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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked. Zonama's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders Outsiders/Yuuzhan Vong attacked. Zonama's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
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** In exasperation with Anakin, Obi-Wan idly muses about going off to some desert planet for a year once Anakin's stopped being his Padawan.
** Obi-Wan thinks he's being contacted by the voice of Qui-Gon, but dismisses this because he knows Qui-Gon's stone dead forever.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Released between ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', so a few details hadn't entirely been nailed down about Jedi.
** Obi-Wan thinks he's being contacted by the voice of Qui-Gon, but dismisses this because he knows Qui-Gon's stone dead forever.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Released between ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', so a few details hadn't entirely been nailed down about Jedi.
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** In exasperation with Anakin, Obi-Wan idly muses about [[Film/ANewHope going off to some desert planet planet]] for a year once Anakin's stopped being his Padawan.
Padawan.
** Obi-Wan thinks he's being contacted by the voice of Qui-Gon, but dismisses this because he knows Qui-Gon'sstone dead forever.
very much dead. Yoda will eventually prove that he was wrong to dismiss such a possibility come ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:Released The book was released between ''The Phantom Menace'' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', so a few details hadn't entirely been nailed down about Jedi.the Jedi Order.
** Obi-Wan thinks he's being contacted by the voice of Qui-Gon, but dismisses this because he knows Qui-Gon's
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
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** The proto-typical Death Star is Tarkin's baby, when ''Clones'' establishes it as a Geonosian weapon.
** Mace Windu is described as being an occasional prankster. There are a lot of ways to describe Mace Windu, but prankster sure as Hell ain't one of them. He's also not as down on Anakin as he will be later.
** The rule about Jedi having no attachments hadn't shown up, so Thracia Cho Leem can casually mention she's been married and has kids, and tells Mace Windu he should go do so in a YouNeedToGetLaid fashion, and this is treated as a mild jibe rather than a massive breach of Jedi orthodoxy.
* FantasticRacism: Tarkin is a human supremacist, and dreams of the day, which he feels is coming soon, when humans take over the Republic and install a humanocentric government.
** Mace Windu is described as being an occasional prankster. There are a lot of ways to describe Mace Windu, but prankster sure as Hell ain't one of them. He's also not as down on Anakin as he will be later.
** The rule about Jedi having no attachments hadn't shown up, so Thracia Cho Leem can casually mention she's been married and has kids, and tells Mace Windu he should go do so in a YouNeedToGetLaid fashion, and this is treated as a mild jibe rather than a massive breach of Jedi orthodoxy.
* FantasticRacism: Tarkin is a human supremacist, and dreams of the day, which he feels is coming soon, when humans take over the Republic and install a humanocentric government.
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** The proto-typical Death Star is Tarkin's baby, when ''Clones'' ''Attack of the Clones'' establishes it as a Geonosian weapon.
** Mace Windu of all people is described as being an occasional prankster. There area lot of ways many words one could use to describe Mace Windu, Mace, but prankster sure as Hell ain't one of "prankster" ''definitely'' isn't among them. He's also not as down on Anakin as he will be later.
** The rule about Jedi having no attachments hadn't shown up, so Thracia Cho Leem can casually mention she's been married and has kids, and tells MaceWindu he should go do so in a YouNeedToGetLaid fashion, and this is treated as a mild jibe rather than a massive breach of Jedi orthodoxy.
* FantasticRacism: Tarkin is a humansupremacist, supremacist and dreams of the day, which he feels is coming soon, when humans take over the Republic and install a humanocentric government.
** Mace Windu of all people is described as being an occasional prankster. There are
** The rule about Jedi having no attachments hadn't shown up, so Thracia Cho Leem can casually mention she's been married and has kids, and tells Mace
* FantasticRacism: Tarkin is a human
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious and highly aggressive "Far Outsiders" who find and ravaged Zonama some years before the story, using weapons unknown to the galaxy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious and highly aggressive "Far Outsiders" who find found and ravaged Zonama some years before the story, using weapons unknown to the galaxy.galaxy. If this description reminds you of [[Literature/NewJediOrder a certain race of]] ScaryDogmaticAliens, that's not a coincidence.
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** Early on, Tarkin shows Sienar his idea for a weapon of mass destruction, more or less the size of a small moon. He thinks it needs a bit of fine tuning. At the book's end, he gets to present it to the new Supreme Chancellor.
** Anakin is horrified when he realizes the voice he keeps hearing, which is tempting him towards the Dark Side, is himself, just older.
** Anakin is horrified when he realizes the voice he keeps hearing, which is tempting him towards the Dark Side, is himself, just older.
