Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Exile
Author: Aaron Allston
Released: 27/02/2007

Following on from Star Wars Legacy of the Force Tempest now on the run from both The Galactic Alliance and Corellia, the exiled Han and Leia Solo seek the aid and assistance of Lando Calrissian, who joins his old friends in disguise as owners of a gambling and pleasure ship. Together they arrange GA license to operate in Corellian space, where they sit, watch, and wait for the disfigured and deranged Twilek, Alema Rar. Back from his own exile is Chis pilot Jagged Fel, whose personal mission dovetails nicely with Han and Leia’s and who under Luke’s orders is assigned to work with Jaina and Zekk to capture or destroy the former Dark Nester and agent of the series’ arch villain, Lumiya.

Jacen, meanwhile, sends Ben on a mission to test his cousin’s suitability as a Sith apprentice, a mission that ends with Ben stranded on the ancient Sith home world of Ziost fighting for physical survival. While Ben struggles to balance the imperative of his mission with the Jedi imperative to protect life, other worlds join Corellia in seceding from the GA, widening the potential conflict and setting up Exile’s final scene, in which Jacen infiltrates a meeting to elect a military commander for the newly christened Corellian Confederation

That particular mission turns rather predictably to failure, an end clumsily telegraphed to any reader passingly familiar with action/adventure/fantasy fiction, in which the details of military plans are glossed to preserve suspense for the actual battle scenes. Here, though, author Aaron Allston lays out the entire scheme, a clear sign that the plan is not what it seems – or will very quickly be made moot once the action starts.

Authorial ruse was evident as well in Jacen’s insistence that he himself act as the spy at the election meeting when under circumstances not dictated by the need to maneuver the characters Jacen would have sent a less noticeable agent.

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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Tempest
Author: Troy Denning
Released: 28/09/2006

Following on from Star Wars Legacy of the Force Bloodlines the stand-off between the Galactic Alliance and its rebellious member states erupts into full-blown battle, the new Corellian leadership develops a desperate plan to draw the Hapan Consortium into the war on their side.

But the plot poses a moral quandry for Han and Leia Solo, who cannot abide deliberately spreading the war any more than they can the murder of the Hapan Queen Mother, ex-Jedi Knight Tenel Ka.

Taking it upon themselves to save her life – and that of her young daughter, Allana – the Solos set in motion a firestorm of confusion and mayhem that will pit children against parents, bring Luke Skywalker into battle with his foremost nemesis, and leave them at the mercy of one of the Jedi’s oldest and most deadly enemies.

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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Bloodlines
Author: Karen Traviss
Released: 29 Aug 2006

Following on from Star Wars Legacy of the Force Betrayal, as civil war continues to break out in the Galactic Alliance, terrorism begins to drive the Alliance towards ever more repressive laws.

Families find themselves divided, and old friendships are torn apart. But the bitterest enemy can be your own flesh and blood – and your foe can turn out to be your only ally.

Old enemies Han Solo and Boba Fett are drawn together as they both learn some harsh truths about their own kin, while Luke and Mara Skywalker fear for their only son, Ben, when his Jedi Master, Jacen Solo, makes a dangerous choice that shocks both families and the galaxy at large. 

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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Betrayal
Author: Aaron Allston
Released: 30 May 2006

Legacy of the Force is a multibook story with 9 novels in all. In Betrayal Luke the Jedi Master has unified the order into a cohesive group of powerful Jedi Knights. However, as this era begins, planetary interests threaten to disrupt this time of relative peace and Luke is plagued by visions of an approaching darkness.

Melding the galaxy into one cohesive political whole after the savage war with the Yuuzhan Vong is not the easiest task, and already some worlds are chafing under the demands of the new government.

Civil war may be brewing, and the Skywalker-Solo clan find that they might not all be on the same side. Meanwhile, evil is rising again – out of the best intentions – and it looks like the legacy of the Skywalkers may come full circle.

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