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[SW Thrawn Trilogy] Why do the Noghri worship Luke and Leia so much when it was Vader that ruined their planet in the first place and Luke who killed a stack of them in the first book?

Shouldn't they be like, you know killing them.
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Wasn't this explained in the book?

During the Clone Wars, a ship crashed into the Noghri planet and spilled loads of chemicals. The identity of the ship was unknown at that point. Years later, a bunch of Imperials landed on the planet to investigate and were quickly killed by the Noghri. Darth Vader came to investigate, found out how skilled they are, and promised to restore their planet in exchange for their servitude to the Empire.

Since then, the Noghri peoples worship Vader and by extension, his children. The Noghri who were sent to kill Luke did not know who he was at the time. They only knew Leia was Vader's daughter when they sniffed at her hand.