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* BeginWithAFinisher: Gethzerion is a powerful Dark Side user with no interest in capturing or [[WeCanRuleTogether turning]] Luke, so when he faces off against her, she immediately gives him a massive brain aneurysm and leaves him for dead.
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* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The Literature/XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
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* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade: CerebusRetcon: The Literature/XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: When the Force-sensitive women of Dathomir touch the Dark Side, small blood vessels burst in their skin. Years of this leave the Nightsisters looking like raw, blotchy, lumpy messes.
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* NatureLover: A rare inversion, as it's nature itself who loves the Jedi. After being attacked by Gethzerion, a dying Luke is revived by nature around him, including plants, animals, and a rock.
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* AltarDiplomacy: Standard for Hapes, though Ta'a Chume does not approve of any of Isolder's choices in a wife.
* AristocratsAreEvil: The general idea behind Ta'a Chume and her sisters. Ta'a Chume killed her eldest son and Isolder's first love because she felt them too weak to rule properly. Her sisters are mentioned to have committed plenty of murders of their own in an attempt to get the throne.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Isolder is affronted, though understanding, when Teneniel calls him "just a commoner" compared to Luke - the only male Force user seen on the planet since Mother Rell's time.
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* DeadlyForceField: While fending off an assassination attempt against himself and Leia, Hapan Crown Prince Isolder makes use of a handheld personal deflector shield. As it begins to overheat he throws it at one of the assassins and burns the poor bastard to death.
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* DeadlyForceField: While fending off an assassination attempt against himself and Leia, Hapan Crown Prince Isolder makes use of a handheld personal deflector shield. As it begins to overheat he punches one with it, burning half his face off, and throws it at one of the assassins and burns other, cutting him in half at the poor bastard to death.waist.
* PrinceCharming: Isolder certainly seems this: exceptionally handsome, educated enough to design and build his own fighter ship, brave and combat-trained, well versed in diplomatic affairs, and truly in love with Leia when he asks for her hand.
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* TheToothHurts: During Han's torture at the hands of a Dark Side witch, one of his teeth is telekinetically shattered. Actually the result of a successful bit of BriarPatching by Han. He specifically asked that she not do anything to his teeth, because he'd rather lose a tooth than something more immediately useful.
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* SpareToTheThrone: Isolder, after his mother [[spoiler:murdered his older brother.]]
* TheToothHurts: During Han's torture at the hands of a Dark Side witch,one two of his teeth is are telekinetically shattered. Actually the result of a successful bit of BriarPatching by Han. He specifically asked that she not do anything to his teeth, because he'd rather lose a tooth than something more immediately useful.
* TheToothHurts: During Han's torture at the hands of a Dark Side witch,
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* TooCleverByHalf: Ta'a Chume compared to Luke. She essentially attempts to seduce him without sex during their dinner, but underestimates his Jedi abilities (a not uncommon trait amongst Star Wars villains). He knows ''exactly'' what she's doing and what she ''has done'' in the past. At the end of the novel, {{EngineeredPublicConfession he uses the Force to make her confess.]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Han wins a planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce (in real life Earth is unique and even if a similar planet were located it would be near-impossible to relocate to it, but in Star Wars there are literally millions of planets where humans live and travel between them is relatively trivial; something that's irreplaceable is inherently going to be more valuable), and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
** In the novel itself it's made clear that Han was royally screwed over, and he's chided for trusting a Drackmarian (the species of the player he won it from).
** 1) It's mild canon that Obi-Wan used a mind trick to get a better price on the speeder. Remember that this is not some BMW series vehicle that could sell for that kind of price used. This is more akin to a beat-up old model pickup truck that he is selling. 2) It states clearly that Han had to go through several games before making it to this high-rollers table and that he used his Hutt loan shark to get into it. 3) This isn't just any old ship. This is probably the most famous ship in the entire galaxy. Its primary value isn't its not-inconsiderable performance, but the simple fact that ''it's the Millennium Falcon''. It's worth far more than a million credits. There's probably not a real-life vehicle in existence that would be of equivalent value to the Falcon. 4) Omogg said the planet was worth 2.4 billion credits, not 1.6 billion. And Omogg is completely tapped out and doesn't think Han could win again. Even so, as Omogg says, the planet is of little use to her as a methane breathing creature and it's behind the largest Imperial blockade in the galaxy. Who else would buy it?
** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce (in real life Earth is unique and even if a similar planet were located it would be near-impossible to relocate to it, but in Star Wars there are literally millions of planets where humans live and travel between them is relatively trivial; something that's irreplaceable is inherently going to be more valuable), and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
** In the novel itself it's made clear that Han was royally screwed over, and he's chided for trusting a Drackmarian (the species of the player he won it from).
** 1) It's mild canon that Obi-Wan used a mind trick to get a better price on the speeder. Remember that this is not some BMW series vehicle that could sell for that kind of price used. This is more akin to a beat-up old model pickup truck that he is selling. 2) It states clearly that Han had to go through several games before making it to this high-rollers table and that he used his Hutt loan shark to get into it. 3) This isn't just any old ship. This is probably the most famous ship in the entire galaxy. Its primary value isn't its not-inconsiderable performance, but the simple fact that ''it's the Millennium Falcon''. It's worth far more than a million credits. There's probably not a real-life vehicle in existence that would be of equivalent value to the Falcon. 4) Omogg said the planet was worth 2.4 billion credits, not 1.6 billion. And Omogg is completely tapped out and doesn't think Han could win again. Even so, as Omogg says, the planet is of little use to her as a methane breathing creature and it's behind the largest Imperial blockade in the galaxy. Who else would buy it?
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Han wins a planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits.2.4 billion credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Millennium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce (in real life Earth is unique and even if a similar planet were located it would be near-impossible to relocate to it, but in Star Wars there are literally millions of planets where humans live and travel between them is relatively trivial; something that's irreplaceable is inherently going to be more valuable), and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
** In the novel itself it's made clear that Han was royally screwed over, and he's chided for trusting a Drackmarian (the species of the player he won it from).
** 1) It's mild canon that Obi-Wan used a mind trick to get a better price on the speeder. Remember that this is not some BMW series vehicle that could sell for that kind of price used. This is more akin to a beat-up old model pickup truck that he is selling. 2) It states clearly that Han had to go through several games before making it to this high-rollers table and that he used his Hutt loan shark to get into it. 3) This isn't just any old ship. This is probably the most famous ship in the entire galaxy. Its primary value isn't its not-inconsiderable performance, but the simple fact that ''it's the Millennium Falcon''. It's worth far more than a million credits. There's probably not a real-life vehicle in existence that would be of equivalent value to the Falcon. 4) Omogg said the planet was worth 2.4 billion credits, not 1.6 billion. And Omogg is completely tapped out and doesn't think Han could win again. Even so, as Omogg says, the planet is of little use to her as a methane breathing creature and it's behind the largest Imperial blockade in the galaxy. Who else would buy it?
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to most of theentire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
** The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to most of the
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** The Dathomiri probably qualify as well. When you're a placental mammal who only has one or two offspring at a time, polyandry is less stable than polygyny.
*** Unless the male to female ratio is skewed towards males.
*** Unless the male to female ratio is skewed towards males.
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** The Dathomiri probably qualify as well. When you're a placental mammal who only has one or two offspring at a time, polyandry is less stable than polygyny.
*** Unlesspolygyny, unless the male to female ratio is skewed towards males.
*** Unless
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* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her own mind.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's (she's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her own mind.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: a "lost tribe" of Jedi in a book by a Mormon.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: a A "lost tribe" of Jedi in a book by a Mormon.
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* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the Waiter, Luke can sense droids through the Force and thus treats them no different to any other sentient, pointing to "yes".
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.
** Not rape, but sexual harassment. Han, Luke, and Isolder are all groped while in the village. One particularly lusty witch attempts to drag off Isolder so she can show him where she sleeps.
* FanNickname: Isolder IS Space Fabio!
* FixFic: The Literature/XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the Literature/XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.
** Not rape, but sexual harassment. Han, Luke, and Isolder are all groped while in the village. One particularly lusty witch attempts to drag off Isolder so she can show him where she sleeps.
* FanNickname: Isolder IS Space Fabio!
* FixFic: The Literature/XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the Literature/XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
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* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the NiceToThe Waiter, Luke can sense droids through the Force and thus treats them no different to any other sentient, pointing to "yes".
"yes" ([[ContinuitySnarl other books had them unable to be sensed]]).
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke. \n** Not actually rape, but sexual harassment. Han, Luke, and Isolder are all groped while in the village. One particularly lusty witch attempts to drag off Isolder so she can show him where she sleeps.
