Bring Back Mara Jade Skywalker! Sign the Petition!! July 3, 2007
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Mara Jade Skywalker didn’t have to die at the hands of Darth Caedus.
It was a wasted empty death…
Lucas Licensing apparently allowed this disaster to happen and now we should call on them to reverse it. The Sith have the power to bring back the dead and so too then does the Force.
Whether it is Ben or Luke Skywalker or even someone else I don’t care. I just want Mara Jade back.
To that end we here at ShowMeSciFi have started a petition to Bring Back Mara Jade.
Please sign in and together we can be THE FORCE that will bring Mara back.
Show Me SciFi 
ya! she was fucking hot!!!!
Bottom line is, there is no hope that Del Rey or anyone from Lucasfilm will change anything. If you don’t like how the current storyline is going, create your own in fan fiction. No one can die in your own imagination if you don’t want them to. And the only way to hurt Del Rey is to stop buying the books. Be like our beloved heroine and take a stand.
Actually there is Hope I came across a Fanfic that could give Del Rey and Lucasfilm an out on the whole killing Mara thing and it sounded very plausible to me. It’s only a matter of Them finding out about it and choosing to go with it.
In the Story Jacen wasn’t nearly as unprepared for Mara’s attack on him as the books suggested infact he was very well prepared and that the whole thing was actually an elaborate trap. It suggested that one of the reasons Jacen never felt Mara coming wasn’t so much that she was hidding herself in the force but that there was a nutrient frame with a ysalmiri in the large storage compartment of he StealthX
that during the fight in the cave when he stabbed Mara with the poison dart that the dart actually contained a very powerful drug which had the same initial effects but in the end caused a Chemically induced Coma that not even a Jedi could resist. It also suggested that one of the Force skills Jacen a learned while traveling the galaxy was to push an elemental force discharge that would make other force users think you were dead, he figured a way to modify this technique to push the same discharge through someone else thus giving it that persons unique force signature. Even Mara thought she was dying so when she fell into unconsciousness, Jacen used this technique to make everyone think that she was dead. He then used his force abilities to hide her in the force the same way he’d hidden Lumiya in the force from the Jedi. After wards he carried Mara out to his StealthX where he pulled a small Special Intelligence Medical Droid which scanned the injures on Mara’s body and then duplicated them exactly on the Mara Clone which was unconscious with in the same storage compartment. After that he traded Mara’s battle scared clothing for a gray prisoners body suite and put Mara’s clothing on the Mara Clone. At this point he bound and gaged the real Mara and put her into the StealthX’s large storage compartment and strapped her to the ysalamiri which effectively took over any need to hide her in the force. Jacen then stabbed the Mara Clone in the leg with a real Poison dark which killed her. Then he took the now dead Clone Mara back into the cave and left her where the real Mara had been. After that he just left the real Mara in the storage compartment until he could take her to his special and very secret Jedi prison in an undisclosed location where there are a lot of ysalamiri to both help control the prisoners and to hide them in the force. “After all no one mounts a rescue mission for the dead.”
was what he had said. Jacen saw the potential in Mara having once been the Emperor’s Hand and he has hopes of slowly over a long time of turning her to the dark side to serve him. Oh and as for the force ghosts of Mara the were seen by Ben and Luke. They were the same kind of force projected phantoms that Lumiya and Alem had used in earlier Legacy of the Force books. Now this one is a newer force skill for Jacen and with out Lumiya’s dark side energy laced asteroid to help he can only create one such phantom at a time and use it at any distance. But with this Fake Mara ghost Jacen now has a tool to which he can mislead the Jedi and perhaps even use it to destroy them. As for the Mara Ghost helping Ben find the hair well that was covered too. In the fanfic story Jacen had quietly made sure that the cleaning droids would leave it right where it was and by helping Ben find it he only made it a little easier for the Jedi for discover what he felt they would on their own anyways given time and by helping them with his fake Mara force ghost his new tool gains credibility. As far as the confession to Ben’s GAG/ex-cop friend well do you really think that Jason had no idea what was happening the whole time. Come on Sith Lord matching wits and skills with a normal every day person.
