Found my old star wars guide to planets and moons book, and its fun that it has a "timeline of important events" which goes directly from the great sith war to Han Solo joining the imperial academy, and ends with jacen and jaina solo joining the new jedi academy and fighting the second imperium.
No phantom menace nor yuuzhan vong which would be introduced just the next year. And yet we have a Palpatine somehow returned.
Hey, no mention of Mara Jade. How dare they