History Literature / LegacyoftheForce

** Han and Leia, for thinking that a Corellian government led by Thrackan Sal-Solo and his assorted ex-Imperial {{black shirts}} could be anything less than pure evil.

** In ''Betrayal'', there's a company mentioned called [[invoked]][[PortmanteauCoupleName Donoslane]] Excursions, implied to have been founded by Myn Donos and Kirney Slane, the starcrossed lovers from Allston's earlier ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Solo Command]]''.

* ContinuityNod: "[[MemeticMutation It is, as some admiral once said, a trap.]]"

* BrokenPedestal: Jacen for Ben [[spoiler: after Jacen kills Ben's mother]]

* CombatBreakdown: Subverted in that the duel between [[spoiler: Jacen and Mara]] goes straight to the breakdown.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Presumably what the writers were aiming for. What they actually ''hit'' on the other hand…

* DemocracyIsBad: The actual elected government seems so hopelessly clueless that even Jacen's blatantly obvious grab for power slips right past them. In fact, they actually rubber stamp legislation that gives Jacen the power to effectively rewrite laws at will. They lose extra points due to the fact that Jacen's scheme is just a less subtle version of the same one Palpatine pulled off. Then of course there's Daala....

** Also used in-story, with people left and right drawing comparisons between Jacen and Anakin Skywalker, often to his face. He concedes the similarities, but is convinced he can avoid making the same mistakes. [[FromBadToWorse He can't]].
** As if the comparisons to the events of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' weren't enough, the planets wanting to leave the Republic in the Clone Wars were called the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Here the planets wanting to leave the Galactic Alliance are called the Confederation.
*** Another example, Jedi foresees a future where [[spoiler: Sith rule the galaxy]] because the galaxy was not united and they played the factions against each other before swooping in and assuming control. Jedi realizes the best way to stop this is to unify the Galaxy. [[spoiler: Said Jedi ''becomes'' a Sith in order to do so, and promptly gets defeated, [[XanatosGambit which achieves his objective anyway]].]] Jedi saves the Galaxy. [[spoiler: Much like [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Revan]].]]

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: According to the Sith, they have one. And it doesn't include Jacen, but somebody called the One Sith ([[ComicBook/{{Legacy}} Darth Krayt's Order]]). Jacen's part of an altogether different plan.]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mara's on the cover of a novel called ''Sacrifice''. [[spoiler: She's not gonna survive.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Begun in the previous trilogy, but taken up to the next level in the first book and just keeps going. [[spoiler: Jacen and Tahiri. The latter [[HeelFaceTurn got better]], the former [[KilledOffForReal died]]]].
** Han, Leia, and Wedge in the first three books. They don't see it that way, but you can't really call anyone who supports Thrackan's regime as being good, seeing as he's a war criminal. Han [[spoiler: later kills Thrackan himself with Boba Fett]], Wedge leaves after Thrackan threatens to make him an UnPerson, and Leia was only supporting them because Han was, so she left after they made an attempt on Tenel Ka's life.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Jacen sees a bunch of futures, all of them with a civil war. Except for one. To get this future, he has to...start a civil war.

* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler: Mara Jade Skywalker and Gilad Pellaeon.]]

* GodwinsLaw: Luke compares Omas to Palpatine at one point. What's truly hilarious about this comparison is that the side Omas ''opposes'' is actually filled with Imperial hardliners like Thrackan Sal-Solo and Turr Phennir. Sal-Solo was the [[TheStarscream deputy of Diktat Daclif Gallamby's pro-Imperial government]] and when he was driven out by the New Republic, he formed the Human League, essentially the Empire's "humanity first" policy taken to genocidal extremes. The man was a war criminal leading a major power, yet few paid attention to this, including Luke, Leia, and Han, all of whom foiled his previous plans. By the time the series is finished, Jacen actually does imitate Palpatine and Daala comes to power.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Tahiri]].

** Han and Leia, for thinking that a Corellian government led by Thrackan Sal-Solo and his assorted ex-Imperial black shirts could be anything less than pure evil.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler: Allana survives.]]

** Ben gets a bit too. Luke and Mara were both trained as assassins, but when on a mission to assassinate Vader and Luke respectively, they gave up that path. Also, Ben seems to have inherited his father's [[ChickMagnet skill with the ladies]], (It happened to Luke in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia''.)

* KillEmAll: The series has one of the highest bodycounts in the Expanded Universe. At least eight important, pre-existing characters are killed off: [[spoiler: [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy Thrackan Sal-Solo]], [[ComicBook/Marvel Star Wars Lumiya]], [[Literature/NewJediOrder Alema Rar, Cal Omas]], [[Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia Prince Isolder]], [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Mara Jade Skywalker, Gilad Pellaeon and Jacen Solo]].]]
* KnightTemplar: Jacen/Darth Caedus firmly believes that what he's doing will bring lasting peace to the galaxy, and that [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans all his murders, betrayals, terrorism and other crimes are ultimately justified]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The whole reason behind [[spoiler: Jacen's downfall]].
** Also, [[spoiler: Tahiri just had loved Anakin too much to let go and so was corrupted by Caedus]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Blowing up Centerpoint Station in ''Fury'' comes back to haunt everyone in ''Fate of the Jedi'' as [[spoiler: it was helping keep the Dark Side entity Abeloth imprisoned.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Alema managed to survive the events of the ''Literature/DarkNestTrilogy''.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Jaina to Jacen. Luke fears that he would not be able to kill Jacen without falling to the Dark Side, and there's apparently no one else good enough.
* ObviouslyEvil: Caedus hits this by the third book, if not earlier.
** Thrackan Sal-Solo. One must wonder how he ever got out of prison, or why anyone would want him as their leader. He also lacks subtlety, responding to dissenting government officials by openly threatening to have them killed.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: This series has some of worst examples of any Star Wars work:

* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Ben keeps his mother's platinum locket with him from ''Revelation'' onwards.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: Neither Boba nor Mirta can go back to Mandalore because of the nanovirus which was planted there by the Moffs.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Replace "father" with "mother", and this is what happens when Ben confronts Jacen.]]
** Also Mirta towards Jacen/Caedus, but she never really acts on it

*** Another example, Jedi foresees a future where [[spoiler: Sith rule the galaxy]] because the galaxy was not united and they played the factions against each other before swooping in and assuming control. Jedi realizes the best way to stop this is to unify the Galaxy. [[spoiler: Said Jedi ''becomes'' a Sith in order to do so, and promptly gets defeated, [[XanatosGambit which achieves his objective anyway]].]] Jedi saves the Galaxy. [[spoiler: Much like [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Revan]].]]

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Jaina to Jacen.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The galaxy is reunited again by the end of the series at the cost of the fall of a hero, and Daala becomes Chief of State.]]

* KillEmAll: The series has one of the highest bodycounts in the Expanded Universe. At least eight important, pre-existing characters are killed off: [[spoiler: Thrackan Sal-Solo, Lumiya, [[Literature/NewJediOrder Alema Rar, Cal Omas]], [[Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia Prince Isolder]], [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Mara Jade Skywalker, Gilad Pellaeon and Jacen Solo]].]]

* SpotlightStealingSquad Each of the authors had their own, as mentioned in the summary.

%%* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming

* EvilRedheads: Lumiya.

* CoincidentalBroadcast

* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu]] Jacen Tahirique?

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Allana survives.]]

* LampshadeHanging

* [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Palpatine's Time Travel Exemption Act]]: When you flow-walk, you're merely an observer.

* ProfessionalKiller

* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu]] Iacen Tahirique?

** As if the comparisons to the events of RevengeOfTheSith weren't enough, the planets wanting to leave the Republic in the Clone Wars were called the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Here the planets wanting to leave the Galactic Alliance are called the Confederation.

* MisplacedNationalism: Han is an in-universe example, fighting for Corellia when he hasn't lived there in decades and when the ruling government adopted policies and ideologies he normally considered repugnant.

* CharacterDevelopment

* WellIntentionedExtremist

A nine-book series set in the Franchise/StarWarsLegends AlternateContinuity, about eleven years after the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''. Written in trios by Creator/AaronAllston, Creator/KarenTraviss, and Creator/TroyDenning. Opinions on this series are mixed, as you can see by the examples.

Not to be confused with ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy, although both of them have a CrapsackWorld and ignoble Skywalkers.

* ''Betrayal'' (hardcover, 2006)
* ''Bloodlines'' (paperback, 2006)
* ''Tempest'' (paperback, 2006)
* ''Exile'' (paperback, 2007)
* ''Sacrifice'' (hardcover, 2007)
* ''Inferno'' (paperback, 2007)
* ''Fury'' (paperback, 2007)
* ''Revelation'' (paperback, 2008)
* ''Invincible'' (hardcover, 2008)

* MentorOccupationalHazard: Lampshaded by Han, who notes that on crazy suicide missions, it's usually the old guy who goes first. Becomes a bit of BlackComedy when he survives and averts it, but one remembers that [[spoiler: his canon self ''did'' fall prey to this trope]].

* HeroAntagonist: Everything Jacen does is to prevent a civil war in which he and his uncle are on opposite sides, leading to a duel in which Luke ''always'' dies. At that point, Luke was the only thing keeping the Jedi--and the galaxy at large--together, leading to even more factionalization. Also, in ''FateOfTheJedi'', Jacen reveals to Luke that someone, most likely Ben, went over to the dark side in Jacen's vision. So Jacen manages to be a VillainProtagonist and HeroAntagonist at once.

%%* FallenHero

* Also Mirta towards Jacen/Caedus, but she never really acts on it

* KarmaHoudini: The entire Confederation. And, for that matter, Han and Leia, who are back to being Alliance VIPs after betraying Omas, without even a slap on the wrist.

* FallenHero

* GenreSavvy: In ''Fury'', Admiral Antilles becomes aware that he's too moral for the government he's working with, and soon after he formally hands his position over to a more willing puppet he will be assassinated. He knows that there are only two really viable times for that in the near future; very soon after he makes the resignation speech, or a week later at a formal event. He makes plans for assassination attempts directly after the speech, knowing that that would wrap his story up more neatly. And he's right.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: The galaxy is reunited again by the end of the series at the cost of the fall of a hero, and Daala becomes Chief of State.]]

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: According to the Sith, they have one. And it doesn't include Jacen, but somebody called the One Sith ([[StarWarsLegacy Darth Krayt's Order]]). Jacen's part of an altogether different plan.]]