Last night, decided to dig into #StarWarsExpandedUniverse. Never got into it, cuz it seemed so nebulous w/a lot of hit-n-miss books. W/Disney, et al actively flushing my beloved mythos down the toilet, did some research, and started listening to the #ThrawnTrilogy on audiobook. It was often at/near the top of any listical/article I found, so figured I'd start there.

I'm 4 chapters into #HeirToTheEmpire, and totally loving it!

Interest in new #StarWars = 0. #NotSorry

Comic Review: Shadows of the Empire

https://countzeroor.com/2023/05/20/comic-review-shadows-of-the-empire/

#comics #StarWars #1990sInComics #DarkHorseComics #ShadowsOfTheEmpire #StarWars #StarWarsExpandedUniverse #StarWarsLegends
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@cstross Another thing that I find amusing is that Timothy Zahn actually _did_ the whole advanced-technology-turns-out-to-be-ghosts thing, elsewhere, at roughly the same time as the #StarWarsExpandedUniverse books.

@cstross doing the #StarWarsExpandedUniverse would say that _obviously_ Luke is a poltergeist in training. Xe moves furniture around with ease.

If only #Jedi can perceive the ghosts, that would explain why possessed C3PO and R2D2 can discuss The Plot openly in corridors/rooms without any of the normals passing by catching on, and why Chewbacca just ignores C3PO's complaining. And, indeed, why Leia, a Jedi, felt that entrusting R2D2 was safe. No non-Jedi could have accessed the message.

@cstross might have thought about possession, too.

Perhaps C3PO isn't intelligent, merely possessed by another #Jedi ghost, going incognito and giving the performance of xyr ... afterlife. None of the many other androids on screen behave like that. Did the Cantina bartender actually mean that possessed machines aren't allowed? Has he got The Sight, too?

Are the pieces of the second Death Star, floating around, possessed by the Emperor's ghost?

#StarWars #StarWarsExpandedUniverse

What if they'd handed the #StarWarsExpandedUniverse to @cstross instead of to Kevin J. Anderson, Zahn, et al.?

Obviously there are plenty of dead #Jedi to go around. How many other ghosts are there? Who are they haunting? Obviously even the Sith get to haunt people. Out of the living, can only Jedi see or be haunted by them? Who is the Emperor now haunting? Who haunts Leia?

Are they more easily visible on the jungle and wood worlds? We didn't see them on Hoth.

#StarWars

Shadows of the Empire: Book Review

https://countzeroor.com/2023/05/06/shadows-of-the-empire-book-review/

#Books #StarWars #1990sinbooks #1990sinsciencefiction #StarWars #StarWarsExpandedUniverse #StarWarsLegends
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Legends of the Force Episode 44: Shadows of the Empire OST

https://countzeroor.com/2023/05/03/legends-of-the-force-episode-44-shadows-of-the-empire-ost/

#music #LegendsoftheForce #music #StarWars #StarWarsExpandedUniverse #StarWarsLegends
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FYI: GenX OT #starwars is different than #starwarsexpandeduniverse universe, While most GenXers are fans of OT and #SWEU, not all GenXers are fans of the #SWEU & haven't read the books.

I'm not fan-gatekeeping, we just need to understand the variations & nuances. Many fans only watch the movies, not read #SWEU and SWExtendedU books. Lest the shows except for this one, #Andor. This fan response is new for a lot of us.

#starwars #midjourney #aiart #starwarsexpandeduniverse #sweu #fanfic

Haruun Kal is a planet with clouds as the sea - what IRL is called a "fata morgana" and a "total cloud inversion"

In the Fanfic, the Yuuzhan Vong came to the planet to test if they could vongform it. Hence the LILY PADS

#midjourney #starwars #starwarsexpandeduniverse #yuuzhanvong #fanart
#aiart

I love the #StarWars #YuuzhanVong hate me #StarWarsExpandedUniverse #SWEU

Image by #DaveFiloni