpoint characters, because he felt that lending the necessary "alienness" to alien or droid characters would hurt the narrative. Thus, we only see Thrawn through Pellaeon's eyes, and are left to marvel at his intellect and reasoning skills just as Pellaeon does. And, of course, there are subtle hints (paid off in Hand of Thrawn) that Thrawn was grooming Pellaeon to succeed him, by constantly giving him chances to puzzle out what Thrawn is doing and why, as well as wanting someone with a different frame of reference as his right hand to challenge Thrawn's ideas to make sure they held up.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_74217bfa	type	Art Reflects Personality
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_74217bfa	comment	Art Reflects Personality: Exploited by Thrawn. He has an amazing gift for gleaning information about other cultures and species from their artwork, especially psychological blind spots and other similar flaws, and tailors his battle strategies and tactics to take advantage of those weaknesses.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7570a10c	comment	Thrawn letting Mara Jade live after betraying her. It doesn't turn out well.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Mara and Luke. He quickly comes to admire her skills, she grudgingly notices that he really is as nice as a person as he appears to be, but she blames him for the Emperor's death, and has a vendetta implanted in her head. By the time she kills his clone and the Emperor's voice finally falls silent, she doesn't want to dislike him any more.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_779009b5	comment	Given his increasingly antagonistic relationship with Thrawn, Karrde has it in mind to unite the smugglers against the Empire, so he gathers some smuggler chiefs for a meeting. It's going poorly, but then an Imperial detachment attacks, convincing the smugglers to unite after all. The attack was organized by Niles Ferrier, as a way to convince Karrde to trust him when he helps to foil the raid. He thinks this will put him in Thrawn's good graces, but Thrawn had explicitly ordered the meeting left alone—he knew the smugglers would not go along with Karrde's idea without prompting. To say Thrawn is pissed is an Under Statement.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: Thrawn's Establishing Character Moment is realizing that an opposing commander is thinking this way, and launching an unstructured three-dimensional attack Elomin are utterly incapable of dealing with.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: The Noghri were still a primitive people when they first encountered the forces of the Empire (led by Darth Vader), but attacked them when they met. Leia is shocked (and scared) to hear that, until Vader himself joined the fray, the Noghri were winning easily, her reaction akin to "crap, these guys are that good?!"
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7a2b8057	type	Government-Exploited Crisis
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7a2b8057	comment	Government-Exploited Crisis: During the Clone Wars, a battle took place over the planet Honoghr and a Lucrehulk-class core ship was shot down. The ship was carrying a cargo of deadly toxins that proceeded to contaminate the planet. The Republic took great interest in the effects of the toxins and ignored the plight of the native Noghri. Darth Vader arrived some months after the war ended and the Republic became the Empire and was impressed enough with the Noghri's fighting prowess that he agreed to have the Empire restore Honoghr in return for their service. Naturally, the Empire instead kept the planet in a state of barely survivable in order to keep the Noghri indebted to it.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Rukh to Thrawn. After Rukh finds out that the Empire has been poisoning his homeworld instead of helping the clean-up process as they say, he stabs Thrawn. It's mentioned in the Hand of Thrawn duology that Rukh did not live to tell about it, being intercepted and killed by an elite stormtrooper squad.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Joruus C'baoth uses a simple Jedi Mind Trick on Pellaeon to get him to deliver an order C'baoth doesn't want Thrawn to know about, and then has Pellaeon forget ever giving such an order. Later we find out C'baoth is capable of far, far worse, using a highly destructive form of mind control to destroy an Imperial general's mind and turn him into a near-mindless puppet. When the poor man passes into a Force null area, he operates on implanted instructions, then lies down to take a nap he never wakes up from - C'baoth had demolished so much of his brain he couldn't survive when not directly being controlled. Really, Pellaeon got off very lucky. The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook mentions that this Mind Trick was several degrees nastier than what Obi-Wan and Luke were willing to do. Pellaeon's willpower was permanently reduced by what C'baoth did—though considering the things he was willing to work for in later books, it must have been formidable from the start. C'baoth can also take physical control of people while leaving their minds alone, controlling them like puppets; in one display of power, he does this for the entire Chimaera crew (mindraping 37,000 people, all at once), or at the very least the several dozen bridge crew. The physical symptoms post-possession, moreover, are a blend of mental trauma and something resembling the flu.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Fey'lya. This is apparently the Bothans' hat, at least when it comes to politics. Han even tells him straight up that the rules of politics are different with people like Leia and Mon Mothma and that Bothan strategies will not work, but he's ignored. This strategy itself ends up stabbing him in the back as the military officers loyal to him take umbrage when he admits over the ship's com system that he is simply using them to gain power.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7d78995d	type	Blofeld Ploy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7d78995d	comment	The first was a Blofeld Ploy, but it's not capricious - the situation is ambiguous, and Thrawn explains why he considered the Mook to be the one at fault. He was checking if the Mook was badly trained, or just an idiot who can't take blame. When he confirmed it was the latter, he had the mook killed, and had the trainer prepare a replacement. Efficiency went up afterward.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: invoked In-Universe, used as a weapon by Thrawn when he forces Coruscant to cut itself off with its planetary shield by putting cloaked asteroids in orbit. He uses trickery to make it look like he launched many times more than he actually did—so the New Republic has no way of knowing how many asteroids there really are or if they've accounted for them all. While it's more debatable how deliberate it was on Thrawn's part, people in the New Republic government suspect each other of being Delta Source, Thrawn's source of information on Coruscant, and so don't trust each other. It turns out Delta Source was an automated pre-existing listening system, so nobody was a traitor. Invoked. Several characters make points of how Thrawn actually relies just as much on Paranoia Fuel as his own cunning. While legitimately brilliant, he wins many of his victories largely because people start to overestimate him and think he's planned for everything.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Mara Jade. Somewhat troubling when her tsun-tsun side mainly consists of wanting to literally kill Luke.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Thrawn gets multiple throughout the trilogy. Firstly in the opening pages of Heir to the Empire when the Chimaera is attacked by four Rebel assault frigates and three squadrons of X-wings. Pellaeon thinks those odds are badly in the Republic's favor and prepares to retreat, but Thrawn displays his art-derived tactical genius and defeats them. Besides this, it also establishes that Thrawn represents the turn of the tide for the Empire and they are no longer in decline and running from fights. The second is when he arrives at Karrde's base in a trio of shuttles. Karrde automatically assumes Thrawn to be in the center shuttle, only for the Grand Admiral to emerge from the one on the right. Karrde takes it as a sign that Thrawn is not a predictable man. He gets still another one when Luke escapes from his Star Destroyer in an X-Wing and Thrawn goes to confront the tractor beam operator whose job it was to catch him. Previously in the trilogy, Thrawn had had another officer killed in a very similar instance, and so Pellaeon's assumption is that Thrawn will again pull a Vader Special and the hapless officer will be punished severely or worse. Instead, there follows a question and answer session where the officer demonstrates that he did everything he could to catch the X-Wing and even had some outside-the-box thinking in trying to overcome Luke's countermeasures against the tractor beam the Star Destroyer had been using. Convinced that the officer did did everything that could be expected of him and more, Thrawn actually promotes him on the spot. The difference is that in the first instance, the officer tries to throw his superior under the bus by claiming he didn't give him proper training, while in this case the officer fesses up to everything he did and took responsibility, establishing that Thrawn's action come from a harsh but fair discipline and not a capricious temper. Mara gets one when Karrde invites her to an opulent business dinner, without telling her anything about it in advance. She adapts to the unusual situation instantly, and Karrde reflects that he should have known the unusual setting wouldn't throw her off-balance. When he discusses making her his second in command, he can see she's immediately suspicious that the offer is a smoke screen for some "more personal request or demand." Once she's assured the offer is legitimate, she warns Karrde that if he gives her that kind of power, she will use it, and launches into a thorough discussion of the organization's shortcomings and plans to rectify them. Karrde gets his first one in that same scene. Not only carefully gauging Mara's ability to take the role he's offering, but him noting the handful of topics guaranteed to get an emotional reaction from her. He also offers to assist Pellaeon in obtaining ysalamiri, free of charge... when Mara asks what Karrde and organization get out of it, Karrde states that he gets to have his people watching the Imperials from the moment they land to the moment they take off, and to have another trusted associate, Aves, around who knows how to ask the right questions, and possibly figure out why the Empire wants them (since harvesting a mass of ysalamiri is rather overkill just to deal with Luke Skywalker). This shows that Karrde is savvy, intelligent, and values information and intelligence above everything else.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_816a4e80	comment	Averted as much as is possible for Star Wars: realizing that the galaxy has over a million inhabited worlds, Zahn (unlike some other Star Wars Legends writers) doesn't recycle locations from the films without good reason. And at those times when the heroes know they need to find something on an unfamiliar world, they don't act like knowing what planet it's on will make things easy. Planets are big.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: For all of Thrawn's reputation of Awesomeness by Analysis, he does make a major miscalculation with a logical-yet-incorrect conclusion in the second book regarding Khabarakh's whereabouts during the month since the first book. Most of what goes wrong for Thrawn later on is a result of this error snowballing into disaster. The most plausible explanation for this error was that Thrawn didn't know that Leia and Luke were in fact Vader's children. Without that key piece of information, drawing the proper conclusion would've been all but impossible. However, later EU authors have had trouble deciding whether that fact was common knowledge or not.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Galactic Empire has been reduced to a quarter of its former territory at the beginning of the trilogy. (For a sense of just how much money the Empire poured into their war machine, only five years after Endor are the Empire and the New Republic roughly evenly gunned.) Of course this is before Thrawn comes along.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_85d3eb57	type	Career-Building Blunder
