When the Solo family finds an unwanted quirk in the Millennium Falcon‘s hardware, Han, Leia, and their new granddaughter Allana Solo will learn the past of their ship…as the galaxy prepares for a disastrous future! Join the Legendary Adventures as we read Millennium Falcon!
When Jaina Solo was forced to do the unthinkable – kill her brother, Jacen Solo, known at the time as Darth Caedus – Allana Solo was unfortunately left without her father. To meet the need, the legends of the Galactic Civil War Leia Organa-Solo and Han Solo stepped up to become her surrogate parents, raising her as their own. When they start raising Allana, they take her often on trips in their YT-13oo freighter, the Millennium Falcon. Allana finds a device on the ship, one that somehow Han has never seen before. This sets the family on a fact-finding mission, reviewing the entire history of the ship.
This trip through the history of the Falcon leads to quite a few surprises for the Solo family. First, the turbulent history of the ship is revealed when they learn that, when it was created, the ship came off the line with problems already. Almost forty full years later, the ship was pressed into service during the Battle of Coruscant. It then engaged in what may be a record of the earliest rebel activity, when two pilots (one of whom is named Tobb Jadak) sought out a resource that would topple the newly elected Emperor Sheev Palpatine. They were stopped by (at the time future) warlord Armand Isard, hero of the Clone War, and his clone troopers, who caused the ship to wreck in a way that would’ve totalled almost any other ship. Jadak survived the crash and remained comatose for the next few decades. Finally, the history of the ship leads the family to Jedi Seff Hellin. Seff is an extremely violent man, and is entirely too off-the-wall and unpredictable for the Solo family, and their new young daughter, to handle.
As the Solo family begin their fact-finding quest, they find the planet of origin for the mysterious device, Tandun III, and plan to return it. While they travel there, Jadak awakens on Obroa-Skai, still on a mission to find the artifact they looked for at the beginning of the reign of the Empire. Tandun III, though, is a planet undergoing a crisis. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, the planet was terraformed, or turned into a potential new homeworld for the Vong. The terraforming did not take as well as it did on Coruscant, and the planet is undergoing a major disaster. The Solos leave the device on the planet (which turned out to be fake, anyway), and the planet continues to collapse under the weight the Vong inflicted on it. Jadak continues his search for the real artifact.
After the mission, the galaxy is shaken. Allana Solo sees visions of her late father, Jacen, and she begins her own journey that will cause her to grapple with her own past and the legacy of Caedus. The galaxy, too, must now grapple with Caedus’s actions. Newly elected Chief of State Natasi Daala, formerly of Imperial warlord status, is setting her sights on the Jedi. She issues an arrest warrant for Grand Master Luke Skywalker, pinning the blame for Jacen’s turn squarely on his shoulders. Luke, and his son Ben, will soon be forced on a journey that will decide the Fate of the Jedi…
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