Anderson sets up a big confrontation between Luke’s spirit and that of Exar Kun, the 4000-year old Sith Lord from his comic series Tales of the Jedi. Luke spends much of this novel in a comatose state while his spirit mystically wanders free. Both are a long step down from Grand Admiral Thrawn. The other key Imperial character, Ambassador Furgan from the Imperial training world Carida, is similarly depicted. Admiral Daala continually praises her own abilities and chuckles diabolically at the havoc she is about to unleash on the New Republic, but her tactics are weak and her plans fail time after time. The Imperials of this story are sadly incompetent. Anderson asks the reader to accept it took a 100+ kilometer wide sphere to support a laser that could destroy a planet, but this tiny fighter-sized craft carries the power to cause supernovas. However, the Sun Crusher concept goes beyond the pale. It’s not that hard to swallow the existence of a prototype Death Star, although the idea feels a trifle overused after seeing them in A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. The Bantam Spectra era of Star Wars novels was noted for the authors’ predilection to invent “superweapons-of-the-week.” True to form, this trilogy contains not one but two in the form of a prototype (but fully functional) Death Star and the even more powerful Sun Crusher.
One battle in particular, the assault on the Imperial facility in the Maw, almost stretches the entire length of the story.
The 300-some pages of this book are essentially one extended climax to the trilogy. It continues much in the vein of the first two novels: a somewhat promising and engaging storyline is dragged down by pedestrian writing and some very hokey scenes.
Buy this Star Wars Book in paper or electronic copy*Ģ/5 Rancors – Champions of the Force is the final book in Kevin J.
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