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Plot Summary of The Last Command - Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy 3
"This is the third and final book in the Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy. Thrawn prepares for a massive space battle with the Rebels at the Bilbringi shipyards. Meanwhile, Mara Jade takes Luke on a guided tour of the Emperor's cloning facility on Mount Tantiss, where they encounter the thoroughly deranged Jedi master C'Boath. And the formerly tame Nogri hand Thrawn their resignation in a very poignant way."
Steve, Resident Scholar

"Last book in trilogy. The jedi twins are born. Mara becomes a Jedi. Joruus is defeated and the cloning facility destroyed."
irina, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Last Command - Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy 3
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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 40%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - cloning technology
Mental/magical powers focus Yes
magical powers: - Jedi powers
If an invasion, from Earth/human POV: - fighting overt invasion (attacking aliens)
War or Invasion Yes
Kind of series - Star Wars
Story involving clones/duplicates? - bad clones/duplicates
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones Yes
Star Trek or Star Wars book? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - diplomat - champion of justice
Age: - 20's-30's
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - mind reading - mind control - can see into the future - is very quick - can read emotions - healing
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - unemployed - navy soldier
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - mind reading - mind control - can see into the future - can read emotions - is very quick
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - futuristic human freighter/transport - one or two man fighter/scoutship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society - neutral aliens - empty, or nearly empty world - big overbuilt futuristic city
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
How much dialogue? - mostly dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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