Name: The Fight for Truth
ISBN: 9780590520805

Jude Watson

When a young potential Jedi warrior is discovered on the planet of Kegan, Qui-Gon Jinn, Adi Gallia and their apprentices visit the isolated world, but they soon discover that they will not be welcomed with outstretched arms.

The Fight for Truth

Dimitris Papastergiou

I didn't really like this one, wanted it to end so bad and it dragged with yet another story about some planet with some characters fighting and some trying to find some others. 

Things happen that are not fun, simply because you don't care about the secondary characters in it, which are those who have things happened tot hem.

Watson has a thing for dystopias and is apparently determined to showcase and tear apart as many as possible in this series. The dystopia on Kegan centers around the General Good as conceived by two Guardians who have "benevolently" taken over the planet and kept it isolated from and ignorant of the greater galaxy. When a couple contacts the Jedi asking to have their daughter tested for Force Sensitivity, Kegan's carefully planned and rigidly enforced society is put at risk. 

I actually found myself very intrigued by O-Vieve's and V-Tan's visions of the future. The masked soldiers definitely sounded like stormtroopers and galaxy-wide evil was undoubtedly the Empire. But considering this was published between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, I find it interesting that the Jedi were positioned as the central figures/catalyst for this dark future. Foreshadowing like this is always interesting to me, and definitely makes my Epic Star Wars Reread in Publication Order totally worth it.

The Fight for Truth

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