Star Wars Makes The Coolest Star Destroyer Canon Again
Star Wars has made the coolest Star Destroyer, the Errant Venture, canon once again. Star Wars is one of the most well-established transmedia franchises, and its first official tie-in novel, Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye, was published back in 1978 — meaning it predates even The Empire Strikes Back. Still, it wasn't until the 1990s that the Expanded Universe really became a success, with the publication of a range of New York Times bestselling novels. These aren't considered canon anymore, but they left an indelible mark on the franchise nonetheless.
Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston's X-Wing books were some of the most popular of all the Expanded Universe stories. They moved the franchise away from the Jedi and focused on a team of skilled pilots fighting on the front lines. Naturally, it wasn't long before the Force wove its way into the stories, with one of the X-Wing pilots — Corran Horn, a former Corellian police officer who'd turned against the Empire — discovering he had inherited the powers of a Jedi. Corran eventually became the central character, even starring in a tie-in called I, Jedi, and he wound up marrying into the family of a smuggler and gambler named Booster Terrik. Booster captured an Imperial Star Destroyer and converted it into a mobile gambling den called the Errant Venture. Hilariously, he spray-painted it bright red to differentiate it from other ISDs.
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Surprisingly, Lucasfilm's latest book — Adam Christopher's Shadow of the Sith — has unexpectedly made the Errant Venture canon. One scene in the book sees Lando Calrissian visit a gambling den on Boxer Point Station in the Janx System, and he reflects that his performance
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