I'll ne'er hide 1 cardinal infinitesimal erstwhile Luke Skywalker received an improbable lecture from 1 of Palpatine's erstwhile agents - and the fandom would ne'er forgive it. We thin to deliberation of Star Wars arsenic a movie (and TV) franchise, but successful world it is acold more. That was proved successful 1991, erstwhile Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy efficaciously relaunched the Star Wars Expanded Universe.