Borsk Fey'lya and the Loyal Opposition

I’ve mentioned a few times before that I pretty much lost all interest in the EU about halfway through the New Jedi Order series, largely because I found it pointlessly depressing. And since then I’ve had no interest in going back to find out what happened in the rest of the series. There’s two reasons for this; number one, I never really cared about the story when I was reading it, and two, because the ending I’ve constructed in my head is no doubt much more satisfying than whatever ended up being published.

See, in my trawling through the internet, I have ended up finding out one major detail about the storyline of the New Jedi Order – that Borsk Fey’lya sacrificed himself, killing thousands of Yuuzhan Vong soldiers in the process. So in my personal interpretation, that’s the end of the story. Fey’lya’s sacrifice destroyed the majority of the Vong invasion force, ending the threat forever and saving the galaxy.

Because, you see, Fey’lya is one of my favourite characters, and if he’s going to die, I want it to be a galaxy-changing event, and I want everyone to be forced to recognise his heroism and apologise for ten years of novels where he was portrayed as a villain, often with little to no justification.

( Politics isn’t something the post ROTJ-EU handled very well.  )