CHAMPIONS OF THE FORCE

(Paperback)

pg.10: "According to my calculations, it'll take two hours before the core of your sun reaches a critical configuration." The Suncrusher's resonance torpedoes take two hours to bring an unremarkable yellow sun such as the one Cardia orbited to critical mass.

pg.30: He recalled how Obi Wan's and Yoda's and Anakin's bodies had all vanished upon their deaths: Obi-Wan and Yoda leaving only crumpled robes, Anakin Skywalker leaving only the empty body armor of Darth Vader. Note—in ROTJ, Yoda's robes disappeared with his body.

pg.49: "B-wing fighter, this is your last chance," the X-wing pilot said, and fired a low energy bolt that splattered against Terpfen's shields. X-wings can dial down their blasters. Also note that Terpfen was able to steal a B-wing and escape Coruscant. Again, KJA seems to forget Coruscant has planetary shields preventing this.

pg.64: Leia knew that even powerful Jedi could not manipulate large-scale phenomena like the weather; but they could move objects, and she realized that was what Streen did now. Not changing the weather, but simply moving the air, drawing it in from all directions, creating a self-contained but destructive tornado that struck toward Luke's body.

pg.78: Crouched low, heads ducked behind blaster-resistant armor, they held high-enery rifles in front of them. Some armor can be considered "blaster resistant".

pg.81: Chewbacca yowled for the Wookiees to stop, but they didn't hear him as they all surged forward, claws extended, ready to shred the Keeper into bloody pieces. It was established in the Thrawn trilogy that Wookiees never use their climbing claws in a fight; to do so was dishonorable. Perhaps these Wookiees, who were enslaved and broken for over a decade, decided they had a reason to do so. Or KJA simply fucked up. Again.

pg.90-91: The Millennium Falcon emerged from hyperspace near the coordinates of the destroyed Cardian star system. Han Solo polarized the segmented viewport to look out at the rubble that had recently been a group of planets and a burning sun; now he saw only a slash of still-glowing gases, a sea of radiation from the supernova. The sheer destruction was on a scale greater even than when he had emerged from hyperspace to find Alderaan reduced to broken debris—
Cardia's exploded star had spewed stellar maretial in a thick band around the ecliptic, vast curtains of roiling gases that glowed and crackled with intense energy across the spectrum. A shock wave plowed through space, where it would dissipate over thousands of years.
Under his high-resolution scanners Han spotted a few twisted cinders, burned-out lumps of worlds that had been the outer planets in the system. Now they shone like embers in a dying fire.
The Falcon's sensor banks barely coped with the overloading energies that pulsed through the wreckage of the Cardian system. X rays and gamma rays hammered against his shields.
The Falcon's shields are able to withstand heavy radiation bombardment

pg.92-93: Han and Lando found an exploded red-dwarf star on the fringes of the core.
Han looked out the viewport and saw that the small star had exploded in a less-spectacular fashion than Cardia's sun, a fizzle without enough mass to generate a significant chain reaction. But the shock fronts had still pulverized and incinerated the closely orbiting planets.
Destruction capability of the resonance torpedoes

pg.93: Lando squinted at the scanners. "I'm tracking eleven Victory-class Star Destroyers heading out of the system."
"Have they picked us up yet?"
"Don't think so. There's still a lot of radiation and interference from that explosion. Looks to me like they just packed up and ran."
The Millennium Falcon has stronger sensors than a fleet of Victory-class Star Destroyers???

pg.94: As the small craft rushed past, Han worked the controls and yanked out with the Millennium Falcon's tractor beam, latching on to the small superweapon. "Hey, I caught him!" Han said in surprise.
The momentum of the Sun Crusher was enough to jerk the Falcon around, but the tractor beams held. Han pumped up the power, increasing his invisible grip.
Existence and power of the Falcon's tractor beam.

pg.112: Designed for ground assaults on remote mountain citadels, the MT-AT articulated joints and sophisticated claw footpads could scale even vertical surfaces of rock. On each joint were mounted supercharged lasers that could penetrate a half-meter thick blast door.

pg.137: In outrage Kyp found the power to send a burst of controlling thought through the integrated circuits in the Sun Crusher's computer. He flushed the alien programming, wiping pathways clean and rebuilding them in an instant.

pg.152: Its once-white hull was blistered and streaked with burn marks; its shielding plates damaged by an inferno of destruction. Star Destroyer Gorgon's condition after surviving supernovae destruction of seven blue-giant stars. Note "shielding plates".

pg.160: Turbolaser struck the starboard side of the Vendetta, shoving it visibly to one side with the momentum of the blasts. Another example of the kinetic energy transfer of turbolasers.

