History Literature / JediAcademyTrilogy

** Blame [[DeathStar her head injury]] shortly before Tarkin's death.

** Kind of confirmed in ''DeathStar'', where she's Tarkin's lover and he privately believes that the boost he gave her career is just enough to get her past the difficulties female Imperials have in the military. She takes brain damage in that novel.

** Since Carida was an Imperial planet and a major Stormtrooper training center, it explains why many in the New Republic weren't all that dismayed by its destruction. However, since the Jedi '''''felt''''' the deaths of the planet's millions of inhabitants in excruciating detail, some of them were less inclined to be so forgiving.

* GeneralFailure: Admiral Daala

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lampshaded by Han when Qwi Xux attempts to claim that the Death Star and World Devastators were designed for peaceful applications. Han points out that if that were the case, they probably wouldn't have had words like "death" or "devastator" in their names.

* MindRape: Kyp does this to Qwi. She actually ends up liking it, because it erases her knowledge of superweapons like the Death Star, ensuring that she can never be forced to design another one.

* LavaAddsAwesome: Luke Skywalker [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands spontaneously develops]] the ability to ''walk on lava'' in the first book.

** The tendency for a dark Force user to use a red lightsaber is due to the fact that certain red synthetic gems channel DarkSide energy well. That, and it created a blade that had an extremely rare chance of breaking another lightsaber's blade.
** That wasn't [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_lightsaber_crystal#Behind_the_scenes established until 2002]], four years after ''I, Jedi'' was written.

Kyp, looking for his brother, swung by the Imperial training academy, a world with twenty-five million inhabitants, and made its star go supernova when they didn't immediately give in to his demand. Turns out his brother was still alive, ''was'' being the operative word. Oops.

Han Solo tracked Kyp down and Kyp threatened him while Exar Kun moved openly, influencing one of the students to try to kill Luke. The other students stopped him, then apparently destroyed Exar Kun. Kyp surrendered to Han, then they went to the Maw and [[HurlItIntoTheSun pitched the Sun Crusher into a black hole]] where it really couldn't be retrieved. Then Kyp was shuttled back to the Jedi Academy to continue his training.

That's an abbreviated summary, of course. There were other plots in there, like a traitorous ambassador, Mon Mothma's illness, and Daala's various failures. All in all, while it has its defenders, the Jedi Academy trilogy is not exactly held up as the shining example of what the ExpandedUniverse should be.

Corran Horn, Rogue Nine, found himself with a psychic wound when his wife vanished while up against the Invids, an Imperial sect that includes Force-Sensitives. Luke coaxed him into being part of the new Jedi Academy, and Corran accepted after disguising himself, since as Corran he's mildly famous and doesn't want extra attention. At the Academy, he was dismayed by a number of things, including the very lax discipline, Luke's refusal to tell anyone if what they were doing was wrong, his commanding officer falling for the scientist who designed the Death Star, and his own inability to move things with his mind, though as it turns out he could make people ''think'' things had moved (and he's so good at it that he could probably persuade the thing itself it's moved). He was further dismayed by Kyp, and Luke's focus on his new most promising student. The destruction of Carida was made into something horrifying and traumatic, Exar Kun's actual demise was drawn out and given a bit of thought, and Corran left in disgust when Kyp was welcomed back.

** On the other hand, he started off as a cop who probably saw worse bodies. Having the death blow of a star system run though your soul, though...

* VillainDecay: Exar Kun was a more effective villain in the ''TalesOfTheJedi'' comics. [[spoiler:The fact that he was ''alive'' in those comics probably helped.]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: If Corran sleeps with Tavira, his ego(and other things) get stroked, she, the leader of the group he's infiltrating, won't be suspicious of him, and he can get closer to finding his wife. Ethically, it's just part of the deception; Mirax is the love of his life and he really would do anything to save her. Plus, Tavira really hates rejection and might well have him killed. But would he really be doing this out of a genuine desire to endure anything for Mirax, or would it be a matter of pride? Eventually Corran [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]].
* [[WhoDares Who]] '''[[WhoDares DARES?!]]''': Exar Kun, the ''StarWars'' equivalent of a Sith DastardlyWhiplash, says it word-for-word to a thoroughly unimpressed Mara Jade.

The [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Academy_Trilogy Jedi Academy Trilogy]] is a set of books in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The three books, ''Jedi Search'', ''Dark Apprentice'' and ''Champions of the Force'', were written by KevinJAnderson starting in 1994; in 1998, MichaelStackpole of XWingSeries fame wrote ''I, Jedi'', but we'll get to that in a bit. It should also be noted that in 1995 Anderson wrote ''Darksaber'', a semi-sequel to the Jedi Academy Trilogy, which we talk about [[TheCallistaTrilogy over here]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: According to Mara Jade, even the Emperor wouldn't use will-breaking illusions.
** Since we're discussing about Palpatine though, this cannot be a reliable statement.

* HoYay: About half a page in ''Dark Apprentice'' is dedicated to a man-hug between Luke and Wedge. Also, drinking game: Shot of Wyren's Reserve whenever anyone, both men and women, mentions how handsome Kyp is.

* TheObiWrong: Luke.

That's an abbreviated summary, of course. There were other plots in there, like a traitorous ambassador, Mon Mothma's illness, and Daala's various failures. All in all, while [[YourMileageMayVary it has its defenders]], the Jedi Academy trilogy is not exactly held up as the shining example of what the ExpandedUniverse should be.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: According to Mara Jade, even the Emperor wouldn't use will-breaking illusions.

