SOTE: Evolution begins with the most frustrating case of 'look-at-how-badass-my-original-character-is' Mary Sue-isms I've ever seen. (Most of the covers were pretty neat, but this one was my favourite). Without further ado, I give you Shadows Of The Empire: Evolution, the book in which we found out what happened to Guri of all the characters. Instead, Dash, Leebo, Guri, Xizor, and Black sun would reappear in more EU novels, comic books, and short stories. Nor would there be any more video game appearances aside from that seen in X-Wing Alliance and a cameo or two in games like Galactic Battlegrounds. Unfortunately, aside from a few easter eggs, none of the SOTE characters would get a jump to the big or small screen. These projects were a chance to flesh out Perry's characters, and that's what I'm going to show off here. There were all sorts of smaller projects that related to the project added to the EU, including an official sequel penned by Steve Perry himself. That said, Lucas wasn't willing to let Shadows rest after just the original run. It's funny, though, cause they used Xizor's Micro Machine model. Oh, and Xizor made a cameo in the podracing crowd in The Phantom Menace, but, you know, Order 66, no prequel talk, yadda yadda. And don't forget that the Outrider, ASP Loading Droids, and the Sentinel-Class Imperial Landing Craft, all originally from SOTE, made appearances in the Special Edition of A New Hope. He like SOTE so much that he once said that he would have made a film out of it if he hadn't have been distracted with the prequel trilogy. It was a very successful venture and Lucas later used it as a model to kick off his Clone Wars multimedia project and the Force Unleashed project. I haven't read it, but it looks pretty cool.

There was even a book released that chronicled the Shadows project. Just as a reminder, the SOTE multimedia project also included trading cards, metallic collector cards, a toy line, a junior novelization, an audiobook version, and even a freaking Micro Machine collection! I focused primarily on the largest media products in this thread (i.e., the game, the novel, the soundtrack, and the comic), but it was truly a multimedia affair. Let's talk about Shadow Of The Empire some more. Part 13: Shadows of the Empire: The Comic

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