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Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil: A Novel of the Old by Drew Karpyshyn

By Drew Karpyshyn

20 years have handed considering that Darth Bane, reigning darkish Lord of the Sith, demolished the traditional order dedicated to the darkish facet and reinvented it as a circle of 2: one grasp to wield the facility and cross at the knowledge, and one apprentice to benefit, problem, and finally usurp the darkish Lord in a duel to the demise. yet Bane’s acolyte, Zannah, has but to interact her grasp in mortal wrestle and turn out herself a beneficial successor. decided that the Sith dream of galactic domination won't die with him, Bane vows to benefit the key of a forgotten darkish Lord that may guarantee the Sith’s immortality–and his own.A ideal chance arises while a Jedi emissary is assassinated at the mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding mission–while he himself units out in mystery to trap the traditional holocron of Darth Andeddu and its worthy wisdom. yet Zannah is not any idiot. She is familiar with that her ruthless grasp has started to doubt her, and she or he senses that he's hiding anything an important to her destiny. If she will declare the ability she craves, she needs to take motion now. whereas Bane storms the distant stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall by means of making a choice on an apprentice of her personal: a rogue Jedi crafty and cold-blooded sufficient to embody the Sith method and to face beside her whilst she finally wrests from Bane the mantle of darkish Lord of the Sith. yet Zannah isn't the just one with the need and gear to smash Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family members is haunted by means of stories of the giant Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her while she used to be a baby. Bent on retribution, she hires a cruel murderer to discover her tormentor–and carry him again alive to style her wrath.Only a Sith who has taken down her personal grasp can turn into darkish Lord of the Sith. So while Bane without notice vanishes, Zannah needs to locate him–possibly even rescue him–before she will kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the awful depths of a ravaged international near to disaster to the barren reaches of a desolate tract outpost, the place the way forward for the darkish side’s strongest disciples may be determined, as soon as and for all, by means of the ultimate, deadly stroke of a lightsaber.From the Hardcover variation.

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Since then, there had been a steady stream of troubling reports supporting Gelba's accusations. Yet galactic sympathy for the rebels was slow to build. Many in the Senate saw them as terrorists, and as much as Medd sympathized with their plight, he was unable to act without Senate authority. The Jedi were legally bound by galactic law to remain neutral in all civil wars and internal power struggles, unless the violence threatened to spread to other Republic worlds. All the experts agreed there was little chance of that happening.

The wind rose to a howling gale, and the scattered drops quickly became a downpour. His body and mind united as one, he channeled the infinite power of the Force against the driving rain. Tiny clouds of hissing steam formed as his blade picked off the descending drops while Bane twisted, twirled, and contorted his body to evade those few that managed to slip through his defenses. For the next ten minutes he battled the pelting storm, reveling in the power of the dark side. And then, as suddenly as it had begun, the tempest was gone, the dark cloud scurrying away on the breeze.

Fortunately, there was no need to speak as his guide led him across the facility: the Jedi had simply gawked at the sheer scope of the environmental damage. They had continued in silence until reaching a small, rough-hewn tunnel. Medd had to crouch to avoid scraping his head on the jagged ceiling. The tunnel went for several hundred meters, sloping gently downward until it emerged in a large natural chamber lit by glow lamps. Tool marks scored the walls and floor. The cavern had been stripped of any valuable mineral deposits long before; all that remained were dozens of irregular rock formations rising up from the uneven floor, some less than a meter high, others stretching up to the ceiling a full ten meters above.

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