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The Thrawn Trilogy was awesome back when it was the first new Star Wars project in about a decade. Thrawn was a good villain, and yet was not quite evil. At least not Sith Lord evil. He was clever and was playing from the underdog side of things. The once vast Galactic Empire, now forced to find ships and troops to fight the growing New Republic with only a quarter of its holding still left to the fallen Emperor's name. Most of the early 90s novels were all based around the Thrawn trilogy in one way or another. It kept the Star Wars EU into one nearly contained set of "canon" (unlike say Star Trek which until more recently, had novels going all over the place with no reference to each other outside a single author referencing their own works).
Stuff from the EU of the 90s have even made its way to television in the form of the Clone Wars. Characters, worlds, and other things show up from time to time. Thrawn has not, but he's not suppose to until after the Clone Wars anyway.
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