Aftermath Aftermath is a canon novel by Chuck Wendig and published by Del Rey , that is set between and . The novel is the first in , and is part of the publishing project . " Aftermath " sees the beginnings of a new government in the wake of the Empire ' s losses during the Battle of Endor , and features at least one fan favorite character from the " Star Wars " films . It was released on September 4 , 2015 . The audio edition is performed by Marc Thompson . Publisher ' s summary . Back cover . Trapped on an isolated world , a desperate group of rebels is all that stands between the galaxy ' s freedom and the Empire ' s fury . Internal flap . The second Death Star has been destroyed , the Emperor killed , and Darth Vader struck down - — devastating blows against the Empire , with major victories for the Rebel Alliance . But the battle for freedom is far from over . " As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor , the Rebel Alliance — now a fledgling New Republic — presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy ' s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate . But above the remote planet Akiva , an ominous show of the enemy ' s strength is unfolding . Out on a lone reconnaissance mission , pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyer s gather like birds of prey circling for a kill , but is taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders . " " Meanwhile , on the planet ' s surface , former Rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native world — war weary , ready to reunite with her estranged son , and eager to build a new life in some distant place . But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles ' s urgent distress call , she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over . What she doesn ' t know is just how close the enemy is — or how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be . " " Determined to preserve the Empire ' s power , the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top - secret emergency summit — to consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike . But they haven ' t reckoned on Norra and her newfound allies — her technical genius son , a Zabrak bounty hunter , and a reprobate Imperial defector — who are prepared to do whatever they must to end the Empire ' s oppressive reign once and for all . " Plot summary . Part One . The story begins on Coruscant , former capital of the Galactic Empire . A large group of people have gathered in Monument Plaza to see the tearing down of Emperor Palpatine ' s iconic statue . The statue does not fall at first , but using a speeder attached to some chains that are wrapped around the statue , it finally does . The crowd erupts into applause . Then out of nowhere , three Imperial policemen on speeders arrive , firing into the crowd . In anger , the crowd fights back , throwing stones . A man in the crowd hands his young son , Jak , a stone to throw , realizing this is only the beginning of yet another war . In the Outer Rim , Captain Wedge Antilles comes out of hyperspace in front of the planet Akiva . He has been doing some low - key reconnaissance for the New Republic , searching Outer Rim worlds for signs of the Empire , theorizing that they will go to the Outer Rim to avoid the Republic . His communications are jammed and two Imperial Star Destroyers drop out of hyperspace and hail his ship . He gives them a fake name , but on the " Vigilance " , Admiral Rae Sloane sees through his ruse and engages the tractor beam , pulling his little Starhopper towards the Star Destroyer . When his ship approaches landing , Wedge blows it up and jumps , injuring himself but escaping into the ducts . Norra Wexley also approaches Akiva , her home planet . She has been serving for the Rebel Alliance for years , and now that the war is coming to an end , she wishes to come home to her son . The two Imperial Star Destroyers launch TIE fighters to prevent her ship from running through the blockade , but along with smuggler Owerto Naiucho , they fight their way onto the planet safely , destroying the TIEs . On the surface of Akiva , Sinjir Rath Velus , former Imperial Loyalty officer , sits in a bar drinking , as he spends every day . A male Twi ' lek named Orgadomo Dokura approaches and shows Sinjir the latest propaganda coming out of the New Republic : a holovid of Princess Leia speaking of the fall of the Galactic Empire and the destruction of the second Death Star . Sinjir has seen the Death Star blow up before ; he was on Endor when it happened . An Imperial officer and two stormtrooper s enter and see them watching the propaganda . Although Sinjir tries to fade away and let