Today, Star Wars is everywhere. You can't escape it.
But in 1996, it was a very different story. 15 years after the Death Star exploded in Return of the Jedi, fans (myself included) were ravenous for anything Star Wars related.
It was the Expanded Universe that kept us going. Timothy Zahn's Thrawn novels, classic games like Dark Forces, and compilations of short stories like Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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