23 - Showdown at Centerpoint

We finish up Roger MacBride Allen's Corellian trilogy with 1995's Showdown at Centerpoint. Does Roger stick the landing? Did the ending of this book get rushed due to page count limits from the publisher? Does the New Republic handle its crisis of legitimacy in a way that allows for future sedition in the exact same way? Listen to find out! Topics include the dropped ball of Gaeriel Captison's daughter, the evolutionary origin of humans in Star Wars, Han Solo's cultural chauvinism, and Lando marrying a woman he's spent a total of four hours with. Content warnings include racism, xenophobia, colonialism, and mentions of suicide. -- MEDIA --