skyjedi2005 said:
Also if i am not mistaken Zahn, Veitch and Anderson tried to have some kind of overlapping continuity if not successful in execution they had the idea for the stories to intersect.
From what I read, the Thrawn Trilogy was supposed to take place after Dark Empire and have a bunch of references to that storyline. Zahn refused, though, so the chronological order was flipped around and no references to Dark Empire ever showed up in his trilogy.