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== Notable Pre-Disney EU Characters ==
* Thrawn: (See *below under villains since despite being created as part of the Legends - in fact, the 1991 book he debuted in is what began the Star Wars Expanded Universe - he was brought back into canon by Disney)

* Corran Horn: A Correllian detective who becomes a member of Rogue Squadron during the New Republic. Later becomes a Jedi. His unique bloodline makes him inept at telekinesis, but gives him the unique power of energy absorption. Often accused of being a Mary Sue by people who miss his huge ego and over confidence problem even though right from the start Wedge has to berate him on his putting himself before the squadron. Constantly makes bullheaded mistakes like ignoring his low fuel, causing him to run out of fuel, trying to use his girlfriend's dad infamy to his advantage on someone, before learning ''that's her dad'', thinking having a lightsaber and some ''very'' basic training made him invincible, which would have killed him if bacta didn't exist, and smugly mocked Exar Kun in his temple under the mistaken impression he's physically powerless, only to get mauled in return and needing rescue from Mara Jade. He had legitimate criticism about Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy and told Luke off when Luke tried to warn Corran about the lure of the Dark Side of the Force. Corran was once a police officer and God only knows how corrupt the Correllian police can be, so he's seen his own dark side from "down in the trenches" as it were. Also the only Rogue to ever get downed by SAMs. He also dated Chertyl Ruluwoor, a sterile Selonian (an alien race that resemble humanoid otters), during his time in CorSec, meaning he is also a [[furry]].

* Booster Terrik: A jolly but hot-tempered smuggler boss with a prosthetic eye. Helped Wedge find and kill the pirates who killed his family. Currently working/had to work to reestablish himself after a stint in Kessel, courtesy of Corran Horn's father Hal Horn. Father of Mirax Terrik. That his daughter is dating the son of the guy who put him away drives him crazy, but he eventually gets over it by coming to think of Corran as a Rogue instead of CorSec. Has a serious rivalry with Talon Karrde's organization. A crazy bluff eventually (and inadvertently) leads to him being the sole private owner of an Imperial Star Destroyer, which he operates as a mobile black market known as the Errant Venture.

* Mara Jade: A Force-sensitive former agent of Emperor Palpatine, and generally seen as Star Wars' second great strong female character after Leia (Nomi Sunrider wasn't high profile or developed enough). A fiery, snarky, sexy redhead who is generally considered one of the best characters to come out of the old EU.  Taken from her parents at a young age and raised as a servant to Palpatine, Mara trained with him and with his royal guards to become one of several high-level Force-using operatives with the title of "Emperor's Hand", though she used the cover story of being a dancer that Palps liked called Lianna.  A life of hard work gave Mara a liking for challenges, and she completed numerous missions for him, living the high life under his patronage.  Upon Palpatine's death, he gave Mara one last command and a Force geas - kill Luke Skywalker.  Bereft of the Emperor's patronage, without job skills besides spy and assassin and unable to find Luke, Mara was forced to live paycheck to paycheck in numerous jobs until becoming a smuggler under Talon Karrde.  When Mara finally met Luke, she tried to kill him but ened up in survival situations that forced them to work together.  When she finally learned the the truth of her master and killed and escaped Palpatine's compulsion when she killed Luke's clone.   Mara then joined the Jedi Order, and over the years Mara's grudging respect for Luke grew into love - which Luke ironically developed before Mara did despite Luke saying he didn't like fiery women like Mara, and the two eventually married.  Then a Yuuzhan Vong agent infected Mara with a deadly bioweapon, and she only survived through using the Force to keep it at bay.  When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded at large, she fought while struggling with the virus, being cured of it around the time her and Luke's son Ben was born.  After the Yuuzhan Vong War ended, Mara led the Jedi alongside Luke and fought in wars against various aliens and the re-emergent Sith.  Years later her nephew Jacen turned to the Dark Side and became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus.  When he tried to corrupt her son Ben, Mara tracked him down to kill him to protect Ben.  During the fight, Jacen killed Mara via cheap shot with a poisoned dart.  But before she died, Mara told Jacen off while using the Force to alert Luke and Ben and say goodbye to them (Mara's death was one of the main reasons the book series was hated by fans).  She later appeared numerous times as a Force ghost, visiting Luke - at one point to give him tips on how to fight Abeloth, and warning her great-great-grandson Cade Skywalker against the Dark Side.  Due to being a sexy redheaded woman with a backstory as a spy-cum-assassin (emphasis on cum for neckbeards) for an evil government before joining the good guys, plus her fiery disposition and penchant for black catsuits, Mara has more than a passing resemblance to Black Widow from Marvel Comics (ironically, this didn't stop Disney retconning her from the lore despite Disney now owning both the Marvel brand and Star Wars franchise).

