![]() While these were not necessarily bad concepts to work with, the way they were handled is… well, I’ll explain below. ![]() ![]() It also gave us a new enemy: the Yuuzhan Vong, an extragalactic race of alien warriors with a fanatical devotion to pain, a mission of conquest, and an obsession with eradicating all forms of technology and the “infidels” who used them. With NJO, more emphasis was put on the next generation of Jedi–in particular on Han and Leia’s three children: their daughter Jaina and their sons Jacen and Anakin. the Empire, with Luke Skywalker being more or less the only real Jedi Knight left in the galaxy, and the “Big Three” (Luke, Han, and Leia) being the main cast of characters. The New Jedi Order series was an attempt to redefine Star Wars outside the classic format we were used to seeing: the Rebels vs. ![]() Even so, I really got into the Expanded Universe novels thanks to a series that started back in 1999 called The New Jedi Order–and now, some twelve years later, I am ready to finally present my readers an opinion on these books. It fueled my budding imagination and, though I am somewhat ashamed to admit it, I got my start in creative writing with a lot of Star Wars fan fiction (fortunately, none of it ever saw the light of day because it was God-awful). Let’s face it: my love of fiction started with Star Wars. ![]()
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