In Star Wars’ current canon, we stand on the precipice of a return years in the making: at the end of Ahsoka’s first season, Grand Admiral Thrawn had made his way back from a galaxy even further away to restore a remnant Empire to glory and imperil the New Republic. But what happened when Thrawn made a comeback the last time in Star Wars’ former canon?
We all know the Thrawn Campaign—the story of Timothy Zahn’s legendary Heir to the Empire trilogy that will serve as the inspiration for Lucasfilm and Dave Filoni’s own plans for the Grand Admiral’s impending machinations. But a decade after Thrawn met his artful end in the Star Wars Expanded Universe at the climax of that campaign, one of Star Wars’ most legendary foes nearly made a comeback… in the wild story that became how the Galactic Civil War actually came to an end in the EU, 15 years after the events of Return of the Jedi: the Caamas Document Crisis.