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_85d3eb57	comment	Career-Building Blunder: After Luke outwits Thrawn's tractor beam for a second time in The Last Command, everybody remembers the time this happened in Heir to the Empire where Thrawn ordered the tractor beam operator killed. However, this tractor beam operator improvised upon encountering a scenario that wasn't in the manual. It didn't work, but he gave it a shot and, more to the point, he didn't try to pass the buck to somebody else afterward, so Thrawn promotes him and gives him the job of working out how to defeat the trick Luke used. Which pays off in Hand of Thrawn when the Empire is able to defeat a variant used by Lando.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to the Katana fleet? note It's hinted in The Last Command that the Kantana and perhaps some of the other 13 remaining ships were taken by the New Republic which then refitted them for service in their navy, along with the six that made up General Bel Iblis's task force.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Thrawn shows us exactly who's in charge: C'baoth:
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Thrawn is a dedicated scholar of the arts. In fact, much of his strategic and tactical skill derives directly from his close study of a huge variety of art from uncountable species and cultures. Studying the art gives him insight into each species' or culture's psychology, including their weaknesses, which Thrawn exploits ruthlessly. Thrawn even mentions knowing Karrde's particular psyche from the art he collects, and studies Mon Calamari art (including a few pieces created by Ackbar himself) to get into his opposing Admiral's head. Cultured badass indeed.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: C'baoth is a very bad man. He starts off using his powers to enforce obedience through fear, but very quickly grows a taste for just hollowing out people's minds and replacing them with his own thoughts and whims.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The series was the first major exploration of the (first) Expanded Universe following the events of Return of the Jedi and set out to completely deconstruct the entire Happily Ever After ending. However, many of these are then reconstructed: Luke becoming a full Jedi Knight after confronting Vader marks the Return of the Jedi. But how would a single Jedi who only received an extremely rushed and highly irregular training even start at training more Jedi? Especially given how terribly things turned out when Obi-Wan tried his hand at training his own student, and that was with the support of the whole Jedi Order and its ancient traditions and knowledge. After trying to find someone he deems more qualified for the role, though, Luke ultimately realizes that, while his own training didn't prepare him for this nearly as well as he'd like, he is more than capable of being a teacher. While it started out rough for both, Leia and Mara still managed to be set on the path to becoming Jedi through his teachings, proving what Yoda and Obi-Wan had said about how he already had what he needed for the task. Even though Han and Leia do get married, their new jobs as high-level politicans take a very heavy burden on their private lives. For that matter, should high-ranking leaders in an ongoing war decide to start a family at the same time? While problems did arise from them starting a family, they still managed to keep their relationship going by adapting and taking advantage whenever they can to spend time with each other, proving making this work alongside their new jobs was more than possible. Some characters mention the time directly after the death of the Emperor as the mopping-up phase of the war. Leia even suspects that future history books as yet unwritten will say as much, but that to people living through it, this assessment turned out to be very wrong. Thrawn is introduced as a blatant counter-example to Darth Vader, with Pellaeon frequently ruminating on Thrawn's more forgiving treatment of his subordinates vs. Vader's counter-productive tendency to kill them for minor mistakes. At the same time, this also leads to Thrawn greatly underestimating several individuals who had both failed him and tried to kill him, which even directly leads to his campaign ultimately failing and his death. While Darth Vader's lack of tolerance of failure did cost the Empire many good officers, it also weeded out the incompetent and didn't result in such a chain reaction like Thrawn's did because he didn't want to waste potential tools he could us for his campaign. Even though there is No Endor Holocaust, the planet Honoghr suffers exactly the kind of devastation that would be expected as the aftermath of the debris from a massive space battle severely damaging its global ecosystem (even if in Honoghr's case it wasn't the ship crashing but literal shiploads of toxic chemicals used in older models of warship being dispersed through the atmosphere).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: The Emperor and Vader are quite dead, but both cast long shadows across the trilogy. A tiny part of the Emperor seems to survive in Mara, frequently telling her that YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER (in revenge, it turns out, for Vader's Heelâ€“Face Turn).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: When Thrawn kills the tractor beam operator. Even factoring in such things as Thrawn's brutal treatment of the Noghri, and the fact that he felt the operator was incompetent it seems unlikely that Thrawn would waste a resource like that. (He could have been reassigned as Cannon Fodder.) It should be noted that the entire sequence of events which lead to his death was a result of a cameo contest at a convention, and the fans voted that the character should die, so Zahn didn't really have a choice.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Han at least once hangs a lampshade on the fact that, having started as essentially a simple smuggler, he kind of pales in comparison to his wife and brother-in-law.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9091d1e0	type	Hive City
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9091d1e0	comment	Hive City: The cities of New Cov, a planet covered by dense and hostile jungles, are built in multiple layers covered by large domes. Different levels are given to distinct functions, such as housing, business or manufacturing, and movement between layers is done through systems of ramps and shafts.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_91e3f284	type	Military Mage
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_91e3f284	comment	Military Mage: The trilogy introduces the "battle meditation" Force power, though not by that name, a battlefield-covering aura affecting the combatants' mental state. The meditating Force-user's allies are filled with confidence, clarity, and coordination. Especially powerful Force-users can also sow fear and confusion among their foes. Grand Admiral Thrawn notes the effects, and Pellaeon later compares stats after battles with and without, and measures the effect of battle meditation as giving nearly a 40% buff to every measurable category of crew performance. However, only a few Force-users are capable of effective battle meditation, and even among them most can't use it without occupying their full attention. Further, it can result in a Decapitated Army (it's speculated by Thrawn that the reason the Battle of Endor was lost so decisively after the Emperor's death is that he had been overusing it during his reign, and the loss of his presence threw the Imperial Fleet at Endor into confusion when it was removed). Thrawn comes up with a few new uses for it; among them, by stationing a cloaked ship on the inside of a planetary shield and having Joruus C'baoth use battle meditation to coordinate its fire with that of an uncloaked ship on the outside of the shield, he creates the illusion that turbolaser fire is passing right through the shield as though it weren't there.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_928ca2cc	comment	Basically, while Thrawn is definitely a villain and it's hard to forget in this trilogy, his moments of stupidity are all also moments of not killing someone once they are no longer useful. Thrawn himself lampshades this, stating that he's not in the habit of throwing away resources just because he can't see an immediate use for them. If anything, Thrawn's Idiot Ball moments are all him thinking more about the long-term big picture instead of what would be most expedient right now (another way in which he's the polar opposite of Darth Vader). One of the reasons Thrawn decides against having C'Baoth killed when he learned what C'Baoth had done to Covell was that he wanted time to collect proper genetic samples from the C'Baoth clone so that C'Baoth could be cloned again. However instead of another full grown clown, Thrawn planned for his new C'Baoth clone to be grown to childhood then raised at a normal rate until he became an adult. Pellaeon is visibly taken aback at the idea of having one or more young C'Baoth clones running around the galaxy. The deaths of both C'Baoth and Thrawn prevents this particular Imperial plan from going anywhere.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Thrawn has one (at least for him—it probably wouldn't count as one for a less-controlled villain) when he gets hit by a whole bunch of things he didn't see coming at once. He regains his composure within moments—but those few moments were all that Rukh needed... C'baoth has a more traditional one after Mara kills the Luke clone, albeit one where he passes into Tranquil Fury instead of another hissyfit.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Garm Bel Iblis's lieutenants were named by Zahn after people he admired. The 20th Anniversary edition's annotations reveals that there are dozens of these friend names tucked into place names and company names as well as character names.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_973d220f	comment	Thrawn's contrast with Vader is exemplified with the two tractor beam incidents; the first time Thrawn orders the tractor officer executed for knowing about the Rebel's ability to break tractor locks, but doing nothing to counter it. Later, he commends an officer for trying something to counter a different tractor-lock tactic, since no one has been able to defeat that particular countermeasure and so there simply is no appropriate response in the training manual. The key difference is that the first tractor beam operator tried to claim he'd never been trained for such a circumstance when such training is in the standard package, while the second was confronted with a tactic no one had ever found a way around and tried something new to defeat it—and unlike the first operator, took full responsibility for his failure. In a case of outside-the-box-thinking (and taking responsibility) versus poor conventional thinking (and it's-not-my-fault), Thrawn promoted the ingenious officer and executed the buck-passer.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Thrawn and C'baoth have largely exclusive plans for the galaxy, but work together for mutual convenience. Each has plans for disposing of the other when the time comes (though Thrawn is usually able to talk C'baoth down when he's in one of his mad rages), and each seems to consider himself the Big Bad and the other The Dragon.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Rereading the series with the knowledge of what Delta Sourcenote Thrawn's method of getting information out of the Imperial Palace is allows the reader to understand some of Thrawn's seemingly inexplicable insights, cringe when characters unknowingly deliver secret information directly to his ears, and realize just how close he comes to learning things that could win him the war right then. For example, Luke stops himself one word away from revealing that he spent time on Honoghr, which is all Thrawn would need to halt the Noghri betrayal in its tracks.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Captain Brandei of the Judicator gets this a bit after the Peremptory is destroyed in front of him at the end of the second book. Thrawn realises this in time and is able to talk him down before it causes problems.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: The Noghri and the Wookiees. Khabarakh and Chewbacca eventually get along very well due to the similarities in their cultures.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Luke and Mara's rescue of Karrde from the Star Destroyer; not to mention more "had a bad feeling about this"es than you can throw an Ewok at. A subtle one: the Original Trilogy films all started with establishing shots of a Star Destroyer on Imperial business. Likewise, each novel in this trilogy begins aboard the Chimaera, implying we've just panned down from that iconic diagonal scrolling text...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9ec60b8b	type	White Shirt of Death
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9ec60b8b	comment	White Shirt of Death: Thrawn's death, with the blood from his stab wound staining the jacket of his white admiral's uniform. This prompts his last words: "But... it was so artistically done."
