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A nine-book series set in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], about eleven years after the ''[[New Jedi Order]]''. Written in trios by [[Aaron Allston]], Karen Traviss and Troy Denning. Opinions on this series are mixed, as you can see by the examples.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Jaina Solo, though only at the very end
* [[Action Mom]]: Mara Jade, Princess Leia, Tenel Ka
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Boba Fett. Full stop.
* [[Bi the Way|By The Gay]]: Goran Beviin and Medrit Vasur are married. And both men. No character ever mentions this. On top of this, they also have an adopted daughter, two grandkids and a farm that bears their combined names (Beviin-Vasur).
* {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending]]: The galaxy is reunited again by the end of the series at the cost of the fall of a hero, and Daala becomes Chief of State}}
** More like outright {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]] as nothing good comes out of the ending. Even though [[Star Wars]] is supposed to be about redemption, our "heroes" instead brutally kill former hero Jacen, thus turning the entire [[New Jedi Order]] series into a colossal example of a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]. The Jedi learn nothing from this experience other than "ah well, it couldn't be helped" and then Daala, one of the biggest [[Card-Carrying Villain|Card Carrying Villains]] in the EU, becomes Chief of State. The galaxy is reunited...but for what?}}
*** This is even lampshaded before the war even starts. It's mentioned numerous times that the entire Second Galactic Civil War is a stupid idea that will accomplish nothing except wasting lives and mass destruction.
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* [[Career Killers]]
* [[Cat Fight]]: Hesperidium duel GO!
* [[Character Development]]
* [[Coincidental Broadcast]]
* [[Combat Breakdown]]: Subverted in that the duel between {{spoiler|Jacen and Mara}} goes straight to the breakdown.
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** [[Grimmification]] is the actual trope.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Darth Vectivus, a former Sith Lord who has the distinction of being a non-evil Sith in his life
** According to Lumiya, anyway; this ''is'' the same Sith who created [[Sadistic Choice|Force phantoms]].
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Oh so very much.
** While the standard example of "Mandalorians as written by Karen Traviss vs. Mandalorians as written by everyone else" certainly applies, even more jarring is Jacen's apparent schizophrenia in the middle of the series, when the writers couldn't seem to reach a consensus on whether or not he was evil yet. This resulted in him being a [[Knight Templar]] (Denning), a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] (Traviss) and [[Dastardly Whiplash]] (Allston) in the space of three books (''Exile'', ''Sacrafice'' and ''Inferno'').
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** Actually, it was revealed years earlier that her father, Prince Isolder had an older brother who was assassinated. Presumably, he sired children before he died.
** Isolder's brother didn't, otherwise ''Courtship'''s plot makes no sense. ''However'', Ta'a Chume had a number of sisters, and they had heirs (they come up in ''[[New Jedi Order|Dark Journey]]''). They would be "cousins" of Tenel's, just not first cousins.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Traviss in particular is fond of throwing in [[Real Life]] references in Star Wars clothing. For example, a planet is mentioned where the young warriors have to raise a cute animal as a pet and then have to slaughter it in order to graduate (the SS did this in real life [not really]); '''D'''a'''rak'''a'''e'''r the legendary warrior who will return at the beating of his drum (Francis Drake); and some of Jacen's 'ends justify the means' quotes are borrowed from Tony Blair ("tough on chaos, tough on the causes of chaos"--"crime" in the original).
** Also used in-story, with people left and right drawing comparisons between Jacen and Anakin Skywalker, often to his face. He concedes the similarities but is convinced he can avoid making the same mistakes. [[It Got Worse|He can't]].
*** Another example, Jedi foresees a future where {{spoiler|Sith rule the galaxy}} because the galaxy was not united and they played the factions against each other before swooping in and assuming control. Jedi realizes the best way to stop this is to unify the Galaxy. {{spoiler|Said Jedi BECOMES Sith in order to do so, and promptly gets defeated, [[Xanatos Gambit|which achieves his objective anyway]].}} Jedi saves the Galaxy. {{spoiler|I'm looking at you [[Knights of the Old Republic|Revan]]!}}
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Mara and Jacen both die contrived and undignified deaths.}}
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Jaina and Fett. Also Jedi and Moffs
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* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Lumiya to Mara, arguably Alema to Jaina.
** Also arguable Jacen to Jaina, as they are twins, and Lumiya to Luke, as they are the leaders of the two groups between which Jacen is torn.
* [[Evil Plan]]: {{spoiler|According to the Sith, they have one. And it doesn't include Jacen, but somebody called One Sith. Jacen is the part of entirely another plan!}}
* [[Evil Redheads]]: Lumiya
* [[Evil vs. Evil]]: The war between the Galactic Alliance and the Confederation, from the end of ''Bloodlines'' to the middle of ''Inferno.'' Before that, Corellia and the GA were both led by reasonable people, [[Grey and Gray Morality|both of whom had legitimate grievances]]. Then Thrackan Sal-Solo and Duur Gejjen come to power in the former, and Jacen Solo and Cha Niathal in the latter, and the whole damn thing goes to hell. Not to mention the staggering number of characters in general who are a [[Jerkass]] or worse.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Mara is on the cover of a novel called ''Sacrifice''. {{spoiler|Let's figure out what happens to her.}}
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Begun in the previous trilogy, but taken up to the next level in the first book and just keeps going. {{spoiler|Jacen and Tahiri. She [[Heel Face Turn|got better]], he [[Killed Off for Real|got killed]]}}
* [[Fag Hag]]: Boba Fett says [[
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Jacen sees a bunch of futures, all of them with a civil war. Except for one. To get this future, he has to...start a civil war.
