Books Thrawn - New canon Star Wars book by Timothy Zahn (Spring 2017)

I've honestly stopped caring about insignias.

 

They changed it afterwards, right?

 

None of my local stores have received any Thrawns, correct OR incorrect

 

Same here... it seems that it doesn't cross the Atlantic.

The shops here prefer buying again and again the characters of TFA than the ones of Rebels, that's sad. So there is an overload of Kylo Ren and no Thrawn, no Kanan, no Hera...

 

Seems like he got it done pretty easily. Booster must be pissed.

 

He would be even more pissed if he knew it was HIM who brought the Imperials on that jungle planet where they found Thrawn

 

It's not even paint, though; it looks like it's an actual design in the hull.

 

They've established a bigger connection between Thrawn and the Chimaera in canon than there was in Legends, what with all of his personal troopers bearing some kind of Chimaera insignia, so who knows where it comes from. Could be a Chiss legend, or something.

 

Why do you think I included that detail in my fanfiction "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"? I am of the opinion that a chimaera (thank you Greek mythology for it!) is the symbol for House Mitth and as such stands for Thrawn's Chiss heritage.

 

But the ship was already called Chimaera before Thrawn got it. But maybe they will change that. The Chimaera insignia is just maybe something to show they're part of his fanclub

 

yeah if I remember right, Pelly "inherited" the ship at endor when his captain was killed and he left the battle with the chimaera to fight another day.

 

Either way, it worked out.

 

Hi everybody. First post on this forum. I have a question about this upcoming Thrawn novel. I've not figured out yet how to search a particular thread and I don't really want to go through 74 pages to see if this has already been answered, so I apologize if this has already been discussed. Is Thrawn going to be a prequel book for Ep. VIII? I usually find out about the prequel novels after I've already seen the movie and I'd like to get a jump on it this time. Although it may be moot since I'm going to be reading it before the movie comes out anyway. If it isn't, is there a prequel novel coming out?

 

Mutiny and desertion? Wasn't Pellaeon a captain by that point? And I certainly don't recall him ever defecting to the warlords until AFTER The Thrawn Trilogy and Dark Empire.

 

I wish I could go to Celebration. I want one of those pins.

 

Simple answer? No. It's more of a direct prequel and tie-in to Thrawn's appearance in Rebels

More complicated answer? With the way Story Group has been coordinating things, it is possible and even likely elements that will be relevant in further films and projects will find seeds placed in Thrawn. Especially with the namecheck of Thrawn in relation to a particular mission and task mentioned in the novel Aftermath: Empire's End, it's very possible this book will tie in to the post-ROTJ story in concepts that may resonate in The Last Jedi. For example, the director of The Last Jedi gave some input into the political situation presented in the novel Bloodline which may be explored more in TLJ. But should you expect Thrawn to be an explicit tie-in book like Catalyst was to Rogue One? No. If such a book will be coming out, it hasn't been announced yet.

 

Nope - apparently it ends shortly before Thrawn first appears in Rebels. Thinking of it as a prequel to the Rebels Season 3 premiere "Steps into Shadow" might work.

I haven't heard yet if there will be a "Journey to The Last Jedi" project the way there was "Journey To The Force Awakens". The closest thing to a TFA prequel novel was Before The Awakening. Catalyst was pretty much a Rogue One prequel.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Before_the_Awakening

 

Endor was an absolute disaster, mostly thanks to Palps. If he didn't feel a need to stay in a continuous battle meditation to coordinate his forces, when he died, they could have still probably won. Pelly knew the battle was lost when the executor crashed into the death star, and he's not the only captain who decided that discretion was the better part of valor... or have you forgotten Captain Ait Convarion?

 

http://www.randomhousebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/thrawn-sampler1.pdf

Has anyone posted this yet? Another excerpt, similar to the first one that was released but with a little more in the beginning, also a preface from Thrawn's POV.

 

Ooooh thanks for that! Thrawn's point of view! that's the first time we see this!!

and the fans of Palpatine will be happy

(Eli about Palpatine):
"Intelligence, knowledge, power. And, even more than with Thrawn, a sense of complete mastery over everything around him"