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* BittersweetEnding / WhamEpisode: [spoiler: Kashyyk is liberated from Imperial control, and Nora Wexley is reunited with [[{{LongLostRelative}} Brentin, her long lost husband]] after an untold number of years imprisoned in [[{{TheAlcratraz}} Ashmead's Lock]] [[{{AndIMustScream}} becoming a living battery for the prison]], '''BUT''' it was all [[{{ThePlan}} part of]] [[{{Big Bad}} Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax]] [[{{ThePlan}} plan to solidify his control over]] [[{{TheRemnant}} what's left of the]] [[{{TheEmpire}} Galactic Empire]] [[{{ThePlan}} and oust]] [[{{TheStarscream}} Grand Admiral Rae Sloane]], after [[{{ManchurianAgent}} the newly freed prisoners]] start attacking the New Republic's political and Military leadership, wounding [[{{BigGood}} Chancellor Mon Mothma]], & killing a numer of officials such as Hostis Ij and (possibly) General Crix Madine, as well as Imperial General (and current New Republic prisoner) Jylia Shale, all whilst TheMole helps free former Imperial Advisor Yupe Tashu from captivity.] '''WHELP!!!'''

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* BittersweetEnding / WhamEpisode: [spoiler: [[spoiler: Kashyyk is liberated from Imperial control, and Nora Wexley is reunited with [[{{LongLostRelative}} Brentin, her long lost husband]] after an untold number of years imprisoned in [[{{TheAlcratraz}} Ashmead's Lock]] [[{{AndIMustScream}} becoming a living battery for the prison]], '''BUT''' it was all [[{{ThePlan}} part of]] [[{{Big Bad}} Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax]] [[{{ThePlan}} plan to solidify his control over]] [[{{TheRemnant}} what's left of the]] [[{{TheEmpire}} Galactic Empire]] [[{{ThePlan}} and oust]] [[{{TheStarscream}} Grand Admiral Rae Sloane]], after [[{{ManchurianAgent}} the newly freed prisoners]] start attacking the New Republic's political and Military leadership, wounding [[{{BigGood}} Chancellor Mon Mothma]], & killing a numer of officials such as Hostis Ij and (possibly) General Crix Madine, as well as Imperial General (and current New Republic prisoner) Jylia Shale, all whilst TheMole helps free former Imperial Advisor Yupe Tashu from captivity.] captivity]]. '''WHELP!!!'''
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* BittersweetEnding / WhamEpisode: [spoiler: Kashyyk is liberated from Imperial control, and Nora Wexley is reunited with [[{{LongLostRelative}} Brentin, her long lost husband]] after an untold number of years imprisoned in [[{{TheAlcratraz}} Ashmead's Lock]] [[{{AndIMustScream}} becoming a living battery for the prison]], '''BUT''' it was all [[{{ThePlan}} part of]] [[{{Big Bad}} Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax]] [[{{ThePlan}} plan to solidify his control over]] [[{{TheRemnant}} what's left of the]] [[{{TheEmpire}} Galactic Empire]] [[{{ThePlan}} and oust]] [[{{TheStarscream}} Grand Admiral Rae Sloane]], after [[{{ManchurianAgent}} the newly freed prisoners]] start attacking the New Republic's political and Military leadership, wounding [[{{BigGood}} Chancellor Mon Mothma]], & killing a numer of officials such as Hostis Ij and (possibly) General Crix Madine, as well as Imperial General (and current New Republic prisoner) Jylia Shale, all whilst TheMole helps free former Imperial Advisor Yupe Tashu from captivity. '''WHELP!!!'''

