Jaina Solo struggles with the dark side of the Force as she apprentices herself to renegade Jedi Kyp Durron. Jaina, Kyp, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka travel to Gallinore where Jaina hopes to find a way to use the Yuuzhan Vong's biotechnology against them. Kyp and Jaina deliver a captive pirate bearing a Yuzhung Vong slave-implant to a scientist for research. Jaina uses Kyp's dark side techniques to wipe the memories of the other Jedi.