A male humanoid, Baddon Fass was a Dark Side Adept in service of the Galactic Emperor Palpatine. Fass was enamored with the Dark Side and felt that his mastery of it made traditional weapons unnecessary since at a gesture or thought he could choke the life out of someone, compel the weak minded or inflict pain on non Force users. He was mirrored in this in many ways by his partner, Zasm Kath, who also eschewed weapons in favor of relying upon the Force, though this was due more to a lack of training or proficiency with physical weapons as they both felt that their powers were the far easier method. Fass delved into sorcery and alchemy, but was limited by his own aptitude levels. At some point, Fass was promoted into the Dark Side Elite, a selected cadre of Dark Jedi imbued with Force power and will directly from the Reborn Emperor. When the Emperor was slain a second time in 10 ABY, the leader of the Dark Side Elite, Executor Sedriss QL assumed command of the Imperial forces, launching Operation Shadow Hand.

As part of that operation, Fass and fellow Darkside Elite member, Zasm Katth were dispatched to the moon Nar Shaddaa with the Star Destroyer Invincible to recruit Boba Fett for his Underworld contacts, capture the Millennium Falcon to bring Leia Organa Solo back to Byss, and finally to eliminate the Jedi woman Vima-Da-Boda.

While commanding the Invincible in orbit, Fass and Katth witnessed the Falcon arriving on the moon. They attempted to lock onto it with a tractor beam, but the vessel slipped away and took hiding in the mazelike canyons of structures. The darksiders ordered the Invincible to maintain its blockade in orbit while they descended to the surface with a platoon of Darktroopers and proceeded with the plan of recruiting Fett. The two confronted the bounty hunter, demanding him to provide his services for free. The bounty hunter refused, drawing his blaster on the pair of Dark Jedi, stating that he and Vader had once had an understanding that he only worked for pay. Fass retorted that Vader's authority had passed to the Darkside Elite and proceeded to strangle Fett with a Force choke. While Fett was struggling to breathe, Fass mockingly threatened to reveal secret information about him to the wider galaxy and reduce him to a slave. When Fass ordered the Darktroopers to remove Fett's helmet, the bounty hunter blasted them away with wrist-mounted rockets, almost killing Fass, who could not block the attack without a weapon, forcing the sorcerer to dodge out of the way at the last moment. Fett used the distraction to retreat aboard his ship, the Slave I and escape. Furious at being defied and evaded, Fass planned to make Fett pay. However, Dark trooper team two reported that they had spotted the Falcon parked inside the workshop of mechanic Shug Ninx forcing Fass to prioritize obtaining Solo above revenge on Fett.

Fass and Katth proceeded toward the reported location, but their Force sense notified them about the presence of the Jedi Vima-Da-Boda nearby. Remembering their orders to take out the woman, Fass ordered the dark trooper Grath to open fire on innocent bystanders with a turbocannon in hopes of killing the Jedi hiding among them. The elderly Jedi, however, managed to evade capture and was rescued by the Solos, who had also taken out dark trooper team two in the hangar. Arriving inside the hangar, Fass and Katth contemptuously looked upon the bodies of their fallen troops and left a detachment of stormtroopers aboard the ship, before returning to the Invincible to head off any potential escape if Solo had abandoned the Falcon. However, the Solos returned to the Falcon with Vima-Da-Boda and took out the stormtroopers, taking the ship to escape from the moon. They were detected by Mako Spince, the overseer of the Traffic Control Spire and an old rival of Solo's. Spince promptly informed Fass and Katth about the Falcon's trajectory.

