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| - The novel opens up in the Coruscant Underworld where Chan Dash is running for his life and is trying to find a safe place to hide from a dark figure who is following him. Before he rushes towards the Outlander's Club, Chan is shot to death by the dark figure who is revealed to be Aurra Sing. Somewhere in the Alderaan system, an Acclamator I-class assault ship called the Leveler was traveling to Alderaan. Inside the bridge, Captain Rumahn, Massin, Meriones, Galdovar, Aalto, Jamillia, Ren Auglu, Klossi Anno, and Rayno Vaca were having a conversation with Senator Bail Prestor Organa and Rahm Kota on holo and explained their success in the rescue and gathered a number of senators, bureaucrats, individuals, imperials that refused to serve the Empire, mercenaries, bounty hunters, clone deserters, personnel members of the Judicial Department, and surviving Jedi to ally Kota's Militia. Suddenly, the communication was cut and Captain Rumahn immediately calls Lammin and Ollo to repair the communications until he, along with Ren Auglu, Galdovar, and Rayno Vaca were shot by Meriones, who was revealed to be spy to the Empire. Before the traitorous lieutenant made his move to escape, Aalto used the Force and slammed into the wall. The Jedi Master interrogates him, but the lieutenant smiles and says that he and the resistance are doomed until he receives a fatal blaster shot from Rumahn.
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