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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
Plagueis pressed his right hand to the right side of his neck to discover that a disk had made off with a considerable hunk of his jawbone and neck, and in its cruel passing had severed his trachea and several blood vessels. He
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
Plagueis pressed his right hand to the right side of his neck to discover that a disk had made off with a considerable hunk of his jawbone and neck, and in its cruel passing had severed his trachea and several blood vessels.
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
The time had come to bring his apprentice deeper into the Sith mysteries he had been investigating for most of his life; to introduce him to the miracles he was performing on Aborah.
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Tarkin
might assign him to Rancit's former position. "We need to tighten our hold over the Outer Systems," the Emperor continued. "You will be in charge of that, Moff Tarkin. Or should I say Grand Moff Tarkin." Tarkin's gaped in genuine surprise. "Grand Moff?" "The Empire's first." The Emperor spread his sickly hands. "Was it not you who suggested the creation of oversectors and oversector governance as a means of enhancing our control?" "It was, my lord.
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James Luceno _ Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock.
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James Luceno _ Saboteur
Discipline was the key to power. Unflinching discipline was what forged him into a sword master and warrior. Discipline was what enabled him to defy gravity and slow the inrush of sensory input, so that he could move between the moments.
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
But Ashla is a perversion," he went on, "for the dark has always preceded the light. The original idea was to capture the power of the Force and make it subservient to the will of sentient life. The ancients-the Celestials, the Rakata-didn't pronounce judgment on their works. They moved planets, organized star systems, conjured dark side devices like the Star Forge as they saw fit. If millions died in the process, so be it. The lives of most beings are of small consequence. The Jedi have failed to understand this. They are so busy saving lives and striving to keep the powers of the Force in balance that they have lost sight of the fact that sentient life is meant to evolve, not simply languish in contented stasis.
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets.
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
The Sith are not placid stars but singularities. Rather than burn with muted purpose, we warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design.
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
He admits it! And who better than a human to wear the mask of power while an immortal Sith Lord rules in secret!
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James Luceno _ Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
Sidious bowed his head in deference. "In the annals of Sith history, you will be known as Plagueis the Wise." Plagueis quirked a cunning smile. "You flatter me.
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James Luceno _ Cloak of Deception
What Palpatine lacked in charisma, he made up for in candor, and it was that directness that had led to his widespread appeal in the senate. Here was Palpatine, with his ready smile; above corruption, above deception or duplicity, a kind of confessor, willing to hear the most banal confessions or the basest of misdeeds without passing judgment-aloud, at any rate. For in his heart he judged the universe on his own terms, with a clear sense of right and wrong.He looked to no other guide than himself.
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