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INVASION!
Timeframe: approximately 25 years after the Battle
of Yavin
When an observatory on the Outer Rim planet Belkadan discovers an
unknown asteroid originating from beyond the known galaxy, little do
they realise that it is hiding the vanguard of an invading alien
army. The aliens, the Yuuzhan Vong, are a fierce warrior race who
believe in their own supremacy, a belief enforced by their fanatical
religious ideology that extends to the masochistic endurance of
self-inflicted pain by organ grafting without any form of pain
relief. The Yuuzhan Vong regard all mechanical and non-organic
technology as blasphemous, and instead adopt and adapt living
organic forms to serve them for all their material needs. However it
would be the Yuuzhan Vong's invisibility in the Force that would
confound the Jedi at the beginning of the war, who by the teachings
of Master Luke Skywalker, believed that the Force should be used for
peaceful purposes.
As the Yuuzhan Vong vanguard consolidate their bridgeheads on
several Outer Rim planets, Luke, his wife Mara Jade (suffering from
a mysterious illness), the Solo family, Chewbacca and the two droids
R2-D2 and C3-P0 find themselves in the local area visiting former
Republic general, now turned entrepreneur, Lando Calrissian. On one
planet, Serpindal, the Yuuzhan Vong alter its moon's orbit so that
it will crash into the planet. During the panicked evacuation,
Chewbacca is killed while saving Han and Leia's youngest child,
Anakin.
Realising the gravity of the threat posed by the alien invaders,
Leia returns to Coruscant to plead for military assistance.
Initially the New Republic leadership, under Borsk Fey'lya,
dismisses Leia's claims as fanciful, and internal bickering amongst
its members is consuming much of the Republic's military resources
and is therefore unable to assist. Unbeknownst to anybody, many of
the inter-planetary squabbles and disputes have been instigated by
Yuuzhan Vong agents provocateur such as Nom Anor, who with the use
of ooglith cloaks (living disguises) where able to disguise
themselves as native inhabitants. Reluctant to meet the invasion
head-on, and to enable the re-grouping of its military forces to
protect the more important Core worlds, the New Republic Senate opts
to send a diplomatic peace envoy to meet the invaders, whereupon the
Yuuzhan Vong murder him.
The occupied worlds undergo "Vongforming", a terra-forming
process that destroys all non-organic technology, literally
bio-degrading all forms of mechanical technology, and making the
planet suitable for habitation by the Yuuzhan Vong. Native
inhabitants either have to flee their home worlds or become slaves
to the Yuuzhan Vong conquerors.
Unable to sense the Yuuzhan Vong through the Force, the Jedi Order
is divided on how to combat the alien threat. Luke Skywalker still
advocates a defensive and more peaceful approach in their use of the
Force, while others like Kyp Durron, claim the Jedi should take a
more proactive and aggressive stand against the Republic's enemies.
Kyp's stance produces some spectacular results in the initial stages
of the Vong invasion, but division is widened after the Battle of
Ithor when Corran Horn duels with the Yuuzhan Vong commander, Shedao
Shai, for the fate of planet. Although Corran defeats and kills Shai,
the Yuuzhan Vong still unleash a devastating bio-engineered poison
that destroys the planet's unique eco-system and renders it totally
uninhabitable for which the Jedi, and Corran in particular, are
blamed for.
Related stories: Vector Prime, Refugees,
Rescues,
Revelations, Onslaught,
Ruin
FLASHPOINT
Timeframe: approximately 25-26 years after the
Battle of Yavin
The New Republic leadership finally acknowledges the Yuuzhan Vong
threat but its initial military actions against the invaders prove
to be ineffectual as they are usually either too little or too late.
Thus poor military tactics, undermined by the political ineptitude
of its leaders, only hastened the Yuuzhan Vong's invasion of the
galaxy. The only successes the New Republic had, limited though they
are, are at the hands of the Jedi. Recognising the threat the Jedi
posed to their invasion, Yuuzhan Vong spy Nom Anor developed a
poison with the assistance of the priestess Elan and her bird-like
pet, Vergere. Nom Anor planned to infect the Jedi under the pretence
of Elan defecting to the Jedi and breathing the toxic gas into a
room full of Jedi. However the plan is uncovered by Han Solo who,
overcome with grief at the loss of Chewbacca, had exiled himself
from his friends and had begun a personal vendetta against Yuuzhan
Vong collaborators, recognised that Elan's 'defection' is fake. Elan
is poisoned by her own toxin and Vergere escaped, but not before
giving Han an anti-dote to the poison that had affected Luke's wife,
Mara Jade.