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* BittersweetEnding / WhamEpisode: [spoiler: Kashyyk is liberated from Imperial control, and Nora Wexley is reunited with [[{{LongLostRelative}} Brentin, her long lost husband]] after an untold number of years imprisoned in [[{{TheAlcratraz}} Ashmead's Lock]] [[{{AndIMustScream}} becoming a living battery for the prison]], '''BUT''' it was all [[{{ThePlan}} part of]] [[{{Big Bad}} Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax]] [[{{ThePlan}} plan to solidify his control over]] [[{{TheRemnant}} what's left of the]] [[{{TheEmpire}} Galactic Empire]] [[{{ThePlan}} and oust]] [[{{TheStarscream}} Grand Admiral Rae Sloane]], after [[{{ManchurianAgent}} the newly freed prisoners]] start attacking the New Republic's political and Military leadership, wounding [[{{BigGood}} Chancellor Mon Mothma]], & killing a numer of officials such as Hostis Ij and (possibly) General Crix Madine, as well as Imperial General (and current New Republic prisoner) Jylia Shale, all whilst TheMole helps free former Imperial Advisor Yupe Tashu from captivity. ] '''WHELP!!!'''
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* BittersweetEnding / WhamEpisode: [spoiler: Kashyyk is liberated from Imperial control, and Nora Wexley is reunited with [[{{LongLostRelative}} Brentin, her long lost husband]] after an untold number of years imprisoned in [[{{TheAlcratraz}} Ashmead's Lock]] [[{{AndIMustScream}} becoming a living battery for the prison]], '''BUT''' it was all [[{{ThePlan}} part of]] [[{{Big Bad}} Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax]] [[{{ThePlan}} plan to solidify his control over]] [[{{TheRemnant}} what's left of the]] [[{{TheEmpire}} Galactic Empire]] [[{{ThePlan}} and oust]] [[{{TheStarscream}} Grand Admiral Rae Sloane]], after [[{{ManchurianAgent}} the newly freed prisoners]] start attacking the New Republic's political and Military leadership, wounding [[{{BigGood}} Chancellor Mon Mothma]], & killing a numer of officials such as Hostis Ij and (possibly) General Crix Madine, as well as Imperial General (and current New Republic prisoner) Jylia Shale, all whilst TheMole helps free former Imperial Advisor Yupe Tashu from captivity. '''WHELP!!!'''
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* FantasticRacism: The Empire's xenophobic tendencies are on full display in the book, especially towards the Wookies, who are viewed to be little more than beasts of labor that can be hunted for sport.

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* FantasticRacism: The Empire's xenophobic tendencies are on full display in the book, especially towards the Wookies, Wookiees, who are viewed to be little more than beasts of labor that can be hunted for sport.



* VillainousBreakdown: After Han, Chewie and the team manage to deactivate the killswitch biochip the Imperials implanted the Wookiee slaves with Tolruck completely loses it. He gets extremely high on hragathir and [[spoiler:order the planet's destruction]].

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* VillainousBreakdown: After Han, Chewie and the team manage to deactivate the killswitch biochip the Imperials implanted the Wookiee slaves with with, Tolruck completely loses it. He gets extremely high on hragathir and [[spoiler:order the planet's destruction]].
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* FantasticRacism: The Empire's xenophobic tendencies are on full display in the book, especially towards the Wookies, who are viewed to be little more than beasts of labor that can be hunted for sport.


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* VillainousBreakdown: After Han, Chewie and the team manage to deactivate the killswitch biochip the Imperials implanted the Wookiee slaves with Tolruck completely loses it. He gets extremely high on hragathir and [[spoiler:order the planet's destruction]].
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: On the Imperial side Sloane doesn't trust Rax, for more reasons than one, and Rax is fully aware of this.
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* LivingLegend: General Hodnar Borrum, one of the members of Rax's junta, is viewed as this. He is one of the eldest officers in the Imperial Military, having begun his service in the Grand Army of the Republic. His long career has numerous campaigns and victories under its belt, including leading the assault on the last fortress of the Jedi at the end of the Clone Wars


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* TheRival: Grand General Kenner Loring and Fleet Admiral Gallus Rax have a feud going over who should lead the Empire post-Endor. Loring has control over most of the Imperial Army while Rax has control over most of the Imperial Navy. Rax is also systematically eliminating any fleet officers he believes could side with Loring.
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** The same technology used on [[spoiler:[[ManchurianAgent the clones]] for [[ThePurge Order 66]] is used on Norra husband and many others in an attempt to assassinate Mon Mothma.]]