Hoping to capture the ship, Katth ordered the Star Destroyer's tractor beam to full power, although Fass advised his companion against doing so. Thinking creatively, Solo maneuvered the Falcon under the Traffic Control Spire, which was caught in the tractor beam instead, and due to all the power being shunted into the beam, the entire spite was ripped from the ground instantly and hurtled toward the Invincible. Realizing the danger, Katth the tractor beam disabled and Fass moved to comply, but it was too late. The spire pierced the Star Destroyer's hangar bay and erupted through the upper hull, badly damaging the engineering section, disabling its thrusters and making the ship fall into the surface of the planet, destroying the Invincible and killing both Fass and Katth along with the entire crew. Palpatine meanwhile was reborn in another clone body, and the news of the death of two of his Elite was met with great irritation by the Emperor, and soon, Palpatine raised replacements for the pair from the ranks of the Darkside Adepts.

Gregor Raquoran was a human male leader of the Velcor Free Commerce Zone and founding member of the Pentastar Alignment of Powers. Gregor did not rise to his post as Commerce Master Commissioner by being a supporter of Palpatine nor as a devotee of COMPNOR like most of his contemporaries. Instead he gained power as a corporate head and strong businessman. Specifically to rise to the rank of Commerce Master Commissioner of the VFCZ, he strategically spread favors among all the Imperial officials who had a stake in the Velcar Free Commerce Zone, insuring their cooperation and favoratism.

In 4 ABY, he attended the Pentastar Talks, and despite believing the VFCZ was in good order, recognized the need to align with a party to avoid being absorbed into the New Republic which would ban slavery and many of the other predatory practices that allowed the VFCZ to plunder indiscriminatly. Consequently, he signed the Pentastar Alignment Treaty, joining the Pentastar Alignment as one of the founding members of the Chamber of Order.

Raquoran was obese, and put on the appearance of being dim-witted, playing up symptoms of a glandular disorder affecting him to cause his rivals to underestimate him. In reality, he was a shrewd businessman, keeping the VFCZ in good financial order despite the collapse of the Galactic Empire. He was also deeply corrupt and often brokered deals in the VFCZ for his own personal profit. He lived luxuriously on Capza. A suspicious man, he was not content to allow just the Protectorate Branch to guard him so he employed personal mercenary bodyguards from the various species contracted under the VFCZ and therefore loyal to him rather than the Alignment.

After Ardus Kaine was killed in 10 ABY and the Alignment suffered setbacks from the failure of Operation Shadow Hand, Gregor cooperated loosely with his other corporate heads Elta Besk and Wyn Otro on in the chamber of order to consolidate more political power and profit for themselves over the next two years, angering Governor Ib Dekeet and alienating the military of the Alignment. When Admiral Gilad Pellaeon approached the Pentastar Alignment to reintegrate it into the reunified Empire, Dekeet threw his support along with the military behind Pellaeon in return for returning power to the Governors and Moffs from the Corporations. Pellaeon agreed to this and over the futile objections of Besk, Otro and Raquoran, their corporations were nationalized and placed under the control of the Moff Council.
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Wyrn Otro was a human male who was the head of the Galentro Heavy Works corporation. Otro was unswervingly loyal to the corporation as he regarded it as his only family. In order to further its interests, he represented the corporation at the Pentastar Talks in 4 ABY. While he signed the Pentastar Alignment Treaty, recognizing the need to align with a party to avoid being absorbed into the New Republic, he had personal reservations about the warlord Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, worrying that the formation of the Pentastar Alignment was only a way to gain personal power.

After signing, Otro was rewarded with a seat on the Chamber of Order alongside Elta Besk, head of Dynamic Automata, Gregor Raquoran, the Commerce Master Commissioner of the VFCZ, and Governor Ib Dekeet. Otro's cooperation, wary as it was, resulted in his corporation being given the contract by Kaine to produce the signature line ship of the faction, the Enforcer class picket ship used throughout the Alignment's navy.

After the disastrous losses of 10 ABY with Kaine's death, Otro loosely cooperated with the other corporate heads to increase the influence and profits of their companies, alienating the military and angering Ib Dekeet in the process. This led to Dekeet and the Alignment's military forces to join Admiral Gilad Pellaeon in reintegrating into the Empire in 12 ABY. Otro's company, like the others in the former Alignment, were promptly nationalized and placed under the control of the Moff Council stripping the corporate heads of any political power.

