What did Luke Skywalker do after Return of the Jedi? It’s a query followers had been fascinated about for many years and, over the previous few years, we’ve realized bits and items: a child apprentice right here, villainous nephew there, self-imposed exile, and so forth. A brand new e book, nevertheless, guarantees to be the deepest dive into this story but and the primary excerpt options an reunion that may simply convey a tear to your eye.

The official Star Wars website just lately posted an excerpt from Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher, which will probably be out this summer season. It’s based mostly on just a few traces of dialogue in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker the place Lando Calrissian mentions to Rey and the staff that he and Luke spent a while trying to find the misplaced Sith planet of Exegol. This novel will inform that story, which is thrilling by itself, however this excerpt is simply… a lot extra.

Here’s a brief piece of an extended excerpt from Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher. We’ll reveal the spoilery reunion under.

Luke took one other breath, the style getting stronger in his mouth. Already his eyes have been drying out, the ambiance, the bottom, the entire place so previous, so desiccated.

He knew instantly the place he was. He had been right here many instances just lately, this nightmare panorama of his visions.

Only now he knew its title.

This was Exegol, the hidden world of Sith solely whispered about in historic texts. A spot reachable solely with a wayfinder.

And… by meditation? Luke took a step ahead, discovering the bottom strong and most positively actual below his ft. He walked a small and sluggish circle, eyes on the horizon. Lightning flashed, lighting the farther reaches of the plain, revealing it to be featureless and useless.

The identical place as his visions, sure, however this felt… totally different.

This felt actual.

Could he have been transported? Luke frowned, his thoughts racing alongside along with his coronary heart. True sufficient, he didn’t know the total extent of the powers of the seeing stone. He had researched the place for years, however he had by no means really used the stone for its historic goal, to commune immediately with the Force. He knew himself what a strong Jedi he had change into, what untapped potential he nonetheless had inside himself regardless of — or maybe due to — his years of self-directed, Masterless coaching.

Had he carried out it? He had the holocron, or what was left of it, and the kyber crystals. Was there sufficient of the holocron information core left for the seeing stone to have been in a position to learn it, one way or the other, taking him to the place the unique proprietor had failed to succeed in, all these centuries in the past? And what in regards to the kyber crystals? They resonated with the Force, their very constructions in a pure, sympathetic vibration with it. Were they the catalyst, making the journey attainable? Was that what the unique pilot had tried — combining two very totally different types of Sith energy to beat their lack of a real wayfinder?

It was then that a much more vital query entered Luke’s head.

Could he get again to Tython?

Luke doesn’t get again to Tython within the excerpt however he does present down with 9 mysterious Sith creatures that haven’t any presence within the Force. Are they actual? Are they precise Force customers or simply projections of Palpatine? It’s not revealed. What is revealed is that Luke can’t defeat them… until, properly, now’s the time to make good on our headline.

The excerpt ends with a mysterious Force Ghost coming to Luke’s help. They’re carrying brown robes, have a blue lightsaber, and are in a position to maintain again the mysterious Sith beings. Luke, such as you and I, believes it’s Obi-Wan. But no. Here’s the ultimate piece of the excerpt:

Then the blue determine circled, his lightsaber extinguished.

Luke pushed himself up onto his elbows. He blinked.

It couldn’t be.

It couldn’t be.

The blue determine lifted his hood again to disclose the robust, sharp face of a younger man, his gaze intense beneath a furrowed forehead that was bisected by straight, vertical scar. His thick hair was shoulder-length and had a slight wave to it.

Anakin Skywalker reached out his hand.

Luke took it, and every thing went white.

It’s Luke’s good previous dad Anakin, who he free of the Dark Side’s clutches on the Death Star just a few years prior. Will the 2 get to speak? If so, what will probably be stated and the way will that change Luke? You, like, us will probably be ready patiently for the discharge of Star Wars: Shadows of the Sith to search out out. Head to the official Star Wars site to read the total excerpt.

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