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** The Emperor's personal Super Star Destroyer, the ''Eclipse'', is also back.


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* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Jom Barell gets captured by Tolruk's forces and gets interrogated personally by Tolruk, which involves amongst other things, getting one of his eyes cut out]].
** The Emperor's personal Super Star Destroyer, the ''Eclipse'', is also back.



* EgomaniacHunter: Lozen Tolruck, the Imperial Moff who controls Kashyyk, hunts down the Wookiee inhabitants for sport.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Jom Barell gets one of his eyes cut out by Tolruck]].



* EgomaniacHunter: Lozen Tolruck, the Imperial Moff that controls Kashyyk, hunts down the Wookiee inhabitants for sport.



* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Sloane refuses to become one to Gallius Rax and plans to retake the empire from his grip]].

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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Sloane refuses to become one to Gallius Rax and plans to retake the empire from his grip]].grip]].
* YankTheDogsChain: For a little while it looks like Temmin will get reunited with his dad and the Wexleys will be one big happy family again. [[spoiler:Too bad Rax had other plans]].
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Rax orders the deaths of several corrupt and brutal high-ranking Imperials, like [[spoiler:Perwin Gedde]] in order to cement his control over the Imperial Remnant.
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* BlatentLies: There are still Imperial splinter factions that continue to insist the Emperor is alive despite the events of the last six months.

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* BlatentLies: BlatantLies: There are still Imperial splinter factions that continue to insist the Emperor is alive despite the events of the last six months.
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* AddledAddict: A couple of examples, both of them Imperial. Vice Admiral Perwin Gedde is a spice addict while Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck prefers a narcotic tree sap called hragathir.


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* BeardOfBarbarism: This has become a common style among the officers of the Imperial Military's Kashyyk Garrison. It started when Grand Moff Tolruck grew out a wild beard because he considered Kashyyyk to be a wild place and a sizable chunk of the garrison followed their commander's example.
* BlatentLies: There are still Imperial splinter factions that continue to insist the Emperor is alive despite the events of the last six months.
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* TheCavalry: Leia, along with Evaan and others. Arrive just in time to save Kashyyyk.

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* TheAlcatraz: Chewie is being held in one of the Empire's most secure prisons, Ashmead's Lock.



* EgomaniacHunter: the moff that controls Kashyyk hunts down the wookiees inhabitants for sport.

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* EgomaniacHunter: Lozen Tolruck, the moff Imperial Moff that controls Kashyyk Kashyyk, hunts down the wookiees Wookiee inhabitants for sport.


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* InsaneAdmiral: Lozen Tolruck, Grand Moff of Kashyyk. Likes hunting Wookies for sport, pretends the Emperor is still alive, [[spoiler:willing to completely level the planet when it becomes clear he is losing]].


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* RageQuit: When Tolruck sees that the Empire is losing control of Kashyyk [[spoiler:he orders his fleet to blast the planet into a radioactive wasteland]].


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* StateSec: We find out that the Imperial Security Bureau has its own warships, fighter squadrons, infantry and armor units. They are the only Imperial forces left on Coursant as both the Imperial Army and Navy abandoned the planet as being too costly to defend.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Members of the Vorlaggn species, like the slaver Slussen Canker, only ever refer to themselves in the third person.

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** Mas Amedda dismisses the rumor the emperor alive and is using droid to deliver messages to attack certain areas of space. He's half-right as anyone who read Shattered Empire can attest.

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** Mas Amedda dismisses the rumor the emperor alive and is using droid droids to deliver messages to attack certain areas of space. He's half-right as anyone who read Shattered Empire can attest.


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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Vice Admiral Perwin Gedde made a career of testing biological weapons on innocent civilians for the Empire and ends up being poisoned by the new Imperial leadership because they consider him a lose end]].


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: More than few high-ranking Imperials decided to cut their losses and run after the Battle of Endor. The team gets sent after one such ex-Imperial, Vice Admiral Perwin Gedde.
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* TheUnfettered: Grand Admiral Gallius Rax will do anything to win and dominate, there is no tactic or strategy for him that is too cruel or under-handed. [[spoiler:He even orchestrates an attack under the cover of peace talks]].

