New Book: Outbound Flight
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 4:28am
http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/novel/news20050322.html


First Look: Outbound Flight
March 22, 2005

Since 1991, fans of Star Wars literature have wondered about the mysterious Outbound Flight project. This Fall, Del Rey and author Timothy Zahn will reveal all.
First briefly mentioned in the watershed novel, Heir to the Empire, Outbound Flight was an ambitious project that sent an expeditionary mission of six Jedi Masters, 12 Jedi Knights and 50,000 men, women and children beyond the borders of known space to make contact with intelligent life. It was the brainchild of Jorus C'baoth, but even so influential a Jedi Master had to navigate the cumbersome Republic bureaucracy to get this monumental proposal approved.

With the foiling of a murderous plot, C'baoth gained the influence he needed to get Outbound Flight underway. In truth, this turn of fortune was carefully engineered by Darth Sidious, the shadowy Sith Lord who wants Outbound Flight to begin, and ultimately, to fail.

The mission is doomed from the start, for lurking within Unknown Space is the Chiss Ascendancy, and the brilliant alien mastermind who will someday become Grand Admiral Thrawn. Not even the presence of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his young Padawan learner, Anakin Skywalker, aboard the gargantuan vessel can avert disaster.

Star Wars: Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn is slated for a hardcover release on October 25.



Finally. Another book out by Zahn. I can't wait for this to come out...
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 5:10am
Joren Logan
Not even the presence of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his young Padawan learner, Anakin Skywalker, aboard the gargantuan vessel can avert disaster.


Come again?
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 6:01am
Tight.
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 5:17pm
I assume its set before the Clone Wars, some time after TPM.
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 5:59pm
Well, I am sure I will get a flyer in the SciFi Book Club via mail in October.

Glad more books are coming out after the final installment.
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 8:05pm
This will be a must get/must read for me. <3 Zahn.
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  • Posted On: Mar 24 2005 8:25pm
Maybe he'll go on another book tour and I'll get another autograph.
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  • Posted On: Mar 25 2005 12:13am
He also wrote book detailing Luke and Mara venturing into Chiss Space and dealing with the survivors of Outbound flight.

This of course is the last missing peice of the puzzle.