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Synopsis:
An evil crime family controls the fate of a planet. Only one witness can bring them down, someone from the inside. In order to make it off the planet to testify, she's going to need the protection of the Jedi.
Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi take the assigment, thinking it will be easy. But nothing is ever easy when cime is concerned, and soon the two Jedi are entangled in a violent web of power, corruption, and lies. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan know their allegiance is to the witness. But can she be trusted?

Chronology:
This story occurs approximately 8 years before the events of The Phantom Menace (40 years before the Battle of Yavin).

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