Books Aftermath: Empire's End (book 3) by Chuck Wendig

I was looking through my past posts to see any sequel predictions I'd made and found this gem. Now that TROS has been out for a while @DarthInternous

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How long did you know about Palpatine's return for?

 

On that note, Chuck made a couple of comments about what may or may not line up:

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More comments in that thread.

 

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I always assumed that those ships from Aftermath Empire's End and Lost Stars were for the start of the FO. But they probably could tie into the Sith fleet.

 

I think the question you're really asking is - did I know that when I made the above post, and by saying what I did, was I trying to convey or imply something based on a secret that I knew? No, I was not trying to do that. I don't try and leverage privileged information like that.

 

I didn't mean it in any negative way. I was just curious about how far in advance plot points are planned out with the story group. I apologise if I caused any offence.

 

No offense taken at all. Perfectly legitimate question.

The answer varies by plot point

 

Would you be able to tell is if Tashu, the Acolytes of the Beyond, The Contingency,and the missing Star Destroyers sent to the Unknown Regions before Jakku were meant to tie into TROS? When watching the movie I was really surprised to see how well it lined up to Aftermath. It felt like the books were foreshadowing Palpatine's return and the Sith fleet even before TLJ was released

 

I'm sceptical of that, I suspect retroactive continuity to be more the game now especially where film / TV is concerned.

 

The missing ships may be partially tied to the Final Order, but the SDs themselves are larger than regular Imp-class SDs, although perhaps not as large as the First Order destroyers.

 

It's always possible those ships were modified and upgraded and over time this involved rescaling the ship's. They may have just started with old ISDs and then spent thirty years building upon them

 

So Rax totally would have know about all this stuff, though, right? Unless Rax's Contingency which created the First Order was a different plan from the Final Order Exegol plan.

Personally, I think Rax's one job was to find Palpatine's corpse and plug it into the robo-arm thing on Exegol but he could only find his half exploded torso so he did his best and then ran away back to the Empire before Palpatine woke up. "Wha happened? Why you, little Jakku desert rat Raxxxxxxxx!!"

 

1.5x length actually. And roughly 3.4x volume.

That's actually an interesting question - what is the volume of the Resurgents when compared to the ISD-Is? They look rather flatter, and have a lower-set superstructure.

Since the Xystons would be 3.4x the volume of the ISD-Is, they might match or possibly even exceed the volume of a Resurgent.

 

I wonder if the reason all the First Order/Final Order superlasers are red instead of green, is that Palpatine's been using the Dark Side to taint all the kyber crystals in them? Would be interesting if Kuat are getting consignments of mega-sized red kybers delivered to them, without actually knowing their provenance.

The Resurgents apparently have kyber-based regular turbolasers as well- and theirs are green. Perhaps a hint that, at least early on, the First Order were mining their own kybers rather than getting them delivered.

 

Hey there. Simple question here without asking for any spoilers. I just finished the audiobook of the original Aftermath novel after having borrowed it off of Overdrive through my local library. For whatever the reason, they don't have Life Debt as an audiobook (I put it on hold) but they do have Empires End. Do the sequel novels follow each other, or are they completely different stories? Does it matter if I pick up and listen to Empires End now and wait until the end of the month to take out the hardcopy of Life Debt (after I'm finished reading a different novel)?

 

Yes - you want to read Life Debt - it's far, far ahead of Aftermath.

 

Lol now you tell me. It wasn't terrible; though outside of the Interludes it did leave me scratching my head as far as how it related not only to TFA, but also the post-ROTJ era.

 

I only really enjoyed the character Sinjir Rath Velus and his journey in the Aftermath trilogy. The add-ons leading to Jakku to me were like meh.

 

I guess that means at least Sinjir carries on through the trilogy. What about Jas, Norra, and Temmin?

 

They continue to be the main characters in the other two books. It's worth noting that Han, Leia and Mon Mothma also have important roles in them too, so the trilogy feels a bit more relevant to the OT compared to the first one by itself.

 

Still strange that the novels developed these protagonists squarely for the novels and of course there's no mention of them in even TFA.