Every other time in Han’s life, when he walked away, he did it for himself. He would have left, not for his own benefit, but for hers. Of course, that was before he knew Luke and Leia were siblings, before he knew a lot of things. “Han had meant it when he’d told Leia he’d exit her life if she wanted. And it’s after a strategy meeting with Chewie and the other Rebel generals that Han decides to pop the question, and Revis writes a beautiful passage about what Han is thinking as he rushes to meet Leia. Although the Emperor and Vader might be dead, there’s quite a bit of the Empire still standing in other parts of the galaxy, and the Rebellion is planning its next move.
RETURN OF THE JEDI SERIES
Live-action series like The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and the upcoming Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew have continued to mine the post- Return of the Jedi era for the current Disney canon, with the tie-in novels following suit.Īhead of the book’s launch in August, Inverse has posted an excerpt that shows the tension-filled moment Han asks Leia to marry him, a scene that takes us back to the Ewok village just a day after the celebration that closed Return of the Jedi. In fact, this point in the timeline has been the studio’s main focus since wrapping the Skywalker Saga on the big screen. That doesn’t mean the House of Mouse has completely abandoned the era set just after Return of the Jedi, though. There was also The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton, which finally gave Star Wars fans a key moment in the timeline that had been missing: the events that led to Han and Leia getting married four years after the trilogy’s climactic battle.īut that was all in the Legends continuity, which hasn’t been canon since Disney rebooted the Star Wars timeline ahead of 2015’s The Force Awakens.
Stackpole and Aaron Allston explored what the galaxy was like directly after the fall of the Empire. Jeter, and the X-Wing novels by Michael A. Throughout the ’90s, other books like The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers, The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy by K.W. With the Emperor finally defeated and Darth Vader redeemed, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo lived happily ever after on the big screen, but in 1991, Timothy Zahn’s classic Legends novel Heir to the Empire showed us that there were still many, many more battles and wars to fight beyond Endor. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi may have given George Lucas’ Original Trilogy a fitting end in 1983, but it was also only the beginning of something much bigger.
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