


And even better, she can help them get to it. In exchange for help starting a new life, the Imperial deserter brings word of a powerful, potentially invaluable tool for their fight against the Empire. On what should be a routine mission, they meet a stormtrooper determined to chart her own course with the help of Cal and the crew.

Even as the galaxy’s future grows more uncertain by the day, with each blow struck against the Empire the Mantis crew grows more daring. More important, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the Jedi Order. Together, Cal’s crew has brought down bounty hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself. Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis.
