Джон Джексон Миллер «Lost Tribe of the Sith : Savior»

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Автор Джон Джексон Миллер

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L o s t T r i b e o f t h e S i t h # 4

S A V I O R

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Also by John Jackson Miller

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L o s t T r i b e o f t h e S i t h # 4

S A V I O R

JOHN JACKSON MILLER

BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK

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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Savioris a work of fiction.

Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

2010 Del Rey eBook Edition

Used Under Authorization.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. , New York.

DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book Star Wars®: Fate of the Jedi: Alliesby Christie Golden. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

ISBN 978-0-345-51941-2

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Chapter One

4975 BBY

“Children of Kesh, your Protectors have come home to you. Again!”

Korsin waited for the clamor from the crowd to die down. It didn’t. Commander Yaru Korsin, Grand Lord of the Tribe of Sith on Kesh, stood atop the marbled platform and looked across the churning sea of ecstatic purple faces. Behind him rose the columns and domes of his new home. Once a native village, Tahv was now a Sith capital.

The buildings had been raised quickly on the site of the old Circle Eternal for this day, exactly a quarter century in standard years after the Sith arrival on Kesh.

Korsin had been determined to make that anniversary one to celebrate, rather than lament. With today’s ded-ication, Korsin signaled his people’s intent to live among the Keshiri for good.

Now, years after the crash, it was clear that nothing more could be done to repair Omen. There was no reason to live in their lofty temple at the crash site when such beauty existed below. Korsin cast his gaze upward, toward the cloudy peak on the western horizon. A skeleton team of Sith and Keshiri workers was mill_9780345519412_2p_all_r1. qxp:8p insert template 2/25/10 1:27 PM

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there, wrapping up affairs on the mountain. Sealed safely in its shrine, Omenwould be there if they needed it.