And while he is in the book much less than most of the previous Thrawn books, the book still focuses on him much more than in Greater Good. With all of the various parts of the story coming together, the book is able to bounce around a lot on the other members of the Fleet, including Mid Captain Samakro, Admiral Ar’alani, and Senior Captain Ziinda, not to mention Thalias and Che’ri who also played pivotal roles in the engagement.īecause of all of the bouncing around between other characters, it might seem like this book would not feature Thrawn as heavily as would be hoped for, or even expected. What does he want, and how can Thrawn keep him from getting it? All the while, the entire Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet is putting out fires that keep popping up because of Jixtus. While Jixtus is playing political games, Thrawn is out trying to solve the mysteries of Jixtus’s end goals. Not only by sowing his political discord, but also using the might of the Grysk Hegemony. Finally, he is ready to take on the Chiss himself. That plan also failed, but stirred up some serious discord that extends into this book. And when that plan failed, he went on to using Haplif of the Agbui in Greater Good. In Chaos Rising, he started his attempts by using General Yiv the Benevolent of the Nikardun. He mainly does this through political machinations of the various Chiss families in the hopes that they will just tear themselves apart. The story follows the exploits the Grysk alien Jixtus, who is intent on taking down the Chiss Ascendancy. Listen to the latest episode of our Star Wars podcast, Talkin' Tauntauns! That’s a lot of story to handle at one time. It is 70% longer than second longest book, Greater Good.

And to do that, the book is longer than any of the other canon Thrawn books to date. In order to wrap up all of the plot threads that had been laid down in first two Thrawn Ascendancy books and also lay the groundwork for the following trilogy, this book has a lot of heavy lifting to do. Not only does Lesser Evil wrap up the Ascendancy trilogy, but it also leads us directly into 2017’s Thrawn novel that reintroduced the character into canon (besides his appearance in the Rebels TV series).

In order of release, the first trilogy was comprised of Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances, and Thrawn: Treason, while the second trilogy included Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising and Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good, ending with this current novel. Thrawn Ascendancy is a prequel trilogy to the original canon Thrawn trilogy series that began in 2017, with all of the books written by acclaimed Star Wars author Timothy Zahn. Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil is the final book in the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy, and the last Thrawn book that has been announced as of this point in time.

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