Star Wars: Jedi Odyssey V: Shadows Hunt II: Tribulations

Dramatis Personae

0-0-0; Protocol/Interrogator Droid

11-4D; Medical/Assassin Droid

Adari Thayn Palpatine; Teras Kasi instructor; Jedi Agent (Keshiri Female)

Akku Sei II; Mandalorian captain (Anzati Male)
Allana Solo; Jedi Knight and Chume'da princess (Human Female)

Armand Vorn; Imperial Army Captain (Human Male)

Atai Molec; Ambassador (Zygerrian Male)

Bardan Skirata; former Jedi and Mandalorian Advisor
Ben Skywalker; Jedi Master (Human Male)
Boba Fett; Mand'alor (Cloned Human Male)

BT-1; Astromech/Assassin Droid
C-3PO; Protocol droid
CT-6116, "Kix"; Former GAR Medic, (Cloned Human Male)

Carasynthia "Cara" Dune Djarin; Mandalorian (Human Female)

Chelli Lona Aphra; Historian, former Sith Captive, Jedi Ally (Human Female)

Cylo-V; Scientist, Councilor of Knights of Olpaka (Cyborg Human Clone)

Darth Irola; Sith Fleet Commander (Human Female)

Darth Invidious; Director of Sith Intelligence (Arkanian Male)

Darth Krayt; Dread Lord of the Sith (Human Male)
Darth Vua; Sith Marauder (Yuuzhan Vong Slayer Male)

Darth Wyyrlok; Sith Regent (Chagrian Male)
Din Djarin; Mandalorian Clan Leader (Human Male)
Edaan Palpatine; Fugitive (Human Male)

Grace; Aquilian Paladin Lieutenant (Human Female)
Han Solo; Space Captain; Military Advisor (Human Male)

Jagged Fel; Imperial Head of State (Human Male)
Jaina Solo Fel; Jedi Council Member (Human Female)

Jaing Skirata; Mandalorian Supercommando (Cloned Human Male)

Jan Ors; Alpha Blue General, Fleet Commander (Human Female)

Jarael Chantique; medic (Iskalloni Female)

Jayce Solo Fel; Jedi Apprentice (Human Male)

K'Kruhk; Jedi Master (Whiphid Jedi Master)

Khedryn Faal; Smuggler Kingpin (Human Male)

Kivu'raw'nuru "Vurawn"; Empire of the Hand Supreme Commander (Cloned Chiss Male)

Korin Aphra, Historian, Jedi Ally (Human Male)

Kral Nevil; Galactic Alliance Vice Admiral (Quarren Male)

Kreel; Repurposed Imperial Commando (Cloned Human Male)
Kyle Katarn: Jedi Grand Master (Human Male)
Leia Organa Solo; Jedi Master (Human Female)
Luke Skywalker; Jedi Master (Human Male)

Maarek Stele; Retired Imperial Ace, Rogue's Gallery Instructor and Flight Leader (Human Male)
Mirax Terrik Horn; Information Broker (Human Female)
Mirta Gev; Mandalorian Protectors Commander (Human/Kiffar Hybrid Female)

Natasi Daala; Fugitive; Councilor of Knights of Olpaka (Human Female)

Ochi of Bestoon; One Sith agent/assassin (Vahla Male)
Phasma; ex-Sith; Alliance of Light and Jedi advisor (Human Female)
R2-D2; Astromech droid
Sabine Wren; Mandalorian Protectors Colonel and Clan Leader (Human Female)
Soldier; Aquilian Paladin Captain (Cloned Human Male)

Sorzus; Sith Lady (Chagrian Female)

Tau Palpatine; Sith-bred Iteration and Jedi Agent (Cloned Human Male)

Tor Valum; Force Sage, Rhandite Sorcerer (Grysk Male)
Tyria Sarkin-Tainer; Jedi Master and Commando (Human Female)
Vestara Khai; Former Sith Lady, Jedi Intelligence Agent (Human Female)

Voort "Piggy" saBinring; Wraith Squadron leader (Gamorrean Male)
Vua Gorsat; refugee/gladiator (Yuuzhan Vong Extolled)

Wedge Antilles; Retired General, Rogues' Gallery Supreme Commander (Human Male)

Yiv; Nikardun Remnant Supreme Commander, One Sith General (Nikardun Male)

In the years after the defeat of the Lost Tribe of the Sith and the Celestial monstrosity Abeloth, the galaxy was more divided than it had been in generations. With criminals, corrupt politicians, rogue warlords, and surviving Sith from both the Lost Tribe and the younger and more secretive One Sith order wreaking havoc across all the galaxy, the Jedi Order and its diminishing allies were running out of options to restore and maintain freedom and liberty across all of creation. And after Grand Master Luke Skywalker's abdication for semi-retirement to entrust the future to the next generation of Jedi and leaders a year after the Order's banishment from the Galactic Alliance, many were feeling lost and disillusioned over the galaxy continually slipping into darkness.

