Chapter Summaries

Six children arrived at the Geth-protected Dray II Satellite to study the Force and psionics under the guidance of Zekrath and a masked human Priestess. Xiao Yan befriended Zhang Xucheng and encouraged the other children before their new teachers welcomed them.

• The Neimoidian shuttle brought six children to a renovated ancient complex on Dray II Satellite, which was guarded by the Geth.
• Xiao Yan and Zhang Xucheng introduced themselves and talked about how Xiao Yan had fought Lu Li.
• Xiao Yan told Zhang Xucheng and the other children to come to her if the aliens bullied them.
• Zekrath and a masked human Priestess welcomed the children and said they would guide their studies of psionics and the Force.

Darth Malthael observed six Force-sensitive children and considered the limitations of his Resurrection Spell, including the decline of resurrected people’s creativity and adaptability. He ordered the search for documents on the Muur Talisman to continue for one month before the resurrected Jedi Masters joined the campaign for Eriadu, where he intended to send them into battle.

• Darth Malthael watched the six children and discussed Xiao Yan, Zhang Xucheng, and the Ayrou child’s Force potential with Green Beatty and Aiden Ward.
• Darth Malthael recognized that resurrected Jedi Masters were losing creativity and learning ability, while Zekrath believed they belonged on the battlefield rather than teaching at the Twilight Covenant.
• Darth Malthael recalled that resurrected Computer Science Department founder Luo Feng had lost his capacity for technical work and died by piloting a spacecraft into a mining laser two months earlier.
• Darth Malthael considered Essence Transfer as a possible solution to the Resurrection Spell’s flaws and noted that Edra Kestis had been an exception.
• Darth Malthael ordered Green Beatty and Aiden Ward to investigate Zekrath’s seventeen possible Muur Talisman locations within one month, then report to Gerrenthum Planet for the campaign for Eriadu.

The Republic struggled to defend Janfatar from a Separatist offensive, and Captain Gilad Pellaeon devised a strategy that turned the battle into a war of attrition. Two days later, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano arrived with reinforcements as the Republic continued fighting.

• The InterGalactic Banking Clan and Fourth Group attacked the Northern Galaxy, nearly routing the Republic fleet at Makito before Sass Tiin’s raid allowed it to retreat.
• Ulu-Ulix besieged Janfatar, where workers went on strike, and the Republic called on Djinn Altis and the Altis Cult for help.
• Sheev Palpatine dispatched a Corellian fleet, and Djinn Altis led it in a surprise attack against the Separatists near Janfatar.
• Captain Gilad Pellaeon advised the Republic fleet to split into ten detachments and launch a landing operation, and the Fleet Commander adopted his plan.
• Sass Tiin remained in space while Djinn Altis led the ground operation to reinforce Atar City, suppress the strike, and restore the planet’s defenses.
• Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano arrived two days into the battle with two Hunter Class Battlecruisers.

The battle for Janfatar spread from space into Atar City, where government forces, striking workers, Republic clones, and Separatist droids fought amid escalating civilian resistance. After more than a month, the Geth attacked both factions’ territories, forcing the Republic and Separatist fleets to withdraw from Janfatar without a decisive victory.

• Ulu Ulix split his fleet’s strength between the space battle and a landing force, while Republic forces landed and fighting broke out in Atar City.
• Jaine Altis led Clone Army guerrilla operations, and Gillard Perine coordinated attacks that delayed the Separatist droids and workers as government reinforcements arrived.
• The ruling party executed captured workers’ leaders and launched an all-out offensive, prompting widespread civilian resistance and purges across Janfatar.
• Ulu Ulix armed the uprising with weapons supplied by Santa Claus Yuri Orlov, and government forces were driven back until they were confined to Atar City.
• Gillard Perine withdrew from the ground campaign and joined the Republic fleet command staff as the Republic fleet grew to twenty Hunter Class Battlecruisers.
• A sudden Geth attack on Republic and Separatist territories ended the inconclusive space battle, and both fleets began withdrawing.

