## Chapter 18

1 Someone asked me once what kind of modern-day car Karrde would drive. I told him that it would probably be a nice, simple, family-style sedan or minivan. A Toyota or Ford maybe … with a Lamborghini V-12 engine tucked away under the hood.

—TZ

2 I envisioned a force cylinder as being a cylindrical version of the atmosphere screen we saw in the movies in big hatchways like those of the Death Star. An emergency docking tube, probably meant for temporary use only.

But given the prominent use of the term the Force, I really should have come up with a different name for this. Vac-walk cylinder, maybe. Way too late now.

—TZ

3 Somewhere along the line, one of the artists tackling Karrde either missed this description or else ignored it, and drew the man with long, flowing hair and a goatee. That’s the image that has now stuck for him.

Which is fine with me. Karrde is the type who would probably find it useful to change appearance every so often anyway, and by the end of the Thrawn Trilogy he could very well have looked like that.

It was also that image that Decipher used when they brought Mike Stackpole and me out to Virginia for a photo session to create their special Talon Karrde and Corran Horn cards.

I would never have guessed, as I was writing Heir, that I might someday end up on a collectible card. Life can be very strange sometimes.

—TZ

4 This became the basis of a line in the Essential Guides, which then became an entire book: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor by Matthew Stover.

—TZ