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* TheUnfettered: Grand Admiral Gallius Rax will do anything to win and dominate, there is no tactic or strategy for him that is too cruel or under-handed. [[spoiler:He even orchestrates an attack under the cover of peace talks]].talks]].
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Sloane refuses to become one to Gallius Rax and plans to retake the empire from his grip]].
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** Mas Amedda dismisses the rumor the emperor alive and is using droid to deliver messages to attack certain areas of space. He's half-right as anyone who read Shattered Empire can attest.

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** The same technology used on [[spoiler:[[ManchurianAgent the clones]] for [[ThePurge Order 66]] is used on Norra and many others in an attempt to assassinate Mon Mothma.]]

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** The same technology used on [[spoiler:[[ManchurianAgent the clones]] for [[ThePurge Order 66]] is used on Norra husband and many others in an attempt to assassinate Mon Mothma.]]



* EgomaniacHunter: the moff that controls Kashyyk hunts down the wookiees inhabitants for sport.



* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Using the same sleeper technology that was used on the clones for Order 66, the Empire makes several prisoners including Norra these in an attempt to kill Mothma when they get rescued. It fails, though several politicians and officers are killed by the agents as well. Madine might be among the casualties. ''Maybe''.]]

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* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Using the same sleeper technology that was used on the clones for Order 66, the Empire makes several prisoners including Norra these Brentin Wexley in an attempt to kill Mothma when they get rescued. It fails, though several politicians and officers are killed by the agents as well. Madine might be among the casualties. ''Maybe''.]]
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** Tagge's flagship, the SSD ''Annihilator'' shows up. [[OhCrap It is now in pirate hands]].


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* HeroicComedicSociopath: Mr. Bones is back and if you thought he couldn't get more funny, and more violent, you would be wrong.


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* JustTheFirstCitizen: Rax prefers taking titles that avoid overtly displaying how much power he wields. He refers to himself as an "adviser" to Sloane, despite the fact he is her commanding officer, and towards the end of the book [[spoiler:he takes the title of Counsel of the Empire, even though some of his more die-hard supporters are calling him Emperor Rax]].


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* OrbitalBombardment: [[spoiler:The Empire tries to institute Base-Order-Delta-Zero against the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyyk when it becomes clear that they are losing the planet]].
* SequelHook: The book ends just as the Battle of Jakku is about to begin.


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* SpacePirates: A group of them show up in one of the interludes. They managed to capture, intact, one of the Imperial Navy's Super Star Destroyers and are now using it to terrorize the Outer Rim.

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* CallForward: Rax makes sure that Brendol Hux takes his young son with him when he evacuates to the Unknown Regions.

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Rax makes sure that Brendol Hux takes his young son with him when he evacuates to the Unknown Regions. Regions.
** BB droid units were made as comfort pets for [[ShellShockedVeteran Rebel veterans with PTSD]]. It's apparently a better choice than 'therapy ewoks', [[DontAsk whatever those are.]]


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** [[Literature/ServantsOfTheEmpire Brendol's]] AcademyOfEvil has fallen.

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** Phantom Squadron was a one-off group from the ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Roleplaying Campaign]], made in the image of Wraith Squadron from the ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing]]'' [[ComicBook/XWingSeries series]]. Like in ''Legends'', Phantom Squadron is made up of washouts and misfits, but they replace Wraith Squadron's place in new canon, since the Wraiths don't exist.

