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《绝地学院》第二部里，埃克萨·库恩的不死阴魂再现。
达斯·西迪厄斯的四千年之前、达斯·贝恩的三千年之前、“真正的西斯”回归已知银河的数百年前，曾有一位在古老的西斯预言中早有提及西斯尊主——埃克萨·库恩，将一场名为大西斯战争的战火烧遍旧共和国，在银河系里投下了恐怖和毁灭的阴影。为了阻止这股黑暗面的洪流，共和国和绝地的古老军队团结一致，终结了库恩的统治。
这个故事被记载在千年史诗漫画《绝地传奇》之中
星球大战论坛 Star Wars Forum的潜水鸟翻译的官网资料：
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Before Vader, before Maul, before Sidious... there was a Dark Lord of the Sith that cast a shadow of terror and destruction across the galaxy. The ancient forces of the Republic and the Jedi banded together to stop the torrent of the dark side, and bring an end to Exar Kun's rule.
在维德、摩尔、西迪厄斯……之前，曾有一名西斯尊主在整个银河系里投下了恐怖和毁灭的阴影。为了阻止这股黑暗面的洪流，共和国和绝地的古老军队团结一致，终结了埃克萨·库恩的统治。
He began as a simple student, studying under the revered Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas. Like the dark apprentices that would follow throughout history, a basic impatience undermined all of Kun's training. His pride did not have the boundaries that his instruction did. Eager to ascend beyond his Jedi abilities, Kun abandoned his master and journeyed to the strife-torn world of Onderon. There, he encountered the spirit of Freedon Nadd, an ancient Sith who gave him further instruction.
埃克萨·库恩起初只是一个平凡的学生，师从于可敬的绝地大师沃多-西奥斯克·巴斯。跟后来那些黑暗的学徒一样，本能的急躁破坏了库恩的所有训练。他接受了有限的教导，却拥有无限的妄自尊大。出于对超越自己绝地能力的渴望，库恩背弃他的师父，来到因战火而千疮百孔的翁德伦。在那里，他遭遇弗里登·纳德的阴魂——这个古老的西斯给了他更深入的黑暗面指导。
Through Nadd's disembodied commands, Kun voyaged to the Sith mausoleum world of Korriban. There, ancient Sith spirits tried Kun's resolve. His body was crushed in a cave-in of tons of rocks, and Kun could not call upon the Force to help himself. Yet, the dark side offered what the Force couldn't. By giving into his fear and rage, Kun was able to heal himself and clear the obstacles. He emerged from the caverns transformed, fueled by the dark side of the Force.
通过纳德阴魂的引导，库恩飞往了西斯陵墓星球科里班。那里的古西斯阴魂们测试了库恩的决心。他的身体被成吨的巨石压在下面，库恩无法召唤原力来帮助自己。但是，黑暗面给予了库恩原力所无法给予的东西。在全身心投入恐惧和愤怒后，库恩得以治疗创伤，清除障碍。从洞穴中出来的他蜕变了，原力黑暗面浸染全身。
Following examples of ancient Sith Lords that preceded him, Kun came to the long forgotten Sith temples of Yavin 4. In Sith tradition, he took on an apprentice, the fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma, and the two unleashed a scourge that would forever scar a galaxy. In the ages before Darth Bane's restrictions, Kun and Qel-Droma were able to recruit more Jedi into their ranks. Many young Jedi turned against their masters and slew them. Kun himself extinguished the life of Master Baas Baas in the halls of Coruscant's Senate chambers. It was a dark time indeed.
