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The Star Wars expanded universe has many stories in both the book and comic medium, and with nearly every author who makes their mark, they bring a slew of new characters with them. Sometimes, they just serve as set dressing - but on the rare occasion, we get a character whose inital appearance on the page turns into the first of many as they become staples of the Star Wars universe:

• Thrawn (Heir to the Empire, 1991)
• Quinlan Vos & Aayla Secura (Dark Horse's Republic #17, 2000)
• Black Krrsantan (Marvel's Darth Vader #1, 2015)
• Doctor Aphra (Marvel's Darth Vader #3, 2015)
• Rae Sloane (A New Dawn, 2014)
• Cobb Vanth (Aftermath, 2015)
• Vi Moradi (Phasma, 2017)

For example - I just finished reading Adam Christopher's Master of Evil; it's primarily a story about Halland Goth and, through his and other characters' perspectives, Darth Vader. But there are characters who, should the right story arise, would be amazing to see again - such as TC-99 and Enoosha, and most prominently extremely intriguing, albeit less fully explored ones such as ISB agent Korali Desler, who I personally need to see in another piece of Star Wars media. Everli Chalis from Battlefront: Twilight Company has always wildly intrigued me, and I'd love to find out what Rael Aveross was up to during the Clone Wars - Dooku's first apprentice not being in more Star Wars media baffles me to the point I just have to assume he died well before it (but let's hope not!!!). And it goes without saying - if Claudia Gray can ever make a sequel to Lost Stars so we can see what happened to Cienna Ree & Thane Kyrell, most of the fandom will be seated.

Throughout my many years of reading, the list keeps stacking up - we get introduced to new characters in books or comics, and then can only hope they show up again in some other story. Because of the sprawling nature of comics, it definitely happens there more than on the book side of things, which is why I want to ask all of you dedicated readers...

What original characters from Star Wars books do you hope to see again someday?

I'm reposting this from the Star Wars Books thread because I think y'all would appreciate this :)

So for the past few months, I've been reading and watching Clone Wars media - tying together Legends and Canon content to create a more cohesive reading experience (literally, I have been working through this since January). For myself, I've tried to craft an experience that feels cohesive but also like a consistent timeline - I think I've finally cracked it. With the Legends content in particular (from the 2003-05 MMP), I have a few notes of how I headcanon things in - for most, it's not a huge problem and it's somewhat easy to just blur your eyes.

But make no mistake - this is an insanely stuffed timeline that is supposed to fit into three years; theoretically it could work, but in reality probably not - time is weird in the Star Wars universe, however, so this is my attempt to make some sense of it all.

22 BBY

• The Approaching Storm
• Episode II: Attack of the Clones (takes place close to the mid-year point of 22 BBY, roughly late May or June)
• The Clone Wars: Wild Space Ch. 1-3
• Death in the Catacombs (short story)
• Queen's Hope Ch. 1-7
• Jedi of the Republic: Mace Windu #1-5
• Queen's Hope Ch. 8-27
• Jar Jar: The Unseen
• Clone Wars Chapter 1-21 (don't really work with canon at points, but I would place the events of the show here)
• Brotherhood
• Queen's Hope Chapter 28
• Hyperspace Stories #11, #1, #5
• The Cestus Deception Ch. 1-32
  • [have to headcanon that Anakin and Obi-Wan are no longer master/apprentice in Chapter 1]
• The Hive
• The Cestus Deception Ch. 33-82
• Republic Commando #1: Hard Contact
• Hyperspace Stories: Grievous
• Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars - Battle Tales #1-5
• Age of Republic Special: 501 Plus One
• Age of Republic: Anakin Skywalker
• TCW S2 E16: Cat and Mouse
• TCW S1 E16: The Hidden Enemy
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Tales of the Jedi S1 E5: Practice Makes Perfect
• The Clone Wars: Wild Space Ch. 4-23
  • [has some weird and honestly pretty stupid Bail Organa stuff - like him not knowing about the Sith and hating Obi-Wan - that doesn't even really work in the old EU; but if you do want to include it, it helps to make Bail's appearance helping the Jedi in Supply Lines more understandable]
• TCW S1 E6: Downfall of a Droid
• TCW S1 E7: Duel of the Droids
• Omega Squad: Targets (short story)
• TCW S3 E1: Clone Cadets
• Out Foxed (short story)
• TCW S3 E3: Supply Lines
• TCW S1 E1: Ambush
• The Clone Wars: Shipyards of Doom
• TCW S1 E2: Rising Malevolence
• TCW S1 E3: Shadow of Malevolence
• TCW S1 E4: Destroy Malevolence
• TCW Secret Missions #1: Breakout Squad
• TCW Secret Missions #2: Curse of the Black Hole Pirates
• TCW Secret Missions #3: Duel at Shattered Rock
• TCW Secret Missions #4: Guardians of the Chiss Key
• TCW S1 E5: Rookies
• Shatterpoint
  • [I just headcanon that Depa Billaba had a wild, unseen process to redemption that happens around 20 BBY - that she woke up, ended up back on Haruun Kal, fought Grievous, and redeemed herself...a story we will never see, but puts her into another coma and she comes out with a fractured memory and regret, but not as dark as she was before...kinda overkill to make it work with the canon, but the story is too good not to include]
• Equipment (short story)
• The Clone Wars: No Prisoners

