Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book II: Greater Good) (Star Wars: The Ascendancy Trilogy)

The Chiss Ascendancy is the center of power, light, culture, and calm within the Chaos. The Nine Ruling Families lead, and the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet protects. Senior Captain Mitth’raw’nuruodo, captain of the Springhawk, is on a quest the bring honor to the Chiss Ascendancy, to expand his knowledge of the worlds beyond the Chiss home planets, and to rid the Chaos of the Nikardun. With the Nikardun weakened, there is a new threat. As Thrawn helps a group of refugees whose home world was left in ruin by the Nikardun, he uncovers a plot to send the Chiss Families into a civil war.

Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good is the second book in Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Ascendancy series and his fifteenth Star Wars novel overall. As with all of Zahn’s books, we are treated to dramatic battle scenes, dynamic characters, and more understanding of the Star Wars universe. In this book, we get to see more of Thrawn’s insight and cunning as well as a better view into the Chiss home worlds, the Chiss people, and family politics. This latest chapter of the Thrawn saga is a fast-paced novel involving new characters that were not featured in the movies. Zahn continues to expand the Star Wars universe in exciting ways.