The Battle of Janfatar ended after the workers’ uprising toppled the ruling government and the planet joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems, while the Fourth Civilization suspended its advance on Ord Mantell. Across the galaxy, the Confederacy captured Ryloth and the Antar moons, and the Fourth Civilization’s forces fought to seize Malastare as the Galactic Republic concentrated a fleet to break the Malastare Narrows blockade.

• The workers overthrew Janfatar’s ruling party government, joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and declared war on the Galactic Republic as the Battle of Janfatar ended amid a Geth outbreak.
• Qi Jian’s Supreme Military Command suspended its offensive against Ord Mantell after the Republic assembled a powerful fleet there.
• Wat Tambor’s forces captured Ryloth after Ima-Gun Di died defending it, and Cham Syndulla led Twi’lek resistance against the Technological Alliance’s oppression.
• General Grievous and Asajj Ventress captured Antar 4 and Antar 5, forcing the Galactic Republic to concentrate its forces in the Delon system.
• Sefrans Tann defeated Republic attempts to force open the Malastare Narrows, then Mar Tuuk and the Fourth Legion joined Major General Xiao Guanghua’s landing operation on Malastare.
• The Galactic Republic assembled twenty Hunter Class Battlecruisers for another attack on the Malastare Narrows to protect its access to Eriadu.

Tang Xiao met Rendili StarDrive heir Gali Ulan on Gerrenthum Planet to receive parts, engineers, and cash for repairing the Dreadnought fleet. Gali revealed that his father had sent him with a proposal, and Tang Xiao forced him to continue the private discussion.

• The Fourth Civilization prepared Gerrenthum Planet's fleet and sealed a spaceport as a transport convoy arrived.
• Gali Ulan delivered replacement parts for 178 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, fifty Engineering Consultants, and one billion Galactic credits from his father, Bangjila Ulan.
• Tang Xiao said Bangjila had revealed their battle plan to the Republic and explained that he intended to trade the Blade Fleet for Eriadu.
• Gali Ulan said his father had a proposal but hesitated to share it.
• Tang Xiao killed Gali Ulan's four attendants after identifying them as a threat and ordered him to remove his robe and come with him.

Tang Xiao forced Gali Ulan to witness the lives of people across Christophsis, then challenged his defense of the Republic’s inequality. He revealed that Christophsis’s population was a weapon attacking the Republic and that it was about to strike Rendili.

• Tang Xiao made Gali Ulan change into ordinary clothes and took him to Christophsis.
• Tang Xiao showed Gali the miners, workers, and other inhabitants of Christophsis, then returned with him to Gerrenthum Planet.
• Tang Xiao told Gali that the four dead attendants had been fitted with controllable electronic senses to keep them from learning forbidden information.
• Gali dismissed the miners’ poverty as an unchangeable part of an efficient society and said the gap between rich and poor would keep growing.
• Tang Xiao called Christophsis’s population the Milky Way Galaxy’s most powerful weapon against the Republic and warned that it was about to hurt Rendili.

Tang Xiao explained to Gali-Ulan how the Galactic Republic’s ruling class preserved its power by controlling industry and limiting the choices available to ordinary people. He revealed that a force was offering the galaxy a new choice beyond the Republic, leaving Gali-Ulan shaken by the possibility that the ruling class no longer shared his faith in it.

• Gali-Ulan dismissed the prospect of revolt, arguing that only industrial powers with Star Destroyers could challenge the ruling class.
• Tang Xiao described how the Republic’s oligarchs controlled technology and offered the lower classes limited hope to prevent rebellion.
• Tang Xiao forced Gali-Ulan to his knees and said he wanted to discuss the hand wielding a weapon against the existing order.
• Tang Xiao explained that the civil war was erasing faith in the Republic by giving people a choice in which it did not exist.
• Tang Xiao asked whether everyone in Gali-Ulan’s ruling class truly wanted the Republic to survive, then called this force the will of the people.