* FanNickname: Isolder IS Space Fabio!
* FixFic: The Literature/XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
**Hapans. It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, ''Courtship'', Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos torpedoes into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the Literature/XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface. Zjinj never appears after the book though, indicating he really was killed.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.
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* GatlingGood: Hapan Battledragon cruisers have their main Turbolaser battery built like a flat version of this; and it works much the same way. The guns are built in a rotating ring around the central reactor, and each gun gets adequate time to charge. During a fight with a Star Destroyer, it states that there's a huge chunk of time where the imperial ship has it's guns silent, while the Dragon just keeps pounding on them. However, the Destroyer's got [[TechnologyMarchesOn a higher damage-per-shot]] ratio than the Dragon does.
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* GatlingGood: Hapan Battledragon cruisers have their main Turbolaser battery built like a flat version of this; this, and it works much the same way. The guns are built in a rotating ring around the central reactor, and each gun gets adequate time to charge. During a fight with a Star Destroyer, it states that there's a huge chunk of time where the imperial ship has it's guns silent, while the Dragon just keeps pounding on them. However, the Destroyer's got [[TechnologyMarchesOn a higher damage-per-shot]] ratio than the Dragon does.
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* HarmlessVillain: Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj
** [[Literature/XWingSeries That's what he]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity wants you to think]]...
** [[Literature/XWingSeries That's what he]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity wants you to think]]...
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* HarmlessVillain: Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj
** [[Literature/XWingSeries That'sZsinj ([[Literature/XWingSeries that's what he]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity wants you to think]]...).
** [[Literature/XWingSeries That's
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* LadyLand: Dathomir-Women run the tribes and the men are essentially slaves
** The Hapes Consortium applies as well, with women at the top of the social structure.
* LostTribe: The Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, appropriate for a guy called "Skywalker."
** The Hapes Consortium applies as well, with women at the top of the social structure.
* LostTribe: The Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, appropriate for a guy called "Skywalker."
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* LadyLand: Dathomir-Women Dathomir-women run the tribes and the men are essentially slaves
**slaves. The Hapes Consortium applies as well, with women at the top of the social structure.
* LostTribe: TheDathomiri
Dathomiri.
* MaritalRapeLicense: One short scene features Teneniel Djo explaining to Isolder that she's within her rights to do this to him, but she isn't going to. Isolder isn't entirely sure how to respond (especially since he's a prince, back on his own world). Oddly enough they do have feelings for each other, although they're both pursuing other partners at the time.
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, appropriate for a guy called "Skywalker."" Isolder speculates internally about how this may be where his ancestors got it.
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* LostTribe: The
* MaritalRapeLicense: One short scene features Teneniel Djo explaining to Isolder that she's within her rights to do this to him, but she isn't going to. Isolder isn't entirely sure how to respond (especially since he's a prince, back on his own world). Oddly enough they do have feelings for each other, although they're both pursuing other partners at the time.
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, appropriate for a guy called "Skywalker.
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* RoyalCruiser: The Hapan Queen Mothers travel aboard a 4000-year-old starship called Star Home, which is essentially a flying castle designed to show off Hapan splendor wherever it goes, though it hadn't been seen outside the Hapes Cluster for nearly 2000 years before this point.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - Han wins a Planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - Han wins a Planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
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* RoyalCruiser: The Hapan Queen Mothers travel aboard a 4000-year-old starship called Star Home, ''Star Home'', which is essentially a flying castle designed to show off Hapan splendor wherever it goes, though it hadn't been seen outside the Hapes Cluster for nearly 2000 years before this point.
*SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Han wins a Planet planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
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* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which burns the living crap out of the spy he and Luke were fighting and cuts another one in half when it's thrown at him.
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* DeadlyForceField: While fending off an assassination attempt against himself and Leia, Hapan Crown Prince Isolder makes use of a handheld personal deflector shield. As it begins to overheat he throws it at one of the assassins and burns the poor bastard to death.
* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which [[DeadlyForceField burns the living crap out of the spy he and Luke were fighting and cuts another one in half when it's thrown at him.]]
* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which [[DeadlyForceField burns the living crap out of the spy he and Luke were fighting and cuts another one in half when it's thrown at him.]]
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* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which burns the living crap out of thee spy he and Luke were fighting and cuts another one in half when it's thrown at him.
* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the Waiter, Luke can sense droids through the force and thus treats them no different to any other sentient, pointing to "yes".
* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the Waiter, Luke can sense droids through the force and thus treats them no different to any other sentient, pointing to "yes".
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* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which burns the living crap out of thee the spy he and Luke were fighting and cuts another one in half when it's thrown at him.
* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the Waiter, Luke can sense droids through theforce Force and thus treats them no different to any other sentient, pointing to "yes".
* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the Waiter, Luke can sense droids through the
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* LostTribe: the Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.
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* LostTribe: the The Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing,suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.appropriate for a guy called "Skywalker."
* MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing,
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[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Courtship_of_Princess_Leia The Courtship of Princess Leia]] is several storylines in one: Leia is engaged to [[PrinceCharmless Isolder]] so that she can get a home planet for Alderaan expatriates. Han wins a planet in a sabacc game. Luke is looking for information on the Jedi. All of this takes them to the Hapes Cluster and to Dathomir.
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future Literature/XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although the way he is portrayed here is [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what [[ObfuscatingStupidity fans of that series]] [[MagnificentBastard may be used to]].
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novel to feature the future Literature/XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although the way he is portrayed here is [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what [[ObfuscatingStupidity fans of that series]] [[MagnificentBastard may be used to]].
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* OhCrap: Leia's reaction upon seeing the rancors. After what happened [[ReturnOfTheJedi the last time she saw one]], it's not surprising.
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* OhCrap: Leia's reaction upon seeing the rancors. After what happened [[ReturnOfTheJedi [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the last time she saw one]], it's not surprising.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules - Teneniel wanting Luke, who just happens to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the most powerful Jedi ever]].
* ArtisticLicenseBiology - The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
* ArtisticLicenseBiology - The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules - AllAmazonsWantHercules: Teneniel wanting Luke, who just happens to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the most powerful Jedi ever]].
*ArtisticLicenseBiology - AnimalsNotToScale: The whuffa worm Han catches is over 800 feet long. The rancors as well.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
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* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - The Literature/XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her own mind. At
* CombinedEnergyAttack - Inverted. The CombinedEnergyAttack ''heals'' Luke, rather than destroys him.
* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her own mind. At
* CombinedEnergyAttack - Inverted. The CombinedEnergyAttack ''heals'' Luke, rather than destroys him.
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* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The Literature/XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her ownmind. At
mind.
*CombinedEnergyAttack - CombinedEnergyAttack: Inverted. The CombinedEnergyAttack ''heals'' Luke, rather than destroys him.
* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her own
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* CrystalDragonJesus - a "lost tribe" of Jedi in a book by a Mormon.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale - DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.Luke.
** Not rape, but sexual harassment. Han, Luke, and Isolder are all groped while in the village. One particularly lusty witch attempts to drag off Isolder so she can show him where she sleeps.
** Not rape, but sexual harassment. Han, Luke, and Isolder are all groped while in the village. One particularly lusty witch attempts to drag off Isolder so she can show him where she sleeps.
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* FixFic - The Literature/XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
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* FixFic - FixFic: The Literature/XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
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* ForegoneConclusion - Han marries Leia in the end, a fact established a couple years earlier by ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy''.
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* ForegoneConclusion - ForegoneConclusion: Han marries Leia in the end, a fact established a couple years earlier by ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy''.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - The B plot might as well be subtitled ''The Erotic Adventures of Luke Skywalker'', as he gets to be [[FemmeFatale seduced by a queen who tries to kill him]] and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale enslaved by an amazon]].
* HarmlessVillain - Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj
* HarmlessVillain - Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The B plot might as well be subtitled ''The Erotic Adventures of Luke Skywalker'', as he gets to be [[FemmeFatale seduced by a queen who tries to kill him]] and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale enslaved by an amazon]].
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* KillSat - The superweapon of the week is a cloaking device that surrounds the planet.
* LadyLand- Dathomir-Women run the tribes and the men are essentially slaves
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* KillSat - KillSat: The superweapon of the week is a cloaking device that surrounds the planet.
planet. It's even lampshaded as only working on a primitive planet. Like most Empire superweapons, a single ship destroys it.
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* LostTribe - the Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName - Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.
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* LostTribe - LostTribe: the Dathomiri
*MeaningfulName - MeaningfulName: Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.from.
