Star by Star

The New Jedi Order:; Star by Star
Attribution
Author(s)	Troy Denning
Cover artist	Cliff Nielsen
Publication information
Publisher	Del Rey
Release date	October 30, 2001
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	624
ISBN	034542848X
Chronology
Canon	C
Era	New Jedi Order era
Timeline	27 ABY
Series	The New Jedi Order
Preceded by	Emissary of the Void
Followed by	Dark Journey

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Star by Star, part of the New Jedi Order series, is a novel by Troy Denning, published by Del Rey in 2001. The paperback version includes the short story Recovery, previously available in eBook format only, as well as a preview of Destiny's Way. Narration for the audio version was performed by Alexander Adams.

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[edit] American

ISBN 034542848X; October 30, 2001, Del Rey, 624-page hardcover
ISBN 0375419357; October 30, 2001, Random House Audio, Abridged cassette
ISBN 0345428676; October 3, 2002, Del Rey, 605-page paperback

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ISBN 185686605X; October 31, 2001, Gardners Books, UK abridged cassette
ISBN 0099410389; October 3, 2002, Arrow Publishing, 560-page UK paperback
ISBN 2258053404; October 3, 2002, Presses de la Cité, French paperback (Le nouvel ordre Jedi: Étoile après étoile)

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[edit] Back cover

In the shadows of the treacherous enemy, the Jedi Knights reach their darkest hour…

[edit] Inside flap

The New York Times bestselling Star Wars series The New Jedi Order enthralls readers with its epic drama and thrilling adventure. Now readers will pierce the very heart of darkness, as those fascinating figures in that galaxy far, far away—Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, as well as their children—spring to vivid life to battle their deadliest adversaries.

It is a solemn time for the New Republic, as the merciless Yuuzhan Vong continue their ruthless campaign of terror and destruction. The brutal enemy has unleashed a savage creature capable of finding—and killing—Jedi Knights. And now Leia Organa Solo faces a terrible ultimatum from the mighty alien foe determines to conquer the galaxy. If the location of the secret Jedi base is not revealed within one week, the Yuuzhan Vong will blast millions of refugee ships into oblivion.

As the battered but still unbroken Jedi scramble to deal with the newest onslaught, Leia's son Anakin lays out a daring plan. A Jedi strike force will allow itself to be "captured" by the Yuuzhan Vong and taken to their stronghold in the realm of darkness, where the Jedi will sabotage the evil empire's deadliest weapons. The leaders of the force are the three Solo siblings. The risks are tremendous. Can the Jedi fight a ruthless enemy without becoming ruthless themselves and falling victim to the dark side?

[edit] Paperback

It is a solemn time for the New Republic, as the merciless Yuuzhan Vong continue their campaign of destruction. The brutal enemy has unleashed a savage creature capable of finding—and killing—Jedi Knights. Now Leia Organa Solo faces a terrible ultimatum. If the location of the secret Jedi base is not revealed within one week, the Yuuzhan Vong will blast millions of refugee ships into oblivion.

As the battered but still unbroken Jedi scramble to deal with the newest onslaught, Leia's son Anakin lays out a daring plan. He will lead a Jedi strike force into the heart of enemy territory in order to sabotage the Yuuzhan Vong's deadliest weapons. There, with his brother and sister at his side, he will come face-to-face with his destiny—as the New Republic, still fighting the good fight, will come face-to-face with theirs…

[edit] Plot

Jedi sisters Alema and Numa Rar are attacked by the Yuuzhan Vong`s newest creation, the voxyn, which can can hunt down Jedi through their Force presences. Numa is killed by the voxyn, but Alema escapes with her corpse.

The New Republic actually begin to gain victories in Vong battles on planets outside of Coruscant`s solar system, and Lando Calrissian creates Yuuzhan Vong Hunter battle droids that are designed to look similar to Vong warriors to mock them, and they come equipped with weapons powerful enough to destroy the Vong`s vonduun crab armor. Meanwhile, the Jedi learn of this new voxyn threat and they figure out that the voxyn are coming from a Vong worldship on Myrkr. In order to stop it, Luke Skywalker decides to send a Jedi strike team to the worldship at Myrkr and Lando gives the strike team two Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids for assistance. The members include Jaina, Jacen and Anakin Solo, the latter the leader of the whole strike team, and they are accompanied by Alema, Lowbacca, Tenel Ka Djo, Tahiri Veila, Ganner Rhysode and a few others. But during the mission, several of the Jedi are killed, including the YVH droids, and after saving a group of Dark Jedi on the worldship, the evil Jedi leave the remnants of the strike team. Anakin is killed by Vong forces, and Jacen, replacing Anakin as leader, orders the remnants of the strike team to steal one of the Vong's coralskippers and escape the worldship while he kills the voxyn queen, who is being cloned several times to produce the voxyn. Jacen confronts the queen and kills it. However, he is caaptured by Nom Anor and Vergere.

On Coruscant, Viqi Shesh, traitor of the New Republic to the Yuuzhan Vong, fails to kidnap Ben Skywalker. The Yuuzhan Vong invasion on the city planet begins. During this, Viqi is chased down by Leia Organa Solo for her failed attempt at kidnapping Ben, but Viqi nevertheless escapes and regroups with the Vong. Luke and Mara get shot down during the Battle of Coruscant and are almost killed had it not been for the Millennium Falcon saving them. And Borsk Fey'lya meets his end when Vong forces raid the Imperial Palace and he blows himself up and twenty five thousand other Yuuzhan Vong in a proton bomb blast.

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[edit] Weapons and technology

Airsplint (First appearance)
Bacta numb (First appearance)
Baradium missile (First appearance)
Boarding harpoon (First appearance)
Flimsiplast
Jedi shadow bomb (First appearance)
Lasicutter
Proton bomb

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Full cover art	Hardcover	Abridged cassette (Random House)	Abridged cassette (Garders)
Paperback	French hardcover - Étoile après Étoile	German - Das Ultimatum	Japanese Predator cover
Japanese Fallen cover	Polish - Gwiazda po Gwieździe

[edit] Behind the scenes

Anakin Solo and Borsk Fey'lya become the first major Expanded Universe characters to die in the New Jedi Order series. These two deaths caused a great deal of controversy, though not nearly on the scale of Vector Prime.
Kyle Katarn was originally slated to be killed off, but this scene was removed at the last minute in order to leave LucasArts free to do what they wanted with him in the next game in the Jedi Knight series they had just announced.
Many fans were very upset that the audio book for Star by Star was so abridged. Major events such as the Fall of Coruscant were not even mentioned.
In an interview published in The Unifying Force, Shelly Shapiro, the Editorial Director of Del Rey, expressed some regret over the timing of the novel, with the Fall of Coruscant coming so soon after the September 11 attacks.
Borsk Fey'lya's death was marked as part of Star Wars Insider's "20 Most Memorable Moments of the Expanded Universe."

[edit] External links

Cargo Bay entry
Star By Star Announced on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
First Look: Star by Star on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Be the First to Read Star By Star on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Contest Winners & Recovery Covered on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Star by Star Reviews on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Hunting Jedi -- Star by Star Excerpt on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)

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