Resumo de Star Wars: Outbound Flight

Timothy Zahn continues his saga in the Star Wars universe with his latest novel, Star Wars: Outbound Flight. For readers who have read his other Star Wars books, this story delves into the history of Jorj Car?das, Lorana and Dean Jinzler and the crew of Outbound Flight, Kinman Doriana, the original Jedi Jorus C?Boath, and?especially?Mitth-raw-nuruodo, the future Grand Admiral Thrawn. The novel is centered around the Outbound Flight, a project to extend the reach of the Republic into a neighboring galaxy and set up colonies. However, before exiting their own galaxy, the Outbound Flight group is to make a reconnaissance of sorts into the vast Unknown Regions of their home galaxy. This reconnaissance brings the project into contact with Thrawn?s people, the Chiss. Lurking in the background, are rumors of a militaristic people foreign to the galaxy who are planning to conquer the worlds of the Republic and the Chiss.Star Wars: Outbound Flight serves as a means for Zahn to explain the histories of some of people in his earlier works. In this story, Jorj Car?das?who was introduced to Star Wars readers as an old man?is a young man working for a small-time smuggler/trader. As Car?das and his crewmates attempt to flee a pirate attack, they make blind jumps into hyperspace, and as they enter the Unknown Regions are accosted by a group of Chiss commandeered by Commander Mitth-raw-nuruodo of the Chiss Expansionary Fleet. Through the story, Thrawn and Car?das develop a rapport, Car?das giving Thrawn knowledge about Basic?the primary language of the Republic?and the functioning of the Republic while Thrawn reciprocates by giving Car?das knowledge of his native tongue, Cheunh, and a local trade language, Minnestat. Meanwhile, in the Republic, the Outbound Flight project prepares for launch, under the supervision of Jorus C?Boath and his fellow Jedi, including the new Jedi, Lorana Jinzler. As the project, consisting of six Republic ships of the line clustered around a storage area for surplus food, water, oxygen, and other necessities, gets under way, C?boath?s arrogant attitude combined with no opposition from the other Jedi fuels a growing resentment from the colonists and crew toward the Jedi.Concurrently, Kinman Doriana prepares to destroy Outbound Flight, ostensibly to rid the galaxy of some eighteen Jedi. With a fleet of Trade Federation and allied warships, he sets off to obliterate the colonization project. As the fleet arrives in position to intercept Outbound Flight and readies itself, Thrawn and some of his Expansionary Fleet patrol force arrive and manage to destroy the much larger group of ships. Kinman is taken to meet Thrawn. As his own fleet has been destroyed, Kinman attempts to convince Thrawn that Outbound Flight is a threat to the Chiss, and that Thrawn should destroy the project.All of these threads have hints of a foreign force that could destroy the galaxy. It is revealed that one of the reasons Jorus C?Boath has pushed for Outbound Flight is because he has sensed that a force will come and destroy the galaxy, and that Outbound Flight can serve as the seed to restart the ideals of the Republic and the Jedi if they are destroyed. Kinman tries to destroy Outbound Flight to prevent the project from coming into contact with this foreign force, to prevent them from getting knowledge of the level of Republic technology and the strength of the Jedi. Thrawn and the Chiss are engaged with the values of preemptive strikes. Thrawn endorses the concept to destroy one threat, the Vagaari, so that resources can be diverted to face the foreign force, which has already engaged the Chiss.Thus, Zahn ties together the fictional Star Wars past with the Star Wars future after the movies in which this foreign force attacks the galaxy and almost succeeds in subjugating it. Car?das and Thrawn in particular become more complex and dynamic, and Lorana Jinzler especially is fleshed out more than she was before. Jorus C?Boathshows similarities with his clone, who appears in Zahn?s Heir to the Empire. Zahn again has written skillfully a story which gives a complexity and mystery to the Star Wars universe.

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