What Else Is in Store for NJO?

I am interested in any opinions, suggestions or theroies as to the future of the New Jedi Order series

 

Jacen kills TsaVong Lah
Mara or Luke dies
Jania ends up kith Jag Fel or Kyp

The Vong are defeated.

 

the Imperials build a Death Star and blow the living bejesus out of the vong!!!!

Or the twins are further divided Jacen on the absolute Light side of the force Jaina on the absolute Dark side.

 

The Yuuzhan Vong turn out to be machines.

 

IRONIC AS THAT WOULD BE IT WOULD REALLY DESTROY ALL THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN SO FAR.

 

Irony. That's exactly what'd make this thing great. And imagine the reactions of certain high-ranked members...

 

LOL

 

Jacen will kill Tsavong Lah, while Luke will kill Shimmra. Luke, Leia, and Han will survive, as will Jacen and Jaina, but Mara will die leaving Luke as a single parent. Tahiri, being aided by the spirit of Anakin, will go out in a blaze of glory, and Luke will set up the Jedi Council.

 

Nothing's completely out of the question at this point. It actually does make sense in a way if there was some 'secret shame' in Yuuzhan Vong history concerning machines... perhaps they were bioengineered by machines or to the extreme they could in truth be synthetic organisms. There has to be some reason for their violent, venomous hatred of machines.... You don't get that kind of distaste for something unless it strikes a nerve somehow, in this case it strikes a nerve across the board, for the entire race.

What else in store? As in what do we hope is in store or what we actually think will happen?

I hope that the Jedi get their act together - that they are actually Jedi and they have some Order. The only part of 'NJO' that is accurate is the 'new' part, and the plot hasn't had anything all that 'new' since Vector Prime. I hope that if they 'rebuild' the Republic, they get smart about it and set up some checks and balances, make a better political system.

What is likely to happen, as far as it looks to me? The Vong take on same role the Empire played in the OT for the next couple of books, probably almost to the very end of the series. Likewise the OT heroes take on their role as the 'Rebels' (although the term rebel sounds kind of dumb to say in this case - they 'rebel' against being conquered by invaders?! That goes without saying. You generally rebel against 'the establishment', no one really thinks of the Vong as 'the establishment' or 'the system'. Resistance makes more sense than Rebel).

The core movie characters survive. I don't think that Lando is necessarily safe, though, for some reason. I don't think Mara is safe... she's served a purpose by bringing yet another Skywalker into the universe, but now she's just 'Mrs. Luke' and her character doesn't work right as a Jedi June Cleaver. Jaina and Jacen are probably safe from getting killed off, but as to their fate...? Do you like dark meat or light meat? I think one will go one way, the other in the opposite direction. If the dark one is redeemed, possibly leaving the Jedi Order behind.

Kyp seems too popular to be killed, have anything change him significantly or interesting happen without a lot of fans screaming 'foul', which probably means several characters with a lot more potential but less ink on paper that might have been cool will probably be killed off in his place. I think, and hope, Vergere at least survives long enough to get to a place where she reveals herself as Jedi and works directly with the heroes, even if she does't become a sort of 'new Yoda', which would be cool.

Finally, something makes nearly all the Vong in the GFFA go 'poof' (hey, maybe they *are* synthetic!). I don't see how they could remain in the galaxy in the numbers represented even by their civilians and have it still look like the SW universe. Perhaps somewhere there is a 'planet of the shamed ones', but I don't see how a large Vong population would work living alongside the Republic and the Empire. There will have to be some way to wipe them all out without making the heroes actually completely wipe them out and wind up seeming as bad the villans. A 'Vong Remnant' wouldn't work, they wouldn't be able to abide living amongst the infidels and being reminded of failure. So, nearly all the Vong must die (or cease to function) at some point.

 

What I think is that in the end the Vong are defeated but the shamed ones are left alone .The shamed ones then learn about their past and decide to leave the galaxy in a worldship never to be seen again.That might a little farfetched but anythings possible.

 

I think we will find out that the Vong Gods were really just a creation, perhaps as a means of wiping out a past that includes heavy involvement with machines. We will also find out why the Jedi are unable to sense the Vong through the Force, and it could change the way the Force is interpreted by the Jedi.

And how about this for a totally off the wall idea:
Anakin's spirit is alive and living within the Vong worldship.(He is the only one so far who seem to be able to sense them at all, so perhaps there's some connection.)
Jaina, Dark Jedi, comes to rescue Jacen. They end up having a confrontation. Remember the Vong's take on twins, with one always killing another. Jacen ends up sacrificing himself(like Ben) to turn his sister back from the Dark Side. Anakin's spirit is then able to take over the body of Jacen(like Callista)
It's crazy and not at all likely. But, if before the NJO you would have suggested some of the things that have already taken place, some of them would have seemed crazy.

 

Nah, they'll just clone Anakin and instead of flash-programming him like a regular clone, his spirit will just move in and take over.

 

In Dark Journey, Jaina will flirt with the Dark Side and Kyp and Zekk and Jag at the same time... Meanwhile, Coruscant has fallen and the NR senate has dissolved, Jacen escapes and Nom Amor is executed for failing too often. Bilbringi falls

In Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand, the core characters of the older generation (Luke, Leia etc.) form the core of the Rebellion as they did in Ep 4, while many of the core planets keep on falling. Towards the end of Rebel Stand, they will make a stand with the NR military probably at Thyferra or Yag'Dhul or Kuat nad beat the Vong backwards

In Traitor, Vegere will betray the Vong and take her knowledge to the Jedi resistance, the Jedi find out the Vong's weakness. Leia kills Viqi Shesh with her lightsaber.

In Destiny's Way, the war turns as Ackbar's rim resistance joins the rest of the now defunct NR military and they reatke key sectors such as the Hutt space and Bothan space thus rejoining the two separate mini areas. Coruscant is retaken at a price, Admiral Sovv and many of the NR's fleet commanders are taken out, leaving only General Antilles, Bel Iblis. This is greatly helped by Danni Quee's new yammosk jammers. Jaina rejoins Rogue Squadron, Jacen kills Tsavong Lah

In Force Heretic trilogy, the Shamed Ones, who now firmly believe that the Jedi are their salvation start to revolt against the higher castes,it will focus on one of the Shamed Ones who seemed has the Force which caused him/her to be shamed, however the better trained warriors wipe out most of the revolters(REMNANT) and they are forced to flee (REFUGEE) to the Jedi Resistance with their knowledge with the main character surviving. Tahiri, now a Jedi Knight take him/her on as an apprentice. In (REUNION) this Shamed one now Jedi apprentice to Tahiri go deep into Vong territory where they run amok and they sort of bond over mutual experience. The Vong Jedi sacrifices himself after they run into trouble leading Tahiri, to turn to the Dark Side

In HC 5 the Vong are pushed even further back as their workers undermine the war efforts. The JR retake all the areas near the Imperial Remant which has been fighting off Vong incursions with the help of the Chiss. There are meetings aboard the Guardian and Lusankya in which they join forces and decide to smash the Vong. Jacen takes an apprentice

In the other paperbacks, attached to this HC, the Alliance sweeps away the rest of the Vong with the final battle over Sernpidal where the Alliance destroys the Vong. Luke personally kills Shimrra, the Vong are gone for good