21 BBY

• TCW S1 E8: Bombad Jedi
• TCW S1 E9: Cloak of Darkness
• TCW S1 E10: Lair of Grievous
• TCW S1 E11: Dooku Captured
• TCW S1 E12: The Gungan General
• The Clone Wars: Crash Course
• SWA #9-10: Separation Anxiety
• TCW S1 E13: Jedi Crash
• TCW S1 E14: Defenders of Peace
• TCW S1 E15: Trespass
• TCW S1 E17: Blue Shadow Virus
• TCW S1 E18: Mystery of a Thousand Moons
• The Clone Wars #7-#9: In Service of the Republic
• The Clone Wars: The Wind Riders of Taloraan
• TCW S1 E19: Storm Over Ryloth
• TCW S1 E20: Liberty on Ryloth
• TCW S1 E21: Innocents of Ryloth
• The Clone Wars: The Colossus of Destiny
• TCW S2 E1: Holocron Heist
• TCW S2 E2: Cargo of Doom
• TCW S2 E3: Children of the Force
• The Clone Wars #10-12: Hero of the Confederacy
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 1-2
• The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
• The Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
• TCW S2 E4: Senate Spy
• Republic Commando #2: Triple Zero Ch. 1-11
• TCW S2 E5: Landing at Point Rain
• TCW S2 E6: Weapons Factory
• TCW S2 E7: Legacy of Terror
• TCW S2 E8: Brain Invaders
• Republic Commando #2: Triple Zero Ch. 12-24
• TCW S2 E9: Grievous Intrigue
• TCW S2 E10: The Deserter
• The Clone Wars: The Enemy Within
• TCW S2 E11: Lightsaber Lost
• TCW S2 E12: The Mandalore Plot
• TCW S2 E13: Voyage of Temptation
• TCW S2 E14: Duchess of Mandalore
• The Clone Wars: Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju
• TCW S2 E17: Bounty Hunters
• TCW S2 E18: The Zillo Beast
• TCW S2 E19: The Zillo Beast Strikes Back
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 3-6
• TCW S2 E20: Death Trap
• TCW S2 E21: R2 Come Home
• TCW S2 E22: Lethal Trackdown
• TCW S3 E4: Sphere of Influence
• TCW S3 E5: Corruption
• TCW S3 E6: The Academy
• TCW S3 E7: Assassin
• TCW S3 E2: ARC Troopers
• TCW S3 E8: Evil Plans
• TCW S1 E22: Hostage Crisis
• TCW S3 E9: Hunt for Ziro
• SWA #12-13: Intermission
• SWA #12 - Tales of Villainy: Give and Take
• Tales #19: Rather Darkness Visible
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 7-8
• Hyperspace Stories #10
• Forces of Destiny S1 E11
• Odds
• Forces of Destiny S2 #2
• Republic Commando #3: True Colors Ch. 1-16
• Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
  • [I think it works surprisingly well earlier in the war; it has to take place here if you're fitting it into the canon because Ventress is no longer Dooku's apprentice by the beginning of 20 BBY]
• Republic Commando #3: True Colors Ch. 17
• Forces of Destiny S1 E6
• The Bad Batch: Ghost Agents #1-5
• SWA #5-6: The Incident
• Forces of Destiny S1 E12
• Republic Commando #3: True Colors Ch. 18-20
• Forces of Destiny S1 E4
• TCW S3 E10: Heroes on Both Sides
• TCW S3 E11: Pursuit of Peace
• TCW S2 E15: Senate Murders

