Editing Princess Leia (section)

==== Post-''Return of the Jedi'' ====
The bestselling [[Thrawn trilogy|''Thrawn'' trilogy]] (1991–93) by Timothy Zahn begins five years after the events of ''Return of the Jedi''.<ref name="SW Heir"/> In ''Heir to the Empire'' (1991), Leia is married to Han and three months pregnant with twins. [[Noghri]] commandos repeatedly attempt to kidnap her as part of [[Grand Admiral Thrawn]]'s plan to restore the Empire and crush the New Republic.<ref name="heir">{{cite book |title=[[Heir to the Empire]] |date=1991 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |publisher=Bantam Books |author-link=Timothy Zahn |isbn=0-553-07327-3 }}</ref> In ''[[Dark Force Rising]]'' (1992), Leia realizes that Darth Vader and the Empire deceived the Noghri to secure their allegiance, and by revealing the truth she turns the alien race to the side of the New Republic.<ref name="dark rising">{{cite book |title=[[Dark Force Rising]] |date=1992 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=0-553-08574-3 }}</ref> At one point, she remembers her adoptive parents on Alderaan, implying that the "mother" she discussed with Luke on Endor was Queen Breha.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Dark Force Rising]] |date=1992 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |isbn=978-0553560718|pages=350–51|publisher=Random House Worlds }}</ref> In ''[[The Last Command (novel)|The Last Command]]'' (1993), Leia gives birth to the twins [[Jaina Solo|Jaina]] and [[Jacen Solo]] on [[Coruscant]] during Thrawn's siege.<ref name="command">{{cite book |title=[[The Last Command (novel)|The Last Command]] |date=1993 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |publisher=R.R. Bowker Company |isbn=0-553-09186-7 }}</ref>