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** Early on, Tarkin shows Sienar his idea for a weapon of mass destruction, which is more or less the size of a small moon. He thinks it needs a bit of fine tuning. At the book's end, he gets to present it to the new Supreme Chancellor.
** Anakin is horrified when he realizes the voice he keeps hearing, which is tempting him towards the Dark Side, ishimself, just himself albeit older.
** Anakin is horrified when he realizes the voice he keeps hearing, which is tempting him towards the Dark Side, is
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* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Zonama Sekot is a living planet.]]
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* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Zonama Sekot is revealed to be a living planet.]]
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* JerkassBall: It's only momentary, and internalized, but at one point Obi-Wan has to stop himself hitting Anakin just for making a flippant remark, while thinking he never wanted to be the kid's master (even though he insisted on training Anakin to Yoda).
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* JerkassBall: It's only momentary, momentary and internalized, but at one point point, Obi-Wan has to stop himself from hitting Anakin just for making a flippant remark, while thinking he never wanted to be the kid's master (even though he insisted on training Anakin to Yoda).
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* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Magistrate of Sekot keeps to himself in a big isolated palace, and no-one ever gets to see him. [[spoiler:Because he's been dead for several years, and Zonama's been replacing him with a hologram.]]
* NoSocialSkills: Anakin has no Jedi friends. Not even a one. He gets on more with droids he finds and repairs than actual people. Obi-Wan figures meeting a girl and talking to her might help with that.
* NoSocialSkills: Anakin has no Jedi friends. Not even a one. He gets on more with droids he finds and repairs than actual people. Obi-Wan figures meeting a girl and talking to her might help with that.
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* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Magistrate of Sekot keeps to himself in a big isolated palace, and no-one no one ever gets to see him. [[spoiler:Because he's been dead for several years, and Zonama's been replacing him with a hologram.]]
* NoSocialSkills: Anakin has no Jedi friends. Not even a one. He gets on more with droids he finds and repairs than actual people. Obi-Wan figures meeting a girl and talking to her might help with that.
* NoSocialSkills: Anakin has no Jedi friends.
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* RealAfterAll: Early on in the book, Obi-Wan thinks he hears Qui-Gon's voice while in the Temple, which is of course impossible because he's been dead for three years. Later on, while on Sekot, he continues hearing voices but figures it's actually just his own mind. The novel leaves it ambiguous as to whether it ''was'' the real Qui-Gon, or Obi-Wan being right, or [[spoiler:Sekot already reaching out to a Jedi she didn't know across the galaxy.]]
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* RealAfterAll: Early on in the book, Obi-Wan thinks he hears Qui-Gon's voice while in the Temple, which is of course impossible because he's been dead for three years. Later on, while on Sekot, he continues hearing voices but figures it's actually just his own mind. The novel leaves it ambiguous as to whether it ''was'' the real Qui-Gon, or Obi-Wan being right, or [[spoiler:Sekot already reaching out to a Jedi she didn't know across the galaxy.]]]] ''Revenge of the Sith'' would see Yoda actually make contact with Qui-Gon from beyond the grave.
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** Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He's horrified.
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** Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He's horrified.understandably horrified afterwards.
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* TheStoic: Obi-Wan is not terribly good at expressing his emotions, which might not be the greatest combination with someone just about to hit the terrible teens.
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* TheStoic: Obi-Wan is not isn't terribly good great at expressing his emotions, which might not be the greatest combination with someone just about to hit the terrible teens.teens like Anakin.
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zonama taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zonama taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.not only did, but would go on to play a crucial role in saving the galaxy from the Yuuzhan Vong.]]
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''Star Wars: Rogue Planet'' is a ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novel written by Greg Bear.
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''Star Wars: Rogue Planet'' is a ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novel written by Greg Bear.
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zonama taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]]]
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* RealAllAlong: Early on in the book, Obi-Wan thinks he hears Qui-Gon's voice while in the Temple, which is of course impossible because he's been dead for three years. Later on, while on Sekot, he continues hearing voices but figures it's actually just his own mind. The novel leaves it ambiguous as to whether it ''was'' the real Qui-Gon, or Obi-Wan being right, or [[spoiler:Sekot already reaching out to a Jedi she didn't know across the galaxy.]]
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* RealAllAlong: RealAfterAll: Early on in the book, Obi-Wan thinks he hears Qui-Gon's voice while in the Temple, which is of course impossible because he's been dead for three years. Later on, while on Sekot, he continues hearing voices but figures it's actually just his own mind. The novel leaves it ambiguous as to whether it ''was'' the real Qui-Gon, or Obi-Wan being right, or [[spoiler:Sekot already reaching out to a Jedi she didn't know across the galaxy.]]
