This is played out against a background of political uncertainty, where the former rebels are now in control, but hardly united. There are interesting new additions to Star Wars lore, such as Ysalmari, creatures instinctively able to repel use of the Force, and the idea of voice modification for the droids.
Mike Baron adapts Zahn’s plot, and as a man with a considerable record in space opera himself he has an assured way of defining the characters, letting us know the necessary details as the spotlight switches back and forth between Thrawn and his plans, and Han, Leia and Luke. Leia and Han are married with children on the way, the Alliance has established a government, and Luke is the first new Jedi Knight, so everything seems to be going well, but it’s established early that Thrawn is a master strategist, and so a deadly threat.
In this, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, Thrawn is the presence behind whom the remnants of the Empire’s forces unite after their crushing defeat in Return of the Jedi. The continuity around these stories has been revised, but Grand Admiral Thrawn himself has proved a character worth keeping and is part of the rebooted Star Wars continuity. Heir to the Empire is the first of three adaptations of Star Wars novels by Timothy Zahn, collectively known as The Thrawn Trilogy, and united as such in a Star Wars Legends collection.
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