Leia, now the Chief of State of the New Republic, is a minor character in the [[Jedi Academy trilogy|''Jedi Academy'' trilogy]] (1994) by [[Kevin J. Anderson]], set after the ''Thrawn'' trilogy. Next in the timeline is the ''Callista'' trilogy: ''[[Children of the Jedi]]'' (1995) by [[Barbara Hambly]], ''[[Darksaber (novel)|Darksaber]]'' (1995) by Anderson and ''[[Planet of Twilight]]'' (1997) by Hambly. In ''[[The Crystal Star]]'' (1994) by [[Vonda McIntyre]], young Jacen, Jaina and their three-year-old brother [[Anakin Solo|Anakin]] are kidnapped in a plot to restore the Empire, but are rescued by Leia and Chewbacca. Leia struggles with the responsibilities of her position in ''[[The Black Fleet Crisis]]'' trilogy (1996) by [[Michael P. Kube-McDowell]]. In ''[[The New Rebellion]]'' (1996) by [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], she avoids an assassination attempt and then aids in the defeat of the [[Dark Jedi]] Kueller, whom she shoots to death. [[The Corellian trilogy|The ''Corellian'' trilogy]] (1995) by [[Roger MacBride Allen]] finds Han and Leia swept up in a civil war while visiting his homeworld of [[Corellia]] with their children. In the two ''[[The Hand of Thrawn|Hand of Thrawn]]'' novels by Timothy Zahn (1997's ''[[Specter of the Past]]'' and 1998's ''[[Vision of the Future]]''), Leia tries to hold the New Republic together as Moff Disra conspires for its volatile factions to destroy each other. Leia appears periodically in the ''[[Young Jedi Knights]]'' series (1995–98) by Kevin J. Anderson and [[Rebecca Moesta]]. The 14-volume [[young adult fiction]] series covers the Jedi training of Jacen and Jaina.<ref name="THR Jacen">{{cite web |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/how-abandoned-star-wars-expanded-850987 |title=How the Abandoned ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe Inspired ''Force Awakens'' |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |first=Graeme |last=McMillan |date=December 23, 2015 |access-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101175332/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/how-abandoned-star-wars-expanded-850987 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Slate Jacen">{{cite web |last=Bouie |first=Jamelle |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/16/how_the_force_awakens_remixes_the_star_wars_expanded_universe.html |title=How ''The Force Awakens'' Remixes the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe |date=December 16, 2015 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=December 20, 2015 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213145229/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/16/how_the_force_awakens_remixes_the_star_wars_expanded_universe.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ScreenRant Jacen">{{cite web |last=Kendrick |first=Ben |url=https://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-kylo-ren-backstory-identity-explained/ |title=''Star Wars 7:'' Kylo Ren Backstory Explained |date=December 18, 2015 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |access-date=December 20, 2015 |archive-date=December 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219234116/http://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-kylo-ren-backstory-identity-explained/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="DenofGeek Jacen">{{cite web |last=Saavedra |first=John |url=http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/251420/star-wars-the-force-awakens-easter-eggs-and-reference-guide/page/0/2 |title=''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' Easter Eggs and Reference Guide (Kylo Ren/Ben Solo and the Knights of Ren) |date=December 17, 2015 |publisher=[[Den of Geek]] |access-date=December 18, 2015 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213015929/http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/251420/star-wars-the-force-awakens-easter-eggs-and-reference-guide/page/0/2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In ''[[The Truce at Bakura]]'' (1993) by [[Kathy Tyers]], set one day after the ending of ''Return of the Jedi'', Leia establishes New Alderaan, a sanctuary for the destroyed planet's surviving inhabitants. The spirit of Anakin Skywalker appears to Leia and pleads for her forgiveness, but she angrily banishes him. The six-volume [[Jedi Prince series|''Jedi Prince'' series]] (1992–93) by [[Paul Davids]] and Hollace Davids, later contradicted by other novels, is set within a year after ''Return of the Jedi''. In ''[[The Glove of Darth Vader]]'' (1992), the self-proclaimed son of the defeated Emperor [[Palpatine]], [[Trioculus]], seeks the titular glove to cement himself as the new Emperor. Entranced by Leia's beauty in ''[[The Lost City of the Jedi]]'' (1992), Trioculus vows to make her his queen. He captures her in ''[[Zorba the Hutt's Revenge]]'' (1992), but Jabba the Hutt's vengeful father, [[Zorba the Hutt|Zorba]], offers to trade his own prisoner [[Ken (Star Wars)|Ken]]—Palpatine's real grandson whom Trioculus has been seeking—for Leia, his son's killer. But Leia and Ken are rescued and Trioculus is frozen in carbonate by Zorba. ''[[Mission from Mount Yoda]]'' (1993) finds Ken's father [[Triclops (Star Wars)|Triclops]] alive and willing to join the Rebels against the Empire. Leia, now engaged to Han, is captured by Zorba in ''[[Queen of the Empire]]'' (1993). Trioculus is revived and seizes Leia before Zorba can kill her. Leia is rescued and replaced with a lookalike droid decoy, which kills Trioculus. In ''[[Prophets of the Dark Side]]'' (1993), Leia looks forward to her wedding to Han and has a vision of their two children. [[Matthew Stover]]'s 2008 standalone novel ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'' picks up the story soon after, as Luke, Leia and the Rebels fight the [[Sith]] Lord Shadowspawn.

In ''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]'' (1994) by [[Dave Wolverton]], set immediately before the ''Thrawn'' trilogy, Leia is presented with an advantageous political marriage to [[Prince Isolder]] of the planet Hapes. A jealous Han abducts Leia and takes her to the planet Dathomir; Luke and Isolder follow, and there they all find the hidden forces of the Imperial warlord Zsinj.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia'' (Review) |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dave-wolverton/star-wars-the-courtship-of-princess-leia/ |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=May 20, 2010 |access-date=December 7, 2015 |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208175352/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dave-wolverton/star-wars-the-courtship-of-princess-leia/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Defeating him, Han and Leia marry.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]] |first=Dave |last=Wolverton |author-link=Dave Wolverton |date=1994 |publisher=[[Bantam Spectra]] |isbn=0-553-08928-5}}</ref> The 2003 novels ''[[A Forest Apart]]'' and ''[[Tatooine Ghost]]'' by [[Troy Denning]] are set immediately after ''The Courtship of Princess Leia''. The newly married Leia fears that any children she has may succumb to the dark side like her father. During an adventure on [[Tatooine]] in ''Tatooine Ghost'', she discovers the diary of her grandmother [[Shmi Skywalker]] and meets some of young Anakin's childhood friends. When she learns of Anakin's childhood as a slave and the traumatic death of his mother, Leia learns to forgive her father.