DARK APPRENTICE

(Paperback)

pg.37: Standing in the corridor, Lando saw the Wookiee as a tangle of brown fur wedged between the emergency power generator, the acceleration compensator, and the anticoncussion field generator. Millennium Falcon systems

pg.50: In front of the bridge viewport, brilliant gasses illuminated by a knot of blue-giant stars turned the Cauldron Nebula into a spectacular light show. Beside her in parking formation hung the Basilisk and Manticore. The ionized gasses played havok with ships' sensors, making the nebula a perfect hiding place for her three fully armed battleships.

pg.61: "I believe that the cargo hold of a Corellian Corvette routinely carries provisions for up to a year without restocking."

pg.70: The image of Master Vodo-Siosk Baas hung his beaklike head on a jointed elbow of a neck, as if in contemplation. Luke knew that the Holocron was simply uploadig and sifting through reams of data, choosing an appropriate story through a personality alogrithm stored with the Jedi Master's image.

pg.84-85: The cruel xenosurgeons had replaced the missing areas of Terpfen's brain with specially grown organic circuits that mimicked the size, shape, and composition of the removed tissue. The organic circuits were perfectly camouflaged and could resist the most penetrating medical scan, but they made him a helpless cyborg, a perfect spy and saboteur who could not think for himself when the Imperials wanted him to think their thoughts. Med Tech: Organic Circuitry

pg.98: Not only had Gantoris built his own lightsaber, but he had constructed a blade with multiple jewels, allowing him to adjust the amplitude of his blade.

pg.100: Grasping with invisible hands, he yanked the lightsaber handle out of Gantoris's grip and used his skill to push the button that deactivated the blade.

pg.102: Through the simmering haze of a security field deep within the steelcrete mazes of Coruscant, Kyp Durron looked at the thorn shape of the Sun Crusher. Tech: Security Field

pg.107: "A gas giant planet would be sufficient. The pressures at the core are far beyond what even our most sophisticated vessels can withstand." Discussion on how best to dispose of the Sun Crusher.

pg.114: The AT-ATs covered more distance with each step than a human could run in half a minute. The walkers took aim at the fleeing colonists, striking each individual with enough firepower to destroy a small fighter ship.

pg.114: Before she could say another word, a blinding lance of turbolaser fire exploded full in her chest, and Warton watched in utter horror as Glena vanished in a blazing, sizzling cloud of red steam. AT-AT blaster fire vs a human

pg.115: The New Republic engineers powered up the ion cannon and focused a single blast toward the lower section of the closest Imperial walker. The bolt struck and fused the knee joint of the AT-AT's front foreleg, melting the sevomotor mechanisms. Ion cannon doing physical damage

pg.133: He sealed the message inside a coffin-sized hyperspace courier tube and shielded the entire apparatus.

pg.198: Ackbar powered up the Startide's hyperdrive reactors and shut off the automatic coolant systems.

pg.199: Ackbar released the last safety mechanism that held the unshielded hyperdrive reactor in check. The superheated energy furnace would reach its flash point within seconds.

pg.200: The Calamarian battleship struck the underbelly of the Manticore. Just before impact, though, the Startide went nova, erupting into blinding waves of energy that tore the Manticore apart.

pg.232: As they stepped through the portal, holograms flared, surrounding them with a turbulent oceanscape, a jagged reef thrusting out from white foamy waters. Coruscant Holographic Zoo

pg.233: But they had already entered the second chamber to be surrounded by the illusion of a desert planet. Waves of invisible heat rippled from a scabbed, dried clay surface.

pg.236: "I can't see anything through these holograms," Threepio said.

pg.237-238: Jacen and Jania came upon a half-collapsed wall that had once contained a computer screen. The terminal lay tilted on its side with the screen smashed inward, leaving broken teeth of transparisteel. But the twins recognized it as a data unit similar to the ones inside their own quarters.
Jacen stood in front of the broken panel and put his small hands on his hips, trying to look like his father. He addressed the computer screen-and he knew exactly what to say, after having heard the bedtime story many times before. "We are lost," he said. "Please help us find our home."
Tech: Voice activated computer

pg.245: Beside the Gorgon in a companion flightpath rode the Basilisk. Together, they fired volleys of turbolasers into the oceans, incinerating submerged Calamarian structures. In moments they would cross the terminator line between day and night, where they could fire down upon two more of the massive floating cities. They would vaporize the structures, sending all the inhabitants to a watery death.

