| Text | - A decade after the horrors of the Great Sith War, the great Jedi Nomi Sunrider calls a convocation in the isolated solar mining facility Exis Station. Jedi Knights from across the galaxy gather to discuss the healing of their wounds and the rebuilding of the damaged Galactic Republic. All the great heroes arrive, including Master Thon, Sylvar, and even Tott Doneeta, recently injured in a terrible heat storm during a clan war on the Twi'lek homeworld of Ryloth.
But Nomi Sunrider's 14-year-old daughter Vima is not interested in meetings and speeches. She just wants to learn to be a Jedi herself, though her mother is always too busy with politics and business to spare time. Brash and bored, Vima steals one of the small ion mining ships and attempts to fly with a corona work crew, but finds herself trapped in the star's magnetic storms. Tott Doneeta saves her and brings the girl back to Exis Station, where she faces Nomi Sunrider's stern rebukes.
Only one Jedi, blinded to the force, does not attend the Exis Convocation--Ulic Qel-Droma, war criminal and grim wanderer. He has hired a scavenger, Hoggon, to find for him a place of peace, a place where he can avoid all contact with people, perhaps even a place to die, alone. Hoggon, a Jedi-phile and collector, does not know the identity of his passenger. After dropping Ulic off on the isolated, frozen ruins of Rhen Var, Hoggon rushes back to Exis Station in hopes of catching a glimpse of all those legendary Jedi Knights.
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