New Jedi Order 19: The Unifying Force
	James Luceno
	2003
	30 Years After The Battle of Yavin
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Held in a prisoner camp on the world of Selvaris, Pash Cracken and Judder Page have taken to looking after their fellow captives. A Ryn worker from a nearby village brings the prisoners food, along with a hidden holowafer that contains a complex mathematical equation for Galactic Alliance Command.

Three Bith prisoners, along with a Jenet, memorize the equation that instant it is displayed, before the wafer self-destructs. The four escape through a tunnel that the prisoners built over a long period of time and take off on hidden speeders, with Yuuzhan Vong guards in close pursuit.

Han and Leia, sent to retrieve the prisoners, make a daring rescue, while being chased across the planet by Yuuzhan Vong warriors. After the surviving Jenet is on board the Falcon, they quickly leave. Malik Carr, commander of the Selvaris prison, is furious and as punishment, puts the surviving prisoners into the local droid immolation pit, leaving them under the harsh Selvaris sun for a few afternoons.

Over at Alliance Command, the message is decrypted with startling results: the Yuuzhan Vong are planning a massive sacrifice of all the prisoners on Coruscant.

On the surface of Yuuzhan'tar, Supreme Overlord Shimrra chastises the throngs watching him for their doubts in his leadership and for them not giving enough to win the war.  Warmaster Nas Choka is present and prepared to take on his new responsibilities.  Shimrra introduces four seers that will help determine if his decisions are correct.  He also brings out a hybrid group of warriors priests called slayers.  In a challenge put forth by those disgusted at their design, Shimrra has two slayers dismantle eleven standard warriors.  He also shows they are impervious to lightsaber attacks.  He tells some that the time of gods has past and Shimrra is the present.

Luke, Mara, Corran, Saba, Jacen are waiting on Zonama Sekot.  Since its attack by Nom Anor the planet has undergone terrible changes.  Its hyperspace jump landed it too close to a sun and forest fires have ravaged much of the planet and it's been raining for weeks.  Sekot tells them Zonama will recover soon, but is now having second thoughts about entering the war.  Danni Quee appears and tells the others that Harrar is alive and is with Tahiri and Tekli.

Several Galactic Alliance squadrons are on a rescue mission to intercept the Peace Brigade ships that have many prisoners of war.  Alliance spies have disabled the hyperdrives on several ships, and filling one POW ship with coma gas.  Han and Leia along with several troops enter the ship and run into an Alliance spy that tells them the prisoners were offloaded onto a Vong ship.  They find a way to the connector between the two ships walk into the middle of a battle.  After gaining the upper hand in the battle they free the prisoners.  Unfortunately Vong reinforcements appear from hyperspace.

Outside the ship, Jaina notices that many of the coralskippers appearing are unlike anything she's ever seen including having the ability to jump from hyperspace on their own.  These new ships run through all the Alliance ships destroying many of them.  The Millennium Falcon is taking much of the abuse and Jaina begins to fear for its survival.  Han and Leia both know the situation is dire, and at the last second the jump to light speed.  Several of the new coralskippers jump right after them.  Jaina knows there's little she can do to help her parents at this point, so they fall back to protect the freighters and go back to the rendezvous point.

Harrar tells Luke Shimrra’s story.  His predecessor, Quoreal, revealed the discovery of a living world that foretold the end of the Vong species.  Shimrra seized on the chance to overthrow Quoreal and united the Vong by promising a new home would be found.  He then erased all records of the living world and headed towards the New Republic.

Jacen believes he has now uncovered why the Vong appear to not exist within the Force.