Star Wars - [The Jedi Academy 01] - Jedi Search (by Kevin J. Anderson)

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* JEDI SEARCH *

* TheJediAcademy Trilogy *

Volume 1

Kevin J. Anderson

As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire

continues, two children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in a

universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of

turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga begins....

While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to

train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner

on the planet

Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when

Han and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret Imperial

research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes--and go from one

danger to a far greater one. ...

On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come

face-to-face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar

system. It is a death ship called the

Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than

Han himself. ...

_ About the Author _

For the past ten years Kevin J. Anderson has worked as a technical editor

and writer at the large government research lab, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory ... which he insists has nothing to do with the large Imperial

research lab, Maw Installation, in Jedi Search. He is also the author of 18

science fiction or fantasy books, including three co-written with Doug

Beason for Bantam--Lifeline, The Trinity Paradox, and Assemblers of

Infinity. His works have appeared on numerous Best of the Year lists, as

well as preliminary or final ballots for the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards.

In addition to the three novels in the "JediAcademy" trilogy, he is also at

work on various other Star Wars projects, including The Illustrated Star

Wars Universe, an art book featuring 25 new paintings by artist Ralph

McQuarrie showing daily life on the planets in the Star Wars Universe. He is

also editing three anthologies of short stories, the first of which--Tales

from the Star Wars Cantina--tells the stories of all the bizarre characters

from the Cantina scene.

* OTHER BOOKS BY *

* KEVIN J.ANDERSON *

Resurrection, Inc.

Gamearth

Gameplay

Game's End

Star Wars: Jedi Search

Star Wars: Dark Apprentice

Star Wars: Champions of the Force

* by * * Kevin J. Anderson and *

* Doug Beason *

Lifeline

The Trinity Paradox

Assemblers of Infinity

* by * * Kristine Kathryn Rusch and *

* Kevin J. Anderson *

* Acknowledgments *

Lucy Autrey Wilson of Lucasfilm Licensing for keeping watch over a million

things at once and for suggesting new things faster than I could possibly

implement the old ones; my wife Rebecca for all her brainstorming and her

sharp editing skills--and her love; Bill Smith for his suggestions and the

invaluable Star Wars source material available from West End Games; Ralph

McQuarrie for his wild ideas and imagination that sparked more than one

avalanche of possibilities; Dave Willoughby for his help in alien geology

and the other Star Wars authors Tom Veitch, Dave Wolverton, Timothy Zahn,

and Kathy Tyers for helping my story fit in with theirs.

* Dedication *

To my editor

Betsy Mitchell,

for giving me the opportunity to play

in such a vast and entertaining universe

and for helping shape my work into

the best it could be.

* JEDI SEARCH *

* *

The black hole cluster near Kessel reached out for the Millennium Falcon

with jaws of gravity, drawing it close. Even in the mottled blur of

hyperspace, Han Solo could see the huge distortion as a bruised whirlpool,

trying to suck them down to infinity.

"Hey, Chewie! Don't you think that's too close?" He stared at the Falcon's

navicomputer, wishing they had chosen a course that would take them a safer

distance from the Maw. "What do you think this is, an old smuggling mission?

We got nothing to hide this time."

Beside him, Chewbacca looked disappointed and grunted an excuse, waving his

hairy paws in the stifling air of the cockpit.

"Yeah, well we're on an official mission this time. No more skulking about.

Try to act dignified, okay?"

Chewbacca groaned a skeptical reply, then turned to his navigational

screens.

Han felt a pang at returning to his old haunts, reminded of when he had been

just on the other side of the law, running spice, being chased by Imperial

scout ships. When his life had been free and easy.

On one of those frantic missions, he and Chewbacca had practically shaved

the bottom plating off the Falcon, taking a shortcut and skimming closer to

the Maw cluster of black holes than had ever before been recorded. Sensible

pilots avoided the area, using longer paths that kept them clear of the

black holes, but the Falcon's speed had carried them to safety on the other

side, making the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs. But that "guaranteed

sure thing" mission had ended in disaster anyway; Han had dumped his load of

spice just before being boarded by Imperials.