20 BBY

• TCW S3 E12: Nightsisters
• TCW S3 E13: Monster
• The Clone Wars: Strange Allies
• TCW S3 E14: Witches of the Mist
• FCBD 2009: The Gauntlet of Death
• TCW S3 E15: Overlords
• TCW S3 E16: Altar of Mortis
• TCW S3 E17: Ghosts of Mortis
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Prologue
• TCW S3 E18: The Citadel
• TCW S3 E19: Counterattack
• TCW S3 E20: Citadel Rescue
• The Bad Batch: Rogue Agents #1-4
• TCW S3 E21: Padawan Lost
• TCW S3 E22: Wookiee Hunt
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 9
• The Clone Wars: The Starcrusher Trap
• TCW S4 E1: Water War
• TCW S4 E2: Gungan Attack
• TCW S4 E3: Prisoners
• General Grievous #1-4
• TCW S4 E4: Shadow Warrior
• SWA #8: Tales of Villainy - Trade Relations
• Speaking Silently (short story)
• TCW S4 E5: Mercy Mission
• TCW S4 E6: Nomad Droids
• SWA #19: Roger Roger
• SWA #20: Hide and Seek
• TCW S4 E7: Darkness on Umbara
• TCW S4 E8: The General
• TCW S4 E9: Plan of Dissent
• TCW S4 E10: Carnage of Krell
• FCBD 2006: Routine Valor
• Age of Republic: General Grievous
• TCW S4 E11: Kidnapped
• TCW S4 E12: Slaves of the Republic
• TCW S4 E13: Escape from Kadavo
• TCW S4 E14: A Friend in Need
• The Clone Wars: The Smuggler's Code
• TCW S4 E15: Deception
• TCW S4 E16: Friends and Enemies
• TCW S4 E17: The Box
• TCW S4 E18: Crisis on Naboo
• MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
  • [takes place over months; ends after "Revenge"]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 2
• TCW S4 E19: Massacre
• Tales of the Empire E1: The Path of Fear
• TCW S4 E20: Bounty
• TCW S4 E21: Brothers
• TCW S4 E22: Revenge
• The Clone Wars: The Sith Hunters
• MedStar: Intermezzo (short story)
• Darth Maul: Death Sentence #1-4
• MedStar II: Jedi Healer
  • [headcanon that Barriss taking the bota actually made her more prone to the dark side; reshift her perspective as being clouded by the dark side in the last chapter and it works better than people give it credit for]
• Bug (short story from The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark)
• The Clone Wars: Defenders of the Lost Temple
• TCW S5 E2: A War on Two Fronts
• TCW S5 E3: Front Runners
• TCW S5 E4: The Soft War
• TCW S5 E5: Tipping Points
• Hyperspace Stories #9
• TCW S6 E5: An Old Friend
• TCW S6 E6: The Rise of Clovis
• TCW S6 E7: Crisis at the Heart
• TCW S5 E6: The Gathering
• TCW S5 E7: A Test of Strength
• TCW S5 E8: Bound for Rescue
• TCW S5 E9: A Necessary Bond
• TCW S5 E10: Secret Weapons
• TCW S5 E11: A Sunny Day in the Void
• TCW S5 E12: Missing in Action
• TCW S5 E13: Point of No Return
• TCW S5 E1: Revival
• RCW S5 E14: Eminence
• SWA #3 - Tales of Villainy: The Hostage
• TCW S5 E15: Shades of Reason
• TCW S5 E16: The Lawless
• TCW S5 E17: Sabotage
• TCW S5 E18: The Jedi Who Knew Too Much
• Age of Republic Special: Sisters
• TCW S5 E19: To Catch a Jedi
• TCW S5 E20: The Wrong Jedi

19 BBY

• TCW S6 E1: The Unknown
• TCW S6 E2: Conspiracy
• TCW S6 E3: Fugitive
• TCW S6 E4: Orders
• Thrawn: Alliances (Clone Wars section)
• TCW S6 E8: The Disappeared, Part I
• TCW S6 E9: The Disappeared, Part II
• Kindred Spirits (short story)
• TCW S6 E10: The Lost One
• TCW S6 E11: Voices
• TCW S6 E12: Destiny
• TCW S6 E13: Sacrifice
• TCW Legacy E1: A Death on Utapau
• TCW Legacy E2: In Search of the Crystal
• TCW Legacy E3: Crystal Crisis
• TCW Legacy E4: The Big Bang
• Dark Disciple Ch. 1-25
  • [takes place over about a month and a half time at least, is followed by a 2 month gap]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 3-5
  • [definitely some serious issues with how Mandalore is portrayed; I headcanon it by making it so that what is called Mandalore is actually Concordia, and that the Mandalorian clans are a third branch - more adherant to the Mandalorian clans we see in The Mandalorian - that stay out of New Mandalorian/Death Watch politics on Mandalore and consider themselves the true paragons of Mandalorian culture. Also some contradictions with the Clone Army and its size and resources - if you don't think too hard it's not hard to headcanon those discrepancies away and enjoy the book as it is]
• Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir #1-4
• Kanan: First Blood #7-8
• Age of Republic: Padme Amidala
• Dark Disciple Ch. 26-30
  • [this is when Vos is rescued; there's about 2 weeks afterwards where he's taking smaller assignments]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 6-11
• Dark Disciple Ch. 31-42
  • [This book as a whole is tricky - I estimated it can take place at a minimum of around the span of at least 4 months, which is almost all of the time allotted in 19 BBY - there's only really 2.5 months left for the other stuff, which is Season 6 and Season 7, when this isn't taking place. And that's even on a pretty compressed scale, as if you give everything the space to breathe it should take place around 9 months...this is conducive to a super headache and is perhaps the best argument that the Clone Wars are overstuffed and exceed three years, but structuring it this way is perhaps the only way I can make it work].
• TCW S7 E5: Gone With a Trace
• TCW S7 E6: Deal No Deal
• TCW S7 E7: Dangerous Debt
• TCW S7 E8: Together Again
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 12 (I)
• Kanan: First Blood #9
• TCW S7 E1: The Bad Batch
• TCW S7 E2: A Distant Echo
• TCW S7 E3: On the Wings of Keeradeeks
• TCW S7 E4: Unfinished Business
• Kanan: First Blood #10-11
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 12 (II)
• Labyrinth of Evil
  • [the ending of this novel is irreconcilable with canon, but if you want you can include the majority of it up to Dooku escaping from Tythe - the final chapter or two can just be ignored and you can assume they are called to Yerbana shortly after, still unaware of the battle on Coruscant]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 13-16 (Battle of Coruscant)
  • [rest of novel - Ch. 17-26 - takes place concurrently with and after Revenge of the Sith]
• TCW S7 E9: Old Friends Not Forgotten
• Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• TCW S7 E10: The Phantom Apprentice
• TCW S7 E11: Shattered
• TCW S7 E12: Victory and Death

