I've been through this once on a more slow-going board and most of us agree Traviss is throwing a fit, taking her ball and going home. I'm not going to read all 5 pages but from the comments she has made, she did things to intentionally piss off fans of the franchise when they critiqued her work or said the Mandalorians were too heavily involved.
It started out great, I really liked the Republic Commando books at first but to slightly deviate off topic, the LOTF killed my interest in any more Star Wars EU books going in that era. They screwed up the universe and Jedi so much and from what I've heard of the newest revelations, it's gone to ridiculous lengths even for the EU's standards.
Whoever said that's true SW needs to go back and watch the OT. That isn't the kind of story Star Wars was telling or meant to tell. It's become nothing but a bleak war-oriented, no-hope story with few of the light-hearted or humorous moments we saw throughout the movies. It was never "it's hopeless" or this dark, unrelenting story telling we're getting now. There was always a ray of hope in it and LOTF just shit all over that.
Traviss was a part of that with her increasingly dark and Mandalorian-obsessed writing. All of the writers turned it into this "war is hell and we'll keep reminding you of it" idealogy and not doing much outside of their favorites and trashing those they don't like. And to tie back into Traviss, she did that to the Republic Commando series, making them into a shell of what they were and just arbitrarily killing people off as she saw fit with no logic behind it other than "darker, darker, more 'warry'."
