The Chiss Ascendancy is in danger. We learned about a mysterious threat to the Chiss in Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising. That book started a new Thrawn-centric trilogy, which makes sense as Thrawn is ...

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The Chiss play a unique role in the Star Wars galaxy. They’ve always been around, but never part of the galaxy’s politics at large. That’s because they inhabit a part of space called the Unknown ...

One curious fact about the Chiss is that many of their young are naturally force sensitive. Referred to as the Sight, the majority of force-sensitive children on Csilla were female. Because of the ...

Grand Admiral Thrawn, presumably thinking about just how to explain the many layers of his name to these dumb Imperials. Screenshot: Lucasfilm Star Wars is full of cool bullshit which is, in many ways ...

Zahn again proved himself to be one of Star Wars’ most agile storytellers with the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy. The prequel books further defined Thrawn, the autocratic Chiss Ascendancy empire, and a ...