History Comicbook / XWingSeries

* MookMobile: TIE Fighters. Wedge absolutely ''loathes'' them because of this:
-->No [[DeflectorShields shields]]. No {{ejection seat}}. TIE Fighters were disposable attack vehicles for [[WeHaveReserves disposable pilots]], and Wedge never cared to feel disposable.
* MultinationalTeam: Both Rogue and Wraith squadrons had members from a whole slew of planets. And half of Rogue Squadron's initial roster were political appointees, which annoyed Wedge intensely.

* GeniusBruiser: Voort is a [[PigMan Gammorrean]] whose brain chemistry was altered, making him intelligent and stable enough to become a very good pilot. As well as being such a mathematical genius that he probably doesn't even need an astromech; he can make the hyperspace calculations in his head. And he has a habit of being able to knock out any human in one punch.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Falynn suffers from a [[AlwaysSecondBest serious inferiority complex]] and hates the idea of being coddled.

* EnemyMine: ''two'' permutations:
** New Republic + Zsinj vs. Empire. In ''Iron Fist,'' during part of their long term plan to infiltrate Zsinj's organization, the Wraiths discover that they're about to be used in [[spoiler:his upcoming attack on Kuat to steal the Empire's newest Super Star Destroyer]]. While the Wraiths do intend to monkey-wrench Zsinj's plan, Wedge clarifies during the pre-mission briefing that the people they and Zsinj are attacking are still Imperials, and therefore enemies, so any damage done to them as part of the attack is good for the New Republic.

* RoyallyScrewedUp: Plourr's little brother Prince Harran was a {{sociopath}} since the beginning, torturning animals and otherwise loving cruelty or violence. He even tried to get her killed along with the rest of their family, but she beat him to death instead.

* ArrangedMarriage: Plourr was betrothed to her cousin, Count Rial Pernon. On assuming the throne of Eiattu, Plourr accepts this arrangement, partly as he's her strongest supporter.
* BaldWoman: Plourr initially kept her head completely shaved before starting to grow out her hair when her royal heritage was revealed.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Noted by the squadmates of Ibtisam and Nrin as the two argue on their introduction; they'll either get married or kill each other. As they warm to each other they have a conversation where each wants to make a different point clear, but they ''don't'' want to argue.

* RoyallyScrewedUp: Plourr's little brother Prince Hamman was a {{sociopath}} since the beginning, torturning animals and otherwise loving cruelty or violence. He even tried to get her killed along with the rest of their family, but she beat him to death instead.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Plourr Plourr Illo]] from the comics, aka Isplourrdacartha Estillo of Eiattu VI, turns out to be a princess.

* TheSquadette: [[TheLadette Brash, tomboyish]] Plourr is the only woman in the squadron at first. Five others join, leaving or dying over the course of the comics, they're all quite distinct and non-stereotyped, but are outnumbered nearly two to one by men in the squadron.

** BatmanGambit: the titular Krytos Trap of the third book--Isard ''wanted'' the Rebels to conquer Coruscant, as she had infected its alien population with a disease that the Republic would be hard-pressed to cure and then all the bad publicity would land on the Republic's doorstep. However, halfway through the book it's revealed that Coruscant fell two weeks earlier than Isard wanted (thanks to the Rogues), with the result that the plague was nowhere near as bad as it should have been.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Emtrey's override mode, triggered by stating the words "shut up!" three times in a row in his presence, turns out to be one of these. Emtrey was deliberately assigned to Rogue Squadron because of Tycho Celchu, and things were arranged so that Tycho would be spending a lot of time in Emtrey's presence. Emtrey's tendency to talk too much would naturally lead Tycho to (repeatedly) tell Emtrey to shut up, leading Tycho to discover the override mode. Had Tycho been TheMole, he might have been tempted to use Emtrey to obtain information he was not privy to, and report such to the Empire. However, while Tycho did at one point use Emtrey to gain access to classified information, he only did so in order to provide help to the Rogues (and while in the presence of Mirax Terrik), and he freely revealed the mode's presence to Corran afterward. The override mode has been removed by the end of ''The Krytos Trap'', and the whole thing is revealed to be the doing of General Cracken, director of Intelligence.]]

* SyntheticPlague: Krytos, tailor-made by the Empire to kill non-humans in an impressively squicky fashion. Designed specifically to exploit multiple weaknesses of the New Republic simultaneously: first, it only targeted non-humans, inflaming species tensions. Second, it could be cured with [[MagicAntidote bacta]], the most common medical treatment in the galaxy—which meant all their bacta supplies went to treating Krytos and caused severe shortages everywhere.

** In ''The Krytos Trap'', Wedge [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by noting that every once in a while he half-expects dead squadmates to walk through the door because they NeverFoundTheBody. (The body having gone up with their starfighter, admittedly.)
*** He and his childhood friend Mirax Terrik discuss how they were taught by Mirax's father Booster never to trust that somebody's dead if you don't see it yourself, because he made that mistake himself and ended up losing an eye to that presumed-dead enemy. [[spoiler:As they're talking about Corran, this is actually a nice bit of DramaticIrony; the ''audience'' knows he's alive, but they don't]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: While the [[SyntheticPlague Krytos plague]] ''severely'' strained the New Republic, it is estimated that the outbreak was not as bad as it could have been due to the fact that the virus debilitates and kills its victims so quickly that its ability to spread person to person among effected species is limited.
** It is also mentioned that a large part of keeping the outbreak down was Rogue Squadron's efficiency in taking Coruscant. If they had held off for a few more days, the Rebels would have rolled in as the first wave of victims were dying. [[spoiler:It's also estimated they inadvertently killed a large percentage of the initially water-borne virus by boiling off a major reservoir with an orbital mirror as part of their plan.]]

** Corran half-jokes that this is how he would begin a theoretical plan for a raid on Chalmun's Cantina
* OrgyOfEvidence: Tycho Celchu is accused of being a sleeper agent, as well as for murdering Corran Horn. His lawyer is quick to point out to the military tribunal that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that proves Tycho's guilt, but that someone has been actively destroying anything that could exonerate Tycho. In the end, Tycho is found [[spoiler: not guilty]] after other clues come up, like the fact that [[spoiler:Corran himself walks into the room and declares that Tycho wasn't the one who tried to kill him]].
** It also doesn't hurt that [[spoiler:General Cracken, a member of the Tribunal and Tycho's greatest critic thus far, declares he's known all along that Tycho wasn't the traitor in Rogue Squadron and was using Tycho's trial to draw out the real traitor.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Before Tycho's trial, one person suggests that the reason they are finding so much evidence against him is that Isard wanted him to face justice if he were ever caught spying for her. [[spoiler: Justified in this case, as the prosecuting team knew that Tycho was innocent and were using the trial to draw out the real traitor.]]

* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: In ''Krytos Trap'', it is mentioned that the Twi'leks sometimes fiddle with the pronunciation of people's full names to avoid insulting the person in question. In particular, they call Wedge Antilles "Wedgan'tilles", which is close to "slayer of stars" in Twi'leki. Apparently pronouncing it the way humans do ("Wedge'antilles") changes the meaning to something like "one so foul as to induce vomiting in a rancor". Wedge understandably prefers the former pronunciation when on Ryloth.

* SpaceIsCold: Used quite often. The magnetic containment ("mag-con") fields around ejected pilots and covering open launch bays explicitly keep atmosphere in, but the heat tends to escape. It comes up pretty often, what with all the holes getting punched in spaceships and pilots having to punch out of them (i.e., eject).

* TheSquadette: [[TheLadette Brash, tomboyish]] Plourr is the only woman in the squadron at first. Five others join, leaving or dying over the course of the comics, they're all quite distinct and non-stereotyped, but are outnumbered nearly two to one by men in the squadron.

* {{Fanservice}}: Two kinds in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wedge_for_prez.jpg this]] from the comics: [[ShirtlessScene half-naked attractive pilots]], and referencing a large usenet group's "Vote Wedge/Tycho For President" meme. Otherwise, the comics tended to avert the large breasts and the skintight clothing and ridiculous poses which generally come with it.
* LaResistance: The Rebellion has become TheAlliance by this point, but there are still smaller-scale, more desperate resistance movements in places like Cilpar.

* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: [[spoiler:Plourr Illo]], a [[PrincessClassic fictional]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]] who embodies the textbook pop culture image...of a ''[[SpaceMarine space]]'' ''[[SemperFi marine]]''.[[note]]Which she is close to literally ''being'', given that Starfighter Command is a branch of the New Republic Navy that uses army-style ranks and the Rogues do an unusual amount of special operations-type work for fighter pilots...[[/note]]

* TheSquadette: [[TheLadette Brash, tomboyish]] Plourr is the only woman in the squadron at first. Five others join, leaving or dying over the course of the comics, they're all quite distinct and non-stereotyped, but are outnumbered nearly two to one by men on the squadron.

* MadeOfPlasticine / MadeOfExplodium: In the first arc TIE fighters are portrayed as tissue-fragile and apt to explode at the slightest impact. These ships ''are'' cheaply made and lack shields or much armoring, but not to the point where being hit with a ''[[RockBeatsLaser stick]]'' destroys them, and X-wings aren't so sturdy that they can just [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram through]] TIEs and take no damage.

* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: [[spoiler:Plourr Illo]], a [[PrincessClassic fictional]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]] who embodies the textbook pop culture image...of a ''[[SpaceMarine space]]'' ''[[SemperFi marine]]''. [[note]]which she is close to literally ''being'', given that Starfighter Command is a branch of the New Republic Navy that uses army-style ranks and the Rogues do an unusual amount of special operations-type work for fighter pilots...[[/note]]
* RaceLift: A kidnapped child is shown in one issue as brown skinned with black hair. The next issue has another artist, who presents the child as pale and blonde. And disturbingly having adult-like body proportions.
** It's worth noting that both the mother and the father of the child in question have pale skin and black hair, so it's entirely possible that ''neither'' depiction was correct.

* TheSquadette: [[TheLadette Brash, tomboyish]] Plourr is the only woman in the squadron at first. Five others join, leaving or dying over the course of the comics, and they're all quite distinct and non-stereotyped, but are outnumbered nearly two to one by men on the squadron.

** "Those Wookies are dancing in the parlor again."

** And that's before considering the fact that [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sate_Pestage Sate Pestage]], the Imperial in question, was a total scumbag (basically a less cool version of Emperor Palpatine without the Force), and only defected to save his own hide. While Krennel's murder of Pestage's family was definitely horrible and unwarranted, his murder of Pestage is, at the very worst, KickTheSonOfABitch. Wedge notes that he was sorely tempted to kill Pestage himself, even though he was an unarmed prisoner at the time, because the man was so repulsive.
** Another character adds to the dissonance by mentioning her homeworld of Toprawa, which had been subjugated back to the Stone Age by the Empire for their support of the Rebellion, but which the New Republic hasn't even considered liberating because they want Krennel so badly. And presumably because they consider Toprawa, fairly deep in Imperial-held territory, to be more difficult target than Cuitric (which was unable to call for help from any of the larger warlord factions or from the remnants of Thrawn's fleet).

** Another character adds to the dissonance by mentioning her homeworld of Toprawa, which had been subjugated back to the Stone Age by the Empire for their support of the Rebellion, but which the New Republic hasn't even considered liberating because they want Krennel so badly. And presumably because they consider Torpawa, fairly deep in Imperial-held territory, to be more difficult target than Cuitric (which was unable to call for help from any of the larger warlord factions or from the remnants of Thrawn's fleet).

** And that's before considering the fact that [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sate_Pestage Sate Pestage]], the Imperial in question, was a total scumbag (basically a less cool, non-Sith version of Emperor Palpatine), and only defected to save his own hide. While Krennel's murder of Pestage's family was definitely horrible and unwarranted, his murder of Pestage is, at the very worst, KickTheSonOfABitch. Wedge notes that he was sorely tempted to kill Pestage himself, even though he was an unarmed prisoner at the time, because the man was so repulsive.

* FantasticGhetto: [=InviSec=], short for Invisible Sector, a megacity-sized slum on Coruscant where all non-humans were forced to live when the Empire took power.

