No Prisoners Review

THE CLONE WARS
1. THE CLONE WARS
    ***+ Jul/09
2. WILD SPACE
    *** Mar/11
3. NO PRISONERS
    **+ Jan/16

ALL TIMELINES

PREQUEL ERA

BEFORE STAR WARS
-5000 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
1. GOLDEN AGE OF THE SITH
2. FALL OF THE SITH EMPIRE
LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH
1. PRECIPICE
2. SKYBORN
3. PARAGON
4. SAVIOR

-4000 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
3. KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH
5. PURGATORY
6. SENTINEL

-3998 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
4. FREEDON NADD UPRISING
5. DARK LORDS OF THE SITH
6. THE SITH WAR

-3986 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
7. REDEMPTION

-3840 YEARS
THE OLD REPUBLIC
1. REVAN

-3520 YEARS
KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
2. DECEIVED
3. FATAL ALLIANCE
4. ANNIHILATION
PLAGUE
RED HARVEST

-3000 YEARS
LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH
7. PANTHEON
8. SECRETS

-1032 YEARS
KERRA HOLT
1. KNIGHT ERRANT

-1000 YEARS
DARTH BANE
1. PATH OF DESTRUCTION
JEDI VS. SITH
2. RULE OF TWO
3. DYNASTY OF EVIL

-67 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
VOW OF JUSTICE

-44 YEARS
JEDI APPRENTICE
1. THE RISING FORCE
2. THE DARK RIVAL
3. THE HIDDEN PAST
4. MARK OF THE CROWN
5. DEFENDERS OF THE DEAD
6. THE UNCERTAIN PATH
7. THE CAPTIVE TEMPLE
8. THE DAY OF RECKONING

-43 YEARS
JEDI APPRENTICE
9. THE FIGHT FOR TRUTH
10. THE SHATTERED PEACE
11. THE DEADLY HUNTER
12. THE EVIL EXPERIMENT
13. DANGEROUS RESCUE

-42 YEARS
JEDI APPRENTICE
SE1 DECEPTIONS
14. THE TIES THAT BIND
15. THE DEATH OF HOPE
16. CALL TO VENGEANCE
17. THE ONLY WITNESS
18. THE THREAT WITHIN
SE2 THE FOLLOWERS

-34 YEARS
JEDI COUNCIL
ACTS OF WAR

-33 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
PRELUDE TO REBELLION
DARTH MAUL
SABOTEUR
PRE-EPISODE I NOVEL
CLOAK OF DECEPTION
DARTH MAUL
COMICS
SHADOW HUNTER

-32 YEARS
EPISODE I
THE PHANTOM MENACE
EARLY REPUBLIC
OUTLANDER
EMISSARIES TO MALASTARE
JANGO FETT
OPEN SEASONS

-31 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
TWILIGHT
INFINITY'S END
BOUNTY HUNTERS
AURRA SING

-30 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
STARCRASH
HUNT FOR AURRA SING
DARKNESS
STARK HYPERSPACE WAR
THE DEVARONIAN VERSION

-29 YEARS
EPISODE I BRIDGE
ROGUE PLANET

-28 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
RITE OF PASSAGE
JEDI QUEST
0. THE PATH TO TRUTH

-27 YEARS
PREQUEL-ERA NOVEL
OUTBOUND FLIGHT
JEDI QUEST
1. WAY OF THE APPRENTICE
2. TRAIL OF THE JEDI
3. THE DANGEROUS GAMES
BOUNTY HUNTERS
1. JANGO FETT
2. ZAM WESELL

-26 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
4. MASTER OF DISGUISE

-25 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
5. SCHOOL OF FEAR
6. THE SHADOW TRAP

-24 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
7. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
8. CHANGING OF THE GUARD
EARLY REPUBLIC
HONOR AND DUTY

-23 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
9. THE FALSE PEACE
10. THE FINAL SHOWDOWN
EPISODE I BRIDGE
THE APPROACHING STORM

-22 YEARS
EPISODE II
ATTACK OF THE CLONES
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
1. HARD CONTACT
BOBA FETT
1. THE FIGHT TO SURVIVE
2. CROSSFIRE
3. MAZE OF DECEPTION
REPUBLIC
1. THE DEFENSE OF KAMINO
BOBA FETT
4. HUNTED
REPUBLIC
2. VICTORIES AND SACRIFICES

-21 YEARS
CLONE WARS
SHORT STORY COLLECTION
LEGACY OF THE JEDI
1. SHATTERPOINT
2. THE CESTUS DECEPTION
THE HIVE
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
2. TRIPLE ZERO
REPUBLIC
3. LAST STAND ON JABIIM
4. LIGHT AND DARK
5. THE BEST BLADES

-20 YEARS
THE CLONE WARS
1. THE CLONE WARS
2. WILD SPACE
3. NO PRISONERS
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
3. TRUE COLORS
CLONE WARS
SECRETS OF THE JEDI
MEDSTAR
1. BATTLE SURGEONS
2. JEDI HEALER
CLONE WARS
3. JEDI TRIAL
REPUBLIC
6. ON THE FIELDS OF BATTLE
CLONE WARS
4. DARK RENDEZVOUS
REPUBLIC
7. WHEN THEY WERE BROTHERS
8. THE LAST SIEGE, THE FINAL TRUTH
BOBA FETT
5. A NEW THREAT
6. PURSUIT
EPISODE III BRIDGES
GENERAL GRIEVOUS
LABYRINTH OF EVIL

