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Kylar said:
Not going to lie, its the space battle in Mindor- that thing was beautiful.
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Hmm. This brought my mind to odd places as I tried to think of my favorite space battle in the EU. They weren't the ones I was expecting.

The Courtship of Princess Leia. Didn't see that coming, since despite being a pretty fun book it's also obviously full of flaws and sketchy writing. But the initial fight with Zsinj's forces over Dathomir is hectic and unique, especially with the introduction of those bizarre Hapan ships with rotating canon banks, both Ion and Turbolaser. And it's capped with a great scene of Skywalker getting blown out of the sky and Isolder writing him off as dead thanks to his mother's machinations, only for Luke to free-fall planetside a couple minutes later like it ain't no thing in front of the flabbergasted prince.

Actually, now that I think about it, Luke pulled a very similiar trick in Inferno, though Legacy of the Force certainly didn't deserve a neat moment like that. Fooling most of the Jedi Order, along with Jacen, into thinking his luck had finally ran out in yet another attack run on a Star Destroyer, only for a captive Ben, and Ben alone, to sense that he was coming to the rescue. That and the ensuing beatdown on Jacen almost redeemed that book.

Edit: though of course, Stover giving the Battle of Coruscant its proper due in the RotS novelization will never leave me, even if the actual scene is rather short.
 
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Courtship's addition of the Dathomir Witches really made an impact- the first non-Jedi/Sith force users that got used a lot later.
 
Melancholeric said:
Not... really? I mean, yeah, we didn't know about Sith Emperor fucking with Revan for sure until SWTOR came out, but still, Revan was only able to go back and be his own man because Jedi wiped out his memory and allowed him to start anew. A weird logic, I admit, but hey, it worked.
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That requires anyone to acknowledge the unadulterated crap of what The Old Republic did to KotOR, and I don't think anyone with good taste wants to do that.
 
Ser_Serendipity said:
Hmm. This brought my mind to odd places as I tried to think of my favorite space battle in the EU. They weren't the ones I was expecting.

The Courtship of Princess Leia. Didn't see that coming, since despite being a pretty fun book it's also obviously full of flaws and sketchy writing. But the initial fight with Zsinj's forces over Dathomir is hectic and unique, especially with the introduction of those bizarre Hapan ships with rotating canon banks, both Ion and Turbolaser. And it's capped with a great scene of Skywalker getting blown out of the sky and Isolder writing him off as dead thanks to his mother's machinations, only for Luke to free-fall planetside a couple minutes later like it ain't no thing in front of the flabbergasted prince.

Actually, now that I think about it, Luke pulled a very similiar trick in Inferno, though Legacy of the Force certainly didn't deserve a neat moment like that. Fooling most of the Jedi Order, along with Jacen, into thinking his luck had finally ran out in yet another attack run on a Star Destroyer, only for a captive Ben, and Ben alone, to sense that he was coming to the rescue. That and the ensuing beatdown on Jacen almost redeemed that book.

Edit: though of course, Stover giving the Battle of Coruscant its proper due in the RotS novelization will never leave me, even if the actual scene is rather short.
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Okay, I was actually going to talk about some other little-known book series, but I'm going to have to say that while I do remember and like the free-fall part of it, X-Wing ruined it for me.

More specifically, someone took Zsinj from Courtship and turned him into an amazing and horrible human being, a villain that deserved more. Yes, I think that chronologically...wait. Can someone explain that to me? Did Alston see this character that got no love and actually write him to be competent? Or did someone who wrote it take his amazing character and fail it.

I think it's the former, but even so, I still can't get into it--like I could for a little bit sorta as a dumb teenager who liked crap (such as thinking Eragon was okay)--now that I've read more interesting Zsinj.

Anybody remember the Han Solo Trilogy?
 
Space Jawa said:
Allston's X-Wing books were written later. He took a character who was written off despite supposedly being a dangerous Imperial Warlord and effectively gave him the backstory to justify his reputation.
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But yeah, I liked that Zsinj enough that one almost wishes someone had rewritten Courtship to accommodate it. I mean, it'd still end with him dying because he's also a horrible and vile human being, but...

That'd make an interesting fanfic thing. A rewrite of Courtship.
 
Well here is a subject that won't end in a rant. What is your favorite character that was only shown in the EU.

My favorite would have to be don't be pissed Galen Merek from TFU. My opinion
 
CommanderBlade said:
Well here is a subject that won't end in a rant. What is your favorite character that was only shown in the EU.

My favorite would have to be don't be pissed Galen Merek from TFU. My opinion
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Hmm...

Thrawn, I guess.

Though in second place would probably be Pellaeon.

In third place is... Kal Skirata.
 
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I don't think I have one, though I liked Emtrey from the X-Wing books.

EDIT: I also remember really liking the Butler/Valet/Bodyguard droids from YDR, and 4-LOM from Tales of the Bounty Hunters, (also, while not really relevant to this thread, Vader's droids from his new-canon comic). I think I may just like eccentric, unexpectedly badass droids in general. (Though I'm not particularly enamored by HK-47; this may be because my exposure to him is entirely secondhand, having never played KOTOR, or any SW game*)

*Actually, that's untrue; I have played Droidworks, Pit Droids, and Gungan Frontier.
 
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The Laurent said:
Didn't he show up in two or three frames of one of the movies?

It's the same way I wasn't sure to put Whie in, because he might have been there for a tenth of a second as a dead body in Episode 3, I can't remember.
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He was projected into a council meeting in 3, and got gunned down in the order 66 Montage.

He might have had some lines as well, not sure.
 
De3ta said:
He was projected into a council meeting in 3, and got gunned down in the order 66 Montage.

He might have had some lines as well, not sure.
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He was definitely a recurring Councilor throughout the prequels, which is why he ended up being more prominent in the EU.
 
The Laurent said:
But yeah, I liked that Zsinj enough that one almost wishes someone had rewritten Courtship to accommodate it. I mean, it'd still end with him dying because he's also a horrible and vile human being, but...

That'd make an interesting fanfic thing. A rewrite of Courtship.
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Courtship even has a strong enough structure to handle the burden of a rewrite. It would definitely be an interesting project.
 
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