pg.163: The stormtroopers followed, making short work of the thick hatches by using focused thermal detonators that blasted the metal doors out of their seams. Equipment: "focused" thermal detonators

pg.187: A new course had already been programmed into the navicomputer. Han was ready to dash away at a moment's notice if anything suspicious happened. Updated navicomputer from the ANH model

pg.197: "It is a self-replicating swarm of nano-destroyers: microscopic, artificially created viruses dismantling Mon Mothma's cells one nucleus at a time. They will not stop until her life ceases." The Imperial Remnant has nano-virus technology

pg.198: Many of the Gorgon's stabilizers had blown in their narrow escape from the multiple supernova explosion in the Cauldron Nebula. Shields had failed at the end-but they had held long enough.

pg.199: She had been lucky fleeing from the exploding suns, while only seconds behind her the Basilisk had vaporized in flame, disintegrated by the onrushing supernova shockwave. But Daala had ordered the Gorgon to plunge blindly into hyperspace mere moments before the explosive front had reached her rear thrusters.

pg.200: Her third ship, the Basilisk, already injured in the battle against smuggler forces at Kessel, had not been able to flee the supernova explosions fast enough.

pg.217: Doole didn't know how to use the built-in defense systems, the external laser cannons, the disintegrator fields. Security tech: "disintegrator fields"

pg.232: "I don't know why everyone keeps treating me as if I'm some sort of...property", he said.
Chewbacca grunted a sharp retort, and Threepio snapped at him. "That's quite beside the point. In actual fact, I—"
"I wasn't designed for this kind of work. I can communicate with other tactical computers and coordinate your flight paths, but putting me in charge of strategy—"
Quotes from the versatile C3P0

pg.237: "I don't suppose even dropping it into a sun would have made much difference."
Kyp shook his head. "No, I could have recovered it just as easily."
Kyp Durron's Sith-enhanced Force powers, and the indestrucability of the Sun Crusher

pg.241: Han launched three proton torpedoes into the labyrinth of cross beams and supports as they charged toward the enormous construction. Millennium Falcon firing proton torpedoes

pg.243: "The power core is only half-charged," Doxin pointed out.
"Isn't that good enough to knock out a few little ships?"
"Why yes sir-yes it is."
Power of the Death Star prototype

pg.244: "Only about forty more to go, and you can't even fire the superlaser again for fifteen minutes."

pg.277-278: Wedge stopped to glance at the streams of data flying across the screens at high speed. He blinked and saw rapid-fire images of blueprints, weapons designs, test data.
"Admiral Daala must have known Director Sivron's password," Qwi cried. "She's dumping the data backups we couldn't crack. She's downloading all the weapons information!"

pg.279: "Transfer successful, Admiral. Complete core dump of all the Maw's backup computer files." The Imperial Remnant has the complete plans and schematics for the Sun Crusher

pg.281: A flurry of green turbolaser bolts blurred out from the Star Destroyer's fore section, angling down to strike the Installation's clustered asteroids. With the facilities shields down, ionized rock dust sprayed into space.

pg.286: "We have enough energy reserves for several more blasts," the stormtrooper captain said. Death Star Prototype at half power

pg.286-287: As he looked at the shard-shaped vessel, his head-tails twitched. Of course he remembered it-not only from the working model he had seen once, but from all the progress reports and computer simulations its creator, Qwi Xux, had delivered during her years development.

pg.289: "One of his torpedoes ate up eleven percent of our superstructure!" Power of the resonance torpedoes against the Death Star prototype

pg.291: The Death Star fired again, and the superlaser beam curved around, bent even more severely in the deep gravity well; but this time the gunner compensated. The blurred fringes of the beam actually struck the Sun Crusher and knocked it spinning out of control.
Any other ship would have been vaporized instantly, but the quantum armor plating protected the superweapon-just barely.

pg.292-293: The Falcon raced toward the event horizon. Lando and Mara worked together, wrestling to navigate the ship in the buckling jaws of gravity.

pg.301: Millions of the tiny nano-destroyers saturated Mon Mothma's body.

pg.302: She would have to remove them one by one, tugging each nano-destroyer through cell walls and out of the dying leader's body.
With the Force, Cilghal could touch with finger infinitely small, infinitely precise, to grasp one of the nano-destroyers and send it careening out of the dying body.

pg.302-303: The task was incomprehensibly large. The poison had spread and replicated, scattering itself through the billions and billions of cells in Mon Mothma's body. Cilghal would have to search and remove every one of them.

pg.310: The Gorgon's computer banks held all the information Daala had pulled from the Maw Installation's classified computer banks. The weapons designs and new concepts alone would help the Empire win the next phase of the war.