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9f80e1da	comment	Sarcasm Mode: "Thank you, Ferrier. Your approval means so very much to me."
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9f8a455a	type	Override Command
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9f8a455a	comment	Override Command: Emperor Palpatine had all of his military computers equipped with hardwired back door access codes so that he - and his top agents - couldnâ€™t be locked out of his own ships. Mara Jade, having formerly been one of those agents, knows those codes and uses them to help her and Luke rescue Talon Karrde from the detention cells of Thrawnâ€™s flagship. She knows that Thrawn canâ€™t have removed those codes but is concerned that he may have set flags on them if they are used. He didnâ€™t, but when he figures that Karrdeâ€™s rescuers must have used the computer, he denies them access to it by shutting it down entirely.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: Joruus C'baoth. Unusually for this trope Thrawn is very much aware of the dangers of using the insane Dark Jedi and takes precautions, as well as long-term plans to dispose of and replace C'baoth. They nearly work, too.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: On two separate occasions, C-3PO attempts to pass on important information to Han but Han keeps shushing him. The second time, when he finally gets his message out, Han complains that he should have said so sooner.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a14ba678	type	Prized Possession Giveaway
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a14ba678	comment	Prized Possession Giveaway: In the final scene, Luke Skywalker gives his father's lightsaber to Mara Jade.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a3515d6	type	Contrasting Sequel Antagonist
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a3515d6	comment	Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Thrawn was intentionally written to be as different from Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader as humanly possible: a villain who is a brilliant strategist and inspires loyalty, as opposed to a Sith Lord whose subordinates fear him.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: Thrawn slips into this at times. Several of his mistakes actually come from assuming his enemies are smarter than they are, and that they are making moves against him that in reality they didn't even think of. Possibly the best example is when he concludes that Leia took the Millenium Falcon to Endor in search of something from the wreckage of the second Death Star for information that she believes the Emperor may have had with him when he died, like the location of the Mount Tantiss cloning facility. Leia and the New Republic had no idea Mount Tantiss even existed, let alone that it was critical to Thrawn's plans and that they really should be looking for it. She simply chose Endor as a rendezvous point because it's a remote yet well-known location. In The Last Command, Wedge subtly lampshades this by noting that overestimating your opponents can be just as dangerous as underestimating them, and Thrawn's ultimate downfall is basically the result of several unrelated over- and underestimations of his opponents all coming to a head simultaneously.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The oh-so-important crystal gravfield trap, that actually turns out to be technically unnecessary when Talon Karrde comes by with a critical piece of information.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Thrawn's full name, Mitth'raw'nuruodo, will not be established until Vision of the Future. Outbound Flight explains that, among the Chiss, using the "core name" (i.e. Thrawn) is considered familiar (like calling an Anglophone by their first name, or addressing a Japanese person without using an honorific), but he started allowing Jorj Car'das to call him by it because Car'das couldn't pronounce his full name correctly; by the time he joined the Imperial Navy it had become a habit with non-Chiss.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Well, not shame per se, but Leia is initially thrown for a loop when she finds out that the Noghri revere her as the daughter of Darth Vader. Of course, it lasts about half a second before she starts furiously strategizing how to work this to her advantage because, well, it's Leia.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Grand Admiral Thrawn's eyes are glowing red.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_aacc7ea6	type	Tyke-Bomb
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_aacc7ea6	comment	Tyke-Bomb: Mara was adopted and secretly raised by Palpatine himself. Not surprisingly, when Palpatine showed her an image of Luke and Vader killing him...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Perhaps surprisingly, averted with Grand Admiral Thrawn (though later books make him one). In his original appearances in this trilogy, he is a master tactician, but never portrayed as an especially hardcore fighter personally.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In the second and third books stealing spaceships and "fixing" things seem to be the only skills Ferrier has. Given his increasingly antagonistic relationship with Thrawn, Karrde has it in mind to unite the smugglers against the Empire, so he gathers some smuggler chiefs for a meeting. It's going poorly, but then an Imperial detachment attacks, convincing the smugglers to unite after all. The attack was organized by Niles Ferrier, as a way to convince Karrde to trust him when he helps to foil the raid. He thinks this will put him in Thrawn's good graces, but Thrawn had explicitly ordered the meeting left alone—he knew the smugglers would not go along with Karrde's idea without prompting. To say Thrawn is pissed is an Under Statement. Later on Thrawn tries to salvage the situation. When Thrawn sends Ferrier back in to frame Karrde for the attack, Ferrier's I Never Said It Was Poison slip-up only unites the smugglers even more firmly against the Empire, contributing meaningfully to Thrawn's later defeat.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: There are any number of these in the trilogy; but in Heir To The Empire, when Luke topples a stone arch onto a group of Imperials, we get this priceless gem:
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The vornskrs, at least where Luke Skywalker is involved. As it turns out, they're a species of predator that hunts through the Force, which is speculated to be the reason why ysalamiri evolved their ability to "push back" the Force. Even through the ysalamiri's Force-negation, Luke stands out so much that they can't help but try to hunt him. Karrde utilizes this trait to help him and Leia find Luke in Mount Tantiss during the climactic battle, and Mara takes advantage of their distraction to move in close to C'baoth so she can kill him.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Sure, the Republic stopped Thrawn's plan to steal several dozen capital warships, but considering that the warships were crippled in the process, the Empire didn't have too much to complain about... That exact argument is made in-universe, though in fact Thrawn did consider it a setback for the Empire, albeit a minor one. Had his plan worked, he would've gotten exactly twice as much out of it, taking the ships out of the New Republic's fleet and adding them to his own. The setback delayed his plans for a month or so, however, and it wasn't until he secured the Katana fleet at the end of the next book that he was able to fully implement them. Later, the Republic stopped the Empire from capturing the entire Katana fleet, in the process taking out a Star Destroyer with relatively few losses of their own... but the Empire got almost all of the fleet despite the New Republic's efforts. Only about fourteen ships remained of the nearly two hundred that they started with. Plus the six Katana Dreadnoughts that Bel Iblis had acquired years earlier.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Half the cast, especially Mara.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_af1a2782	type	More Despicable Minion
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_af1a2782	comment	More Despicable Minion: While Thrawn is a textbook example of a Big Bad fans Love to Hate, his pet starship thief Niles Ferrier is a Smug Snake with a bad case of Spanner in the Works, Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, and other obnoxious character traits.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_afe5728	type	Promotion, Not Punishment
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_afe5728	comment	Promotion, Not Punishment: The second tractor beam operator in Book 3 benefits from this. Skywalker had gotten away, yes, but not for lack of trying; and Thrawn liked the operator's problem-solving skills and his taking responsibility. Contrast the first operator in Book 1, who had screwed up something he should have known and tried to pin the blame on someone else.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b0cd3349	comment	Leia and Han mention a Dark Jedi from the Bpfassh region making it as far as Dagobah before he got caught. Luke travels to Dagobah, to see if Yoda left something useful behind (and just because he suddenly feels it's very important to do so), and finds an old ship's beckon call, which Artoo recognizes as similar to a device Lando once carried. Luke heads to Lando's new mining operation on Nkllon, arriving at the exact same time Han and Leia are dropping in on Lando to help with Leia's "the Empire's trying to kidnap me" problem. In the 20th Anniversary annotations, Zahn notes that this trope is part and parcel of Star Wars (and almost all fiction, to a greater or lesser extent), but that it's particularly forgivable in Star Wars, as one never knows just how much the Force is influencing people and events.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: How the New Republic figures out Thrawn's cloak scheme, with the rare acknowledgement that zooming in makes things blurrier and hard to read.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Leia briefly hides out on Kashyyyk in the first book, and acts as if it's her first time ever seeing the planet. Because, as we all know, The Star Wars Holiday Special never happened...