Zahn again proved himself to be one of Star Wars’ most agile storytellers with the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy. The Mandalorian season 2 promised a potential live-action debut for the character in a future Star Wars series, and with that comes room for what Zahn does best: peering into the unexplored space of the Star Wars timeline to discover entire universes.
16, Zahn tells Polygon “he’s filled in about as much of Thrawn as I can.” Well. But with the trilogy-capper Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, due out Nov. Since then, Thrawn has survived prequels, sequels, canon-leveling acquisitions of the Star Wars brand, with Zahn returning over the years to carve out the blue-hued villain’s backstory. Zahn keeps the story moving at breakneck speed.Timothy Zahn began telling the stories of Grand Admiral Thrawn, arguably the Star Wars universe’s most popular Expanded Universe character, 30 years ago. They'll also discover whether their union was mere coincidence, or a friendship written in the stars. With Jack's future hanging in the balance, as well as the future of billions of Draycos's people, the pair must track down the people who framed Jack, and prevent the destruction of the remaining K'da and Shontine. The attackers, determined to exterminate Draycos's people, will find them if they don't flee so the pair works together to escape the planet and begin a search for the truth behind Jack's frame-up and the identity of the attackers.
Draycos, Jack's new companion, is a K'da, a dragon-like species that lives symbiotically with the humanoid Shontine. It looks like a dragon, and it must join with a human host within six hours or die. A firefight among ships in the skies above leaves a downed ship near Jack's hiding place, with a single unlikely survivor. Jack knows he must clear his name before the cops catch up with him. He's hiding on a distant planet with the virtual presence of his deceased Uncle Virge, a con man who has been his only family since Jack's parents died.
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