Can you believe were only one week away from the release of James Lucenos STAR WARS: TARKIN! In honor of such a momentous occasion heres another mini-excerpt, which sees the Grand Moff meeting with Palpatine and reveals some of Tarkins hidden thoughts on the Emperor, and the Jedi. “Obliteration.” “Whatever you deem necessary, my lord. Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven’t been duly pun¬ished cannot be reasoned with or edified.” The Emperor repeated the words to himself, then said, “That has the ring of a parental lesson, Governor Tarkin.” Tarkin laughed pleasantly. “So it was, my lord—though applied in a more personal manner.” The Emperor swiveled his chair toward the light, and Tarkin glimpsed his sepulchral visage; the molten skin beneath his eyes, the bulging forehead. After all these years, he was still not accustomed to it. “When one consorts with vipers, one runs the risk of being struck,” the Emperor had told Tarkin following the attack on him by a quartet of Jedi Masters. There were many stories about what had occurred that day in the chancellor’s office. The official explanation was that members of the Jedi Order had turned up to arrest Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, and a ferocious duel had ensued. The matter of precisely how the Jedi had been killed or the Emperor’s face deformed had never been settled to everyone’s satisfaction, and so Tarkin had his private thoughts about the Emperor, as well. That he and Vader were kindred spirits suggested that both of them might be Sith. Tarkin often wondered if that wasn’t the actual reason Palpatine had been targeted for arrest or assassination by the Jedi. It wasn’t so much that the Order wished to take charge of the Republic; it was that the Jedi couldn’t abide the idea of a member of the ancient Order they opposed and abhorred emerging as the hero of the Clone Wars and assuming the mantle of Emperor. #TarkinTime is coming 11/4, be sure to pre-order #Tarkin before it goes on sale next week. And check out the great landing page weve made for the book, complete with links to all your favorite book-sellers. atrandom/star-wars-tarkin/ #DelRey #DelReyStarWars #StarWars #TarkinTime
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:40:01 +0000
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