

The most powerful and influential male clan known as Broken Columns starting to form a union with the Raining Leaves clan. Dathomiri formally dominated by the female darkside users the Nightsisters, now has more accepting of males.

Following Sith apprentice Vestara Khai to the planet Dathomiri, Luke and Ben Skywalker find a scoitity in transition. He also has the Connan like legacy of not one being the sone of 2 of the most powerful Jedi of their generation, but he was born on the battlefield. I have to say this has worked well as from the last series I found Ben as whiny little brat, he seems the have matured considerably in his mid teens, and his military experience is also shining through. The book lets Ben Skywalker have more print time. The reason I don't mind the slow simmer boil of the series is because there are many issues and what the series lacks in speed it makes up for in character development. The series is a little slow moving, this book does move things forward a bit, but not as much as I would have liked. But for all, it is a game-changing-and life-altering-encounter of untold magnitude and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daala's fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all. Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escape-and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice.

Repercussions from the dark side's fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide.
