History Literature / TheCrystalStar

%%* AcademyOfEvil: Hethrir's Dark Side Academy.

%%* CoolShip: Leia's starship, and Hethrir's mobile planet.
%%* CoversAlwaysLie: Luke is not at the center of the galaxy.
%%* EldritchAbomination: Waru.%%Quotes aren't acceptable context.
%%-->"Hethrir's scientists breached the walls between dimensions and brought into existence a massive slab of meat covered with shining golden scales. Though this entity, Waru, lacked discernible sensory organs, it was highly intelligent and could communicate in a deep resonating voice."

%%* PathOfInspiration: Waru's religion.

%%* StarfishAlien: Waru.

%%* DeathBySex: Ghostlings suffer this.

* AcademyOfEvil: Hethrir's Dark Side Academy.

* CoolShip: Leia's starship, and Hethrir's mobile planet.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Luke is not at the center of the galaxy.
* DeathBySex: Ghostlings suffer this.
* EldritchAbomination: Waru.
--> "Hethrir's scientists breached the walls between dimensions and brought into existence a massive slab of meat covered with shining golden scales. Though this entity, Waru, lacked discernible sensory organs, it was highly intelligent and could communicate in a deep resonating voice."

* PathOfInspiration: Waru's religion.

* SmugSnake: The Proctors of Hethrir's academy.
* StarfishAlien: Waru.

* PutOnABus: The ships containing what's left of the Firrerreos jump to hyperspace and are basically ignored by the rest of the book. ''The Essential Guide to Alien Species'' eventually established that they found asylum on the planet Belderone. A happy ending? [[HappyEndingOverride Not so much]]: ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Force Heretic I: Remnant]]'' gave a throwaway mention that the planet was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, who enslaved the Belderonians and rendered the Firrerreos [[BusCrash functionally extinct]].

''The Crystal Star'' is an oddity in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. Released in TheNineties during the indecisive seeming period before the release of ''ThePhantomMenace'', this book was the work of science-fiction author Creator/VondaNMcIntyre. She had previously written a number of books set in the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'', and the influence certainly shows.

''The Crystal Star'' is an oddity in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. Released in TheNineties during the indecisive seeming period before the release of ''ThePhantomMenace'', this book was the work of science-fiction author Creator/VondaNMcIntyre. She had previously written a number of books set in the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'', and the influence certainly shows.

* AntiVillain: Waru, Type II and IV. It simply wants to return to [[EldritchLocation its home]], and while it did heal people, it needed from time to time their energy to sustain itself, killing them.

''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crystal_Star The Crystal Star]]'' is an oddity in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. Released in TheNineties during the indecisive seeming period before the release of ''ThePhantomMenace'', this book was the work of science-fiction author Vonda [=McIntyre=]. She had previously written a number of books set in the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'', and the influence certainly shows.

* FantasticRacism: Hethrir is particularly racist against nonhumans despite being one himself.

* AntiVillain: Waru, Type II and IV. It simply wants to return to [[EldritchLocation its home]], and while it did heals people, it needed from time to time their energy to sustain itself, killing them.

* AntiVillain: Waru, Type II and IV. It simply wants to return to its home, and while it did heals people, it needed from time to time their energy to sustain itself killing them.

* MamaBear: Leia. As noted in [[http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/92 Abel G. Pena's blog]], [=McIntyre=]'s characterisation of Leia as a mother is one of the better examples in the EU.

* SeriesContinuityError: Luke's lightsaber is blue in this book. He lost said blue lightsaber in TheEmpireStrikesBack and built a green one in ReturnOfTheJedi; although he got the blue one back in TheThrawnTrilogy, he gave it to Mara Jade.
** Also, because this book was written before the chronologically-earlier [[TheCallistaTrilogy Callista Trilogy]]--which ended only a year before ''Crystal Star''--the early chapters in which Han ribs Luke about finding a woman and having Jedi children (even making jokes about what Obi-Wan was like in his youth) come across as rather mean-spirited even for the smuggler. (I.e., Luke is just coming off of losing Callista, [[RomanticFalseLead the woman he thought was]] the love of his life.)

''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crystal_Star The Crystal Star]]'' is an oddity in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. Released in TheNineties during the indecisive seeming period before the release of ''ThePhantomMenace'', this book was the work of science-fiction author Vonda [=McIntyre=]. She had previously written a number of books set in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse, and the influence certainly shows.

In a Star Wars galaxy now populated by centaurs, "[[PhantasySpelling wyrwulfs]]" and strange creatures from other universes, ''The Crystal Star'' involves Luke and Han investigating a bizarre cult while Leia searches for her and Han's kidnapped children. There's also something about anti-Force, Han's ex-girlfriend and Imperial revivalists.

* StarfishAlien: Waru.

* SeriesContinuityError: Luke's lightsaber is blue in this book. He lost said blue lightsaber in TheEmpireStrikesBack and built a green one in ReturnOfTheJedi; although he got the blue one back in TheThrawnTrilogy, he gave it to Mara Jade.

* AntiMagic: Substitute magic for the Force, and you got the general gist of it.

* [[HoYay/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Ho Yay]]: Luke catches Han flirting with an ex-girlfriend. Good brother he is, he scolds Han for it. Han says he's a male so he should understand (HoYay point 1!), and then goes into a bizarre rant about how Luke has a duty to have children as the founder of the Jedi Order. (HoYay point 2 for caring so much about his brother-in-law's sex life. Unless he meant Luke should get a fourth clone; [[TheThrawnTrilogy those always]] [[DarkEmpire work out well]].)