SPOILER New Extract from Aftermath: Life Debt

I just read this myself and I can say, WOW!!! These are the players I want to read about.

Just a few more weeks.

 

Ahh I was literally about to post this myself (!) Yeah I find it very interesting...they way I took it for myself is that it's almost as if the darkness within Ben, who is still inside of her, is reaching into her mind because of the potential darkness within him
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Hurray!! Been waiting for more to drop. Looking forward to this.

 

Cool!! I might change my mind about that annoying present tense if we get this kind of stuff!

 

Got chills myself!!! I know from the first Aftermath book, the interlude where Chewie and Han went to Kashyyyk and that Chewie is captured and Han is lost from this book description. I know it will mostly be Noora, Mr. Bones and the gang, but even still, I bet it will be a fun ride.

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Rae Sloane is back as well. I liked that character, as far as having someone from the imperial side. Shows up in other material as well. http://www.blastr.com/2016-6-16/star-wars’-rae-sloane-imperial-backbone-you’ve-been-waiting

 

New Dawn was enjoyable, if you like the Rebels characters. Lords of the Sith has ties to Rebels as well.

 

Oeh this sounds awesome! Can't wait to read the book! So very interesting.


Lords of the Sith is indeed a good read

 

I'm as excited for LD as the next guy, but something about the excerpt kind of rubbed me the wrong way. The line that Leia is "angry" with Han can be explained away by assuming it regards some event that happens within the novel itself (and not due to him gallivanting around the galaxy, which Bloodline implies happens MUCH later), but the line about Luke "leaving" her and "the loss of Luke" implies that he adopts his solitary lifestyle pretty quickly after RotJ.

Since this occurs before the academy massacre, are we to assume that he disappears, reappears, begins rebuilding the Jedi, goes First Jedi Temple hunting with Ben (again, established by Bloodlines), then disappears once again after the massacre?

In the end, I'm sure it can be canonically explained without much issue. However, leaving Leia and the galactic spotlight at least twice implies that Luke generally becomes a reclusive character following RotJ (and not within 6 years prior to TFA, which would seem much more reasonable). It's probably my nostalgia for Legends getting in the way of my objectivity here, but that whole notion just bothers me. By the end of RotJ, Luke seems to care too much about his friends and the the rebel ideology to wander off at the first opportunity. Leaving due to guilt over his nephew's turn or protecting his friends prior to TFA, I understand. This excerpt's implication, I do not.

Another possible explanation is that Leia could simply be referring to "the loss of Luke" as him going off to start his new Jedi Order. However, the connotation of "loss" and "leaving" seems to imply otherwise. Leia seems to harbor some underlying anger towards Luke leaving, and I would like to think that if he were simply rebuilding the Jedi that she would understand.

Other than that, it was a quality excerpt. Love the fact that Ben is a catalyst for Leia's connection to the Force.

 

Yeah, took the anger as going off orders and being reckless and just not being there. It's natural. The Mon Mothma thing puzzled me too, I wonder what is up with that. The little message we get from Bloodline, is just that she is too ill or old to perform any duties and her message of support and saying she suspected about the whole Vader thing (probably from having known Padme and Bail Organa back in the day).

 

This is just a guess here. This might be alluding to when Mon Mothma wanted to shrink the New Republic's military since some or maybe even a lot of people thought the war was close to over after the deaths of Vader and Palps. I'm sure Leia fought to keep the military strong and Mothma wanted the opposite. Maybe that is where Leia felt betrayed?

 

As a big Aftermath fan, I was already super excited for Life Debt, but this excerpt pushes my excitement levels over the edge!!!

 

'Bloodline' confirms that he has been out of the spotlight for a long time, travelling round looking for Jedi lore, to the extent that he's almost more myth than man to a lot of people. So his reclusiveness does predate the fall of his academy.