Let me know if y'all have any thoughts! I tried to keep things as consistent with the updated canon timelines as possible, but some things were moved around (in my opinion, for the better), and I pushed the start time of 19 BBY closer to where it begins in Legends, after Ahsoka leaves. 20 BBY is especially stuffed, but that's the whole Clone Wars for you...

So for the past few months, I've been reading and watching Clone Wars media - tying together Legends and Canon content to create a more cohesive reading experience (literally, I have been working through this since January). For myself, I've tried to craft an experience that feels cohesive but also like a consistent timeline - I think I've finally cracked it. With the Legends content in particular (from the 2003-05 MMP), I have a few notes of how I headcanon things in - for most, it's not a huge problem and it's somewhat easy to just blur your eyes.

But make no mistake - this is an insanely stuffed timeline that is supposed to fit into three years; theoretically it could work, but in reality probably not - time is weird in the Star Wars universe, however, so this is my attempt to make some sense of it all.

22 BBY

• The Approaching Storm
• Episode II: Attack of the Clones (takes place close to the mid-year point of 22 BBY, roughly late May or June)
• The Clone Wars: Wild Space Ch. 1-3
• Death in the Catacombs (short story)
• Queen's Hope Ch. 1-7
• Jedi of the Republic: Mace Windu #1-5
• Queen's Hope Ch. 8-27
• Jar Jar: The Unseen
• Clone Wars Chapter 1-21 (don't really work with canon at points, but I would place the events of the show here)
• Brotherhood
• Queen's Hope Chapter 28
• Hyperspace Stories #11, #1, #5
• The Cestus Deception Ch. 1-32
  • [have to headcanon that Anakin and Obi-Wan are no longer master/apprentice in Chapter 1]
• The Hive
• The Cestus Deception Ch. 33-82
• Republic Commando #1: Hard Contact
• Hyperspace Stories: Grievous
• Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars - Battle Tales #1-5
• Age of Republic Special: 501 Plus One
• Age of Republic: Anakin Skywalker
• TCW S2 E16: Cat and Mouse
• TCW S1 E16: The Hidden Enemy
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Tales of the Jedi S1 E5: Practice Makes Perfect
• The Clone Wars: Wild Space Ch. 4-23
  • [has some weird and honestly pretty stupid Bail Organa stuff - like him not knowing about the Sith and hating Obi-Wan - that doesn't even really work in the old EU; but if you do want to include it, it helps to make Bail's appearance helping the Jedi in Supply Lines more understandable]
• TCW S1 E6: Downfall of a Droid
• TCW S1 E7: Duel of the Droids
• Omega Squad: Targets (short story)
• TCW S3 E1: Clone Cadets
• Out Foxed (short story)
• TCW S3 E3: Supply Lines
• TCW S1 E1: Ambush
• The Clone Wars: Shipyards of Doom
• TCW S1 E2: Rising Malevolence
• TCW S1 E3: Shadow of Malevolence
• TCW S1 E4: Destroy Malevolence
• TCW Secret Missions #1: Breakout Squad
• TCW Secret Missions #2: Curse of the Black Hole Pirates
• TCW Secret Missions #3: Duel at Shattered Rock
• TCW Secret Missions #4: Guardians of the Chiss Key
• TCW S1 E5: Rookies
• Shatterpoint
  • [I just headcanon that Depa Billaba had a wild, unseen process to redemption that happens around 20 BBY - that she woke up, ended up back on Haruun Kal, fought Grievous, and redeemed herself...a story we will never see, but puts her into another coma and she comes out with a fractured memory and regret, but not as dark as she was before...kinda overkill to make it work with the canon, but the story is too good not to include]
• Equipment (short story)
• The Clone Wars: No Prisoners

