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Ah, and the ending...such a good one too. I do enjoy that you took the time to finally bring back Mara, and Thrawn's death as like last time was because he revealed himself...not because he was "Damn, I forgot about..."

Chris OFarrell wrote:I loved this chapter...and the new bits just work so damn perfectly...

Thanks very much.

Arrow wrote:Excellent ending.

Thanks!

Arrow wrote:And the Mara/Seven catfight sounds FUN!

There are few things I enjoy more than writing about two chicks going at it.

Crazedwraith wrote:An Excellant. Though obviously not the complete arc. Rather like ESB in fact...

Thank you. I was always hoping for the piece to have an Empire feel, so I'm glad that still holds up.

Ghost Rider wrote:Ah, and the ending...such a good one too. I do enjoy that you took the time to finally bring back Mara,

Thanks. Yeah, it was really a mistake to leave so many issues unresolved (here) the first time. I'm glad I got the chance to correct that. Just because Mara's evil in this story doesn't mean I don't like her as a character and want to give her screen time.

Ghost Rider wrote:and Thrawn's death as like last time was because he revealed himself...not because he was "Damn, I forgot about..."

The death of Thrawn did wind up proving to be the weak link of the Thrawn trilogy. It was so anti-clamactic.

You think so, Chuck? I always considered it Thrawn's one great miscalculation, the thing that showed that Thrawn couldn't always think of everything. I was, in fact, sort of expecting it the first time I read the book.

In any case, good show, as always. I just wonder, though, where you were going with that Corran Horn arc. Will he be making an appearance in AAO?

rhoenix wrote:Well done, Sonnenberg. I look forward to seeing this placed in the Completed Fanfics forum, and re-reading it later on as well.

Actually, you'll be able to read it in its entirety soon on the Fanfic Archive.

Daltonator wrote:You think so, Chuck? I always considered it Thrawn's one great miscalculation, the thing that showed that Thrawn couldn't always think of everything. I was, in fact, sort of expecting it the first time I read the book.

It wasn't deus ex machina or anything, but it did seem rather anti-climactic, considering how much of a bad guy he was.

Daltonator wrote: In any case, good show, as always. I just wonder, though, where you were going with that Corran Horn arc. Will he be making an appearance in AAO?

Thanks, and yes, he will be showing up in AAO, but not as an ace fighter pilot obviously.

Sonnenburg wrote:

Daltonator wrote:You think so, Chuck? I always considered it Thrawn's one great miscalculation, the thing that showed that Thrawn couldn't always think of everything. I was, in fact, sort of expecting it the first time I read the book.

It wasn't deus ex machina or anything, but it did seem rather anti-climactic, considering how much of a bad guy he was.

Well, it still says a lot - a reborn Empire, a gifted tactical commander, an entire war lost because of honor betrayed and one well-placed knife.

The implication is great to be sure, but it seemed like after all that had happened that it should have been one of the principle characters to finish him off.

Sonnenburg wrote:The implication is great to be sure, but it seemed like after all that had happened that it should have been one of the principle characters to finish him off.

Hm. Thrawn vs. Bel Iblis, steel-cage death match!

Great ending Chuck. I went back to your website and looked at a few of the comments you made of the original awhile back (although granted I don't think I made that far into them) and I really liked this one. "so I decided that I would deliberately abandon anything similar to other people’s stuff. If I started approaching a similar situation I’d deliberately and forcefully turn around and go in the opposite direction."

Thanks. The irony of that remark now is that apparently Peter David had apparently done an issue of the comic book X-Factor that had some common elements with the early part of chapter 30, but since I didn't know this until after the fact, I can count myself lucky.