* [[Fallen Hero]]
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Ben and Tahiri.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: So let me get this straight. Jacen traumatizes Ben in so many ways, all the time with Luke's approval.
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: So fridge-y that, after Jacen kills Ailyn Vel, not no one in the
* [[Gainax Ending]]: {{spoiler|Boba and Mirta can't return to Mandalore or they'll die, Daala's president (How?), and is Jacen redeemed or not?}} [[Word of God]] says the last one is open to interpretation.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: In ''Invincible'', Admiral Antilles becomes aware that he's too moral for the government he's working with, and soon after he formally hands his position over to a more willing puppet he will be assassinated. He knows that there are only two really viable times for that in the near future; very soon after he makes the resignation speech, or a week later at a formal event. He makes plans for assassination attempts directly after the speech, knowing that that would wrap his story up more neatly. And he's right.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Lumiya calling Alema Rar a "bugslut", for one, although that [[Squick|particular outburst]] is not entirely unfounded.
** The gay
* [[Go Seduce My Arch-Nemesis]]: {{spoiler|Tahiri tries to do this to Ben.}}
* [[Godwin's Law]]: Luke compares Omas to Palpatine at one point.
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Apparently red is a popular hair color among Hapans, natural or not, and considering their culture...
** Both Luke's wife and his former [[Honey Trap]] are redheads.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Everything Jacen does is to prevent a civil war in which he and his uncle are on opposite sides, leading to a duel in which Luke ''always'' dies. At that point, Luke was the only thing keeping the
** If this troper recalls correctly, the reason Luke couldn't take Jacen out was not because he would die. Just the opposite; Jacen always died in Luke's visions. However, Luke always saw himself ending up as an [[Evil Overlord]] over the galaxy. This is likely due to two things; Luke killed Lumiya for something she didn't actually do, and Jacen had become a [[Complete Monster]] while Luke had turned a blind eye to it.
*** Different vision. In Jacen's vision, Luke died.
**** Luke was purposely projecting himself into Jacen's visions to block the fact that the Jedi were sending Jania after him instead. Also, Luke's visions showed that if he killed Jacen he would fall to the dark side, because it would be revenge for Mara not justice.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Mara and Jacen. Also Ben in ''Tempest''.
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** Possible if the object remains in the wound, but very rare. This troper suspects a lightsaber won't do the trick.
*** <s> [[Ass Pull|Apparently]]</s> [[A Wizard Did It|Apparently]], being ridiculusly strong in the force and ''really'' pissed off helps...
**** I am wondering who are you talking about… If Lumiya, then
**** And if we're mentioning Kyle Katarn, well…on one side he only got a lightsaber through a lung (and caught a local infection, to boot). On the other side, he's [[Memetic Badass|Kyle]] ''[[Memetic Badass|Frickin']]'' [[Memetic Badass|Katarn]]!!!
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Alema Rar. Did you really think she was eaten in Dark Nest Trilogy? Not a chance}}
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** Han has, ah, issues with Luke putting his children in danger again.
* [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|Palpatine's Time Travel Exemption Act]]: When you flow-walk, you're merely an observer.
* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: Lumiya, although she ''says'' that revenge on Luke isn't her real motivation.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: GAG uniforms
* [[Viewers are Morons|Readers Are Morons]]: In the end of ''Fury'' our heroes manages to take (back) Allana from Jacen and he immediately orders his men to stop firing on the Falcon. The narrative then quickly points out that he does this because he doesn't want to blow up the ship carrying {{spoiler|his daughter.}} Well ''duh''!
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* [[Retcon]]: Well, nothing much else can explain how Daala, one of the most incompetent Imperial leaders in the EU, is suddenly treated as Thrawn-lite.
** Intensive brain surgery to fix the brain damage mentioned in the ''Death Star'' novel?
** [[Master Ghandalf|This Troper]] thinks it would make a lot more sense if the Thrawn clone hinted to exist in [[Survivors Quest]] was originally supposed to fill Daala's role, only to get switched out at the last moment for reasons known only to Del Rey.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: 'Seha Dorvald' is an anagram for 'Sad Hard Love', fitting with what she goes through.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Syal shoots the {{spoiler|fake mechanic who is actually Thrackan's spy}} in the first book.
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* [[Shotacon]]: Ben and Tahiri. Even more [[This Is Wrong on So Many Levels|disturbing]] than [[Even Evil Has Standards|most pedophilia]] since it's part of her torturing him.
** Wow, this is the first time I have ever heard of Pedophilia being put on the good side of [[Even Evil Has Standards]].
*** Welcome to Del Rey. They managed to make pedophilia the "good option" by having pedophilia…AND TORTURE! By default more evil. Or torture's the good option by having torture…AND PEDOPHILIA.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Caedus thinks he's a [[Magnificent Bastard]], and the reader seems to be supposed to agree with him- but what we see is a second-rate schemer patting himself on the back for things Sidious could have accomplished in his sleep)
** Niathal too… Nice job of controlling Jacen there Admiral. Really brought home when she turns against Caedus and is only able to persuade a third of the navy to follow
** Partially justified, as the previous books had made a point of showing how Jacen had put a LOT of time and effort into winning the loyalty of the common soldier.
*** Until he starts [[Bad Boss|snapping necks]] anyway...
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