Allegiance: Star Wars Legends Audiobook
Allegiance: Star Wars Legends Audiobook
- Marc Thompson
- Random House (Audio)
- 2013-06-11
- 12 h 47 min
Summary:
Never before gets the incendiary mixture of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn’s brand, been mmore evident that with this new Star Wars epic. Around the heels of the beautiful events chronicled in Star Wars: A FRESH Hope, the newly minted heroes of the Rebellion-fledgling Jedi Luke Skywalker, smuggler changed reluctant freedom-fighter Han Single, and Princess Leia Organa, a strong leader with a world to avenge-must encounter the harsh realities of the cataclysmic discord into which they about Allegiance: Celebrity Wars Legends possess therefore bravely plunged. Out of this stage ahead, legends will grow, treachery will abound, and lives will end up being irrevocably modified, in the lengthy, hard combat to counter-top the fist of tyranny and restore desire to a galaxy too much time in darkness.
The destruction of the Loss of life Star with the Rebel Alliance was a decisive blow against the Empire, but Palpatine and his monstrous enforcer, Darth Vader, are no less of a threat. The brutal extermination of Alderaan not only proven the magnitude of their murderous power, but served like a chilling testament with their take care of to crush the Rebel uprising. Standing up against them, Skywalker, Single, as well as the Princess stay uncertain opponents. Luke can be gifted and brave, but unschooled in the energy he possesses. Han has doubts about waging someone else’s war-and his contentiousness is normally one more burden for Leia to bear as she problems to keep the Rebellion alive. The three have been sent to mediate a dispute between Rebel Alliance factions in Shelsha Sector-agitating matters by forcing Han to deal not merely with pirates, but along with his even more dreaded enemy, politics. At the same time, Mara Jade-all of eighteen and years from her fateful ending up in Luke-is providing her evil master, Palpatine, well in her role as the Emperor’s Hand: tracking suspected treachery in the Empire from what may be high places-while attempting to stay out of Darth Vader’s method.
However the Rebels will prove to be only one of the Empire’s problems. For Imperial Stormtrooper Daric LaRone, his faith in the Empire shaken from the wanton destruction of Alderaan, will commit a sudden and violent take action of defiance, and take four other enforcers with him, within a desperate bid to elude their masters’ wrath.
Each of these fateful actions, whether sanctioned, secret, or scandalous, will expose brutality and problem, spur upheavals destined to tremble the Empire to its primary, and form momentous events yet to come.