Within this epic of unsurpassed action and imagination, Michael Stackpole really helps to launch an exciting new era in Star Wars history. Onslaught pits the battle-tested heroes of the past-Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa Solo-along with another generation of Jedi and droids, against fearsome never-before-encountered foes from beyond the galactic rim .

It is a perilous time for the brand new Republic. Simply when unity is necessary most, mistrust can be on the rise. Also the Jedi feel any risk of strain, as about Superstar Wars: The New Jedi Purchase: Dark Tide 1: Onslaught rogue components rebel against Luke’s management. When alien invaders referred to as the Yunnan Vong hit without warning, the New Republic is definitely thrown for the protective. Merciless warriors, the Yunnan Vong glory in torture. Their technology is as strange as it is definitely deadly. Most ominous of all, they are impervious towards the Force.

Right now Luke must wield all of the awesome powers of a Jedi Grasp to defeat the gravest threat since Darth Vader. As Leia and Gavin Darklighter lead desperate refugees in a fighting retreat from Yunnan Vong pushes, Mara Jade, Anakin, Jacen, and Corran Horn find themselves tested as never before by a faceless, implacable foe established to smother the light of the brand new Republic forever beneath a shroud of darkest bad . . .