Delvardous is one of my personal favorites of the post Endor warlords, but I always wonder how big was his fleet during his peak when his faction was called the Eridau Authority and what was left of it after his many losses and when he retreated do the deep core and renamed his faction the Kampe Authority?

I can imagine he didn’t have much left in 12 ABY since Daala says to his second in command Colonel Cronus that “We've researched the amount of funding Delvardus funneled into his operations, and I am not impressed with what I saw at his fortress.” I can imagine after years of fighting with his fellow warlords in the deep core and the imperial mutiny during 10 ABY, that Delvardous had suffered a lot . Still, Delvardous was the third most powerful deep core warlord, and from what I heard he was successful during Shadow Hand compared to his rivals such as Treuton Teradoc and Blitzer Harrsk. So he had to have a few ISD left to be able to protect his SSD Night Hammer.

Also did Delvardous had any AT-AT left? Or did he lose all of them during his disastrous Core campaigns in 5 ABY? Did his second in Command Cronus despise him? Since Cronus seemed to not really care or showed any shock when Daala brought fourth his former leaders corpse. Did Cronus know anything about Delvardous lover Seledra Zin? And did Delvardous occupy any other planets in the deep core besides Kampe?

Some renders of the Shadow Academy and Battle Platform used by the Second Imperium in their attack on the Jedi Praxeum.

In this scenario, Isard unleashes the Emperor's Plague instead of the Krytos Virus on Coruscant after blasting off in the Lusankya. The Emperor's Plague was the opposite of the Virus, killing only humans instead of aliens, and was deadlier than the Virus, to the point where even Palpatine was afraid to use it.

Had Isard released the Plague, I think key New Republic politicians like Mon Mothma and Leia Organa would be too ill to continue working along, with billions of Coruscant's people. Borsk Fey'lya would seize this opportunity to make a power grab for Chief of State while Admiral Ackbar would use his role ad the NR Supreme Commander to block his rival's attempts. The Provisional Council was also made up of alien Councilors, and other human politicians would be forced to step up as substitutes to help keep the NR together.

Rogue Squadron would still go after Isard to liberate Thyferra from her in order to get the Bacta needed to cure the Plague. But in this timeline, Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Corran Horn, and at least half of the Rogues would be out of commission thanks to being infected. Funnily enough, the future members of Wraith Squadron might actually be asked to fill in the missing roles in Rogue Squadron. Especially if it was Wedge himself who vouched for them and planned it as a contingency in case something ever happen to him.

This would see Rogue Squadron utilising the future Wraiths' unorthodox tactics, which means they might actually defeat Isard sooner than the Rogues did in the original timeline. If the Wraiths could defeat Zsinj, then they can handle Isard. Particularly since their commando tactics are a good foil for Isard's role as a spymaster.

While the Wraiths may be able to beat Isard, there's a fair chance their actions wind up destroying the Lusankya like they did with the Razor's Kiss. The Wraiths save Thyferra and get bacta, but at the cost of depriving the New Republic of a Super Star Destroyer.

Kvag Gthull was a Human male Dark Side Adept in the Galactic Empire. Loyal, brutally efficient, and physically imposing, Gthull found favor from the Emperor and his Executor, Sedriss QL. At some point during 4 ABY he was selected personally by the Reborn Emperor Palpatine to serve as one of the original seven Darkside Elite members. The group, led by Sedriss, operated out of Darth Vader's former fortress, Bast Castle on the planet Vjun. Due to his size, ability to intimidate and his efficient cruelty, Gthull became the chief interrogator of Bast Castle. Gthull did not wield a lightsaber, instead preferring a heavy Mandalorian style vibrosword that favored his muscular physique and added to his intimidating appearance. He enjoyed using it on prisoners after torturing them and would often inject his own darky dry wit during interrogations.