Meanwhile Leia returns to her previous role as Ambassador and
travels to the Hapes Cluster in an attempt to secure military
support against the Yuuzhan Vong. Jacen and Anakin Solo travel to
the Correlian system to reactivate Centerpoint Station, Anakin being
the only person able to activate it. But while they debate whether
to fire the formable weapon, Jacen arguing that its use could lead
to the Dark Side, Han's cousin Thracken Sal-Solo fires its powerful
repulsor beam into the Fondor system where a Hapan fleet has engaged
a Yuuzhan Vong flotilla. But, unable to control the weapon properly,
his aim is off and Thracken succeeds in wiping out three-quarters of
the Hapan battleships as well as half of the Yuuzhan Vong's fleet.
Although Thracken is hailed as a hero on Corellia, the Jedi refuse
to use the weapon again and so it lies dormant for the remainder of
the war.
The heavily polluted but uninhabited planet Duro is chosen to house
the ever increasing number of refugees forced to abandon their home
worlds. However the Yuuzhan Vong realise Duro's strategic importance
as a perfect staging area for their attack on Coruscant and the Core
planets and so lay siege to the planet. Leia, who had used her own
influence and power to assist in the evacuation of many other
conquered worlds, is sent to Duro to seek peace terms with the Vong.
Leia's experience of the Yuuzhan Vong's previous handling of peace
envoys ensures that rather than try to parley with the invaders, it
is military action that the Vong understand better. Her military
force, supported by the Jedi, fails to recapture Duro but does
prevent the Vong's further advancement into the Core. It is during
the fighting that Jacen Solo, who had been uncertain in his own use
of the Force, saves his mother from Vong torture after defeating
Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster Tsavong Lah in combat by cutting off Lah's
leg.
Enraged at being defeated by a Jedi, Tsavong Lah adopts a new
tactic: the Yuuzhan Vong will not invade Coruscant if the Jedi are
surrendered to the Yuuzhan Vong: dead or alive. Following Leia's
escape from her torturers, she is reunited with her husband Han.
Related stories: Hero's Trial, Jedi
Eclipse, Balance Point, Recovery
JEDI BOUNTY
Timeframe: approximately 26 years after the Battle
of Yavin
The Yuuzhan Vong's rapid conquest of the galaxy meant that many
people, including politicians unwilling to blame themselves, lay the
blame for the New Republic's failures on the Jedi. So when Warmaster
Tsavong Lah offers peace in return for the surrender of a hundred
Jedi, many people endorse and actively support the Warmaster's
offer. Thus the Jedi find themselves continually on the move trying
to evade capture or death at the hands of bounty hunters and Yuuzhan
Vong sympathisers such as The Peace Brigade. Many Jedi are caught or
killed, but Luke's wife, Mara Jade, successfully avoids capture on
Coruscant and soon after gives birth to their son Ben, named after
Luke's mentor Obi-Wan "Old Ben" Kenobi.
While on Yavin IV, the Jedi Academy falls to a massive onslaught by
the Yuuzhan Vong. Anakin Solo rescues his friend Tahiri Veila from
Yuuzhan Vong shapers, supervisors of the Yuuzhan Vong's organic
technology, who have been attempting to brainwash her through a
process of implants and torture. During their escape Anakin and
Tahiri encounter a group of Yuuzhan Vong workers and slaves who have
been outcast by their own society as the Shamed Ones because their
bodies rejected or would not take implants. After they assist a
former Yuuzhan Vong warrior whose implants were rejected in
obtaining revenge on the shaper whom he believed had deliberately
sabotaged his implants, a heretic cult of the "Jeedia"
begins amongst the Shamed Ones who see the Jedi as saviours.
With the Yuuzhan Vong's bounty on the Jedi, Luke enlists many of his
most trusted friends in establishing the Great River - a network
that would allow the Jedi to move safely about the galaxy without
fear of capture. One such operative, a former Jedi Academy friend of
Anakin's, prevents a plot to contaminate the galaxy's bacta supply.
As the Yuuzhan Vong consolidate their gains, Supreme Overlord
Shimrra and his jester Onimi arrive to oversee the final stages of
the conquest of the galaxy.
