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Seeing as they went to Alderaan, and Leia was there, it means it probably the actual Death Star plans. So what did Kyle Katarn steal, and what did Bria die sending? Also, the fact that Han was literally on Alderaan, basically in the same room as Leia, just a little bit before EpIV is dumb. The fact that Dash warms up to the Rebellion due to a woman (Javul) makes him even more of a Han Solo copy than he already was.

Dash and Han return to Tatooine, and it's basically implied that Han was heading off right then and there to his first scene in EpIV. However, that seems to retcon the ending of Rebel Dawn, where Han (and Chewie) had been in Mos Eisley for like a week before meeting Obi-Wan and Luke, and Boba Fett had tracked him down the day before to tell him about Bria being dead (god, that was so dumb).

This is the last novel in the timeline before EpIV. I was talking with my friend last week, and he asked if I was going to read the EpIV novelization. Honestly hadn't even occurred to me before he asked. Wasn't thinking about it at all. I do a physical copy of all 3 OT novelizations on my bookshelf. But I don't feel like it. I might rewatch the movie, though. It's been a long time. Also, it was recently May 4th.

They just used the term 'Galactic East.' I don't think I've ever seen any space-related fiction using cardinal directions for space travel. In fact, the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. What the hell are you using for north? The center of the galaxy? It doesn't work!

IDK man, maybe the subsect of teras kasi that Eaden belonged to was garbage if one guy was able to kill all of them. They're supposed to be martial arts masters. But one guy killed them all.

I don't really have anything to comment on about the story at this point.
There's something about this ebook that's been weird, and I've never seen before. Using my preferred ereader font, all of the italics in this ebook are also bolded. It doesn't do this with any other font. It's not a big deal, but I do find it very strange. I've used this font for years, and italics were always normal before now.

Alright, alright, I was wrong again. There were more reveals after all. Not sure I'm crazy about how it's yet another story related to the Death Star plans, but... ok. At least it's something. (They didn't mention it by name, but it's clearly what was being implied.)

Oh, ok, Eaden actually is Force-sensitive. I rescind my previous criticism. They made it sound like it was just a Nautolan thing. Maybe that's because this is written from Dash's perspective, and he doesn't know any better.

They confirmed that the most obvious and standard explanations for why these things are happening is true. Boring and supremely disappointing. Unless there's another twist coming, but I kind of doubt it.

IDK if this was established in the (old) canon elsewhere, but making Nautolans be like semi-Force-sensitive with emotion sensing stuff is kind of dumb. Yeah, Kit Fisto was a Jedi Master. A Jedi! That's explainable! Eaden is just a smuggler copilot. Making the entire race be capable of sensing stuff is silly.