The Truce at Bakura - Kathy Tyers

Set immediately following the Rebel victory over the Empire, Kathy Tyers's novel tells of the desperate efforts by Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia to protect the New Republic from a potential invasion by a race of reptilian creatures bent on dominating the galaxy. Simultaneous publication with a new Star Wars hardcover, The Crystal Star. nNo sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burnedto ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts acall for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost.Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first tomeet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaderswho, once allied with the now dead Emperor, areapproaching Imperial space with only one goal; totaldomination. Princess Leia sees the mission as anopportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for theAlliance. But it assumes even greater importancewhen a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to LukeSkywalker with the message that he must go toBakura-or risk losing everything the Rebels have foughtso desperately to achieve.