Related stories: Conquest, Rebirth,
Emissary of the Void
FALL OF CORUSCANT
Timeframe: approximately 26-27 years after the
Battle of Yavin
In their determined hunt for the Jedi the Yuuzhan
Vong begin cloning voxyn, creatures created to hunt and kill Jedi
through the Force. When the Jedi discover that all voxyn are cloned
from a single voxyn queen, Anakin Solo proposes a dangerous mission
to infiltrate the Yuuzhan Vong's voxyn lairs and destroy the voxyn
queen on the planet Myrkr. Leading a volunteer group that included
many young Jedi Knights including Jacen Solo, Jaina Solo, Tahiri
Veila, Zekk, Raynar Thul and Alema Rar, Anakin's mission to Myrkr
met continual resistance from Yuuzhan Vong warriors led by Nom Anor
and Vergere. On the planet the Jedi encountered two Dark Jedi, Lomi
Plo and Welk, who are convinced to join the Jedi's mission, but
ended up double-crossing the Jedi when they stole the escape
spacecraft. Although the mission is successful in destroying the
voxyn queen, several of the young Jedi including Anakin are killed
and Jacen is captured.
The Jedi bounty tactic introduced by Tsavong Lah does not have the
desired effect so Supreme Overlord Shimrra orders the invasion of
Coruscant. The Yuuzhan Vong's tactics are both ruthless and brutal
as they use captured refugee ships to literally bombard the planet's
shields and defences. Realising the enormity of the Vong's methods,
the New Republic leadership and military are reluctant to fire upon
their own citizens imprisoned within the refugee ships. During the
fierce battles over Coruscant, Luke Skywalker and the Jedi are
successful in destroying several Yuuzhan Vong war co-ordinating
yammosks, but ultimately could not stop the overall bombardment.
After the successful planet bombardment, the Yuuzhan Vong begin its
invasion with thousands of dropships each containing hundreds upon
hundreds of warriors that result in the eventual capture of the
planet. Borsk Fey'lya, in a desperate attempt to salvage his
reputation, refuses to surrender to Tsavong Lah's emissary and,
having linked a bomb to his own heartbeat, knows that the Yuuzhan
Vong will kill him. The resultant explosion kills an estimated
25,000 Vong warriors and destroys most of the old Imperial Palace.
To consolidate their victory the Yuuzhan Vong begin Vongforming
Coruscant and rename it Yuuzhan'tar after their own home world.
The cost to both sides is immense, although successful in capturing
Coruscant Supreme Warlord Shimrra estimated that the Yuuzhan Vong's
loses to date amounted to a third of its warriors and he is forced
to halt the invasion into other parts of the galaxy until more
warriors could be bred. Effectively the New Republic no longer
existed with its leadership in tatters after the fall of Coruscant,
while the Yuuzhan Vong control around one half of the galaxy.
Related story: Star by Star
LURE OF THE DARK SIDE
Timeframe: approximately 27 years after the Battle
of Yavin
Jaina Solo and the Myrkr mission survivors escape to
the Hapes Cluster in Nom Anor's spaceship unaware that it actually
belongs to the Yuuzhan Vong priest caste and is an important
spiritual icon. When she discovers the true identity of the
spaceship she taunts the Yuuzhan Vong by renaming it The Trickster
after the Yuuzhan Vong god of deception Yun-Harla and intimating
that she is an incarnation of Yun-Harla. She lives up to her new
identity as she assists in defending the Hapans from invasion when
her plan to change the Yuuzhan Vong's friend or foe recognition
systems is successful and the Yuuzhan Vong end up attacking their
own vessels.
Attempting to regroup from the fall of Coruscant, Wedge Antilles is
annoyed when the remnants of the New Republic leadership refuse to
supply him with additional forces to hold a recaptured Borleias, a
strategic planet necessary for the counter strike against Coruscant.
Learning that the surviving politicians are considering surrender to
the Yuuzhan Vong, Wedge forms The Insiders, a resistance group
consisting of like-minded military figures who will continue to
fight the invaders. When the Yuuzhan Vong launch their offensive to
retake Borleias, Wedge uses their obsession with Jaina's assumed
identity to draw their fleet into a trap, but he is unable to
prevent the fall of Borleias to the Yuuzhan Vong due to a lack of
materiel.
