Lina Soh. She sat between Voru and Matari, reading the message transcript in increasing horror. Even through the last hours of suspense, she had always believed that the brilliant minds aboard Starlight Beacon would find answers. The Jedi always did. They would protect the station and those aboard it from the worst. Instead—half of Starlight gone? The greatest of all the Great Works, ripped apart, burning up? I should’ve called for a civilian effort before, Soh realized. She hadn’t done so in part because it had seemed so impossible that Starlight Beacon could truly be falling. But she would
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