A new success in the best-selling industry, True Colors brings out more of Travis's imagination with the few limits set down by LucasArts. Recommended and nothing more to add.

Karen Traviss is a wonderful, insightful and emotional writer. She can transport you to a war zone, a planet wide city, an exotic tropical resort or an interrogation chamber in the blink of an eye and with the ease of one image fading into the next. She has given the soldiers, the ignored and assumed evil Stormtroopers of the Star Wars series names and faces and personalities. They are three dimensional characters with stories and histories, and the Mandalorian culture is growing with them and for the reader. Each book reveals a little more of what is only hinted at in other books and games.
Trekkies learn the Klingon language and I can see Star Wars fans learning Mando as Traviss invents it. She rivals the greats in language and culture creation.
I'm almost scared to start into Order 66, the next book in the Republic Commando series, because I know what's coming and I don't want to see it happen to these characters she's created.
In my opinion, Karen Traviss is the best author currently writing in the Star Wars Universe. George Lucus may have spawned the big bang, but it's authors like Traviss who are bringing the universe to life.

for fans of the clone war period thsi is a must read, the null arcs always make for interesting times in the republic.