Tyrant's Test: Star Wars Legends (The Black Fleet Crisis) [Paperback]

In the wake of a shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestsellingStar Warssaga...

Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat--even at the cost of Han's life.  As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar's deadly forces. And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon...The New Republic faces a terrifying threat from the darkest depths of the Empire.Michael P. Kube-McDowellis the New York Times bestselling author of Before the Storm, the Hugo Award nominee The Quiet Pools, and the Philip K. Dick Award nominee Emprise. His acclaimed near-future, human-centered novels have been praised as a heady mix of political intrigue and hard science (Julian May) and the work of an alert intellect (Locus).Three levels down from Rwookrrorro and eighteen kilometers northeast along the Rryatt Trail, the Well of the Dead appeared as a solid green wall ahead of Chewbacca and his son Lumpawarrump.

This deep in thewroshyrjungle of Kashyyyk, the tangled web of trunks and branches was ordinarily almost barren. So little light penetrated the dense canopies overhead that any leaves that sprouted quickly withered. Only the gray bridal-veil sucker and the paddle-leafedmock shyr, both parasites, and the ubiquitouskshyyvines decorated the runs and paths.

But neither the bridal-veil nor themock shyrwas abundant enough to block those runs and force the Wookiees to the underside of the web of branches. They--and the creatures that made their homes at thal.