I read "Star Wars: Dark Force Rising." It's by Timothy Zahn and published by Bantam Books in June 1992.
This book is the sequel to "Heir to the Empire." Only one month separates these two books in time. After the battle at Sluis Van, a shipyard, the Rebellion's ships are moderately damaged. Most of their ships are either destroyed or are in need of major repairs. Han and Lando are stuck with Luke at Sluis Van spaceport, their ships are near the bottom of the repair lists and no one is likely to loan them a ship. They are trying to figure a way to get their ships repaired faster when Luke and Lando run into some old smuggler enemies of Lando's. The gang is there trying to steal a ship when Lando catches them in the act. Luckily, Luke is there to defend Lando from the merciless smugglers. Luke then forces
the "Slicer" (we would call them a hacker) to move their ships up on the repair list. After their ships are repaired, the trio returns to the base on Coruscant (the New Republic's headquarters). It's here that the reader finds that Leia has traveled to the land of the !
At this time the Empire has found the location of the Katana Fleet along with the New Republic. It becomes an all-out race to the fleet, which the Empire wins. The result is another battle in which each side seems to pull out with equal losses, but this time the Empire has gained a whole fleet of ships.
Again, this whole plot seemed to be based on timely coincidences and lack therefore of. While reading this book I realized that not all the creatures spoke English, bu
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