* UrbanSegregation: In ''Wedge's Gamble'' we learn that the Empire allows nonhumans only in certain parts of Imperial Center which are called ethnic neighborhoods. One is officially the "Alien Protection Zone (dubbed "the Invisible Sector" or "Invisec") walled off from the rest. Supposedly this is for their protection against prejudice (hence the name) and they have prominent statues of heroes from different species living there, although they're really massive ghettos, as you would expect. A rebel group named the Alien Combine arose in Invisec because of this.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: quite a few.
** Kirtan Loor attempts one after capturing Gil Bastra at the beginning of ''Rogue Squadron''. [[spoiler:It backfires, and Gil gets to give one in return by revealing that he ''allowed'' Loor to catch him and had actually been using himself as bait the entire time, because as long as Loor was chasing him, he wasn't chasing Corran Horn or Gil's other ex Corellian Security Force colleagues]].
** Corran Horn to Zekka Thyne:
--->'''Corran:''' My father was smarter than you.\\
'''Thyne:''' He's dead.\\
'''Corran:''' My point stands.
** Corran Horn and Booster Terrik go all out on each other in ''The Bacta War''. Booster accusing Corran, as an ex-cop, of having been a lapdog for the Empire for far too long while real men (like himself) were out there challenging it. Corran responds that Booster wasn't a freedom fighter, just a black marketeer who helped criminals like the Hutts thrive while dodging the taxes legitimate society is built on. Subverted in that Wedge tells them to put a sock in it before they can go any farther, and reminds them that since Mirax (Booster's daughter, Corran's fiance) loves both of them a great deal, they have more in common than they think.
** As noted above, Sair Yonka in the same book, who upon his defection, leaves Isard a holographic message noting that she was, among other things, irrational, narcissistic, sociopathic and unfit for command.
** Corran to Isard in ''Isard's Revenge''. "The one thing I trust about you is that you'll be true to your nature. And that nature, Madam Director, is what will kill you in the end." [[spoiler:He's proven right by the end of the book]].
** Janson gets in a semi "The Reason You're Poor Dating Material" speech to a squadmate, noting that he acts like a dead man who gets no joy out of life so he has nothing to offer in a relationship.
** Janson delivers a few [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Quips]] to Adumari noble Thanaer Ke Sekae in the ''Starfighters of Adumar'' before and during their duel. First, he challenges him to a duel, but only if the stakes are Cheriss' life (a grievous insult in Adumari culture since it means he's only dueling as a means to an end and not for the honor it brings him, which Janson confirms by saying Thanaer's "just not good enough" to duel for the honor points). Then mocks him just before the fighting starts by drawing a picture of him in the air with the glowing trail left by his blastsword--it's a stick figure with a ridiculously small head. Then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats the crap out of him]] with everything ''but'' his blastsword, pointing out that "real warriors" fight with their hands, their feet, the head, whatever's available, but that Thanaer can't do that because he's "just a dilettante."

* ThirdPersonPerson: Ooryl. Apparently, among Gands, using the first person makes the arrogant assumption that you're [[FamedInStory so famous]] that ''anyone'' ought to know your name. [[spoiler:By the end of ''The Bacta War'', Ooryl is judged by a trio of high officials in Gand society to have become sufficiently famous that any other Gand ''should'' know who he is, making it appropriate to refer to himself in the first person]].
** It goes further than that. A Gand who has accomplished nothing of note is to refer to himself as "Gand". They can as earn the right to use first their surname and then their given name as a self-reference through accomplishments in their respective career; for example, Ooryl earned the right to call himself "Qrygg" through learning basic piloting, and to call himself "Ooryl" by completing advanced flight training. And when a Gand feels ashamed due to a perceived failure (or, as in ''Wedge's Gamble'', has other need for anonymity), they will temporarily "demote" themselves to a lower level of naming.

** Emtrey has "Shut up. Shut up. Shut up!" activate some ultimately-benign hidden programming, while telling him to 'scrounge something' causes him to [[SplitPersonality flip]] from fussy beauraucrat to [[TheScrounger expert barterer]]. The former gets fixed later due to understandable security concerns--imagine how often any sort of protocol droid, even a military protocol droid, gets told to shut up--and even the "scrounger" personality is implied to be throttled back because he started buying and selling based on ''what he expects the Rogues to capture in their next mission''.

