race hell.. Id say if they want a really good place to work from start with the Zahn books the first books officially in the EU! 3 movies 3 books to work with.. id love to see Peallon and Thrawn. as well as The Emperors Hand Mara Jade Skywalker :) Yes, He is that dumb returning the council to the new republic was a lost cause as they are the cause and blame of all attacks on coruscant and most of the core galaxy. From Madolorians to Cruellians to name a race hell.. Id say if they want a really good place to work from start with the Zahn books the first books officially in the EU! 3 movies 3 books to work with.. id love to see Peallon and Thrawn. as well as The Emperors Hand Mara Jade Skywalker :) Lucas said he'd always envisioned three sets of films. But he wrote himself into a corner with ROTJ; the Empire is destroyed and it's all very climactic. Another set of films would have had to explain that the Empire is still about, establish lots of new characters and then wind them up, all in three films. I know that this is what happened in the OT, and obviously it worked there, but if a further trilogy had been planned, I think that things should have been left a bit more open-ended. Also, if we're now going to get Star Wars every couple of years, isn't the idea of a