* Ben Skywalker: Son of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade.  Named for Obi-Wan Kenobi's pseudonym, Ben grew up learning the ways of the Jedi from his parents.  He was close to his uncle, aunt and cousins too.  Ben was nearly lured to the Dark Side when his cousin Jacen became a Sith but resisted, and any bond between them was destroyed when Jacen killed Ben's mother Mara.  Years later when the Jedi got word of a lost tribe of Sith emerging and an emerging Force psychosis started spreading among the Jedi, Luke, Ben and the Jedi Order went to resolve the problem, Ben joining his father in re-tracing Jacen's steps to try and gain insight.  Things went from bad to worse when the Jedi and Sith encountered the Lovecraftian Force Entity Abeloth, a shapeshifting being described as a dozen times stronger in the Force than Luke and able to use both sides of it.  Things were so desperate, Ben accepted when Luke got the Jedi and the Sith to form an alliance against her.  During this time, Ben encountered Vestara Khoi, a Sith apprentice and daughter of one of their leaders.  While firmly on the side of the Jedi, Ben found himself often working alongside Vestara in their mission to stop Abeloth, and was attracted to her; for her part, Vestara reciprocated Ben's feelings but was hindered by Ben's disapproval of Sith.  Eventually they confessed their feelings, and the two became a couple (with Vestara also leaving the Sith and trying to become a Jedi).  Said co-operation proved invaluable when Abeloth kidnapped Ben and Vestara for the final part of her master plan.  After Abeloth's ultimate defeat Vestara, after a ruthless act while fighting Abeloth, became convinced she had much of a Sith mindset to be a Jedi, reverted back to the Sith, ended the relationship by zapping Ben with Sith Lightning before fleeing.  Heartbroken but resolute, Ben resolved to track her down and redeem her if possible (unbeknownst to Ben, Vestara was also heartbroken about leaving him).  

* Jacen Solo: While George Lucas always had a story idea for a son of Han and Leia struggling with the Dark Side, Jacen Solo was the first incarnation, and a major influence on Disney's Kylo Ren.  Born to Leia alongside his twin sister Jaina, he was a skilled Jedi, and often tried to be a calming influence on his younger brother Anakin Solo.  Played a pivotal role in the Yuuzhan Vong War, killing their military commander Tsavong Lah and their true leader.  However, his experiences during the war took a toll, and Jacen started struggling with the Dark Side. Falling into corruption of a Sith Lady, Jacen fell pretty hard. He became a Colonel in the Galactic Alliance and took control of their secret police and converted it into his own Personal SS division. He [[What|legally coup]] the Chief of State and turn the successor to the NR into a evil democratic republic. 

* Jaina Solo: Jaina Solo was a Human female Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order and member of the Jedi High Council.  Daughter of Han and Leia, twin sister of Jacen Solo and older sister to Anakin Solo, she inherited her father's mechanical aptitude and her mother's Force sensitivity, resulting in her eventual training at the Jedi Praxeum. During her time there as a youth, she had many adventures, including helping to thwart the Second Imperium, where she helped Zekk abandon the dark side of the Force and join the ranks of the Jedi.  She became a distinguished pilot during the Yuuzhan Vong War, which also saw the death of her brother Anakin Solo and the birth of her cousin Ben Skywalker. Becomes the Jedi Saber, the Order's sword against the dark. 

* Kyle Katarn: A stormtrooper commander who turns mercenary after learning the Imperials were responsible for the death of his father. After being one of the many people who stole the Death Star plans, he destroys an Imperial super soldier project essentially solo. After this he gets wrapped up in the head inquisitor's plot to revive the Empire and gets trained as a Jedi by a force ghost. Straightforward and prone to snark, but also very easy to trick. Partner (if not more) with hot space Asian Jan Ors. Considered one of the more powerful force users in the New Republic, even outside the games where his power level is rather over the top. Where Luke (and most Jedi) keep the dark side away with spiritualism and positivity, Kyle does it through sheer force of will.

