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Star Wars: Light of the Jedi

Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi AuthorCharles SouleAudio read byMarc ThompsonCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreScience fictionPublisherDel ReyJanuary 5, 2021Media typePrint (hardcover, e-book, audiobookPages400ISBN978-0593157718Followed byThe Rising Storm
Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi is the first novel of the Star Wars: The High Republic multi-media project launched in 2021. The novel was written by Charles Soule, and is set approximately 200 years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It will be followed by a sequel, The Rising Storm.

Plot
The Legacy Run, a cargo and passenger ship, speeds through hyperspace and collides with an unexpected obstacle, shattering its hull into several pieces. The debris from the large vessel begins to emerge from hyperspace at different locations and points in time across the galaxy, causing chaos in shipping routes and disastrous loss of life where the pieces impact occupied planets. The Jedi, led by Avar Kriss, attempt to aid the citizens of the Hetzal System to escape disaster; they use the Force to reroute a piece of the Legacy Run containing dangerous gas away from impacting a sun, which would have caused a supernova explosion.

Republic Chancellor Lina Soh postpones the opening ceremonies of the newly completed Starlight Beacon, and tasks the Jedi with discovering the cause of the "emergences" and finding a way to predict the next events. As they search the galaxy for answers, the pirate group known as the Nihil seek to take advantage of the closed hyperspace lanes. Marchion Ro, who holds the title of the Eye of the Nihil, has devised a way to predict the path of the next "emergence", and manipulates the Nihil leaders, the Tempest Runners, into a scheme to blackmail the planets who will soon be destroyed by the debris. The Tempest Runners soon begin to fight with each other and greed overtakes them. One of them reveals his presence to the Republic during a failed blackmail attempt, and the Nihil are confronted in space by Republic and Jedi fighters. Marchion Ro uses the infighting to seize control of the Nihil organization.

Marchion Ro sends Nihil forces to the planet Elphrona to kidnap a Jedi family for his own secret purposes. Jedi Master Loden Greatstorm and his Padawan Bell Zettifar foil the attempt, but Loden Greatstorm is captured in his stead. Marchion Ro confesses to Greatstorm that he orchestrated the Legacy Run's hyperspace accident in order to create the chaos which led to his new control of the Nihil. He has more plans for the Jedi and the Nihil that have yet to be revealed. When the "emergences" cease, Lina Soh re-opens the hyperspace lanes and launches the opening of the Starlight Beacon in an attempt to restore hope to the galaxy.

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