** Subverted with Kell's first training scenario: The given objectives are failed before you start... the ACTUAL objective is simply to escape alive. It's a nice bait-and-switch exercise.

* YouAreNumberSix: Each pilot has a number as a callsign -- Wraith Four, Rogue Five, etc.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Some pilots in Rogue and Wraith squadron can't return to their home planets due to various reasons. Wedge's home station was blown up and Corellia is aligned with the Empire, Tycho's from Alderaan, and Corran is (falsely) accused of murder on Corellia. A particularly poignant example would be Tyria's home planet. Her people helped pass along the Death Star plans to the Alliance, and as punishment, the Empire bombed their planet to the Stone Age and enslaved the survivors.

** Isard is the Queen of this trope, whose murderous punishments for failure were known to go as far as Familicide. Isard's love affair with this trope is skewered in one of Allston's novels, where the slightly more [[BenevolentBoss benevolent]] Admiral Trigit notes that anyone working for a [[BadBoss capricious psycho]] like Isard had nothing to look forward to except either death by the Rebels, or death by ''her''.

** Zsinj goes back and forth on this trope. On the one hand, he has had a number of subordinates killed--some for major things (losing a highly valuable Ewok test subject, then lying about it), and some for not-so-major things (slacking off on the bridge one time too many)[[note]]An officer playing flight simulator games because he wanted to be a pilot, after being ordered to stop. Zsinj says he abhors the waste, but you can't have pilots who disobey orders.[[/note]]. On the other hand, he knows when to shut up and let people do their jobs, as in ''Solo Command'' when fighting off [[spoiler:Lara's]] sabotage-bots--even giving the chief engineer a bonus for fixing his ship early (he approves of efficiency).

** The Rogues at one point attack a spaceport. Rogue Leader, Wedge Antilles, is aware that it is tactically necessary, so he goes through with it, but gives orders to try to limit civilian casualties, and later sets up funds to help the families of those who were killed there, remembering that his own family was similar collateral.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Comes up a lot, since pilots tend to be shorter than average due to the small size of cockpits.

** One of the members of the resistance was [[InterspeciesRomance Asyr Sei'lar]], and she decides to kill her future boyfriend as a speciesist because he's too shy to dance with her (a nearby [[TheEmpath Gotal]] mistakes his fear for speciesism). Misjudged a little there, Asyr.

** Castin Donn was in an all-human resistance cell on Coruscant. According to Wedge, anti-Imperial groups like that were typically also anti-alien. This leads to... friction.
** In one novel, the Wraiths play a prank that convinces a cantina-full of people that [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Falynn_Sandskimmer Falynn]] was married to [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Voort_saBinring Piggy]]. Piggy [[WhatTheHellHero asks]] an ''extremely'' pissed-off Falynn if she would have been so upset if it were, say, her and Face? Surprisingly for this trope, she realizes she's being kind of an unwitting dick to Piggy, apologizes, and they agree to walk out of the bar holding hands.
** Borsk Fey'lya definitely fits this trope: while he claims to be advocating for alien species trampled under the Empire, it quickly becomes clear that his beef is with humanity in general, which he considers inherently prone to oppression and power-mongering. It reaches the point where he [[spoiler:threatens to use all of his political power to ruin Bothan hero and Rogue Squadron pilot Asyr Sei'lar's career if she doesn't break off her relationship with a human pilot, which he considers sets the wrong example for Bothans]]. He does though [[JerkassHasAPoint have a point in]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] how even the language used by ''good'' Humans is pretty anthropocentric-why should everyone else be called "nonhuman" or "alien" after all? It's pretty biased.

** Also, after Corran had caught Bossk (who had been responsible for his father's murder), Kirtan Loor managed to appeal it as collateral damage and got Bossk released. It's outright revealed that he did this ''[[EvilIsPetty just to spite Corran]].''

