Leia soon jumps on board the Wild Karrde (yes, that’s the name of his ship…) with Talon and her personal guard of Noghri soldiers to head to Mount Tantis on the planet Wayland.Īlready approaching Mt. Leia (and her newly born twins Jacen and Jaina) and the New Republic high command are stranded on the Capital world thanks to not being able to lower the planet’s shields due to thinking there are hundreds of asteroids ready to rain down on them but my favouritely-named smuggler Talon Karrde arrives with a newly forged Smugglers Alliance and breaks the siege not only with his army but by revealing Thrawn’s nine actual asteroids had already been destroyed, leading to Rogue Squadron launching and joining the battle.

Tentis to have a showdown with his would-be Jedi followers. The final battle is on two fronts: Thrawn and his fleet surround Coruscant and threaten them with asteroid strikes, bringing nine of the rocks with them and using computer trickery to make it seem like they have hundreds, meanwhile mad old Jedi C’boath waits in the Emperor’s old throne room in Mt. While there were still plenty of talking and stalling in early chapters I will give “The Last Command” a big round of applause for having a great finale. The original cover, all of it! Right down to the grubbiness of the paper! The Dark Jedi C’baoth schemes in his secret fortress, directing the battle against the rebels, nursing his insanity, and building his strength to finish what he had already started-the destruction of Luke Skywalker… The Republic’s only hope lies in sending a small force, led by Luke, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn’s terrible cloning machines. But the Empire has too many ships and too many clones to combat. While Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a wary alliance of smugglers in a last-ditch attack against the Empire, Leia keeps the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Hopes are dim as Thrawn mounts a final siege against the Republic. The fragile New Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has not only rallied the remaining Imperial forces but has driven the rebels back with an abominable new technology: clone soldiers. Still, how does the final third of the trilogy compare? Does it go out on a high note? Let’s find out! Now I’ve enjoyed the books so far but felt they haven’t quite lived up to the hype I’d heard of them, no doubt brought about by being the first official continuation of the films released in the early 90s. It’s time to complete the much loved (and now non-canon, or at least “in the Legends timeline”) Thrawn Trilogy with “The Last Command”.

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