-19 YEARS
EPISODE III
REVENGE OF THE SITH
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
4. ORDER 66
DARK LORD
THE RISE OF DARTH VADER
REPUBLIC
9. ENDGAME
IMPERIAL COMMANDO
501ST
THE LAST OF THE JEDI
1. THE DESPERATE MISSION
2. DARK WARNING
3. UNDERWORLD
4. DEATH ON NABOO
5. A TANGLED WEB
6. RETURN OF THE DARK SIDE
7. SECRET WEAPON
8. AGAINST THE EMPIRE
9. MASTER OF DECEPTION
10. RECKONING

ALL TIMELINES


		NO PRISONERS A novel by Karen Traviss (2009, Del Rey) The Clone Wars, book 3 Set 20 years before Star Wars: A New Hope When a field agent is stuck in hostile territory, a Republic captain must decide if rescuing her could be a conflict of interest.

	+	Read January 11th to 20th, 2016
		A descent story about a rescue of a field agent and the conflict of personal attachment. Unfortunately, the author’s prejudice against the Jedi shines through way too bright, obviously stemming from the other anti-Jedi novels she has written. Spoiler review: This author likes to explore the individuality of the clone troopers, and that’s a worthwhile exploration. In Hard Contact, we meet a young clone who finds himself in unexpected situations, and a young Jedi who pairs up with him, finally realizing that he is unique, even if he does share the same genetic material as all his brothers. In the follow-up novels, the author explores the idea of a culture, and brings it to bear through Mandalore, because that’s where Jango Fett was from. But at some point, she decided that the Jedi were bad, that they all treated the clones worse than droids, and didn’t think of them as living creatures. Even the main Jedi characters in those novels forsake their Jedi heritage and go rogue, doing Jedi stuff, but not answering to the Jedi Council. I can’t believe that at all. In the Clone Wars TV series, just about every Jedi we meet treats the clones with respect; everybody is doing their job, and is doing it well. This book continues the anti-Jedi sentiment from Order 66, though it precedes it in the timeline. Back in Order 66, the author introduced an alternate Jedi sect, led by Master Altis, and to whom Calista (from Children of the Jedi) was a member. That group reappears here, and causes both Anakin and Ahsoka to get confused and rethink their views, even though we never get a sense of this reflection in the TV series or in Revenge of the Sith, especially in the scene where Anakin seeks Yoda’s help on his attachments. The entire story is about attachment, whether it’s Anakin to Padme, Anakin and Ahsoka to Rex and the other clones, or Pellaeon to Hallena, the spy who they are supposed to go rescue. In that way, attachment is heavily explored in the context of war and the Jedi beliefs –at least those espoused by the Jedi Council. At one point, Pellaeon wonders if Yoda is right (Yoda takes a lot of the blame for the concept of attachment leading to the Dark Side (where does that come from?) –I wonder if he was spurned by an ex-lover at some point 900 years ago), because he wonders often if he is risking his crew for his own personal feelings. Would he go through the actions again for somebody else? Yes, he decides. The story is made more entertaining by the fact that Pellaeon is out with a skeleton crew on an experimental ship that keeps malfunctioning, but of course they are the only ones within range to help with the rescue (when according to The Empire Strikes Back, it only takes a few seconds to get “to the other side of the galaxy by now!”). Anakin is off with Padme, so he ships Ahsoka out with Rex to stop her from asking questions. It’s clear here that Rex knows about Anakin’s love for the senator, and I think Ahsoka suspects so, too. Rex, in addition to babysitting Ahsoka, has a few new clone recruits to train. When they decide to do their extraction of Hallena, one of them dies, which affects everyone on the team, including Hallena, Ahsoka and Altis, none of whom think of the downed soldier as an expendable asset. Hallena, for her part, did what she could to determine the roots of the insurgence on JanFathal, but she was sent in too late. She made contact her first day on new shadow-job, and became part of the insurgence immediately. But when the Separatists began their attack, she could do nothing, and her comlink betrayed her, so she was taken captive. She has sad thoughts about her captors when the clones kill them, but I assume that’s due to the prisoners’ syndrome, though in a war zone, everybody is fighting either for or against change, depending on their beliefs –it doesn’t make them bad guys. The clones successfully extract Hallena, but their ship is being pursued, and Pelleaon’s ship is under attack, so he jumps temporarily out of the system. Unfortunately, the central computer is not working properly, so they jumped way off course. Fortunately, more of Altis’ Jedi show up, and using the Force, they direct the ship to the correct coordinates after effecting some repairs. Meanwhile, Anakin arrives, and helps the clones get back to the surface to wait out the return of Pellaeon and their ship out of there. They use subterfuge tactics to commandeer a more powerful escape ship, and get out by the time their ride comes back. Callista is here shown to have an affinity for computers, which would link in with Children of the Jedi, where she actually merges her consciousness with one of the Empire’s ultimate weapons. By the end of this story, she gets the weapons online by sending her mind through its systems, and almost succumbs to the joy of it. I guess she’s prone to that sort of attachment… The final battle allows Pellaeon to escape, and marks the question of how many people should die to bring one spy back alive? I asked the same question in Attack of the Clones, where so many Jedi died just trying to rescue Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. There are no answers, but Hallena goes her own way, leaving Pellaeon to wonder if relationships are such a good idea, after all.