Expounded Universe

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You know how these wrap up episodes go!  We talk about what we liked and didn’t like, then we answer a million listener questions and announce the next book!  It’s been 10 seasons now, come on!

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And just like that, we’re done.  But dang what a way to go.  This is exciting in a way these Star Wars books rarely seem to want to shoot for, perfectly content to just kill everyone, blow up the building, and flip everyone off on the way out.

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A daring space escape and a murder… a murder most foul.  Honestly this space scene is one of the coolest ones we’ve seen in a book so far, and it’s just the Falcon, a bad guy, and hundreds of acres of grain.

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Our lovable smuggler team (and their droid named after balls) find their way to the mighty agriplanet to continue the mission!  We get to meet Rekkon, the coolest dude we’ve seen in a while, Torm, the obvious traitor, Atuarre and Pakka (cats that don’t really get lines, don’t worry about it).  Also Chewie is about as cool here as he’ll ever be.  All in all, good times!

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Han and Chewie must effect a sneaky escape from Etti IV and find an old friend, but we have a lot of questions.

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Finally the 70s kick up something interesting!  It’s Han Solo at Star’s End, a book that predates Empire Strikes Back!  We’re gonna be reading all about the wild adventures of pre-Rebellion Han and Chewie, and literally no one else you’ve ever heard of.   So exciting.

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As is tradition, we wrap up.  We discuss what we liked and didn’t like, if we’d recommend the book in general, and so on.  Eventually when we run out of that stuff we answer listener questions for a while and then announce the next book.  WHICH WE DO!

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Okay, let’s bring her home.  The entire EU that is, because this is the end.  The last of it.  Will Luke, Leia and Han die in the monolith?  Do the Qrephs somehow win despite being the dumbest morons since Hethrir?  I think you know these answers already, but hey, listen on!

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As boilerplate as the Qrephs have turned out to be, Vestara Khai is a straight up delight.  She’s very genre savvy and knows to be completely terrified of Luke and Leia and their terrifying “Light Side” progeny.  Who are earning that fear this episode as we spend most of it in the perspective of a villain just watching the old Star Wars heroes rip through defenses like butter.

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Luke and Leia engage in some recreational muggle-dumping before looking for any excuse at all to murder Mandalorians (that’s how the light side works) while Han runs around behind Barduun/Jhonus Raam and his whole bag of crazy situation.  Wackiness ensues.

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