Although Star Wars Jedi: Survivor recently got a slight delay, that is only going to give you more time to read the upcoming novel, Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars which is arriving on March 7th.
From author Sam Maggs, the novel follows Cal Kestis and the Mantis crew as they run into an Imperial deserter Stormtrooper who could have something to help Cal and crew. Unfortunately for them, their adventure will bring them into the mark of The Fith Brother, an Inquisitor working for Darth Vader.
Star Wars has posted an exclusive excerpt from the novel:
“Today was going to be a good day for the Jedi.
Jedi Knight Cal Kestis was going to make certain of that.
Sure, it was possible that he was one of maybe only two Jedi left.
But those Jedi? They were going to have a good day.
“Hey, buddy, things looking clear?” Cal asked, his voice reverberat¬ing in his ears inside his helmet. From his back, Cal heard two little taps from his droid, BD-1’s way of communicating with him while on a stealth mission. Cal could hear BD-1’s trills via comms, but sound was risky while sneaking and the droid often preferred to communicate by a more rapid and tactile method, knowing the rest of the crew couldn’t understand him anyway. “Thanks, Beedee. Have I told you lately you’re the best?”
A pause. Then:
Tap.
Cal laughed. “Well, this is me telling you. I won’t slack off on it again.”
Tap tap.
A damn good day.
Which wasn’t usually the case, when a guy was crouched on a small, fast-moving space rock hurtling around a large asteroid in the middle of deep space, but Cal’s life wasn’t usual, and he preferred it that way. Kit¬ted out in a full space suit, Cal took stock of his surroundings, breathing in recycled air slowly and steadily so as not to waste it. The orbital de¬bris field circling the asteroid was dense; Cal had to make his way, leap¬ing shard by rocky shard, each one a step closer to the main asteroid at its center, a massive excavated rock, home to a Haxion Brood base Cal and his crew were currently attempting to infiltrate. Ironic, considering the last time Cal had been around a Brood base he’d been trying to break out of it. That time, on Ordo Eris, he’d been captured. This time, the better move was to get someone on the rock first in order to disable the security systems so that nothing would pick up the Stinger Mantis, Cal’s ship, entering from orbit.
And the best way to do that was for someone to hop, from tiny rock to tiny rock, all the way down to the surface of the big rock. From one moving asteroid to the next, flying through space without a tether.
No problem.”
You can read the full excerpt on the Star Wars website.