21 BBY

• TCW S1 E8: Bombad Jedi
• TCW S1 E9: Cloak of Darkness
• TCW S1 E10: Lair of Grievous
• TCW S1 E11: Dooku Captured
• TCW S1 E12: The Gungan General
• The Clone Wars: Crash Course
• SWA #9-10: Separation Anxiety
• TCW S1 E13: Jedi Crash
• TCW S1 E14: Defenders of Peace
• TCW S1 E15: Trespass
• TCW S1 E17: Blue Shadow Virus
• TCW S1 E18: Mystery of a Thousand Moons
• The Clone Wars #7-#9: In Service of the Republic
• The Clone Wars: The Wind Riders of Taloraan
• TCW S1 E19: Storm Over Ryloth
• TCW S1 E20: Liberty on Ryloth
• TCW S1 E21: Innocents of Ryloth
• The Clone Wars: The Colossus of Destiny
• TCW S2 E1: Holocron Heist
• TCW S2 E2: Cargo of Doom
• TCW S2 E3: Children of the Force
• The Clone Wars #10-12: Hero of the Confederacy
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 1-2
• The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
• The Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
• TCW S2 E4: Senate Spy
• Republic Commando #2: Triple Zero Ch. 1-11
• TCW S2 E5: Landing at Point Rain
• TCW S2 E6: Weapons Factory
• TCW S2 E7: Legacy of Terror
• TCW S2 E8: Brain Invaders
• Republic Commando #2: Triple Zero Ch. 12-24
• TCW S2 E9: Grievous Intrigue
• TCW S2 E10: The Deserter
• The Clone Wars: The Enemy Within
• TCW S2 E11: Lightsaber Lost
• TCW S2 E12: The Mandalore Plot
• TCW S2 E13: Voyage of Temptation
• TCW S2 E14: Duchess of Mandalore
• The Clone Wars: Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju
• TCW S2 E17: Bounty Hunters
• TCW S2 E18: The Zillo Beast
• TCW S2 E19: The Zillo Beast Strikes Back
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 3-6
• TCW S2 E20: Death Trap
• TCW S2 E21: R2 Come Home
• TCW S2 E22: Lethal Trackdown
• TCW S3 E4: Sphere of Influence
• TCW S3 E5: Corruption
• TCW S3 E6: The Academy
• TCW S3 E7: Assassin
• TCW S3 E2: ARC Troopers
• TCW S3 E8: Evil Plans
• TCW S1 E22: Hostage Crisis
• TCW S3 E9: Hunt for Ziro
• SWA #12-13: Intermission
• SWA #12 - Tales of Villainy: Give and Take
• Tales #19: Rather Darkness Visible
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 7-8
• Hyperspace Stories #10
• Forces of Destiny S1 E11
• Odds
• Forces of Destiny S2 #2
• Republic Commando #3: True Colors Ch. 1-16
• Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
  • [I think it works surprisingly well earlier in the war; it has to take place here if you're fitting it into the canon because Ventress is no longer Dooku's apprentice by the beginning of 20 BBY]
• Republic Commando #3: True Colors Ch. 17
• Forces of Destiny S1 E6
• The Bad Batch: Ghost Agents #1-5
• SWA #5-6: The Incident
• Forces of Destiny S1 E12
• Republic Commando #3: True Colors Ch. 18-20
• Forces of Destiny S1 E4
• TCW S3 E10: Heroes on Both Sides
• TCW S3 E11: Pursuit of Peace
• TCW S2 E15: Senate Murders

20 BBY

• TCW S3 E12: Nightsisters
• TCW S3 E13: Monster
• The Clone Wars: Strange Allies
• TCW S3 E14: Witches of the Mist
• FCBD 2009: The Gauntlet of Death
• TCW S3 E15: Overlords
• TCW S3 E16: Altar of Mortis
• TCW S3 E17: Ghosts of Mortis
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Prologue
• TCW S3 E18: The Citadel
• TCW S3 E19: Counterattack
• TCW S3 E20: Citadel Rescue
• The Bad Batch: Rogue Agents #1-4
• TCW S3 E21: Padawan Lost
• TCW S3 E22: Wookiee Hunt
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel Ch. 9
• The Clone Wars: The Starcrusher Trap
• TCW S4 E1: Water War
• TCW S4 E2: Gungan Attack
• TCW S4 E3: Prisoners
• General Grievous #1-4
• TCW S4 E4: Shadow Warrior
• SWA #8: Tales of Villainy - Trade Relations
• Speaking Silently (short story)
• TCW S4 E5: Mercy Mission
• TCW S4 E6: Nomad Droids
• SWA #19: Roger Roger
• SWA #20: Hide and Seek
• TCW S4 E7: Darkness on Umbara
• TCW S4 E8: The General
• TCW S4 E9: Plan of Dissent
• TCW S4 E10: Carnage of Krell
• FCBD 2006: Routine Valor
• Age of Republic: General Grievous
• TCW S4 E11: Kidnapped
• TCW S4 E12: Slaves of the Republic
• TCW S4 E13: Escape from Kadavo
• TCW S4 E14: A Friend in Need
• The Clone Wars: The Smuggler's Code
• TCW S4 E15: Deception
• TCW S4 E16: Friends and Enemies
• TCW S4 E17: The Box
• TCW S4 E18: Crisis on Naboo
• MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
  • [takes place over months; ends after "Revenge"]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 2
• TCW S4 E19: Massacre
• Tales of the Empire E1: The Path of Fear
• TCW S4 E20: Bounty
• TCW S4 E21: Brothers
• TCW S4 E22: Revenge
• The Clone Wars: The Sith Hunters
• MedStar: Intermezzo (short story)
• Darth Maul: Death Sentence #1-4
• MedStar II: Jedi Healer
  • [headcanon that Barriss taking the bota actually made her more prone to the dark side; reshift her perspective as being clouded by the dark side in the last chapter and it works better than people give it credit for]
• Bug (short story from The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark)
• The Clone Wars: Defenders of the Lost Temple
• TCW S5 E2: A War on Two Fronts
• TCW S5 E3: Front Runners
• TCW S5 E4: The Soft War
• TCW S5 E5: Tipping Points
• Hyperspace Stories #9
• TCW S6 E5: An Old Friend
• TCW S6 E6: The Rise of Clovis
• TCW S6 E7: Crisis at the Heart
• TCW S5 E6: The Gathering
• TCW S5 E7: A Test of Strength
• TCW S5 E8: Bound for Rescue
• TCW S5 E9: A Necessary Bond
• TCW S5 E10: Secret Weapons
• TCW S5 E11: A Sunny Day in the Void
• TCW S5 E12: Missing in Action
• TCW S5 E13: Point of No Return
• TCW S5 E1: Revival
• RCW S5 E14: Eminence
• SWA #3 - Tales of Villainy: The Hostage
• TCW S5 E15: Shades of Reason
• TCW S5 E16: The Lawless
• TCW S5 E17: Sabotage
• TCW S5 E18: The Jedi Who Knew Too Much
• Age of Republic Special: Sisters
• TCW S5 E19: To Catch a Jedi
• TCW S5 E20: The Wrong Jedi

