The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy is a novel within the Star Wars Legends continuity; specifically, it's the series Star Wars: The New Jedi Order's eighteenth installment, and second-to-last book. Greg Keyes authored it, with Del Rey publishing the paperback version on September 30, 2003. That same year, the Science Fiction Book Club also put out a special hardcover version.
As a galaxy, worn down by conflict, struggles to recover, the Jedi's most formidable adversary is scheming to conclude the war—and seize ultimate power—through a conclusive act of dominance….
The difficulties have only just begun for the besieged living planet of Zonama Sekot. Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo are in talks to determine its role in the galactic conflict against the Yuuzhan Vong, but one of its organic ships is seized by the alien invaders. The scientist Nen Yim receives orders to use the captured vessel to identify vulnerabilities in Zonama Sekot's technology. However, Nen Yim's discoveries about the planet and its mysteries are deeply unsettling. It becomes clear that her people have strayed far from their intended path, because the peaceful planet holds not only the means to its own destruction, but also the long-lost secrets of the Yuuzhan Vong themselves.
In another part of the galaxy, General Wedge Antilles, leading one fleet in a three-part offensive to reclaim the Bilbringi system, finds himself isolated deep within Yuuzhan Vong territory, with all communication severed. Wedge and his crew must depend on cunning and exceptional combat strategies to survive long enough to guarantee the success of a critical and highly dangerous mission for the Galactic Alliance forces….
A side narrative in the novel focuses on Operation Trinity, highlighting the parts played by Wedge Antilles and Jaina Solo's, including her capture by pirates.
On Yuuzhan'tar, Nom Anor's clandestine Jedi heretical group is gradually losing confidence in him as Yu'shaa the Prophet, due to his unsuccessful attempts to overthrow Supreme Overlord Shimrra. However, Nom Anor recalls information from his deceased agent Ngaaluh: Shimrra is deeply afraid of a rumored living planet called Zonama Sekot. Therefore, as Yu'shaa, Anor tells his Shamed followers that on the day Shimrra falls, a great planet will materialize in the skies above Yuuzhan'tar, signaling the end of the traditional Yuuzhan Vong way of life, for the benefit of the Shamed Ones. Anor's followers are encouraged by this news. Coinciding with Anor's fabricated prophecy, he learns that Master Shaper Nen Yim is studying the starship brought back from Zonama Sekot, and discovers that it has both biological components, like a Yuuzhan Vong ship, and mechanical components, like a ship from the galaxy. So Nom Anor, still posing as Yu'shaa, strikes a deal with Nen Yim: after he gets Tahiri Veila to rescue them both from Yuuzhan'tar, they will all travel to Zonama Sekot to understand the planet's nature. This also aligns with Yim's interactions with the priest Harrar, who secretly opposes Shimrra's rule and also wants to visit Sekot to see if Yu'shaa's prophecy about it bringing down Shimrra's regime is true.
Tahiri, on Mon Calamari, receives Yu'shaa's message requesting her to extract him and Nen Yim from Yuuzhan'tar and take them to Zonama Sekot. Tahiri agrees, bringing Corran Horn along. Despite the last-minute addition of Harrar to the voyage to Sekot, all five escape the Yuuzhan Vong capital planet and head to the living planet aboard the ship Nen Yim was examining, which originated from that world. Upon arriving at Sekot, the ship ceases functioning, and the five begin to explore the planet, with the three Vong members formally rejecting their species' violent ways to defeat Shimrra. Tahiri and Nen Yim also realize that the memories implanted in Tahiri by the late Mezhan Kwaad actually originated from Nen Yim.
Ultimately, Nen Yim understands the truth about Zonama Sekot's nature. However, Nom Anor realizes that if he can somehow destroy Zonama Sekot and regain Shimrra's favor by ending the living planet, he will be redeemed in the eyes of the traditional Yuuzhan Vong. Therefore, he murders Nen Yim and ventures into the planet's depths to sabotage its hyperdrive capabilities and destroy it. However, Yim lives just long enough to inform Tahiri of Nom Anor's intentions, and dies in her arms. Tahiri, Corran, and Harrar attempt to stop Nom Anor, who succeeds in sabotaging the living planet. Nom Anor escapes Tahiri and Corran, and briefly confronts Harrar, which ends with Harrar falling off a cliff, presumed dead. Then, as Sekot appears to be dying, the Yuuzhan Vong escort ships, which Anor had summoned earlier via his creche-cousin Phaa Anor before his mission to sabotage Sekot, arrive to take Nom Anor back to Shimrra so he can be reinstated into traditional Vong society. Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and Saba Sebatyne rescue Tahiri and Corran, taking them to a bunker. There, they discover that Sekot has overcome Anor's sabotage and is heading into hyperspace, its destination being Yuuzhan'tar.
- ISBN 9780345428752 ; September 30 , 2003 ; Del Rey ; US paperback [1]
- ISBN 9780739438022 ; 2003; Del Rey; US hardcover, Science Fiction Book Club edition [4]
- ISBN 9780345464965 ; June 28 , 2011 ; Del Rey; US eBook [2]
- ISBN 8324118705 ; Amber , 320-page Polish paperback
- ISBN 978-80-252-2022-1 ; April 3, 2012 , EGMONT ČR , 248-page Czech paperback ( Konečné proroctví ).