

Meanwhile Anakin Solo accompanies his aunt, Mara Jade Skywalker to Dantooine so that the Jedi Master can recuperate and rest as she fights the deadly virus the Yuuzhan Vong have infected her with. Corran Horn and Ganner Rhysode take what is probably the second most dangerous mission, and both missions quickly require the Jedi to be on their guard if they’re going to survive. Luke Skywalker has sent his Jedi out on reconnaissance missions throughout the Outer Rim, and taken the most dangerous mission for himself, and his nephew Jacen Solo. Though the Yuuzhan Vong were thought to be destroyed at the end of Vector Prime, the New Republic soon finds itself fighting several battles in the Outer Rim, though the Senate does not believe much of the news that comes in, believing it to be a Jedi plot to acquire more control. Onslaught is the first in a duology written by Star Wars veteran Michael A.

The second novel in the New Jedi Order series continues on where Vector Prime left off. As Leia Organa Solo and Gavin Darklighter lead desperate refugees in a fighting retreat from Yuuzhan Vong forces, Mara Jade Skywalker, Jedi apprentices Jacen and Anakin Solo, and Jedi Knight Corran Horn find themselves tested as never before by a faceless, implacable foe determined to smother the light of the New Republic forever beneath a shroud of darkest evil. Luke must wield all the awesome powers of a Jedi Master to defeat the gravest threat since Emperor Palpatine. When alien invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke Skywalker's leadership. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust is on the rise. It is a perilous time for the New Republic.