* MindControlDevice: The Gun of Command, which brainwashes people (or more accurately, briefly shuts down their conscious mind and renders them extremely open to suggestion; apparently there are no long-term effects) instead of killing them. Apparently Luke's Jedi powers render him immune to it, but it works perfectly on the untrained Leia.
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* MindControlDevice: The Gun of Command, which brainwashes people (or more accurately, briefly shuts down their conscious mind and renders them extremely open to suggestion; apparently there are no long-term effects) instead of killing them. Apparently Luke's Jedi powers render him immune to it, but it works perfectly on the untrained Leia.
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* RomanceNovel - The Han/Leia plot.
* RomanceNovel - The Han/Leia plot.
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* MindControlDevice: The Gun of Command, which brainwashes people (or more accurately, briefly shuts down their conscious mind and renders them extremely open to suggestion; apparently there are no long-term effects) instead of killing them. Apparently Luke's Jedi powers render him immune to it, but it works perfectly on OhCrap: Leia's reaction upon seeing the untrained Leia.
rancors. After what happened [[ReturnOfTheJedi the last time she saw one]], it's not surprising.
*RomanceNovel - RichesToRags: In a way. After she finds out Luke is a Jedi, Teneniel loses almost all interest in Isolder. He's aghast when she says he's just a commoner compared to Luke.
* RomanceNovel: The Han/Leia plot.
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* WeAreAsMayflies - Mother Rell.
* WhatTheHellHero - The titular "courtship" refers to Han Solo shooting Leia with a brainwashing gun and kidnapping her. He's called on it at first, but the whole thing is all but forgotten by the end of the book, probably because it's so very creepy, and by that point they went through hell together. Chewbacca even offers to beat Han for Leia over it, life debt or not.
* WickedWitch - Gethzerion.
* WhatTheHellHero - The titular "courtship" refers to Han Solo shooting Leia with a brainwashing gun and kidnapping her. He's called on it at first, but the whole thing is all but forgotten by the end of the book, probably because it's so very creepy, and by that point they went through hell together. Chewbacca even offers to beat Han for Leia over it, life debt or not.
* WickedWitch - Gethzerion.
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* WeAreAsMayflies - WeAreAsMayflies: Mother Rell.
Rell, though WordOfGod says she dies shortly after the events of the novel.
*WhatTheHellHero - WhatTheHellHero: The titular "courtship" refers to Han Solo shooting Leia with a brainwashing gun and kidnapping her. He's called on it at first, but the whole thing is all but forgotten by the end of the book, probably because it's so very creepy, and by that point they went through hell together. Chewbacca even offers to beat Han for Leia over it, life debt or not.
*WickedWitch - WickedWitch: Gethzerion.
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* AbusiveParents: Ta'a Chume had her first son killed because he was too weak to rule properly. She did the same thing to Isolder's first love.
* CloudCuckooLander: Mother Rell. Justified in that because of her ability to see the past and future and her extremely advanced age (She's over 400 years old), she often gets lost in her own mind. At
* HeroicWillpower: Mother Rell's spirit is so strong, it won't let her die until she passes on the knowledge of the Jedi to the one who was prophesied to claim it.
* SirSwearsALot: Zsinj. According to Han, he can curse in sixty languages.
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** Talking to her itself was a BatmanGambit to keep her occupied and not notice the ''Millennium Falcon'' coming to the rescue.
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* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which burns the living crap out of thee spy he and Luke were fighting.
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* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which burns the living crap out of thee spy he and Luke were fighting.fighting and cuts another one in half when it's thrown at him.
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* DeflectorShield: Isolder has a personal one. It's stated to get unbearably hot. He uses it as a PowerFist at one point, which burns the living crap out of thee spy he and Luke were fighting.
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* MindControlDevice: The Gun of Command, which brainwashes people instead of killing them.
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* MindControlDevice: The Gun of Command, which brainwashes people (or more accurately, briefly shuts down their conscious mind and renders them extremely open to suggestion; apparently there are no long-term effects) instead of killing them. Apparently Luke's Jedi powers render him immune to it, but it works perfectly on the untrained Leia.
