by John Jackson Miller

Imagine if just prior to the events of the Phantom Menace, the Jedi Council listens to Qui-Gon Jinn and follows the Living Force. Kwenn, a once major Jedi outpost, is on the decommissioning list. As Kwenn had been important to many of the older Masters, they decide since it was the year of a major milestone, they would hold a celebration… but of course there are others who want to destroy the Jedi.

The center of this book, is the idea that the Council is being intentionally mired into a bureaucracy. One that is disconnected from the people – reducing them from living beings in the force to simple numbers. The problem is, the Council has this wonderful experience…and then go right back to be mired in bureaucracy. Realistic.

402 pages

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