pg.10: "According to my calculations, it'll take two hours before the core of your sun reaches a critical configuration."	The Suncrusher's resonance torpedoes take two hours to bring an unremarkable yellow sun such as the one Cardia orbited to critical mass.
pg.30: He recalled how Obi Wan's and Yoda's and Anakin's bodies had all vanished upon their deaths: Obi-Wan and Yoda leaving only crumpled robes, Anakin Skywalker leaving only the empty body armor of Darth Vader.	Note—in ROTJ, Yoda's robes disappeared with his body.
pg.49: "B-wing fighter, this is your last chance," the X-wing pilot said, and fired a low energy bolt that splattered against Terpfen's shields.	X-wings can dial down their blasters. Also note that Terpfen was able to steal a B-wing and escape Coruscant. Again, KJA seems to forget Coruscant has planetary shields preventing this.
pg.64: Leia knew that even powerful Jedi could not manipulate large-scale phenomena like the weather; but they could move objects, and she realized that was what Streen did now. Not changing the weather, but simply moving the air, drawing it in from all directions, creating a self-contained but destructive tornado that struck toward Luke's body.
pg.78: Crouched low, heads ducked behind blaster-resistant armor, they held high-enery rifles in front of them.	Some armor can be considered "blaster resistant".
pg.81: Chewbacca yowled for the Wookiees to stop, but they didn't hear him as they all surged forward, claws extended, ready to shred the Keeper into bloody pieces.	It was established in the Thrawn trilogy that Wookiees never use their climbing claws in a fight; to do so was dishonorable. Perhaps these Wookiees, who were enslaved and broken for over a decade, decided they had a reason to do so. Or KJA simply fucked up. Again.
pg.90-91: The Millennium Falcon emerged from hyperspace near the coordinates of the destroyed Cardian star system. Han Solo polarized the segmented viewport to look out at the rubble that had recently been a group of planets and a burning sun; now he saw only a slash of still-glowing gases, a sea of radiation from the supernova. The sheer destruction was on a scale greater even than when he had emerged from hyperspace to find Alderaan reduced to broken debris— Cardia's exploded star had spewed stellar maretial in a thick band around the ecliptic, vast curtains of roiling gases that glowed and crackled with intense energy across the spectrum. A shock wave plowed through space, where it would dissipate over thousands of years. Under his high-resolution scanners Han spotted a few twisted cinders, burned-out lumps of worlds that had been the outer planets in the system. Now they shone like embers in a dying fire. The Falcon's sensor banks barely coped with the overloading energies that pulsed through the wreckage of the Cardian system. X rays and gamma rays hammered against his shields.	The Falcon's shields are able to withstand heavy radiation bombardment
pg.92-93: Han and Lando found an exploded red-dwarf star on the fringes of the core. Han looked out the viewport and saw that the small star had exploded in a less-spectacular fashion than Cardia's sun, a fizzle without enough mass to generate a significant chain reaction. But the shock fronts had still pulverized and incinerated the closely orbiting planets.	Destruction capability of the resonance torpedoes
pg.93: Lando squinted at the scanners. "I'm tracking eleven Victory-class Star Destroyers heading out of the system." "Have they picked us up yet?" "Don't think so. There's still a lot of radiation and interference from that explosion. Looks to me like they just packed up and ran."	The Millennium Falcon has stronger sensors than a fleet of Victory-class Star Destroyers???
pg.94: As the small craft rushed past, Han worked the controls and yanked out with the Millennium Falcon's tractor beam, latching on to the small superweapon. "Hey, I caught him!" Han said in surprise. The momentum of the Sun Crusher was enough to jerk the Falcon around, but the tractor beams held. Han pumped up the power, increasing his invisible grip.	Existence and power of the Falcon's tractor beam.
pg.112: Designed for ground assaults on remote mountain citadels, the MT-AT articulated joints and sophisticated claw footpads could scale even vertical surfaces of rock. On each joint were mounted supercharged lasers that could penetrate a half-meter thick blast door.
pg.137: In outrage Kyp found the power to send a burst of controlling thought through the integrated circuits in the Sun Crusher's computer. He flushed the alien programming, wiping pathways clean and rebuilding them in an instant.
pg.152: Its once-white hull was blistered and streaked with burn marks; its shielding plates damaged by an inferno of destruction.	Star Destroyer Gorgon's condition after surviving supernovae destruction of seven blue-giant stars. Note "shielding plates".
pg.160: Turbolaser struck the starboard side of the Vendetta, shoving it visibly to one side with the momentum of the blasts.	Another example of the kinetic energy transfer of turbolasers.