pg.287: Now every chamber was empty, white-tiled walls with strategically mounted hologram generators at the vertices of the room. Tech details of the Coruscant Holographic Zoo

pg.288: Threepio instantly counted eighteen humans, all wearing blaster-proof armor. Tech: Blaster-PROOF armor

pg.303: "As we approach in-system, the Basilisk's small volunteer crew will begin a self-destruct countdown. The Gorgon will run interference until we reach our target, at which time we will turn aside. At full speed the Basilisk will plunge into the atmosphere of Coruscant. It will be unstoppable."
"When the Basilisk detonates..." Daala said. She paused as the planetary image flashed with a brilliant ring of fire that sent ripples igniting through the atmosphere. All the lights on the night side of the planet went dark. Cracks of fire appeared across the land masses.
"The explosion will be sufficient to level the buildings on half a continent. The shock wave traveling through the planetary core could topple cities on the other side of the world. The underground resevoirs will break open. Tidal waves will cause damage along the coasts. For the price of one Star Destroyer, we can lay waste to Coruscant."
Daala's idiotic plan, which strangely omits Coruscant's planetary shield.

pg.311: Luke was suddenly jarred out of the story, remembering that the gatekeeper images in the Holocron were interactive simulacra with personalities imprinted upon them-not the real spirits of long dead Jedi Masters.

pg.315: On the floor Jacen and Jania played impatiently with shiny self-aware toys that kept trying to run away from the children's grasping hands.

pg.318: "Just let me tinker with the food processing units, Han. Please? I've memorized some programming from the finest Cloud City casinos, and I can generate recipes that would make Mara Jade float with pleasure."
"No." Han scanned the chronometer that counted down how much time remained on the journey back to Coruscant. "I like the food processors the way they are."
Tech: Food Processors abord the Falcon

pg.321: His fingers clamped down harder on her forehead, on her face. Her skull seemed ready to shatter. Waves of pain plunged through her brain like the claws of a nightmare monster. She felt the sharp points of metal talons scraping through her mind, digging, prying up, and ripping out memories and scientific knowledge she had accumulated over the course of many years. Kyp Durron's attack on Qwi Xux

pg.333: Kyp had already struck his first blow by erasing dangerous knowledge from the Imperial scientist, Qwi Xux. Only Qwi had known how to build another Sun Crusher—but Kyp, using his bare hands and newfound power, had torn that knowledge from her brain and scattered it to nothingness. No one could ever find it again.

pg.333: Misty and pale, the gas giant swirled with tremendous storm systems large enough to swallow smaller worlds. Yavin description

pg.340: Near the center of the Cauldron Nebula, the two surviving Star Destroyers hung poised and ready to launch their attack on Coruscant.

pg.341: "Yes Admiral. We have reconfigured all weapons systems to increase power to our shields."

pg.342: The Sun Crusher's sensor panels became useless in the ionized discharge from the knot of blue-giant stars that illuminated the Cauldron Nebula.
He piloted the Sun Crusher toward the bloated super-giants at the heart of the nebula.

pg.343: Kyp increased the radiation shields on the Sun Crusher and approached the mammoth blue-giant stars, seething in their ocean of star material.
A screen popped up, displaying a diagram of closely orbiting spheres. Seven enormous stars crowded in the middle of the nebula, circling in complex orbits as they stole gas from each other. Their intense radiation shone through the scattered hydrogen, oxygen, and neon clouds.
Kyp's face was a grim mask as he flicked a row of red activator switches. He knew exactly how the Sun Crusher worked; he had stolen those memories from Qwi Xux.

pg.344: The resonance torpedoes that triggered stellar explosions were dense packets of energy, programmed and modulated to make the core of a star unstable.The torpedoes could initiate a collapse and rebound of the outer layers of star material, unleashing a tremendously violent explosion that would rip a star apart.
The energy torpedoes streaked out, plunging into the boiling surfaces of the giant stars.
But it would take hours for the torpedoes to tunnel to the stellar cores and set up the chain reaction.
The Sun Crusher was so small that few sensor systems could detect it, especially within the electromatic chaos of the Cauldron Nebula.

pg.345: Kyp slapped at the Sun Crusher's weapon-control systems, powering up the defensive laser cannons mounted at sharp angles on the weapon. The New Republic's engineers FIXED the laser cannons on a ship they wanted destroyed?????

pg.347: "Bring the Star Destroyers about," she said. "Lock a tractor beam on the Sun Crusher next time it passes."
"The Sun Crusher's pilot is maneuvering at speeds much too high for us to be certain of a firm lock," Kratas said.
Daala glared at him. "Does that mean you're unable to try?"
"No, Admiral."

pg.348: "Full about!" she shouted. "One hundred eighty degrees, maximum speed. Get out of the nebula now!"
Kratas scrambled to the navigation station himself. The Gorgon lurched as the sublight engines kicked in, spinning the enormous Star Destroyer about.

pg.349: The sublight engines powered up, blasting as they lumbered away from the center of the nebula, picking up speed.