跟随先前那些古西斯尊主的足迹，库恩来到雅文4号卫星上被长期遗忘的西斯神殿里。按照西斯的传统，他收了堕落的绝地尤利克·凯尔-德罗马为徒。他们两人的暴行给银河系带来了难以磨灭的伤痕。在那个没有达斯·贝恩限制的年代，库恩和凯尔-德罗马招募了更多的绝地加入他们的队伍。许多年轻的绝地背叛并杀害了他们的师父。库恩本人在科洛桑议会大厅夺去了巴斯大师的生命。那确实是一个黑暗的年代。
Kun was fixated in unleashing pure, unbridled power through ancient Sith means. He practiced Sith magic and alchemy, crafting horrific creatures on the moon of Yavin 4. He brandished a Sith lightsaber with twin blades that increased the potent weapon's lethality. His followers triggered ancient technologies that detonated the stars of the Cron Cluster, wiping out entire worlds and searing the surface of Ossus.
库恩专注于通过古老的西斯手段释放纯粹而剧烈的力量。他修习西斯魔法和炼金术，在雅文4号卫星上创造恐怖的生物。他挥舞着一把有双头剑刃的西斯光剑，双头剑刃能增强这种强大武器的杀伤力。他的追随者触发古老的科技，引爆克伦星团的多颗恒星，毁灭了很多星球，烧焦了奥苏斯星球的表面。
Finally, a joint Republic and Jedi taskforce came to Yavin 4 to capture Exar Kun. He knew he could not survive the attack, so he summoned his dark side energies and trapped his consciousness into the temples his Massassi warriors had built for him.
最后，共和国和绝地的联合特遣队奔赴雅文4号卫星抓捕埃克萨·库恩。他知道不可能在这场进攻中幸存，于是召唤其黑暗面能量，将他的意识封印在马萨西战士们为他建造的神庙中。
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埃克萨·库恩是作品出版时间里，最早使用双刃光剑的角色。
可以说没有他，就不会有后来电影里摩尔的双刃光剑。
做为《绝地传奇》系列最后一个大BOOS，在共和国军队绝地舰队包围雅文4号卫星时。面对数千绝地与大批旧共和国军队。自知没有胜算的埃克萨·库恩发动古老的西斯魔法仪式，献祭自己的全部马萨西军团，吸收它们的生命力转化为不死阴魂。
对此数千绝地联手释放了“光明之墙(Wall of Light)”技能——类似于《黑暗帝国》里卢克与莱娅联合阿纳金的胎儿释放的“原力和谐”技能。不过属于相比原力河蟹，光明之墙属于在质上有所下降，但在量上显著提高的类型。
（如果能即保有原力河蟹的质，又拥有光明之墙的量，也许埃克萨·库恩会直接被消灭也说不定？）
光明面力量墙扫荡整颗卫星，清除卫星上的黑暗面，并一度将埃克萨·库恩的不死阴魂封印于自己的神殿内。
注：
埃克萨·库恩这种阴魂跟死亡后产生的阴魂差别很大，不同于死后正常产生的
会随着维持存在消耗力量，随着时间推移力量明显逐渐减退的，最后终将无力维持存在而消逝的阴魂。
这种不死阴魂被包括达斯·普雷格斯在内的很多角色，认定为是可以永久的。除了拥有阴魂本身的弱点——这种阴魂弱点多大程度上是因为那个光明之墙的限制还很难说，埃克萨·库恩这种阴魂应该是不会（或者几乎不会）随时间流逝而力量下降的。
在《绝地学院》中，随着卢克等十几名原力使用者的到来，埃克萨·库恩的阴魂已经在沉眠中苏醒了。
随着时间的推移，当年光明之墙的封印效果在逐渐减退，此时埃克萨·库恩的阴魂已经能够几乎不受限制的影响出现在雅文4号卫星各地，并能够影响在精神与物理两方面的世界。
But as the battle for a planet rages, an even greater danger arises at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy. A brilliant student delves dangerously into the dark side of the Force and unleashes the spirit of an ancient master of the evil order that warped Darth Vader himself. Working together, they may become an enemy greater than any the New Republic has ever fought… more powerful than even a Jedi Master can face.
第二部
The huge orange sphere of the gas planet Yavin heaved itself over the horizon of its fourth mood. Soft, misty light shone across the ever-stirring jungles and the ancient stone temples.
