Jedi Prince Jedi Prince ( along with The Glove of Darth Vader , The Trioculus Saga , The Saga of Prince Ken , or the Son of Palpatine series ) is the informal name given to a series of " Star Wars " young reader novels that " take up where left off . " The title " Jedi Prince " refers to Ken , the twelve - year - old hero of the series who teams up with Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance to fight the Empire . The Empire , led by Grand Moff Hissa and Supreme Prophet Kadann , attempt to install Trioculus as Emperor , claiming that he is Palpatine ' s son . Palpatine ' s real son , according to the series , is a madman named Triclops . Both Trioculus and Triclops are mutants who have three eyes . The books were written by a married couple , Paul and Hollace Davids , and illustrated by Karl Kesel . The series was collected in two trilogies as " Star Wars Book One " and " Star Wars Book Two " . Fan reaction to the series . The series is generally not popular with fans of the movies , who consider them to be silly . Fans have accused the series of being preachily politically correct , with every book having a " save the environment " theme . Fans also believe the film characters don ' t appear very often and , when they do , act out of character . In response to the negative critique , Paul Davids points to the popularity of the series among student readers and their sales of millions worldwide . " Jedi Prince " and the rest of the Expanded Universe . Places , situations , and technology from this series have been referenced in other Expanded Universe sources . However , some facts in the series are contradicted by most of the " Star Wars " universe : for example , the books describe the difference between male and female droids , while robots are not qualified as female if not necessary , like Guri . The series has been retcon ned in many ways . For example , according to Paul Davids , the series takes place over the course of five years , but the " Star Wars " timeline lists all the events as taking place within the same year . Another retcon is that the right glove of Darth Vader was a Mandalorian crushgaunt fitted with Lord Kaan ' s Sith amulet , explaining how the glove survived the destruction of the second Death Star . " Prophets of the Dark Side " ends with Han Solo and Leia Organa walking down the aisle of their wedding ceremony , but a retcon states that the wedding was interrupted and never completed . Han and Leia were canonically married in the later novel " The Courtship of Princess Leia " by Dave Wolverton . A retcon in " The New Essential Chronology " revealed that Trioculus , Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa and other members of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs were trying to overthrow Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard — who ruled the galactic capital of Coruscant — and usurp control of the Empire . Grand Moff Hissa connived to install Trioculus as the public leader of the Empire and gain support from the majority of the Imperials loyal to Isard . Isard is never mentioned in the series — in fact , it is frequently suggested there is no Imperial leader other than Trioculus — but this particular retcon was invented to fit the series into the established timeline . A retcon in the unlicensed Polyhedron 103 magazine stated that the " Jedi Prince " series had in fact been a children ' s story of the actual events told by Leia Organa Solo to her children Jacen , Jaina , and Anakin . However , this retcon was later ignored in " The Dark Side Sourcebook " which retconned the story to be true , but with numerous fixes — one of the most prominent , that the Kadann featured in the series was a con artist hired by Imperial Intelligence and the Prophets of the Dark Side were pretenders working for the Church of the Dark Side . The original Kadann never appeared in the novels , and the true Prophets of the Dark Side were hiding on Bosthirda during the events of the series . " " established that the false Kadann met his end after Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati — who hated the true Kadann — mistakenly thought that the pretender was the Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side and destroyed Scardia Station , killing the false Kadann . The origins of Triclops were revealed in " Aliens of the Empire " by Abel G . Peña and Rich Handley . Triclops was not Palpatine ' s biological son , but the product of a scientific experiment in which Darth Sidious hired scientists Mammon Hoole and Borborygmus Gog to study the spontaneous generation of life . Sly Moore obtained a Human female called Niobi as the test subject for the project . Niobi gave birth to a three - eyed mutant , and she and her son were banished by Sarcev Quest , a Dark Side Adept loyal to Emperor Palpatine . However , in 2013 , Peña and Handley wrote a new series of article for the official Star Wars Blog , entitled " " . In part one of that series , it was revealed that the three - eyed son of Niobi was in fact Trioculus . In part three of the article series , which was released on September 12 , 2013 , Handley and Peña finally tied Triclops with Sly Moore , but did not explicitly reveal the father ' s identity . Later in the year , Peña and Greg Mitchell co - wrote another blog article titled " " , which explicitely referred to Triclops as Palpatine ' s true son , not simply an alleged one . One conflict that has not been addressed involves the Rebel research center called DRAPAC on Mount Yoda . According to Timothy Zahn ' s " Heir to the Empire " , Leia , Luke ' s twin sister , didn ' t even know where Luke had been training during the " Millennium Falcon " stop at Bespin in " " until , after returning from an expedition to Dagobah five years after the Battle of Endor — well after the New Republic had been established on Coruscant — Luke confided where Yoda ' s secret retreat had been . Author commentary . " If we had written # 7 , however , I would remind you that it takes MANY STEPS to get down the aisle , and there is not one chance in hell that Han and Leia would have made it to the end of the aisle and sealed their marriage before a harrowing IMPERIAL ATTACK would have savaged their hoped for wedding and left it all in ruins . No nuptials took place that night , my dear friends . " – Paul Davids " This has been about 10 years and it ' s very hard to remember , except I recall we would have called one book SHADOWS OF OBIWAN . That was before " Shadows " showed up in other STAR WARS titles . " – Paul Davids " It may be helpful for you to know that our contract with Lucasfilm ( and Lucasfilm ' s contract with Bantam on our series ) was for six books with an option for an additional three , which would have made for a nine book series . At the time we anticipated the probability that the series would go to nine books , and therefore we had to plan ahead for where the next three stories would go . Though complete story outlines for the next three were never written , we definitely decided on some aspects of the future three stories ( 7 - 9 ) before books 4 - 6 were published . Our intent definitely was to have the Empire attack and ruin the intended wedding of Han and Leia before they ever said ' I do . ' The wedding never would have happened — and that ' s how book 7 would have begun . " – Paul Davids