1. I've not seen the Clone Wars series (other than the episodes from earlier in this comunity read) and I'm fuzzy on the geography, so I'm a bit surprised that Thrawn met Anakin. Was Anakin often out in the back end of the galaxy? It doesn't feel like the Chiss Ascendancy was particularly far from the edge of Chaos? Thrawn doesn't seem particularly interested in events outside the Chaos, which makes me wonder about those piece of art we saw earlier from races the Chiss have never met and only know of from, salvaged art/objects. What kind of bleed-through of Republic/Empire events, culture, trade and people is there into the Chaos? I want to know more :P
2. The Patriarch seemed oddly pleasant for someone who's been controlling one of the big families for a long time. I liked seeing that Thalia's capable of finding her own way out of difficult situations (assuming that she wasn't being manipulated at the orders of someone like the patriarch to push her in aparticular direction) but is she destined to have her plotlines all be about looking after other people?
3. I'm honestly a bit surprised that Thrawn is continually being presented as oblivous to politics, given that we've heard so much about his ability to analyse cultures from their artwork and from that work out how to manipulate them invarious ways, particularly tactically. Why would someone who can do that have such a huge blind spot? Unless he's deliberately chosen to act that way, so as to generate certain responses, perhaps?
4. In Fire. No, wait, that was Babylon 4. I think this book is about Thrawn convincing people that the Ascendancy is under threat from the Benevolent-Symbiote-Carrier and their growing empire, as a set up for Thrawn's allies/superiors trying to fight in defiance of the Ascendancy's rules in the next book. I'm guessing the third in the trilogy will be something like Thrawn saves the Ascendancy but gets exiled for it...
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2. The Patriarch seemed oddly pleasant for someone who's been controlling one of the big families for a long time. I liked seeing that Thalia's capable of finding her own way out of difficult situations (assuming that she wasn't being manipulated at the orders of someone like the patriarch to push her in aparticular direction) but is she destined to have her plotlines all be about looking after other people?
3. I'm honestly a bit surprised that Thrawn is continually being presented as oblivous to politics, given that we've heard so much about his ability to analyse cultures from their artwork and from that work out how to manipulate them invarious ways, particularly tactically. Why would someone who can do that have such a huge blind spot? Unless he's deliberately chosen to act that way, so as to generate certain responses, perhaps?
4. In Fire. No, wait, that was Babylon 4. I think this book is about Thrawn convincing people that the Ascendancy is under threat from the Benevolent-Symbiote-Carrier and their growing empire, as a set up for Thrawn's allies/superiors trying to fight in defiance of the Ascendancy's rules in the next book. I'm guessing the third in the trilogy will be something like Thrawn saves the Ascendancy but gets exiled for it...