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b333f02e	comment	Achilles in His Tent: After playing The Cavalry at the climax of Dark Force Rising, the genius general Garm Bel Iblis, the only commander the Republic has who can even begin to stand up to Thrawn on the battlefield, is sidelined at the start of The Last Command by Mon Mothma due to long-standing trust issues between them and retires to brood when Thrawn attacks Coruscant. Leia goes to meet him to implore him to take command of the defence (and discovers that Garm's issues aren't rooted in pride, but a refusal to work with Mon Mothma until he knows he has her full trust), but it's only when Mon Mothma makes a personal appeal that he agrees to take command again.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b41acf08	comment	Joruus C'baoth. An Axe-Crazy dark sided clone of a Jedi Master is a scary, scary thing.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: You know Zahn cracked a nice little smile when he realized this. In earlier printings, though, it was actually referred to as "The Empire Trilogy". As an in-universe example, Zahn did it deliberately when naming Jacen and Jaina.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The entire premise of Thrawn's command style and overarching strategy is this to the Empire of the original film trilogy. Whereas Tarkin, Vader, and the Emperor relied on overwhelming force and Awesome, but Impractical superweapons to accomplish their goals, Thrawn utilizes only conventional technology (even the cloaking shield isn't some lost tech, just not used because of known practical considerations in the use of cloaking technology), preferring to win his battles with superior tactics and training. Even his flagship is just a typical Imperial Star Destroyer. Of course, because he's Thrawn, this is no handicap at all.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: The elements of Thrawn's plan (which he describes as a jigsaw puzzle) seem like this to anyone who doesn't know it, including Pellaeon and the reader. For example, how does 1) raiding New Republic supply lines, 2) stealing fifty mole miners, 3) acquiring a cloaking shield and 4) the (then) mysterious Spaarti cylinders come together help him defeat the New Republic? By forcing the New Republic to convert some of their warships to lightly crewed freighters to take up the needed freight capacity, then using the cloaking shield to deliver the mole miners into the shipyard where the lightly crewed converted warships are, using the mole miners to drill into the ships to insert stormtroopers to take them over, and then (if the plan hadn't been foiled) converting the ships back into full warships and crewing them with Spaarti clones.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b7612cb7	type	Misfit Lab Rat
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b7612cb7	comment	Misfit Lab Rat: Karrde's top computer slicer, or hacker Zakarisz Ghent counts as one. Ghent was born a prodigy and was cracking high level Imperial codes at the age of 12 out of sheer boredom.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: C'Baoth's original question to Thrawn as to why he should help him conquer the galaxy. C'Baoth states that he has no desire to rule over millions of people he will never meet, preferring a smaller and more intimate society that he can micromanage down to the last shirt button. Subverted when C'Baoth's rapidly expanding powers allow him to take control of people's minds from great distances. And Then What? gets thrown out the window, as now he has the means to mentally dominate everyone in the entire galaxy. In a way, his victory would be far worse than Thrawn's, as C'Baoth would control everyone in the galaxy, mind, body, and soul. Although he still gets taken down a peg or two when he seizes control of all but a few of the 37,000 minds aboard the Chimaera in order to go and capture Leia's kids—and then Thrawn starts pointing out that yes, he's got a ship, but he's also got to actually get the ship to Coruscant over a minimum of five days, keeping control of the entire crew all the while but also making sure they're still in a suitable condition to fight when they reach their destination, bypass Coruscant's defenses... and that's with one ship against the entire defense fleet of the capital of the Republic; he'd almost certainly need to bring along a support fleet...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: Talon Karrde defeats an enemy's attempt to steal his ship by holding down a switch on the control board and bluffing that it's a dead-man's switch controlling the ship's self-destruct mechanism. (The switch actually just turns on the ship's headlights.)
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: Grand Admiral Thrawn's eyes are glowing red.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b89d9f13	type	Assimilation Plot
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b89d9f13	comment	Assimilation Plot: C'Baoth in Last Command.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b8d74c77	type	Self-Induced Allergic Reaction
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b8d74c77	comment	Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: Mara Jade's plan for hiding Luke from the Imperial patrols on Myrkr.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: While Joruus is otherwise a dead-on example, he sees no appeal to the idea of ruling over millions of people he'll never even meet, considering total control over people he personally interacts with on a daily basis to be the true meaning of power. Which is what happens when you work with The Empire. He changes his mind once he realizes he can personally put most of his minions under Mind Control, made even easier by the legion of clones who have near-identical minds. Averted with Thrawn, who is certainly ruthless but treats his subordinates well (with the exception of those he finds unsalvageably inept). He's certainly a better man than C'baoth, Vader, or Palpatine. Later-written books still have him as very ambiguous and ruthless, but somewhat less villainous and more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist type. Outbound Flight, deliberately or not, seems to draw a parallel between him and other pawns of Darth Sidious like Anakin Skywalker—that he was a decent man of great ability who was ultimately corrupted by Palpatine's evil.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: At the end of the trilogy, Luke gives Mara Jade his father's lightsaber for a multitude of reasons — but mostly because he wants her to have it. She reflects that he's just given her one of the last remaining links to his past, and thinks that this is not a subtle message, and he's wasting his time. But as he's leaving, she tells him to hang on a minute — she's coming with him.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: More than any other Expanded Universe writer, Zahn likes to use a lot of normal Earth-sounding names for humans; Executive Meddling altered the spelling of some in reaction.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Winter. Mara goes back and forth between this and very emotional, depending on the topic at hand. Karrde, like someone poking at a loose tooth, takes careful note of her Berserk Buttons: the pre-Endor Empire, the late Emperor, Luke Skywalker...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ba0e3912	comment	Power Nullifier: The ysalamiri. Due to evolving alongside the Force-utilizing vornskr predators, they create "bubbles" where the Force "ceases to exist." Interestingly enough, they are rarely used for this application; instead, Thrawn needed them for his super-fast cloning process.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ba183b0e	type	The Paralyzer
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ba183b0e	comment	The Paralyzer: Zahn introduces the Stokhli Spray Stick, an unconventional weapon which can both stun people and also allow one to play at being Spider-Man. The Noghri use it when trying to capture a pregnant Leia because the stun setting on normal Star Wars blasters have a better than fifty-fifty shot of inducing a miscarriage and Thrawn wants the kids alive. The conventional stun-setting blasters appear in "The Last Command" when the Imperials can't use the kill setting for fear of hitting the nearby cloning equipment. Lando and Chewie have fewer compunctions.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Luke's new love interest is a feisty red-haired woman with the initials "M.J.", and her first and last name are both just one letter off from "Mary Jane". Sounds familiar...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Fey'lya comes across as this most of the time, although it's said that this is in part just part of the backstabbing way Bothan politics works and how it has influenced his cultural background. Mara has a mild case of this in the beginning; part of her Character Development is learning to look beyond herself and think about other people. C'baoth is basically an emotional unstable five-year-old, fixated on whatever catches his fancy at any given moment (through most of the trilogy, that's being able to twist and turn Luke, Leia, and her twins into his own personal puppets). While Thrawn is good at pressing the man's buttons to get him and keep him in line (mostly), C'baoth's "endgame," insofar as he actually has one, is quite literally It's All About Me.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Twice, both centered around Mara: The Emperor's final orders to her: You will kill Luke Skywalker. And she does—or rather, Luuke Skywalker, the clone. C'baoth's assertion that she will kneel before him. Once again, she does—in order to better align her lightsaber for the killing blow.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bbca7a41	type	Mirror Match