19 BBY

• TCW S6 E1: The Unknown
• TCW S6 E2: Conspiracy
• TCW S6 E3: Fugitive
• TCW S6 E4: Orders
• Thrawn: Alliances (Clone Wars section)
• TCW S6 E8: The Disappeared, Part I
• TCW S6 E9: The Disappeared, Part II
• Kindred Spirits (short story)
• TCW S6 E10: The Lost One
• TCW S6 E11: Voices
• TCW S6 E12: Destiny
• TCW S6 E13: Sacrifice
• TCW Legacy E1: A Death on Utapau
• TCW Legacy E2: In Search of the Crystal
• TCW Legacy E3: Crystal Crisis
• TCW Legacy E4: The Big Bang
• Dark Disciple Ch. 1-25
  • [takes place over about a month and a half time at least, is followed by a 2 month gap]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 3-5
  • [definitely some serious issues with how Mandalore is portrayed; I headcanon it by making it so that what is called Mandalore is actually Concordia, and that the Mandalorian clans are a third branch - more adherant to the Mandalorian clans we see in The Mandalorian - that stay out of New Mandalorian/Death Watch politics on Mandalore and consider themselves the true paragons of Mandalorian culture. Also some contradictions with the Clone Army and its size and resources - if you don't think too hard it's not hard to headcanon those discrepancies away and enjoy the book as it is]
• Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir #1-4
• Kanan: First Blood #7-8
• Age of Republic: Padme Amidala
• Dark Disciple Ch. 26-30
  • [this is when Vos is rescued; there's about 2 weeks afterwards where he's taking smaller assignments]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 6-11
• Dark Disciple Ch. 31-42
  • [This book as a whole is tricky - I estimated it can take place at a minimum of around the span of at least 4 months, which is almost all of the time allotted in 19 BBY - there's only really 2.5 months left for the other stuff, which is Season 6 and Season 7, when this isn't taking place. And that's even on a pretty compressed scale, as if you give everything the space to breathe it should take place around 9 months...this is conducive to a super headache and is perhaps the best argument that the Clone Wars are overstuffed and exceed three years, but structuring it this way is perhaps the only way I can make it work].
• TCW S7 E5: Gone With a Trace
• TCW S7 E6: Deal No Deal
• TCW S7 E7: Dangerous Debt
• TCW S7 E8: Together Again
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 12 (I)
• Kanan: First Blood #9
• TCW S7 E1: The Bad Batch
• TCW S7 E2: A Distant Echo
• TCW S7 E3: On the Wings of Keeradeeks
• TCW S7 E4: Unfinished Business
• Kanan: First Blood #10-11
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 12 (II)
• Labyrinth of Evil
  • [the ending of this novel is irreconcilable with canon, but if you want you can include the majority of it up to Dooku escaping from Tythe - the final chapter or two can just be ignored and you can assume they are called to Yerbana shortly after, still unaware of the battle on Coruscant]
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel Ch. 13-16 (Battle of Coruscant)
  • [rest of novel - Ch. 17-26 - takes place concurrently with and after Revenge of the Sith]
• TCW S7 E9: Old Friends Not Forgotten
• Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• TCW S7 E10: The Phantom Apprentice
• TCW S7 E11: Shattered
• TCW S7 E12: Victory and Death

Let me know if y'all have any thoughts! I tried to keep things as consistent with the updated canon timelines as possible, but some things were moved around (in my opinion, for the better), and I pushed the start time of 19 BBY closer to where it begins in Legends, after Ahsoka leaves. 20 BBY is especially stuffed, but that's the whole Clone Wars for you...