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* RogueSplinterFaction: The Way of the Potentum, a group of Jedi who tried applying moral relativism to the Force about a hundred years ago, which got them kicked out of the Order as heretics. Some of them eventually wound up on Sekot.
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* RogueSplinterFaction: RealAllAlong: Early on in the book, Obi-Wan thinks he hears Qui-Gon's voice while in the Temple, which is of course impossible because he's been dead for three years. Later on, while on Sekot, he continues hearing voices but figures it's actually just his own mind. The novel leaves it ambiguous as to whether it ''was'' the real Qui-Gon, or Obi-Wan being right, or [[spoiler:Sekot already reaching out to a Jedi she didn't know across the galaxy.]]
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Way of the Potentum, a group of Jedi who tried applying moral relativism to the Force about a hundred years ago, which got them kicked out of the Order asheretics.heretics, though fortunately they never seemed to become as big a problem as the Sith. Some of them eventually wound up on Sekot.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Way of the Potentum, a group of Jedi who tried applying moral relativism to the Force about a hundred years ago, which got them kicked out of the Order as
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* TotallyRadical: In addition to Anakin's already-established "wizard", he has a habit of proclaiming things "rugged".
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* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Zonama Sekot is this applied to a whole ''planet''. It's quickly getting a galaxy-wide reputation for mysterious, custom-made starships, but curiously enough when the Jedi look at the records of the star system it's in, there shouldn't ''be'' a planet there.
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Magistrate of Sekot keeps to himself in a big isolated palace, and no-one ever gets to see him. [[spoiler:Because he's been dead for several years, and Zonama's been replacing him with a hologram.]]
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The Magistrate of Sekot keeps to himself in a big isolated palace, and no-one ever gets to see him. [[spoiler:Because he's been dead for several years, and Zonama's been replacing him with a hologram.]]
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He's horrified.
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: RogueSplinterFaction: The Way of the Potentum, a group of Jedi who tried applying moral relativism to the Force about a hundred years ago, which got them kicked out of the Order as heretics. Some of them eventually wound up on Sekot.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled:
** Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He'shorrified.horrified.
** [[spoiler:Zonama took the lives of several of the Vong who attacked her. While the Magistrate insisted moral relativism made it okay, she disagrees.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled:
** Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He's
** [[spoiler:Zonama took the lives of several of the Vong who attacked her. While the Magistrate insisted moral relativism made it okay, she disagrees.]]
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* InnocouslyImportantEpisode: An apparent one-off story detailing the early years of Anakin and Obi-Wan's time together, but which has important consequences for the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''.
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* InnocouslyImportantEpisode: InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: An apparent one-off story detailing the early years of Anakin and Obi-Wan's time together, but which has important consequences for the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''.
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Three years into Anakin Skywalker's training as a Jedi, he and his master Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to the mysterious and distant planet Zenoma Zonama Sekot, partly to investigate another Jedi going missing there, but also to help quell the young boy's ever-growing restlessness.
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* BittersweetEnding: Bordering on downer. Zenoma takes off into the unknown, causing all the cool living starships to slowly die off, while Tarkin gets off scott-free.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked. Zenoma's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked. Zenoma's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Bordering on downer. Zenoma Zonama takes off into the unknown, causing all the cool living starships to slowly die off, while Tarkin gets off scott-free.
* ButNowIMustGo: In the epilogue, it's mentioned Master Cho Leem just randomly took off one day, never to be seen or heard from for the rest of the ''Legends'' continuity.
* TheCityNarrows: Coruscant ''likes'' to paint itself as the great shining hub of the galaxy, but even then there are bits that are considerably rough. And someone from a planet like Tatooine such as Anakin, even at the age of twelve, is ''very'' good at finding these places.
* CoolOldGuy: Master Thracia Cho Leem is a lot more relaxed and laid back than... well, any other Jedi. She casually breezes into a chewing-out session, chews Windu out for being harsh on Anakin, suggests that he be given a project, and breezes back out again.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked.Zenoma's Zonama's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: In the epilogue, it's mentioned Master Cho Leem just randomly took off one day, never to be seen or heard from for the rest of the ''Legends'' continuity.
* TheCityNarrows: Coruscant ''likes'' to paint itself as the great shining hub of the galaxy, but even then there are bits that are considerably rough. And someone from a planet like Tatooine such as Anakin, even at the age of twelve, is ''very'' good at finding these places.
