*Spoilers* Rebel Stand Summary

This is a summary of Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. I got it from The Unofficial New Jedi Order Homepage

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The novel opens with a battle above the Pyria system, in which New Republic forces attempt to escort a Gallofree Transport, Reckless Abandon, to Borleias, against the attack of coralskippers and the ongoing annoyance of dovin basal mines sown there by the Yuuzhan Vong. The fighter squadron escorting the Reckless Abandon, a mixed group of X- and E-wings, is the Taanab Yellow Aces, a volunteer unit led by none other than Wes Janson. Wes and his Aces are set to stay on Borleias to assist in its defense.

Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the action breaks to an odd scene in which a mysterious tall man is attempting to break down a wall which stands in his way to an unknown treasure. He somehow subverts a Coruscant to help him by getting a laser cutter.

On the worldship, Domain Hul, Czulkang Lah greets the arrival of the priest Harrar, on whom he bestows the service of a warrior and pilot named Charat Kraal, whose objective it is to capture Jaina Solo and to expose that she is no avatar or incarnation of Yun-Harla, the Yuuzhan Vong Trickster Goddess.

Back on Coruscant, the team of Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, Tahiri, Danni Quee, and the Wraiths are going about their mission to create resistance cells from Coruscant survivors. They are clad in makeup, fake and actual vonduun crab armor, and modified ooglish masquers to look like Yuuzhan Vong. It works quite well, as they are first attacked by a mob of natives and then believed to be Yuuzhan Vong by one of their patrols. Face, acting as the voice of the group, orders the patrol to give way for their mission of "training his warriors", which naturally will end up in an honor duel. Since the team is very impaired in their fighting ability in their disguises, the Jedi ignite their lightsabers and attack the Vong, but those are no the only ones; there are some nearby. Kell Tainer, being the demolitions expert that he is, blasts the Vong into pieces, leaving the team’s presence there on Coruscant a secret.

When later meeting with a cell of natives fighting the Vong, one of them brings up an experience of meeting an impossibly tall pale man who kills anyone he comes upon, including Vong warriors. He likens it to an old Corellian story about a large pale ghost called Lord Nyax, who stole children from their beds. Quite a mystery for the team.

Back on Borleias, Czulkang Lah launches another probe of the defenders’ defenses, sending two cruiser analogs, also called mataloks, and coralskippers. The Twin Suns shred one of the cruiser analogs with a new weapon using a plasma charge and ball bearings heated to the temperature at which their explosions would cause the damage of a proton torpedo.

On Coruscant, the mysterious tall man watches as his servant attempts to break through the wall with a laser cutter, but it fails. He kills the man, named Ryuk, and then sets out to find a smarter person with better machines.

On the planet Vannix, in the Vankalay system, Han and Leia arrive to see the Senator Addath Gadan and see what they can do in the oncoming election for Presider, or President, of the system. Her opponent is the commander of the navy, Admiral Apelben Werl. Addath expects the Solos to bestow their considerable political influence on her campaign, and it appears that that is what they are there to do. Addath supports non-aggression pacts with the Vong, while the Admiral supports military opposition, as one can expect from a self-preservative politician and a military officer, respectively.

On Tsavong Lah’s worldship in Coruscant orbit, his radank claw arm is worsening, but being tended to by Ghithra Dal, his shaper. As Viqi Shesh predicted, Nen Yim uncovers that Dal is inducing a substance that is causing the rejection of his arm. Tsavong Lah proposes then to discover the entire conspiracy of Dal and a young priest of Yun-Yuuzhan, Takhaff Uul, and deal with it then.

Back in the company of the mysterious large man, he has a man and woman use devices of alternating heat and cold to begin to break down the wall. However, they tell him it will be a very long process, and he is displeased with them. One woman suggests the use of a huge machine to break down the wall, and he sends her off to find one.

Tsavong Lah summons Viqi Shesh to him and instructs her to go to the surface to find the supposed Jedi on the planet, and to take a contingent of warriors and the remaining voxyn, among the last of their dying race, with her, to find them.

Back on Coruscant, the tall man has found a name that the people call him. Lord Nyax. He is pleased with the name and his servants’ progress in digging out and repairing the huge machine that will bash down the wall. However, he is angered that there are those out there that he cannot control with his mind; those he will destroy.

On Coruscant, the team has found what they think to be a devourer tank, a tank of life forms that metabolizes anything organic that enters it. However, it is not smashed like the rest of the machinery around, and the team cannot understand why. Luke volunteers to go in and try and figure out why, using his Force influence to convince the organisms that he is not food. At the bottom of the tank, he finds a metal wheel, which he turns and then returns to the surface, to find that a 3-meter tall plug had risen out of the ground. Inside it was a turbolift, which led them to a research room.

