Follow up series to Star Wars: Legacy of the Force announced

[Admiral_Young]

All of them are suppossed to be in hardcover eh? Well its a good thing that my library has been getting all the recent Star Wars books within a week or so of their publishing date because I won't be shelling out twenty-forty bucks on all these novels.

Admiral Young

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

I want Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors to get married...

BTW are we ever going to get a story on Lord Hoth and those Jedi?

 

[Mr Light]

New nine book series: YAY!
Aaron Allston & Troy Denning: YAY!
Christie Golden: BOO. I believe I've read some of her Trek books years back.
NINE Hardcovers?!: BOO. Absolutely ridiculous.

Ah well. I'll just have to buy them then immediately sell them off on Amazon. I love you, Amazon Marketplace!

 

[RandyS]

New nine book series: YAY!
NINE Hardcovers?!: BOO. Absolutely ridiculous.

Ah well. I'll just have to buy them then immediately sell them off on Amazon. I love you, Amazon Marketplace!

Or, just do what I do, and wait for the paperbacks. Yes, the wait is longer, but that's the beauty of being interested in a wide range of subjects, I have much more to read while waiting for said paperbacks.

 

[Stevil2001]

BTW are we ever going to get a story on Lord Hoth and those Jedi?

What kind of story? How they ended up there? Try Jedi vs. Sith and Path of Destruction.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm actually interested in seeing if this actually will branch the story in between the New Jedi Order Era and the Legacy Era.

Admiral Young

 

[Thrall]

Was "Season 8" of Voyager really that bad?

Also, please for the love of god... tap the damn KoTOR universe. I mean, it's not like they're trying to launch a full scale MMO in the same era or something!

I agree. However, they tend to stay away from the era due to the whole Male Revan vs Female Revan and Male Exile vs Female Exile thing. While they did make things cannon here, they still tend to shy away from it due to not wanting to upset any fans too much. Because I don't care what anyone says, as much as things get tied together I'm almost certain Revan's real name was Skywalker. Still, there are lots of different eras they could focus on such as the The New Sith Wars era or even the Pre-Sith era.

 

[Mr Light]

Oh I forgot to mention; HOORAY! to no more Traviss novels

The really important question is who's the Big Bad? Another Sith? Extragalactic aliens? Another civil war? The Chiss? The Empire? Something from the Unknown Regions? The cloned copy of Admiral Thrawn?

 

[Skywalker]

^ Jar Jar Binks.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Well if it branches the Legacy era with the NJO era then we can expect another intergalactic war and the return of the Yuzhan Vong who suppossedly make some kind of alliance with the Jedi and the Alliance.

 

[C.E. Evans]

My bet is that something will happen in this series to cause the Jedi to turn on one another as the Sith did a thousand years earlier...

...and that someone from the original trilogy is going down.

 

[FreezeC77]

My bet is that something will happen in this series to cause the Jedi to turn on one another as the Sith did a thousand years earlier...

...and that someone from the original trilogy is going down.

I think they confirmed in interviews that Leia, Luke, and Han will not die anytime in the near future in books. Of course that could just be talk. They do another time jump and no matter how badass Han Solo is, I'm not sure I wanna read about an 80 or 90 year old Han Solo.

Maybe they'll kill Lando off. I expected it to happen during the New Jedi Order series since he was taking a more active role putting himself in danger and making himself a key enemy of the Vongh since he created those security droids.

 

[Stevil2001]

The world needs more Lando! His use in Allston's books was (one of) the best part(s) of LotF. He was a fun breath of fresh air in those dull, superserious books.

 

[Skywalker]

Del Rey will hold off on getting rid of the Big Three for as long as possible. They're afraid people won't be interested in Star Wars without them (which has been proven on numerous occasions to be inaccurate).

 

[Jono]

Was "Season 8" of Voyager really that bad?

Also, please for the love of god... tap the damn KoTOR universe. I mean, it's not like they're trying to launch a full scale MMO in the same era or something!

I agree. However, they tend to stay away from the era due to the whole Male Revan vs Female Revan and Male Exile vs Female Exile thing. While they did make things cannon here, they still tend to shy away from it due to not wanting to upset any fans too much. Because I don't care what anyone says, as much as things get tied together I'm almost certain Revan's real name was Skywalker. Still, there are lots of different eras they could focus on such as the The New Sith Wars era or even the Pre-Sith era.

They do have a comic series set at the start of the Mando wars. Its a pretty good one too. I think the comics existence would be more of a reason they aren't doing a large set of novel in the era.

Oh I forgot to mention; HOORAY! to no more Traviss novels

The really important question is who's the Big Bad? Another Sith? Extragalactic aliens? Another civil war? The Chiss? The Empire? Something
from the Unknown Regions? The cloned copy of Admiral Thrawn?

Actually she is writing at least one more Boba Fett book set post-LOTF, a stand-alone.

Well if it branches the Legacy era with the NJO era then we can expect another intergalactic war and the return of the Yuzhan Vong who suppossedly make some kind of alliance with the Jedi and the Alliance.

From what Legacy I've read the Vong don't seem to come back until fairly close to the times of the comics since the Ossus project was championed by Kol Skywalker. They come back not to fight but at the Jedi's request to help vong-form worlds to repair them. The Alliance back the plan and then the Sith sabotage it. That leds to the GFFA-Imperial war, which Legacy picks up just after. For that reason I don't expect to see the Vong at all in FotJ.

Still think that a major plot point will be the splitting of the order and the formation of the separate Imperial Knights. Add to that the fact that the Empire will be getting a line of Emperors in terms of the Fel Dynasty, given the Imperial Knights serve the Emperor first then if we see them, then we need to see the start of the Fel Dynasty. So I'm thinking that the Empire will be heavily involved in the series.

Del Rey will hold off on getting rid of the Big Three for as long as possible. They're afraid people won't be interested in Star Wars without them (which has been proven on numerous occasions to be inaccurate).

Don't they need permission to get rid of the big three? Maybe its just a case that they can't get it. If one of the big three were about to die I'd actually expect them to make it well known so to create more excitement and hype to get the books flying off the shelves.

 

[Skywalker]

They need Lucas' approval, yes, but it's not like they have any intention to seek it. They're going to ride that old beat-up horse for as long as they can.

 

[Jono]

^ Personally I don't have any problems with stories with the Big three. Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor is really the only wars novel coming out this year I've really looked forward to reading...pity it keeps getting pushed back.

 

[Skywalker]

Oh, stories with the Big Three aren't the problem. I'm looking forward to Shadows of Mindor, too. Stories with the Big Three at a point in time where it becomes more and more unbelievable that they would continue to be on the front lines, with next to no worthy new and younger characters to back them up, are the problem.

 

[Lindley]

In the Bantam era, lots of worthy new characters were being introduced.

The Del Rey era seems more interesting in killing them off one by one, though....

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

BTW are we ever going to get a story on Lord Hoth and those Jedi?

What kind of story? How they ended up there? Try Jedi vs. Sith and Path of Destruction.

Interesting. Didn't know they had come out with all that stuff on Lord Hoth and that era.

BTW you think any of the Rogue Squadron biggies will bit it soon? You know, Tycho Celchu, Gavin Darklighter, Wedge Antillies, Wes Jansen?