Mara Jade’s first look in “Inheritor to the Empire” explains that she as soon as served Palpatine, however that a part of her historical past wasn’t explored till later within the Expanded Universe. In essence, Mara is raised by Sidious to be a robust pawn — a Pressure-sensitive murderer despatched to search out rebels and treacherous imperials alike. Curiously, her lightsaber throughout this time is magenta-hued, not purple.
Mara’s title of Emperor’s Hand belonged to a number of brokers who served Palpatine, however they have been saved oblivious of each other. The closest parallel within the trendy canon can be the Imperial Inquisitors, who do know of and work with one another however always compete for the approval of Darth Vader.
When Palpatine is killed on the second Demise Star, he sends a telepathic Pressure message to Mara, ordering her to seek out and kill Luke Skywalker. This command compels her to actual revenge towards Luke past her personal want, and it is not till a lot later within the Star Wars Legends timeline that she manages to combat off the compulsion that Palpatine thrusts upon her.
Within the years after the Empire’s fall, Mara works intermittently as a smuggler. She additionally trains at Luke’s new Jedi college and, after quite a few makes an attempt to keep away from her future, joins the order correctly. The 2 develop nearer and nearer by Timothy Zahn’s “Spectre of the Previous” and “Imaginative and prescient of the Future” novels, which comprise the “Hand of Thrawn” duology, which is about after the unique “Inheritor to the Empire” trilogy. Luke proposes by the top of “Imaginative and prescient of the Future,” they usually get married in Michael A. Stackpole and Robert Teranishi’s “Star Wars: Union” comedian.