Luke Skywalker used a Jedi refreshing technique to remove weariness from his body. He had slept soundly--but the future of the New Republic and the fate of the galaxy weighed heavily upon him.
Luke stood atop the squared pyramid of the Great Temple that had been abandoned millennia before by the lost Massassi race. During the Alliance's early struggles against the Empire, they had built a secret base in the ruins, from which they had launched their desperate attack against the first Death Star. Now, eleven years after the Rebels' departure, Luke had returned to the fourth moon of Yavin.
Now he was a Jedi. A Jedi Master. He would be the first of a new generation, like those who had protected the Republic for a thousand generations. The old Jedi Knights had been respected and powerful, until Darth Vader and the Emperor had hunted and slaughtered virtually all of them.
Luke had received support from Mon Mothma, the New Republic's Chief of State, to seek others who had a potential to use the Force--trainees who might become part of a new order of Jedi. Luke had managed to bring a dozen students to his "academy" on Yavin 4, but he felt uncertain about the best way to train them.
卢克开篇时在雅文4，这个当年由西斯的下属建造了大量神殿等巨型建筑群，后来却出现了颇有讽刺意味的一幕——巨型建筑群却被反抗军用来反抗西斯领导下的银河帝国的丛林卫星上，在郁郁葱葱的丛林对面思考回忆着旧绝地武士团的过去与新绝地武士团的未来。
他有着对父亲堕落事件重演的担忧，也有着对重建新绝地的规划。并颇为欣喜得感受着雅文的磅礴生命力
随后斯特林和甘托里斯跑来报告，他们发现了一座新的马萨西神殿——这座神殿就是埃克萨·库恩被完全封印的千年之中，其阴魂所在。
正在这时韦奇·安蒂列斯到来，卢克高兴的迎接对方的同时问起基普·达伦——这么急着要学徒？
然后卢克表示要老妹莱娅和杰娜杰森姐弟来雅文4号卫星，可以连渡假修养兼被自己教授绝地技能。恩，让老妹和三四岁的外甥外甥女到埃克萨·库恩苏醒活动的雅文来渡假，天行者家族如此喜欢刺激的生活么？
在交谈中，韦奇提到自己如今在负责保护Qwi Xux的安全——泡天然呆萌妹子才是真的吧？
而此时汉老爸在老婆与鱼头上将执行外交使命的情况下，拉着年轻的基普·达伦在玩滑雪。并鼓动基普·达伦，能开着飞船绕过黑洞，滑雪有啥好怕？
俩人的惊险滑雪玩得正开心，突然接到鱼头上将阿克巴的个人星际战斗机出事的消息，汉闻讯中断休假。
此时C-3PO继续苦不堪言的给杰娜杰森姐弟当保姆，现实世界里这个年龄端的孩子其实正是及其胡闹的年龄，不过因为活动能力有限胡闹程度也不至于太大。但这俩小家伙特别早熟，而且颇有原力天赋与运动才能（比如扔雪球砸C-3PO的运动），还喜欢胡闹捉弄人，……幸好这时汉表示休假中断。
此时达拉姐姐在失去灭日者后扔决定进攻新共和国，同时很不屑于那些如今残存只知内斗的帝国军阀。
卢克继续着对绝地的训练：话说那时卢克所提供的正规绝地系训练，除了继承发展自尤达与欧比万之外，其他主要都是通过《黑暗帝国》里获得的《绝地传奇》中保存下那批古代绝地全息仪的复古化训练。
卢克启动沃多-西奥斯克·巴斯（Vodo-Siosk Baas）——埃克萨·库恩的绝地师父——的全息仪，由看门人对大家讲述知识。其间看门人提到大西斯战争与堕落的库恩，以及古代西斯的相关，并提醒卢克小心自己的学徒被黑暗面诱惑。其后卢克在担忧思考着当年的绝地堕落事件，如果在自己学徒身上重演的后果。
沃多-西奥斯克·巴斯大师VS埃克萨·库恩
（这里巴斯大师使用原力技能Force Weapon强化手中木杖，使木杖抵挡库恩光剑的攻击
