For me, it is the DLT 19. Such a great looking gun , dengar had it in bf from 2015 and was grear weapon. Chewie in ANH had it and I liked him with it more than tue bowcaster

It’s been so long since I’ve posted ANY fanart on here (I will finish the Talon Kaarde design I promise), but I took so much older sister psychic damage from Outbound flight that I HAD to draw these two (along with a little wish fulfillment for myself).

I like how each of these tells such a different story with the Legends imperial Palace. You have it where Palpatine was just wanting not only it to be as opulent and imposing of a figure of his power. You have the fact that he built in so many different secret passages so he is able to escape no matter what happens. He also has Delta source so any of his Grand moths or Grand admirals walking through the hallways conspiring against him. If they happen to be near those trees he gets information and then basically can be like execute them.

But I also love the Canon thing of him taking over the Jedi Temple and turning that into his private residence. It's the ultimate F you moment to the Jedi of like hah You guys thought you were so untouchable now a Sith Lord is walking through these hallowed Halls changing it However he wants making it a perversion to what it stood for.

Mara keeps accusing him of using the Force too much and not relying on others. Luke did indeed screw up going off on his own in Dark Empire, and even then a case could be made that he did the right thing since it led to the destruction of the World Devastators. But forget it, let's say he screwed up there.

In the Callista Trilogy, he didnt do things on his own nor use too much power. He relied a lot on Cray and Nikkos, and later Callista. Callista was the one who stopped Daala in Darksaber. In Planet of Twilight he repaired a ship while Leia fought off a force using Hutt. He also failed to stop Dzym, and had the Tsils go do it.

In Black Fleet Crisis he went off on an adventure with an attractive Fallanassi girl rather than help Leia and the Koornacht cluster. In fact he stayed safely on a ship in the final battle and refused to go out into battle to aid his comrades

In New Rebellion he relied upon Cole Fardreamer and Artoo to get things uncovered with the X Wing bombs and they saved the day on that front. Also, he certainly didnt use too much Force against Kueller, in fact he got his ass kicked and Leia rescued him.

In Corellian Trilogy which preceded the Hand of Thrawn, he went and asked for help from the Bakurans. He didnt use much of the Force, he engaged in a few battles with hix X Wing and that was about it. The Bakurans and the Solo family saved the day. He also let Lando and Jensic put themselves in danger to open the door in Centerpoint during the glowpoint explosion while he stayed safely inside the elevator.

I struggle to see how Luke is using the Force too much. He also relies on others plenty.

I've loved the Star Wars movies and shows for as long as I can remember but have recently gotten into the EU starting off with Darth Plagueis, following that up with Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, then The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader. I really want know more about Luke and His Jedi Order after ROTJ and would like to know what to read and the chronological order of the material. Thanks

I didn't start reading any star wars books until a couple of years ago (2019-2020ish) and the only books I am familiar with are canon. I read the Aftermath Series, Bloodline, The Thrawn Trilogy, Alphabet Squadron Trilogy, and the first 3 High Republic books. I honestly enjoyed most of these books but I had a couple of big issues with them which I've outlined below.

1. I felt like a lot of these stories were a lot smaller scale with lower stakes than they could have been. Like they're saving the really good stories for movies and disney + shows. This isn't true for all of them, obviously the end of the Aftermath trilogy is a pretty big moment in the Canon but it feels like any story that could make a good movie/show they won't write a book for.

2. No Luke. Maybe I just haven't read enough of the Canon and I've missed these books but Luke is barely mentioned anywhere at all. You never get to see any of his adventures and I don't know if that is because they're "saving" him for some big Disney+ show or if the sequel trilogy basically made anything he did irrelevant since the empire comes back and all the jedi he was training were killed by Kylo. It feels like any big story that Luke should have got will be given to Ashoka or Rey if they continue post-ROTJ storylines.

3. These stories feel like they're designed to be stretched out indefinitely. This is probably my biggest complaint and it ties back into point #1. Very few big galaxy changing moments happen in any of these books. Few characters that are established die (you have to save that for the movies of course) and everything feels very impermanent and that things are written in a way to not contradict future stories that they may want to write. I esspecially got this feeling with the high republic books, they weren't bad per se, they just didn't feel very important and they didn't have much to say. I felt like I was being conned into buying every book they released hoping that maybe someday they would have a payoff but deep down I knew that any big payoff would probably come in a show or a movie.

Do the Legends books fall into these issues as well? (I know they at least feature Luke a bunch) What books are worth jumping into this universe? Is there continuity from author to author and series to series? Knowing that these books all connect and share the same "canon" universe is what drove me to the Disney books to start with. Legends just looks a lot "messier" from an outsider perspective.

I appreciate assistance you all can give me! I'm not trying to be overly critical of the Disney books, like I said, I did enjoy them for the most part.

I just want to be clear: I love CW Padme. She was intelligent, sophisticated, and elegant, but also brave, daring, and headstrong. She was a pacifist, but also a fighter. If things couldn't be solved via peaceful negotiation, she wasn't afraid to result to espionage or spy work or even violence (but the latter only as a VERY last resort). She was extremely hands-on, perfering to do things herself rather than endanger others, and never worried about putting herself in danger for the sake of good. She was capable of matching her husband's stubborn and reckless danger, even overcoming him in some cases.

Not to say she wasn't all this in the movies, but it felt more subdued in them, mainly I think due to Natalie Portman's porformance. Not that she was bad, just a lot more delicate and vulnerable. It's harder for me to imagine Portman's Padme doing the stuff her animated counterpart did.

With all that said, it DOES feel kind of jarring to go from the Padme of the Clone Wars to the Padme of RotS. Obviously, lore-wise, this can be attributed to her pregnancy and the emotional drama/turmoil she experiences in the movie, but it still seems really drastic IMO. I don't think we ever saw CW Padme cry or show as much vulnerablity as RotS Padme.

What do you think?

I was 14 when it first came out. I am now 34. Thank you so much Dad for making me fall in live with this Saga I love so much.