I for one am happy to see Ms. Traviss go. Her Mandalorian fetish, not to mention inappropriate hate and degradation of Jedi epitomized in her tangents on "the virtues of being a Mandalorian (and not a Jedi)" in the Legacy series increasingly made her less and less attractive as an author. When she began openly insulting fans in school yard-style naming calling on the SW Forums, including her catchphrase "Talifan" for those fans who don't agree with her, I finally realized that in my mind she was both unwanted and a liability. I'll grant you, she has toned her rhetoric down considerably, likely because Star Wars was no longer consuming the entirety of her time as it had before (reference he new fetish, Warhammer, and these chainsaw-gun things... ), but that still does not make up for her blatantly unprofessional, sectional/factional behavior. It's one thing to take a side in one of these camps that divide the EU, it's another thing entirely to actively assist in creating and expanding those divisions - to me, that's the equivalent of sabotage, and it is something I did not see as favorable or at all welcome in the Star Wars franchise. I am happy to see Ms. Traviss, though I, in some ways, wish she had been dismissed rather than quit. And just so you know I don't completely hate Ms. Traviss, I did enjoy her novel Republic Commando: Hard Contact and have even begun rereading it. It was only with her subsequent works that I stopped enjoying them for the reasons named above. I'm not sure it's worth noting that Hard Contact was her first Star Wars novel...