** How you take down a Super Star Destroyer if all you have is snubfighters, a 30-year-old frigate and some freighters? (That and a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when the ''Lusankya's'' SmugSnake captain is told that his ship has been painted with more than ''three hundred'' missile locks...) This is adopted throughout the books as a way for starfighters to take down capital ships. It is a sub-tactic of "Trench Run Disease," the tactics that killed both Death Stars: starfighter missiles can damage capital ships in large numbers, but the turbolasers on most capital ships are too big and fire too slow to effectively target individual fighters.
** The Loran Spitball. In its first deployment, there were nine X-wings in the bow hangar of a ship. The hangar opens while facing an enemy frigate, resulting in a full eighteen torpedos into the engines. The ship is badly crippled right off the bat, and another barrage later in the battle causes the frigate to literally split in two. The second time this technique is used (against a Star Destroyer), the effects are far less devastating, but they still manage to cripple the larger vessel's shields.

'''Wedge:''' ''[NeckLift]'' [[ParentheticalSwearing Don't make me go Vader on you]]. [[spoiler:Ibtisam]] was a pilot and a friend and she died to save your sorry hide.

Written by Stackpole starting in 1996, these novels are collectively [[FanNickname and informally]] known as the Rogue Squadron series. They cover a self-contained plot concerning members of Rogue Squadron, a starfighter formation famous for two things: achieving mission goals that are thought suicidal and losing a lot of personnel in the process. AscendedExtra Wedge "Look at the size of that thing!" Antilles rebuilds the squadron from the ground up, bringing in pilots from all walks of life, including EnsembleDarkhorse Tycho Celchu and untrained Jedi Corran Horn. They have a crucial role in the [[TheAlliance New Republic]] strike to retake the Imperial capital of Coruscant, or [[InsistentTerminology Imperial Center]] as it is currently called. Their big enemy is [[TheChessmaster Ysanne Isard]], head of Imperial Intelligence and current ''de facto'' leader of the Empire, whose tactics include [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil torturing/brainwashing people]] into becoming {{Manchurian Agent}}s, using TheMole, and [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designing the Krytos Plague]] to induce a major case of DividedWeFall.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The entire series is this for Wedge Antilles, but more specifically, each Wraith Squadron book is this for ''at least'' one of the members.
** ''Wraith Squadron'' - Kell
** ''Iron Fist'' - Face, Lara
** ''Solo Command'' - Myn, Lara
** ''Mercy Kill'' - Piggy
* AdaptationDisplacement: The novel series started out as a tie-in to the [[VideoGame/XWing video game]].

** Sate Pestage not only believes Imperial ideology with regards to aliens being nothing but animals, but is convinced that Wedge and the other human Rebels must know it too and that any claims to the contrary are "merely propaganda." [[spoiler:This eventually leads to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness one of the few moments in which Wedge loses his cool]] when Pestage refers to a dead Rogue Squadron pilot as "animal waste."]]

** One of the members of the resistance was [[InterspeciesRomance Asyr Sei'lar]], and she decides to kill her future boyfriend as a speciesist because he won't stop plotting in order to dance with her. Misjudged a little there, Asyr.

** In one novel, the Wraiths play a prank that convinces a cantina-full of people that [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Falynn_Sandskimmer Falynn]] was married to [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Voort_saBinring Piggy]]. Piggy [[WhatTheHellHero asks]] an ''extremely'' pissed-off Falynn if she would have been so upset if it were, say, her and Face? Surprisingly for this trope, she realizes she's being kind of an unwitting dick to Piggy, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments apologizes, and they agree to walk out of the bar holding hands]].
** Borsk Fey'lya definitely fits this trope: while he claims to be advocating for alien species trampled under the Empire, it quickly becomes clear that his beef is with humanity in general, which he considers inherently prone to oppression and powermongering. It reaches the point where he [[spoiler:threatens to use all of his political power to ruin Bothan hero and Rogue Squadron pilot Asyr Sei'lar's career if she doesn't break off her relationship with a human pilot, which he considers sets the wrong example for Bothans]].