Gali-Ulan learned that the Galactic Republic could collapse and discussed Rendili StarDrive’s secret investment plans with Tang Xiao, who demanded that Rendili choose a side in the coming upheaval. The chapter then outlined the scale and cost of the year-long Western Reaches Campaign, which began with a Republic attack at the Malastare Narrows.

• Tang Xiao warned Gali-Ulan that popular support could undermine the Galactic Republic until people no longer believed it needed to exist.
• Gali-Ulan proposed secret Rendili StarDrive investments in Dawn Star Planet, including engineering, space docks, mineral mining, and Victory-class Star Destroyers, while Rendili sought to preserve the status quo.
• Tang Xiao rejected Rendili’s wish to maintain the status quo and urged it to seize its final opportunity to choose a side.
• Gali-Ulan left to tell his father, Bangjila-Ulan, about the conversation and the investment plan.
• The Western Reaches Campaign spread across multiple systems, lasted a year, and cost the Fourth Civilization more than seven million soldiers, while the Republic concealed its heavier losses.
• Twenty Republic Hunter Class Battlecruisers emerged at the Malastare Narrows on March 33, 21 BBY, beginning the campaign.

Admiral Sefrans Tann’s surprise attack on Malastare threatened a vital Republic supply route, and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s fleet prepared to confront the Separatists. Ferus Olin joined them, driven by revenge for Shiri Tachi’s death, while Luminara Unduli reported that Tann’s ships had entered the planet’s atmosphere without beginning an orbital bombardment.

• Clone Commander CC-2224 Cody asked Obi-Wan how Sefrans Tann had traveled from Gerrenthum to Malastare, and Obi-Wan explained that Tann could guide ships through chaotic hyperspace currents.
• Ferus Olin described Tann’s Chiss origins and Sith training, then declared his intention to avenge Shiri Tachi by making Dawn Star Planet and the Archangel of Death pay.
• Cody told Ferus that, as a civilian joining the battle, he would have to follow orders, and Ferus agreed while regretting that he had not joined the Terminus campaign.
• Obi-Wan warned Ferus that self-reproach and hatred could lead to ruin, but Ferus questioned Obi-Wan’s past bond with Shiri Tachi.
• Luminara Unduli reported that the Separatist warships had entered Malastare’s atmosphere without attempting orbital bombardment, and Obi-Wan asked what she thought their plan was.

Master Kap She ordered an immediate assault on Malastare to support the Gran and Dagg defenders in Pixel City. Republic fighters and warships began attacking the Separatist fleet, but the Republic fighters were quickly overwhelmed by the Separatists’ Tri-fighters.

• Kap She suspected Sefrans Tann had hidden the Separatist fleet over Pixel City to buy time for an attack on Eriadu.
• Luminara reported that Separatist forces were fighting defenders in Pixel City, while Kap She questioned whether the Gran and Dagg could truly have united.
• Kap She ordered a landing operation and assigned Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ferus Olin to lead a raid with Cody and the 212th Attack Battalion.
• Republic warships and more than four thousand fighters launched attacks against the Separatist fleet over Pixel City.
• Separatist anti-aircraft fire and newly deployed Tri-fighters shot down large numbers of Republic fighters.

The Republic launched a ground assault on Pixel City while Tri-fighters inflicted heavy losses on its air forces. Cape Shay ordered aggressive tactics to disrupt the Separatist fleet before it could attack the landing forces, while Obi-Wan Kenobi questioned the cruisers’ unusual design.

• Tri-fighters and anti-air fire shot down more than five hundred Republic fighters before they reached effective range of the Separatist cruisers.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi and CC-2224 Cody led the 212th Attack Battalion in a landing north of Pixel City, where clones set up defenses and artillery positions.
• Obi-Wan ordered the AT-TEs to advance toward a factory and warned the fleet that the landing zone could not be held until the front line reached the city outskirts.
• Obi-Wan reported the landing’s progress to Cape Shay, while Luminara Unduli described the danger posed by two thousand Tri-fighters and the Separatist warships.
• Cape Shay ordered the main fleet closer to Malastare and demanded aggressive tactics from the northern and southern assault detachments to break up the Separatist formations.

