
It also caused the spirit of Luke Skywalker to return to his body, which had been separated from his body by Exar Kun. The disturbance in the Force caused by the destruction was felt by Leia Organa Solo and the Jedi students at the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. Kyp was driven further to the dark side by his despair at having killed his brother. Before Kyp could save his brother, the sun went supernova, destroying the planet. He told Kyp, who swooped down to save them, but Dauren stabbed Zeth with a plastisteel fragment.

Dauren, a lowly lieutenant, knew he had little chance of escaping and located Zeth. He escaped aboard the Vendetta, bound for Anoth.

Furgan ordered the evacuation of Carida with the limited transports available, giving priority on the basis of rank. He destroyed most of them and responded by firing a resonance torpedo into Carida's sun, Caridan.

Desiring the Sun Crusher himself, Furgan ordered a group of TIE/LN starfighters to attack Kyp, who had been distracted by a falsified story about the death of his brother. He transmitted an ultimatum to Ambassador Furgan, threatening to destroy the solar system if they didn't provide information about Zeth. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype-a battle Han knows they may be unable to win… even with Luke Skywalker at their side! Plot summary Ī few days after his destruction of the Cauldron Nebula, under the influence of Exar Kun, Kyp Durron flew the Sun Crusher to determine the fate of his brother, Zeth, at the Imperial Academy.

Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. Meanwhile, Luke's former protégé Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child-Leia and Han's baby Anakin-hidden on the planet Anoth. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. As the New Republic continues its struggle for survival, a scattered but powerful remnant of the shattered Empire seeks to destroy three precious children-among them Han and Leia's Jedi twins-who represent the next generation of Jedi Knights, in this third and final novel of the Jedi Academy Trilogy…