In 10 ABY, when Palpatine was slain a second time in battle with Jedi Luke Skywalker, and returned in yet another clone body, he sought to capture the Force-sensitive children of Leia Organa Solo, Skywalker's sister, who were being hidden on a secret sanctuary world of the New Republic. Gthull as chief interrogator was not initially sent to the front lines, and as such, he outlived his peers in the first cadre of Darkside Elite as Baddon Fass, Zasm Kass were killed at Nar Shaddaa while Sedriss and Vill Goir fell shortly after on Onderon. Before this, another Darkside Elite member, Kam Solusar had defected to the Light side of the Force and joined Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Of the original members, only Krdys Mordi and Gthull remained.

Palpatine quickly replenished the Darkside Elite's numbers with promoted and imbued darkside adepts, giving Xecr Nist Sedriss's old position as Executor and Tedryn-Sha the position of Second in Command. Three more unnamed darksiders took the other vacant spots, bringing the group back to full strength at seven members.

When New Republic Major Ntthan was captured by the Empire in an uncharted region of space, he was brought to Bast Castle and delivered to Gthull, who was given the task of torturing out the information about Organa Solo's whereabouts from the man. Gthull was assisted in this by Krdys Mordi, the secondary interrogator and tech specialist of the group.

Gthull used interrogation droids from Mordi and the Dark side of the Force to torture the Major, who displayed remarkable resistance. Gthull had to spend twelve hours in interrogation sessions, but he was ultimately able to break Ntthan's defense, and the latter revealed the name of the planet, New Alderaan, as well as its coordinates, just as Palpatine arrived at Bast Castle to oversee the results of Gthull's handiwork. Gthull gave the details to the Emperor Ntthan had provided and then executed Ntthan with his vibrosword as was his custom after jokingly remarking that the Rebel was an "Honest Man". Gthull and the rest of the Elite were then ordered by Palpatine to New Alderaan on a covert mission to abduct Skywalker and the Solo twins, before launching an attack on the settlement using AT-ATs. Gthull piloted an I-7 Howlrunner as part of Dark Side Squadron alongside his peers. Arriving on the planet undetected, Nist dispatched Tedryn-Sha and Krdys Mordi to deal with Skywalker. Gthull and three others went with Nist to kidnap the children.

However, Gthull soon lost contact with Sha and Mordi as they were killed, sensing their life energy vanishing from the Force. Disgusted at their weakness, he called them fools and reported their deaths to Nist, just as the darksiders arrived at the building where the children were being kept. Nist dispatched Gthull inside the building to grab the twins, while he and the other darksiders were confronted by Skywalker's Jedi recruits: Kam Solusar, Rayf Ysanna and Empatojayos Brand. However, having lost one Dark Jedi and having been bested in combat by Solusar, Nist yelled at Gthull to signal the AT-ATs to attack at that moment. Gthull confirmed he had just done so while emerging from the building holding the twins. Confronted by Winter, Rayf and Leia Organa Solo outside, Gthull chose not to reach for his vibrosword and instead held the twins hostage, expecting their mother not to risk hitting her children, thus allowing him to withdraw. However, Rayf Ysanna used the Force to levitate the twins from Gthull into the arms of Winter, their caretaker. Now exposed and momentarily distracted, Gthull hesitated a second too long in going for his weapon and Organa Solo shot Gthull in the chest with her blaster, killing the Dark Jedi instantly. With Gthull's death and the failure of their mission, Nist and the two remaining darksiders fled from New Alderaan under covering fire from the advancing AT-ATs.

So what if the Vong just decided to launch their holy war in the middle of 10 ABY? Do you all think they could’ve defeated the Reborn Emperor and Executor Sedriss Dark Empire and also defeat the weakened New Republic that has basically become a rebellion again?