So I'm facing a little bit of a debacle as I go through my Clone Wars rewatch...Dark Disciple really doesn't make sense within the timeline, and it's kinda messing with my head.

As a given, I always extend the Clone Wars to about three year and a half in my headcanon at minimum...it's cramming a lot of stuff in there, but I think that it works out well enough. But looking at Dark Disciple, there is a significant time jump midway through the novel...I've seen estimates that it takes place over the course of as many as 8 months, and while I think we have to lessen that a little bit (time works weird in the Star Wars universe), the amount of time it does take is worth noting.

On that note, would it make sense to place a majority of the Season 6 episodes either concurrent or within the time gap that is roughly between chapters 25 and 26? I consider the Clovis arc to have taken place during Season 5, so this would include The Disappeared, Crystal Crisis on Utapau, The Lost One, and of course, Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir (which is already known to take place in that gap).

This is just so confusing...

So I was planning future Star Wars reads, and wanted to see the bare minimum someone like myself (a canon completionist, albeit one who doesn't time for crappy Legends stories) could read on the path to NJO. Here's the list I came up with - I include almost every comic in the post-ROTJ era, because they're really easy and quick reads.

• The Truce at Bakura (4 ABY)
• X-Wing: Rogue Leader / X-Wing: Rogue Squadron comics (4-5 ABY)
• X-Wing #1: Rogue Squadron (6 ABY)
• X-Wing #2: Wedge's Gamble (7 ABY)
• X-Wing #3: The Krytos Trap (7 ABY)
• X-Wing #4: The Bacta War (7 ABY)
• X-Wing #5: Wraith Squadron (7 ABY)
• X-Wing #6: Iron Fist (7 ABY)
• X-Wing #7: Solo Command (7-8 ABY)
• The Courtship of Princess Leia (8 ABY)
• Tatooine Ghost (8 ABY)
• Heir to the Empire (9 ABY)
• Dark Force Rising (9 ABY)
• The Last Command (9 ABY)
• X-Wing #8: Isard's Revenge (9 ABY)
• Dark Empire (10 ABY)
• Dark Empire II (10 ABY)
• Boba Fett: Death, Lies, & Treachery (10 ABY)
• Empire's End (11 ABY)
• Crimson Empire (11 ABY)
• Crimson Empire II (11 ABY)
• JAT #1: Jedi Search (11 ABY)
• JAT #2: Dark Apprentice (11 ABY)
• JAT #3: Champions of the Force (11 ABY)
• I, Jedi (11 ABY)
• Darksaber (12 ABY)
• Jedi Academy: Leviathan (12 ABY)
• X-Wing #9: Starfighters of Adumar (13 ABY)
• Crimson Empire III (13 ABY)
• CT #1: Ambush at Corellia (18 ABY)
• CT #2: Assault at Selonia (18 ABY)
• CT #3: Showdown at Centerpoint (18 ABY)
• HOT #1: Specter of the Past (19 ABY)
• HOT #2: Vision of the Future (19 ABY)
• Union (19 ABY)
• Junior Jedi Knights #1-#3 (22 ABY)
• Survivor's Quest (22 ABY) / Outbound Flight (27 BBY)
• Young Jedi Knights #1-#6 (23 ABY)
• Rogue Planet (29 BBY)

Is this a sufficient list? Obviously it's a LOT - but my research has showed me that this is the best, most fulfulling path to New Jedi Order. Notable books I left out - the first two of the Callista trilogy, The Crystal Star, The Black Fleet Crisis, and The New Rebellion. Should I add any of those, or more important - can / should I cut any books on the list above?

Thanks - and may the fourth be with you all! 😄

I thought I'd write this as a love letter to Star Wars, and how vast this universe is - and also, of course, a way to blow off a little bit of steam about how much damn CONTENT there is!

I'm only 18 years old, so by the time I could read (an early date - probably around 2011 or 12), the EU was already in its dying days. But I've loved to read ever since I first could, and Star Wars found me not too long after - going through libraries and bookstores, I would always be drawn to the title with "Star Wars" stamped on top; oftentimes, I would plow through EU Legends junior novels like Galaxy of Fear, and occasionally picked up an adult novel or too that was way too complex for me to understand.

I grew up with Star Wars - The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and The Force Awakens literally defined my childhood. Throughout these youthful years, I continued to dabble with the books - on one occasion, I bought and read four using birthday money - the Rise of the Empire collection, Bloodline, Lords of the Sith, and Thrawn.

Over the years, I would become obsessed with the timeline, and make grand plans to read it - even starting The High Republic when it began in 2021, but never getting past the first wave out of fear that not having read previous content would mean I'm missing out...

...and then, in the summer of 2022, as I neared my freshman year of high school, I began --starting with John Jackson Miller's A New Dawn, I vowed to get through every Star Wars book and comics. I was only reading canon then, strictly sticking to Disney content, as it was the only stuff that "mattered" - even then, I was a completionist, and naive estimates put me at finishing within two years or so. I would, naturally, rewatch every show and film as I went. But little did I know how much time the Star Wars EU takes, for it's just too incredible to peel ones eyes away from...