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** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce, and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
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** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce, scarce (in real life Earth is unique and even if a similar planet were located it would be near-impossible to relocate to it, but in Star Wars there are literally millions of planets where humans live and travel between them is relatively trivial; something that's irreplaceable is inherently going to be more valuable), and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
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** 1) It's mild canon that Obi-Wan used a mind trick to get a better price on the speeder. Remember that this is not some BMW series vehicle that could sell for that kind of price used. This is more akin to a beat-up old model pickup truck that he is selling. 2) It states clearly that Han had to go through several games before making it to this high-rollers table and that he used his Hutt loan shark to get into it. 3) This isn't just any old ship. This is probably the most famous ship in the entire galaxy. It's worth far more than a million credits. 4) Omogg said the planet was worth 2.4 billion credits, not 1.6 billion. And Omogg is completely tapped out and doesn't think Han could win again. Even so, as Omogg says, the planet is of little use to her as a methane breathing creature and it's behind the largest Imperial blockade in the galaxy. Who else would buy it?
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** 1) It's mild canon that Obi-Wan used a mind trick to get a better price on the speeder. Remember that this is not some BMW series vehicle that could sell for that kind of price used. This is more akin to a beat-up old model pickup truck that he is selling. 2) It states clearly that Han had to go through several games before making it to this high-rollers table and that he used his Hutt loan shark to get into it. 3) This isn't just any old ship. This is probably the most famous ship in the entire galaxy. Its primary value isn't its not-inconsiderable performance, but the simple fact that ''it's the Millennium Falcon''. It's worth far more than a million credits. There's probably not a real-life vehicle in existence that would be of equivalent value to the Falcon. 4) Omogg said the planet was worth 2.4 billion credits, not 1.6 billion. And Omogg is completely tapped out and doesn't think Han could win again. Even so, as Omogg says, the planet is of little use to her as a methane breathing creature and it's behind the largest Imperial blockade in the galaxy. Who else would buy it?
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although the way he is portrayed here is [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what [[ObfuscatingStupidity fans of that series]] [[MagnificentBastard may be used to]].
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future XWingSeries Literature/XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although the way he is portrayed here is [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what [[ObfuscatingStupidity fans of that series]] [[MagnificentBastard may be used to]].
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* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - The XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
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* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - The XWingSeries Literature/XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
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* FixFic - The XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
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* FixFic - The XWingSeries Literature/XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In theXWingSeries, Literature/XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the
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* RoyalCruiser: The Hapan Queen Mothers travel aboard a 4000-year-old starship called Star Home, which is essentially a flying castle designed to show off Hapan splendor wherever it goes, though it hadn't been seen outside the Hapes Cluster for nearly 2000 years before this point.
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* ShoutOut: "King Han Solo"? Clearly a reference to ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''
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* ShoutOut: "King Han Solo"? Clearly a reference to ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''...
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Arguably just as accurate a choice of trope, and not a Trivia item.
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although the way he is portrayed here is [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what [[ObfuscatingStupidity fans of that series series]] [[MagnificentBastard may be used to]].
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although the way he is portrayed here as is [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what [[ObfuscatingStupidity fans of that series may be used to.
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* DoAndroidsDream: As seen under Nice to the Waiter, Luke can sense droids through the force, pointing to "yes".
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* GatlingGood: Hapan Battledragon cruisers have their main Turbolaser battery built like a flat version of this; and it works much the same way. The guns are built in a rotating ring around the central reactor, and each gun gets adequate time to charge. During a fight with a Star Destroyer, it states that there's a huge chunk of time where the imperial ship has it's guns silent, while the Dragon just keeps pounding on them.
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* MindControlDevice: The Gun of Command, which brainwashes people instead of killing them.
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** 1) It's mild canon that Obi-Wan used a mind trick to get a better price on the speeder. Remember that this is not some BMW series vehicle that could sell for that kind of price used. This is more akin to a beat-up old model pickup truck that he is selling. 2) It states clearly that Han had to go through several games before making it to this high-rollers table and that he used his Hutt loan shark to get into it. 3) This isn't just any old ship. This is probably the most famous ship in the entire galaxy. It's worth far more than a million credits. 4) Omogg said the planet was worth 2.4 billion credits, not 1.6 billion. And Omogg is completely tapped out and doesn't think Han could win again. Even so, as Omogg says, the planet is of little use to her as a methane breathing creature and it's behind the largest Imperial blockade in the galaxy. Who else would buy it?
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[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Courtship_of_Princess_Leia The Courtship of Princess Leia]] is several storylines in one: Leia is engaged to [[PrinceCharmless Isolder]] so that she can get a home planet for Alderaan expatriates. Han wins a planet in a sabacc game. Luke is looking for information on the Jedi. All of this takes them to the Hapes Cluster and to Dathomir.
Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although he portrayed here as [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what fans of that series may be used to.
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'''Tropes:'''
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame - Han wins the Planet-Of-The-Novel in a Sabacc game.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules - Teneniel wanting Luke, who just happens to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the most powerful Jedi ever]].
* ArtisticLicenseBiology - The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
** It was never stated that every child born was amazingly attractive. However, those who were not physically appealing didn't do well on Hapes. Survival of the fittest came into play. Family embarrassments were likely stashed away. Hence why Hapans seemed radiant.
** The Dathomiri probably qualify as well. When you're a placental mammal who only has one or two offspring at a time, polyandry is less stable than polygyny.
*** Unless the male to female ratio is skewed towards males.
* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - The XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
* CombinedEnergyAttack - Inverted. The CombinedEnergyAttack ''heals'' Luke, rather than destroys him.
* ContemptibleCover: The infamous "Leia-in-a-wedding-dress" cover was switched out for a more conventional, action-oriented one because people thought the book was a romance novel -- [[{{Irony}} which it is, in many respects.]]
* CrystalDragonJesus - a "lost tribe" of Jedi in a book by a Mormon.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.
* FandomNod - "King Han Solo"? Clearly a reference to ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''
* FanNickname: Isolder IS Space Fabio!
* FixFic - The XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
* ForegoneConclusion - Han marries Leia in the end, a fact established a couple years earlier by ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - The B plot might as well be subtitled ''The Erotic Adventures of Luke Skywalker'', as he gets to be [[FemmeFatale seduced by a queen who tries to kill him]] and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale enslaved by an amazon]].
* HarmlessVillain - Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj
** [[XWingSeries That's what he]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity wants you to think]]...
* KillSat - The superweapon of the week is a cloaking device that surrounds the planet.
* LadyLand- Dathomir-Women run the tribes and the men are essentially slaves
** The Hapes Consortium applies as well, with women at the top of the social structure.
* LostTribe - the Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName - Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Luke again. Isolder doesn't like it.
-->'''Isolder''': "You shouldn’t do this! The universe doesn’t work this way!"
-->'''Luke''': "What do you mean?"
-->'''Isolder''': "You—you’re treating those beasts as equals. You show my mother, the Ta’a Chume of the Hapes empire, the same degree of cordiality as you give a droid!"
-->'''Luke''': "This droid, these beasts, all have a similar measure of the Force within them. If I sense the Force, how can I not respect them, just as I respect Ta’a Chume?"
* RomanceNovel - The Han/Leia plot.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - Han wins a Planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce, and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
** In the novel itself it's made clear that Han was royally screwed over, and he's chided for trusting a Drackmarian (the species of the player he won it from).
* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Level 8 (Women Rule, Men Obey) for both the Hapan Consortium and Dathomir, although the latter is arguably worse.
* SmoochOfVictory: Leia smacks one on Han after rescuing him from the Dark Side Dathomiri, leading to some MoodWhiplash as this is almost immediately after TheToothHurts, below.
* TheToothHurts: During Han's torture at the hands of a Dark Side witch, one of his teeth is telekinetically shattered. Actually the result of a successful bit of BriarPatching by Han. He specifically asked that she not do anything to his teeth, because he'd rather lose a tooth than something more immediately useful.
* WeAreAsMayflies - Mother Rell.
* WhatTheHellHero - The titular "courtship" refers to Han Solo shooting Leia with a brainwashing gun and kidnapping her. He's called on it at first, but the whole thing is all but forgotten by the end of the book, probably because it's so very creepy, and by that point they went through hell together. Chewbacca even offers to beat Han for Leia over it, life debt or not.
* WickedStepmother - Ta'a Chume.
* WickedWitch - Gethzerion.
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Written by noted science-fiction/fantasy author [[Literature/TheRunelords Dave Wolverton]], it was the first novel to feature the future XWingSeries antagonist Warlord Zsinj, although he portrayed here as [[TooDumbToLive substantially different]] from what fans of that series may be used to.
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'''Tropes:'''
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame - Han wins the Planet-Of-The-Novel in a Sabacc game.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules - Teneniel wanting Luke, who just happens to be [[WorldsStrongestMan the most powerful Jedi ever]].
