https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/expounded-universe-97-moonstruck.mp3 The somewhat less thrilling epilogue. Once we’re all done digging our way through Vector Prime, it’s time to answer a surprisingly large amount of listener questions! And we do exactly that. Then, just when you think it can’t get more exciting, it does, as we announce the next book! What will it be? Well, you’re about an hour from that answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 7 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/expounded-universe-96-the-shield-ships-of-fart-planet-b.mp3 The thrilling conclusion! Oh… hold on actually there’s apparently two chapters left? With eight pages in them total? What’s happening back here? Anyway the war rages on til some dramatic stuff definitely happens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 05, 2019•1 hr 1 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-95-daddy-warshacks.mp3 Jef is stuck in last week, but the show goes on! The post battle conversations are equal parts thrilling and samey, and someone forgot to watch the twins, so off they go again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 6 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-94-space-invaders-and-asteroids.mp3 Today it’s the Solo family(and Kyp) facing off against the might of the big bad Vong, as Prefect Da’Gara brings his fight directly to the doorstep of Lando’s Folly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-93-thats-amore.mp3 Oh boy, Luke’s into it now. Ready for another chapter of him taking all day to do something he couldn’t possibly do forever? It’s here! All that and the long-earned rest of a legend on today’s episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 16, 2019•57 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/expounded-universe-92-big-bad-beetle-borgs.mp3 As they inevitably must do, the good guys and bad guys finally begin to converge. Yomin straps on all his gooptech while Han encounters some surprisingly political albinos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 07, 2019•1 hr 8 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/expounded-universe-91-the-dozen-and-2-avengers-endgame.mp3 A chapter focusing on Kyp Durron being a pompous douchebag lost in his own little world? This book just keeps giving us gifts. Also Dani remains a badass and Han sputters and blutters or whatever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 19 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/expounded-universe-90-what-if-episode-5-again.mp3 It’s sort of nice to have the main characters compressed into a single narr… hey wait a minute this the same as last time! Indeed, the Yuuzhan Vong continue to rampage around murdering everyone while the Skywalker gang doodles around at a theme park ride. Will this book ever get back on track? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 19, 2019•58 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/expounded-universe-89-vacation-all-i-ever-wanted.mp3 It’s sort of nice to have all the boring main characters condensed into a single wish fulfillment narrative while the Vong go about the wet gooey business of murdering scientists, so at least this is a satisfying couple of chapters! Also we find out what kind of couch there was in the TIE Advance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 5 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-88-party-on-garth.mp3 Uhhh, I guess the Vong continue to get real? Even though our main character gang has changed planets, it still feels like they’re in prep mode instead of getting on with it, but at least we get to learn about even more of Yomin Carr’s gross menagerie of single-purpose pain tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-87-hyperdriving-miss-daisy.mp3 The Vong plot gets real as their first ships enter the regular type galaxy and go all octopus ham on an ice planet. Meanwhile Anakin and Jacen have some serious discussions while Chewie gets pretty slapstick with a senator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 23, 2019•1 hr 1 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-86-bolhpur-deez-nuts.mp3 Luke and Jacen march headlong into a council meeting and you know what that means… it’s time to learn a bunch of new Star Wars names! Yay, our favorite pastime! Meanwhile, Nom Anor is a hilarious dick, Leia gets grumpy, and we find out what Lando’s latest weird job is. That dude always has a weird job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 6 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/expounded-universe-85-its-nom-anor.mp3 The time of the New Jedi Order is upon us as the Yuuzhan Vong set their wheels in motion! We finally meet Legends regular Mara Jade, plus newcomers like Wurth Skidder and Yomin Carr! It’s the dawn of a new horrible age! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 07, 2019•1 hr 9 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/expounded-universe-84-planet-of-twilight-new-dawn.mp3 It’s the customary wrap up ep, yep! We talk the arching themes of the book, answer your questions, and finally, as always, announce the NEXT BOOK! Fire up your Amazon if you’re planning to read along! