Jedi padawan Rite Saylas adores adventures—more precisely, he adores reading about them, not taking part. Ready to rummage through the archives of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for hours on end, Rite dreams of becoming one of the Order’s greatest scholars. But Rite’s mentor, the worthy and respected Jora Mally, has other plans: she has accepted an assignment to the Star — a new magnificent Republic outpost on the edge of the explored region. As Jora Mally’s padawan, Rite must accompany her regardless of whether he likes the idea or not (and, of course, he doesn’t).
So Rite, reluctantly, boards the ship that will take him and several other Jedi to the Star Beacon, where Master Jora will begin a new life full of adventures on the frontier. However, after an incident in hyperspace, Rite’s ship and the other vessels find themselves in trouble, and the only refuge they can find is in a sinister, abandoned space station. The secrets hidden there not only put Rite before a difficult choice—they can plunge the entire Galaxy into darkness…