But through this turbulent period, many young Jedi were training to meet this challenge, with one in particular preparing for the daunting path he laid for himself. Edaan Palpatine, the last descendant of Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious, gaining much fame and honor for his exemplary deeds in knitting a broken galaxy back together while rebuilding the galaxy's fractured ties of cooperation and fellowship.

Apprenticing himself under Jedi Grand Master Kyle Katarn to push himself past his limits in the single-minded goal of redeeming Sith Lady Vestara Khai, Edaan had built up an incredible network of allies, contacts, and favors across the galaxy in readying for his eventual pursuit of his target and her followers. Through his endeavors and the hundreds of missions he undertook, the Jedi had regained many of their former friends and rebuilt their ties with much of the Galactic Alliance. And along the way, he recruited several of the galaxy's deadliest figures to serve as his teammates, all while recruiting many of the Jedi Order's greatest and noblest Knights and Masters to help him in his quest of salvation.

Fourteen years later, the Jedi had located their long-sought after target of the Lost Tribe home planet of Kesh, launching an invasion to liberate the world and capture Vestara and uncover her ties to the One Sith. After nearly a year of fighting, the world was freed of its Sith dominion, but not without Vestara escaping and taking a sizeable faction of Sith and civilians into exile. Even more surprising was how Edaan had found love through the campaign in Sith-turned rebel Adari Thayn, leading her and her followers into a full-fledged alliance with the Jedi in expunging the Lost Tribe's influence from Kesh.

A mere few months after Kesh was freed, Edaan, sensing that his time had at last come, launched his mission to save Vestara, assembling his crew and calling in his favors to track Sith activity. Starting with the corrupt Sith-funded monarchy of Falleen that was undergoing a civil war, the galaxy quickly rallied around Edaan to fight the Sith. From the distant world of Batuu that held many Rakata secrets, to the Mandalore Sector and its own infighting between Boba Fett's loyalists and the Sith-led Neo Death Watch, and the Unknown Regions where the Sith under Darth Krayt were laying the foundations of a new Sith empire. Allied with notorious races and civilizations like the Vagaari, Ssi-Ruuk, Ebruchi, and the Sorcerers of Rhand in the Nihil Retreat, the One Sith were preparing for war unlike any the galaxy had seen in millennia.

Even when Edaan was captured by the One Sith and forcibly converted into their cyborg general, his mission was a success in saving Vestara from her darkness and reuniting her with her one true love, Ben Skywalker. In addition, the Sith's schemes were coming undone by the several defections in their ranks and their cloning program creating one of their greatest enemies in the Edaan-clone, naming himself Tau Palpatine and dedicating himself to the Jedi arts. Even worse, many of their allies were deserting them because of these failures and harming their Grand Design even further.

But in addition to the One Sith's traditional enemies in the Jedi and their growing list of allies, including the major galactic powers and many independent sectors and Force schools that made up the nascent Alliance of Light, three darker powers were stewing that threatened all the galaxy held dear.

The first ancient danger was of the Olpakan Hegemony, a long-standing anti-Force civilization that had come to view the Force as a blight on all life and civilization, now allied with notorious warlord Natasi Daala and other dangerous individuals to wage war on the galaxy. But even they were minute compared to the next greater threat that was ready to return and unleash unspeakable evils upon the galaxy.

Abeloth, along with her ancient servants that were left over from wars that had faded from history and legend, had used the chaos and darkness of the last fifteen years to resuscitate herself, and was prepared to wage a war on the weary galaxy that could eradicate all that stood in her way.

And yet, even the long-feared Bringer of Chaos and the danger she represented was minute compared to those that supported her bid for power from the shadows. Hidden within a dozen nebulae and long sequestered from the rest of the galaxy, the Nihil Retreat, where within the True Sith Empire plotted to unleash eldritch horrors unlike anyone of living memory had ever faced, was readying itself to release their long-imprisoned Immortal Gods of the Sith. Using the countless wars waged throughout the millennia, the Sorcerers of Rhand and their vile Lich Kings worked to resurrect the greatest evils to ever walk the galaxy, the first Celestials who defied the will of the Supreme Maker and created the Dark Side of the Force.

But there were some who still resisted. The Jedi and One Sith, both seeing the imminent danger Abeloth and her hidden patrons represented, have brokered a truce between their forces and formed the Last Alliance to combat the three evils now before them. Preparing to take the fight to the Olpakans, the Bringer of Chaos, and the Rhandite Sith, they would soon be ready to strike back after freeing their allies' holdings from each of their terror strikes, and ready to eradicate Abeloth for good with the one weapon capable of permanently killing her: the fabled Dagger of Mortis once hidden away by the Celestials of old.

Only time would tell if this desperate coalition could succeed.