Star Wars: X-wing (book series)
[1][2] While preparing to write the series, Stackpole contacted Star Wars Expanded Universe author Timothy Zahn, whose Thrawn trilogy also features a group called Rogue Squadron.
Starfighters of Adumar focuses on a few major characters (including, several officers from Rogue Squadron, namely: Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Wes Janson, and Hobbie Klivian).
It is set at the beginning of the New Republic era of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and centers on the creation of a new Rogue Squadron by legendary Rebel Alliance pilot Wedge Antilles.
The novel culminates in a daring attack on the Imperial stronghold of Borleias, the first step in an invasion of the capital world Coruscant.
With worries of attacks by Zsinj's forces, the Provisional Council convenes and decides that the invasion of Coruscant (the capital of the Galactic Empire) must proceed.
The Squadron uses the orbital mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the reservoirs of Coruscant, creating massive thunderstorms that disable the planetary shields, and allowing the Alliance fleet a fighting chance at taking the planet, but at the cost of Corran's apparent death.
This, combined with Imperial Intelligence officer Kirtan Loor's terrorist activities while taking orders from the Palpatine Counterinsurgency Front, leaves Coruscant and the New Republic in a state of emergency.
With Lusankya exposed, Isard reveals it is actually a Super Star Destroyer buried under Coruscant and uses it to escape the planet, wreaking untold havoc in its wake.
When pitching the idea to Admiral Ackbar, the Mon Calamari raised the issue of the cost to assemble such an elite unit.
They eventually manage to gain Zsinj's attention and perform several missions for them, all the while discovering that he steal the Imperial Remnant's brand now Super Star Destroyer Razor's Kiss to add to his fleet.
The Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist somehow escaped destruction and with it the New Republic's greatest threat, the infamous warlord Zsinj.
To defeat him, Wraith Squadron must join a combat task force led by the only man crafty enough to beat Zsinj at his own game: Han Solo.
Cornered by both forces, Zsinj enacts a daring ploy to fake the destruction of the Iron Fist, ensuring he escapes to fight another day while Han and the New Republic believe they have won.
In return for providing Rogue Squadron with state of the art TIE Defenders and the location of Jan Dodonna and the other prisoners who were on the Lusankya, Isard tasks them with defeating Krennel and killing her clone.
Rogue Squadron are able to successfully achieve their mission, and also correctly predict the whole operation was a distraction so that Isard could steal the newly repaired Lusankya.
Once they arrive, the X-wing pilots are challenged by Adumar's fierce warriors and attacked by Imperial assassins bent on eliminating all competition.
However, despite impressing the Adumari with his prowess, Wedge openly criticizes the nation of Cartann's willingness to kill other pilots in ritual combat.
New Republic diplomat Tomer Darpen betrays Red Flight and lies to Cartann's Perator that Wedge seeks death in honorable combat.
