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*** As for the hand, it's been implied (or possibly outright stated) that Vader has had that hand replaced more than once. It could have easily been damaged once more during his flight from the Death Star.
**** And it could also be that nobody actually ''knows'' how Vader lost his hand in-universe - leading to IC [[Epileptic Trees]] and [[Wild Mass Guessing]]!
** Considering ''how many'' Original Trilogy [[Hand Wave|HandWaves]], [[Left Hanging|Loose Ends]], and [[Plot Hole|Plot Holes]] that he had to [[Fix Fic|tie together]] into a [[Magic
** The biggest Clone Wars related issue is that Zahn sets them over a decade before the eventual timeline established by the prequels. This was actually Lucas's fault rather than Zahn's -- as Zahn revealed in his annotations in the 20th anniversary edition, Lucas hadn't yet settled on a concrete timeline for the series pre-''A New Hope'' and eventually compressed it from the more expansive one he'd given Zahn at the time.
** Zahn also writes from the not-unreasonable assumption that the Clone Wars involved an evil clone army attacking the galaxy. Everyone automatically assumes Thrawn's use of clones will lead to Clone Wars II even though the origins of the wars wound up being completely different - the Empire's a hostile enemy state while the original conflict was a civil war. Not to mention that the clones turned out to be the "good" guys in the Clone Wars. {{spoiler|At least until [[Face Heel Turn|Order 66]]...}}
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