pg.37: Standing in the corridor, Lando saw the Wookiee as a tangle of brown fur wedged between the emergency power generator, the acceleration compensator, and the anticoncussion field generator.	Millennium Falcon systems
pg.50: In front of the bridge viewport, brilliant gasses illuminated by a knot of blue-giant stars turned the Cauldron Nebula into a spectacular light show. Beside her in parking formation hung the Basilisk and Manticore. The ionized gasses played havok with ships' sensors, making the nebula a perfect hiding place for her three fully armed battleships.
pg.61: "I believe that the cargo hold of a Corellian Corvette routinely carries provisions for up to a year without restocking."
pg.70: The image of Master Vodo-Siosk Baas hung his beaklike head on a jointed elbow of a neck, as if in contemplation. Luke knew that the Holocron was simply uploadig and sifting through reams of data, choosing an appropriate story through a personality alogrithm stored with the Jedi Master's image.
pg.84-85: The cruel xenosurgeons had replaced the missing areas of Terpfen's brain with specially grown organic circuits that mimicked the size, shape, and composition of the removed tissue. The organic circuits were perfectly camouflaged and could resist the most penetrating medical scan, but they made him a helpless cyborg, a perfect spy and saboteur who could not think for himself when the Imperials wanted him to think their thoughts.	Med Tech: Organic Circuitry
pg.98: Not only had Gantoris built his own lightsaber, but he had constructed a blade with multiple jewels, allowing him to adjust the amplitude of his blade.
pg.100: Grasping with invisible hands, he yanked the lightsaber handle out of Gantoris's grip and used his skill to push the button that deactivated the blade.
pg.102: Through the simmering haze of a security field deep within the steelcrete mazes of Coruscant, Kyp Durron looked at the thorn shape of the Sun Crusher.	Tech: Security Field
pg.107: "A gas giant planet would be sufficient. The pressures at the core are far beyond what even our most sophisticated vessels can withstand."	Discussion on how best to dispose of the Sun Crusher.
pg.114: The AT-ATs covered more distance with each step than a human could run in half a minute. The walkers took aim at the fleeing colonists, striking each individual with enough firepower to destroy a small fighter ship.
pg.114: Before she could say another word, a blinding lance of turbolaser fire exploded full in her chest, and Warton watched in utter horror as Glena vanished in a blazing, sizzling cloud of red steam.	AT-AT blaster fire vs a human
pg.115: The New Republic engineers powered up the ion cannon and focused a single blast toward the lower section of the closest Imperial walker. The bolt struck and fused the knee joint of the AT-AT's front foreleg, melting the sevomotor mechanisms.	Ion cannon doing physical damage
pg.133: He sealed the message inside a coffin-sized hyperspace courier tube and shielded the entire apparatus.
pg.198: Ackbar powered up the Startide's hyperdrive reactors and shut off the automatic coolant systems.
pg.199: Ackbar released the last safety mechanism that held the unshielded hyperdrive reactor in check. The superheated energy furnace would reach its flash point within seconds.
pg.200: The Calamarian battleship struck the underbelly of the Manticore. Just before impact, though, the Startide went nova, erupting into blinding waves of energy that tore the Manticore apart.
pg.232: As they stepped through the portal, holograms flared, surrounding them with a turbulent oceanscape, a jagged reef thrusting out from white foamy waters.	Coruscant Holographic Zoo
pg.233: But they had already entered the second chamber to be surrounded by the illusion of a desert planet. Waves of invisible heat rippled from a scabbed, dried clay surface.
pg.236: "I can't see anything through these holograms," Threepio said.
pg.237-238: Jacen and Jania came upon a half-collapsed wall that had once contained a computer screen. The terminal lay tilted on its side with the screen smashed inward, leaving broken teeth of transparisteel. But the twins recognized it as a data unit similar to the ones inside their own quarters. Jacen stood in front of the broken panel and put his small hands on his hips, trying to look like his father. He addressed the computer screen-and he knew exactly what to say, after having heard the bedtime story many times before. "We are lost," he said. "Please help us find our home."	Tech: Voice activated computer
pg.245: Beside the Gorgon in a companion flightpath rode the Basilisk. Together, they fired volleys of turbolasers into the oceans, incinerating submerged Calamarian structures. In moments they would cross the terminator line between day and night, where they could fire down upon two more of the massive floating cities. They would vaporize the structures, sending all the inhabitants to a watery death.
pg.287: Now every chamber was empty, white-tiled walls with strategically mounted hologram generators at the vertices of the room.	Tech details of the Coruscant Holographic Zoo
pg.288: Threepio instantly counted eighteen humans, all wearing blaster-proof armor.	Tech: Blaster-PROOF armor
