Legacy of the Force: Fury

• ISBN 0345477561 ; A Del Rey paperback edition containing 368 pages, released on November 27 , 2007.
• ISBN 073935695X ; An audio download published by Random House Audio on November 27, 2007.
• ISBN 0739324004 ; A CD format audiobook, released by Random House Audio on November 27, 2007.

Han and Leia find themselves embroiled in combat alongside Corellian insurgents, facing their own son, Jacen, whose power and menace escalate daily. Jacen remains steadfast in his pursuit of peace through a triumphant Galactic Alliance victory, regardless of the sacrifices required.

Meanwhile, Luke grapples with sorrow over his wife's passing and remorse for mistakenly killing an innocent person in retaliation. Jaina, Jag, and Zekk embark on a quest to unmask the true assassin, unaware that this individual wields Sith abilities capable of manipulating their minds, diverting their strikes, and even turning them against one another.

Amidst the growing disorder, Luke and Ben Skywalker seek their place, while Jacen, isolated from loved ones, initiates an assault to rescue his sole remaining loyalist. As conflict intensifies and the galaxy descends further into chaos, Jacen becomes the most sought-after individual, whether dead or alive.

The story commences on the planet of Kashyyyk, where the Wookiees and their new Confederation allies are engaged in suppressing the blazes that engulfed the world, initially ignited by the Anakin Solo in the preceding novel, triggering the Battle of Kashyyyk. Han Solo aids in extinguishing the fires from aboard the Millennium Falcon, while his spouse, Leia, collaborates with Waroo towards the same objective. As the Falcon prepares to extract Leia and Waroo, Alema Rar materializes within the ship's cabin, mirroring her appearance before her duels with Leia during the Dark Nest Crisis. Alema threatens Han's life, intending for Leia to witness her husband's demise as retribution for their past encounters. However, Han reduces the inertial compensator settings, allowing gravity to assert itself, and initiates erratic maneuvers with the Falcon to expel the Twi'lek as Leia and Waroo board. Leia and Alema engage in combat, hampered by the fluctuating gravity caused by the deactivated inertial compensator. Leia hesitates to strike Alema upon strangely sensing a dual presence of Waroo in The Force and no presence of Alema. After a moment of uncertainty, the Dark Jedi simply departs, vanishing. Subsequently, the Alema Rar Task Force responds to the incident by searching for evidence, but finding none, they theorize that Alema employed a dark side apparition of herself to confront Leia, akin to how the deceased Lumiya utilized dark side apparitions to instigate the ghost battles in the Legacy of the Force: Betrayal novel. Later, they receive a package from an unnamed sender containing Mandalorian beskar armor, crushgaunts, and a message instructing them to use the provided Mandalorian gifts to eliminate his son after he (Jacen) murdered the sender's daughter, implying that the gift originated from Boba Fett. Despite his conflict with his son, Han declines to employ the gifts to kill Jacen, but Jagged Fel resolves to utilize the provided materials when he eventually confronts Alema. Jag also succeeds in convincing Jaina Solo that despite her ongoing training to combat Alema and Jacen, she is setting herself up for failure due to insufficient personal time. In response to Jaina's newfound composure, Zekk opts to improve his rapport with Jag, fostering a more comfortable working relationship between them as partners.

