So I was on the whole kind of disappointed with the ST after TLJ, and I realized its mostly because the ST is just a rebootquel, not the continuation I wanted. So I’m going to check out the Thrawn Trilogy and see how I like it compared to the ST.
Just keep in mind (if you didn’t already know) that the Thrawn trilogy takes place only five years after ROTJ, so there’s still Imperials, etc. Though at this point they’re the underdogs, and the Rebellion has became the New Republic. All the new factions start showing up in the later novels.
I’m really curious to see what the new EU novels will do in the future to cover the gap in between ROTJ and TFA. Either very little will happen, or a lot will happen until everything returns back to “empire” vs “rebels.”
One of these days they’ll make a trilogy of novels about Snoke and how he acquired all his money and finally fanboys will stop complaining…
…well, at least the part about making novels about Snoke is plausible.
Well that goes without saying (the Snoke novel part, that is). However, I was more referring to the politics of the SW galaxy. I figure at some point the new EU have to invent some new factions and some lesser conflicts/wars that doesn’t follow the OT formula. I find it hard to believe that they can just do “rebels” vs “empire” for the whole thirty year time span. Maybe for now, but at some point they really do have to think up something else.
They practically can’t for most of those thirty years. They’ve established that the Empire was defeated a year after Endor. On the other side, the First Order didn’t come to be known until at most around six years before TFA, and even then it wasn’t until basically TFA that there was actually an out and out war with them.
Shouldn’t that make it easier for them? That means they have 24 years without the First Order. At least 15-20 of those years should be available for the EU in the coming years. After all, the ST is done in 2019, so even the remaining few years should be up for EU exploration in not too long a time.
When I said “can’t” I meant they can’t do rebels vs empire. It’s an extremely open slate. If I’m not mistaken, besides a few isolated flashbacks in the Phasma novel, we’ve had no content at all yet in the 23 year gap between the final Aftermath book (where the Empire is defeated) and the novel Bloodline (where the First Order makes their “first” appearance). So pretty much anything can happen in there.