Lit GENERAL QUESTION THREAD (What to read? Where to start? What's canon? What's not? Duros, etc.)

He's a prodigy, to some degree?

But I think it's also because Jaina and Jacen had some informal training by Luke already, when younger - if basic, admittedly.

 

Did Nute Gunray know that Sidious was Palptine?

 

No. Gunray thought Sidious wanted the Separatists to win until the moment that Vader started killing the Separatist leaders.

 

Does this Force/Anti-Force thing from The Crystal Star ever get touched on again?

 

Outside of Supernatural Encounters - I don't believe so?
There is some attempt to better contextualize it, in there, as I recall.

Plus some links to the Charon, maybe?

 

Cool.

 

Does Star Wars have an equivalent to fantasy dwarves? Closest thing I can think of are the Bimms.

 

Not a 1:1 thing like Sephi=elves, but Ugnaughts come fairly close.

 

The article was released about two days ago, sadly nothing on any "Darth Karnage", but makes it being a planned Legacy era sith more likely.

 

Thank you so much! I don't use Reddit that often so I completely missed this.

 

Is it worth getting both the original Essential Chronology and the New Essential Chronology, or is the later just the former expanded?

 

I cannot speak to the old Essential Chronology because I never saw it, but some of the other "old" guides (Characters, Planets & Moons, etc) focused on different topics compared to the new ones. That meant that information often did not overlap -- for instance, the old character guide focused on the OT and Bantam 90s characters, whereas the new one focused on PT and NJO characters. Luke/Leia/Han/etc were in both, but what was covered about their lives was very different. I imagine the difference between the two Chronology books may be similar.

 

I think there’s different answers in Legends/Old-EU (particularly in Cloak of Deception) versus Disney/New-EU, but… what’s the simplified answer to:
In TPM, who was taxing which trade routes, and why?

 

Don't know who, but I'm pretty sure the why was to own the libs

 

Hi,
I'm currently reading the legends stuff from LotF til Crucible. Now I have bought The Millenium Falcon by James Luceno and I found out that chronologically before that there is Crosscurrent and Riptide by Paul S. Kemp.

Is this Kemp Duology necessary to understand The Millenium Falcon or Crucible or are they a standalone Duology which I may skip?

 

It's a standalone duology not connected to anything. You're free to skip it.

 

Poor Paul Kemp is used to people skipping his duologies anyway.

 

Which books, comics, and articles provide the most exploration of the nature of the Force, both canon & Legends?

I haven't read it, but presumably The Unifying Force, but what else? (Excluding reference books like Book of Sith or Jedi vs Sith)

 

Kind of a tough one. Every new book series has often added something.
Darth Plagueis and Light of the Jedi both spring to mind.
Dawn of the Jedi too (although the Je'daii are maybe hobbled by their early perspective)
The Unifying Force definitely tries - but then Denning brought his hard dualist deontological views in soon afterward, so it feels like ideas got a cut a bit short. Partly that was him going off Lucas statements circa 2005 though.
Shatterpoint, Traitor and ROTS all have decidedly interesting things to say too, that often lean more towards the Prana and less-dualistic side.

Whilst few things have been debated as much as the old Balance of course.
The Clone Wars Lost Missions/Destiny arc also added a fair bit.

 

Great, thanks!

 

I need your help!

I recently decided to expand my Star Wars bookshelf from adult novels only, to include junior novels as well.

I am having difficulty finding the new cutoff point, essential where junior novels stop and illustrated young-readers chapter-books begin. My thought was to stop at the Jedi Prince series, which I remember disliking even as a child.

I am wondering if anyone knows if the following books have in-chapter illustrations?

Dark Forces trilogy (Soldier for the Empire, Rebel Agent, Jedi Knight) - I understand there's a good deal of comic panels in these ones?
Forces of Destiny series (Daring Adventures: Volume 1, Daring Adventures: Volume 2, The Leia Chronicles, The Rey Chronicles)
Princess Leia: Royal Rebel
Darth Vader: Sith Lord (by @jasonfry)
The Force Awakens: Finn's Story
The Force Awakens: Rey's Story
Journal series (Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, Queen Amidala, Captive to Evil: Princess Leia's story, Hero for Hire: Han Solo's story, The Fight for Justice: Luke Skywalker's)
Star Wars Adventures 6: The Warlords of Balmorra
Star Wars Science Adventures (Emergency in Escape Pod Four, Star Wars Science Adventures: Journey Across Planet X)

I have tried to find page previous or reviews to gain this information, but so far, no luck.

Thanks!

 

I can't comment on most of these, but the Dark Forces books don't necessarily have comic panels but just illustrations depicting events of the story. I also wouldn't consider them "junior" books because they are in a graphic novella format and the story has events that are a bit too... dark for junior readers (for example, one illustration shows a severed head impaled on a stick...)