This +100000000 Logic is apparently too hard for some people...

/backed I really enjoyed the original X-Wing game and X-Wing Alliance even more. Bring back the Space Combat Sim! Really looking forward to this game, they already have some great designs for starfighters and a pretty solid idea for the game overall. Hope they reach the Kickstarter goal, so we can all enjoy the old school feeling of X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter again, in the modern internet era!

I think it will be something with the current plague on Tatooine spreading to another planet. One hint for this could be the fact that we only get the containment officer boots withthe current quests, and my guess is there is going to be a whole set. Every new infection will grant another set piece and so on...

THIS x1000

See Death Troopers and Red Harvest. Anyways, on topic: Mara Jade just isn't coming back, nor should she. What role could she possibly fulfill in the current state of events of the story? Should Luke and Mara and Ben just be a happy OP jedi family? I don't think so. I for one was shocked that she would be the one killed by Jacen, but I could imagine it being logical for him as a sacrifice. Not wanting to sacrifice Tenel Ka or Allana, who else but her and simultaniously dealing a giant blow to the Jedi Order?

The whole Jedi Consular/ Shadow/Sentinel/Guardian concept is something contrived for SWTOR (perhaps as far back as KOTOR), so you won't see any of the novels deal with jedi defined in such clear roles. I guess the novels that tie in with the game however do have characters that clearly have such a role, so I would suggest reading those (Fatal Alliance perhaps?). As for the whole best SW books discussion: Thrawn Trilogy for all the reasons already mentioned Darth Plagueis Darth Bane: Path of Destruction NJO series X-Wing Series Jedi Academy Trilogy Correlia Trilogy (yes I liked it, I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it yet) Haven't read all the books yet, although I am collecting them all (last count was 130). Ever since SWTOR came out I'm completely back into Star Wars again, and next week I'm starting the massive task of (re-)reading through my collection. Hope to finish it in 3 years or so, and I want to read some other stuff in between (Terry Pratchett novels and ASOIAF for the 3rd time ).

The Starblade Legacy 'nuff said.