* ArtisticLicenseBiology - The origins of the Hapes Consortium - and how! The Hapans' ancestors were a large band of SpacePirates that pillaged nearby shipping lanes, taking the most beautiful females they found on the ships back to their bases, and over time, having only beautiful women giving birth led to the entire Hapan race being extremely beautiful. Put very simply, just because your parents are beautiful, there's no guarantee that you won't have [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} a face for radio]].
** It was never stated that every child born was amazingly attractive. However, those who were not physically appealing didn't do well on Hapes. Survival of the fittest came into play. Family embarrassments were likely stashed away. Hence why Hapans seemed radiant.
** The Dathomiri probably qualify as well. When you're a placental mammal who only has one or two offspring at a time, polyandry is less stable than polygyny.
*** Unless the male to female ratio is skewed towards males.
* CerebusRetcon / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - The XWingSeries did this to Zsinj, here presented as a rather one-dimensional CardCarryingVillain. Aaron Allston, author of the Wraith Squadron books, justified it with ObfuscatingStupidity, and also implied that Zsinj was having a gradual VillainousBreakdown as the New Republic gained the upper hand.
* CombinedEnergyAttack - Inverted. The CombinedEnergyAttack ''heals'' Luke, rather than destroys him.
* ContemptibleCover: The infamous "Leia-in-a-wedding-dress" cover was switched out for a more conventional, action-oriented one because people thought the book was a romance novel -- [[{{Irony}} which it is, in many respects.]]
* CrystalDragonJesus - a "lost tribe" of Jedi in a book by a Mormon.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luke.
* FandomNod - "King Han Solo"? Clearly a reference to ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''
* FanNickname: Isolder IS Space Fabio!
* FixFic - The XWingSeries does this for Zsinj and Melvar and the ambiguity of whether the ''Iron Fist'' is destroyed or not. It also contains plenty of straightforward continuity nods to Leia's mission to the Hapans.
** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. [[spoiler: In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the XWingSeries, we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.]]
* ForegoneConclusion - Han marries Leia in the end, a fact established a couple years earlier by ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - The B plot might as well be subtitled ''The Erotic Adventures of Luke Skywalker'', as he gets to be [[FemmeFatale seduced by a queen who tries to kill him]] and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale enslaved by an amazon]].
* HarmlessVillain - Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj
** [[XWingSeries That's what he]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity wants you to think]]...
* KillSat - The superweapon of the week is a cloaking device that surrounds the planet.
* LadyLand- Dathomir-Women run the tribes and the men are essentially slaves
** The Hapes Consortium applies as well, with women at the top of the social structure.
* LostTribe - the Dathomiri
* MeaningfulName - Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Luke again. Isolder doesn't like it.
-->'''Isolder''': "You shouldn’t do this! The universe doesn’t work this way!"
-->'''Luke''': "What do you mean?"
-->'''Isolder''': "You—you’re treating those beasts as equals. You show my mother, the Ta’a Chume of the Hapes empire, the same degree of cordiality as you give a droid!"
-->'''Luke''': "This droid, these beasts, all have a similar measure of the Force within them. If I sense the Force, how can I not respect them, just as I respect Ta’a Chume?"
* RomanceNovel - The Han/Leia plot.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - Han wins a Planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.
** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce, and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.
** In the novel itself it's made clear that Han was royally screwed over, and he's chided for trusting a Drackmarian (the species of the player he won it from).
* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Level 8 (Women Rule, Men Obey) for both the Hapan Consortium and Dathomir, although the latter is arguably worse.
* SmoochOfVictory: Leia smacks one on Han after rescuing him from the Dark Side Dathomiri, leading to some MoodWhiplash as this is almost immediately after TheToothHurts, below.
* TheToothHurts: During Han's torture at the hands of a Dark Side witch, one of his teeth is telekinetically shattered. Actually the result of a successful bit of BriarPatching by Han. He specifically asked that she not do anything to his teeth, because he'd rather lose a tooth than something more immediately useful.
* WeAreAsMayflies - Mother Rell.
* WhatTheHellHero - The titular "courtship" refers to Han Solo shooting Leia with a brainwashing gun and kidnapping her. He's called on it at first, but the whole thing is all but forgotten by the end of the book, probably because it's so very creepy, and by that point they went through hell together. Chewbacca even offers to beat Han for Leia over it, life debt or not.
* WickedStepmother - Ta'a Chume.
* WickedWitch - Gethzerion.
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