The Callista Trilogy

[DarthSolo]

Palpatine died in ROTJ, 4 ABY. His clone came back for a brief stint around 11 ABY, I suppose, but that's a long stretch as to whether this child (already a long strech for existence let alone Force-sensitivity) the child would get trained by him. And 11 year old kid getting trained for a short period of time by a clone? C'mon.

[Darth Massacrus]

I know, but then again, its these entirely-possible-long-stretches that are what I'm made of...

[Cydon]

No offense, but that would make a real dumb plot....

[Ripley]

Ripley, that is one of the most interesting approaches I've seen taken to a SW novel. And I can't say I completely disagree, as I thought I might as I ventured into your post. I've not read COTJ, but I may at some point now. Unfortunately, I will disagree with you on the point of details. When working within a continuity, the details are important. They cannot be left out. They cannot be glazed over. While I am all for those details taking a back seat to their metaphorical meaning within the story or the overarching continuity plot, in the situation of the EU, we were promised with the publication of TTT that we would have a consistent continuity. So, details are still important. Other than that, your description of COTJ intrigues me to the last. A more literary take on novels that are not generally taken so.

I agree that continuity is important. It is important to the novel, but dogmatic following instead of a well written novel hampens the book.

To me I always took the Eye as more of a SSD on steroids than a true superweapon. Besides a large size and many conventional weapons there is not very many similarities to the Death Stars, Sun Crushers, Galaxy Gun, etc.

[Soontir Solo]

Darksaber was ok in my opinion. I liked it alright, but I found no pleasure in reading COTJ or POT. They both bored me too much to be honest.

[Darth Massacrus]

a lot of people seem to feel that way, but I dont. As for Darksaber, I love that book...

[Cydon]

I hate Darksaber cause they killed of Madine. Why not Luke?!?!?!??!

[Darth Massacrus]

talk to Sarah-Leia if you hate Luke...

but I wonder what would have happenned had Daala won at Yavin by bringing Knight Hammer to the base with the SD's under Pelleaon...

[Cydon]

Hurray!!!!

[Darth Massacrus]

who are the warlords that Daala executes, other than Delvardus and Harrsk and Teradoc?