Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Fury
Author: Aaron Allston
Released: 27/11/2007

Following on from Star Wars Legacy of the Force Inferno Jacen struggles with the loss of many supporters and almost all his friends and loved ones in his bid to rule the galaxy, Luke must deal with grief and the guilt at having killed the wrong person in revenge.

The leaders of both sides of the galactic civil war are increasingly losing control over their forces, the Jedi and their allies are hunting the wrong target as they seek to bring the unknown murderer to justice, and a hidden group of Sith have to figure out what to do about Jacen and their own secret agenda.

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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Inferno
Author: Troy Denning
Released: 28/08/2007

Following on from Star Wars Legacy of the Force Sacrifice the galaxy is in turmoil due to spreading and incresingly violent civil war – and the Solo/Walker clan is in shock after the horrifying murder of one of it’s most beloved members.

Jacen Solo, now a full Sith Lord, has seized control of the Galactic Alliance. Luke Skywalker’s judgement is clouded by grief, even as he faces his most momentous decision since becoming Grand Master of the Jedi order: whether to support Jacen’s illegitimate government against the forces threatening Coruscant…or to join the Rebel Confederacy and take arms against the Galactic Alliance he helped forge.

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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force – Sacrifice
Author: Karen Traviss
Released: 29/05/2007

Following on from Star Wars Legacy of the Force Exile this is the middle book in the series and the second of three hardcovers. The adventure continues, and one of our storylines comes to a crucial and shocking climax.

Things come to a head in the galaxy of the Skywalker and Solos when Jacen Solo makes a horrifying decision from which there is no going back. For Luke, Han and Leia, nothing will ever be the same again.

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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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