Star Wars_ Millennium Falcon - James Luceno [137]
Allana smiled. “I want to see my mother.” She looked up at Han. “And if Mom says it's okay, I want to stay with you and Grandma some more.”
“You're sure?”
Allana nodded. “Sure.”
“You know it's not always going to be a treasure hunt. Sometimes Grandma and I just sit around doing nothing.”
“I can do that,” she assured him. “Anyway, how do you know another adventure won't happen?”
Han had his mouth open to respond when Leia entered the cockpit, C-3PO a step behind her. Her look told him that she had big news.
“What?”
“The GA government is planning to file criminal charges against Luke.”
“Charges? What's he done this time?”
Leia's gaze shifted briefly and deliberately to Allana. “Dereliction of duty.”
Han nodded slowly. So Daala's government had decided to blame Luke for having allowed Jacen to slip to the dark side. Will it never end?
“How are the Jedi taking it?” he asked.
“Not too seriously.”
“Maybe they're right. Daala could be doing this because she has to, not because she wants to.”
Leia gave her head a quick shake. “He's going to need our help, Han.”
Han snorted. “Of course he is.”
Allana swung to C-3PO. “Threepio, we're going to help rescue Master Luke!”
“Oh, dear. Not again.”
Han and Leia laughed.
“Everyone strap in,” Han said. “You never know what kind of ride we're in for.”
The Millennium Falcon responded to his call for power with an enthusiastic leap. Tasked with heading for Coruscant and raring to go, the old but venerable YT-1300 gathered her strength for the jump to lightspeed, then streaked into hyperspace and vanished from sight.
about the author
JAMES LUCENO is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars novels Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, Cloak of Deception, Labyrinth of Evil, as well as the New Jedi Order novels Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial and Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse, The Unifying Force, and the eBook Darth Maul: Saboteur. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and youngest child.
In this new era, Luke Skywalker finds himself battling for control of the very order he founded. After Jacen's fall to the dark side, much of the galaxy sees Jedi Knights as rogue soldiers too dangerous and unstable to leave unfettered. It is a view shared by Chief Daala, who has sworn to bring the order under government control—or disband it entirely.
But the greatest threat to the Jedi remains unseen, a faceless menace even more lethal and insidious than the Sith who have plagued the Jedi for millennia. Awakened by Jacen Solo during his five-year odyssey, this hidden peril is reaching out from the darkest corner of the galaxy, assaulting Jedi Knights in ways that even Luke has yet to perceive—but which he must quickly thwart if he is to have any hope of redeeming the New Jedi Order.
Don't miss the further adventures of Luke Skywalker, Leia
Organa Solo, and Han Solo in the brand-new epic series,
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi,
beginning with Outcast, by Aaron Allston, in bookstores April 2009!
Star Wars: Millennium Falcon is a work of fiction. Names, places, and
incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2008 by Lucasfilm Ltd. & ® or ™ where indicated.
All Rights Reserved. Used Under Authorization.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Luceno, James.
Star wars: millennium falcon/James Luceno.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51867-5
1. Space ships—Fiction. 2. Imaginary wars and battles—Fiction. 3. Life on other
planets—Fiction. 4. Star Wars fiction. I. Title.
PS3562 U25417S76 2008
813′.54—dc22 2008035090
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