#Hand of Thrawn trilogy

[auntienene]

When i watch Mandolorian season two finale when Luke cuts down the rockem sockem robots in the hallway, I think of this passage in Vision of the Future

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Specter of the Past by Drew Struzan

[leahikol]

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Luke and Mara on Myrkr by JarJarJargon

[armoralor]

Mara Jade: The Emperor's Hand // A Shirt Made of Fire / April Gloria / Ground Picture // reminder that T*RFs can fuck off, only interact if you love trans & nonbinary folks ♡

[gillymugs]

Powers out, draw Thrawn

I never prepare accordingly for a hurricane so my iPads been dead all day and I had to resort to doodling in my sketchbook 🧍‍♀️

[purringysalamiri]

I'm sorry for laughing my glorious red eyed king

can't believe this man has killed thousands

[starwarstbbfan]

Can’t remember if I ever shared this drawing I did.

My favorite Star Wars pair. I don’t care if Disney made the books not canon, Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker forever!!!!

[stars-n-spice]

I need to lock these gay ass motherfuckers all in a room.

For science.

[legends-expo]

Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to legendary writer Timothy Zahn! Best known for bringing Mara Jade and Grand Admiral Thrawn into life as we know it today, he has become one of the franchise's most important creators.

[geekwithajeep]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SPOILERS BELOW!!!!

if i hear “long live the empire” come out of thrawn’s mouth one more kriffing time, i am going to lose my mind.

in other news i will be re-reading all the thrawn books and crying over the thrawn we always should have been given and never got.

[ibrokeeverything]

So Ahsoka can have the eye of sion, hamato xiono, and jai kell, but no eli vanto???

[zeb-z]

I dunno, and I haven't read the Ascendency novels to be clear, so I can’t speak of who he was before his exile - but maybe Thrawn accepting Grand Admiral for that shitshow on Batonn sealed his fate. Maybe he wasn't the one to pull the trigger, maybe he was appalled by the needless death - he still took the promotion, even if he didn't want it. The moment he took the rank plate was the moment the blood on his hands became insignificant in the grand scheme of things. The moment where all his intentions begin to be buried by his actions.

Everyone is all about how Thrawn isn't that bad of a guy - and honestly I do agree that his character is misunderstood more often than not - but he still did terrible things with the Empire. Turned a blind eye and condoned much more with silence.

Because the fall of Nightswan and Batonn may not have been his fault - but he accepted the stain when he took his promotion.

For all you try to keep things fair, it doesn't matter if you're working in a system that is instituted to be cruel. And while Thrawn had never claimed to be a good man, and had only joined ultimately for the protection of his own people, there's something to be said of this deterioration of morality. How he doesn't understand politics, but is still shaped by the dangerous and vindictive workings of Imperial political scene, forgoing honesty for station.

Pirates and smugglers turn to insurgents and rebels. Capture turns to execute. He kills to prove a point.

He develops for the worse. For all he shapes the Imperial Navy, it shapes him all the same. I dunno. Complex character and all o that. He’s no scum of the earth true evil, but he’s no shining star either.

[holonetwork]

George Lucas and the Hand of Thrawn Duology Part of a series I’ve put together focusing on the history of the EU. Sources: Timothy Zahn (1, 2, 3, Celebration III panel), Michael Stackpole (1, 2, 3), Drew Struzan (1), & Barbara Hambly (1). The information in this infographic was also corroborated by Lucasfilm editor Sue Rostoni (1).

[armoralor]

Mara Jade - Web Weaving // The Poetry of May Sarton / The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Good Light by Andrea Gibson / Rei Kennex // reminder that T*RFs can fuck off, only interact if you love trans & nonbinary folks ♡

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