Nevertheless, the Khais speak in the Keshiri language as an added precaution. Once Gavar is aboard, Luke lets Vestara and her father use his room for a private chat, but uses recording devices planted there to eavesdrop.

Vestara's father, Gavar, asks to come aboard, and Luke reluctantly agrees. He proposes that the Sith and the Skywalkers work together to destroy the malignant Force entity known as Abeloth, who is causing the Force psychosis plaguing the young Jedi Knights back on Coruscant, as well the Sith's own apprentices. The Sith commander, High Lord Sarasu Taalon, sends a message to discuss a truce with the Jedi. The novel begins immediately after the ending of Fate of the Jedi: Backlash, with Luke and Ben Skywalker surrounded over Dathomir by the Sith fleet summoned by Vestara Khai, their Sith prisoner.

For there the Skywalkers and their Sith allies will engage a true monster in battle, and Luke will come face-to-face with a staggering truth. Tyrannical Chief of State Natasi Daala has issued orders that will open a permanent schism between her government and the Jedi Order-a schism that could turn all Jedi into renegades and wanted criminals.īut it is in the depths of the Maw that the future of the galaxy will be decided. While the Skywalkers and their Sith allies set off on their joint mission into the treacherous web of black holes that is the Maw, Han and Leia Solo risk arrest and worse to aid the Jedi imprisoned back on Coruscant. But the dark warriors come bearing a surprising proposition that will bring Jedi and Sith together in an unprecedented alliance against an evil more ancient and alien than they can imagine. And now the death squad's sole survivor, Sith apprentice Vestara Khai, has summoned an entire fleet of Sith frigates to engage the embattled father and son. They have faced a team of Sith assassins and beaten the odds to destroy them. They have used the secrets of the Mind Walkers to transcend their own bodies and speak with the spirits of the fallen, risking their very lives in the process. What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben.

Only one thing could unite the forces of the Jedi and the Sith: an enemy far vaster-and deadlier-than both. Publisher's summary Hardcover Back cover

Fate of the Jedi by Christie Golden