Book description
Before the start of the Clone Wars, the future Emperor was already
maneuvering to destroy the Jedi. This is the tale of the doomed
Outbound Flight Project, which began as a new hope for the
galaxy...and ended in despair. A grand Jedi adventure by one of the
most popular Star Wars authors.
Before the Clone Wars began, a group of Jedi led by Master Jorus
C'baoth lobbied the Republic Senate to fund a project to search for
and contact intelligent life outside the known galaxy. Six Jedi
Masters, 12 Jedi Knights, and 50,000 additional support personnel
boarded an incredible starship and left on their adventure...only to
disappear without a trace. This was the Jedi's first encounter with
the aliens called the Chiss, and the New Republic's future archenemy,
Thrawn. But until Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara headed out for the
Unknown Regions in Survivor's Quest, the fate of the Outbound Flight
Project remained an enigma.
This is the story of those Jedi Masters and Knights, their heroic
quest, and their mysterious end.
Timothy Zahn has been writing science fiction since 1975 and sold his
first story to Analog in 1978. Since then Zahn has published nearly
seventy short stories and novelettes, nineteen novels, and three short
fiction collections. Along the way he has won a Hugo Award (for the
novella
Cascade Point
in 1984) and has been nominated twice more. He is best known for his
five Star Wars books (
Heir to the Empire
,
Dark Force Rising
,
The Last Command
,
Specter of the Past
, and
Vision of the Future
). His most recent publication is
Dragon and Thief
, the first book of a six-part young-adult Dragonback SF series. He has
a B. S. in physics from Michigan State University, and a M. S. in
physics from the University of Illinois. He lives with his family on the
Oregon coast.