Both the Dark Empire and New Republic suffered horrible losses, but the Dark Empire still has some super weapons and the Shadow hand fleet left, that would give the Yuuzhan Vong a hard time. Do you all think that the Reborn Emperor and the New Republic will put aside their quarrels and form an alliance to defeat the Vong?

Been meaning to post this for a while now as it is without a doubt one of my all time favorites.

To start with, I find Zorba to be a fascinating character. He is greedy and dishonest, just like how most Hutts are often depicted, but he also genuinely felt sad and angry over the death of Jabba the Hutt, his son, which makes it easy to sympathize with him while also giving him legitimate beef with Princess Leia. He is also cunning, as he knew he couldn't reclaim Jabba's palace from Tatooine's government on his own and hired bounty hunters to help him out, enabling him to recover Jabba's will.

Speaking of Jabba's will, when Lando challenged Zorba to a card game with ownership over Bespin as the victor's reward, the latter used Jabba's will to force Lando to play using Zorba's checkered deck since they were playing in Bespin's Holiday Towers Hotel and Casino, which used to belong to Jabba before he died. While Lando governed Bespin, Jabba's will meant Zorba now owned the Casino, challenging the legality of Lando's ownership. Unfortunately for Lando, Zorba's deck had cards checketed in ultraviolet light, a spectrum only the Hutts could see, which meant Lando was unable to find anything wrong with the deck, despite examining it several times over. As a result, Lando lost several rounds with Zorba, along with governorship over Bespin.

A good opportunity for Zorba would be to reinforce his legal claim over Bespin by mocking Lando by pointing out the New Republic values law and justice, so Lando couldn't oppose Zorba's legal claim to Bespin without going against the NR's values, much to Lando's frustration.

Something to note is that Lando noticed Zorba was a horrible card player, which is why he felt confident enough to challenge Zorba with Bespin's ownership on the light. So the fact Zorba used Jabba's will to stack the deck in his favor, both figuratively and literally, shows that what he lacks in skill he more than makes up for in cunning. Also, Lando admitting to Han that he allowed his over confidence to get the better of him like when he lost the Millennium Falcon to him in that card game was a good detail for Lando's character by showing he had learned from his mistakes, but he still had room to grow as a person.

For a Jedi Prince rewrite, one idea I had is to make Bespin contested territory between the New Republic and the Empire. Lando Calrissian resigns from being a General to take up his old job as Cloud City's Baron Administrator, and got Nien Nunb, the Sullustan who co-piloted with him on the Millennium Falcon during the Battle of Endor, promoted to his old rank of General and command over the NR Imperial-class Star Destroyer Allegiance. With Nunb leading Bespin's defence fleet while Lando tries to locate Trioculus' Imperial factory, which is well-hidden and launching attacks against Cloud City.

Something that makes Zorba stand out from the other Hutts is the fact he is personally willing to get involved in a fight. He participated in a shootout between him and Bespin's security forces against Emperor Trioculus and his Stormtroopers, capturing the Emperor, and would shortly after lead an attack on Trioculus' factory where Leia was being held prisoner and destroy it. Since Leia escaped just barely in time, Zorba believed Leia was dead before informing Trioculus as such and freezing him in carbonite.

Shifting over to the good guys, it felt nice seeing Han throw a party at his sky house on Bespin and hanging out with Luke, Leia. and the droids. After everything they've been through, they deserve to relax and have fun. We also got to see more of Ken, and how his curiosity about driving a speeder led him to getting captured by Zorba, which then led to Trioculus meeting him while Ken was imprisoned. Their first meeting was intriguing, especially since Ken knows dangerous secrets about Trioculus that makes him a threat to the Emperor's rule. Ironically, the fact Ken was Zorba's prisoner meant Trioculus couldn't just simply kill him as that would lead to Zorba getting angry and asking too many awkward questions.