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随后甘托里斯在着手自己动手打造光剑，如同之前所说卢克这批绝地学徒的特点是强大而不完善。
做为在基普·达伦到来前卢克潜力最强大的学徒，而且之前就对原力颇有自我摸索甚至似乎能够幻视到埃克萨·库恩的甘托里斯，在很多地方已经明显超过普通正式绝地——从曾经是绝地，后来成为帕尔帕廷手下黑暗绝地，又被卢克唤回光明面成为卢克学徒的Kam Solusar跟他的对比可以看出。
但是，之前没有受过完善绝地训练的甘托里斯，又有很多明显缺陷。比如他还不会——制造光剑，卢克也没急着教这玩意。
而颇为羡慕玩光剑的绝地，想早点玩把光剑又为人自负的甘托里斯，想不通过卢克自己摸索着做一把。
此时埃克萨·库恩的阴魂影响甘托里斯，教授他制作光剑的知识。结果甘托里斯依靠埃克萨·库恩的传授做出了一把很特别的光剑，这把光剑的剑刃能够在战斗中根据需要变化伸长缩短。
此时科洛桑：
因为阿克巴上将个人星际战斗机遭遇由帝国残余的富尔甘所指使的破坏，导致在沃尔特克斯星球发生可怕的事故，许多无辜的沃尔人为此丧命。虽然鱼头上将与莱娅都没有因此死亡，但鱼头上将悲伤之下辞职提前退休，回到蒙卡拉马里。
此时甘托里斯在一次训练中亮出自己制造的光剑，在卢克震惊中提出对卢克的挑战。
卢克震惊疑惑又发现甘托里斯有滑向黑暗面的趋势，面对甘托里斯的连续连续攻击只守不攻：
"Fight me, Master Skywalker," Gantoris said. He removed his robe to display the padded captain's uniform he had worn as the leader of his people on Eol Sha.
"Where did you get a lightsaber?" Luke asked cautiously, his mind whirling. None of his students should have been able to master the technology or the discipline yet.
Gantoris fingered the controls on the handle, andwitha loud spitting sound the glowing blade extended, a white incandescent core of energy fringed with deep violet. He moved his wrist, flicking the blade back and forth, testing it. A bone-vibrating hum scalded the air. "Isn't it the test of a Jedi to build his own lightsaber?"
Luke proceeded carefully. "The lightsaber may seem the simplest of weapons, but it is difficult to master. An unpracticed wielder is as likely to injure himself as his opponent. You aren't ready for this, Gantoris."
But Gantoris stood like a weathered Massassi colossus, holding the blazing edge of his lightsaber vertically in front of his face. "If you don't ignite your lightsaber and fight me, I will cut you down right here." He paused with a smirk. "That would be a rather embarrassing fate for a Jedi Master, wouldn't it?"
甘托里斯问卢克，闲杂自己是否是绝地：
"Am I a Jedi now?"
卢克回答是：
"Training requires diligence and commitment. And control. A Jedi needs to know more than how to build a lightsaber. He must also learn how and when to use it!"
"The lightsaber is the weapon of a Jedi Knight, but a true Jedi rarely uses it to settle a dispute. It is better to outthink and outmaneuver your opponent. But when forced, a Jedi strikes quickly and decisively!"
