Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Allies

I’d fallen in love with Luke Skywalker and the whole galaxy far, far away in the summer of ’77 at age 13. My parents dropped me off for the first showings on Saturday and picked me up in time for dinner practically every weekend it was in the theaters. It fundamentally changed me and I will always be grateful. But it was rumored that if you worked for Star Trek, you’d never work for Star Wars. So you can imagine my reaction when, out of the blue, my agent asked, “Would you like to write Star Wars?”

 Not one book, but; not alone, but with two other writers, and only writing the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th books of a world that had 30+ years of telling its own stories. Thanks to Troy Denning and the late Aaron Allston, somehow we did it.

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Round #2 of picking up where Aaron Allston left off, and setting up for Troy Denning to take the baton. Collaborating was a challenge especially back then compared to what resources we have now! Sometimes in a revision of a draft of his book, Aaron would add things that I wasn’t made aware of, as we were all writing at the same time and trying to coordinate. I recall an angry fan once saying I dropped one subplot, and I was like…I did not know about this subplot…! Tie-in writing is always challenging, but this was way beyond that. --Christie

Only one thing could unite the forces of Jedi and Sith: an enemy far deadlier than both.

What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben. They have used the secrets of the Mindwalkers to transcend their own bodies and speak with the spirits of the fallen, risking their very lives in the process. They have faced a team of Sith assassins and beaten the odds to destroy them. 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.

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. 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.

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. But it is in the depths of the Maw that the future of the galaxy will be decided. 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.