them move on , the Twi ' lek speaks up against them . The Imperial starts a fight , and before Sinjir knows what he ' s doing , he takes down the officer and his stormtroopers , leaving the bar with his new companion . Also on Akiva is Temmin Wexley , playing a game of Galactic Expansion with a repurposed interrogator droid . Three thugs walk in , employees of Surat Nuat , a Sullustan gangster on Akiva . When they threaten him for stealing something very valuable of Surat ' s , he tricks them into checking out his highly modified B1 battle droid , Mister Bones . Temmin activates Mister Bones , who takes on all three thugs . Shots are fired from the main entrance , and when Temmin looks , he is surprised to see his mother , Norra Wexley . By this time , a third Imperial Star Destroyer has arrived above Akiva . These Imperial Star Destroyers have brought Grand Moff Valco Pandion , General Jylia Shale , slaver Arsin Crassus , and Yupe Tashu , a Sith cultist and former advisor to the Emperor . Meanwhile , Wedge is crawling in the ventilation shafts of the " Vigilance " , with Admiral Rae Sloane searching high and low for him . He reaches the comm station and tries to send out a message to the New Republic , but as soon as he calls for help , he is shot in the shoulder from behind by Sloane . She takes him aboard her shuttle down to the planet to meet the other Imperial leaders . Back on Akiva , Norra and Temmin share a brief hug , where she realizes he ' s grown into a man during the three years she ' s been gone . Temmin sends Mister Bones away to dispose of the bodies and shows him mom around his shop , built in his family ' s former house . He reveals that he sells junk upstairs , but through a secret passage , he sells real treasures down below , including blasters , detonators , and books . She is shocked , and tries to convince him to stop , but he is angry that she left and abandoned him , choosing the Rebel Alliance instead of him . Realizing that he won ' t listen to her , she says sorry and stabs a needle in his neck , knocking him unconscious and carrying him away , with the goal of taking him off the planet . In a flashback , a father on Saleucami and his two sons are sharing dinner . The two sons Dav , a former soldier for the Rebel Alliance , and Webb , a loyal supporter of the Empire and former student at the Imperial Academy . The father gives an anti - war speech and talks about Old Cut , who was a soldier who decided not to fight . This is a reference to Cut Lawquane a clone trooper who deserted the Clone Army . Imperial TIEs appear and fire , and Dav realizes that Webb turned him in to the Empire . Dav ' s father gives Dav his speeder , and Dav flees . Back on Akiva , Jas Emari watches as Arsin Crassus ' opulent yacht , the " Golden Harp " arrives on the planet , waiting to kill him in order to collect the large bounty on his head . Right before she takes the shot , she sees more ships land , the rest of the Imperial leaders . She realizes if she can capture or kill them all , she will collect an even larger bounty , as they are all wanted individuals . Morna Kee , Admiral Sloane ' s pilot , sees the bounty hunter and shoots her down from her perch . Sloane introduces the Imperials to each other in the satrap ' s palace in Myrra , the capital of Akiva , and after being swamped with questions about the gunfire outside the palace , she reveals to the others that she has taken Wedge Antilles prisoner . She feels strong tension with Grand Moff Pandion , who clearly sees her as a threat to his intention to rule . On the planet of Naalol , Chancellor Mon Mothma visits the site of a recent battle , the town still in flames and prisoners being marched away . Her two chief advisors , Hostis and Auxi , debate with her about the merits of decreasing the size of the military . After seeing how one small battle could change forever the lives of the people on this planet , Mon Mothma realizes that war must not be a constant state of existence , and decides to go ahead with the vote to demilitarize . When Jas Emari awakens from her fall , she finds Surat , the gangster , and a bunch of his thugs surrounding her . He thinks she ' s in league with his main competition , Temmin , and takes her captive . He is afraid of the New Republic because he knows that they will crack down on his illegal business . When Surat returns to his shop , he finds Sinjir there , who is searching for a way to get off the planet before more Imperials come and find out about his treason . When Sinjir sees Jas , he has a flashback to Endor , where after the rebels had blown up the shield generator , he saw a female Zabrak bounty hunter flee the scene . He now