Following his escape from Kashyyyk, Darth Caedus persists in consolidating his authority over the Galactic Alliance on Coruscant and formulates a strategy to secure the loyalty of the Hapes Consortium's to the GA. Caedus brings a young girl named Tika, who bears a striking resemblance to his daughter Allana, with him to Hapes, disguising himself as a shuttle copilot upon arrival. He kidnaps Allana, replacing her with Tika, and when Queen Mother Tenel Ka Djo discerns through the Force that her daughter is being abducted, she is unable to prevent Caedus from triggering an explosion in the hangar, hindering Tenel Ka and her guards from rescuing Allana. After Tenel Ka and the explosion's survivors recover, Prince Isolder delivers a message from Caedus to Tenel Ka: failure to pledge the Consortium's complete allegiance to the Galactic Alliance will result in Allana's death. Tenel Ka resolves not to commit the Hapan forces to the GA's cause, even for Caedus, but instead seeks assistance from Grand Master Luke Skywalker and the New Jedi Order in rescuing her daughter. She locates them on the forest moon of Endor, where the new Jedi outpost is situated. Concurrently, the Jedi Masters devise a plan to implant a tracking beacon on Caedus to monitor his movements. Master Kyle Katarn volunteers to lead this mission, accompanied by three Jedi Knights - Thann Mithric, Valin Horn, and Kolir Hu'lya - and apprentice Seha Dorvald, who previously furnished Ben Skywalker with information for his mission to Ziost in Legacy of the Force: Exile, much to Luke's dismay. Jacen personally inducted her into the New Jedi Order after discovering her in Coruscant's undercity following the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Katarn and the three Knights ambush Caedus outside the Senate Building on Coruscant and engage him in a duel, while Seha, concealed from view, employs the Force to affix an inconspicuous beacon strip to the Sith Lord's cloak. Despite their success, and while the other two Jedi Knights escape, Katarn sustains severe injuries in the battle, and Mithric is decapitated by Caedus. Nevertheless, the mission's survivors manage to escape, and Caedus resumes his duties as joint Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance. Later, following the GA's devastating attack on Commenor, citizens of Commenor lineage unleash a virus on Coruscant in retaliation, even affecting the already-wounded Katarn, though he is subsequently cured and healed on Endor. Despite this, the GA receives a message from Corellia expressing the government's desire to negotiate a return to Alliance membership. The GA forces, led by Caedus aboard the Anakin Solo, and the Corellian forces converge midway between Coruscant and Corellia to initiate ceasefire talks. Utilizing the tracking beacon affixed to him, Han, Leia, and the Alema Rar Task Force decide to leverage this information on behalf of the New Jedi Order to examine the Anakin Solo's memory, aiming to ascertain the last coordinates set by the Sith Meditation Sphere, piloted by Alema. With this knowledge, they hope to locate and neutralize Alema. Leia distracts Jacen by discussing the ethical implications of his actions in seizing control of the GA government shortly before Caedus's forces meet with Corellia's. Leia then uses this as a diversion to rejoin Han and the Alema Rar Task Force as they gather their information and depart, tracking Alema to the Home, situated near Bimmiel. Subsequently, when treaty negotiations between the GA and Corellia predictably collapse, a battle erupts, with Corellia's Confederation allies emerging from hyperspace. During this conflict, a StealthX wing task force led by Luke plans to assassinate Caedus amidst the chaos. However, the Sith Lord, suspecting tactics similar to those Leia employed during Allana's kidnapping and the hangar explosion, swiftly escorts Allana onto a TIE Reconnaissance Fighter and departs from the Anakin Solo. As the battle unfolds, Allana senses the deaths of those perishing in the conflict, while Twool, the Rodian member of the StealthX task force, tracks Caedus down, and the team attempts to eliminate him in space. Caedus assumes they are tracking him by detecting Allana's open Force presence and emits a surge of anger, prompting Luke to detect the presence of a young girl with Caedus. Consequently, he withdraws the task force from attempting to kill Caedus just as the battle between the GA and Confederation culminates in a beam of light discharged by the reactivated Centerpoint Station back in the Corellian system. Numerous GA and Confederation forces are annihilated in the blast, but Caedus, Allana, the Jedi, and everyone aboard the Anakin Solo survive. The StealthX pilots jump back to Endor, and Caedus directs his forces back to Coruscant. There, he confers with fellow Chief of State Supreme Commander Cha Niathal regarding the capture of Centerpoint for the GA. Meanwhile, the Corellians are compelled to rectify the issues with Centerpoint following the battle's shot, and because the rest of the Confederation was not informed of Centerpoint's involvement, Confederation Supreme Commander Turr Phennir informs Five World Prime Minister Sadras Koyan that the remainder of the Confederation will no longer support Corellia against the GA in the war.