* Talon Karrde: A suave rogue smuggler captain who became the new smuggling and black market kingpin after Jabba died. Compared to his predecessor, he's pretty benign given his preference for tariff evasion and illegal goods over straight up extortion and slaving and being a father to his men instead of someone who executes minions on whims.  His favored product is selling obscure and/or stolen information.  Explicitly what Han might have become if he didn't join the rebellion. Likes punny ship names, with his flagship the Wild Karrde (Wild Card, plus a pun on his last name) and secondary ships like Lastri's Ort (Last Resort), Uwana Buyer (You want to buy her?) and Amanda Fallow (A man to follow).  He makes a business arrangement with Mara Jade when she's trying to track Luke down to kill him, where he provided her information if she worked for him temporarily.  Years later he acts as a friend in the black market to the Solos and Skywalkers.

* Bevel Lemelisk: An old EU Character that hasn't been quite retconned out yet (even if Director Krennic and Galen Erso more or less took his place in the overall plot), Lemelisk is the Albert Speer/Wernher von Braun of the Imperial war machine. A genius architect and engineer with a serious boner for mass destruction, he designed the Death Star and several others of the Imperial Superweapons, like the discount Death Star battlestation ''Tarkin'' (kinda like a Proof-of-concept prototype for the Death Star concept)   or the ''Eclipse''-class of Super Star Destroyers. He bore the brunt of Palpatines anger for the Death Star's destruction, who had him tortured, executed and ressurrected via cloning several times for his failures. After the Empires defeat, he ended up working for the Hutts and worked on a Death Star knockoff called the Darksaber (which he purposefully sabotaged by not pointing out obvious design flaws and the overall shoddy construction work), where he was captured by the New Republic and executed for war crimes.

* Tsavong Lah: An alien [[Horus|Warmaster]], Tsavong was a member of the Yuuzhan Vong species and in charge of their military during most of the Yuuzhan Vong War.  His most notable accomplishments were conquering Coruscant and indirectly causing Anakin Solo's death.  Tsavong was a skilled tactician but a poor strategist, [[Commander Kubrik Chenkov|a ruthless fanatic who's willing to throw countless lives away to achieve his goals]].  Also took on the Vong Nom Anor as his advisor, despite hating Anor's self-centeredness and lack of piety.  At one point Jacen cut off his foot, so Tsavong [[Awesome|cloned an extinct super-predator so he could prove he was still badass by killing it and using one of its feet as a prosthetic foot]].  Also got caught up in a plot by the [[Haemonculi|Shaper Caste, seeking to control him through his body modifications]].  He also dearly loved his dad - a retired military officer he'd often turn to for advice, to the point that his death made Tsavong mentally unstable.  Came to view Jacen Solo as his archnemesis, and was eventually killed by him.   

* Nom Anor: A Yuuzhvan Vong member of the Intendant caste.  After the events of ROTJ, Nom arrived with a Vong advance force as a saboteur to undermine the galaxy in preparation for the Vong invasion/Yuuzhan Vong War.  During this time, Nom worked in disguise to manipulate various groups and even clashed with the Chiss Ascendancy... [[Not As Planned|the capture of some of his agents also clued the Empire in to the coming Vong threat]].  He was also such a selfish schemer even Thanquol would turn his nose up in disgust and a major [[Troll]]; before revealing his true identity, when negotiating with Leia he often dress up and act like Darth Vader just to mess with her.  Also notable for being an atheist while the Vong as a whole are characterized by being deeply religious.  Before the war, Nom infected Luke's wife Mara with a Vong bioweapon that caused a terminal illness, forcing her to use the Force to stop its progression.  When Mara confronted Nom, he tried and failed to kill her and was sent packing.  After being heavily demoted, Nom tried to rally the outcast class under the guise of a prophet, only to throw them away when they weren't useful to him.  Nom later found his way onto the Supreme Overlord's flagship ([[Asdrubael Vect|not that supreme overlord]]) during the battle to retake Coruscant.  When the Supreme Overlord was killed and the ship started falling apart, Nom tried to kill the heroes three times but was always thwarted.  When offered the chance to escape with the heroes, Nom realized he'd burned all his bridges; he didn't fit in anywhere and was too proud to reconsider his life choices or face punishment for his role in the war.  So Nom chose to stay behind and die on the exploding flagship.  Essentially [[Fabius Bile]] as a self-centered alien bureaucrat.

