In this episode Cameron and Adam discuss the novel The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers. The novel was published by Bantam Spectra on November 1, 1993. The Infernal Brotherhood of the Scruffy Looking, Nerf Herders is a Star Wars video podcast made by Star Wars fans for Star Wars fans. You can buy The Truce at Bakura here: https://amzn.to/4iv3Pta
About The Truce at Bakura
Timothy Zahn’s New York Times bestselling Star Wars trilogy reopened the door to George Lucas’s dazzling universe, drawing millions of readers into the lives of the beloved movie characters and the struggle of the Rebel Alliance. Now, in The Truce at Bakura, Kathy Tyers takes readers back to the fateful days following the events in Return of the Jedi.
No sooner has Darth Vader’s funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal: total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura—or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve.
Even as the Alliance arrives, the aliens have almost overcome the Bakura Imperial garrison, whose desperate commander will accept help from any quarter—even Rebel—against an insidious foe that enslaves human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction.
While marshalling the tattered Imperial forces, Luke, Han Solo, and Princess Leia must win the trust and cooperation of the Bakurans. For although Imperial Governor Nereus has granted the Rebels temporary amnesty there is the possibility of treachery among those whose first allegiance lies with the Empire.
On the eve of the final explosive onslaught, Rebel and Imperial forces must finally come to terms with each other…or lose the entire galaxy to the hideous servitude promised by a victorious alien enemy.
Capturing the sweep and excitement of the original Star Wars saga, The Truce at Bakura plants a seed of hope for peace, sees the formation of a timeless love, and stands witness to a Jedi’s undying sacrifice to defend Humanity against an alien nemesis.
Show Notes
Intro
Welcome to The Infernal Brotherhood of the Scruffy Looking, Nerf Herders! This is a live streaming Star Wars podcast—made by Star Wars fans for Star Wars fans. Today we are discussing the novel The Truce at Bakura.
Discussion
- Publisher Bantam Spectra
- Release date November 1993
- fourth novel published by Bantam Spectra after Thrawn Trilogy
- set in 4 ABY
- It takes place immediately after the events depicted in the film Return of the Jedi (1983) and before those of the young-reader series Jedi Prince (1992–1993).
- Author Kathy Tyers
- Material from The Truce at Bakura was further expanded upon in The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook (1996), by West End Games.
- the reptilian Ssi-Ruuk race under the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium
- seek to harvest a supply of life forms, whose life energies power their advanced technology through a process known as “entechment”
- Luke especially intrigues the Ssi-Ruuk, because they believe his Force powers could allow the Ssi-ruuk to “entech” beings from a distance.
- The Ssi-ruuk themselves cannot sense the Force, but they know of it through a captured human, Dev Sibwarra, who is Force-sensitive but untrained (his mother was killed by the Ssi-ruuk) and has been brainwashed into furthering the Ssi-ruuvi agenda.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke and alerts him to the danger of the Ssi-Ruuk if they get into the greater galaxy with this technology.
- Leia must find a way to cope with the revelation given to her on Endor—that Darth Vader is actually her father, Anakin Skywalker—when she is visited by his spirit, who begs for her forgiveness.
- Nereus attempts to turn Luke over to the Ssi-ruuk in exchange for their retreat,
- Luke is also able to free Dev of his brainwashing and decides to take him on as an apprentice, but Dev is injured during the escape and later dies of his wounds.
- Characters:
- Gaeriel Captison
- Wilek Nereus
- Princess Leia Organa
- Dev Sibwarra
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Anakin Skywalker
- Luke Skywalker
- Han Solo
- Pter Thanas
- Wedge Antilles
- R2-D2
- C-3PO
Outro
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