However, Mara would soon be pretty much wiped from canon all together, sort of similar to another marriage made in comics with another redhead with the initials MJ: Unfortunately, Mara is unfortunately killed in the novel “Sacrifice”, part of the Legacy of the Force series. Luke and Mara eventually have many happy years together, and she gives birth to a son, although they still have to deal with the Yuzzhan Vong threat, and a few other bad guys. Which is nearly crashed by former Imperials, because naturally it’s not Star Wars without a little bit of war in it:īut it all ends happily, at least for now.

Luke and Mara get two ceremonies, one a Jedi one (This is before AOTC firmly established Jedi didn’t get married, but since the Jedi Order in the EU at this point was a bit different than the old, it’s an easy thing to explain-and sort of is in the bottom panel here) The series is mainly goofy fun, with both Luke and Mara’s parties-made of both movie and original EU creations (including several by Michael Stackpole, who wrote the series) preparing for the wedding, including selecting dresses, spa-days, jitters…. In-between this, Dark Horse set a new limited series, “Union”, which would chronicle the marriage. Instead of mainly publishing standalones and trilogies like Bantam did (although that’s largely what they’re doing these days), they would start out with an ambitious 20 part novel series, “The New Jedi Order”. The HOTT also was Bantam’s swan song for their publishing of the franchise, with new publisher Del Rey announcing a shift.

She first appeared in the novel “Heir to The Empire”, and proved popular with fans of the novels, and appeared in several of the sequel novels. In the 1999 “Hand of Thrawn” duology, Luke Skywalker proposed Marriage to Mara Jade, a former member of the Emperor’s Hand, a force-sensitive operative turned smuggler who originally wanted to kill Luke for depriving her of her Master (who she believed had a greater role in his death than he actually did). Some spoilers below for the New Jedi Order/Dark Nest/Legacy of the Force novels.

Mara jade michael a stackpole