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from-a-legends-pov · 1 day

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Star Wars Legends Highlight of the Week: X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston

In this feature, a fan will share one thing they love from Star Wars Legends — a book, a comic, an author, a character, an event, or anything else they want to highlight — and tell us more about it.

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Today’s Legends highlight is X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston, a 1999 Legends novel, and we’re talking with @alwaysstarwars.

Tell us about your Legends highlight. What is it, and why is it a highlight for you?

X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar is technically the 9th book of the X-Wing series, but it functions as a standalone novel. Set in 13 ABY (about nine years after Return of the Jedi), the book focuses on Wedge Antilles and his friends and fellow pilots Tycho Celchu, Hobbie Klivian, and Wes Janson, as they travel to the neutral world of Adumar and try to negotiate its admittance to the New Republic. The plot itself is relatively straightforward, but it’s really just an excuse to get Wedge, Hobbie, Tycho and Wes out on a mission together. And that quartet is the reason the book is so good. The four of them had been featured heavily in the previous X-Wing books, but there were always other characters and a larger plot with which to be concerned. This book gets rid of all that and just gives the reader Wedge, Tycho, Hobbie, and Wes getting up to assorted hijinks, pulling pranks, and being generally hilarious. It’s a buddy comedy in book form and it’s just fun. Aaron Allston is great at capturing the spirit and humor of Star Wars that some authors struggle with, and Starfighters of Adumar is a delight because of it. All of the X-Wing series is great and worth a read, but this is by far the most flat-out entertaining.

Any favorite moments or quotations to share?

A lot of the humor is context-specific, but this quote gives a good sense of the irreverent tone of the whole book and the fantastic relationships among the four main characters:

“Leader, this is Three. Are you crazy? Acknowledge.” “Three, Leader. That’s affirmative.” — Wes and Wedge

To learn more….

If you’d like to read more about X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar, you can check out its page on Wookieepedia or find the novel at your local library, new through a few outlets, or used through independent booksellers or your favorite used bookstore.

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#star wars legends #star wars eu #star wars extended universe #sw legends #x wing #starfighters of adumar #aaron allston #legends highlight of the week #wedge antilles #wes janson #hobbie klivian #tycho celchu #alwaysstarwars

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amarcia · 7 months

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They are having a knighting after-party!

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

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#jedi order #gffa #star wars #jedi #luminara unduli #obi wan kenobi #star wars prequels #agen kolar #stass allie #quinlan vos #star wars eu #sw art #sw fanart #star wars art #star wars fanart #art

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knightofthenewrepublic · 4 months

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iisabelinski · 1 month

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The lovely chaps behind the FANTASTIC Interregnum fics loved my ✨PRACTICAL SPACE FASHION MARA✨ so much that they asked if we could get a companion piece to celebrate the completion of their latest work.

AND WHO THE F*CK AM I TO SAY NO??!

Rogue Squadron jacket Luke? Non-black wearing Luke? Blaster-wielding, badass Luke? Slightly-older, lines-across-his-forehead Luke? YES.

Oh, also, I updated Mara's face a bit as well, so it would match more with the lighting and shading I did for him.

#look at them!#they are so beautiful #and so practical #interregnum #go read it it's GOOD #I know it's been like a year since the last time I posted #but at this point it is what it is #I will make no excuses for myself #and keep painting these babies whenever I get some free time #mara jade #star wars #star wars eu #star wars legends #mara jade skywalker #Luke Skywalker #luke and his badass wife #luke skywalker art #luke x mara

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tyquu · 1 month

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Flatmate suggested Thranto ,,, the answer is yes.

#eli vanto #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #star wars fandom #star wars fanart #star wars art #thranto #star wars #thrawn books #star wars eu

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revanknightwoman · 9 months

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incorrect-first-order · 5 months

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people in the star wars fandom: the sequels are so dumb and stupid i miss the eu, which was badass and cool and not stupid

the eu:

#not an incorrect quote #star wars #star wars memes #star wars sequel trilogy #luuke skywalker #luuuke skywalker #star wars legends #star wars eu

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purringysalamiri · 7 days

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we need to discuss

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oonaluna-art · 22 days

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They should just turn around and go home. There's no chance they can save Ahsoka when facing this kind of challenge.

There's no (official) Our New Hope update today, maybe next week.