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The Jedi sense the lingering darkness inside, the anger and violent intent that he had sensed on Borleias. They find dead ysalamiri and lightsaber slashes that destroyed droids and cut apart a middle-aged woman. They also find an Imperial-era hibernation tank, one built for a being of 3 meters.

On Vannix, Han and Leia are being bribed by Addath to remain on Vannix and throw their support to her for military materiel that she technically does not control. They catch her in the bribe attempt by use of a holocam newscaster, because they cannot support someone who will make pacts with the Vong instead of fight them, which is what she would do. They arrange for the bribe attempt to be broadcasted as as soon as she leaves the system, so that the Admiral will win and give them the military materiel they were promised by her.

On Coruscant, the team uncovered the records of the "Subject" of the testing in the lab. It turns out he was a human male in who was installed armor plates and exposed to specific growth hormones and cybernetic enhancement past adolescence. He emerged and destroyed the monitoring droids, leaving the team to assume that this Lord Nyax, a three-meter tall Jedi, is wandering around Coruscant, a world where he doesn’t know anything.

Viqi Shesh’s team stumbles across Lord Nyax, and the Vong warriors charge into battle with him. They and the voxyn are slain by the huge Jedi, and Shesh flees. Before this, she had found a tracking device for a ship and now sought to find it, since she is alone.

The Jedi on the team awoke with the ripple of evil sent off by Lord Nyax, and then set out to hunt. They find the dismembered Vong warriors and voxyn, with obvious lightsaber burns on them.

Shesh, still running from the evil of Lord Nyax, the Jedi, the Vong, and the cannibals of Coruscant, finds the ship that her tracking device was attuned to, the Ugly Truth, still spaceworthy, but its exit blocked by rubble.

Han and Leia have now proceeded to the Aphram system, under piratical disguises, although they are found out and arrested. Artoo and Threepio break them out of jail and away from what appears to be a Peace Brigade trap for them. They got offworld and back to Borleias.

Meanwhile, Jaina, Jagged Fel, and Kyp Durron are having an important chat about their relationship. Jaina doesn’t know what she and Kyp are anymore. Certainly not boyfriend and girlfriend or Master and apprentice, and she doesn’t even know if they are partners any longer. She feels, when they are attuned with each other and the Force when they are in combat, that he is readying himself to go off and run someday, sometime. Finally, after some soul-searching, they decide to stay partners, that Kyp won’t go off and try to die alone.

Eldo Davip, commander of the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya, surveys the odd work done to his ship, the long apparatus hidden in the access shaft of the ship. It would mark the end of Davip’s most prestigious command, but prestige wouldn’t mean a thing if the Vong won, so he wished its construction and use well.

On a Vong transport in Coruscant orbit, Tsavong Lah has collected all the priests and shapers who were in on the conspiracy against him. He confronts them about them and takes his revenge, releasing in the transport four rancors who rip the conspirators apart.

Back on Coruscant, the team has uncovered the true identity of Lord Nyax. He was Irek Ismaren, a a possible son of the Emperor, a Dark Jedi in training. He is younger than he should be, which is thirty or so, because his vital processes were slowed. His bones grew for longer than they were supposed to, giving him more muscle mass. As a baby, he was given a computer apparatus implanted in his head to give him more control over the Force. He is imbued with knowledge of lightsaber combat. However, his mother had brought another Dark Jedi into the partnership, and he had gotten into an argument with Irek, and then a battle. Irek killed the other Jedi, but took a lightsaber through the head and technically died; only his vital functions were sustained. A groundquake damaged the hibernation tank and he broke out, killing his mother, who he did not recognize, and everyone else in the complex. He has some deep motivations, such as to destroy Jedi, locate concentrations of the Force and dominate them, and to conquer the galaxy. However, he lacks memory, all emotion but anger, anguish, etc, and linguistics, so it is impossible to reason with him.

Shesh, back at the Ugly Truth, is found by Denua Ku, the leader of the troupe of warriors that was slaughtered by Nyax. He tells her that he escaped and is now prepared to lead a large contingent of warriors to kill the "giant Jeedai". She will return to the worldship after they kill Nyax, he tells her.

The team finds Nyax, who is pleased with the progress of his servants in excavating the construction droid that he will use to batter down the wall. The Vong find him at the same time, and they all attack Nyax and each other.

Kell and Face find Shesh and take from her the locator from the Ugly Truth, in order that they use it to get offworld.

Meanwhile, Nyax faces off against Luke and Mara, who he tries to use the Force to influence themn to assist him in his quest for domination, but they resist, and the battle breaks out. Nyax has lightsabers imbedded in both of his wrists, elbows, and knees. Tahiri joins them in the fight, but it doesn’t look like it is going too well.