甘托里斯攻击中怒而启动光剑伸长功能，光剑突然伸长一位，损毁了卢克的衣服。
卢克再度吃惊下，并感到甘托里斯的情况，类似自己狂怒下砍老爹手的情况——你是在占甘托里斯辈分上的便易么？
接着卢克隔空用原力关闭了甘托里斯的光剑剑刃，并隔空将甘托里斯的光剑夺到自己手中——我有点怀疑《莫蒂斯三部曲》里，儿子隔空关欧比万阿纳金阿索卡光剑，并夺取光剑的场景是不是直接出自这一幕
（因为儿子梦中调戏阿纳金那幕，很像库恩在梦中对卢克喊“我是你爸爸”的场景）：
新共和国在辩论中，决定不能使用灭日者这种过于残暴的武器：
Chewie blatted a quiet but definite negative. Wedge shushed them both so he could hear Qwi as she spoke. Her musical voice didn't falter, and Wedge felt a warm pride spreading in his chest.
"The Sun Crusher is the most formidable weapon ever devised," Qwi said. "I know this better than anyone, because I designed it. It is an order of magnitude more dangerous than even the Death Star. It is no longer in the clutches of Imperial powers--but I'm concerned about what the New Republic intends. I have refused to divulge its workings for a reason, but you have kept it locked in your research bays for weeks, tinkering with it, studying it, trying to unlock its secrets. It will do you no good."
She paused to take a long breath, and Wedge worried that she might lose her nerve. But Qwi straightened her slender form and spoke again. "I urge you to destroy the Sun Crusher. A weapon of such power should not be trusted in the hands of any government."
Mon Mothma looked weak and weary as she gazed down at Qwi. Below and to her left, old General Jan Dodonna spoke up. "Dr. Xux, according to reports from our engineers, this weapon cannot be destroyed. The quantum armor makes it impossible for us even to dismantle it."
"Then you must find some other way to dispose of the Sun Crusher," Qwi said.
Sounding flustered, Senator Garm Bel-Iblis, Mon Mothma's old nemesis, rose to his feet. "We cannot allow a weapon of such power to slip out of our grasp," he said. "With the Sun Crusher, we have a tactical advantage available to none of our Imperial enemies."
"Enough," Mon Mothma said in a quavering voice. Her cheeks were flushed, which served to highlight the pallor of her skin. "We have debated this many times," she said, "and my opinion stands unchanged. A weapon of such hideous destructive power is a brutal and inhuman device. The Emperor might have been monster enough to consider using it, but under no circumstances will the New Republic be party to such barbarism. We have no need for such a weapon, and its presence only serves to divide us. I shall veto any attempts to study the Sun Crusher further, and I will fight to my last breath any of you who suggest using it against any foe, Imperial or otherwise."
She looked at her military commanders, and Wedge felt intimidated by the anger and sheer conviction in her voice. The vacant seat of Admiral Ackbar, who was normally a voice of sanity and moderation, remained empty and hollow like a deep wound. Wedge silently urged Qwi to speak up again, to tell her idea.
As if on cue, she said in her melodious voice, "Excuse me, but might I make a suggestion? Since the Sun Crusher cannot be destroyed by any normal means, we should use the automatic pilot to send it into the heart of a sun, or at least to the core of a gas-giant planet, where it will be impossible to recover."
General Crix Madine spoke up. "A gas-giant planet would be sufficient. The pressures at the core are far beyond what even our most sophisticated vessels can withstand. The Sun Crusher would be out of reach for all time."
Bel-Iblis looked around, his dark eyes flashing. As if sensing defeat and realizing that a gas planet was marginally more acceptable than the blinding fury of a star, he said, "All right, dump it into a gas giant then, for whatever good it will do."
最后决定发到雅文气态巨星核心里
此时达拉上将攻击丹图因
这时在雅文，埃克萨·库恩的阴魂侵入在卢克的梦境中，对卢克干了颇有后来（从剧情时间说是当年）《莫蒂斯三部曲》里阿贝洛思的儿子调戏阿纳金的一幕
埃克萨·库恩变成爵爷的模样，意图犹使卢克堕落
爵爷的灵魂知道这幕估计会大骂：
你他妹要想当我的爷爷的爷爷的爷爷的爷爷……年龄都嫌太大了！
A voice called him across a misty blank dreamscape. "Luke, Luke my son. You must hear me!"
