Favorite Thing in Star Wars Expanded Universe

[Mol3m4n]

With the death imminent in relation to the expanded universe as Canon, I have to ask what everyone's favorite moment, person, time, place, or thing was from the expanded universe.

As a kid, I absolutely loved Star Wars. Enough to make me buy 7 games for my xbox. Two of those happened to be Star Wars KOTOR 1 and 2.

Those are by far in my top 3 favorite games, and I absolutely loved the universe set up, the story, the characters, everything. There is a reason that Darth Revan is my favorite Sith Lord.

(Also TOR sucks.)

[Darth Biscuit]

My fav book was 'Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader', which is technically a prequel book, so I'm not sure how they're dealing with that stuff... like that and the Darth Bane novels...

 

Never really got into the games, but I read all the books.

[dos poptarts]

Never read many of the book series. So I'll leave this here.

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Thrawn is my favorite, followed closely by Nom Anor. I really enjoyed the Darth Bane trilogy and I like the New Jedi Order series too. Everything after that is crap.

[CarolinaCoolin]

The Jedi knight Jedi academy which Luke ran as master I always liked the idea of

[Scrumtrilescent]

Most things not written by Kevin Andersen.

Huge Legacy comic fan and of course Zahn.

[cookinwithgas]

I wish I could explain to the younger people here the rush it was to go to the bookstore and see the first Han Solo book as well as Splinter of the Minds Eye. Brian Daley really invented the Expanded Universe and did a great job with it. Oh and the X Wing Simulator game for PC was great too

[Zinub]

The books I've read so far, Darth Bane trilogy was my favorite. The rule of two how much knowledge he discovered and unlocked from holocrons.

Game wise goes to Star Wars Galaxies up until pre NGE. I still play on swgemu stable server. It's the game up until Jump to lightspeed. No CU, or NGE. That game got me into all the EU of star wars.

[cookinwithgas]

The books I've read so far, Darth Bane trilogy was my favorite. The rule of two how much knowledge he discovered and unlocked from holocrons.

Game wise goes to Star Wars Galaxies up until pre NGE. I still play on swgemu stable server. It's the game up until Jump to lightspeed. No CU, or NGE. That game got me into all the EU of star wars.

 

I was on that thing all the time until it got too weird with the Jedi stuff etc....

[boostownsme]

When Luke fell in love with a computer. I mean the Jedi trapped inside it. Or whatever was going on there

[SmokinwithWilly]

I wish I could explain to the younger people here the rush it was to go to the bookstore and see the first Han Solo book as well as Splinter of the Minds Eye. Brian Daley really invented the Expanded Universe and did a great job with it. Oh and the X Wing Simulator game for PC was great too

Loved X wing for PC. The only thing that really frustrated the crap out of me was when I accidently hit the shields key one too many times trying to switch to double front and getting killed 20 minutes into one of the long missions.

Have to honestly say I haven't read the books because I had no idea where to start. Any suggestions?

[The Huddler]

Chewbacca is my favorite fictional character of all time

[cookinwithgas]

Loved X wing for PC. The only thing that really frustrated the crap out of me was when I accidently hit the shields key one too many times trying to switch to double front and getting killed 20 minutes into one of the long missions.

Have to honestly say I haven't read the books because I had no idea where to start. Any suggestions?

 

Heir to the Empire was the first series in the "new" Star Wars line and for many people it's their favorite. It's got all the characters not that long after the last movie, a great villain that is complex and not a cardboard cutout baddie, some great Star Wars tech and battles...

 

If you loved that X Wing Game the Rogue Squadron books are great - they use the terminiology and controls from the X Wing game in the books which I thought was cool.

 

But Han Solo at Star's End was the first and so great, no rebellion, just Han and Chewie sticking it to the man. Splinter of the Minds Eye was written by Alan Dean Foster who ghost wrote the Star Wars novelization and is a very entertaining book although it kind of throws canon out the window from the get go.

[cookinwithgas]

When Luke fell in love with a computer. I mean the Jedi trapped inside it. Or whatever was going on there

 

oh that was pretty bad LOL