Outbound Flight: Difference between revisions

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The crew of the light freighter ''Bargain Hunter'' are a cynical smuggler, his idealist female love interest, and a callow but intelligent youth. Basically, they're a darker version of Han, Leia, and Luke.

* [[Don't Shoot the Message]]: In-universe example: C'baoth leaves Thrawn with a very bad impression of the Jedi.

* [[Evil Mentor]]: Jorus C'baoth to fourteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker. C'baoth likes Anakin, and Anakin thinks C'baoth is awesome because he doesn't try to appease people, he just gets things ''done'', unlike Obi-Wan or most of the other Jedi. There are clear parallels between this and Joruus C'baoth to Luke.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In ''Outbound Flight'', Doriana knows about his master's kneejerk distaste for nonhumans, but he thinks that Thrawn just might be impressive enough to make Sidious overlook species. In ''Survivor's Quest'', Mara Jade is told that the stormtroopers are from the Five-Oh-First, thinks back to her time working with them as Emperor's Hand, and remembers that the Emperor's xenophobia rubbed off on them. The Empire of the Hand's 501st is not the original 501st remaining in the Imperial Remnant, but if they decided to take the name they might also have taken the attitudes. Then she and Luke discover, to their shock, that at least one of the stormtroopers isn't human.

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Thrawn, art, [[The Thrawn Trilogy|you know how it goes]].

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Thrawn shot down ships with [[Human Shield|living shields]], saying that those hostages were already dead.

* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: No one ever learns what Thrass and Lorana did.

** This whole story was originally one of these. In ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' Thrawn tells us that he destroyed the Outbound Flight Project and killed the original C'baoth (and his vehemence then is now explained) and in ''[[Hand of Thrawn]]'' Soontir Fel and Voss Parck give more details about the way Thrawn was outnumbered.

* [[The Ishmael]]: As always, Thrawn's viewpoint is a mystery. We also never see Jorus C'baoth's thoughts, and it's a given that Darth Sidious is like that too.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Jorus C'baoth isn't as bad as [[The Thrawn Trilogy|his clone]], but he's still not the stablest of beings. You can see why he and [[Evil Sorcerer|Palpatine]] get along...

* [[The Woobie/Literature|The Woobie]]: Lorana Jinzler. Aside from Obi-Wan, she's the single most unambiguously "good" character in the story.