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A couple of months ago, I made a theory post about Etienne Lux, positing that he was not an atomic, but instead the second Signal that Magus created during the Second Summer of Love. Obviously that theory was wrong, and while I’m not the slightest bit surprised by that, I think there is value in understanding exactly why you are wrong. In the case of Etienne Lux, it was because I believed a lie about Etienne Lux: that he was the inhuman calculating protector of humanity that he presented to the outside world.

Through the first 11 issues of The Power Fantasy, Lux is presented as utt

A couple of months ago, I made a theory post about Etienne Lux, positing that he was not an atomic, but instead the second Signal that Magus created during the Second Summer of Love. Obviously that theory was wrong, and while I’m not the slightest bit surprised by that, I think there is value in understanding exactly why you are wrong. In the case of Etienne Lux, it was because I believed a lie about Etienne Lux: that he was the inhuman calculating protector of humanity that he presented to the outside world.

Through the first 11 issues of The Power Fantasy, Lux is presented as utt

Following the ending of The Power Fantasy 11, in which Etienne Lux appears to escape the destruction of his mortal body in another, there’s been a fair amount of discussion about how this feat was accomplished. The two leading proposals were that Etienne somehow sent his consciousness into another body to escape the trap, or that the body we knew as Etienne was only a puppet for the real universal omnipath all along. However, neither explanation completely fits me. The trap Magus sprung on Etienne should have prevented any sort of mind uploading process, and while there are ways he could have escaped that, they all feel sort of cheap and unsatisfying. The meat-puppet explanation, while I lik

Whenever discussions surrounding the old Star Wars EU spring up, one of the decisions people point to as a mistake is the creation of Luuke Skywalker, a clone of Luke Skywalker who appears briefly in The Last Command. This clone is often held up as an example of how the EU could be ridiculous, how cloning got out of hand, or how the villains of the EU aren’t that great. However, these critiques could not be more wrong. Luuke Skywalker is in fact a brilliant addition to The Last Command, making perfect sense in the story being told, allowing for a strong resolution of crucial plot points, and enhancing the themes of the book as a whole.

To understand just how well Luuke slots into the story

In the first book of the High Republic series, Light of the Jedi, we are introduced to Marchion Ro, the major antagonist for the series. He holds the position of the Eye of the Nihil (a position he inherited from his father). This position grants him a major leadership role in the Nihil, a group of roving marauders who have access to a map of secret hyperspace lanes that they use to strike at will. However, the other powerful figures in the Nihil view him as nothing but as a less competent version of his father, a fool whose only power comes from his heritage. By the end of the first book, Marchion has seemingly proved them wrong, having killed one of his main rivals and captured a Jedi. How