The construction droid then begins to plow through the cityscape of Coruscant and pitches all the combatants to the floor. Nyax follows it, and the Jedi him, while Shesh escapes from a wounded Denau Ku.

The droid is heading right for the old location of the Jedi Temple, for unknown reasons. Vong warriors are rushing towards Nyax and the droid, but they are intercepted by huge numbers of natives, controlled by Nyax.

Finally, the Jedi catch up to Nyax, who projects into their heads a command to stop and go fight the Vong. Luke and Mara are about to obey as Nyax pushes sensations of pain into the minds. However, Tahiri, because of the pain and loss that she’s experienced, resists the pain and confronts Nyax. Luke slamed a piece of rubble into his back to distract Nyax. The Jedi together stopped Nyax’s mind manipulation and stood against him together, about to attack before the wall broke open.

The reservoir of pure Force energy slammed into them and through the galaxy, disorienting and confusing all the Jedi. The Jedi Temple had been built over it to protect everyone from it, but it was loose now, and Nyax could drink of it. His expression was of boundless happiness as he drove a hole from where they were to the surface of Coruscant, letting the sunlight through.

The Jedi came to the top of the droid, where coralskippers attacked it. They found that they, too, could use this energy, and used it to send rubble into the air to destroy the skips. Nyax lifted a huge column of rubble in every direction as he floated in the middle of swirling rocks, destroying coralskippers and buildings alike.

Shesh returned to the building where the Ugly Truth had been, and all that was there were military rations and a farewell note from the Wraiths.

The Jedi deliberated shortly on how to fight Nyax. Tahiri suggested that she be able to finish him, saying that he could fight the Jedi by feeling them in the Force, but couldn’t feel the Vong. Since she was both, she could kill him. Tahiri went around as Mara and Luke attacked from the front. She struck him in the back and shattered his bones, and so he fell screaming into the hole that he had created.

Nyax lay at the bottom of the pit he had created and screamed out his last breath, imbuing everything around with his malevolent intent, his last will. He roared out his pain and sent rubble into the air, seeking to destroy anything and everything that he could. He obliterated two cruiser analogs that threatened, and then died.

The Wraiths, feeling sorry for Shesh as she wept there, alone, picked her up in the Ugly Truth, However, she did something unexpected. She said that no Jedi, no Vong, no Noghri, no one could kill her. They were all beneath her. Only Viqi Shesh could kill Viqi Shesh. At that, she stepped out of the viewport and plummeted.

Kell and Luke piloted the Ugly Truth back to Borleias, where Wedge provided the final plan to those assembled. The Starlancer superlaser was a fake, only a ruse to keep the Vong guessing. This was to be their final defense of Borleias, then they would finally retreat. Eldo Davip, commander of the Lusankya, was to pilot the "deadliest single-pilot starfighter the galaxy had ever seen".

Luke was give command of Blackmoon Squadron for the battle and the rest of the elite squadrons; The Rogues, Wild Knights, Taanab Aces, Vanguards, and Twin Suns, lifted off. Czulkang Lah believed that this attack was an all-out push to kill his son, using the pipelighters’ superlaser to destroy his worldship. He had tactics, using trained pilots who could function without a yammosk to kill their elite squadrons, and using mobile dovin basal mines to strip their shields. Charat Kraal was off to capture Jaina Solo, but unbeknownst to him, a modified proton torpedo broadcasting her gravitic signal is what he would be chasing.

Lusankya left orbit and headed straight for Domain Hul, Czulkang Lah’s worldship. Meanwhile, Lah sent two cruiser analogs against the Errant Venture, hoping it to be an easy kill. However, there was deception. As Lusankya had suffered minor battle damage, crews had transferred her weapons to other ships, to replace or add weaponry to them. Terrik’s ship now had a great deal of firepower, surprising and destroying the two jaded cruisers. It then hit hyperspace, leaving Lah to believe that all three ships had perished.

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Lusankya, now practically ungunned, only carried one crew member; her captain, Eldo Davip. He flew the great spearhead right at the worldship, preparing for Operation Emperor’s Spear. She was escorted by the elite squadrons who had just abandoned the useless pipefighters, trying to keep her somewhat intact to finish her final mission.

Wedge was nearly the only person left on the ground, as the complex’s ground and starfighter defenses began to crumble.

The large number of coralskippers attacking Lusankya and her escort were beginning to take their toll on the ships and fighters.

Wedge finally ran out of the operations center. His shuttle had been destroyed, so he took an X-wing, the one of Blackmoon Eleven. He would not be idenitifed, so if he died, no one would know how or when. He lifted to protect a freighter than had engine trouble. A rakamat and coralskipper threatened the freighter. Wedge led the skip in pursuit and created a smoke and dust cloud in front of him. He flew right over the rakamat, but the skip flew right into it and destroyed them both, leaving the crew time to escape.

