Oh, I don’t think you need to squint at all. Thrawn feels like if it had been written before the canonization purge a couple of years ago, or if you squinted a bit, it would serve as a perfect setup for Heir to the Empire. It’s always fun to have the characters out-think each other It’s always fun to have the characters out-think each other, rather than just “Who’s got the bigger blaster?” or “Can lightsabers and the Force save the day this time?”
Thrawn has always been smarter than the average imperial officer, and he forces the good guys to bring their A-game to the field. He’s a fun character to deal with, because he’s more antagonist than villain, which means the readers can understand him better than perhaps someone like General Grievous. It was really like I was never away from the last books I did. How does it feel to be writing about Thrawn again? This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Thrawn: Alliances picks up the story, but alternates between an encounter between Anakin Skywalker and Thrawn during The Clone Wars, and much later, during the events of Rebels.Īt San Diego Comic-Con, I sat down with Zahn to chat about his book, the challenge of working within Star Wars’ larger story, and his thoughts on bringing together two of the franchise’s greatest villains. While that storyline was wiped out when Disney acquired LucasFilm and reset the franchise’s canon, Thrawn was reintroduced in Star Wars Rebels, and Zahn wrote the definitive origin story for the character in Thrawn - which could serve both the old canon and the new. Thrawn, originally introduced in Zahn’s 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, is a master tactician who attempted to resurrect the Empire after Return of the Jedi. In the new novel, he brings together two of the franchise’s greatest villains: Thrawn and Darth Vader. The book is the sequel to his 2016 novel Thrawn, a long-untold origin story for his fan-favorite character, Grand Admiral Thrawn. Earlier this week, Timothy Zahn published his latest Star Wars novel, Thrawn: Alliances.
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