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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4868833" data-attributes="member: 14159">Definitely agree.  The Hand Of Thrawn should have been the "They lived happily ever after" end of the main Star Wars saga, and reading it you get the feeling like it was really written with that role in mind.  Some occasional side-stories could be told after that, or things set generations in the future, but nothing worlds-shakings for Luke and company after that should have been made.When I run Star Wars, I ignore NJO and everything afterwards.  I keep the Vong in, but they are much smaller menace, just isolated scout ships that are hostile and aggressive but certainly not a galaxy-scale menace.  I'll use races and people introduced afterwards, but as far as I'm concerned the Yuzzhan Vong Worldships died before they could reach the Galaxy and only a number of scoutships arrived.  There are enough Vong to make trouble, but they don't have the vast colonization equipment they need to terraform and move worlds or the nigh-infinite fleets they used to overwhelm the New Republic through overwhelming force.  They are more akin to a threat on the level of the Ssi'Ruuvi, a "one book" threat instead of a menace as big as the Galactic Empire itself.I'll agree that their probably is a legend that Mace Windu singlehandedly destroyed an army by himself, but it's probably just a legend that began when one little kid started telling his friends.</blockquote>