Awesome / Star Wars: Light of the Jedi

• The High Republic line is all about showing the Republic and the Jedi at the height of their powers, and Light of the Jedi doesn't disappoint in that regard. Notable moments are:
  • The Great Hyperspace Rescue itself. Dozens of Jedi and many more Republic citizens and security forces rally together to save an entire system from being killed by incredibly fast-moving space debris. Individual moments include Greatstorm and his Padawan talking down overzealous security officers before fighting desperate marauders; Avar Kriss coordinating many Jedi through a kind of Force battle meditation, and the ultimate moment when all the Jedi in the system (and possibly many more throughout the galaxy) work together to divert a large and fast gas canister from entering the system's sun and killing all life in the system. The entire episode takes up roughly one third of the book, and shows how the Jedi live up to their repeated motto that through the Force, nothing is impossible.
  • A slightly esoteric and non-actiony use of the Force is depicted, to incredible effect. Avar Kriss, the almost protoypical Jedi Master, and her best friend/forbidden love interest Elzar Mann are on station when one of our non-Jedi heroes, a technician from the original imperiled planet, is trying to use a huge networked set of droids to "slice hyperspace" and form a predictive model of future hyperspace emergences, but there is a problem. He simply doesn't have enough droids, which means the processing loads are too much, and result in dangerous heat levels and soon, exploding droids that will soon lead to a cascade failure. Elzar confers with Avar, and has an idea, one of his characteristic experiments with the Force, which Avar figures out and tells him is impossible. He just asks for her help, and together they prove once again that Jedi can, under the right circumstances, do almost anything. In this case, they use their telekinetic abilities to manipulate the air and the weather and eventually, summon a cloud and then a rainstorm, bringing the temperature of the droids down with an unexpected and unnatural shower. In any other context "Jedi use the force to make rain" would just be a clever little diversion, but here it is dramatically and heroically important to demonstrate that an unorthodox mind like Elzar's can solve otherwise intractable problems.