* A'Sharad Hett/Darth Krayt: A human Jedi-turned-Sith.  Born A'Sharad Hett, he was born to a Jedi and his wife who somehow managed to live among the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine, he eventually joined the Jedi Order, becoming a Padawan of Jedi Masters Ki-Adi-Mundi, and later, An'ya Kuro.  When he was only a teen, Hett's father was murdered by the Jedi assassin Aurra Sing, who was later defeated in a duel by a young A'Sharad Hett. During the Clone Wars, he served the Republic as a General. He met and eventually befriended Anakin Skywalker after Skywalker struggled to come to terms with Hett's Tusken heritage.  He managed to survive the Clone Wars and Order 66.  He was eventually captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, who [[Haemonculus|tortured and experimented on Hett]], which drove him to the Dark Side.

* Darth Talon: A female Twi'lek from the EU comic series "Star Wars: Legacy" who became a Sith Lord in Darth Krayt's One Sith in 137 ABY.  Best known for being one of Star Wars most fanservice-y characters on account of her attractive, tattoo-covered body and always wearing skimpy skin-tight clothing (though the character's creators have gone on record to say her appearance is meant to be primal not sexualized, and the skimpy outfit is to show off her tattoos).  Apart from the fanservice, she's also visually distinctive for being a rare red Twi'lek and the aforementioned black Sith tattoos.  Appointed personal assassin of Darth Kryat, Talon was sent to kill Luke's descendant Cade Skywalker, then later chosen to be Cade's Sith teacher when Darth Kryat tried to induct him into the Dark Side.  During this time, Cade and Talon drew close and w slept together, which may have been Kryat's plan (Cade and Talon are shown kissing, and in one scene Cade is shown getting out of bed while a naked Darth Talon is sleeping next to him).  Interestingly, George Lucas' original plan for a sequel trilogy involved Talon corrupting Han and Leia's son to the Dark Side of the Force and Talon was nearly in the Disney trilogy and there is early concept art of her.

* Abeloth: A Lovecraftian female entity strong in both the Light and Dark side of the Force, and one of the most powerful beings in any Star Wars canon.   She first lived as the Servant, a mortal woman who served the powerful Ones on an unknown jungle planet over a hundred thousand years before the Battle of Yavin. Over the course of her life, she became the Mother: she kept the peace between the Father's warring Son and Daughter and became a loving part of the family. But she was still mortal—she grew old while her ageless family lived on—and she feared she would lose her precious family. In a desperate attempt to hold onto the life she so loved, she drank from the Font of Power and bathed in the Pool of Knowledge. Her actions corrupted her, transforming the Mother into the twisted, immortal entity known as Abeloth.  Has numerous titles such as the Bringer of Chaos and Beloved Queen of the Stars (the latter self-proclaimed).  Spent millennia trapped on a planet by the Ones, though she'd escape only to be re-imprisoned once more.

* Natasi Daala: Tarkins lover (which, in a surprising twist for the kinds of stories Star Wars tells, was actually reciprocated), the first woman in the Imperial Navy to hold the rank of Admiral and certified badass. Sets herself apart from other Imperial leaders by being much less of a self-interested power-hungry warmonger and instead being fiercely and unquestionably loyal to the Empire and its ideals, which in turn also made her reasonable enough to not want to rule the Imperial Remnants like Thrawn or others, despite being more than capable of it. Her relationship with Tarkin and her sizeable aptitude as a tactician earned her the position to guard the Ultra-Top-Secret R&D base at the center of the clusters of black holes known as the Maw, where she commanded a small flotilla of four Star Destroyers. After having been isolated from the Empire for over a decade after the Battle of Yavin, never wavering from her posting in spite of the suspisous lack of new directions coming in, she was alerted to the fall of the Emperor when Han Solo accidentally crashed right into her turf. Being mightily pissed off, she proceeded to wreck shit for the New Republic just because she could. Later, she allied with Pellaeon, killed a bunch of imperial remnant warlords and helped him fight the New Republic in a series of battles, but vanished without a trace after she ordered her ship to make an unguided hyperspace jump and was declared dead, but not without giving Pellaeon a code with which he could call her she the need arise.