pg.303: "As we approach in-system, the Basilisk's small volunteer crew will begin a self-destruct countdown. The Gorgon will run interference until we reach our target, at which time we will turn aside. At full speed the Basilisk will plunge into the atmosphere of Coruscant. It will be unstoppable." "When the Basilisk detonates..." Daala said. She paused as the planetary image flashed with a brilliant ring of fire that sent ripples igniting through the atmosphere. All the lights on the night side of the planet went dark. Cracks of fire appeared across the land masses. "The explosion will be sufficient to level the buildings on half a continent. The shock wave traveling through the planetary core could topple cities on the other side of the world. The underground resevoirs will break open. Tidal waves will cause damage along the coasts. For the price of one Star Destroyer, we can lay waste to Coruscant."	Daala's idiotic plan, which strangely omits Coruscant's planetary shield.
pg.311: Luke was suddenly jarred out of the story, remembering that the gatekeeper images in the Holocron were interactive simulacra with personalities imprinted upon them-not the real spirits of long dead Jedi Masters.
pg.315: On the floor Jacen and Jania played impatiently with shiny self-aware toys that kept trying to run away from the children's grasping hands.
pg.318: "Just let me tinker with the food processing units, Han. Please? I've memorized some programming from the finest Cloud City casinos, and I can generate recipes that would make Mara Jade float with pleasure." "No." Han scanned the chronometer that counted down how much time remained on the journey back to Coruscant. "I like the food processors the way they are."	Tech: Food Processors abord the Falcon
pg.321: His fingers clamped down harder on her forehead, on her face. Her skull seemed ready to shatter. Waves of pain plunged through her brain like the claws of a nightmare monster. She felt the sharp points of metal talons scraping through her mind, digging, prying up, and ripping out memories and scientific knowledge she had accumulated over the course of many years.	Kyp Durron's attack on Qwi Xux
pg.333: Kyp had already struck his first blow by erasing dangerous knowledge from the Imperial scientist, Qwi Xux. Only Qwi had known how to build another Sun Crusher—but Kyp, using his bare hands and newfound power, had torn that knowledge from her brain and scattered it to nothingness. No one could ever find it again.
pg.333: Misty and pale, the gas giant swirled with tremendous storm systems large enough to swallow smaller worlds.	Yavin description
pg.340: Near the center of the Cauldron Nebula, the two surviving Star Destroyers hung poised and ready to launch their attack on Coruscant.
pg.341: "Yes Admiral. We have reconfigured all weapons systems to increase power to our shields."
pg.342: The Sun Crusher's sensor panels became useless in the ionized discharge from the knot of blue-giant stars that illuminated the Cauldron Nebula. He piloted the Sun Crusher toward the bloated super-giants at the heart of the nebula.
pg.343: Kyp increased the radiation shields on the Sun Crusher and approached the mammoth blue-giant stars, seething in their ocean of star material. A screen popped up, displaying a diagram of closely orbiting spheres. Seven enormous stars crowded in the middle of the nebula, circling in complex orbits as they stole gas from each other. Their intense radiation shone through the scattered hydrogen, oxygen, and neon clouds. Kyp's face was a grim mask as he flicked a row of red activator switches. He knew exactly how the Sun Crusher worked; he had stolen those memories from Qwi Xux.
pg.344: The resonance torpedoes that triggered stellar explosions were dense packets of energy, programmed and modulated to make the core of a star unstable.The torpedoes could initiate a collapse and rebound of the outer layers of star material, unleashing a tremendously violent explosion that would rip a star apart. The energy torpedoes streaked out, plunging into the boiling surfaces of the giant stars. But it would take hours for the torpedoes to tunnel to the stellar cores and set up the chain reaction. The Sun Crusher was so small that few sensor systems could detect it, especially within the electromatic chaos of the Cauldron Nebula.
pg.345: Kyp slapped at the Sun Crusher's weapon-control systems, powering up the defensive laser cannons mounted at sharp angles on the weapon.	The New Republic's engineers FIXED the laser cannons on a ship they wanted destroyed?????
pg.347: "Bring the Star Destroyers about," she said. "Lock a tractor beam on the Sun Crusher next time it passes." "The Sun Crusher's pilot is maneuvering at speeds much too high for us to be certain of a firm lock," Kratas said. Daala glared at him. "Does that mean you're unable to try?" "No, Admiral."
pg.348: "Full about!" she shouted. "One hundred eighty degrees, maximum speed. Get out of the nebula now!" Kratas scrambled to the navigation station himself. The Gorgon lurched as the sublight engines kicked in, spinning the enormous Star Destroyer about.
pg.349: The sublight engines powered up, blasting as they lumbered away from the center of the nebula, picking up speed.