New Jedi Order 11: Enemy Lines 1: Rebel Dream
	Aaron Allston
	2002
	27 Years After The Battle of Yavin
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Coruscant has fallen to the Yuuzhan Vong only a few weeks earlier.  Above the planet Borleias, several Vong ships see a New Republic fleet jumping out of hyperspace.  The New Republic ships began launching x-wings at the command of Wedge Antilles on board the flagship Star Destroyer Mon Mothma.  Luke is leading the attack with remnants for ships now leftover from squadrons lost on Coruscant. As Luke, Mara Jade, and Corran Horn engage the coralskippers, they realize that they're heading back towards Mon Mothma.  Instead of pursuing they allow the mother ship to finish the fight.  After successfully fighting off the next batch of skips they head towards the landing zone. 

On the surface, Lando Calrissian leads his droid troops into the battle, each with a message taunting the Vong.  The Vong unleash a new huge creature into the battle.  Luke and the others try to distract the beast from the transport as the human troops enter the battle.  Lando encounters some engineers who use their explosives to kill the beast.

Wedge visits the surface and surveys what's left of the New Republic facility.  He finds a suitable location and gives instructions to make the landing zone and set parameters around it.

Wedge, whose family is still missing after Coruscant, gathers many of the main generals and commanders together to discuss their next plan.  Wedge divvies up duties to many of the people gathered there.  Danni Quee is in charge of Vong technology.  Luke is in charge of Special Forces and Mara is placed in charge of intelligence.  They hope to restart the biotech lab on the planet as well as give the New Republic fleet time to regroup.

Viqi Shesh has been arrested and taken before Tsavong Lah.  She is to be executed, and then tossed into a pit where creatures will devour her entire body.  Viqi tries to continue her usefulness and avoid termination by giving Lah information that he is being betrayed by the shapers.  Lah's hand is being rejected by his body, so she uses this as proof the shapers are working against him.  The story is only a guess on her part, but Lah decides to investigate her claims.

Wedge is awoken by a transmission coming from a group of ships claiming to be the New Republic Advisory Council.  One member of the Council, Senator Pwoe, has now been promoted to Chief of State.  He is no friend to the Jedi.  He gives new military orders that Wedge is to hold Borleias until the New Republic regroups and can use it as a base to retake Coruscant.  Wedge politely declines and reels off a list of demands that must be met in order for him to obey the orders.  The Council says this could be treason, but Wedge will not bend.  Mara explains to Luke that the council is lying to them and Wedge is trying to get as much backup and support as he possibly can so when they are eventually cut off by this new council they will be able to continue to survive and fight.  The council reluctantly agrees to terms and leaves.  Wedge again meets with his top officials as they now that they realize that the New Republic has given up on any hope of winning the war.  Wedge proposes that they form a new Rebel Alliance.  Only those that they'd be willing to give their life for should be admitted into this new secret alliance.  While the New Republic hits large Vong targets, the rebels will go after weaker targets and try to crumble them from the outside.  He hopes to use special tactics to trick the Vong for later victories.

Luke Skywalker contemplates the fact that it's taken twenty five years to build up a family.  Now Anakin is dead, Jacen missing, and Jaina is on a path that can lead to the Dark Side.  Han and Leia are trying to set up a network for the Jedi and find their missing children.  He has a vision of a cave and of a dark presence that is near him.  He follows this dark presence into what was once a city and is now covered in algae.  Fruit forms on the trees and then drops to the ground in the form of beings that are entrenched in the Dark Side.  He is awakened by Ben and Mara and he tells her that there's a Dark Side power growing on Coruscant.