realizes that that woman was the one he sees before him now . When he tries to talk to Surat in order to free her , Surat suspects him of treachery and tells his thugs to fire upon him . Sinjir avoids being shot , but is soon knocked unconscious . Admiral Ackbar is on his flagship " Home One " practicing his skills with a kar - shak when he is interrupted by Ensign Deltura , who tells him that Captain Antilles is no longer responding to his comms and has not checked in recently . Ackbar sends out search teams looking for the lost Captain . Part Two . When Temmin wakes up from the drugs that put him to sleep , he finds himself with his mother on an Imperial ship . She needs his help to get to one of the freighters so that they can escape the planet , but he starts arguing , telling her he can ' t leave his whole life behind . Telling her he has a plan , he steals a speeder , drawing the attention of an entire squadron of stormtroopers . Two speeders follow closely behind , firing their lasers with the clear intent to kill . Instead of going into the forest to lose them , like his mother suggests , Temmin takes off into the city , where the streets are barely large enough for them to navigate . After losing one of the stormtroopers ' speeders , Temmin jumps off his speeder , landing on the other Imperial ' s speeder and taking out the driver . Norra has no choice but to speed on , realizing once again she lost her son . In the satrap ' s palace , the meeting between the leaders of the Empire begins . The group assembled is the Imperial Future Council , IFC , with the goal of planning the future of the Empire . With revelations that two Rebel A - Wing fighters were shot down by the " Vigilance " before they could escape to report their findings , the meeting is thrown into chaos . There is little trust between each individual present , and a constant jockeying for power . Pandion insists that Sloane bring out the entire Imperial fleet that is in hiding in order to surprise the New Republic when they bring an armada , but in the end , Sloane ' s idea of sending the Imperial Star Destroyers away so that their ships cannot be detected wins , and with that the space above Akiva is once again clear . Norra speeds off to the home of her sister , Esmelle . Instead of finding Temmin there , as he promised , she is alone . Temmin was back at his shop , spying on the thugs who were ransacking it . They still hadn ' t found the secret entrance to the lower half of his shop . However , he falls off the roof because of how slippery it is , and the noise draws the attention of one of the thugs , who captures Temmin . Soon after , Norra shows up , looking for her son , and shoots the only thug still there after he tries to shoot her first . Sinjir wakes up in a cage , dangling from the ceiling in a dark room , after someone threw several stones at him . When he looks around , he sees that it was Jas who was throwing the stones . She uses a lockpick that she keeps hidden in a fake horn on her head to pick her lock , then going and releasing him . They go to Surat ' s place and find him about to remove Temmin ' s tongue , before killing him . Jas pushes Sinjir in , and he defeats one of Surat ' s thugs and steals away with Temmin . However , right as they are about to leave the cantina above Surat ' s prison , a quartet of stormtroopers arrive . They sneak out the side door , taking out one of Surat ' s thugs , but are soon pursued into a dead end . Jas drops her blaster in surrender , but then , through the lightning , Temmin sees Mister Bones behind the Imperials and thugs , who jumps into the fray . Jas , Temmin , and Sinjir take off , and Norra pulls up in a speeder , escorting them to safety . As the meeting goes on with the Empire ' s leaders , Rae Sloane slowly realizes that nothing of importance will ever come out of this meeting . Pandion is calling for direct confrontation , the style of which had lost them the war to this point , whereas Tashu is calling for retreat to the Outer Rim , where they should learn the ways of the dark side of the Force . Arguments rage , and no conclusions are made . On Chandrila , during a news broadcast , an angry citizen throws rotten food at Olia Choko , a New Republic public relations representative . Instead of taking the citizen away , Olio calls him forward , asks to hear his concerns , and then proposes that he become a member of the new Senate in order to voice those concerns and have them addressed . The citizen is shocked , but he gladly takes the opportunity . Jas and Sinjir are crowded around a table , examining a makeshift map in order to plan their capture of the Imperials . Norra walks in , and then