After the Clone Wars, a droid led a Separatist holdout at the Citadel. However, the droid leading the garrison of battle droids was malfunctioning, and it was following its last directive from the finished war. It had adjusted its programming for a wider target range. The droid targeted all Force-sensitives, and it came to have a Force-sensitive child in the prison.
This is according to the RPG game Knights of Fate.
I always thought the books were way too convoluted and forgettable with their villain plots while also trying but always failing to convince me that the Jedi were bad/uncaring.
The badass covers would immediately hook me in with memories of the good stuff I found with the game only to disappoint me by the end of every read.
I remember being so sorely disappointed by how the Order 66 novel just barely covered Order 66 in the last few pages of the book. It was almost an afterthought.
Imperial Commando tried to rectify it, but since there was no previous connection with the specific Jedi being hunted down by the Clones combined with Karen Traviss' clinical writing style, I found the clashes with the Clones and the Jedi there to be just as forgettable as all those Separatist enemies that I could barely ever recall in the previous books.
As for Delta Squad's appearances in the books, well they were there I guess. I appreciated the cameos but they didn't really add much to the characterization of the team that I didn't already have from the game.
I'd love for Galen Marek (and possibly his clone/clones) to be canon too but only if they get creative with his appearance in the timeline instead of nerfing him totally. Like freezing him inside the same type of tech that kept the Clone medic Kix frozen so that he wakes up post Original Trilogy (Maybe even post-Sequel Trilogy). Give him some other Sith threats to fight against.
Xanatos, Ferus Olin and Jax Pavan.
From canon I think you'll love Claudia Gray's books. Mainly Lost Stars, Bloodline and Princess of Alderaan. I think you'll also enjoy Battlefront: Twilight Company (it's a standalone novel that was made to promote the 2015 game) and Resistance Reborn.
For Legends I see someone has already recommended the Jedi Apprentice books. I would recommend them and the Jedi Quest novels.
I would also recommend the Galaxy of Fear books. I feel they're a fun, thrilling romp through the OT timeline and you can finish each book in like a few hours. Every book does this fun thing where a guest character from the OT or Legends makes a highlighted appearance.
Damn but I do love the quality discussion that this spread sparked off.
The novels, comics, games, live action shows and Star Wars Rebels.
^^But apparently Disney's interpretation is not how contracts work, according to Foster's representatives here. Disney had the opportunity to offer him a new contract if they wanted, but US Federal Law states that both the rights and the obligations carry over when the company acquires the contract. Disney seems to be trying to set a new precedent here.
https://www.facebook.com/SFWA.org/videos/853367085418454
Apparently Disney is saying that they bought the rights but not the obligations that come with Foster's novelizations. It's hard to understand Foster in the vid cause of the audio quality but that's what it boils down to. This is now scaring the Science Fiction Writers of America because they say it could mean that any company can now opt not to pay royalties from a previous contract if they just sell the property to a sister company.
Youtube is the place to go.
I didn't exactly play it but spent so many hours watching my siblings play it. Man, those storylines rocked. I always did wonder whether Palpatine was the one who sent those thugs to capture Amidala/(her decoy?) on Coruscant.
Phantom Menace as well, back when it first came out in theaters. It's my fave one to this day.
Books and comics mainly. I plan to collect some blank variant covers so I can have some artists pencil and ink some cool ass covers in the course of time. Besides that, I like collecting shirts. And would love to collect some cool jackets and outfits when I have the resources available.
Poe Dameron, Finn and Kylo Ren. Not necessarily in that order.
Rebels for me. The Clone Wars never got me to care too much for the new characters it created early on. It felt like it was using my previously established love for old characters to try to get me invested, but it floundered for way too long, imo. Early seasons did feel like a sanitized presentation of the prequel trilogy for me.
Thankfully it got better. But I don't think I ever really felt like it was a must-watch, even to this day when I watch it just for the sake of catching up.
Were the bits of lore they set up fascinating? Yeah. But I feel like other mediums and storylines used those setups and lore in Clone Wars better than the show did. I think Son of Dathromir's story came off way more brutal and intense in comic form than it would have with the animation in Clone Wars.
Which is a shame, because I really loved Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars miniseries.
As for Rebels, I think it hit the ground running. The fact that we were following one set of (brand-new) characters instead of flipping between different sets of people every three eps in The Clone Wars was an advantage.
They were able to bring in something new without too much expectation from my part while at the same time just giving enough callbacks and cameos/guest roles that were short and sweet. And yeah, I preferred the animation style too. I only hated exactly one character on the show(Ezra) and they were able to fix that in the course of the show.
I'm definitely missing Kieron Gillen's touch on this series. His departure can be really felt, but it's a small price to pay for the great stuff that we see in the main Star Wars title.
Thought the ending was pretty cool though.
Best bits for me were some of the explanations of hyperspace travel, which came as a nice surprise when I got to finally finish reading it shortly after The Last Jedi ( even though I read it on and off for like two to three years). Other than that, though I didn't really find it compelling other than the sexual tension between Luke and that female character he seemed to want to end up with.
Man that book really did read as as a YA novel, especially with the first person perspective from Luke. But with all of the complicated details and language incorporated, I guess I shouldn't be surprised it got labelled an "adult" novel. Only piece of the New Canon I would admit to want to not read again.
