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I just found out about Timothy Zahn's novella "Crisis of Faith" and recommend it to anyone who's a fan of his other Star Wars work. : r/StarWarsEU

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I just found out about Timothy Zahn's novella "Crisis of Faith" and recommend it to anyone who's a fan of his other Star Wars work.

Somehow I completely missed this one even though I read all of his other work, including short stories in Adventure Journal.

And it's exactly what I've been missing all these years.

Crisis of Faith has a separate story of its own, but in the last few pages it bridges the gap between Choices of One and Heir to the Empire, wraps up Nuso Esva storyline, gives us glimpses into how Empire of the Hand operates under Thrawn's leadership, explains why Thrawn chose Pellaeon, why he started keeping Rukh with him at all times...

A definite must-read for anyone who is unhappy Thrawn got retconned and we'll never get the rest of his story from old EU.

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DougieFFC

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It's slightly irritating how obscure some of Zahn's short stories are. According to the Wiki, he's written twenty short stories, and a good chunk of them were published either in the Adventure Journals, SW Insider, or a paperback reprint of an existing hardback, that were not reprinted elsewhere, so there's a bunch of his lore I haven't read (including this one). And the Adventure Journals are prohibitively expensive on Ebay because of their limited print run.

I remember buying Adventure Journal #11 when I saw it in the shops, not knowing a thing about roleplaying, and it featured a story about the early days of Thrawn's Imperial trip to the Unknown Regions, and how he wins the respect of the other Imperials who originally thought their mission was a punishment. It has Commander Parck in it who is clearly a major character in Thrawn's journey but who, until VOTF, we never saw in a published book.

Yiliy

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It is possible to learn how to get these short stories. But not from a Jedi.

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I agree, this does seem possible.

Yiliy

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I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to such websites.

Nor would I tell anyone of bibliotheca creation.

Yiliy

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and it featured a story about the early days of Thrawn's Imperial trip to the Unknown Regions

I think that's Command Decision.

It also featured Captain Niriz who made appearances in his other short stories, but not in the main novels, unlike Parck, if I remember correctly.

It was Star Destroyer Admonitor before Chimaera :)

SlavicIdiot

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Nice eye.

Timothy Zahn is a writing god of EU.
His work laid down the foundations of it.

Yiliy

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He's really my favorite EU writer. I've been a fan of Thrawn Trilogy since it came out.

Sometimes I start nitpicking Zahn's work and writing skills but the more I read other EU works the more I admire his (I'm one of the rare people here who really didn't like Darth Bane, Kenobi, Shatterpoint,...)

SlavicIdiot

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Same for me, Zahn just knocked it out of the park. He, Luceno, Stackpole, Allston, Watson and Traviss are the best EU had to offer in my opinion. (with many more talented authors)

Zahn is the reason I like Star Wars so much. I've seen the movies when I was young on the TV but it was Thrawn Trilogy what really sold it to me.

The fact that you can nitpick and enjoy it at the same time only shows how good it is. Only when it can a piece of work can stand up to criticism is the real value shown.

Like you, there are books I didn't particularly like and others I do. Some people do not like Republic Commando series but for me, their detailed and complex portrayal of the clones tops all other versions.(Bane, Kenobi, Shatterpoint were good for one or two reads in my experience, unlike the Zahn's Trilogy which I could practically recite backwards)

Yiliy

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I agree. But I can't even bring myself to read Traviss' novels after I read her unhinged anti-Jedi rants on her blog.

SlavicIdiot

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I understand but in her books, the Jedi are depicted well in my opinion. Just as the clones they have their flaws depending on the person in question.