Temmin , and they all discuss what to do about the secret meeting taking place in the palace . They all decide to work together , splitting the bounty , and more importantly for Norra , doing her duty to the New Republic . After not hearing back from the search teams , Admiral Ackbar sends out a probe droid into the Akivan system in order to find out more information . The last thing he wants to do is fall into another Empire trap . The probe droid finds traces of the destroyed ships , and reports back . Ackbar then decides that it would be best to send a small strike force of commandos into Akiva to get a ground report on the events taking place there . Jom Barell is in the atmosphere above Akiva . He and his fellow five commandos make a jump from a shuttle into the air , and right as they jump , the shuttle that they jumped from blows up . Then the bright flash of turbolaser , and one of his fellow commandos is shot down . Soon , Barell is the only one left alive , and he makes a very rough crash landing on the planet surface below . On the planet Sevarcos , a site where the Empire used slaves to mine spice , a battle between the New Republic and Empire rages . Three slaves are huddled away from the battle , torn about what to do . One of them says they must run before the Empire wins and sends them back into the mines . However , the Wookiee among them suggests they charge into battle , believing they should help the Republic soldiers defeat the Imperials . He runs out , ducking laserfire , to release some rancor s kept captive by the slavers , and unleashes them onto the battlefield . The tide of the battle is turned , and the New Republic wins . The three slaves decide to explore the galaxy on their own , free to do as they please now . Part Three . The shooting down of the commandos has sent the meeting of the Imperial Future Council into even more chaos . Pandion suggests they fight the New Republic head on , knowing that they will soon send their fleet , but Shale believes this will only lead to the defeat of the Empire once and for all . Sloane tries to calm everyone down and pretend that nothing bad is happening , and finally they agree to once again start the meeting . Meanwhile , Jom Barell wakes up from his crash landing to see three stormtroopers standing in front of him , which he quickly disposes of despite the pain he is in . Norra and Jas travel together through Myrra , the capital of Akiva . They see a random citizen throw a rotten fruit at a pair of stormtroopers , a good sign that the people are fed up with the Imperial occupation . Jas heads to Temmin ' s shop , where she clears out the thugs who were attempting to drill their way to the lower half of his shop , where the real goods lie . They then head to the rooftops , where two TIEs are parked . While Norra distracted the pilots , Jas used her sniper to take them down . Norra then steals one of the TIEs . Meanwhile , Sinjir walks up to an Imperial communications station , telling the stormtroopers he is an Imperial and demands to see their officer . Grudgingly , they call up their officer , and when the scans ensure that he really is Sinjir Rath Velus , who is supposed to be dead , they let him in . Inside , Sinjir steals the officer ' s pistol , shooting him in the back , and Mister Bones jumps in , taking care of the two stormtroopers . Once in the comm station , they make a holovid showing a supposed stormtrooper shooting an innocent kid in the back and laughing . They then broadcast this across Myrra , planting the seeds for an uprising . On the planet Taris , three Acolytes of the Beyond , Sith worshippers , purchase a lightsaber from a dealer who claims the lightsaber belonged to Darth Vader before his death . They say they plan on destroying it , so that it can return to its master in death . However , while the lightsaber ' s blade is red , there is no guarantee it was actually Vader ' s . At the comm station , Temmin , Sinjir , and Mister Bones head to the rooftop to escape . On the roof , they hear the distinctive sound of TIE fighters , as two appear in the sky . They take cover as the TIE ' s shell the comm station with laserfire , intent on destroying it before more propaganda can be spread . Mister Bones jumps into the air as the second TIE passes , breaking its windshield and taking it to the ground . A third TIE enters the fray and starts shooting at the first , blindsiding it and taking it out of the sky : Norra has entered the fray . She takes off for the satraps palace , but is dogged by two more TIE ' s . Taking down one , she aims for the shuttles that are the Imperials ' only lifeline off this planet . Admiral Sloane sees this from the