pg.163: The stormtroopers followed, making short work of the thick hatches by using focused thermal detonators that blasted the metal doors out of their seams.	Equipment: "focused" thermal detonators
pg.187: A new course had already been programmed into the navicomputer. Han was ready to dash away at a moment's notice if anything suspicious happened.	Updated navicomputer from the *ANH* model
pg.197: "It is a self-replicating swarm of nano-destroyers: microscopic, artificially created viruses dismantling Mon Mothma's cells one nucleus at a time. They will not stop until her life ceases."	The Imperial Remnant has nano-virus technology
pg.198: Many of the Gorgon's stabilizers had blown in their narrow escape from the multiple supernova explosion in the Cauldron Nebula. Shields had failed at the end-but they had held long enough.
pg.199: She had been lucky fleeing from the exploding suns, while only seconds behind her the Basilisk had vaporized in flame, disintegrated by the onrushing supernova shockwave. But Daala had ordered the Gorgon to plunge blindly into hyperspace mere moments before the explosive front had reached her rear thrusters.
pg.200: Her third ship, the Basilisk, already injured in the battle against smuggler forces at Kessel, had not been able to flee the supernova explosions fast enough.
pg.217: Doole didn't know how to use the built-in defense systems, the external laser cannons, the disintegrator fields.	Security tech: "disintegrator fields"
pg.232: "I don't know why everyone keeps treating me as if I'm some sort of...property", he said. Chewbacca grunted a sharp retort, and Threepio snapped at him. "That's quite beside the point. In actual fact, I—" "I wasn't designed for this kind of work. I can communicate with other tactical computers and coordinate your flight paths, but putting me in charge of strategy—"	Quotes from the versatile C3P0
pg.237: "I don't suppose even dropping it into a sun would have made much difference." Kyp shook his head. "No, I could have recovered it just as easily."	Kyp Durron's Sith-enhanced Force powers, and the indestrucability of the Sun Crusher
pg.241: Han launched three proton torpedoes into the labyrinth of cross beams and supports as they charged toward the enormous construction.	Millennium Falcon firing proton torpedoes
pg.243: "The power core is only half-charged," Doxin pointed out. "Isn't that good enough to knock out a few little ships?" "Why yes sir-yes it is."	Power of the Death Star prototype
pg.244: "Only about forty more to go, and you can't even fire the superlaser again for fifteen minutes."
pg.277-278: Wedge stopped to glance at the streams of data flying across the screens at high speed. He blinked and saw rapid-fire images of blueprints, weapons designs, test data. "Admiral Daala must have known Director Sivron's password," Qwi cried. "She's dumping the data backups we couldn't crack. She's downloading all the weapons information!"
pg.279: "Transfer successful, Admiral. Complete core dump of all the Maw's backup computer files."	The Imperial Remnant has the complete plans and schematics for the Sun Crusher
pg.281: A flurry of green turbolaser bolts blurred out from the Star Destroyer's fore section, angling down to strike the Installation's clustered asteroids. With the facilities shields down, ionized rock dust sprayed into space.
pg.286: "We have enough energy reserves for several more blasts," the stormtrooper captain said.	Death Star Prototype at half power
pg.286-287: As he looked at the shard-shaped vessel, his head-tails twitched. Of course he remembered it-not only from the working model he had seen once, but from all the progress reports and computer simulations its creator, Qwi Xux, had delivered during her years development.
pg.289: "One of his torpedoes ate up eleven percent of our superstructure!"	Power of the resonance torpedoes against the Death Star prototype
pg.291: The Death Star fired again, and the superlaser beam curved around, bent even more severely in the deep gravity well; but this time the gunner compensated. The blurred fringes of the beam actually struck the Sun Crusher and knocked it spinning out of control. Any other ship would have been vaporized instantly, but the quantum armor plating protected the superweapon-just barely.
pg.292-293: The Falcon raced toward the event horizon. Lando and Mara worked together, wrestling to navigate the ship in the buckling jaws of gravity.
pg.301: Millions of the tiny nano-destroyers saturated Mon Mothma's body.
pg.302: She would have to remove them one by one, tugging each nano-destroyer through cell walls and out of the dying leader's body. With the Force, Cilghal could touch with finger infinitely small, infinitely precise, to grasp one of the nano-destroyers and send it careening out of the dying body.
pg.302-303: The task was incomprehensibly large. The poison had spread and replicated, scattering itself through the billions and billions of cells in Mon Mothma's body. Cilghal would have to search and remove every one of them.
pg.310: The Gorgon's computer banks held all the information Daala had pulled from the Maw Installation's classified computer banks. The weapons designs and new concepts alone would help the Empire win the next phase of the war.