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Page 1 of 4 | Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter | Michael Reaves | 2001 | 32.5 Years Before The Battle of Yavin | | | SPOILER ALERT: This Will Spoil The Plot of the Book! In remote space on the starship Saak'ak,the Neimodian leaders of the Trade Federation speak with Darth Sidious about his plan to hide battle droids inside their vessels. One of their top lieutenants, Hath Monchar, is missing, however, and it peaks the curiosity of the Sith Master. Viceroy Nute Gunray tells him that he is sick, but he knows that actually the lieutenant has gone missing.
After finishing a rigorous training exercise, Darth Maul is contacted by his master and is given the the mission of tracking down the missing Neimodian. He has vital information about the Sith plan and he must be killed along with anyone else who has spoken with about it.
In the dark underbelly of Coruscant, Lorn Pavan and his droid partner I-Five visit a local fence and end up having to fight their way out. After killing his bodyguard, they capture the fence and attempt to recover the Jedi Holocron he had been trying to sell them. The deal went sour after Lorn lost his temper when someone referred to him as a Jedi. He tells I-Five that the holocron was actually a Sith holocron that was worth a lot more and they'll need a lot more money to get it.
Jedi Padawan Darsha Assant stands before the Jedi Council along with her master, Anoon Bondara to receive her final mission before becoming a Knight. The assignment is to retrieve Oolth, a member of the Black Sun crime syndicate, and protect him until they can get information out of him. Bondara believes the mission may be too difficult as it is in the Crimson Corridor and filled with all sorts of miscreants.
While Darth Maul lands and begins his search for Monchar on Coruscant, Gunray suggests to Rune Haako that they hire the bounty hunter Mahwi Lihnn to go after Monchar before Sidious contacts them again.
After binge drinking, Lorn returns to their apartment to look for something to sell quickly since they are out of money. Lorn goes through the story of his hatred for the Jedi and their way of life.
As he waits to hear from Maul, Sidious ponders the history of the Sith and all the plans that will soon culminate in their return to power and the demise of the Jedi.
Darsha reaches the safe house house and picks up Oolth, but upon returning to her ship she finds that several members of the Raptor gang are already ransacking it. After a failed attempt at mind control, she prepares to fight.
Elsewhere on the planet, Monchar is looking for an intermediary to help him sell the information he has about a certain Sith Lord's plans to blockade a planet. Nearby, Mahwi Lihnn investigates Monchar's apartment looking for any remnants of where he might be.
Inside a tavern, Maul gets information that Monchar is going to be looking for Lorn Pavan to sell his information.
Darsha is able to fight off the Raptors, but her ship is disabled. She takes Oolth to higher levels in a nearby building but they are attacked by hawk bats and Oolth falls several stories, presumably to his death. She cuts through a blacked out window and hides inside, devastated that her mission is a failure.
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