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 24, 2019•1 hr 9 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/expounded-universe-83-tsiling-dzym-softly.mp3 The curtain drops. What has changed? What threats face us at the end of all chapters? What hath Hambly wrought? Does this book have the most hilariously unearned coincidence at the end of it at all time? (yes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 15, 2019•57 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/expounded-universe-82-daala-daala-bills.mp3 A mysterious new player enters the book in the 11th hour! I don’t want to spoil it for you so I’ll just do that in the episode title. Also Luke and Leia… finally meet? This can’t be right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-81-sweet-dreams-are-made-of-dzym.mp3 Luke and Leia both have dreams in this episode. If you were curious about what kind of book we’re reading, it’s the kind where both main characters have dreams during the same chapter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 30, 2019•1 hr 6 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-80-callista-explains-it-all.mp3 These books have a tendency to flip into gear after spending some time on wheel spinny world building, but this one is definitely taking a little longer to turn over. Sure, Luke and Leia have basically switched places now, and Threepio and Artoo are just jumping from one spaceship to the next, but still! Go faster, book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 27, 2019•57 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-79-a-big-crab-or-something.mp3 Stuff happened this time, so I guess this is just that kind of book that wants to chill for a while before doing anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 17, 2019•1 hr 6 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-78-but-im-a-fun-guy.mp3 Han arrives on the planet Nim Drovis and…Okay, now we know what’s going on. Han is wandering around for basically no reason while Threepio tapes bells to his head and meets a bat. Luke and Leia ponder. Oh god they won’t stop pondering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 12, 2019•56 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/expounded-universe-77-the-squishiest-of-vapes.mp3 Han arrives on the planet Nim Drovis and… I dunno, I guess he meets a giant flower or something. If this book has a point I’d love to see it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 01, 2019•1 hr 16 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/expounded-universe-76-hutt-girl-on-girl-action.mp3 Han rescues some survivors of a terrifying (and only tangentially related) spaceship crash, with Chewie and Lando in tow! Meanwhile Leia and Luke stay on course of learning the same bits of the mystery at the same speed in two different chapters at a time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 28, 2019•1 hr 7 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/expounded-universe-75-stuff-actually-happens-for-droids.mp3 Artoo pulls off a daring escape attempt while Threepio bumbles artlessly about. Luke’s life is basically an Evanescence song you guys. Leia is on drugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 19, 2019•1 hr 12 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/expounded-universe-74-crawling-in-my-skin.mp3 Well okay so basically Luke finds out this planet is basically all Mad Maxy and that it’s mostly just a big crystal desert with weird bugs. Han hangs around in a fancy apartment that used to belong to Party Times Palpatine and thinks about how bangable Luke’s old girlfriend is, and while all this is happening, Threepio is falling victim to some droid rules we’ve never heard before. Learn more about yo...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 22 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/expounded-universe-73-carol-of-the-beldorions.mp3 Holy cow this book takes a lot of time to say a little stuff. We do our best to fill time here but we are in the presence of a true master. Leia wakes up and Luke crashes. Still no sight of the promised Han/Lando pairing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 8 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/expounded-universe-72-ive-got-a-bad-dzym.mp3 Here we go again. It’s a tale of ancient history and way too much information as we orbit the mysterious Nam Chorios. Who’s Seti Ashgad? How is every Skywalker so universally bad at relationship stuff? Couldn’t you just cover any droid with meat, really? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr 11 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/expounded-universe-71-red-harvest-wrap-party.mp3 The customary interstitial discussion episode where we relax, answer questions, and take some time off from reading has arrived! How did we feel about Red Harvest? What’s coming next? These questions and so many more can be found right here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 4 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/expounded-universe-70-the-triumph-of-frode-and-bennis.mp3 The end is now. Who survives? Who wins? YOU DECIDE! No, wait, it was written down here. We’ll just tell you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Feb 06, 2019•1 hr 5 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/expounded-universe-69-nice.mp3 Whoa, big things are happening now! Hestizo and Rojo face off against the zombie-lord Darth Scabrous while Tulkh and the HK droid blow shit up! Things are heating up as we approach the final chapters of Red Harvest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 23, 2019•58 min
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/expounded-universe-68-behold-my-evil-plan.mp3 Who dies this time!? We won’t tell you it’s definitely Kindra here. Just tune in to learn more about the librarian, Rojo, and, holy shit, Pergus Frode is back!? Zombies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 18, 2019•57 min