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** Phantom Squadron was a one-off group from the ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Roleplaying Campaign]], made in the image of Wraith Squadron from the ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing]]'' [[ComicBook/XWingSeries series]]. Like in ''Legends'', Phantom Squadron is made up of [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits washouts and misfits, misfits]], but they replace Wraith Squadron's place in new canon, since the Wraiths don't exist.exist.
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** [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Ryloth]] has been abandoned by the Empire, and Cham is mentioned.
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* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Using the same sleeper technology that was used on the clones for Order 66, the Empire makes several prisoners including Norra these in an attempt to kill Mothma when they get rescued. It fails, though several politicians and officers are killed by the agents as well. Madine might be among the casualties. ''Maybe''.]]
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** Phantom Squadron was a one-off group from the ''ComicBook/Legacy'' ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Roleplaying Campaign]], made in the image of Wraith Squadron from the ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing]]'' [[ComicBook/XWingSeries series]]. Like in ''Legends'', Phantom Squadron is made up of washouts and misfits, but they replace Wraith Squadron's place in new canon, since the Wraiths don't exist.
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** Phantom Squadron was a one-off group from the ''ComicBook/Legacy'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Roleplaying Campaign]], made in the image of Wraith Squadron from the ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing]]'' [[ComicBook/XWingSeries series]]. Like in ''Legends'', Phantom Squadron is made up of washouts and misfits, but they replace Wraith Squadron's place in new canon, since the Wraiths don't exist.

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* BadassInDistress: Chewie is captured by Imperial troops early on in the book.

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* BadassInDistress: Chewie is captured by Imperial troops early on in before the book. start of the book.


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* TheManBehindTheMan: Sloane is becoming the public face and leader of the Empire, but Rax is secretly the one in charge.
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* BadassInDistress: Chewie is captured by Imperial troops early on in the book.


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* ShadowDictator: [[spoiler:By the end of the book Rax has seized control of most of the Imperial Remnant but continues to remain in the shadows and makes people like Sloane the public face of the Empire]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emperor Palpatine, Gallius Rax and Mas Amedda invested a considerable amount of time and resources setting up a secret Imperial research facility on Jakku; in addition to searching the planet for something really important.

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** The records concerning the fate of the Emperor's personal Super Star Destroyer, the ''Eclipse'', are mysteriously incomplete.
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* BastardBastard: [[spoiler:We find out that General Hux, who is a war criminal by the end of ''The Force Awakens'', was born out of wedlock to Brendol Hux and an unnamed mother.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emperor Palpatine, Gallius Rax and Mas Amedda invested a considerable amount of time and resources setting up a secret Imperial research facility on Jakku; in addition to searching the planet for something really important.
* IOweYouMyLife: Central to the story is the concept of a Life Debt. What Chewie owes Han, what Han feels he also Chewie and also what the Rebels in general feel that they owe Han and Leia.
* TheUnfettered: Grand Admiral Gallius Rax will do anything to win and dominate, there is no tactic or strategy for him that is too cruel or under-handed. [[spoiler:He even orchestrates an attack under the cover of peace talks]].
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[[AC:The Emperor is dead, and the remnants of his former Empire are in retreat. As the New Republic fights to restore a lasting peace to the galaxy, some dare to imagine new beginnings and new destinies. For Han Solo, that means settling his last outstanding debt, by helping Chewbacca liberate the Wookiee s homeworld of Kashyyyk.]]

[[AC:Meanwhile, Norra Wexley and her band of Imperial hunters pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy. Even as more and more officers are brought to justice, Sloane continues to elude the New Republic, and Norra fears Sloane may be searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. But the hunt for Sloane is cut short when Norra receives an urgent request from Princess Leia Organa. The attempt to liberate Kashyyyk has carried Han Solo, Chewbacca and a band of smugglers into an ambush resulting in Chewie's capture and Han s disappearance.]]

[[AC:Breaking away from their official mission and racing toward the "Millennium Falcon" s last known location, Norra and her crew prepare for any challenge that stands between them and their missing comrades. But they can t anticipate the true depth of the danger that awaits them or the ruthlessness of the enemy drawing them into his crosshairs.]]

''Life Debt'' is the second novel in the ''Aftermath'' Triology by Chuck Wendig, taking place a few short months after the Battle of Akiva. Norra Wexley and her band of rebels are busy hunting down high-ranking Imperials with Admiral Rae Sloane at the top of their list. Sloane, increasingly wary of her commanding officer - the mysterious Fleet Admiral - desperately searches for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. Meanwhile, out in the Unknown Regions and the Outer Rim secret plans are being made and the foundation being laid for the Empire's rebirth as the First Order.

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