ground and , thinking quickly , fires a turbolaser at Norra from the ground , totally destroying her right wing and sending her into a death spiral . Norra aims for the shuttles as her crash site , with one last wish that they actually put ejector seats in these fighters . Sloane looks out from the palace windows to survey the damage . All three Imperial shuttles have been taken down , but fortunately Crassus ' yacht wasn ' t on the planet and is still functional . She notices a growing crowd outside of the palace ; Akivans who are ready for change , creating a dull roar of noise . She returns back to the meeting and tells the rest of them that they will be leaving on Crassus ' yacht as soon as it arrives back on the planet . In hyperspace , Han Solo and Chewbacca travel to Dasoor . As soon as they pull out of hyperspace , they receive a transmission from an old friend named Imra . She mentions that she has a job on Kashyyyk , the home of the Wookiee s , with a very small window . Han tells Imra to gather everyone they know , and tells Chewbacca to gather some fellow freed Wookiees , so that they can head down to the planet and free their homeworld . After the TIE fighter crash into the palace , the power went out temporarily , freeing Wedge from his shackles . He sneaks around the palace , narrowly avoiding being caught by stormtroopers looking for him . Once he comes across a secret passage , he uses it to ambush Sloane ' s personal assistant , Adea Rite , wounding her and stealing her holoscreen , allowing him to send a message to the New Republic calling them to war . Sloane soon finds his body , crumpled up on the ground , with the holoscreen open to a rebel frequency . Meanwhile , the team of Jas , Temmin , Sinjir , and Mister Bones reassemble , one member short . Temmin starts to break down into tears , when the door opens and a cloaked figure sits down at the end of the table . When Norra pulls back the veil and reveals that she is still alive and that TIEs truly " do " have an ejector seat , Temmin launches himself towards her to embrace her in a huge hug . On Coruscant , Jak walks through the most dangerous underworld levels on the planet . Using a special card , he is allowed entrance to meet the Thorn , where he asks for a weapon , having saved the life of one of Thorn ' s closest companions . He wants to use it to take out power in Coco - Town with the help of the Anklebiter Brigade , a group of very young kids fighting against the Empire . Back on Akiva , the planet is consumed in turmoil . People burn effigies of the satrap and Darth Vader in the streets , chanting and raging at the Empire and the satrapy . Jas watches it all , proud of herself and her new friends for setting the spark to set Myrra ablaze . Meanwhile , Sinjir tells Norra to trust him , because even though he was an Imperial , it was his job to hunt down other Imperials , to find the weakness in other Imperials , and then punish them accordingly . When Temmin returns from his shop with maps of the catacombs below Myrra , they plan on how to sneak into the palace using the catacombs . However , their plan involves traveling past the old underground droid factory , which is supposedly haunted and nobody has returned from alive . They will use some thermal detonators from Temmin ' s shop to blow holes into the walls of the palace once they get there . On Naboo , two kids from the Anklebiter Brigade are meeting potential parents , people who could adopt them . One of the kids feels entirely out of comfort with all of the rich nobles around , and decides to run away from it all , hoping to find a transport back to Coruscant where he can rejoin the hot war between the rebels and the Empire . Finally beginning their trek into the catacombs , Jas pulls Temmin back and asks him about his crate . When he says it ' s a weapon , she tells him that ' s he ' s wrong , and opens it for him . What ' s inside are data cubes , and they agree to sift through the information on them and sell them to the right client as soon as this is over . When they near the droid factory , Sinjir begins to probe Temmin , thinking he ' s hiding something secret from them down here . He throws a stone at the droid factory entrance to prove it isn ' t haunted , but then a mechanized howling comes from inside , and they all start running . Admiral Ackbar has received Wedge ' s transmission , a very short message calling for help . He decides now is the time to act , sending a small fleet to Akiva , with more in reserves , ready to arrive at any sign of trouble . In the palace , Sloane is still attempting to calmly control the situation as the others of the IFC grow increasingly restless and