amphibian, on 29 January 2013 - 06:59 PM, said:
I hope the Noghri rock. No lisping Gungans or thbbpptthhing Ewoks, please.
A good idea...but the issue with that is Thrawn's goals really are just more suited to 5-years post-JEDI, a Galaxy in turmoil...40+ years later he's simply not going to be able to achieve the things he does...so he'd be Thrawn in name only really if he were jumped forward. I'm cool with that as I find him an impressive villain...but his THRAWN TRILOGY-motivations aren't suited to 40+ years Post-Empire...he'd be working with the Imperial Remnant at that point and unless they'd been keeping quite a low profile, then they'd likely have already been thrown down by the Republic (or whatever Arndt and JJ decide is what followed JEDI as political system).
I see what you are saying, but his machinations in the trilogy of books depend heavily on being SOON after JEDI.