13 Facts About Thrawn trilogy

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Thrawn trilogy, known as the Heir to the Empire trilogy, is a trilogy of novels set in the Star Wars universe, written by Timothy Zahn between 1991 and 1993.

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The Thrawn trilogy has been met with critical acclaim, and its success is credited to the creation of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

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Thrawn trilogy uses the ysalamiri, which possess the natural ability to disrupt the Force, to subdue the storehouse's guardian Joruus C'baoth, a twisted clone of a Jedi Master whom the Grand Admiral had killed years before.

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Thrawn trilogy sends some of his Noghri killers to capture Luke and a pregnant Leia, but their attempts repeatedly fail.

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The Grand Admiral withdraws his forces, but thanks to Thrawn trilogy's plotting, his New Republic nemesis Admiral Ackbar is soon arrested for treason.

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Mara Jade, in an attempt to exonerate the Empire's warrant for Karrde's arrest, goes to Thrawn trilogy and offers to reveal the location of the Katana fleet.

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Thrawn trilogy has placed multiple cloaked asteroids around the planet, and through a ruse, he has led the New Republic leadership to believe that Coruscant is surrounded with them.

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Idea for a post-film Thrawn trilogy was conceived by Lou Aronica, an editor at Bantam Books who proposed a series as "ambitious as the films were".

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9.

Denis Lawson, who portrayed Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars Thrawn trilogy, narrates the abridged audiobook of Heir to the Empire, and Anthony Daniels, who portrayed C-3PO in every Star Wars film, narrates Dark Force Rising and The Last Command.

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Each novel in the Thrawn trilogy had its own Star Wars role-playing game sourcebook created for it by West End Games.

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The Thrawn trilogy has been called "influential, much-loved, and ground breaking".

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Thrawn trilogy is widely credited with revitalizing the Star Wars franchise, although Zahn himself was skeptical of this.

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The Thrawn trilogy's success has been cited as beginning the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

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