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Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis, also known as Hego Damask II, is a fictional Dark Lord of the Sith in Star Wars, master of Darth Sidious, who could create life and cheat death.

Grand Admiral Thrawn

Grand Admiral Thrawn (Mitth'raw'nuruodo) is a Chiss Imperial strategist created by Timothy Zahn in Heir to the Empire (1991), later canonized in Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka, played by Lars Mikkelsen.

List of Star Wars books

List of Star Wars books: the franchise's novels, novelizations, and prose fiction across the pre-2014 Legends Expanded Universe and the Disney-era canon, from the late 1976 first novelization to the 2025 High Republic conclusion.

Mara Jade

Mara Jade, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars character from Heir to the Empire (1991), is the Emperor's Hand assassin ordered to kill Luke Skywalker who later became his wife and a Jedi; she remains Legends-only, excluded from canon.

Star Wars: Lost Stars

Star Wars: Lost Stars, Claudia Gray's 2015 young adult canon novel (Journey to The Force Awakens), follows Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree from the Imperial Academy to opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War, ending at the Battle of Jakku; adapted into a Yusaku Komiyama manga.

Star Wars: The High Republic

Star Wars: The High Republic, originally Project Luminous, is Lucasfilm's multimedia publishing initiative set about 200 years before The Phantom Menace, launched January 2021 with Light of the Jedi, told in three phases against the Nihil, Drengir, and Nameless.

Star Wars: The Old Republic (novel series)

Star Wars: The Old Republic novel series, Del Rey tie-in fiction for BioWare's MMORPG: Fatal Alliance (Sean Williams, 2010), Deceived (Paul S. Kemp, 2011), Revan and Annihilation (Drew Karpyshyn, 2011-2012), now under the Legends banner.

Star Wars: Thrawn

Star Wars: Thrawn is Timothy Zahn's 2017 Del Rey canon novel telling Grand Admiral Thrawn's Imperial origin story, reintroducing the Legends character to canon, with sequels Alliances and Treason and a 2018 Marvel comic adaptation.

Thrawn trilogy

The Thrawn Trilogy is Timothy Zahn's three-novel Star Wars Legends series, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command (Bantam Spectra, 1991-1993), set in 9 ABY, which introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade and jump-started the expanded universe.