angry with her . The shuttle is taking too long to arrive , she thinks , but nothing can be done about that . She decides to call the three Star Destroyers back into the system , ready for battle when it arrives . Jas turns to fire at the oncoming horde . At first they look like droids , with glowing eyes and mechanized wails , running along the walls like spiders . However , as they approach , she realizes they ' re not droids , but creatures , noseless with a mouth full of sharp teeth , identified by Temmin as Uugteen . They keep getting closer and closer , an entire hive , and she can ' t stop them . Temmin comes back , tugs on her shoulder , telling her to come along , and she relents . As they start running , he realizes they have a box of detonators . Pulling Mister Bones along , who wants to stand and fight to protect Temmin , he pulls one detonator out of the box , setting it , and then throwing it back into the box . They all sprint for safety . When the tunnel explodes , a huge collapse happens and the Uugteen are blocked off from following them . With no explosives to blow their way into the palace , Sinjir decides that he will head to the surface to contact the palace himself , pretending to be an Imperial once again . His plan is to tell them to open the doors to the catacombs from the inside , telling them it ' s their only path to safety . On Tatooine , a man named Adwin Charu , a member of a new local mining company , is attempting to buy goods from the Jawa s in one of their massive sandcrawler s . Knowing there are real goods hidden in there , he keeps trying to tell them that he doesn ' t want the junk they have on display , but they won ' t listen . A local named Cobb Vanth shows up and tells him that he must build rapport with the Jawas by first buying small stuff , before they ' ll let him see the good stuff . He offers to take Adwin in , and they go . Soon , they start arguing over a set of Mandalorian armor , and Cobb shoots Adwin . Styling himself Sheriff Vanth , he tells Adwin that he won ' t let the crime syndicates come to Tatooine under the guise of mining companies and take over his planet after the fall of the Hutt Cartel . Back on Akiva , Jom Barell is trying to save the day singlehandedly . Knowing the coordinates of one of the turbolasers , he takes out the three stormtroopers guarding it while injured , with the goal of shooting down any Imperial ships . When he sits down in the console , he sees a large yacht with an Imperial code descending towards the palace . Instead of firing at the ship , the turbolaser makes a clicking sound , showing that it was damaged by the fight with the stormtroopers . He races to fix it . Jas , Temmin , Norra , and Mister Bones lie waiting to ambush stormtroopers outside of the palace , so that they can then sneak in . However , instead of coming through the gate , stormtroopers sneak up on them from behind , blocking any escape route . Norra has a chilling moment where she feels that Sinjir sold them out . Captured , they enter the palace as prisoners , and soon Sinjir is hauled out with them , hands bound and face bloodied . Then Temmin stands up and walks over to Sloane , asking her to honor their deal and let him , his droid , and his mother go , but Sloane refuses to let anyone go but him . In shock , Temmin calls for his droid to help , but they take Mister Bones down before he can even move , and Sloane fires six shots straight into his head , completely destroying it and knocking it off . They then take Temmin to the roof with the intent of throwing him off the edge . The satrap ' s yacht finally arrives at the palace . When some protesters futilely throw rocks at the ship , some stormtroopers fire at the crowd , but Sloane pulls them back and chastises them . The stormtroopers throw Temmin off the walls of the palace , but the crowd catches him , carrying him . He then runs to the walls and begins scaling them , drawing on his skills from his youth in the streets . Right as the yacht takes off , with the members of the IFC and the prisoners captured on Akiva onboard , Temmin scales the wall . He grabs the vibroblade of a fallen guard and uses it to make a running jump into the air , catching onto the ship . As soon as he makes it into the ship through a window , stormtroopers arrive , so he runs . Jom Barell can ' t figure out how to make the turbolaser work , so in frustration he slams on the console repeatedly . Suddenly , the turbolaser activates , homes in on the yacht , and fires . The yacht is shot right in the middle , but can still fly , albeit detached into two barely connected parts . The stormtroopers chasing Temmin vanish into the air , and Temmin