Timothy Zahn ’s two Thrawn trilogieshave done a lot to nonchalantly re - integrate elements ofhis extremely influential workin the Expanded Universe back into Star Wars ’ contemporary canon , especially when it comes to theinner workings of the Chiss Ascendancy . But after book of teasing , the author is putting the glare on a more worked up bond for the succeeding Grand Admiral .
Revealed byStarWars.comin a fresh excerpt from the final bookin the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy , Lesser Evil , is anew flashback chapterthat mark our first extended sentence with Syndic Mitth’ras’safis , and his first encounter with Thrawn as a young virtue adoptive into the Mitth Family , one of the nine harness families of the Chiss Ascendancy . Mitth’ras’safis — Thrass to his friends — has already been re - inducted into Star Wars canon , but only through insouciant asides in prior Book in the Thrawn Ascendancy series . We know enough that several details around the case have since been changed compared to the Thrass of the EU : he ’s no longer Thrawn ’s chum by parentage , but they were snug , and Thrass was eventually killed due to an unsanctioned action by Thrawn in a battle with foreign pirates . The circumstances around his death in the current canon are left vague enough to loosely advert to , but not directly connect to , the way he died in the EU , but other than that up until now Thrass has only been light mention in passing , and how his death created a political nightmare Thrawn is still feel the ramifications of by the timeof the Ascendancy trilogy .
But in the EU , Thrass ( in the first place introduced in the novel Outbound Flight in 2006 ) and Thrawn were passing unaired , a rare distributor point of true emotional connecter for the latter . opt to navigate the political side of Chiss society as a Syndic as Thrawn rear through the military ranks , Thrass ’ spark when we were properly introduced to him was often about birth to navigate his erotic love for his brother with his tariff to their acquire family in the Mitth — and the trials and tribulations that come from all sibling relationships , Chiss or otherwise . But he also had a full of life connexion to the extragalactic nebula beyond the Ascendancy ’s reach in the Unknown Regions , dying to help preserve the crew of the Old Republic colony / exploration ship Outbound Flight , a vessel run by the Jedi Order ( and more specifically , the original , pre - screwball - clone - versionJedi Master Jorus C’baoth ) on an ill - fate quest to map out the edge of the galaxy and discover extragalactic life . Thrass ’ purpose in the EU might have been small — we were literally introduced to his unidentified bones before we in reality satisfy him as a live being — but still important , and it ’s nice to see a character that opened up another side of the infamously defend Grand Admiral Thrawn get some more exploration in Star Wars ’ current continuity .
Thrawn and Thrass, as they appear on a poster included with the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition of Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil.Image: Jeremy Wilson/Del Rey and Lucasfilm
Thrawn Ascendancy : Lesser Evil is set to score shelves November 16 — caput on over toStarWars.comto read the full excerpt .
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