Jacen Solo, having been captured on Myrkr, is transferred to
Coruscant via a Yuuzhan Vong seedship, a gigantic space-travelling
repository for Yuuzhan Vong genetically engineered creatures. During
his time on the seedship Jacen is tortured using the 'Embrace of
Pain' by Tsavong Lah and Nom Anor who believe he can be turned to
accept the 'True Way' of Yuuzhan Vong worship and sacrifice. During
his torture sessions he is visited by Vergere who only talks in
riddles about being Jacen's guide on a painful spiritual journey. In
other sessions Jacen is forced to telepathically bond with dhuryams,
special creatures designed to oversee the Vongforming process. He
forms a special and unique bond with one particular dhuryam that
will become the 'World Brain' for the Vongforming of Coruscant.
Eventually Jacen escapes with Vergere's help and the use of Dark
Side power, when the seedship arrives at Coruscant. Pursued by
Yuuzhan Vong warriors Jacen encounters Jedi Knight Ganner Rhysode
and they make their way to the former Galactic Senate Building, now
home of the World Brain. Sacrificing himself to give Jacen time to
implant in the World Brain's mind instructions that would cause
little things to go wrong with its terra-forming of Coruscant,
Ganner holds back hundreds of Yuuzhan Vong warriors. Jacen along
with Vergere, who has shown Jacen a radical understanding of the
Force during his spiritual journey, escape Coruscant.
In an attempt to disrupt The Peace Brigade, Yuuzhan Vong
collaborators, a Jedi strike force is dispatched to the planet
Ylesia to capture the Brigade's leader: Thracken Sal-Solo. However
Supreme Overlord Shimrra of the Yuuzhan Vong had dispatched
reinforcements to protect the planet, but the Jedi are successful in
capturing Thracken and discover that he had originally requested a
treaty of friendship with the Yuuzhan Vong in exchange for Corellian
neutrality, but had been double-crossed by Shimrra who installed him
as the leader of the Peace Brigade in an attempt to discredit him.
Thracken Sal-Solo is extradited back to Corellia to stand trial for
treason.
Related stories: Dark Journey, The
Apprentice, Rebel Dream, Rebel
Stand, Traitor, Ylesia
TURNING POINT
Time frame: approximately 28 years after the
Battle of Yavin
The surviving remnants of the New Republic
leadership establish a new seat of government on Mon Calamari and
rename themselves the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, or
Galactic Alliance, under the leadership of Cal Omas, an Alderaanian
and friend of the Jedi. Omas approves Luke Skywalker's plan to form
a new Jedi Council consisting of a mixture of Jedi and politicians.
One of Omas's first acts is to send Han and Leia to the Imperial
Remnant, so far unaffected by the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, in an
attempt to secure an alliance. However Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon,
leader of the Imperial Remnant feels that a military alliance would
not be beneficial and instead offers Han and Leia top-secret
Imperial maps of hyperspace routes through the galaxy's Deep Core,
including a route to the Ebaq system.
Continuing Jacen's spiritual journey, Vergere makes cryptic
references about Jacen's destiny and reveals her true identity: she
was once a Jedi Knight of the Old Republic who, ten years before the
Clone Wars, was sent to discover a living planet known as Zonama
Sekot. She was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong and had been living with
them for the past fifty years.
When Han and Leia return from the Imperial Remnant, Admiral Ackbar
devises a strategy that capitalises on the Yuuzhan Vong's inability
to retreat. Luring the Tsavong Lah's fleet to the Ebaq system and
mining the only escape route, Ackbar's plan succeeds beyond all
expectations. Not only is Tsavong Lah's fleet completely destroyed,
but the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster is also killed by Jaina Solo. During
the battle, Vergere sacrifices herself to save Jacen.
However the success at Ebaq is not enough to quell some elements
within the Galactic Alliance. In particular the Bothans demand the
complete genocide of the Yuuzhan Vong in revenge for Borsk Fey'lya's
death, and assist in the development of 'Alpha Red' - a virus
designed to exterminate every Yuuzhan Vong in the galaxy.
Learning of the defeat at Ebaq, Supreme Overlord Shimrra orders Nom
Anor, upon whose intelligence Tsavong Lah had committed his forces,
to commit ritual suicide. However Nom Amor evades Shimrra escaping
to the Yuuzhan Vong underclass on Yuuzhan'tar pretending to be a
Shamed One. Supreme Overlord Shimrra privately informs his staff
that the war can no longer be won.
