Talk:Mara Jade Skywalker

Move to "Mara Jade Skywalker"? --SparqMan 14:17, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it should be moved back to just Mara Jade, since it applies to all parts of her life, whereas "Mara Jade Skywalker" only applies to her life after marrying Luke. --Andrettin
 * The policy here is that the title for a character page goes by whatever they were called latest in their life; for example, Lumpawarrump changed his name to Lumpawaroo, Leia married Han Solo and thus became Leia Organa Solo, and if Darth Maul's real name really is Khameir Sarin (which the jury is still out on) that applies as well, and so on. MarcK 17:28, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

The Picture shows Mara Jade (with Sith/Dark Jedi cloak and robe) aboard the Death Star II. -- Eddyward Telerionus 21:44, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * That could be any number of Imperial vessels or facilities. IIRC, Mara was nowhere near the second Death Star. --SparqMan 07:43, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Date of Birth
Are we sure she was born in 17 BBY? I had also seen it as 21 BBY. -- SFH 03:11, 31 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * It floats around in the EU, but according to Leland Chee, 17 BBY is now being treated as Mara's "official" birthdate. QuentinGeorge 06:42, 31 Aug 2005 (UTC)
 * The latest official date is now 18 BBY, per Leland Chee's blog from a few weeks ago. Kuralyov 22:23, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems like she would have been born before 18 BBY. If "Extinction" is cannon, then she is 17 in that story. She seemed a little older.
 * Perhaps. But "officially", she's eighteen as of 0 BBY QuentinGeorge 11:04, 8 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Parentage
Who says that she's the child of any known characters? Plus, Allegiance, the Zahn novel of '07 may help clear this up--Erl I think the Quin/Khaleen theory can be erased. In the latest Republic #83, Quin says he can sense his unborn child through the force and specifically refers to it as "him."
 * Nothing, really -- but putting fan speculation in a clearly marked "Behind the Scenes" section helps stop people from thinking it's canon. (See also Palpatine's first name, Jar Jar Binks's alleged death, etc.)  &mdash; Silly Dan  17:05, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Removed it, the new issue confirms this. Lonnyd 01:08, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Homeworld
Should we put Raised on Coruscant as her homeworld? -- SFH 00:08, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC) Okay, if that's what you think. Also, I wasn't going to actually put it in without some other voices. I just thought that it would be a good way to get some consensus on the issue. I hate it when nobody answers after two weeks. -- SFH 23:11, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I have a policy on discussions. If I do not recieve a response on a controversial question in a certain amount of time, I assume no one objects, or no one is watching. So, if I do not recieve an answer for Raised on Coruscant in 3 days, I'm going to put it up. -- SFH 21:41, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I object. It's not known that she was raised on Coruscant; her first appearance is just before ANH, and we have no idea where she was rained/raised for the previous 18 years. In fact, the best argument for a possible 'home' would be "Recruitment," and even there it shows Palpatine's dark side converts being trained on Byss, not Coruscant. Kuralyov 22:23, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think we know if she grew up on Coruscant or not. Do we? --Master Starkeiller 18:57, 11 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * Nope. We do know that Lumiya was though, and that's probably were the confusion comes from. QuentinGeorge 03:30, 16 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, I was aware that Lumiya was a Coruscanti. I just believed that Coruscant was the most likely place for Mara to have been trianed. I didn't know that Palpatine had located Byss that far back. So maybe we should put raised on Byss. -- SFH 03:39, 16 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that in the Thrawn trilogy, she describes being taken by Palpatine to Coruscant when she's first found, and raised in the Imperial Palace. --McEwok 00:41, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Shannon as Mara
Just curious, what is Shannon Baksa/McRandle's status in SW? Is she still the "official" Mara Jade? Since the cards are now produced by a different company my guess is that she's not. Also the cover for Survivor's Quest had a different model on it. Jed-eye 00:07, 13 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Wizards also used her. jSarek 02:39, 13 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * The SQ cover seems to be a photomanip of a picture of Angie Everhart. --McEwok 00:41, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)

NJO Info
I added some NJO info in her bio. It's detailed up until the second to the last paragraph. Feel free to expand the last paragraph. Jed-eye 22:14, 26 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Dark Nest/Swarm War?
The sections in this article for The Dark Nest Crisis and The Swarm War seem to have less to do with Mara Jade then they do with the respective events. Perhaps the information in them should be seperated out into the respective topics?--Anon80

Improvement Drive
Okay - inspired by the improvement drive, I'm starting reworking on this: initially, I thought it was just a few quirks, but I seem to have drawn myself into a thorough going over of the pre-NJO sections and adding a seperate personality/personal section. Look for it to be posted in a day or two. If no-one picks up on the rest, I'll do that too. --McEwok 18:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)