And the worst part about this is that someone already did this story better with the 1993 book "Truce at Bakura" where the aliens use force-sensitive souls to power their technology and was a much more nuanced story. The angle is less "The Emperor needed space fascism to defend humanity" and more "the power vacuum left by the collapse of the empire has left the frontiers vulnerable."
Brief description of the book
No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal: total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura—or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve.
Even as the Alliance arrives, the aliens have almost overcome the Bakura Imperial garrison, whose desperate commander will accept help from any quarter—even Rebel—against an insidious foe that enslaves human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction.
While marshalling the tattered Imperial forces, Luke, Han Solo, and Princess Leia must win the trust and cooperation of the Bakurans. For although Imperial Governor Nereus has granted the Rebels temporary amnesty there is the possibility of treachery among those whose first allegiance lies with the Empire.
That book was really good. They really shoulda mined the Extended Universe for plotlines for the new Star Wars movies; I think they'd have been a ton better.
There's an alternate universe where the EU novels were mined for their best entries for movie adaptation. Star Wars 7-9 are the Zahn trilogy, instead of Rogue One they did Truce at Bakura, Solo was based on one of the Han Solo Adventures novels by Brian Daley, etc.
And the worst part about this is that someone already did this story better with the 1993 book "Truce at Bakura" where the aliens use force-sensitive souls to power their technology and was a much more nuanced story. The angle is less "The Emperor needed space fascism to defend humanity" and more "the power vacuum left by the collapse of the empire has left the frontiers vulnerable."
Brief description of the book
That book was really good. They really shoulda mined the Extended Universe for plotlines for the new Star Wars movies; I think they'd have been a ton better.
Yeah, when I saw that the new Trilogy wasn't going to be the Timothy Zahn series I was like "Oh, okay it's fine to stop caring about this now."
There's an alternate universe where the EU novels were mined for their best entries for movie adaptation. Star Wars 7-9 are the Zahn trilogy, instead of Rogue One they did Truce at Bakura, Solo was based on one of the Han Solo Adventures novels by Brian Daley, etc.
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