Sefrans Tann used the Republic’s expected assault on Malastare to conceal her real plan, while Shiri Tachi was sent to defend Pixel City after Obi-Wan Kenobi’s presence was discovered. The chapter ended with all thirty-five Separatist Dreadnought-class cruisers revealing hidden antimatter engines and thrusting toward the Republic fleet.

• Sefrans Tann learned that Republic fighters and warships had engaged her fleet while twenty thousand Clone Troopers landed on Malastare.
• Sefrans Tann identified Obi-Wan Kenobi among the Republic forces and ordered Shiri Tachi to stay behind and lead the fighting north of Pixel City.
• Shiri Tachi took a modified Elite Class Viking fighter from the Katana toward Pixel City.
• The thirty-five Dreadnought-class cruisers shed their camouflage to reveal hidden External Antimatter Propulsion Devices.
• The Dreadnoughts ignited their engines and surged toward outer space, startling the Republic forces.

The Fourth Civilization used hidden antimatter propulsion devices to bring its Dreadnought-class cruisers out of Malastare’s atmosphere and ambush the Republic fleet. With the Republic ships trapped in a losing battle, Kep-She ordered them into the planet’s atmosphere while Sefrans Tann tasked Adi Gali with confronting the Jedi who might cover their retreat.

• Obi-Wan Kenobi and Kep-She realized the Dreadnought-class cruisers had used their apparent retreat to lure Republic ships into the atmosphere and split their forces.
• The Dreadnought-class cruisers discarded their external propulsion devices and immediately attacked the Republic fleet in a prepared bombardment formation.
• Sefrans Tann’s fleet closed to engage the Republic ships, and the Skye, the Tomorrow, and other vessels suffered critical shield damage.
• Kep-She ordered the Republic ships to charge into Malastare’s atmosphere and said she would fly a fighter to cover them.
• Sefrans Tann told Adi Gali to stop Jedi Knights from covering the Republic fleet, but Adi Gali questioned whether she would fight her former comrades.

The Republic fleet tried to escape the Confederacy of Independent Systems by descending into Malastare’s atmosphere, while Master Kyp She led a fighter attack against the enemy flagship. Adi Gallia defeated Kyp She, and the Republic’s battered warships suffered catastrophic losses as they approached the planet.

• Master Kyp She led a small Republic fighter squadron against the Confederacy of Independent Systems fleet while General Sefrans Tann launched 350 tri-fighters.
• Kyp She discovered that a Delta-7 fighter in the enemy formation was piloted by Adi Gallia, who demanded her surrender.
• Adi Gallia’s fighters destroyed the Jedi apprentice, and Adi Gallia shot down Kyp She after the two Jedi exchanged accusations.
• The tri-fighters overwhelmed the Republic squadron, while the Confederacy’s Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers relentlessly battered the Hunter Class Battlecruisers.
• One Hunter Class Battlecruiser broke apart and plunged toward Malastare, two disintegrated during descent, and another was left drifting after its bridge and engines were destroyed.

After the Republic fleet suffered a devastating defeat at Malastare, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the surviving Jedi prepared to retake Pixel City while questioning why Sefrans Tann had withdrawn. The Republic launched its attack, and Xiao Guanghua awaited the battle from the city’s underground command center.

• Thirty-two of Sefrans Tann’s Dreadnought-class cruisers departed Malastare for Salust, leaving three damaged ships behind.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ferrus Olin, Luminara Unduli, and Barriss Offee surveyed the Republic’s losses; Luminara ordered the air forces to regroup and prepare to bomb Separatist-controlled areas.
• Obi-Wan assigned Ferrus to lead a ground assault on Pixel City while he secretly sought meetings with Gran and Dagg leaders, and ordered the fleet to blockade the city.
• On 21 BBY, the 35th day of the 3rd month, the Republic Clone Army began its first assault on Pixel City with artillery and TX-130 tanks.
• Xiao Guanghua told his officers that Sefrans Tann had completed her plan and departed, leaving the Fourth Civilization forces to face the Republic alone.

