Expounded Universe

The grand finale and ... it all goes exactly how we've been saying it would. Painfully so. I guess that's the curse of licensed genre fiction, eh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finally some goddamn aliens. Also, a discourse on the nature of X-files episode endings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shit seems to have begun to pop off in a big way. There's bodies and soldiers and earthquakes and all kinds of shit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh no! An important character has come to an unfortunate end! Also military men are willing to shoot cats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

God we're getting sloppy, this episode doesn't even have Jakes in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our heroes (and a hidden villain perhaps?) begin their trek into the mysterious jungle, meanwhile a new super soldier enters the fray, and he might be the best of the best of the best, sir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our heroes hit Cancun as we start killing off side characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Background extras abound as our heroes mostly just faff around checking in with the lone gunmen and collect NPCs they'll need for later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, if you let Jon off the leash, you get X thing that isn't Star Wars, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised we're reading about Mulder and Scully now. And some archaeologist named Cassandra Rubicon who you simply must know is incredibly hot, it is vital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, we rerecorded this one, something went all screwy with the original recording. Don't worry, the only thing Jef never forgets is jokes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We arrive once more upon the closing of a narrative, as our heroes do basically everything this book was supposed to be about, in about seven pages of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The penultimate chapter? Really? Okay I guess. Anyway Vader turns up but honestly doesn't really do much of anything. There's a war though! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Halla's back! But I already used that name joke. Damn it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's not sugarcoat it, this whole chapter is Luke and Leia walking through a cave tunnel. Yes they get in a shocking fight at the end, but at what cost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon's on vacation, and Claire wants to make Jef listen to AP, so here we go, two episodes of the podcast classic Campaign Star Wars. What will Jef do when forced to confront Actual Play? Who knows!? Actually it was fine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone runs from a pre-exogorth exogorth. It's sorta neat how often big white snakes turn up in Star Wars. Someone should do something with that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The escape is great! Our heroes carve an unusually gory trail to freedom and a great big truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whoa, stuff happens! This book hasn't been bad but it certainly has felt like it needs to get on with things, and here we go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well boy, ah say boy, we done found the voice for one of our particular villains in this here page-turner and it dominates the episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the perils of recording early is I'm guaranteed to forget what the episode was. But good news, I think they met one of this book's big bad guys, a pugnacious and dangerous Imperial officers hanging around in a ziggurat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey hey, it's time to meet Halla! She's a fun archetype that was made common in West End Games Star Wars RPGs, the burnout force user. We're also gonna find out about the big MacGuffin of the book this chapter, the Kaiburr Crystal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode our heroes discover a hidden city on their homeworld, and if you thought going back to 1978 would fix the Leia characterizations, you've got ... another think coming, I guess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can't get earlier Star Wars EU novels than this right here. Welcome to the "sequel in case the sequels didn't happen" of Star Wars, where the force was still mysterious and Luke didn't know who his sister was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why, it's the twilight of Jedi Twilight! And frankly? Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That ended abruptly! Sure enough we get a chapter containing both Vader and Xizor, but... eh you'll see. Also there's some robots and some big-ish reveals, I suppose! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices