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There is no emotion; there is peace.

There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.

There is no passion; there is serenity.

There is no death; there is the Force.

He had tried his utmost to adhere to these tenets, to make them the guideposts of his life. To be the best Jedi he could be. Toward this, he had disavowed any desire to know anything about his origins or his parents. They had renounced him, after all; given him to the Jedi. He, in turn, had smothered within himself any wish to learn who they had been, what they had been.

But to deny their memories was to deny himself. Jax could see that clearly now. Though the Jedi had shaped him and forged him, the raw material had been provided by Lorn and Siena Pavan.

Below them, the endless sprawl of the planetary city was coming to life. Traffic strata were beginning to build; towers, cloudcutters, and skytowers sparkled with light, and millions upon millions of beings, each and every one their own private cosmos, began their daily routines. The vast majority of those beings were respectable and honest. But deeper down, in the dark crevasses and rifts, those who were neither plied their trades as well.

Someone had to aid the ones who suffered. Someone had to find the ones who were lost. Someone had to stand and fight, for those who could not defend themselves.

Could a Jedi’s work ever have been more clear?

Jax looked up. A golden gleam on the horizon; the Far Ranger was racing toward the dawn.

I-Five said, “Your father didn’t think of himself as a great man. Yet when the situation arose in which he had to step up, he did. I wish I could tell you he succeeded. It was a cruel and callous fate that made a mockery of his mission. But he tried. That’s all, really, in the final analysis, that counts.”

Jax stared at the coming dawn. “Tell me about my father,” he said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Reaves received an Emmy Award for his work on the Batman television animated series. He has worked for DreamWorks, among other studios, and has written fantasy novels and supernatural thrillers. Reaves is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars: Coruscant Nights novels Jedi Twilight and Street of Shadows, and Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, as well as the co-writer (with Steve Perry) of Star Wars: Death Star and two Star Wars: MedStar novels: Battle Surgeons and Jedi Healer. He lives in the Los Angeles area.

By Michael Reaves

THE SHATTERED WORLD

THE BURNING REALM

DARKWORLD DETECTIVE

I—ALIEN

STREET MAGIC

NIGHT HUNTER

VOODOO CHILD

DRAGONWORLD (with Byron Preiss)

SWORD OF THE SAMURAI (with Steve Perry)

HELLSTAR (with Steve Perry)

DOME (with Steve Perry)

THE OMEGA CAGE (with Steve Perry)

THONG THE BARBARIAN MEETS THE CYCLE SLUTS OF SATURN (with Steve Perry)

HELL ON EARTH

MR. TWILIGHT (with Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff)

BATMAN: FEAR, ITSELF (with Steven-Elliot Altman)

STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL: SHADOW HUNTER

STAR WARS: MEDSTAR I: BATTLE SURGEONS (with Steve Perry)

STAR WARS: MEDSTAR II: JEDI HEALER (with Steve Perry)

STAR WARS: DEATH STAR (with Steve Perry)

STAR WARS: CORUSCANT NIGHTS I: JEDI TWILIGHT

STAR WARS: CORUSCANT NIGHTS II: STREET OF SHADOWS

STAR WARS: CORUSCANT NIGHTS III: PATTERNS OF FORCE

Anthologies

SHADOWS OVER BAKER STREET (co-edited with John Pelan)

Story Collection

THE NIGHT PEOPLE

STAR WARS—The Expanded Universe

You saw the movies. You watched the cartoon series, or maybe played some of the video games. But did you know …

In The Empire Strikes Back, Princess Leia Organa said to Han Solo, “I love you.” Han said, “I know.” But did you know that they actually got married? And had three Jedi children: the twins, Jacen and Jaina, and a younger son, Anakin?

Luke Skywalker was trained as a Jedi by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. But did you know that, years later, he went on to revive the Jedi Order and its commitment to defending the galaxy from evil and injustice?

Obi-Wan said to Luke, “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times.