2022 was the beginning, the summer and fall of Rebels and The Force Awakens:

• I read: A New Dawn, Lords of the Sith, Tarkin, Ezra's Gamble, Smuggler's Run, Heir to the Jedi, The Weapon of a Jedi, Moving Target, Lost Stars, Aftermath, the Servants of the Empire quadrology, Tales from a Galaxy Far Far Away, Battlefront: Twilight Company, Before the Awakening, and Bloodline.

2023 was the year of The Clone Wars (#1 - only canon), Rogue One, and Marvel 2015-19:

• I read Aftermath: Life Debt & Empire's End, The Force Awakens novelization, Dark Disciple, Ahsoka, the Adventures in Wild Space series, Catalyst, Rebel Rising, Guardians of the Whills, Thrawn, the Rogue One novelization, FACPOV #1, Battlefront II: Inferno Squad, the entire Marvel Star Wars / Darth Vader / Doctor Aphra run from 2015 through 2019, Leia: Princess of Alderaan, Phasma, the Join the Resistance series, and The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

2024 was the first time I ever tried Legends, and the last time I strictly read only canon - it was year of The Last Jedi, Solo, Galaxy's Edge, and The Rise of Skywalker:

• I read Kenobi, Canto Bight, TLJ: Cobalt Squadron, Last Shot, Most Wanted, the Choose Your Destiny quadrology, Brian Daley's Han Solo Adventures, the Solo novelization, The Mighty Chewbacca in the Forest of Fear, Thrawn: Alliances, Lando's Luck & Pirate's Price, A Crash of Fate, Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, Myths & Fables and Dark Legends, Thrawn: Treason, Force Collector, The Last Jedi novelization*, Resistance Reborn*, Spark of the Resistance, Poe Dameron: Free Fall, Shadow the Sith, the Rise of Skywalker novelization, and the Alphabet Squadron trilogy.

2025 was the year of The Old Republic, The Phantom Menace, and Attack of the Clones - I got into Legends and never looked back - going chronologically from the earliest days of the Star Wars universe to as far as I can go forward, filling in any gaps and attempting to reconcile Legends and Canon - a daunting task, although not as impossible as many make it out to be. And this was easily the most fun I've ever had enjoying Star Wars:

• I read the Dawn of the Jedi, Tales of the Jedi, and Knights of the Old Republic comic series, Reign of the Empire #1: The Mask of Fear, Knight Errant, the Darth Bane trilogy, Padawan, Master & Apprentice, The Living Force, Maul: Lockdown, Cloak of Deception, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, the Phantom Menace novelization, the Queen's trilogy, Darth Plagueis, Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss, the Republic comic series, Dooku: Jedi Lost, The Approaching Storm, and the Attack of the Clones novelization.

And now, 2026 - so far, it's been the year of The Clone Wars, a truly behemoth endeavor in which I've tried to reconcile as much of Legends with canon Clone Wars, watching and reading both side by side:

• So far, I've watched The Clone Wars S1-4, read Brotherhood, The Cestus Deception, TCW: Wild Space, TCW: Secret Missions quadrology, Shatterpoint, Republic Commando #1-#3, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, and the MedStar duology.
• Next up is Revenge of the Sith - as I watch TCW S5-7 and I'm going to reread Dark Disciple, and get to Order 66, Labyrinth of Evil, and Matt Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization.
• Then the summer is even more fun as I get into the Dark Times - with a Kenobi and The Mask of Fear reread alongside Master of Evil, Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, The Bad Batch: Sanctuary, the Coruscant Nights quadrology, and Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade.

In total, I've read over 70 adult/YA novels, probably close to 30 junior novels, and countless more comics in the span of what's about to be four years. In those four years, my five-story bookshelf increased from having one Star Wars shelf to a near-overflowing four. And I still find time to read other classics of literature and non-fiction - Star Wars only makes up about 55% of my yearly reading.

I am nowhere near finished with this project - I still have a few more Legends and recent canon standalones to enjoy, Timothy Zahn's entire Legends catalog (and perhaps more of the post-ROTJ novels should I desire), the 2020-25 Marvel Comics lines, and The High Republic. Especially as I go onto college and start the next chapter of my life, the sheer scale of what I have consumed and enjoyed is kind of insane to me, and the fact I still have at least two more years left on it is insane.

I started this project hoping to get caught up so I could enjoy the new canon as it releases. But I've found that getting there is a slow process, and just to enjoy the ride as you go along - and wow, it's been a fun ride.

I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts on what it's like to read through all of Star Wars - how long does it take for you? Is anybody else a completionist like me; do people also like to mix Canon & Legends selectively, or is that a unique feeling. Are there other young Star Wars readers out there like me? And to those on the older side - has it been easier reading books and comics for all these years, catching them as they release, or harder to keep up with / easier to get disillusioned with as you've watched the old EU get replaced by DisCanon?