This time, though, Han was returning to Kessel under different

circumstances. His wife Leia had appointed him an official representative of

theNewRepublic , an ambassador of sorts, though the title seemed somewhat

honorary.

But even an honorary title had its advantages. Han and Chewbacca no longer

had to dodge scout ships, or duck under planetary sensor nets, or use the

secret compartments under the deck plates. Han Solo found himself in the

unlikely, and uncomfortable, position of being respectable. There was no

other word for it.

But Han's new responsibilities weren't just quaint annoyances. He was

married to Leia--who could have imagined that?--and he had three children.

Han leaned back in his flight chair and locked his hands behind his head. He

allowed a wistful smile to cross his face. He had visited the kids as often

as he could, in their protective isolation on a secret planet, and the twins

were due to come home to Coruscant in a week. Anakin, the third little baby,

had filled him with wonder as he tickled the tiny ribs, watching an

expression of amusement cross the infant's face.

Han Solo, a father figure? Leia had said a long time ago that she liked

"nice men"--and that was exactly what Han was turning into!

He caught Chewbacca looking at him out of the corner of his eye.

Embarrassed, Han sat up straight and frowned down at the controls. "Where

are we? Shouldn't it be about time to end this jump?"

Chewie growled an affirmative, then reached out with a furry paw to grasp

the hyperspace controls. The Wookiee watched the numbers tick away on his

control panel; at the appropriate moment he hauled backward on the lever

that dropped them back into normal space.

The mottled coloring of hyperspace fanned into starlines with a roar that

Han felt more than heard; then they were surrounded by the expected tapestry

of stars.

Behind them the spectacle of the Maw looked like a garish finger painting as

ionized gas plunged into multiple black holes. Directly in front of the

Falcon, Han saw the blue-white glare of Kessel's sun. As the ship rotated to

align them with the ecliptic, Kessel itself came into view, potato-shaped

and maned with the tendrils of escaping atmosphere, orbited by a large moon

that had once housed a garrison of Imperial troopers.

"Right on target, Chewie," Han said. "Now let me have the controls."

Kessel looked like a wraith coasting along its orbit, too small to hold on

to its own atmosphere. Huge generating factories constantly processed the

raw rocks to release oxygen and carbon dioxide, making it possible for

people to survive outside with simple breath masks instead of total

environment suits. A good portion of the newly manufactured atmosphere

escaped into space, wisping behind the small planet like the tail of a giant

comet.

Chewbacca barked a short, nasal comment.

Han nodded. "Yeah, it looks great from up here. Too bad it's so different

when you get a closer look. I never liked the place."

Kessel was a major planet for spice production and seat of heavy smuggling

activities, as well as the site for one of the toughest prisons in the

galaxy. The Empire had controlled spice production except for what smugglers

managed to steal from under Imperial noses. But with the fall of the

Emperor, the smugglers and the prisoners in the Imperial Correction Facility

took over the planet.

Kessel had laid low during the depredations of Grand Admiral Thrawn and the

recent resurrection of the Emperor, keeping quiet and trying hard not to be

noticed, answering no one's request for help.

A low growl rumbled in Chewie's throat.

Han sighed and shook his head, "Look, I'm not happy about going back there

either, buddy. But things are different now, and we're the best people to do

it."

With the civil war ended and theNewRepublic once again firmly seated on

Coruscant, leaving scattered groups of Imperial warships to fight each

other, it was time to reopen negotiations. Better to get them on our side

than to let them sell out wherever they can, Han thought, which is what

they'll probably do anyway. As representative of the new unified smugglers,

Luke's old nemesis Mara Jade had tried to contact Kessel and been flatly

rebuffed.

The Millennium Falcon approached Kessel, firing aft thrusters to help them

catch up with the planet's motion, preparing for insertion into orbit. On

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