At any rate I thought it was an interesting and even plausible way to say that Mara was still alive and it even could fall in with the over all cannon. Now it’s just a matter of Del Rey and Lucasfilm getting hold of it and deciding that they like it. Personnally I think it gives them a nice out and gives the fans that want Mara back exactly what they want. It also would allow for Mara’s more direct influence on future books.
Invincible spoiler alert
this is the pubilshers summary for invuncible
The war between the Galactic Alliance and the Corellian Confederation is building to a boiling point. Now the fate of the galaxy hangs on what is about to happen among a lonely cluster of asteroids. At Nickel One, base of the Verpine munitions industry, Jacen Solo assembles a fleet that can crush the Jedi Coalition. But even with the Imperial Remnant’s troops at his command, he may soon find himself outmatched…
Luke Skywalker knows the Jedi will never leave the hidden base at Shedu Maad alive unless they hunt down and kill Jacen Solo. But Luke, tainted by his killing of Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith, could fall to the dark side if he goes after Jacen himself. Having finished her training with Boba Fett, Jaina Solo realizes she’s the only one who can bring her brother down. So she sets off to finish what Mara Jade Skywalker started — unaware that Luke is using his Force abilities to mask her with his image. As Jacen’s Remnant fleet collides with Confederation and Mandalorian forces at Nickel One, a battle-royale explodes at Shedu Maad. Now, only a fatal clash between the Dark Lord of the Sith and the Sword of the Jedi may turn the tide of war…
I used to love the SW EU, but now sometimes, I seriously wonder why I persist. The world I used to know and love is long gone! I think it may have started to die around the time that Chewbacca was killed. Mara’s death may have just been the final nail in the coffin. I just didn’t realize it until recently.
I used to love the Solo kids and their friends, but now the only decent one is dead, the other son is a Sith Lord (and the one who killed Mara, mind you), and the girl has spent more time having her two ex-boyfriends tail her around than actually having a decent plot development until the second-last book, and even then it all seems kind of forced. I mean, can Karen Traviss love the Mandalorians any more than she does now? I doubt it.
I have got Revelation, and I do intend to read it eventually (right after I’m done with DUNE: THE MACHINE CRUSADE), but I’m thinking that after LOTF, I might bail.
I was devestated when mara jade was killled off, she was the best of all the star wars characters.
Maybe it was for the best though. I don’t think any of the star wars writers (that I have read) apart from timothy zahn were able to do her character justice.
I don’t think I’ll bother with the next in the LOTF series and certainly won’t bother with any future star wars books now that her character has died.
I just hope that there are a few more Timothy Zahn books to be written that are set between “Vision of the future” and the start of the yuuzhan vong war that feature mara jade and Luke off on another adventure.
You know, my uncle likes Star Wars, but he like most casual fans, he knows next-to-nothing of the EU, so I had to educate him. Of course, when I told him about Chewbacca’s death, he refused to believe me! And now we’ve got authors killing off characters left, right and centre! If any of them are still alive at the end of LOTF, I’ll be friggin’ amazed!
Also, I’m disappointed by the lack of development by other characters outside the Skywalker/Solo families. Characters like the Horn siblings, the Antilles sisters, Lowbacca, Raynar (provided he gets rehabilitated), shit, even Zekk and Jag could have been developed into better characters and to prove that they don’t need to be tied down to Jaina. But did the authors do that? NO! That’s why I’m hoping that Jaina will pick neither of them. Because if she does, that will kind of prove to the readers that the guy (whoever it may be) has little importance other than being Jaina’s male bitch. (OW baby!)
Face it, the EU is just not a fun place anymore.
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.
Those words are so easy to say, and yet so difficult to follow.
I suspect that Yoda had never been a father, nor a husband in which he had never lost a son, daughter, or a beloved wife. I have lost a father and grandmother in the past 8 years and I still miss them and mourn them to this day and beyond. Tell me, Yoda, how that makes me greedy!
They died in reality.
In my imagination, Mara Jade is still alive and well.
True greed is when a certain publisher puts out a 9 book series of supposed pro fiction that reads like bad fan fiction