Czulkang Lah finally figured out that it was the intent of the Lusankya to ram Domain Hul and instructed the worldship to get away.

Jaina noticed the forming up of coralskippers to attack and capture her, and put her plan into motion. The torpedo codenamed Goddess, with her gravitic signature, was fired into a dovin basal minefield, while she adjusted her own to become an anonymous pilot, Twin Suns Nine. The skips followed into the minefield. The pursuers did not even act in concert; from different domains, some even wanted to kill instead of capture "Jaina".

The freighter Wedge had escorted finally lifted and was headed out, but then a squadron of skips began to vector in on it.

Charat Kraal finally closed upon "Jaina", she whipped around a dovin basal mine faster than any starfighter could, and slammed into him, obliterating his skip.

Eldo Davip was in the control center on Lusankya, deep inside the hull, steering his ship towards the worldship Domain Hul. The ship was falling apart, but together enough that he could finish his mission. There was a Y-wing in the aft of the tunnel; his escape vessel.

Wedge engaged the skip squadron, and through excellent flying and inventive use of a torpedo, had pared their numbers down to four.

Czulkang Lah noted the protrusion of a "stinger" from the eaten-away hull of Lusankya, but could not understand how an infidel ship could have something so organic. Now, the Star Destroyer Mon Mothma dropped out of hyperspace near Domain Hul, activating its gravity well projectors to make sure the worldship could not jump, and its yammosk jamming, to disrupt the Vong’s battle meld. Also, dovin basal mines were chasing five missiles gravitically configured to resemble the Millenium Falcon right near the worldship, interfering with the dovin basals. Lah contacted his son, to tell him that Borleias had fallen, but that his last words would be for him. Tsavong Lah gave the order to evacuate Domain Hul.

Wedge was able to destroy the remaining four skips, but at the loss of his shields and damage to his fighter. However, a second squadron was closing on the freighter he escorted. He fired upon them to draw them to him, knowing it would he his death. He took a great deal of damage and began to ballistic spin, and thought that was the end.

Eldo Davip lined up the Lusankya on Domain Hul and was about to flee in his Y-wing, but the worldship’s dovin basals sought to deflect the arrowhead. Davip redlined his engines to bring it back on target. He would stay there and make sure everything went according to plan, if he needed to. The prow of the Lusankya hit the worldship and drove in deep. The core was swallowed by the innards of Domain Hul as the superstructure flaked off and stayed on the surface of the giant ship. Then, the tip of the spear inside exploded, detonating the next section, and then the next. Then the worldship began to die.

The Rogues intervened in Wedge’s death, chasing off and destroying the attacking skips, leaving the hero to live and fight another day.

All the forces regrouped and rendezvoused elsewhere, leaving Borleias the Vong’s costliest victory.

Tsavong Lah mused, back on his worldship. Did the gods love him? They had restored his arm to him and taken Borleias back. Did they hate him? They had taken his father from him, the great Czulkang Lah. The universe had grown far stranger to the warmaster.

Well I'm about a third of the way thru this book and its a very accurate description.....I am looking forward to the rest of the book, but unfortunately that won't be tonight since I have something else to do .....

I haven't gotten this book yet, but hopefully I'll get it soon. I'm still holding onto that 9 bucks so I can get it.

I tried to get it at Wal Mart, but I could only find it at Borders...not that I searched extensively or anything

My local Wal-Mart doesn't have it either. But I'm going to an even bigger one soon, so maybe they have it.

I finished Rebel Stand...it was really really good, but not as good as Rebel Dream.....
IT follows the summary so I won't bother with a summary

I don't have the book and I don't have the $9 anymore either.

I used it to go see AOTC again.

I'd call that a fair trade, but I would also try to save another $9 to get the book!!!!!!

Well I got $50 bucks the other day, but I spent it already.

I had to get Jedi Outcast.

hmpph...a likely excuse 🙄 .....good choice, but still try to keep a little of your money for NJO....Traitor will be out soon and you still won't have read Rebel Stand!

Hell, I'm only on chapter 4 of RD.

oh well then I say you're really really behind 😉 ...it's ok...just so long as you get around to it sometime....do you like RD?

So far it's ok.

There's a steller review 🙄 ...keep readin'

I finished RD & RS!

RS just last night.

Tonight I go out and get Traitor.

😕 I thought you already had Traitor???.....anyway....do get it...I liked it. Traitor was very different yet still enjoyable.

I didn't get it the day I posted that.

I went the next day to Wal-Mart and they didn't have it.

I went out later that day to another Wal-Mart and they had it.

That night I read the prolouge and part of the first chapter.

Then yesterday to today I have read over half of the book.

Wow....seems like you went on your own journey just to find the book!...So are you finished yet?