This is the first ever Star Wars" novel featuring Yoda the most famous Jedi Master of all time! Never before has Yoda the most famous Jedi Master ever starred in his own " Star Wars" novel. Now at long last he gets the spotlight against the backdrop of the Clone Wars & the collapse of the Republic
- the Jedis greatest challenge & as of the movie premiering in May 2005 their ultimate downfall! Author Bio: Sean Steward is the acclaimed author of the " New York Times" " Notable Book Mockingbird" " The Night Watch" " Clouds End" the " New York Times" " Notable Book Resurrection Man" the Aurora Award-winner " Nobodys Son" & the Aurora & Arthur Ellis Award-winning debut " Passion Play"."
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Twenty-one years after the destruction of Darth Vader & the Emperor the Star Wars galaxy has been hit by a threat more deadly than anything that has gone before. In VECTOR PRIME aliens invaded from outside the galaxy & were routed...at great cost to our heroes. Now in a climate of mistrust
- especially of the Jedi
- Leia cannot convince the New Republic that the threat may not be over even as the next wave of alien warships are entering the galaxy... It is up to Leia Luke the Solo kids
- Jedi Knights all
- & the few who believe to defend the Outer Rim planets from invasion!



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The Sith are gone
- all except Darth Bane creator of the ' Rule of Two' which states that the new Sith Order will consist of only
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Thousands of years before the rise of Darth Sidious & Darth Vader the Old Republic was rife with the evil Sith who were a constant thorn in the side of the Jedi. But greed & hunger for power were eating away at the Sith Order destroying it from within. In the midst of this rose a new Sith Darth Bane who recognized that the Sith Order would fall if nothing was done. Thus it was he who learning to cultivate patience & cunning hid from the strife until it was over & then rose to become the most powerful Sith Lord ever. This is the story of the transformation of Des a young miner into the legendary Sith Lord Darth Bane. Des
- like many of the disenfranchised who live on the Outer Rim
- is disillusioned with the stagnancy of the Old Republic. When the Sith unite to bring the Republic down Des is one of many to join their cause. His heroism & skill in battle
- along with his remarkable connection to the Force
- draw the notice of the Sith Masters & Des eventually finds himself studying at the Sith Academy on Korriban. He takes the name of Bane & amidst the deception & back-stabbing of the other students he learns to unlock his latent dark-side talents. As his power grows Bane realizes the Sith have lost their way. Under the leadership of Lord Kaan & his Brotherhood of Darkness the Sith have turned their back on the true nature of the dark side. Through manipulation cunning & strength Bane destroys Kaans Brotherhood & wipes out all the other Sith so he can found a new Order based on the rule of two: one Master one apprentice.



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When the Sith Wars were over the Jedi thought the Sith had been destroyed. But one remained: Darth Bane the most powerful Sith Lord ever. & now in secret he is setting out to build his new Sith Order with which he intends to rule the galaxy with his new apprentice by his side. ...

When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxys most ruthless killers rebels scoundrels & thieves-breaks down in a distant uninhabited part of space its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting derelict & seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine. & death is only the beginning. The Purges half-dozen survivors-two teenage brothers a sadistic captain of the guards a couple of rogue smugglers & the chief medical officer the lone woman on board-will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isnt really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless unstoppable & unspeakably hungry. ...

There is a great disturbance in the Force... From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war & the Senate is hopelessly divided unable to determine whether to raise an army for battle or keep the fragile peace. Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council & a challenge to his Jedi Master. Time has not dulled Anakins ambition nor has his Jedi training tamed his independent streak. When an attempt on Senator Padm- Amidalas life brings them together for the first time in ten years it is clear that time also has not dulled Anakins intense feelings for the beautiful diplomat. The attack on Senator Amidala just before a crucial vote thrusts the Republic even closer to the edge of disaster. Masters Yoda & Mace Windu sense enormous unease. The dark side is growing clouding the Jedis perception of the events. But even as the Republic falters around them Anakin & Padm- find a connection so intense that all else begins to fall away. Anakin will lose himself-and his way-in emotions a Jedi sworn to hold allegiance only to the Order is forbidden to have. ...

Luke & Ben Skywalker arrive in the mysterious part of space called The Maw in search of more clues as to what caused Jacen Solo's downfall into the dark side. But they are not the only ones exploring The Maw: a Sith Master & her apprentice arrive there too having followed the delinquent ancient Sith ship found by Ben in The Legacy of the Force
- & they're thrilled to find Luke there because they are determined to kill him. But there's another powerful being hiding in The Maw. It's enormously strong purely evil & it has its own plans for Luke Skywalker...
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Three major storylines run through The Fate of the Jedi series." One is the odyssey of Jedi Gr&-Master-in-Exile Luke Skywalker & his son Ben as they travel from one world of non-Jedi Force-users to the next in search of clues as to what might have turned Jacen Solo to embrace the evil ways of the Sith Lords. The second is the attempts of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala to break the power of the Jedi Order while young Jedi Knights on a variety of worlds are inexplicably going insane. & the third is the tale of a previously unknown lost tribe of Sith as they rejoin the known galaxy determined to kill Luke Skywalker destroy all the Jedi & reinstate the Sith as supreme rulers. In " Backlash " Luke & Ben will visit the deadly world of Dathomir home to the Night Sisters otherwise known as the Dathomiri Witches as an ancient evil released from its prison stretches its hungry tendrils ever farther through the galaxy..." ...

Luke & Ben Skywalker continue on their quest to learn the ways of non-Jedi Force-users & to try to understand just what went wrong with Jacen Solo that caused him to become a Sith. In the meantime Han Leia & Jaina Solo
- along with Jag Fel & the other Jedi
- try to deal with the escalating problem of Jedi Knights seemingly going insane...

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