Nothing gets done, regardless of how insignificant, without the involvement of the core characters from the original film trilogy.
You start to wonder after a while if the New Republic is just five guys and a room. In SPECTER OF THE PAST, the first part of the HAND OF THRAWN story, Han wants to give Leia some much-needed time off with the kids, so he volunteers to mediate a shipping dispute between the Diamola and the Ishori, somehow also roping Luke into going with him. I don’t understand this as a device, because authors always have to write around it to get the book going. The New Republic era has a maddening number of stories that begin with our heroes getting caught up in a failed diplomatic effort. And I think by then the effort just wasn't sufficient to the task. Trouble is, by 1997 the extent of the damage was just too broad. His follow-up to the THRAWN trilogy, the HAND OF THRAWN duology, was a thinly veiled effort to do just that. Like any architect seeing his design to succumb to shoddy craftsmanship, Zahn eventually stepped in to set things right. Those follow-up efforts did not do much to advance the story from there and actually did more than a little to set it back. Unfortunately, the Expanded Universe fell into other hands after Zahn had completed the third book of his THRAWN trilogy. Timothy Zahn, the architect of the LEGENDS Expanded Universe, originally re-launched the STAR WARS saga in 1991 with the first of three novels, HEIR TO THE EMPIRE.
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