Mara Jade, COO, Versus Vader, COO

You know, I never paid much attention to the Thrawn duelogy's plot aside from Mara/Luke's marriage, since I thought it kind of sucked. But, you putting it that way... man. That is just awful.

Indeed.

Then we have other nuggets such as Mara's belief that if Palpatine was a step ahead of everyone, Thrawn was "at least two steps"; Admiral Parck's testimony that Vader, Thrawn, and Mara were all attempts to replace the irreplaceable Kinman Doriana; Mara's assertion that Luke was mistaken in his belief that the reborn Emperor was actually Palpatine; Lando's assertion that C'baoth was more powerful than Vader; Pellaeon's musings that Thrawn and Thrawn alone was capable of saving the Empire; that Thrawn's Empire of the Hand was exponentially the size of the Imperial Remnant and could singlehandedly save the Imperial cause, etc.

Were missing one big flaw here...

Spoiler:
Mara can only be killed by a third hand

he is that damn good! and the reverence for Thrawn is the very best thing we ever got, and you're just jealous because he makes Pelleaon admit several times in his thought that he was nowhere near as good as thrawn.

(However, Zahn, Thrawn. say the names a few times together, and it will make you giggle.)

Originally posted by Turr_Phennir
Mara knows more about the Force than Luke,

This one I don't think is so bad. She was personally trained by Palps for years and years, he was largely self-trained and still working on retrieving lost knowledge.

I SAID, say "Zahn, and Thrawn" a few times in your head and giggle. how many of you followed these simple instructions?