Simultaneously, on the Sith planet of Korriban, a member named Dician asserts that while Alema Rar does not pose an immediate threat to the One Sith, she possesses the ability to conjure dark side apparitions, a skill that could prove beneficial to the order if needed or could be turned against them by Alema herself under certain circumstances. Consequently, Dician is entrusted with the starship known as the Poison Moon to journey to the Home and extract the knowledge of casting dark side apparitions from Alema, or at least destroy it. However, as the Poison Moon arrives at the Home, so does the Millennium Falcon. The Poison Moon attempts to destroy the Falcon while Alema projects a dark side apparition of her former self to duel Leia on the ship, and the Alema Rar Task Force enters the Home to track down and neutralize her. Alema deploys another dark side apparition to engage Jaina and employs dark side mynocks to distract Jag. However, Zekk manipulates the Sith Meditation Sphere into abandoning Alema, which it does, and it returns to Ziost, with the Poison Moon in pursuit, but not before the latter ship detonates explosives within the Home. Although Dician has not gleaned any information from Alema, she anticipates that she and her fellow Sith will learn enough from Ship. The Falcon decides against pursuing the Moon in order to extract the Task Force, and eventually, Alema dissipates the dark side apparitions against her opponents upon realizing that Ship has forsaken her. Jaina confronts Alema, but Jag intervenes and instructs her to assist Zekk in regaining his composure, as coercing Ship into abandoning Alema has exposed him to the dark side of the Force, and he is struggling to resist succumbing to its allure. After Jaina departs for Zekk, Jag confronts Alema, affording her one final opportunity to surrender, but she uses the Force to snatch his blaster from his hand and into hers, then monologues about how she will relish his demise. However, because the blaster was programmed to self-destruct after a few seconds of separation from Jag, it detonates in her hand, severing it, and Jag proceeds to kill her by snapping her neck with a crushgaunt. Before he does, Alema implants the memory of her as she was during the Yuuzhan Vong War and prior to the Dark Nest Crisis. Jag acknowledges that he will remember her that way, and then ends her life. Subsequently, the Home begins to crumble from the explosives planted by the Poison Moon, but all three members of the Alema Rar Task Force escape and survive as the Home is destroyed, leaving nothing behind. Han, Leia, and the now-disbanded Task Force return to Endor.

Following Alema's death, Luke, still believing that she was responsible for the death of his late wife Mara, feels a sense of satisfaction that his wife has been avenged. However, his son, Ben, reveals to him that with Mara supposedly "avenged," he is now contemplating when to die and who to entrust with the leadership of the New Jedi Order upon his death. Ben explains that this is what the original Jedi Order avoided: attachment, which is what Luke now feels toward his wife as he wants to join her in death, under the belief that she has been served justice. So Luke takes Ben's advice, confronts his feelings over Mara, and decides to let go of his attachment, but not his love. While still grieving over his wife's loss, he does not plan to die anytime soon, as long as the war goes on.

Before the GA's mission to capture Centerpoint, Caedus reveals to Allana that he is her father, and she accepts him as someone she loves after initially hating him for kidnapping her. Then, once the GA move in to capture Centerpoint, the New Jedi Order, the Millennium Falcon passengers, and their anti-GA/anti-Confederation allies proceed to once again try to kill Caedus and save Allana for Tenel Ka. Han, Leia, and Iella Wessiri Antilles rescue Allana, and when Caedus senses his daughter being taken from him, he retreats from confronting Luke, Ben, and Saba Sebatyne, and the latter three also pull out with Han, Leia, Iella, and Allana aboard the Falcon, leaving a heartbroken Caedus gasping for breath at the airlock. Meanwhile, Toval Seyah, Kyp Durron, and several others, including Valin Horn and Jaden Korr, drop into Centerpoint to destroy it so that neither the GA nor Corellia can have it. Seyah initiates a program that will cause Centerpoint's next shot to destroy itself, and the members of the strike team leave the station. Down on Coronet City, Denjax Teppler gets the rest of the Confederation's help to counter the GA and by promising Supreme Commander Phennir that Prime Minister Koyan will soon be removed from power. Then Teppler tricks Koyan into giving command of Corellia to him and Admiral Genna Delpin, and when Koyan tries to evacuate Centerpoint, he is shot by a GA agent who accidentally set her blaster on kill when it should have been on stun. Koyan dies, leaving Teppler and Delpin in charge of Corellia, similar to the GA being led by Caedus and Niathal. Then Centerpoint blows up when a crazed member nicknamed Vibro attempts to destroy Coruscant due to his hatred of Coruscanti. Caedus, depressed at losing Allana, orders a retreat and returns to the bridge, where he learns one of his officers, Lieutenant Patra Tebut, inadvertently allowed Luke's strike force to board the Anakin Solo. Caedus finally snaps and Force-Chokes Tebut to death in his rage, just like his grandfather did whenever his subordinates failed him years ago; then, with his wrath vented, he retires to his quarters. Elsewhere, the strike teams led by Luke that are against both the GA and Corellia manage to make it out of the Corellian system in time before Centerpoint blew up, and they head to Gyndine to resupply and celebrate on their victory. Han and Leia figure out that Allana is their granddaughter and Jaina decides to go find the man who will help her defeat her brother.