* CoolOldGuy: Master Thracia Cho Leem is a lot more relaxed and laid back than... well, any other Jedi. She casually breezes into a chewing-out session, chews Windu out for being harsh on Anakin, suggests that he be given a project, and breezes back out again.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked.
** The rule about Jedi having no attachments hadn't shown up, so Thracia Cho Leem can casually mention she's been married and has kids, and tells Mace Windu he should go do so in a YouNeedToGetLaid fashion, and this is treated as a mild jibe rather than a massive breach of Jedi orthodoxy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious and highly aggressive "Far Outsiders" who find and ravaged Zenoma some years before the story, using weapons unknown to the galaxy.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Zenoma projects herself using images of people she knows, such as the Magistrate or Vergere, to interact with others.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Zenoma projects herself using images of people she knows, such as the Magistrate or Vergere, to interact with others.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious and highly aggressive "Far Outsiders" who find and ravaged Zenoma Zonama some years before the story, using weapons unknown to the galaxy.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith:[[spoiler:Zenoma [[spoiler:Zonama projects herself using images of people she knows, such as the Magistrate or Vergere, to interact with others.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith:
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* GeneralRipper: Tarkin wants to conquer Zenoma Sekot by force, and engineers the situation so he can get his way.
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Zenoma Sekot is a living planet.]]
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Zenoma Sekot is a living planet.]]
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* GeneralRipper: Tarkin wants to conquer Zenoma Zonama Sekot by force, and engineers the situation so he can get his way.
* GeniusLoci:[[spoiler:Zenoma [[spoiler:Zonama Sekot is a living planet.]]]]
* InnocouslyImportantEpisode: An apparent one-off story detailing the early years of Anakin and Obi-Wan's time together, but which has important consequences for the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''.
* GeniusLoci:
* InnocouslyImportantEpisode: An apparent one-off story detailing the early years of Anakin and Obi-Wan's time together, but which has important consequences for the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''.
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* NothingIsScarier: The "Far Outsiders", who Vergere disappeared with. Nobody was quite certain who they were or where they came from or even what set them off, but Vergere thought they were outside the Force.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zenoma taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zenoma taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]
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* NothingIsScarier: The "Far Outsiders", who Vergere disappeared with. Nobody was quite certain who they were or where they came from or even what set them off, but Vergere thought they were outside the Force.
Force. They never put in a physical appearance in the novel, but the damage from their attack on Zonama lingers. [[spoiler:They're the earliest scouts of the Yuuzhan Vong.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He's horrified.
* TheStoic: Obi-Wan is not terribly good at expressing his emotions, which might not be the greatest combination with someone just about to hit the terrible teens.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends withZenoma Zonama taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Anakin kills Ke Daiv the Blood Carver by unwillingly tapping into the Dark Side at the age of twelve. He's horrified.
* TheStoic: Obi-Wan is not terribly good at expressing his emotions, which might not be the greatest combination with someone just about to hit the terrible teens.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with
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''Star Wars: Rogue Planet'' is a ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novel written by Greg Bear.
Three years into Anakin Skywalker's training as a Jedi, he and his master Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to the mysterious and distant planet Zenoma Sekot, partly to investigate another Jedi going missing there, but also to help quell the young boy's ever-growing restlessness.
However, other forces hear of the planet, and the unusual starships it produces, and have their own plans for it.
!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: Bordering on downer. Zenoma takes off into the unknown, causing all the cool living starships to slowly die off, while Tarkin gets off scott-free.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked. Zenoma's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
* DramaticIrony:
** In exasperation with Anakin, Obi-Wan idly muses about going off to some desert planet for a year once Anakin's stopped being his Padawan.
** Obi-Wan thinks he's being contacted by the voice of Qui-Gon, but dismisses this because he knows Qui-Gon's stone dead forever.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Released between ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', so a few details hadn't entirely been nailed down about Jedi.
** Instead of the Jedi Order, they're exclusively referred to as the Jedi Temple throughout.
** Anakin doesn't have a lightsaber at all, despite having been with the Jedi for three years now.
** The proto-typical Death Star is Tarkin's baby, when ''Clones'' establishes it as a Geonosian weapon.
** Mace Windu is described as being an occasional prankster. There are a lot of ways to describe Mace Windu, but prankster sure as Hell ain't one of them. He's also not as down on Anakin as he will be later.
* FantasticRacism: Tarkin is a human supremacist, and dreams of the day, which he feels is coming soon, when humans take over the Republic and install a humanocentric government.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tarkin tries to act polite towards Anakin, but he can barely keep it up before his nastiness shines through.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious and highly aggressive "Far Outsiders" who find and ravaged Zenoma some years before the story, using weapons unknown to the galaxy.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Zenoma projects herself using images of people she knows, such as the Magistrate or Vergere, to interact with others.]]
