The book Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn is a well written book about Thrawn and Eli Vanto, two soldiers in the Imperial Navy. It is a canonized twist on the story of a popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in the Star Wars fan base after Disney bought Star Wars from Lucasfilm. (In this case, canon means what did or didn’t happen in Disney’s Star Wars universe, not Lucasfilm’s.)
Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his life is suddenly turned upside down when he has to translate for an alien exiled from his own species, Mitth’raw’nuruodo, or Thrawn for short. The book follows Thrawn and Eli’s ascent through the ranks, starting out on a small cruiser, The Blood Crow, to commanding a whole fleet of Ships. They eventually encounter Arihnda Pryce, the Lothal governor, who has had her own share of troubles throughout the book. …show more content…
The story also brings the reader to backwater worlds, some of them very similar to earth’s own terrains.
The main characters in this book are Thrawn, the blue skinned alien and Eli, the scruffy wild space lowlife. Thrawn is a tactical genius who can plot out how a battle can end before it even starts. When Imperial Forces land on his exile planet, he is able to figure out how to sabotage and mess with the Imperial Forces. He had been exiled on this planet for years due to a disagreement with the Chiss Ascendancy, the government he used to work for.
Eli however, was on his way to graduating from the Myomar Academy, well on track to become a supply officer on the edge of the galaxy. This was all until he ran into Thrawn when temporarily assigned to the Strikefast. The their fates were intertwined when Eli was assigned as his translator and the two of them wound up in the Royal Imperial
Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his life is suddenly turned upside down when he has to translate for an alien exiled from his own species, Mitth’raw’nuruodo, or Thrawn for short. The book follows Thrawn and Eli’s ascent through the ranks, starting out on a small cruiser, The Blood Crow, to commanding a whole fleet of Ships. They eventually encounter Arihnda Pryce, the Lothal governor, who has had her own share of troubles throughout the book. …show more content…
The story also brings the reader to backwater worlds, some of them very similar to earth’s own terrains.
The main characters in this book are Thrawn, the blue skinned alien and Eli, the scruffy wild space lowlife. Thrawn is a tactical genius who can plot out how a battle can end before it even starts. When Imperial Forces land on his exile planet, he is able to figure out how to sabotage and mess with the Imperial Forces. He had been exiled on this planet for years due to a disagreement with the Chiss Ascendancy, the government he used to work for.
Eli however, was on his way to graduating from the Myomar Academy, well on track to become a supply officer on the edge of the galaxy. This was all until he ran into Thrawn when temporarily assigned to the Strikefast. The their fates were intertwined when Eli was assigned as his translator and the two of them wound up in the Royal Imperial