* EverythingsCoolerWithLava: Luke Skywalker [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands spontaneously develops]] the ability to ''walk on lava'' in the first book.

* NightmareFuelUnleaded / TearJerker: ''I Jedi'' gives us a first person perspective of what a "great disturbance in TheForce" feels like. It's pretty brutal.
--> [Corran wants to say something at dinner, has to swallow first, and manages] Just in time for me to scream.
--> Luke Skywalker had told us that at the moment of Alderaan's destruction, his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, had said he felt 'a disturbance in the Force'. Anyone who could label what I felt a 'disturbance' could think of Hutts as cuddly. The hollow shock one feels when told of a close friend's sudden death slammed into me at lightspeed. My conscious mind searched in vain for an identity to attach to that feeling, finding a way to contain it, but the hollowness opened into a bottomless void. Not only did I not know who had died, but I would never have a ''chance'' to know them, and that seemed the greatest tragedy possible.
--> Flashes of faces, snippets of dreams, laughter aborted and the sweet scent of a newborn's flesh undergoing a greasy transformation into roast meat all roared through me. Thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions, these images and impressions came in a whirlwind that screwed itself down into my belly. Hope melted into fear, wonder into terror, innocence into nothingness. Bright futures, all planned, proved the ultimate in morphability when a fundamental truth in these lives proved wrong. For these people there had never been a question of whether or not the sun would rise tomorrow, and yet in an instant they were proved wrong, as the sun reached out and devoured their world.
--> I heard Streen screaming that there were too many voices to handle before he slumped to the floor. I envied him in that moment. The same clarity of recall I cherished seconds before meant I watched a vast parade of dead flicker through my consciousness. A mother, acting on instinct, shielded her child in the nanosecond before both of them were vaporized. Young lovers, lying together in the the afterglow of the moment, hoping what they felt would never end, got their wish as they were torn into their constituent atoms. Criminals, triumphant in some small success, were reduced to fearful puling animals as their world evaporated.

Then Corran went to his homeworld, Corellia, talked things over with his grandfather, and [[TheInfiltration infiltrated]] some of the pirates who associated with the Invids, in the meantime picking up a [[HandOfThrawn Camaasi]] who was able to straighten out his morals. Eventually he kicked all of the pirates off a planet with a campaign of intimidation, faced down the Sith-influenced Jedi sect called the Jensaari alongside Luke, and saved Mirax.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Kyp Durron used the Sun Crusher to kill a ''lot'' of people. But one of those was his brother, he felt bad about that, Han talked him out of being evil, and he almost died sticking the Sun Crusher into a black hole, so... let's bring him back to the Jedi Academy and work on that temper! In ''I, Jedi'', this is what finally drives Corran Horn to quit. Pretty much every other book in the EU to have Kyp has his KarmaHoudini brought up; he's TheAtoner who can NeverLiveItDown.
** He ''killed'' an ''entire star system''. ''Tarkin'' never killed an entire star system. ''Palpatine'' never killed an entire star system. Seriously, the guy deserves every [[WhatTheHellHero call on it]] he gets.
*** Actually, the death toll from Alderaan was two billion, eighty times the number that Durron killed. Or, at least that's so in some books; like most other things in the EU, it seems to [[DependingOnTheWriter depend on the writer]]. In others, it really was billions of people he killed. Still, comparing him to a wannabe CompleteMonster like Tarkin (or an actual one like Palpatine) seems a tad unfair.
**** Except Tarkin and Palpatine got theirs in the end. Kyp was made a Jedi Master.
***** Remember that Luke tried to redeem his [[DarthVader father]], and succeeded. Even though Vader [[RedemptionEqualsDeath died]] shortly afterwards, Luke appeared to forgive him for everything he had done before. If Darth Vader deserved that kind of [[LastSecondChance consideration]], then surely Kyp did as well. And since Kyp has gone thirty-some years and counting without doing anything truly evil (although [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on the writer]] he has sometimes been a [[JerkAss jerk]] or used questionable methods when fighting the [[NewJediOrder Vong]]), it seems that Luke wasn't wrong to give him another chance.
*** Kyp killed 25 million people on Carida, plus several thousand people in his other attacks. Carida was the only one that had any civilian population at all, and being a highly militarized planet it's likely that the vast majority there were still Imperial soldiers. (Though who knows how many were unwilling conscripts like Kyp's brother.) Tarkin killed 2 billion on Alderaan alone, and Palpatine's death toll (meaning every single death in the Clone Wars and the lesser conflicts he orchestrated leading up to it, plus everyone the Empire killed from then until his death ''and'' everyone the Empire killed after he came back as a clone) most likely is in the trillions. Kyp may have them beat in physical destruction, but in terms of loss of life it's not even close.

* TheObiWrong: Luke, played straight because he's, um, dead. But [[IGotBetter he gets better]].

Then Corran went to his homeworld, Corellia, talked things over with his grandfather, and [[TheInfiltration infiltrated]] some of the pirates who associated with the Invids, in the meantime picking up a [[HandOfThrawn Camaasi]] who was able to straighten out his morals. Eventually he kicked all of the pirates off a planet, faced down the Sith-influenced Jedi sect called the Jensaari alongside Luke, and saved Mirax.