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bbca7a41	comment	Mirror Match: Luke faces one at the climax of The Last Command when Joruus C'Baoth forces him into a lightsaber duel against a clone of himself.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bc74ef27	comment	Karrde gets his first one in that same scene. Not only carefully gauging Mara's ability to take the role he's offering, but him noting the handful of topics guaranteed to get an emotional reaction from her. He also offers to assist Pellaeon in obtaining ysalamiri, free of charge... when Mara asks what Karrde and organization get out of it, Karrde states that he gets to have his people watching the Imperials from the moment they land to the moment they take off, and to have another trusted associate, Aves, around who knows how to ask the right questions, and possibly figure out why the Empire wants them (since harvesting a mass of ysalamiri is rather overkill just to deal with Luke Skywalker). This shows that Karrde is savvy, intelligent, and values information and intelligence above everything else.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: Used for the final book, The Last Command.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Early in the first book, Obi-Wan visits Luke for the final time while Luke is dreaming. Five years after Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan can no longer delay crossing over to the next stage of the Force afterlife (and it's stated he can only appear through Luke's dream since he can't take a ghostly form anymore), so he gives Luke some last advice and reassures him they will meet again someday, implied to be when Luke himself becomes one with the Force.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Han and Leia were married at some point between Return of the Jedi and now. The work the New Republic requires of them is a strain on their relationship, but they weather it remarkably well.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: Thrawn torturing the location of the Katana Fleet out of Karrde doesn't work, although Karrde says it's just because Thrawn was still on the food-and-sleep-deprivation phase when Luke and Mara break him out. When Thrawn gets his hands on a second person with information on the fleet's location, he doesn't even bother with attempting to torture the man—he just bribes him.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: In Dark Force Rising, Thrawn promises Mara eight days to convince Karrde to give him the location of the Katana fleet, but instead plants a tracking device on her ship, follows her to Karrde's hideout, and abducts him for interrogation. When a furious Mara confronts him over this, he calmly replies that he changed his mind.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Thrawn successfully runs so many of these that he gets the protagonists chasing their own tails trying to avoid stepping into the next one. He pretty much defines the trope in an aside to Pellaeon, patiently explaining why they're considering attacking a world which the New Republic prizes greatly—but not yet. A despairing Lando, trying to get something out of a paranoid Admiral Drayson, tells him: Played with right back, as the retort is that even if this isn't part of Thrawn's plans, he'll certainly work it in if learns of it (through his information tap in the New Republic government center.) A particularly apt example of the trope is when Thrawn sends commandoes to capture Leia's children, but briefs them that if they fail, they should falsely implicate Mara Jade as an Imperial spy in order to prevent her giving her knowledge to the Republic. Pellaeon considers this order defeatist and admits he wouldn't have come up with it himself, but it turns out to serve Thrawn's purposes well. Thrawn does much the same in the first book when he plans to capture Luke while he's en route to see C'baoth, but realises that if the capture fails, Luke might be suspicious that the Empire knew he was coming. So Thrawn sets up a fake ambush of a freighter so it looks as though Luke was just unlucky enough to hit the No Warping Zone intended for that. And it works: Luke does manage to escape, but doesn't realise C'baoth is working with the Empire. It does fail in one respect: C'baoth figures that Thrawn was trying to alter their deal. This is a major factor in splintering their alliance.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c35cddcd	type	I Control My Minions Through...
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c35cddcd	comment	I Control My Minions Through...: Grand Admiral Thrawn uses Money for mercenary types, Authority on some Imperials and the Noghri, Indoctrination on clones, Fear on the Noghri and sometimes his Imperials, Sadism (sort of) with C'baoth, and for the others... Respect. He knows that it's best to be feared and loved, and put a high value on people who were both loyal and competent. C'baoth uses Fear, Mind Control, and Divine Right.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Garm Bel Iblis spends years fighting a private war against the Empire rather than joining the Rebel Alliance because of a personal grudge against Mon Mothma, before reluctantly joining the New Republic. The teeth unclench when she unbends enough to ask him, personally, to help. Also, Mara asking Luke for help when she tries to rescue Karrde off the Chimaera.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c36cba70	comment	Zahn's view of stormtroopers comes from the original meaning of the word, referring to elite soldiers. The deployment of stormtrooper squads is treated like a significant display of force and the potential squandering of a precious resource, a sharp contrast to how they are treated as generic mooks in pretty much all other Star Wars media. The term seemed to be come into use originally because of its link to the Nazis. (Since the later Lucasfilm era and the Great Mouse Adjustment, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Solo film have somewhat vindicated this portrayal. In Clone Wars, the troopers, obvious forerunners of the stormtroopers, really are elite soldiers; and in Solo the "mudtroopers" on Mimban are not actual stormtroopers but part of the Imperial Army. Default stormtroopers, however, are little more effective than they ever were, at least against heroes.) Later entries by Zahn would relegate most of that reputation to elites like the Royal Guard, but he still portrays the image of stormtroopers in their armor as still distinctly unsettling as reminder of the Empire's tyranny to people in the Republic even after the war ends.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: Leia notes that this used to happen with her and Winter back on Alderaan, as Winter not only looks more like a classical aristocrat than she does but has a certain grace and bearing that just comes naturally; Leia can do the same, but at least from her perspective it's more a mask she puts on rather than part of who she is.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: In the first book, Thrawn secures the Emperor's storehouse on Wayland, which contains a working Invisibility Cloak, the bonus of a Jedi Master, and what Thrawn describes as "a small — almost trivial — bit of technology" called "Spaarti Cylinders." On the last page of the second book, Spaarti Cylinders turn out to be the Uterine Replicators of a complete and functioning cloning facility. (Luke, upon discovering this, "has a bad feeling about this.") In the third book, Mara learns something very important about the man she's been ordered to kill.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c64a049a	type	Mercurial Base
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c64a049a	comment	Mercurial Base: Nomad City, Nkllon; Lando's latest business venture. The city is made of huge platforms and grounded ships, sitting on top of 40 AT-AT walkers, which keep it traveling against the planet's rotation so that it is always on the shady side of the planet.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Karrde's pet vornskrs Sturm and Drang are named after Sturm und Drang, a German literary style of the 18th century. Luke's new love interest is a feisty red-haired woman with the initials "M.J.", and her first and last name are both just one letter off from "Mary Jane". Sounds familiar...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c8415a22	type	Mage-Hunting Monster
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c8415a22	comment	Mage-Hunting Monster: Vornskrs, Force-sensitive wolf-like predators, react very aggressively to other Force-users, and become hyperfocused on attacking them once they sense their presence. In The Last Command, Talon Karrde makes use of this by using his two pet vornskrs to track down the Dark Jedi Joruus C'Baoth.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Dark Force Rising - Harrison Ford is about to shoot you while Mark Hamill is about to lightsaber you.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Or Cigarra, the Galaxy's equivalent. Niles Ferrier likes his stoogies.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c934516a	type	The Oldest Tricks in the Book
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c934516a	comment	Other uses are played equally realistically (as befitting Zahn's history with relatively-hard military SF). "Static-damping" doesn't hide a ship from sensors, but does prevent another ship from reading what's inside, while letting the scanning ship know there's static-damping messing with their sensor readings. Karrde observes Thrawn's attack on his deserted Myrkr base from behind an asteroid, which Mara notes as being one of The Oldest Tricks in the Book. And Thrawn indeed does know they're there, since it's the only suitable cover for thousands of kilometers, and he knows that above all else Karrde craves knowledge, and the knowledge of what Thrawn might learn from Karrde's base is too valuable to pass up. "Sensor-stealth modes" are given a handwave, but are implied to require either extreme distance, hiding behind another inert object, or both to be effective.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c995ecb6	type	Perspective Magic
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_c995ecb6	comment	Perspective Magic: Thrawn uses several of his cloaked ships in conjunction with the Chimaera to pull this off as one of his "superweapons." The cloaked vessels were in a direct line between the Chimaera and its target, just below the planet's shields, firing when the former's lasers hit said shields. To the defenders, it looks as though the Chimaera's lasers went straight through. Thrawn carefully chooses the places where he uses this trick, only targeting planets where he expects the locals to be so astonished by the "impossible" attack that they'll surrender without taking the time to analyze what's happening. When an ally of Karrde manages to escape one of those worlds after Thrawn pulls his trick, with a video recording of the attack, it proves to be an extremely valuable piece of information to sell to the New Republic, because the video's resolution is high enough to make out a slight gap in the laser beam.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The Emperor's final revenge on Vader for killing him is to instruct Mara, YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ccffaa84	type	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ccffaa84	comment	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: For most of the trilogy, Mara is openly frustrated at the fact that she keeps needing Luke's help and thus can't kill him yet. She blames Luke for Palpatine's death, and as such wants to kill him... Of course, we all know where that ended up.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: One battle depicts the roar of A-wing engines as so incredibly loud that Wedge can hear them "even through the tenuous gases of interplanetary space."