Related story: Destiny's Way
SEARCH FOR ZONAMA SEKOT
Time frame: approximately 28-29 years after
the Battle of Yavin
Alarmed by the sudden loss of communications with scores of worlds,
Han, Leia and Jedi Knight Tahiri Veila, still haunted by her
traumatic brainwashing by the Yuuzhan Vong, set out to discover the
reasons for the communication failures. They discover that several
planetary systems have capitulated to the Yuuzhan Vong in exchange
for support in settling age-old rivalries with neighbouring systems.
They are successful in preventing several Yuuzhan Vong supported
genocides aided by old friends from affected systems. Tahiri masters
her half-Jedi, half-Vong nature.
Meanwhile Nom Anor, living amongst the Shamed Ones beneath
Yuuzhan'tar's surface, assumes the identity of Yu'shaa the Prophet
in order to lead the thousands of followers of the heretic Jeedia
cult against Supreme Warlord Shimrra. But when Shimrra orders
warriors to crush Amor's uprising, Amor evades capture.
Realising the importance of the living planet Zonama Sekot as a
means of ending the war, Luke assembles a small Jedi team including
his wife Mara and nephew Jacen to seek the whereabouts of Zonama
Sekot's location. Their first stop is with the Imperial Remnant
where they hope to obtain hyperspace maps to the Unknown Regions,
but their arrival coincides with a Yuuzhan Vong offensive against
the Imperial Remnant. Although initially forced to retreat, Grand
Admiral Gilad Pellaeon along with the Jedi's support, regroups his
forces and launches a successful counter-attack. Where the Yuuzhan
Vong had hoped for an easy conquest, they found themselves opening a
second front in the war.
Pellaeon supplies Luke with the maps and the Jedi penetrate the
Unknown Regions and arrive on the Chiss home world. Initially
reluctant to help the Jedi in their search for Zonama Sekot, the
Chiss Ascendancy acquiesces to Luke's requests when the Jedi assist
in quelling a local uprising. However their first requests for
assistance from the living planet are turned down, but the planet
agrees when it discovers that the righteousness of the Jedi's cause.
Related stories: Remnant, Refugee,
Or Die Trying, Reunion
THE FINAL BATTLES
Time frame: approximately 29 years after
the Battle of Yavin
Made aware of the possible threat posed by Zonama Sekot and plagued
with bouts of madness, Shimrra orders the development of a virus
that would destroy Zonama Sekot's biosphere. Entrusting the virus
with members of his priest caste, they are smuggled along with Nom
Anor, still disguised as Yu'shaa, to Zonama Sekot. Upon their
arrival on the living planet the priests realise that Zonama Sekot
is actually a descendant of the Yuuzhan Vong's real home world but
Nom Anor, eager to redeem himself in the eyes of Shimrra, takes the
virus from the now redemptive priests and injects it into the
planet's neural interface. Anor escapes back to Yuuzhan'tar just as
the Zonama Sekot reacts to the virus and jumps to hyperspace
trapping the Jedi and Yuuzhan Vong priests on the planet.
Although his forces are over-stretched, Shimrra orders a full-scale
assault on the Galactic Alliance's capital on Mon Calamari.
Anticipating this move and learning of the Yuuzhan Vong's stretched
resources, the Galactic Alliance split their forces in two: half to
defend Mon Calamari, half to retake Coruscant. Using refined
tactics, including battle-melds, the Jedi are instrumental in
defeating the Yuuzhan Vong's attack on Mon Calamari.
Unaware that his attempt to poison Zonama Sekot has failed, Nom Anor
is reinstated to position of authority by Shimrra but when the
living planet enters into a close orbit of Coruscant, thus
destabilizing the planet's gravitational forces, Nom Anor is forced
to flee again. While the Shamed Ones gaze upon the living planet as
their salvation, Shimrra views it as a sign of his doom. Supported
by Imperial Remnant forces, the Galactic Alliance battle Yuuzhan
Vong warships in Coruscant's space while Luke leads a Jedi strike
team against Shimrra's citadel. The Jedi receive welcome support
from the Shamed Ones, eager to take down their historical caste
oppressors, to overcome Shimrra's many obstacles. While Jacen and
Jaina pursue the jester Onimi, Luke faces Shimrra in a titanic
battle. Using two lightsabers, his own and that of his late nephew
Anakin Solo, Luke beheads Shimrra in a style reminiscent of his
father's beheading of Count Dooku nearly 50 years previous. Before
knocking Jaina unconscious, Onimi reveals to Jaina that he is the
true leader of the Yuuzhan Vong: he is literally the puppet master
of Shimrra. Reaching deeper into the Force than any known Jedi has
ever done, Jacen becomes a pure Force energy being and overcomes
Onimi causing the former puppet master to fade into oblivion.
