Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel (Star Wars)

by James Luceno

Vallt was home for now.

synthetic gem had been modeled on an actual kyber,

Relatively rare, the so-called living crystals were almost exclusively the property of the Jedi, who seemed to regard the kyber as sacrosanct. Finger-sized ones powered their lightsabers, and larger ones were rumored to adorn the ornate façades of their isolated temples.

“Stardust,” Galen said. “That’s what’s in her eyes.”

Jyn is a Valltii citizen,

For ordinary beings, life was a constant interplay between order and chaos, day and night, light and dark.

even if she wasn’t able to use the Force, she could at least feel it,

Most would have remembered him as the one who was always speaking out of turn and yet managed to graduate with high honors.

Little by little, however, he came to appreciate Galen not only for his intellectual superiority, but also for his unique spirit.

He became fascinated by the prodigy from Grange, and on a couple of occasions had been Galen’s protector in fights or brawls.

His leadership became as important to a project as their contributions, and he built a reputation as someone who could be the interface between the ones with power and financing and the ones who could calculate and construct and make dreams come true.

It continued to puzzle Krennic that Count Dooku hadn’t attempted to launch a preemptory strike on the construction site.

He's prob been ordered by Sideous not to launch a strike since Palpatine is controlling both the republic and the separatists in what has to be the most adventageous coup in the history of the republic

fifty wonders of the Core;

thirty wonders of the Mid Rim;

twenty-five wonders of the...

Was it perhaps from Adjutant General Tarkin, who had actually befriended him?

interesting that tarkin would befriend galen, is that a source of krennic's hatred for tarkin?

my only hope

over.

Anakin & Obi-Wan captured Dooku then and now the Clone Wars are over

Aboard was Emperor Palpatine, said to be recovering from wounds suffered during an engagement with disloyal Jedi.

Kit Fisto, Mace Windu and that other Jedi in RoTS

city-world—an ecumenopolis

COMPNOR—the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order

Project Celestial Power was a kind of gilded cage.

Only fear would bring lasting order, and the battle station would come to embody that.

All Has had to do was follow procedure, take the credits and run, like he always had. So why was he feeling dirty? And why did his stomach feel like it was tied in knots?

forced to pick a side, unlike DJ

Neither optimistic nor pessimistic, she could do little more than hope that Jyn would grow up in more stable times.

that's fucking sad, jyn does NOT grow up in more stable times.

Lyra replayed the conversation in her head; then thought: She wants us to know where she is.

the child hurrying ahead of everyone, wearing a toy sword in a scabbard and holding two stuffed animals in her arms.

“The Force could only disappear if all life in the galaxy perished.”

“He is determined to make an example of one world, in the hope that that world will serve as a kind of beacon and usher in the new age.”

holy shit, alderaan.

Each of the crystals was as unique as a snowflake or a human iris.

the crystal would show no change in temperature; and he knew also that it would not warm a sheath or a towel or any inanimate object. It responded only to life, even plant life.

kyber’s mix of transparency and opacity—characteristics the ancient Jedi had referred to as “the water of the kyber.”

refraction. Thus far the research team hadn’t succeeded in pumping laser energy into the crystals without weakening their lattices, almost the way living cells were affected by radiation.

With the proper faceting, the pulse energy released by a crystal could be greatly amplified and, with the help of containment devices, directed into a collimating beam of incredible power. In theory, at any rate. It might also be possible to increase the energy yield by forcing the lattices to realign; by forcing the crystal to change its properties.

Realigning the lattices along a dark or nighttime axis might allow for greater control over the crystals’ almost deliberate tendency to diffract.

Was there such a thing as a noble lie?

“What we fail to protect, Captain, we will leave in ruins.

He resisted every attempt by the Senate to create an army, much less the push to wage war with the Separatists.

oh the fucking irony. well, not quite irony, but the subterfuge. palpatine was smart, that dick.

“Believing that your actions mattered, and believing that a good end would come of them, even if you didn’t live to see the results.”

“Smuggler or a freedom fighter, which is it?”

“Started out one, became the other,”

The hulk of a crashed Acclamator-class cruiser stood as a grim memorial to a pitched battle in which a group of Jedi Knights had been taken by surprise.

Order 66?

Krennic—attired to suit his new rank of full commander in a white tunic with a white capelet, the outfit he would wear on his next visit to the Emperor’s court

just deserts,

it's just desserts. not deserts. editing error.

“See to it that they’re permanently relocated.”

like to the grave, what a dick

“I’m surprised they haven’t attempted to melt the polar ice caps.” “They may yet. Many even took to smashing everything in their households before fleeing in response to the government’s call for a frenzy of annihilation.”

i stan the people of salient.

A world of his own, replete with a power to rival that of the Emperor and Darth Vader; that of the Imperial Navy itself.

Hubris

A threat wasn’t effective unless one was prepared to carry through with it, and Lyra presented complications—not out of any fondness he felt for her but because of what her disappearance would do to Galen.

Was Galen to become the prize in a contest between them? Well, hadn’t he always been that?

GAY

“You realize that he’s never going to stop looking for you, Galen. You’re in his blood, crystal research or no. He’s never going to let go of you entirely.”

GAY