A shadowy form rose out of the mists even as the surroundings began to sharpen. Luke saw himself in his pale-gray flightsuit, stained with sweat, grime, and pain--as he had looked when he took his father's body from the second Death Star.
The features on the spectral silhouette shimmered with a pale aura. Luke saw the firm face of Anakin Skywalker, restored from the ravages Darth Vader's evil had worked on his body.
"Father!" Luke called. His own voice had an odd, echoing quality, as if it bounced off the mists.
"Luke," the image of Anakin said.
Luke felt tingling amazement surge through him. It was another sending, just like his last contact from Obi-Wan Kenobi. But Obi-Wan had bid him farewell, claiming that he could never contact Luke again. "Father, why are you here?"
Anakin stood taller. His robes rippled in a rising wind that drove back the mists. Suddenly the world surrounding them was no longer featureless. Luke recognized that he and the image of his father stood atop the Great Temple on Yavin 4. The orange gas giant hung overhead, and the timeless jungles below looked unchanged. But the stones of the temple were white and new with bright scars from fresh quarrying. A sketchy framework of scaffolding laced one wall of the ziggurat. Far below, Luke heard mumbling and chanting, incantations from suffering slaves.
He saw people of the vanished Massassi race laboring together, straining to haul enormous stone blocks along roads they had chopped through the jungle. The grayish-green Massassi were humanoid, smooth-skinned, with large lanternlike eyes. Anakin Skywalker stood on the highest point of the temple, as if directing the work gangs below.
"Do not be deceived, Luke. Do not trust everything you think to be the truth." Anakin's words carried an odd, distant lilt, like the faint accent of an ancient race. "Obi-Wan lied to you, more than once."
Luke felt uneasiness well up within him. No matter how much he loved Obi-Wan Kenobi, he knew the old man had not always been completely forthcoming with him. "Yes, I know he hid the truth from me. He told me Darth Vader had killed you, when you had really become Vader."
Anakin turned from the illusory Massassi laborers below. He met Luke's gaze with eyes as bottomless as the universe itself. "Was that the only lie Obi-Wan told you?"
"No. He hid other things from me." Luke looked off into the jungled distance, toward the moon's foreshortened horizon to see another clearing, another tall temple being erected.
"And Obi-Wan rationalized it as being for your own protection. Did you ask for such protection, Luke?"
"No." Luke tried to fight back his uneasiness.
"Obi-Wan wanted you to be his student, but he wouldn't allow you the freedom to make your own decisions. Did he trust you so little? Did you always agree with his "certain point of view"?"
"No," Luke said, feeling the words swallowed up in doubt.
Anakin's voice became tinged with anger. "Obi-Wan fought against the complex Sith teachings I had uncovered. He did not understand them himself, but he forbade me to study them--though he always insisted that I must learn for myself and choose my own path. I rebelled against him for his narrow-mindedness, and I insisted on unlocking secrets for which I was not ready. In the end it consumed me--I fell to the dark side, and I became the Dark Lord of the Sith."
Anakin looked at Luke with an anguished, apologetic expression. "But if Obi-Wan had let me learn the teachings at my own pace, I would have grown stronger. I would have remained uncorrupted. He never understood that."
Anakin's image shook his head. "If you are going to teach other Jedi, Luke, you must understand the consequences of what they may learn. You, too, must study the ancient heritage of the Sith. It is a part of your Jedi training."
Luke swallowed. "I'm afraid to believe you, Father. I have already felt the power of the dark side."
Below, Massassi labor crews hummed and sang in stuporous unison, far beyond exhaustion, as they hauled an enormous block up a mud-covered ramp made of stripped logs.
Atop the dream temple, the wavering image of Anakin Skywalker spoke more forcefully. "Yes, but the ways of the Sith can lead you to a stronger grasp of your own power. You can wipe out the last vestiges of the pitiful Empire that continues to harass your New Republic. You can become more than a mere servant to a frail and corrupt government. You can administer the galaxy yourself as a benevolent ruler.
