Soon though, Nom Anor makes contact with Fett and asks him to board the lead ship for a face to face meeting. Unsure of what to make of their new arrivals, the Mandalorians enter battle formation and wait. He soon encounters what he assumes to be an asteroid, but is actually a Yuuzhan Vong ship. Anor plans to reveal his true nature to Fett as the location lies along the main invasion route the Yuuzhan Vong will take into the galaxy.Īs the Mandalorian fleet awaits the arrival of their client, Bevin becomes impatient and scouts around for Udelen. Nom Anor notes that Mandalore is already on his list of a world that will be harder to subdue.Īnor arrives on the planet, again under the alias of Udelen and provides Fett with the location of a rendezvous where he and a select number of Fett's troops are to meet. Nom Anor notes that Bevin did an efficient job of removing the target and plans to meet Fett for the second time on Mandalore and the capital city, Kedalbe. Bevin quickly realizes that if the man is killed it will trigger a civil war, but even after he voices his misgivings to Boba he still carries out the mission. Meanwhile, on Nar Shaddaa, Nom Anor, posing under the alias Udelen, recruits a Mandalorian named Goran Beviin to assassinate a politician on Ter Abbes, a grim industrial planet off the Perlemian Trade Route. Boba Fett has just chased down another bounty, a Rodian art dealer who sold fake works to Gebbu the Hutt. Denounced as traitors, Fett’s Mandalorians need to stay one step ahead of their Yuuzhan Vong paymasters–and the Republic who sees them as collaborators with the most destructive enemy the galaxy has ever faced.The story opens in the lower levels of Coruscant in 24 ABY (After the Battle of Yavin), only a few months prior to the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion. So convincing the New Republic that they’re fighting on the same side is a tall order. Trouble is, no one trusts a man with Fett’ s reputation.
Since he’ s a practical man, he’s determined help the resistance beat the Yuuzhan Vong–even if it means working with a Jedi agent. Now Fett has to choose between his honor and the survival of his people. When the Yuuzhan Vong invasion force sweeps into the galaxy, the Mandalorians find they’re on the wrong side–fighting for an alien culture that will bring about the end of their own. On the surface, it seems like just another routine contract for Boba Fett and his Mandalorian commandos, but the mystery client who hires them to start a small war is more dangerous than any of them can possibly imagine. BONUS: This original novella includes an excerpt from Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact and an interview with the author.
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