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Synopsis:
Twenty years have passed
since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith,
demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side
and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to
wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one
apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the
Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane’s acolyte,
Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat
and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that
the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with
him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark
Lord that will assure the Sith’s immortality–and his
own.
A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is
assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving
Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a
fact-finding mission–while he himself sets out in
secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu
and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She
knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her,
and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to
her future. If she is going to claim the power she
craves, she must take action now.
While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical
Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall
by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi
cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way
and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from
Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.
But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power
to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal
family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith
soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when
she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a
merciless assassin to find her tormentor–and bring him
back alive to taste her wrath.
Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become
Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes,
Zannah must find him–possibly even rescue him–before
she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the
grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of
catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost,
where the future of the dark side’s most powerful
disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the
final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.
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