TalonCard posted:After Dark Lord, during and after the Han Solo trilogy. The novel seems to take place right around 1 BBY, although it may span a longer period of time than that. I'm not quite sure. The Han Solo trilogy encompasses such a long span of time (10-0 BBY) and so many novels take place during it (including the whole of the Lando Calrissian and Han Solo Adventure trilogies) that you'd do better to group them all before Death Star on the shelf. >Does the book have anything about the relationships between Motti, Tarkin, Tagge, and the rest of the command staff?< Sort of. Tagge and Motti are very minor characters in the story, so they don't get much pagetime. Tagge isn't dealt with much, and the novel actually seems to shy away from the Radio Drama scenes and expanded dialogue (unlike, say, The Rise of Darth Vader, which actually incorporated it into the book) so the Tarkin/Motti plot doesn't play a huge part. Motti's character is definitely fleshed out here more than anywhere else besides the Radio Drama, though, and we see the briefing scene from his POV. He hates Tagge. Tarkin's character is expanded on a LOT; making this one of the most revealing looks into his head since the Death Star Technical Companion. You wouldn't expect Tarkin as we saw him in ANH to have a way with the ladies, but the EU has shown that the women he did have relationships with were fanatically devoted to him (Lady Tarkin and Daala) so the novel builds on that. I don't think any of the other command staff are shown, but I haven't done a full read yet. TC
QuinineVos posted:I'm about 100 pages in and am finding it a bit underwhelming as well. The narrative weaves back and forth between 5 or 6 main characters but each section covering each individual character(s) is so short and disjointed that it's kind of hard to get into any of the individual stories. Clearly all these characters will intersect at some point at the end of the novel, and I'm hoping they'll have something to do with the stolen plans that we know the rebels eventually end up with.
RebelGrrl posted:Uli lives! Uli turns Rebel! That is what I most wanted to happen in this book, and it did. Doesn't take too much to please me sometimes.