** The Allston books to ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' (see HistoricalVillainUpgrade below).
** Allston also fixes (with LampshadeHanging) a slight continuity error on Stackpole's part, where Corran Horn meets Han Solo for the first time in ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I Jedi]]'', despite having served on his ship during the Zsinj campaign several years earlier. Allston has the pilots have an InUniverse RunningGag that Horn and Solo are the same person, despite being completely different physically, because thanks to several coincidences they are never seen at the same time in the same room.
*** This is also justified in-universe, as Horn's father was a Corellian Security officer who unsuccessfully tried to catch Solo when he was a smuggler, so it's natural the two would want to avoid the awkwardness of this matter being raised. Humorously enough, in the course of ''I, Jedi'', Corran ends up using the same alias that Han had been using when Hal Horn tried to arrest him. Without either Corran or his knows-virtually-everything-in-the-underworld father-in-law realizing it.

* GambitPileup: The Rogues' mission to Alderaan in ''The Krytos Trap'' had at least four plans going on at the same time, including ones by [[TheStarscream Kirtan Loor]] and Zsinj. The winners of that mess: [[spoiler:Isard mostly, though New Republic Intelligence and Mirax got a minor side benefit. As for who ''lost''... the New Republic as a whole lost a great deal because of the bacta destroyed, Zsinj gained an untrustworthy reputation and vaulted ahead of Isard as the New Republic's primary target for elimination, and Loor was outed as a traitor to Isard]].

** It is also metioned that a large part of keeping the outbreak down was Rogue Squadron's efficiency in taking Coruscant. If they had held off for a few more days, the Rebels would have rolled in as the first wave of victims were dying

** Isard mentions that [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]] is still out in the Unknown Regions.

* YouWouldntShootMe: When Iella Wessiri is holding Fliry Vorru at gunpoint after thwarting his escape attempt from Thyferra, he confidently states that he's familiarized himself with all of Wedge's group and knows she wouldnt kill an unarmed man who's already surrendered. Iella agrees that she wouldn't. [[SubvertedTrope But points out that her companion has no such compunctions, and lets Elscol Loro shoot.]] [[spoiler:[[ZigZaggedTrope Iella had in fact switched Loro's blaster to "stun" before doing so, to guarantee that Vorru would in fact be captured alive.]]]]

* AndIMustScream: Implied in the very end of Isard's Revenge [[spoiler: that they may have rescued the dying Isard, who had just realized that death was preferable to realizing she'd failed the Emperor, only to stick her in the ultra-secure quarantine cell mentioned to have been built in the Lusankya that was served only by droids, and vented to space if security was breached. To be kept alive in what had been her own prison until she died of old age]].

* WeHaveReserves: Admiral Trigit. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Revulsion over this]] is what drives Gara Petothel's [[HeelFaceTurn defection to the Republic]] in ''Wraith Squadron'', after Trigit decides to sacrifice the tens of thousands of crew members to keep his Star Destroyer out of Republic hands and doesn't even bother ordering an abandon ship when setting the self-destruct...while [[DirtyCoward taking his own hyperspace-capable TIE Interceptor to flee, hoping that the continued futile resistance of his crew will create enough distraction for him to slip away]]. Despite knowing full fell that the New Republic has insufficient forces on hand to capture the planet below (giving any shuttles and escape pods a safe place to land) and would be unwilling to [[SinkTheLifeBoats shoot down the escape pods]]. Trigit's boss Zsinj, though, is a little more canny -- in ''Iron Fist'' he decides to hire a fleet full of mercenaries and pirates to get shot at in lieu of his troops during a major attack. Zsinj is also smart enough to know when not to waste resources on an objective; at one point he refers to "[[SunkCostFallacy throwing good money after bad]]" when choosing to [[KnowWhenToFoldThem fold 'em]].

* WouldntHitAGirl: Skated around -- most of the characters, protagonist and antagonist, don't care if about their enemy's gender, which is aided by a lot of the combat being in cockpits, but this trope still comes up when lesser villain Atton Repness hits Lara. It's a [[KickTheDog rather shocking moment]]. Fully averted by the time of Mercy Kill--in his ''Star Wars'' novels after the original Wraith Squadron series Allston started featuring more and more explicitly female soldiers on all sides, and when battles occur sometimes they die.

* TactfulTranslation: A [[UniversalTranslator translator droid]] that Wedge uses to communicate with Chewbacca removes Chewie's... ''colorful'' language. Chewie (who can understand but not speak Basic due to physiology) is not pleased with this. The same thing happened in a previous book when C-3PO translates for a Wookiee Senator during a New Republic Council meeting.)