barely hangs on inside . Then , the rebel fleet arrives in space . On Bespin , in Cloud City , a rich old man from Onderon has his house sacked by rebels . He refuses to give in to them , calling them traitors , and when they tell him that the Emperor is dead and that the holovids of him alive and well are a fraud , he refuses to believe them . They then take him captive . Commander Agate leads the New Republic forces into battle , shaking as she always does . The battle quickly swings in their favor . On Crassus ' limping yacht , Temmin uses the maintenance shaft connecting the two separated parts of the ship to pick the locks on the handcuffs of his friends , and they take Pandion hostage . The yacht crash lands on the " Vigilance " , killing Crassus , but allowing Jas to capture Tashu and Shale . Rae and her pilot , Morna , escape on a Lambda - class shuttle in the landing bay , so Norra takes a TIE fighter and follows them through the raging battle . She comms the rebel fleet and tells them that she ' s in a TIE , and they join her in chasing down the shuttle . On the shuttle , Pandion appears and attempts to take control away from Sloane , but she disarms him and locks him away . She then blows up the shuttle , escaping in an escape pod with Morna to the only Star Destroyer still intact , the " Vanquish " . The " Vanquish " then takes off through hyperspace , a big victory for the New Republic . Although Norra was injured in the shuttle explosion , she came to a full recovery , along with Wedge Antilles . She decides to join Jas , Temmin , Sinjir , Jom , and Mister Bones in a new mission , to track down Imperial targets as a team . Meanwhile , Sloane escaped to the Vulpinus Nebula , where a growing Imperial fleet lurks . She speaks with the fleet admiral Gallius Rax , her superior , who tells her that the summit on Akiva was a test for her , which she passed , and that it helped weed out those in Imperial service who were weak . Development . " Aftermath " was originally planned for release in November 2015 , before being moved forward to September 4 . On September 4 , 2014 , Wendig had posted a tweet expressing his strong desire to write a licensed " Star Wars " title . Several individuals involved with the " Star Wars " franchise , including Jason Fry and Gary Whitta , passed along the message , which eventually reached Shelly Shapiro , editor at large at Del Rey , who felt that Wendig would be a good fit for the project , based on having read his title " Under the Empyrean Sky " . Upon being approached to write the book , Wendig had a reaction of " girlish joy . " He wrote the title in under 45 days . Continuity . The novel ' s chapter headings made use of an early design for the New Republic , the successor government to the Alliance to Restore the Republic . On September 21 , 2015 , Del Rey released an of the emblem via social media , which served as the first canon depiction of the government ' s insignia . Reception . Reaction to " Aftermath " has been mixed . As of November 1 , 2015 , 1 , 415 reviews of the title had been posted on Amazon . 37 % gave the title a rating of only 1 star , but 35 % gave it either 4 or 5 stars . The most helpful critical review ( according to the site ' s visitors ) stated that while it " wasn ' t as abysmal as other reviewers made it out to be " and there were certain things he liked , such as a reference to " Fulcrum " and the well - rounded nature of the character Admiral Sloane , it wasn ' t his favorite " Star Wars " read and there were many things he didn ' t like : these included improper use of idioms when a " Star Wars " term could have been used , the excessive focus on introspection and interpersonal conflict , and the use of characters who felt " shoehorned in . " The author with the most positive review stated that while the book was " not " " , " it " wasn ' t intended to be " , and did well in focusing on smaller stories . He found himself interested in the " nuanced cast of characters " and also enjoyed the vignettes throughout the novel , rather than simply its main story . Jared Petty of the popular entertainment site IGN reviewed the novel and rated it " mediocre , " stating that it was " well - written but ultimately disappointing . " He too praised the character of Sloane , but felt that the novel lacked substance and stated that he had met almost nobody he cared about by the time he reached the end of the novel . The author , Chuck Wendig , took to his blog in response to the negative reception , and supplied a profanity - laced rant criticizing those of his detractors who hated the book because of it containing homosexual characters , comparing these readers to the Empire .