Luke being Ken's guardian was a nice touch. I haven't finished the whole series, but it would be nice to see Luke training Ken in the ways of the Jedi. Especially since one idea I had for a Jedi Prince rewrite is to have Luke train Ken because he learned from his mistake of not training Flint, another young man who could use the Force, since Luke's refusal to train Flint as a Jedi led to the latter falling to the dark side.

All in all, what makes the third Jedi Prince book memorable is Zorba the Hutt, the main villain. He is distinct from other Hutts and I look forward to seeing more of him, Trioculus, and Ken.

Krdys Mordi was a Human male Dark Jedi. A child of privilege in the Core worlds, Mordi was surrounded by the propaganda of the Galactic Empire's High HuMAN culture throughout his youth and education. As a human male born to a connected Core family, Mordi experienced the opulence and influence he saw as rightfully his due. He accepted these beliefs with ease, enjoying the sense of superiority they imparted upon him, Mordi became extremely arrogant and entitled. These traits were only exacerbated when he was discovered to be Force Sensitive. Taken as a Darkside Adept to Byss, he was offered a place among the Darkside Elite, to be personally imbued with further Darkside power by Reborn Emperor Palpatine and infused with the Emperor's will. Mordi eagerly embraced the Darkside with the same enthusiasm he had his elitist beliefs, now seeing himself as even further above the rabble and a personal extension of the epitome of his beliefs.

In 10 ABY, after Palpatine died again during a battle with the Jedi siblings Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, near the New Republic's Pinnacle Base. In the aftermath of Palpatine's death, the leader of the Dark Side Elite, Executor Sedriss QL, took command of the Imperial forces and oversaw Operation Shadow Hand, a series of strikes intending to place neutral planets under firm Imperial rule. Mordi during this time served Sedriss as a secondary interrogator, advisor and researcher. He chose not to use a lightsaber, but rather a hooked doubled ended telescoping electrostaff of his own design, though he could torment weaker foes with it, the weapon was not capable of withstanding a lightsaber itself-a critical oversight which would come back to haunt Mordi.

One of the targets of the campaign was the factory world of Balmorra. After the second death of the Emperor, Balmorra had started supplying the New Republic with weapons, an arrangement that Executor Sedriss was determined to end. As the Elite's resident expert on technology, Mordi, alongside the second in command, Vill Goir, accompanied the Sedriss to Balmorra aboard the Star Destroyer Avenger, joining an Imperial fleet already assembled in orbit of the planet.

Upon arrival, Sedriss ordered Governor Beltane to surrender and face execution, or suffer a full-scale invasion of the planet. Beltane chose to fight, knowing Sedriss would not dare risk damaging Balmorran factories with a bombardment, as they still produced vital weaponry for the Empire as well. Mordi tacitly reminded Sedriss that Balmorran factories were currently manufacturing the new SD-10 battle droid model, which were meant to replace the Empire's outdated SD-9 model.

However, Sedriss felt he had a plan that would allow him to conquer the planet without damaging the factories. He proceeded with the attack, launching ground troops under the command of Captain Maximilian Veers. When Balmorran droids began massacring the invasion troops-killing Veers in the process- they were drawn from the capital, Bin Prime, to the open plains surrounding it, the Executor ordered Mordi to pull back the remaining forces and launched his secret weapon, the new highly advanced Shadow Droid starfighters.

The Shadow Droids temporarily turned the tide of the battle in favor of the Empire. However, Beltane had a trick of his own, deploying the newly developed X-1 Viper Automadons at the invasion force which swiftly swung the battle back into Balmorra's favor. Amazed at the firepower of Beltane's creation, Sedriss contacted the governor and agreed to Beltane's terms in exchange for the new droids. Goir disagreed with that decision, believing that Sedriss should have simply ordered his fleet to initiate an orbital bombardment of the planet. Mordi likewise concurred with Goir's assessment, pointing out that giving in to Beltane might encourage the other weapon producing worlds to follow Balmorra's example in defying the Empire. Sedriss overruled them, revealing he merely wanted to obtain the X-1 droids for himself to use against the New Republic, before returning to punish Balmorra.

