Bloodlines is the next volume in the Inheritance of the Force series. The book is written by Karen Traviss plus was released August 29, 2006. The book takes put in the fictional Star Warsuniverse, about 35 years after the fall of the Galactic Empire in Go back of the Jedi. It was followed by Storm. The book's theme focuses on relations.
Meanwhile, acts of terrorism force the Alliance to create even additional repressive laws. Han and his old nemesis Boba Fett are forced to work together as they study new information about their brood. Meanwhile, Luke and Mara Skywalker fear intended for their son, Ben, when his Jedi Master, Jacen Solo, makes a dangerous option. This choice shocks together families and the galaxy. A lot of of his events in this book are reminiscent of Anakin Skywalker's previous days as a Jedi previous to life form corrupted into Darth Vader.
Jacen mechanism closely with Cal Omas plus other political leaders to establish a martial rule environment against the Corellians. Luke and Jaina are concerned that Jacen is rotating to the dark side and that Ben really needs a new master. After leaving on many raids with Jacen, Ben gets the chance to create a decision concerning a raid in which he kills two people, and at 13 existence of era, it scares him.
After her horrible death at Jacen's hands, Ben starts to question Jacen's intent since this is not the Jacen he admired. this is not the Jacen who has been caring towards him. Ben seems to becoming more and more like his grandmother everyday in trying to answer questions as to "why can't the fighting stop and the international relations resume.
Meanwhile, Boba Fett learns that due to fact that he is a clone, his body is slowly contravention down and at the present speed, he determination die within a year. His only hope for salvation is to recover Kamino's lost information of cloning and age modification, which leads him on a long journey across the galaxy. With the knowledge that he may die soon, Fett begins to reproduce winning his past and the mistakes he had complete, resolving to find his daughter plus try to create amends to her (unfortunately, he isn't aware that Jacen had already killed her in a failed interrogation attempt).
During this journey, Fett meets a lot of old acquaintances and makes some new ones, including a mysterious young female bounty hounter, Mirta Gev, who accompanies him on his mission. Eventually, by some twist of destiny, Fett runs into Leia plus Han Solo on Corellia. After the successful assassination, when Fett asks Leia and Han the site of his daughter, they tell him that she was killed by Jacen which throws him into a rage, demanding that they hand in excess of her body.
Mirta then reveals so as to she was Ailyn's daughter, making her Fett's granddaughter and threatens to kill Fett intended for abandoning Ailyn. Though, Fett admits his mistakes and makes amends with the granddaughter he never knew. Leia and Han manage persuade Jacen to release the corpse to Fett.
After in receipt of the body, Fett decides to return to Mandalore to go after up on a guide regarding his mission, to use more occasion with Mirta, plus use his position as the Mandalore to unite the Mandalorians and reinstate the Mandalorian Nation. Meanwhile, Jacen, still on his trail to Sith perfection, decides that the only thing absent for him to do is to 'immortalize his love' according to the Sith tassels. Jacen loves Tenel Ka and their daughter Allana very a great deal other than if he is to achieve his full Sith ranking he must slay them. With so as to goal in mind, he believes he have to conform himself in the image of his grandfather in order to achieve it.
He still 'flow walks' through time by means of the Force to explore his grandfather's drop and finds so as to his journey is destined to be dissimilar so there may be hope for him. Jacen might yet obtain full Sith knowledge and acknowledgement and not become the beast so as to Vader was. As such, his ultimate goal is to transport calm to the galaxy as a Sith while at the same time not committing the same mistakes Vader made.