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Han brings the Falcon in for a bumpy landing on Wayland; in a Call-Back to Return of the Jedi, he quips to Lando that at least the sensor dish is still there. Lando grouses that next time he'll destroy the shield generator and Han can fly her into the Death Star's superstructure. Neither of them laughs, as they both realize that the Empire is on such a roll under Thrawn that it just might be able to build a third Death Star.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Leia has three over the course of the books—figuring out the secret of Delta Source based on watching a cleaning droid, working out how Thrawn's impossibly rapid cloning works from a chance remark by Mara and realizing just how badly (or, more precisely, for how long) the Empire has been exploiting the Noghri and how she can prove it. The first two are in The Last Command; the third is in Dark Force Rising. Han gets two in the Battle of Sluis Van, realizing what the Empire is doing with mole miners (and sharing the second with Lando in realizing how they can stop them). Zahn seems to love this trope. Just about all the main characters get at least one, and Thrawn's whole MO is invoking this trope.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d279adbb	type	Read the Freaking Manual
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d279adbb	comment	To be more clear, he doesn't punish failure, he punishes fault. And trying to make your superior officer look bad in front of his superior to deflect blame from your own laxness in failing to Read the Freaking Manual is a capital fault. As he eloquently explains:
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d45c0b86	comment	Thrawn is master of these, usually working out from an enemy's artwork how they will respond to a given tactic. He also realizes our heroes' penchant for choosing strategies on the basis of "our enemies can't possibly believe we'd be that crazy", and uses it to deduce that they'll hit the heavily defended shipyards at Bilbringi rather than the less-defended Tangrene.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Some members of the Imperial Army such as General Covell look down upon their naval counterparts, feeling them afraid to leave their ships and face real combat. Covell, wisely, keeps such opinions about his naval counterparts to himself and becomes a senior Imperial leader during Thrawn's campaign.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: Played with, in Heir Han says the Imperials have attacked three star systems—"Bpfassh and two unpronounceable ones".
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d5661a8c	type	The Dreaded Dreadnought
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d5661a8c	comment	The Dreaded Dreadnought: Subverted with Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers. Though in their day they were unrivaled, they're an old design; by the standards of the post-Imperial era they're capable midsize warships but are too personnel-heavy and are severely outclassed by Imperial Star Destroyers and the Mon Calamari's own heavy cruisers. The appeal of the Katana Fleet is that there are close to two hundred of them. That many ships would be a force multiplier for either side. With enough of them, and clones to crew them, Thrawn is able to take advantage of Unstable Equilibrium and launch a major offensive against the New Republic.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d5b3df2d	comment	The trilogy introduced a vast number of characters, starships and planets to the Star Wars universe, perhaps the most significant being Mara Jade. Also, the name "Coruscant" for the capital world was first established in Heir to the Empire, and would go on to be used in the prequel trilogy.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d62dd556	comment	Thrawn himself is more of The Chessmaster, but he occasionally showed tendencies of this as when he personally manipulated Mara Jade and Mazzic.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d85e0470	type	Agri World
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d85e0470	comment	Agri World: The planet Ukio is primarily an exporter of foodstuffs, and Thrawn takes it over at the start of the third book to feed his ever-growing army of clones.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d9d6ae49	type	I Am Not Him
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d9d6ae49	comment	I Am Not Him: Thrawn repeatedly demonstrates how much different he is than Darth Vader (or most other Imperial leaders for that matter). After Ferrier trips over his plans, a visibly angry Thrawn tells Niles Ferrier that he was not Darth Vader.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d9f477b2	type	Flanderisation
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_d9f477b2	comment	Flanderisation: Thrawn is a very gifted tactician who is excellent at deduction. Later books by other authors treat him as being omniscient and undefeatable, despite making several clear mistakes in the books, notably underestimating the Noghri and failing to appreciate the importance Darth Vader's children would have to them. This was mocked by Zahn himself in the Hand of Thrawn books, with several aliens in the Senate who never encountered Thrawn the first time being terrified of his reputation and the main characters Lampshading that he was never that good. In addition, later books flanderize him into more and more of a Noble Demon and Well-Intentioned Extremist, especially those where it's implied that his ultimate goal was to prepare the galaxy for the impending invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong; this time, Timothy Zahn actually endorses this new view, but since the Yuuzhan Vong weren't even conceived when this novel was written it is obviously an example of Canon Welding. The Thrawn of this trilogy is less Noble Demon than pragmatic villain, and seems to be trying to destroy the rebellion from a combination of Lawful Evil and for the sheer intellectual thrill, and further makes offhand and unapologetic references to committing xenocide in times past, to say nothing of his treatment of the Noghri. So while he was a very Affably Evil and disciplined villain, he was still very, very much a villain. Still, he did seem to express some remorse, in private, for destroying that particular unnamed race, though it seems less because he actually found destroying them abhorrent, and more that he was ashamed he was unable to gain the kind of insight from their art that he does from every other species. Given canon exploration in later books, it's also possible that Thrawn as he is in his trilogy is simply what happens when you take a brilliant young mind and give it to Palpatine for refinement.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Thrawn himself. It's easy to forget given how popular he became, but in many ways Thrawn plays second fiddle to C'baoth. C'baoth is the one that has direct confrontations with the heroes and during the trilogy's final act is presented as a greater threat to the galaxy than Thrawn. C'baoth is featured more prominently on the novels covers and Thrawn's death comes about matter of factly after C'baoth is defeated. As far as the fanbase is concerned, however? There's a reason these books came to be called the Thrawn Trilogy.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: There's a big plot hole where Darth Vader was involved in a plot-critical event 44 years before the present day of the story. Luke and Leia, at this stage, cannot be any older than 28, meaning Anakin Skywalker would have had to have been Darth Vader sixteen years before his children were born. While this preceded the release of the prequel trilogy which obsoleted a lot of what Timothy Zahn had based his writing on (particularly the nature of the Clone Wars and the fall of the Old Republic), he apparently just didn't consider the ramifications of the plot point on the family timeline (never mind that this meant Vader would presumably have had to have been a Dark Jedi for at least 16 years before being crippled and turned into a cyborg).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dac40093	type	Spy Ship
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dac40093	comment	Spy Ship: At one point, smuggler and information broker Talon Karrde is discreetly informed by an ally that the ally's ships will attack the Imperial shipyard at Bilbringi. In order to spy on the resulting chaos, Karrde arranges for his ships to take on a legitimate shipping contract to deliver parts to Bilbringi (a ruse which he uses several times, equally often for spying or sabotage). While there, they also happen to record a mysterious but trivial detail that ultimately proves highly valuable to the New Republic (specifically, they get a chance to count all the cloaked asteroids).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Mara Jade flies spaceships, shoots, and even fights with a lightsaber on one occasion.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: In later books it's intimated that Thrawn intended to prepare the galaxy for the Vong invasion, but there's no hint of it in the trilogy.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dbc2a0cd	type	Hand Wave
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	Handwave: Zahn, in the 20th Anniversary Heir to the Empire commentary, flat out admits using this at various points during the creation process.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dc167d72	type	Knowledge Broker
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dc167d72	comment	Knowledge Broker: Talon Karrde. Smuggler by trade, collector of information by passion. His planned contribution to the New Republic's war effort is to have the smugglers act as freelance spies (getting paid like privateers for it).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: "I am the Jedi Master C'baoth! The Empire, the universe is mine!"
