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Star Wars

Kevin J Anderson

Darksaber


upload: 10.IV.2006
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To Lillie E. Mitchell
who does so much of the invisible work on these books, allowing me the
freedom and the energy to tell my stories as fast as they want to come out
of my head



The time is eight years after the battle of Endor.

Grand Admiral Thrawn and the resurrected Emperor have been defeated and
their forces scattered, leaving only bickering warlords to fight over the
scraps of Imperial war machinery deep in the Core Systems, far behind enemy
lines. The renegade Admiral Daala is believed dead, but with her lone
remaining Star Destroyer she has limped back to the shelter of the tattered
Empire, where she hopes one day to return to the fight for lost Imperial
territory....

On Yavin 4 Luke Skywalker has formed an academy to reestablish the Jedi
Knights, former guardians of the Old Republic. He has already taught many
students how to use their powers with the Force; more candidates come, while
others decide to go forth and help safeguard the fragile alliance of the New
Republic.

In recent months Luke has destroyed the automated Dreadnaught, the Eye of
Palpatine, and rescued the spirit of the Jedi woman Callista, who was trapped
in the Dreadnaught's computer for decades. Luke has fallen deeply in love with
her, even as she inhabits the body of one of his lost students. Though
Callista is now alive again and free to love Luke Skywalker, she has
inexplicably lost all of her Jedi powers in the ordeal.

Luke is desperate to find some way for Callista to get her abilities
back. No matter where the search may lead him....

CHAPTER 1 - TATOOINE

The banthas plodded in single file, leaving only a narrow trail of
scuffed footprints across the dunes.

Twin suns hammered down on the procession. Waves of heat rippled like
cloaking shields, blurring the distance and making an oven of the Dune Sea.