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Some people think that it's kind of random to have Daala back, but I don't think it's quite as random as bringing someone like Lumiya (who I love) back. I mean, she's from WAAAAAAAAY back. At least Daala was fairly recent EU history compared to Lumiya.

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Seriously! And to me Lumiya was more obscure, yet still awesome, than Daala. Daala at least had novels dedicated to her storyline.

I think patch hit it on the head when he said that this series is more than just about family legacy. It's about the EU history. What legacy has done, in bringing people like Lumiya and Daala back, is effectively shown that these people are not just MIA after one event like they never existed. And the galaxy is bigger than the skywalker/solo clans.

And besides it makes me feel as if my time reading some of those bantam books *cough-Black fleet crisis-*cough* was not in vain. In NJO I was justified when mara brought up Akanah as well as when Jacen was "learning" from her. And now, although Darksaber and so forth were not the most horrible books, they were not the best either, i feel as if my money was well spent when I read legacy. I need to shake whoever's hand came up with this plot... " src="http://www.njoe.com/forums/cheers.gif">

One of the things that has nugged me is when people say; "It's CALLED "The Legacy of the FORCE!", as if that's supposed to be a slam on the series.

Yeah. it is the Legacy of the Force, and the Force is in all things. It has guided the destiny of even Han Solo and Boba Fett, even when they couldn't feel it. The only thing I think has been missing is more of the exact thing we get in this book, that sense of a giant universe where everything is coming back. You can't even keep Daala down. Lumiya is back. All the unexploded bombs of a century of Imperial control and war and strife have shifted to the surface and now it's all kicked off.

There's a line in Allston's X-Wing novels where Wedge realizes that they're slipping into the role of the Empire, not exactly, but that they're now in control. They now have uniforms and timetables and suddenly the rules have changed.

If we look at our own world at colonial powers who either lost their colonies or abandoned them we see those places in termoil, and I think part of that is here as well. You have the result of a corrupt Republic that morphed into an Empire that was defeated and suffered severe growing pains and just when things were getting going they had an extra-galactic invasion that devestated them.

If we believe OUTBOUND FLIGHT and hints from other sources, there were hints of an extra-galactic threat for some time, and in a very real way we're seeing the results of centuries of a Republic and a Jedi order on the downhill slide. There are no easy answers, and Luke's largest mistake, to me, was not following his gut but trying to recreate the Order as it existed.

An Order in the image of Luke Skywalker is one thing, but some of the teachings he uncovered seem to run counter to the things he would himself believe in. It was some of the very things that the OJO rejected that allowed Luke to save his friends, both on Bespin and Endor. I wish that had been followed up on.