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: When first meeting Joruus C'baoth, Thrawn instantly deduces that he's a clone. Why? Because he was personally present when the original Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth (note the spelling difference) was killed. This is later fleshed out in Hand of Thrawn and then shown in Outbound Flight, although it's still a bit improbable that Thrawn would happen to meet both C'baoths in completely different parts of the galaxy. Leia and Han mention a Dark Jedi from the Bpfassh region making it as far as Dagobah before he got caught. Luke travels to Dagobah, to see if Yoda left something useful behind (and just because he suddenly feels it's very important to do so), and finds an old ship's beckon call, which Artoo recognizes as similar to a device Lando once carried. Luke heads to Lando's new mining operation on Nkllon, arriving at the exact same time Han and Leia are dropping in on Lando to help with Leia's "the Empire's trying to kidnap me" problem. In the 20th Anniversary annotations, Zahn notes that this trope is part and parcel of Star Wars (and almost all fiction, to a greater or lesser extent), but that it's particularly forgivable in Star Wars, as one never knows just how much the Force is influencing people and events.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Thrawn, especially when compared to the likes of Vader. He believes in cultivating loyalty rather than fear in his underlings and frowns upon Vader's excessive use of You Have Failed Me. However, that does not stop him from invoking the trope himself at times. Thrawn's contrast with Vader is exemplified with the two tractor beam incidents; the first time Thrawn orders the tractor officer executed for knowing about the Rebel's ability to break tractor locks, but doing nothing to counter it. Later, he commends an officer for trying something to counter a different tractor-lock tactic, since no one has been able to defeat that particular countermeasure and so there simply is no appropriate response in the training manual. The key difference is that the first tractor beam operator tried to claim he'd never been trained for such a circumstance when such training is in the standard package, while the second was confronted with a tactic no one had ever found a way around and tried something new to defeat it—and unlike the first operator, took full responsibility for his failure. In a case of outside-the-box-thinking (and taking responsibility) versus poor conventional thinking (and it's-not-my-fault), Thrawn promoted the ingenious officer and executed the buck-passer.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Leia.◊ She's pregnant with twins Jacen and Jaina through most of the trilogy and delivers them midway through The Last Command, and meanwhile fights off multiple kidnapping attempts, improves her skill with the Force, and talks the entire Noghri species into a Heelâ€“Race Turn.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_de51d725	type	Eye Lights Out
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_de51d725	comment	Eye Lights Out: Grand Admiral Thrawn's eyes are glowing red. They stop glowing when he dies.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The Battle of Bilbringi. The New Republic tried to pull a Kansas City Shuffle on Thrawn. That failed. Someone else got shuffled, though, and made their own plans for that time. Thrawn didn't plan for that. Meanwhile, the totally unrelated Noghri rebellion breaks cover at the same time, and Thrawn's Noghri bodyguard kills him before he can recover the tactical situation.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: An annotated hardcover for Heir to the Empire was released on its 20th Anniversary, but none for the other two books. The trilogy was rereleased with brand new covers in late 2016.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_df1cea7e	type	Evil Tainted the Place
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_df1cea7e	comment	Evil Tainted the Place: Averted when the New Republic government moves in to the Imperial Palace. They ask Luke if he can sense any remnants of the Emperor's presence but he doesn't sense anything. But there is an elaborate recording system left by the Emperor that still feeds information to Thrawn. A Dark Jedi who died in a cave on Dagobah after fighting a member of Yoda's species is revealed to be the reason why said cave is so strong with the dark side of the Force. Both Leia and Mara Jade feel the remnants of the Emperor's presence during their respective visits to Endor. It's not pleasant for either of them. Leia is particuarly hard hit when the Falcon travels through the exact spot where the Emperor died, and is briefly overwhelmed by the mavolent emotions she feels there. Afterwards she changes the orbit of the Falcon to keep from passing through that spot again.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Thrawn's ultimate downfall, several things all at once. The true cause of his true downfall was however an Unknown Unknown (something he didn't know he didn't know):that Leia was Darth Vader's daughter (though as noted under Early-Installment Weirdness that varied later). Or at the very least, that the Noghri could tell that by her scent.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e0c8a43	type	Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e0c8a43	comment	Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness: Thrawn is considered a pitch-perfect example of exactly how to write a "High"-scale villain believably, to the point that the books are often recommended to new writers for study of the character; Thrawn isn't invincible, he does eventually lose, and is occasionally out-maneuvered, but the books do an excellent job of making him a credible, competent threat without resorting to a lot of the narrative traps that high-effectiveness villains sometimes fall into, and the reader can easily buy into the fantasy of his victory being a real possibility.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Pellaeon was the only Imperial commander at the Battle of Endor with the presence of mind to order a retreat. Despite several higher-ranking officers still being alive at Endor, Pellaeon's order was obeyed, because those higher-ranking officers were too panicked to countermand him. When Thrawn dies, he does the same. More notably employed by Thrawn himself when his attack on Sluis Van fails. When Pellaeon is surprised at Thrawn's order to retreat, Thrawn explains "this is a setback, Captain, nothing more." Thrawn says that he refused to lead foolhardy attacks, even when ordered to by the Emperor himself... who came to agree with him after the replacement commanders failed. According to Mara, this is something that set Thrawn apart from the standard Imperial commander, including the other Grand Admirals: if you're losing, go out in a blaze of glory and hurt the enemy. Thrawn, however, is willing to retreat from a losing battle. The problem is getting him to that point, which is near impossible.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Evil-on-evil version. In The Last Command C'baoth seizes control of the minds of all thirty-seven thousand of the Chimaera's crew, except Thrawn, Pellaeon and a few others protected by ysalamiri, and intends to take the ship to Coruscant to capture Leia's children. Thrawn might seem helpless, but he simply lectures C'baoth on how he will have to maintain that control for the days it will take to reach Coruscant and that even then, one Star Destroyer would never get through the defenses, forcing C'baoth down.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Thrawn insists on calling the New Republic "The Rebellion". Pellaeon even catches himself calling the Republic, well, the Republic in his presence one time and quickly amends it.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: Harshly averted with the planet Honoghr, which was utterly decimated during a battle in orbit due to destroyed ships crashing into the surface, stray fire, and toxic chemicals being dumped into the atmosphere. And this was just with regular ships; there was no Death Star involved. Honoghr's disaster was deliberately exacerbated by the Empire, who made the restoration slow enough to keep the Noghri in perpetual service. Even after the Noghri discover this and begin a proper clean-up, Luke and Khabarakh suspect that it's too late for the planet to be saved. Despite Honoghr, the trope is played straight with the titular planet of Endor. Leia stops by to meet a contact at one point, yet no mention of any damage to the moon. (The books note, with the above scenario, that it's mostly Clone Wars era ships that had a lot of toxic chemicals that could ruin an environment if a ship crashed. That said the primary argument regarding the classic Endor holocaust argument is the sheer size of the Death Star and the debris resultant from its destruction.) In orbit around the moon, of course, is a bit of a different story, and for a different reason...
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e7b0229a	comment	Joruus C'baoth uses a simple Jedi Mind Trick on Pellaeon to get him to deliver an order C'baoth doesn't want Thrawn to know about, and then has Pellaeon forget ever giving such an order. Later we find out C'baoth is capable of far, far worse, using a highly destructive form of mind control to destroy an Imperial general's mind and turn him into a near-mindless puppet. When the poor man passes into a Force null area, he operates on implanted instructions, then lies down to take a nap he never wakes up from - C'baoth had demolished so much of his brain he couldn't survive when not directly being controlled. Really, Pellaeon got off very lucky.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: How Mara manages to silence the Emperor's voice compelling her to kill Luke Skywalker: She kills his insane clone. The voice never specified which Luke Skywalker. Furthermore, C'baoth has foreseen that Mara Jade will kneel before him. He means to use the Spaarti cylinders to clone her when he concludes that she's more trouble than she's worth. And on top of that, metaphorically speaking she does briefly kneel before him... in the process of stabbing him to death with a lightsaber.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_eb81c601	comment	Luke and Mara's rescue of Karrde from the Star Destroyer; not to mention more "had a bad feeling about this"es than you can throw an Ewok at.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: Averted. Once Thrawn has his fleet and clone army, you would think he would strike Coruscant. Instead he concentrates on restoring the Empire system by system. He even goes so far as to diminish the Republic fleet (which he is beating soundly) by dispatching cloaked asteroids in the vicinity of Coruscant, forcing the New Republic to tie up an exorbitant number of ships which sit in orbit around Coruscant and fire their turbolasers constantly in hope of hitting one of the cloaked asteroids. Discussed when Thrawn explains to Pellaeon exactly what happened during the Battle of Endor. Thrawn claimed that, because Palpatine was using mind control to coordinate his forces in battle, his death led to a high level of fleet-wide disorganization that resulted in the loss of the Super-class Star Destroyer Executor, six other Imperial-class Star Destroyers, the Death Star, and the Endor garrison, which changed the course of the battle from what should have been the Last Stand of the Rebellion into a catastrophic defeat for the Empire. Pellaeon, who was present at the battle, initially tries to argue that Palpatine was not personally directing the fleet and the losses were a result of battle stress, but is rebuffed by Thrawn. During a later battle where Thrawn has C'Baoth using the same type of mind control to coordinate three separate engagements, Pellaeon compares the fleet's current performance against its historical benchmarks and notes a 40% improvement across every measurable category, and he reluctantly admits to himself that the issue is no longer open to argument.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ede69913	comment	Worthless Currency: A Rodian attempts to pay a Barabel with New Imperial scrip, which can't be spent anywhere except on Imperial worlds.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_ee6fc4e0	comment	Thrawn does much the same in the first book when he plans to capture Luke while he's en route to see C'baoth, but realises that if the capture fails, Luke might be suspicious that the Empire knew he was coming. So Thrawn sets up a fake ambush of a freighter so it looks as though Luke was just unlucky enough to hit the No Warping Zone intended for that. And it works: Luke does manage to escape, but doesn't realise C'baoth is working with the Empire. It does fail in one respect: C'baoth figures that Thrawn was trying to alter their deal. This is a major factor in splintering their alliance.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Padme's portrait shows up in the fifth issue of the The Last Command's comic adaptation, which came out after Natalie Portman was cast, but before Episode I was released.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f0653419	comment	Common Place Rare: It's stated that Luke considers hot chocolate to be an exotic beverage, and Lando introduced him to it. This is the first series in Legends where he's shown drinking it.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Luuke Skywalker to Luke Skywalker; literally, because he's a clone of him.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f2e4d683	comment	Stealth in Space: Averted, and pretty well. The "cloaking shield" Thrawn gets his hands on has accurate limitations (the people inside it are just as blind as the ones outside it), so he's forced to use it to 1) hide things inside a ship; 2) find other ways of flying ships; or 3) attach it to things that don't involve guided flight. Because he's a Grand Admiral, he gets significant mileage from all three. It's also discussed that even if one could fly blind from inside a cloaking shield, the engine emissions would still be detectable by anyone who was looking for them. Never shown, though, because Thrawn knows this just as well as Ackbar does. Other uses are played equally realistically (as befitting Zahn's history with relatively-hard military SF). "Static-damping" doesn't hide a ship from sensors, but does prevent another ship from reading what's inside, while letting the scanning ship know there's static-damping messing with their sensor readings. Karrde observes Thrawn's attack on his deserted Myrkr base from behind an asteroid, which Mara notes as being one of The Oldest Tricks in the Book. And Thrawn indeed does know they're there, since it's the only suitable cover for thousands of kilometers, and he knows that above all else Karrde craves knowledge, and the knowledge of what Thrawn might learn from Karrde's base is too valuable to pass up. "Sensor-stealth modes" are given a handwave, but are implied to require either extreme distance, hiding behind another inert object, or both to be effective.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Han has a moment like that over Threepio in the final book. The bumbling robot actually had a reason for the bumbling, which he politely explained after being shouted at.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f41ee3f2	comment	Psychic Strangle: After Thrawn uses Mara to find Karrde, she tries to kill him with a Force choke. It doesn't work properly due to her lack of training (and the fact that her powers have been unreliable ever since the Emperor's death) and he's more confused by it than injured.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: Through Talon Karrde, Timothy Zahn is one. The names of Karrde's ships (Wild Karrde, Lastri's Ort, Starry Ice, Etherway, Amanda Follow, and Dawn Beat) are all clever puns and/or wordplay, and Zahn himself couldn't resist adding in a few puns (like the slave circuit "beckon call" a pun on the term "beck and call," which is exactly what it puts your ship on).
