Allegiance (novel): Difference between revisions

It's a Zahn plot, so a lot of things are happening at once, and the plotlines tangle together. Luke and Mara don't meet until [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], so it's the stormtroopers who interact with both Mara and the Rebels. This is notable as being the first Zahn Star Wars novel to never mention Thrawn. Not ''once''. There's a fleeting mention of Grand Admirals, but that's it.

 

 

Not to be confused with the computer game [[Allegiance]].

* [[Fix Fic]]: [[Mooks|Stormtroopers]] who are not only useful, but ''badass''? Also, their [[Armor Is Useless|armor]] is actually effective against small arms fire.

{{quote| [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Without even appearing to aim, Grave shifted his blaster slightly and sent a shot sizzling past the living shield's ear to blow a hole in Cav'Saran's face.]]}}

** It isn't just the Hand of Judgment — the narrative in ''Allegiance'' also goes out of its way to remind the reader that the stormtroopers on the Death Star were under specific orders to let the heroes go...

* [[Good Feels Good]]

* [[Incest Subtext]]: Luke and Leia explicitly feel oddly close to each other. If you didn't know they were twins, this closeness might be predictably interpreted.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: While in his presence Mara Jade thinks of the Emperor as "a good and wise man". Of course, she ''is'' his agent, connected to him by the Force, and there are a lot of subtle cues that she subconsciously knows how evil he is. Plus, her snap judgments of everyone else are pretty sound.

* [[Human Shield]]: Attempted, but Grave just shot past the hostage.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: When Leia sees burglars breaking into a house that has a child in it, she barely thinks about the fact that she's hiding out and firing shots will probably call official attention to her. She's seen what burglars can do when they run into someone.

** Most fans go on the Stormtrooper Corps' side. Of course, it's ''[[Star Wars]]''; fans naturally look for the good Imperials.

** Mara and Vader don't like each other, either. Their relationship seems to range from Vader trying to kill Mara to both of them calmly trading their impressions of a possibly-corrupt governor, and Mara asking Vader to keep an eye on Ozzel, since she doesn't trust him. She does muse that at least they both hate the [[Internal Affairs|ISB]].

* [[Not in This For Your Revolution]]: Han. But he doesn't leave.

* [[Two Lines, No Waiting|Six Lines No Waiting]]: It's a Zahn book. Of ''course'' it's going to have multiple intertwined [[Plot Threads]].

* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Obi-Wan.

* [[Sympathetic POV]]: Zahn likes portraying Imperials who aren't [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]].

** ''All'' ''[[Star Wars]]'' fans do. Everyone's played "good Imp, bad Imp".