The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1996)
Crystal Star 2 The New Rebellion This was fucking stupid. This is the book everyone thinks Crystal Star is. Some Darth Vader cosplaying loser (he was a student at Luke's academy. No, he's never shown up before.) is turning droids into bombs. Every time he kills someone he gets more powerful, soon he will be more powerful than Luke! (Somehow, this didn't work for the Emperor/Vader.) Brakiss is back, because... dunno? She needed an extra dark Jedi to dump exposition and pad the book another hundred pages. Speaking of padding, there's an entire Han Solo/Lando plot that makes no sense and I couldn't even tell you what happens in it. I think they fight hippo dragons? Yeah, there's a lot of random aliens in this book that aren't very well described. Most of them never show up again. It's 1996, there are enough aliens you can get by without making up shitty ones, but whatever. Wedge shows up! He's an idiot. Leia is useless. (Rusch claims that the male aut...