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fa4064bd	comment	Secret Government Warehouse: Mount Tantiss is one of these. Although he does know what specific artifacts he expects to find there, Waylandâ€™s existence is so secret that it took Thrawn (one of Palpatineâ€™s most trusted officers) five years after the Emperorâ€™s death to figure out where it was located.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: The Noghri, after learning the Empire bound them in indentured servitude for forty-four years, paced the decontamination efforts to a virtual standstill and made the whole toxic rain situation worse as part of securing the Noghri's service, wait for precisely the opportune moment to turn on the Empire and reveal how bad an idea pissing off the Noghri is.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Some characters mention the time directly after the death of the Emperor as the mopping-up phase of the war. Leia even suspects that future history books as yet unwritten will say as much, but that to people living through it, this assessment turned out to be very wrong.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fbb934	comment	Do a Barrel Roll: As you'd expect, both sides get a few in: In The Last Command, Bel Iblis invents the 'A-wing Slash', where speedy A-wings hide in the exhaust wash of an attack group of X-wings, then pull off at the last moment and attack the unsuspecting enemy. Gets a Call-Back in Hand of Thrawn. In the Battle of Sluis Van at the end of Heir to the Empire, one of the Chimaera`s deflector shields fails, much to Pellaeon's concern. Thrawn orders his gunners to focus on one side of a nearby Republic frigate, blasting away all the weapons on one side, then gets his tractor beam operators to pull the ship in to fill the gap in the shields, the disarmed side facing towards the Chimaera, basically daring the Rebels to fire on their own ship. The Thrawn Pincer (as it is later called) where Thrawn uses his Interdictor cruisers to define a precise point where his warships will be pulled out of hyperspace, putting them where they need to be to make coordinated surprise attacks with pinpoint precision. Also subverted at the very start of Heir of the Empire as part of an Establishing Character Moment for Thrawn: he beats a Rebel force not with a clever new maneouvre but with a textbook attack. Thrawn's genius instead lay in working out from little information that the Rebel force was commanded by an Elomin, and knowing that Elomin psychology meant they were uniquely poor at responding to the shape of that particular tactic.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: The trilogy introduced a vast number of characters, starships and planets to the Star Wars universe, perhaps the most significant being Mara Jade. Also, the name "Coruscant" for the capital world was first established in Heir to the Empire, and would go on to be used in the prequel trilogy. In an odd instance of SchrÃ¶dinger's Canon, Thrawn became a Canon Immigrant to the new Expanded Universe after being "de-canonized" with the rest of Legends with his appearance on Star Wars Rebels.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fd4f8299	comment	Averted with Thrawn, who is certainly ruthless but treats his subordinates well (with the exception of those he finds unsalvageably inept). He's certainly a better man than C'baoth, Vader, or Palpatine. Later-written books still have him as very ambiguous and ruthless, but somewhat less villainous and more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist type. Outbound Flight, deliberately or not, seems to draw a parallel between him and other pawns of Darth Sidious like Anakin Skywalker—that he was a decent man of great ability who was ultimately corrupted by Palpatine's evil.
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The Thrawn Trilogy / int_fdc4fab4	comment	The Ubiqtorate, a branch of Imperial intelligence (in these books at least) has a name meant to inspire Paranoia Fuel—from 'ubiquitous', meaning 'present everywhere'.
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The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Four-Star Badass / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	From Camouflage to Criminal / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Full-Circle Revolution / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Full-Name Basis / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Geas / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Global Currency / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Glowing Eyes of Doom / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Go Out with a Smile / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Good All Along / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Good Old Robot / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Government-Exploited Crisis / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Graceful Loser / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Grudging "Thank You" / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Have You Told Anyone Else? / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Heel–Face Town / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Hereditary Twinhood / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Heroic Neutral / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Hive City / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Huge Holographic Head / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Hyper-Awareness / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I Am the Noun / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I Am X, Son of Y / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I Control My Minions Through... / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I Lied / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I Owe You My Life / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	I "Uh" You, Too / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Imperiled in Pregnancy / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	In the Back / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Incredibly Obvious Bug / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Indy Ploy / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Ineffectual Death Threats / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Infernal Retaliation / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Inspector Lestrade / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Invisibility Cloak / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Invisibility with Drawbacks / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	It Was a Gift / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Just a Machine / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Katanas Are Just Better / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Know When to Fold 'Em / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Know Your Vines / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Landfill Beyond the Stars / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Leap and Fire / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Limited Advancement Opportunities / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Lovable Rogue / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Loved I Not Honor More / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Luck-Based Search Technique / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Lull Destruction / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Machiavelli Was Wrong / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Mass Hypnosis / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Maybe Ever After / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Mental Fusion / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Mercurial Base / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Military Mage / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Mirror Match / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Mook Depletion / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Moral Sociopathy / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	More Despicable Minion / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	My Nayme Is / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	My Species Doth Protest Too Much / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Neutral No Longer / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	New Era Speech / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Non-Action Big Bad / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Not in This for Your Revolution / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Number Two / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Obvious Pregnancy / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Omniglot / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Once Done, Never Forgotten / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Only the Author Can Save Them Now / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Orbital Bombardment / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Our Clones Are Different / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Override Command / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Overt Operative / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Photographic Memory / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Planetville / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Playful Hacker / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Pose of Supplication / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Pregnant Badass / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Private Intelligence Agency / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Prized Possession Giveaway / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Prophetic Fallacy / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Psychic Strangle / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Psycho Electro / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Psychotic Smirk / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Punctuation Shaker / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Ramming Always Works / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Reading The Enemy's Mail / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Rebellious Rebel / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Recurring Location / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Red Alert / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Red Herring Mole / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Right for the Wrong Reasons / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Right-Hand Cat / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Salvage Pirates / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	SchrÃ¶dinger's Canon / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Sequel Reset / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Serial Prostheses / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Shaggy Search Technique / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Silent Running Mode / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Soldier vs. Warrior / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Speech Impediment / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Spy Ship / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Stealth Escort Mission / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Strategy Versus Tactics / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Stun Guns / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Superweapon / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Take Me Instead / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	The Chosen Many / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	The Dreaded Dreadnought / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	The Exile / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	The Only One / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	The Paralyzer / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	The Watson / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	There Is Another / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Thought They Knew Already / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Throwing the Distraction / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Throwing Your Sword Always Works / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Torture Is Ineffective / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Tractor Beam / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Trapped the Wrong Target / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	2-D Space / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Unstable Equilibrium / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Untranslated Catchphrase / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Unwitting Pawn / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Venturous Smuggler / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Villain Opening Scene / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Villainous Underdog / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Walking Tank / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Wall of Text / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	We Will Spend Credits in the Future / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	What Beautiful Eyes! / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	White Shirt of Death / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Worshipped for Great Deeds / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Wronski Feint / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	Xanatos Speed Chess / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	You Are the Translated Foreign Word / int_85b855e2
The Thrawn Trilogy	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_85b855e2

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