The Courtship of Princess Leia

01 · Summary

What the book is about

A New Republic-era adventure that introduced Dathomir, the Witches of Dathomir, and the Hapes Consortium to Legends.

IDS catalogs it as Legends and places it in the New Republic era.

It is cataloged as a standalone title in the current IDS record.

The book is indexed for Adult readers in the Novel format.

02 · Publication file

Where it sits in Star Wars publishing

The Courtship of Princess Leia was published in 1994 and is cataloged by IDS as a Adult novel in Legends continuity.

The current archive treats it as a standalone volume, though it may connect closely to screen stories, other novels, comics, or reference works.

03 · People

Major characters

The character list below comes from the IDS book record and is intended as a reading guide rather than a complete cast list.

04 · Places

Major locations and spatial context

Locations are indexed when the existing book record clearly identifies them. IDS connects book geography back to the wider archive so readers can move from a story to the worlds and social settings that shape it.

05 · Institutions

Organizations, traditions, and political systems

These links identify institutions or traditions that are clearly implicated by the current title, era, series, or summary. They are guides into the wider archive, not claims that each organization is equally central to every chapter.

06 · IDS lens

What this book can reveal

This book is especially useful for examining resistance, political legitimacy, postwar reconstruction, coalition-building, and the difficulty of turning insurgent movements into durable institutions.

The purpose of this lens is not to score the novel. It identifies social questions that the story makes easier to study and connects the book to the wider IDS archive.