Allegiance (novel): Difference between revisions

** Zahn uses the hand motif a lot. There's also the Empire of the Hand and the Hand of Thrawn. It's an easy metaphor.

** Lampshaded; LaRone, the leader of the five stormtroopers, when asked for what his squad is called, goes blank and ends up blurting "Mostly, we're known as the Hand of Judgment." Away from everyone else, he gets ribbed relentlessly by the other stormtroopers.

'''Grave''': "No fair. ''I'' want to be the thumb." }}

*** Lampshaded again later, when Mara saves them from Vader and the 501st and [[Reasonable Authority Figure|hears out their story.]] She lets them go, but tells them to

**** Ironically this is not true at all, much to Mara's displeasure in future stories.

* [[Bullet Holes and Revelations]]: LaRone shot first.

** A bit stretched, but it works.

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

** ''[[Survivors Quest]]'' — also by Zahn — did it first with the four stormtroopers of Aurek Seven, who are a deeply [[Badass Crew]]. Since ''[[Star Wars/Choices of One|Choices of One]]'' confirms that Thrawn hired the Hand of Judgment to train his own elite squadrons, it's to be expected.

** 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...

* [[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.

'''Leia''': "It might. But it was something I had to do." }}

* [[Informal Eulogy]]: Mara for Tannis.