* Garm bel Iblis: The former Senator for the Correllian worlds, Iblis was part of the triumvirate that founded the Rebel Alliance alongside Mon Mothma and Bail Organa. Unlike the other two however, he started his career not as a politican, but as a military man, embodying the much more radical and aggressive factions of the Alliance, eventually splitting entirely from the Alliance in favor of waging an open war against the Empire for years at the helm of his own resistance faction (He was also unhappy with Mothmas leadership of the Alliance, as her demands of absolute political power over the Alliance jeopardized several Rebel operations that he had advised against). As a veteran of the Clone Wars and well connected within Correllian society, he assembled a sizeable force whose strength rivaled those of the Rebel Alliance and zip-zapped through Imperial Space while also exploring lost or badly known Hyperlane Routes, which eventually lead to the discovery of the Katana-Fleet; a sizeable fleet of ghost ships that had been lost decades prior. Since the knowledge about the Katana-Fleets whereabouts was crucial to both sides of the war during Thrawns campaign, Iblis found himself becoming an interesting target for both sides and begrudingly rejoined the Alliance, now the New Republic. As he was a fairly significant character (and a fan favorite) in the wider lore prior to Disneys takeover of the franchise, he tended to show up in various EU materials, like followup novels to Zahns Thrawn trilogy and even The Force Unleashed, where he played a major role in the overall plot. Empire at War even made him a unit, where he commanded a massive Tank with as many guns as a Baneblade.

* Tyber Zann: A crime boss who appearance-wise is Lucius Malfoy from Harry Potter in space (yes, really). Invented whole cloth for an expansion pack for the RTS title Empire at War (which is a pretty good game that you should check out) as the head of a criminal syndicate that he, in an expression of boundless humility, named after himself. While not having the best of characterizations, he is fondly remembered by Empire at War players for the priceless insults he dishes out against nearly every canon character that shows up over the course of his campaign. Best thought of as a kind of "Anti-Han Solo" (even has his own tall, furry/feathery loyal companion), as he is completely without moral restraints of any kind and fought the Rebels instead of helping them, and most above all, a colossal asshole whose scheming over the course of his campaign might even rival Palpatines own.

* Soontir Fel: Another fan-favorite and second token "Good Imperial" along with Pellaeon. Human TIE-Fighter pilot who commanded the elite 181st Starfighter Wing of the Imperial Navy and banged and married Wedge Antilles sister (a bit ironic considering he's basically Wedge's Imperial counterpart). While he is a bit of a pawn in the political plays of the big leaders of the Imperial Remnants, he is above all loyal to the Empire and the men under his command. It hardly needs mentioning in this context, but he is of course also a mad crackshot pilot who gave the New Republic a really hard time and defected to them after Ysanne Isard sacrificed his beloved 181st to buy herself time to escape from Coruscant, much to his outrage. His son later becomes one of the founding members of Lukes Jedi Order, and his descendants are running the revitalized Empire come Star Wars: Legacy.

* Ysanne Isard: Basically Star Wars version of Lawrenti Beria, the infamous head of the NKVD during the Stalin Era in the Soviet Union, or for another historical comparison, a female version of Reinhard Heydrich (she even had the nickname of "Ice-Heart", similar to Heydrich's title of "the man with the iron heart"). A prickly, sadistic woman that was in charge of the Imperial Intelligence Services during Palpatines rule and as such a major player in Imperial Politics. Even colder in her calculations than Tarkin, which is quite a feat, as well as equaling him and Palpatine in pure sociopathy (also quite something). She rose to prominence when she pulled off a coup d'êtat against the Council of Moffs that was nominally ruling the Empire in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor and concentrated all political power in her hand, only for her (and the New Republic) finding out that she isn't actually all that good at strategy. Her cold demeanor paired with a serious mean streak led to a great number of capable Imperial Worlds, Coruscant among them, deserting the Empire or defecting to the New Republic, setting the gradual disintegration of the Empire in stone. Her answer to this were war crimes in the form of biological weapons and tearing a hole into Coruscants skyline, killing millions in the process. Also has a Dark Eldar's love of (and expertise in), torture, [[Grimdark|and a preference for responding to desertions or betrayals by exterminating the offender's loved ones and, if there aren't any available, anyone tangentially connected to them.]] Her scheming wasn't worth much in the end and she ended up being killed by Booster Terrik.