Darth Zannah & Darth Cognas

Knight Joined: 07 Feb 2012 Posts: 358 Location: USA

I just finished reading the Bane Trilogy. For those who want a good Sith read, I recommend this trilogy.

My question is, what happened to Darth Zannah?
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Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4434 Location: Korriban

We're still hoping they'll write another novel on this subject. I'd love to see more Sith interaction.
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As in what happened to her after the Bane trilogy?

I wouldn't be surprised if Zannah and Cognus never get novels. They're cool characters, but the stories can't be as dramatic as the Bane books were. The Sith have to go in hiding sometime.
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Knight Joined: 07 Feb 2012 Posts: 358 Location: USA

I should think that Mr. Karpyshyn would be chomping at the bit to write a Zannah/Cognus novel. If only to finally make people realize that Zannah won. Despite Karpyshyn's outright statement that Bane lost, and that the twitch simply signified that a small piece of Bane lived on, and that to him it should have been incredibly obvious (if Bane lived, he has no reason to lie; a trustworthy narrator referring to "she", etc.) a lot of people still think Bane won.

If I were him, I'd be all "Must write book. Must put nails in Bane's coffin. Grrr."

Now, I honestly don't think there will be more books like that. I don't see much value in books made simply to fill gaps. If they had a wonderful story to tell, and can tell it through Zannah and Cognus (jump ahead to Cognus and Millennial), then that would be awesome. But just as Tatooine Ghost was unnecessary (existing merely to link the prequels to the post-ROTJ EU) and bad, we don't need books merely to fill gaps. Only to tell good stories.
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EUC Staff Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 1137 Location: Kansas

Earlier this month, I tweeted to Drew Karpyshyn that if he wrote a Darth Zannah sequel, I would totally buy it. He replied back:

I'd read a Darth Millennial book.

It's odd that apparently the Sith lords are more interesting or something because they get their own books, whereas there really isn't any books that focus on a single Jedi who isn't Skywalker related. Or at least the few that do at all, it's still part of a larger story not focused on them.

Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4434 Location: Korriban

I kind of wish more Jedi would get standalones though.
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Hmm. Would you count Crosscurrent as a standalone? It depends on how you count a standalone, but I feel that there's an equal number of standalones for Jedi and Sith. So how would you define a Jedi-centric standalone book and a Sith-centric standalone book?

A quick look through the list of books at the beginning of Scourge shows that there's probably more books that can be described as Jedi-centric standalones.
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Mayhap it's a good idea to replace "standalone" with "book" or "story."

I think the term was chosen because it's unlikely that a non-major character will receive his own multi-book series at the start. Popularity then seems to add more stories to the character.

Darth Bane: Path of Destruction was a standalone. Now it is not. Same applies to Crosscurrent.

I, Jedi is arguably not standalone, but rather a companion novel to the Jedi Academy Trilogy.
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The place: Babylon 5.

It could be argued that Traitor and Dark Journey are standalones.
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