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Summary: After a difficult assignment, Lowbacca and Tesar, along with some of the other alien Jedi, leave the Jedi base at Eclipse to begin their own academy for talented nonhuman Jedi. However, after several rigorous months of training, students and teachers alike start falling towards the Dark Side, being pulled by a Dark Jedi from the past. Can Lowbacca and Tesar defeat this new evil, or will they too fall victim to the Dark Side.

On Eclipse, you could always see the stars. They always had shown brightly, each one the sun of a different system. Lowbacca had always been fascinated by this possibility. He had been to many of those systems during his battles with the Yuuzhan Vong. However, there were still many planets that no one had ever visited. With a sigh, Lowbacca headed back towards the dormitory he shared with Tesar Sebayante.
As he walked, Lowbacca saw many of the young Jedi walking towards their personal dorms. How many years had it been since he had been counted among the Jedi hopeful. Seven, maybe eight? Now, he was one of the most prominent Jedi Knights. He had fought numerous battles alongside the Solo twins and two other young humans, Tenel Ka and Zekk. He had helped the now destroyed academy on Yavin 4, and he had helped fight against the Diversity Alliance as well.
As his thoughts drifted to the Diversity Alliance, Lowbacca couldn't help but ponder the possibilities. How hard would it be to start a different Diversity Alliance, one that was for Jedi only? In the past few weeks, Lowbacca and Tesar had both endured ridicule from the human Jedi, especially some of the children of former Imperial generals, who had been raised with a "Humans are the only good species" attitude. Master Skywalker had had no choice but to allow them to train at the academy, since the Force had manifested itself inside the children.
Lowbacca knew that Tesar and Alema Rar, a Twilek who had a member of the strike team that had destroyed the voxyn queen would support his decision. However, he wondered how his human friends would react. The twins would be disappointed, as would Zekk, Tenel Ka, and Tahiri. Master Skywalker and the rest of the Jedi Council would not grant him their blessing on this act, but Lowbacca felt that there was a need for the nonhuman Jedi to grow and train in an environment that did not feel hatred towards them. That kind of attitude was not conducive to the Jedi.
Upon entering the apartment, Lowbacca found Tesar sitting at the computer console, following the movement of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. Lowbacca relayed to Tesar his idea of an alien Jedi academy. Tesar agreed that the time was ripe for the Jedi to expand their numbers. So, together, the two headed to set an appointment with the Jedi council for the next day.