Realising that the war is lost Nom Anor commits suicide rather than
being forced to live with either the Yuuzhan Vong survivors or
amongst the peoples he once spied upon.
The Galactic Alliance are victorious when the highest ranking
Yuuzhan Vong leader Nas Choka surrenders and Coruscant is retaken.
Luke Skywalker convinces the Galactic Alliance to allow the
surviving Yuuzhan Vong to live on Zonama Sekot. Nas Choka leads his
survivors onto the living planet, which jumps into hyperspace for
the Unknown Regions.
Although the war has been won, the cost was massive: an estimated
365 trillion sentient beings were killed including Chewbacca, Anakin
Solo and half of the Jedi Order; nearly half of the galaxy was
conquered and had undergone Vongforming; and many planets are
completely uninhabitable. The surviving Jedi take on a broader view
of the Force and Luke forms a new Jedi Council consisting of Force
and non-Force users to serve the Galactic Alliance. Jacen Solo,
disturbed by his different uses of the Force during the war, embarks
on a five-year voyage of self-discovery seeking out the different
forms of Force usage throughout the galaxy.
Related stories: The Final Prophecy,
The Unifying Force
THE KILLIK EXPANSION
Time frame: approximately 35-36 years after
the Battle of Yavin
Ten years have past since the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war but the
galaxy is still trying to rebuild itself. Although the Unknown
Regions had been relatively unaffected by the war, its consequences
would still affect the insectile Killik race when during the Jedi
mission to Myrkr some 8 years previous, three Force-user survivors,
believed to have been killed on Myrkr, crash-landed in the heart of
the Killik Colony. Over the subsequent years the survivors became
absorbed into the Killik's collective mind. However, being
Force-users, they influenced the collective with their own conscious
beliefs and values. So while the two Dark Force users, Lomi Plo and
Welk, helped to formulate the Dark Nest, a large group hidden from
the collective's conscious, Jedi Knight Raynar Thul instilled
individual values to the point that the colony's population
increased so much that it required expansion. It now threatens its
borders with the Chiss Ascendancy.
When the other survivors of the Myrkr mission, including Jacen and
Jaina Solo, began answering Force summons from Raynar Thul for
assistance against the Chiss, they found themselves leading military
missions and becoming parts of the Killik's collective mind.
Learning that Jedi are supporting the Killiks, the Chiss Ascendancy
threatened war with the Galactic Alliance. Convincing Galactic
Alliance Chief of State Cal Omas that the Jedi could handle the
Killik problem, Luke kills Welk while Leia secures a cease-fire
between the Chiss and Killiks when she successfully negotiates for
the Killiks to move into uninhabited planets away from the Chiss
border. Leia realises that her true destiny is as a Jedi Knight and
so enrols in her brother's Academy.
However only one year later, Jacen is disturbed by a vision
indicating a Chiss invasion of Killik space that if allowed to come
to pass would embroil the galaxy in an endless war. With help from
Jaina and other Jedi Knights and unbeknownst to both Omas and Luke,
Jacen launches a pre-emptive strike against the Chiss in support of
the Killik colony. In the resulting backlash Luke understands that
he no longer has control of the Jedi and realises that his attempts
of including all in the Order's decision making has also left it
leaderless and lacking vision.
Taking the title of Jedi Grandmaster, Luke, and his Jedi Order
assist the Galactic Alliance in blockading the Killik colony to
prevent escalations with the Chiss. However Lomi Plo's Dark Nest had
been influencing Raynar Thul and the rest of the Killik colony and
makes its move against the Galactic Alliance by capturing several
starships used in the blockade. Luke and the Jedi move against the
Dark Nest having proven to Raynar Thul of its existence and in a
dramatic fight, Luke slays Lomi Plo in four. Meanwhile Raynar is
convinced to leave the Killik colony and return with the Jedi to
their Temple on Ossus for treatment. Without the Force influences of
Lomi Plo, Welk and Raynar Thul, the Killik colony returns to its
normal peaceful isolationist existence.
Related stories: The Joiner King, The
Unseen Queen, The Swarm War
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