In the council room, Uliar and Jinzler argue over who is causing the strange sound on the comlinks.  Bearsh stands up and the wolvkils they had around their necks come to life and begin attacking the Chiss along with the other Gerrons.  All the Chiss warriors are killed, Formbi is injured, but the rest of the group builds a small bunker from chairs and gets inside, trapped by the wolvkils.  The Gerron’s show they have many line creepers that will destroy the ship and leave them all to die.  After they leave, Uliar tells the group he recognized the Gerron’s language – they are the Vagaari!  They want to turn off the signal jammer, but can’t do so without a comlink.  Jinzler convinces Evlyn to use her Jedi abilities to pull one off one of the dead soldiers.  Many of the council are shocked by all of this.  Using the Force, she retrieves the item and Jinzler contacts Luke and Mara to tell them of the attack.

Mara, Luke and Presser are together when the call comes in.  Presser tells them that most of the Outbound Flight peacekeepers have been killed.  They believe it was done by Estosh, the Geroon/Vaagari that was injured earlier.  It was a setup so they could ambush the others later on.  They are attacked by several Vaagari including Bearsh.  Mara wipes out the first wolvkils with her saber while Luke puts several others to sleep using the Force.  Most of the Vaagari are killed, but Bearsh escapes.

The Imperials and Drask are also attacked and successfully defeat the Vaagari.  Fel and Drask agree to share control over the 501st since Drask was formerly a ground assault commander.

Mara rescues those in the council room.  Jinzler convinces her to take Evlyn with her.  Luke is a bit surprised once they rejoin him.  They try to drive the Vaagari back to the turbolifts.

There are a series of other skirmishes throughout the ship.  Fel, Drask, and the Troopers are under the heaviest fire.  They eventually overcome the Vaagari and go to the aid of Luke and Mara.  The Troopers tell them that there are still many more Vaagari to battle.

They contact the Vaagari who state that their aim is to take down the entire Chiss race.  During this conversation, Luke is secretly looking into what the Vaagari have been up to.  Evlyn tags along.  They realize that an explosive has been set and detonates on them exposing them to the outside air which has little oxygen.  A blast door suddenly flies open and Mara pulls them back in.

The battle is over and the Vaagari had taken off in a dreadnaught.

Most of the survivors are in the infirmary and they discuss the events that transpired.  Mara questions why Formbi had requested so much additional help with this investigation.  She also realizes that the reason Formbi told them earlier they were not allowed to use their lightsabers was to keep any would-be attackers from realizing what they were up against.  Formbi admits that they knew the Gerron’s were Vaagari.  It turns out that Car’das told Formbi what to look for.  Drask confesses that he set up the falling cable incident earlier in order to see a test of Jedi abilities.  They form a plan to get all the line creepers out of the wiring and then short them out with salt water.  Just then a new disruption starts outside and the doors are blown open.  This time, however, the intruders are not enemies.  It is Captain Talshib from the Chaf Envoy.

They learn that there is a hyper capable ship docked somewhere on Outbound Flight.  The hyperdrive was disassembled, but it will still fly.  Mara tells Jinzler that if he can fix it she can fly it.  Mara finds Luke regaining consciousness.  She tells him Formbi and Drask gave them Chiss signals so they will be allowed to enter Chiss space.  Jinzler also realizes that the lightsaber they found on the bridge was his sisters.  Luke and Mara depart Outbound Flight to attempt to catch up with the Vaagari.  Luke tells Mara they should try and retake the dreadnaught the Vaagari were flying.

After a short time, they manage to infiltrate the ship.  They immediately come under attack.  They use some of the dead Vaagari as puppets with the Force and send them ahead to distract their attackers.  After the fight, they recognize one of the dead Vaagari is Bearsh.  There was no time to relax as a droideka attacks!  Mara begins to think that the Vaagari are actually after droid technology in hopes of creating an army to attack lesser civilizations.  After several attempts they finally destroy the droideka in dazzling fashion using Jinzler’s sister’s lightsaber and are able to reach the command deck.  Mara watches the rear while Luke enters.

Luke is met with more Vaagari and several wolvkils who attack him.  The fighting stops and Estosh addresses them.  The ship leaves hyperspace and they have reached the Chiss Brask Oto Command Station.  Accepting defeat, Estosh releases a poison that will kill everyone on board the ship.  Mara throws her lightsaber and hits the viewport, blowing out the window.  The poison is sucked out into space.  Chiss begin to attack the dreadnaught.  Luke fires the cannon into space in the pattern that Formbi told them.  The Chiss understand and the tied begins to turn.  The Vaagari figure things out as well and begin retreating to dock inside the dreadnaught, now under Luke and Mara’s control.  They assume the larger ship is still friendly!  Luke agrees that now that can contact the Chiss with Formbi’s message.

The tenants of Outbound Flight decide to live within the Empire of the Hand, as they want nothing to do with anything called “Republic” or “Jedi”.  Jinzler will be going with them.  As Luke and Mara fly home, they discuss the implications of all of this.  It appears the Chiss did all of this simply to draw out the Vaagari to destroy them.  They wonder if it was another of Thrawn’s plans to prepare the galaxy for some new outside threat around the corner.  Luke and Mara know that their New Jedi Order would be up to the challenge.