Star Wars_ The New Jedi Order 20_ The Final Prophecy - J. Gregory Keyes [0]
But will this knowledge aid the Jedi … or doom them?
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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eISBN: 978-0-345-46496-5
v3.1
For Dave Gross
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to Shelly Shapiro, Sue Rostoni, and Jim Luceno for holding this whole thing together. The rest of the Star Wars authors for giving me great books to follow. Enrique Guerrero, Michael Kogge, Dan Wallace, Felia Hendersheid, Helen Keiev, and Leland Chee for superior comments and editing. Kris Boldis for reality checks on the Star Wars universe. Finally, thanks to all my friends in Savannah for their support, especially Charlie Williams and the rest of the gang in the Savannah Fencing Club.
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One: Vision
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Part Two: Passage
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Part Three: Transfiguration
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Epilogue
About the Author
Also by this Author
Introduction to the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Excerpt from Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force
Introduction to the Old Republic Era
Introduction to the Rise of the Empire Era
Introduction to the Rebellion Era
Introduction to the New Republic Era
Introduction to the New Jedi Order Era
Introduction to the Legacy Era
Star Wars Novels Timeline
DRAMATIS
PERSONAE
Corran Horn; Jedi Knight (male human)
Erli Prann; adventurer (male human)
Garm Bel Iblis; general (male human)
Gilad Pellaeon; Grand Admiral (male human)
Han Solo; captain, Millennium Falcon (male human)
Harrar; priest (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Jaina Solo; Jedi Knight (female human)
Mynar Devis; Interdictor captain (male human)
Nen Yim; master shaper (female Yuuzhan Vong)
Nom Anor; executor (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Onimi; Shamed One (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Princess Leia Organa Solo; diplomat (female human)
Qelah Kwaad; shaper (female Yuuzhan Vong)
Sien Sovv; admiral (male Sullustan)
Supreme Overlord Shimrra (male Yuuzhan Vong)
Tahiri Veila; Jedi Knight (female human)
Wedge Antilles; general (male human)
PROLOGUE
Three kilometers beneath the surface of Yuuzhan’tar—the world once known as Coruscant—the sound of chanting drifted up a shaft nearly as wide as it was deep, the melancholy strains yearning toward the few distant stars that could be seen from the bottom. In the pale blue light of lumen reeds, the faces of the chanters appeared ravaged, their bodies misshapen.
These were the Shamed Ones of the Yuuzhan Vong, and they chanted to their Prophet.
Nom Anor felt his bile rise at the sight. Even after all this time as the “Prophet,” it was difficult to shake the long years of contempt he