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began publishing The New Jedi Order, a multi-authored series of Star Wars novels that told the story of an alien invasion. In 1999, Del Rey books and Lucasfilm Ltd. This was going to be the first of a 3-part series for the 'New Jedi Order.'" ―Terese Nielsen " My other favorite is the first one I did for Del Rey, called Knightfall. Although Jedi Storm had been completed, neither it nor any of the trilogy's individual volumes were ever published. Greg Keyes was thus contracted to write the Edge of Victory Duology, a pair of Solo-centric novels that replaced Knightfall. The Jedi Anakin Solo was slated to die in the upcoming hardcover novel Star by Star, and The New Jedi Order 's planning team wanted the books leading into Star by Star to focus on his character. Knightfall was going to star the scientist Danni Quee and the Jedi Knight Jorallen, both of whom were caught up in the New Republic and New Jedi Order's ongoing war with the extra-galactic species of religious zealots known as the Yuuzhan Vong.Īfter Friedman completed writing Jedi Storm, however, Del Rey and Lucasfilm Ltd. to write the trilogy, which would have contained three volumes: Jedi Storm, Jedi Fire, and Jedi Blood. Author Michael Jan Friedman was contracted by Del Rey Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. The Knightfall Trilogy was a three-book cycle set to be published in 2001 as part of The New Jedi Order series. " Lucas said they weren't happy with the way the story was going, so rather than salvaging what had been done, they canned it." ―Terese Nielsen
