How the fvck are they going to make this fit within continuity? Thrawn and Sheev seem to get along just fine during season 4 of Rebels, including the finale.
Didn't the last one take place before/during season 4 as well?
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The previous novel took place between season 3 and season 4, just after the battle of Atollon. Fast-forward to S04E10, and Tarkin had arranged a meeting between Thrawn and Palpatine, so that Thrawn could discuss the importance of his TIE Defender project over that of the Death Star -- implying that Palpatine hadn't yet decided which project should take immediate precedence. Of course, later in the same episode is when the fuel supply for the Defenders was destroyed, which compromised the entire project -- this failure is likely why Palpatine opted to divert all funding to the Death Star.
That said, the description for this novel implies that it is set after Palpatine had decided to put Thrawn's project on the back-burner... Which means it should logically be set sometime between S04E10 and the finale.
As for the 'treason' thing: in the previous novel, Vader accused Thrawn of treason when he was planning to use Imperial assets to attack the squadron of Grysk forces. Even though the Grysk only posed an immediate threat to a small number of Chiss at the time, Thrawn explained that engaging them would be mutually beneficial to both the Chiss AND the Empire... And Vader begrudgingly agreed.
I imagine the same type of scenario(albeit on a larger scale) will present itself in this upcoming novel: the Chiss homeworld will be under assault from Grysk forces, and Thrawn will want to deploy an abundance of Imperial resources to assist them... Except this time Thrawn will have to explain his motives to Palpatine himself, who will question where his loyalty truly lies. Might even be a "better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission" type of scenario, wherein Thrawn acts on his own discretion against the Grysk, and then must explain his actions to Palpatine after the fact. /shrug
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I would agree that the Thrawn novels are above all other canon material, in terms of overall quality/enjoyability... That's Zahn for you.
Suffice to say, I have very high hopes for Treason. I do wonder, though, if Zahn is going to stop here(now that his 'neo-Thrawn Trilogy' will be concluded), or if he will continue writing Thrawn in the future, given that his fate is still up in the air..?
As far as I'm concerned, Zahn is the only person who should be handling Thrawn at this point. All things considered, Filoni portrayed him quite well in Rebels(Lars Mikkelsen is the most perfect VA I could've ever hoped for), but Zahn just takes his characterization to an entirely different level.
I'd read the two Thrawn novels before anything else. They really are great.
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Last edited by Galan007 on Dec 6th, 2018 at 07:21 PM
I didn't care much for Bloodline, tbh, but that could be because I really don't give a rat's ass about Leia trying to make her way in the New Republic. /shrug
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