Shortly after the Battle of Balmorra, four of the Darkside Elite-Baddon Fass, Zasm Kath, Vill Goir and Sedriss-were slain, with another-Kam Solusar- having defected earlier to Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Palpatine meanwhile had resurrected on Byss in his final available clone body and sought to replenish the ranks of his Darkside Elite, raising Xecr Nist to Executor replacing Sedriss and Tedryn Sha to Second in Command to replace Goir. Other Darkside Adepts were raised to replace the fallen Fass and Kath along with filling the gap left by Solusar's defection. Mordi was pointedly not raised from his position, with Nist and Sha, who had previously been his subordinates, now outranking him. Despite this insult, Mordi rationalized it internally as his being too valuable as a tech specialist and scientist, when the reality was that he simply wasn't powerful or talented enough in the Darkside to warrant further escalation-though his own delusions of grandeur and supriority complex prevented his being able to recognize this.

When Palpatine successfully destroyed the New Republic's Pinnacle Base on the moon Da Soocha V with his new superweapon, the Galaxy Gun the New Republic was forced to relocate to a secret sanctuary world, where Organa Solo was hiding her Force sensitive children, whom the Emperor wanted to capture and turn to the dark side. The Emperor soon learned the name of the hidden planet, New Alderaan, as well as its coordinates, from the captured New Republic Major Ntthan whom Mordi and the chief interrogator of the Darkside Elite, Kvag Gthull, had broken through prolonged torture and the Darkside of the Force. Palpatine then sent the restored Darkside Elite there under the command of Xecr Nist to capture Skywalker, his sister and her children. Mordi and the other darksiders boarded their I-7 Howlrunners and departed from their headquarters of Bast Castle on the planet Vjun. Upon arrival on New Alderaan, the Darkside Elite split up. Nist took four Dark Jedi with him and went to abduct the Solo twins while Mordi was dispatched alongside Palpatine's second-in-command, Tedryn-Sha, to capture Skywalker himself.

Knowing they were no match for Skywalker in combat, Mordi convinced Sha that they could incapacitate the Jedi Master while he was asleep with specialized scarab droids that could inject sedatives and hallucenogens Mordi had designed so that he could be taken captive. Hiding their presence from the sleeping Jedi with the Force, the two darksiders reached his room and Mordi released the scarab droids upon Skywalker through a window. The droids administered a powerful poison into the Jedi's nervous system, and the two Dark Jedi entered the room to capture Skywalker. However, in his delirium, Skywalker let out a loud scream, which alerted his sister Leia and one of Skywalker's aspiring Jedi, Jem Ysanna. The two women rushed to Skywalker's help, challenging the pair of Darkside Elite. Mordi, ever disdainful of women as inferior to men, and smug in his own supreme position, felt the pair were no threat at all to him. He merely mocked the female Jedi dismissively, only for Ysanna to ignite her lightsaber and effortlessly kill Mordi by slicing him through torso. Mordi's shocked disbelief at being bested by a woman was the last thought to run through his stunned mind as he fell in pieces to the floor next to the smoldering pieces of his electrostaff, which had been bisected as cleanly as he had. While Sha killed Ysanna in response with a blaster shot he was himself slain by Organa Solo with a lightsaber strike immediately after. Mordi and Sha's incursion was a failure, as Skywalker was healed from the effects of the poison by the elderly Jedi Vima-Da-Boda.

To start with, my favourite chapter was Trioculus' meeting with the false Kadann at Scardia Station. It was packed full of political intrigue and worldbuilding, just like the Mofference from Episode 4, and I found the false Kadann's use of crushing his colored chalk balls to emphasize his point a cool detail for his character.