* {{Futureshadowing}}:
** Early on, Tarkin shows Sienar his idea for a weapon of mass destruction, more or less the size of a small moon. He thinks it needs a bit of fine tuning. At the book's end, he gets to present it to the new Supreme Chancellor.
** Anakin is horrified when he realizes the voice he keeps hearing, which is tempting him towards the Dark Side, is himself, just older.
* GeneralRipper: Tarkin wants to conquer Zenoma Sekot by force, and engineers the situation so he can get his way.
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Zenoma Sekot is a living planet.]]
* JerkassBall: It's only momentary, and internalized, but at one point Obi-Wan has to stop himself hitting Anakin just for making a flippant remark, while thinking he never wanted to be the kid's master (even though he insisted on training Anakin to Yoda).
* NoSocialSkills: Anakin has no Jedi friends. Not even a one. He gets on more with droids he finds and repairs than actual people. Obi-Wan figures meeting a girl and talking to her might help with that.
* NothingIsScarier: The "Far Outsiders", who Vergere disappeared with. Nobody was quite certain who they were or where they came from or even what set them off, but Vergere thought they were outside the Force.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zenoma taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]
Three years into Anakin Skywalker's training as a Jedi, he and his master Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to the mysterious and distant planet Zenoma Sekot, partly to investigate another Jedi going missing there, but also to help quell the young boy's ever-growing restlessness.
However, other forces hear of the planet, and the unusual starships it produces, and have their own plans for it.
!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: Bordering on downer. Zenoma takes off into the unknown, causing all the cool living starships to slowly die off, while Tarkin gets off scott-free.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Magistrate of Sekot died when the Far Outsiders attacked. Zenoma's been using her powers to make it look like he's been alive since then.]]
* DramaticIrony:
** In exasperation with Anakin, Obi-Wan idly muses about going off to some desert planet for a year once Anakin's stopped being his Padawan.
** Obi-Wan thinks he's being contacted by the voice of Qui-Gon, but dismisses this because he knows Qui-Gon's stone dead forever.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Released between ''The Phantom Menace'' and ''Attack of the Clones'', so a few details hadn't entirely been nailed down about Jedi.
** Instead of the Jedi Order, they're exclusively referred to as the Jedi Temple throughout.
** Anakin doesn't have a lightsaber at all, despite having been with the Jedi for three years now.
** The proto-typical Death Star is Tarkin's baby, when ''Clones'' establishes it as a Geonosian weapon.
** Mace Windu is described as being an occasional prankster. There are a lot of ways to describe Mace Windu, but prankster sure as Hell ain't one of them. He's also not as down on Anakin as he will be later.
* FantasticRacism: Tarkin is a human supremacist, and dreams of the day, which he feels is coming soon, when humans take over the Republic and install a humanocentric government.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tarkin tries to act polite towards Anakin, but he can barely keep it up before his nastiness shines through.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious and highly aggressive "Far Outsiders" who find and ravaged Zenoma some years before the story, using weapons unknown to the galaxy.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Zenoma projects herself using images of people she knows, such as the Magistrate or Vergere, to interact with others.]]
* {{Futureshadowing}}:
** Early on, Tarkin shows Sienar his idea for a weapon of mass destruction, more or less the size of a small moon. He thinks it needs a bit of fine tuning. At the book's end, he gets to present it to the new Supreme Chancellor.
** Anakin is horrified when he realizes the voice he keeps hearing, which is tempting him towards the Dark Side, is himself, just older.
* GeneralRipper: Tarkin wants to conquer Zenoma Sekot by force, and engineers the situation so he can get his way.
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Zenoma Sekot is a living planet.]]
* JerkassBall: It's only momentary, and internalized, but at one point Obi-Wan has to stop himself hitting Anakin just for making a flippant remark, while thinking he never wanted to be the kid's master (even though he insisted on training Anakin to Yoda).
* NoSocialSkills: Anakin has no Jedi friends. Not even a one. He gets on more with droids he finds and repairs than actual people. Obi-Wan figures meeting a girl and talking to her might help with that.
* NothingIsScarier: The "Far Outsiders", who Vergere disappeared with. Nobody was quite certain who they were or where they came from or even what set them off, but Vergere thought they were outside the Force.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The story ends with Zenoma taking off into the unknown with her entire population. Anakin and Obi-Wan aren't certain if they've survived. They'll never learn that they did.]]
