captainsolo said:vote_for_palpatine said:That's Associate Chief Fnelthr Plux of the Kalkmaar tribe. He and a faction loyal to him broke away from Chief Onf over the mistreatment of a captured Tusken from another tribe. The whole story was told in a SW short story collection, Tales of the Dune Sea, for everyone who wondered what Tuskens, Jawas, Krayt Dragons, and womp rats really did. Another pearl of modern EU, naturally.
At first glance I thought-are you kidding me? They actually wrote about that? Great joke. I thought it might've been the weird Tusken/Jedi dude in some of the comics. (I did not make it up!) I am a fan of the EU when it doesn't go too overboard. Most of the stuff nowadays is just so off the deep end that it isn't even enjoyable anymore. The Thrawn Trilogy, Shatterpoint, and of course the adventures of Han Solo are still my defining EU moments. Can we persuade Lucasbooks to get back to "classic SW"? (hate that term) The only good thing I've read recently has been the Last of the Jedi young reader series. I know that they're for kids, but the stories are actually well defined. Reading all 10 is about the equivalent of a full EU novel.
In this day and age where book sales are everything why would they go back to doing classic star wars? When just about every single new jedi order book and legacy of the force book has been a new york times bestseller.
All that matters is sales. Not the stories and not creative authorship. In fact a lot of the novels are almost produced like an addendum to a role playing supplement. Or by following the galactic databank at lucasfilm starwars site. Continuity has strangled the life out of the stories now that they have to be rewriitten backwords to conform to the prequels.
Authors in the Bantam Era even if they had strictures on some things did not have to worry about the stupid prequels. All they had to do was make the characters like they were in the original trilogy and extrapolate the future series from that Lucas refused to do. The stories are now trying to be more dark and edgy and forgetting their escapist space fantasy roots.