[My Ko-Fi] [Patreon]

#Our new hope #our new hope Au #onhau #Galen mark #starkiller #star wars eu #Mara jade #Leia organa #luke skywalker #star wars #starwars #fan art #my art #Comic

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barriss-and-coffee · 9 months

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So that's what they put in there...

#Ordo Skirata #Kal Skirata #repcomm #republic commando #star wars #ARC Trooper #This mans is anxious and hungry #Star Wars EU #star wars legends

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amarcia · 4 months

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Back home after a quest.

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

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knightofthenewrepublic · 4 months

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#my memes #star wars #star wars eu #star wars memes #star wars legends #ahsoka series #ahsoka show #star wars ahsoka #ahsoka tano #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #ahsoka memes #thrawn ascendancy #thrawn trilogy #timothy zahn #this works in multiple canons

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iisabelinski · 1 year

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I’m happy to present you with a brand new episode of ✨PRACTICAL SPACE FASHION✨ starring Mara Jade.

#SPACE FASHION #this took me an embarrassingly long time to finish #I kid you not #had to redo those boots like five times #but I was persistent!#because Mara deserves to have real outfit ideas out there in the internet #lots of references #Mara Jade #mara jade skywalker #star wars #star wars art #Star Wars EU #star wars legends #star wars fanart #lightsaber #blaster

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mintelsa · 4 months

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my interpretation of Thrawn’s girlies ✨

continuing to tell myself that they all defected or something before the battle of lothal 🥹

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from-a-legends-pov · 17 days

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Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week - Out-Of-Context Pictures

Which of these out-of-context pictures from a Star Wars Legends property is your favorite? (Context provided below)

1: “Heat stick”: Oh, no, that certainly doesn’t look like anything else, no….

2. Laser-eyes Leia: Is it possible to learn this power?

3. Hit where it hurts: He had it coming.

4. “Turn off the foam, Threepio!” I don’t know, that looks kind of fun, Luke.

5. Han punches an otter? An otter wearing fancy jewelry, no less.

6. Playing ships with a Sith: Vader plus younglings doesn’t usually go well….

And now, for some context:

1: “Heat stick” - Wedge Antilles and Wes Janson spend a cold night together on a mission, and yes, that is supposed to be a heat stick used to warm them and not a glowing something else (Star Wars - original Marvel Comics)

2: Laser-eyes Leia: Meet Leia Organa II, a replica droid of the Princess, designed to speak, move, and act like the real Leia, and equipped with blasters in her eyes. The real Leia Organa is captured and nearly forced to marry Trioculus, a three-eyed warlord claiming to be Palpatine’s son (he wasn’t – that was a different three-eyed guy), but right before the wedding Leia’s friends switch her with Leia Organa II. At the altar, the replica droid blasts Trioculus with a little pew pew straight from her eyes, killing him, and the real Leia is able to escape (Queen of the Empire)

3: Hit where it hurts: When Black Sun boss Prince Xizor’s attempted assault of Leia Organa (by drugging her with his powerful Falleen pheromones) is interrupted by Chewbacca coming to the rescue, Leia gives Xizor a well-deserved knee to the groin before escaping (Shadows of the Empire)

4: “Turn off the foam, Threepio!” On a mission with Leia and the droids, Luke Skywalker uses extinguisher foam to subdue some Blackhole troopers aboard a Hrakian ship (“Gambler’s World,” Early Star Wars Adventures)

5: Han punches an otter? Han Solo’s evil cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo has imprisoned Dracmus, a female Selonian who has been trained as a diplomatic envoy to humans. He forces Dracmus to fight Han, whom he has also imprisoned, but Han is familiar enough with Mandaba, the Selonian language, to convince Dracmus to go easy on him during the fight without Thrackan catching on. Han still loses the fight, but gains Dracmus’s trust, and when Dracmus is later rescued, Han is allowed to come along (Assault at Selonia)

6: Playing ships with a Sith: Plourr Ilo recalls her brother Harran (Harrandatha Estillo), who from childhood was an evil, vicious person who wanted her dead so that he could become ruler. Harran idolized Darth Vader, and when Harran met the Sith as a child, Vader made Harran his protégé, taking advantage of his sadistic personality and apparently also playing ships with him for hours (Star Wars comics, X-Wing: Rogue Squadron - The Warrior Princess)

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blackmonitor · 10 months

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Say good morning to our beloved Legend Thrawn!

#Thrawn #Grand Admiral Thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #Star Wars #Star Wars Fanart #Legend Thrawn #Star Wars EU #fanart #artists on tumblr #blackmonitor #procreate

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