New Jedi Order 12: Enemy Lines 2: Rebel Stand
	Aaron Allston
	2002
	27 Years After The Battle of Yavin
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On Coruscant, the Rebel Special Forces group led by Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade, along with Face Loran, Tahiri, Danni Quee and others, disguised as Yuuzhan Vong, continue their exploration of the former Republic capital .  While exploring a building, they a run across a Yuuzhan Vong patrol and the groups begin to fight.  Realizing they are outmanned, the rebels use an explosive charge to destroy the walkway and are able to successfully kill or avoid the rest of the group.

A tall powerful man stares at a large black wall.  He uses his mind to push thoughts into a skinny man's head.  The skinny man, his slave, heads out to retrieve items that will break through this wall.

Harrar, priest of the Trickster goddess, along with Charat Kraal continue the search for Jaina Solo.

After fleeing from a group of humans, Luke and Mara return without their disguises to meet with the group who turn out to be a group of holdouts that have been surviving on the planet.  One man stands up and says he's seen Lord Nyax, an old wives tales from Corellian ancient times, but the others scoff at them.  He tells them that when he was near the old government center he saw a man wielding a laser sword and destroying a whole group of Vong.  Luke and Mara had earlier felt a Force twinge in that area themselves and they decide to investigate.

Jaina Solo is awoken and she runs into Jagged Fel and a few other Twin Son pilots.  The Yuuzhan Vong are attacking!  She realizes that this is probably another in ploy in attempts to kidnap her.

Above the planet, Harrar searches for the location of a hidden lambent crystal he believes the New Republic is using to create a super weapon as well as to find Jaina's location.  After seeing Jaina destroy a Vong ship using exceptional deception, he begins to wonder if she is the actually the Trickster goddess herself.

The small man returns with a device to cut through the wall, but it fails and he is killed by the tall man using a Force push.  The tall man's search continues.

Warmaster Tsavong Lah meets with one of the shapers to discuss the fate of his disfigured arm.  The news is not good and Lah says he will sacrifice himself before becoming a shamed one.  Knowing that it is quite possible the shapers are working against him, he sets in motion a ploy to reveal their true plan.  Nen Yim, the shaper, comes to tend to Lah's arm, and tells him that indeed it appears that the shapers are traitors.  One of Lah's aids returns and tells him that he has set a creature upon the traitor that will cause pain and assist in catching the others.

The tall man now has several men and women helping him get through the impenetrable wall.  After a minor success, a woman suggests using a tall robot to bash through the wall and he sends her out immediately.

Yim tells Lah that if he stops the shaper's treatment for his arm it will get better on its own, but since he doesn't want to give away that he knows of the conspiracy, he asks her to shape a material that will counteract it so he can continue the treatments.  He also sends for Viqi Shesh and congratulates her on being correct about the conspirators, which of course surprises her since she had only done it as a ruse to buy time to escape.  He sends her on a mission to Coruscant to find the Jedi that have been suspected of killing several Vong warriors there.