Star Wars has changed a lot since Disney took ownership of the franchise. The old Expanded Universe was de-canonized and is now known as Star Wars Legends. This move angered a lot of Star Wars fans, ...

In 1991, Heir to the Empire, the first book in the ... most influential contributions that the Thrawn trilogy made to canon was the creation of Mara Jade. Jade has the backstory of formerly ...

However, there is one person who may be happy she wasn't in the sequel trilogy: George Lucas. Mara Jade was first introduced in Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire as a Force-sensitive assassin and ...