The Rebels took the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer disease called Krytos can be spreading among the populace, and fomenting a counter-revolution, at the same time as the treason trial of Rebel hero Tycho Celchu. And X-wing pilot Corran Horn, abandoned for inactive in “Iceheart”‘s inescapable jail, discovers an extraordinary power in himself–the power of the Force!