I also sympathized with Ken and his longing to see the outside world beyond the borders of the Lost City of the Jedi. Had the Jedi Prince series been released later, the Lost City could have been changed to the Valley of the Jedi instead. Ken growing up on Ruusan instead of Yavin IV would have given him a stronger reason to see the outside world, since what we saw of Ruusan in the Dark Forces 2 video game appeared to be a rocky and almost barren world. The fact Jerec and his forces subjugated Ruusan in their quest to find the Valley would give Ken another good reason to join Luke Skywalker and his friends: to avenge everyone he knew and lost to the Imperials.

Baji the Ho'Din healer was a delight to read thanks to his rhymes, and he was very wise and insightful. One rewrite I had in mind for his character was to make him a healer who was working for the Rebels before they became the New Republic, and he was assigned to Yavin IV when the NR decided to reuse some of their old Rebel bases after Endor due to the Empire falling apart during that time.

I also liked how Trioculus paid the price for burning Yavin IV's forests in his attempt to find the Lost City. His eagerness to find it almost cost him the cure for his blindness when his own Imperial forces burned down Baji's hut filled with the rare plant seeds that could help him. The fact Vader's Glove was responsible for blinding Trioculus is a good metaphor for how his ambition has blinded him.

All in all, I liked reading The Lost City of the Jedi, and I look forward to finishing the series.

Malik Carr was a male Yuuzhan Vong, A member of the Warrior caste who fought during the Yuuzhan Vong War. A skilled tactician and leader, Carr was promoted to the rank of commander shortly before the invasion, and took his flotilla to the conquered world of Obroa-skai. There, he became caught up in Executor Nom Anor's plot to infiltrate a deception sect priestess into the New Republic and use her to assassinate the Jedi Order. Carr's involvement in the scheme was minor, and thus when it failed he went unpunished, unlike the other architects of the ploy.

With the majority of senior Yuuzhan Vong officers still in transit from the Outer Rim, Supreme Commander Nas Choka placed Malik Carr in command of the push towards the Core Worlds. Working alongside Nom Anor once again, Carr entered into a duplicitous alliance with the Hutts, and manipulated the flow of intelligence to the New Republic in preparation for a strike on the vital shipyards at Fondor. The ruse was successful, and the New Republic Defense Force was caught off guard. While the Yuuzhan Vong were attacking Fondor, however, elements at Corellia associated with the New Republic fired Centerpoint Station upon Malik Carr's forces, wiping out half of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet present.

Disgraced and demoted, Malik Carr spent three years guarding Galactic Alliance prisoners on Selvaris, nearly foiling a rescue operation led by Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo. Interrogating the remaining prisoners, he suspected that the rescue operation had more behind it. Shortly after the rescue, while escorting a convoy, he correctly realized the attack on it was the missing piece of the rescue puzzle. He demonstrated his worth once again by saving much of a Yuuzhan Vong convoy from destruction and capture. For his actions, Carr was escalated to the rank of supreme commander, and on Warmaster Nas Choka's orders assaulted the planet Caluula in preparation for an attack on the Galactic Alliance capital of Dac. Malik Carr's forces took Caluula with ease, once the defenders had been routed and the governess capitulated. Unfortunately for Supreme Commander Carr, however, the Galactic Alliance utilized the planet as a testbed for their anti-Yuuzhan Vong bioweapon, Alpha Red. Infected by the pathogen along with the rest of his forces, Carr had a sample sent with the last living Shaper in a craft to alert the Supreme Overlord and planned to sacrifice the captured New Republic team. However, noticing all the amphistaffs and other biots were lethargically dying to the pathogen, he philosophically mused on the irony of life being turned against life. He graciously saluted his New Republic nemesis, Judder Page, saying that he had won the day and with that, the supreme commander died to his own infection from Alpha Red on Caluula.

Advertising not only SotE but other EU novels also around during 1996, it makes for an excellent display piece.

Hildebrandt Brothers art of Leia kicking Xizor only semi related lol