Trivia / Legacy of the Force

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• Creator Backlash:
  • Timothy Zahn has said in an interview with Jedi Council that he wasn't happy when he found out that Mara Jade was getting killed off, feeling that there was more that could've been done for her. The interviewer also asked him about how he felt about Pellaeon's death, though Zahn focused more on Mara, so whatever he feels about Pellaeon, though suggests that he's more concerned about how Mara died.
  • Likewise, Shannon McCrandle, the art model of Mara Jade, was also not happy about Mara's death and how it happened.
• Flip-Flop of God: According to Karen Traviss, she proposed killing off Mara Jade, though she apparently later stated in a now-deleted tweet that it was Executive Meddling.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: Readers submitted suggestions and then voted in a poll to choose Darth Caedus's Sith name, with the runner ups being Darth Acheron, Darth Judicar, Darth Paxis, and Darth Taral.
• Reality Subtext: Released in 2006, this series owes a lot, thematically, to the War on Terror, what with Jacen ranting against his parents' support of a totalitarian government and the terrorists that work for them (which is true), while his family is dismayed at his curtailing of democracy and personal liberties in his struggle to defeat them (also true).
• Troubled Production: The series ran into this due to growing animosity between the authors. Karen Traviss was well known for a series of side stories at the time that she had worked on exclusively and thus was never part of a rotating series like Troy Denning and Aaron Allston had been. She was also notorious for never reading other people's works within the franchise, often causing huge Continuity Snarls within a franchise that tried hard to keep things consistent. She was also difficult to work with, as Allston once mentioned how he had wanted to tie the Mandalorians into Fury better, but Traviss outright refused to divulge her plans for them to him. Denning also made various snipes at her as a result and outright ignored much of Revelations when it came time to write Invincible. Traviss had also suggested various unpopular decisions like Mara's death and never bothered consulting the other writers about if they had plans for the characters, an act that is considered very unprofessional to other SW writers at best and downright insulting at worse. Given this bad blood, it's no wonder the series ended up how it did.
• What Could Have Been: The ending to the series is very straightforward with Jaina killing Caedus in one-on-one combat. Dennings' original idea was much weirder. Jacen's flow-walking would eventually cause him to switch bodies with his brother, a disguised Jacen fulfilling Anakin's sacrifice in the past and Anakin being resuscitated by Jaina in the present. Nothing came of this beyond suggestion.

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