Xiao Guanghua launched a counterattack against Republic forces in Pixel City, deploying Justin Levis and Shi Aimin while assigning Shiri Tachi to intercept Jedi. As clone troopers and Ferus Olin fought through the city, Justin Levis’s Fourth Legion ambushed them near a shopping mall.

• Xiao Guanghua ordered droid formations to attack Republic forces from three directions, sent the Second Mechanized Infantry Brigade west, and assigned Justin Levis and Shi Aimin elite units while Shiri Tachi waited for Jedi Knights.
• Republic clone troopers advanced through Pixel City under artillery cover and met fierce resistance from battle droids and DW-1 Dwarf Spider mechs.
• Ferus Olin and the clone troopers cleared a commercial building, turned it into a command and supply center, and discussed joining a nearby Gran army with Cody.
• A clone trooper reported that Justin Levis’s Fourth Legion had attacked near a shopping mall in the East Wing, prompting Cody to order a counterattack.
• Justin Levis and his soldiers finished off wounded clone troopers, set up overlapping fields of fire, and opened fire on an approaching group.

The Galactic Republic regarded Dawn Star Planet’s Fourth Legion as an exceptionally well-equipped special-operations force and deployed heavy air support after it attacked Clone Troopers on Malastare. Justin Levis led the Fourth Legion’s withdrawal as Republic bombers began leveling the battlefield.

• Republic analysts concluded that the Fourth Legion had advanced equipment, specialized training, and roughly 10,000 soldiers, and dubbed it the Black Legion after repeated defeats.
• Clone commander CC-2224 Cody warned Ferrus Olin about the Black Legion and ordered Republic units to withdraw while requesting air support.
• Justin Levis shot two retreating Clone Troopers, evaded incoming fire, and told his comrades to stay concealed ahead of an airstrike or artillery barrage.
• The Fourth Civilization soldiers planted booby traps outside the expected bombardment zones and retreated toward underground shelters.
• ARC-170 fighters and PTB-625 bombers attacked the battlefield, dropping Proton Bombs that nearly leveled the area.

The Fourth Legion destroyed a block with explosives after Proton Bombs collapsed their shelter, while Obi-Wan Kenobi negotiated with the Gran to stop using Proton Bombs and coordinate supplies and operations. Outside Pixel City, Shi Aimin left his squad to attack an artillery position.

• Justin Levis led the Fourth Legion away from a damaged shelter, and the soldiers rigged nearby ammunition and supplies to explode as the Clone Troopers attacked.
• Ferus Olin ordered a retreat into the shelters, and the planted explosives blasted nearly the entire block into the air.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi promised the Gran Generals that Republic forces would stop using Proton Bombs in the city and use conventional weapons instead.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi agreed to guarantee supplies to Pixel City and establish a joint command headquarters, while the Gran General warned him not to use Gran soldiers as cannon fodder.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi rode east to meet the Dagg command, reflecting on how the Gran and Dagg continued to fight separately despite the Separatist invasion.
• Shi Aimin left his squad in the jungle and walked toward an artillery position, while Huang Yehao called him an idiot.

Huang Yehao received orders to destroy a Republic airfield used by PTB-625 bombers and led his company on a long raid. After Shi Aimin single-handedly destroyed a Republic artillery position, the company attacked the requisitioned Gran spaceport five hours later.

• Huang Yehao received Major General Xiao Guanghua’s order to destroy the Republic bomber airfield and learned its location and defenses.
• Huang Yehao and Cummings prepared to travel 450 kilometers through forests and mountains, with Tri-fighters supporting the operation.
• Shi Aimin returned after single-handedly destroying the artillery position, carrying his smoking Frik alloy shield.
• Huang Yehao told Shi Aimin about the new mission, but Shi Aimin went to get food instead of reviewing the intelligence.
• Five hours later, Huang Yehao led his company in a surprise attack on a Gran spaceport requisitioned by the Republic.