"You deserve it more than any other person, Luke. You can control everything, if you use the Force as your tool, instead of allowing yourself to become its servant."
Luke stiffened, unable to believe what his father was saying. Then he noticed that with the rising passion in his voice, the image of Anakin Skywalker became less distinct, wavering, until it transformed into only a black outline, an engulfing hooded form that sucked energy from the air.
Slowly, Luke realized the truth. "You are not my father!" he shouted as the illusion began to crumble. "My father was a good man in the end, healed by the light side."
Streaks of brilliant light flashed across the dreamscape sky of ancient Yavin 4. Below, Massassi slaves fled into the jungles in terror as the monumental temples crumbled under a barrage of laser blasts from orbit. Old Republic battleships had arrived, immolating the moon's surface.
"Who are you?" Luke shouted at the figure through the roar of sudden blazing devastation around him. "Who?"
Instead, the hollow shadow laughed and laughed, ignoring the destruction that erupted from the construction sites--or amused by it. The Massassi temples exploded. The thick rain forests burst into flame.
The dark man's silhouette grew larger and larger, swallowing up the sky. Luke backed away from it, but his dream feet reached the edge of the imposing temple, and he stumbled backward, falling away, falling....
侵入到梦里诱惑卢克不成后，库恩的阴魂转而去诱惑不远处的甘托里斯。
库恩将N光年外甘托里斯家园被毁，人民遭遇屠戮的景象展示在甘托里斯面前，意图使其彻底黑化。
没想到甘托里斯虽然被拉得接近黑暗面，却最终停止了脚步，拒绝投入黑暗并攻击库恩
结果下场是被库恩给烧成灰了：
Luke heard a disturbance coming down the hall: clumsy footsteps slapping on the stone floor, panicked shouts. He looked up, ready to scold one of his students for such blatant lack of control, when the cloned alien Dorsk 81 rushed into the control center. "Master Skywalker! You must come immediately!"
Luke sensed waves of horror and misery spilling from his candidate. "What is it?" he asked. "Use the calming technique I showed you."
But Dorsk 81 grabbed his arm. "This way!" The yellow-olive alien urged him out of the cluttered control room. Luke sensed widening ripples of alarm traveling like an earthquake through the solid stone of the temple.
They ran along the flagstoned corridors, up the turbolift, and into the section of living quarters where the trainees made their homes.
A sour, smoky stench filled the air, and Luke felt an icy lump in his stomach as he pushed cautiously forward. Hard-bitten Kam Solusar and addled Streen both stood outside the open doorway to Gantoris's quarters, looking pasty and ill.
Luke hesitated for a fraction of a second, then moved through the doorway.
Inside the small stone chamber, he saw what was left of Gantoris. The body lay crisped and blackened on the floor, burned from the inside out. Singed stains on the flagstones showed where he had thrashed about in the conflagration. Gantoris's skin flaked in black, peeling ashes over his powdery bones. Rising wisps of steam curled from the remaining fabric of his Jedi robe.
On the floor the newly constructed lightsaber lay where Gantoris had dropped it, as if he had tried to fight something--and lost.
Luke leaned against the cool stone wall to catch his balance. His vision blurred, but he could not tear his gaze from his dead student sprawled in front of him.
By now the other eleven trainees had gathered. Luke grasped the worn stone bricks at the edge of the door until even the rounded corners bruised his fingers. He applied a Jedi calming technique three times before he felt confident enough to trust his voice. The words tasted like wet ash in his mouth, as Yoda had told him so long ago.
"Beware the dark side," he said.
 我说库恩你也太无良了吧？前面还胡扯你不能接触物理世界，后面就直接用物理伤害秒人？
而汉老爸则继续证明自己是个合格的家庭妇男：
结果莱娅来了不久，几人就触发了一帝国旧探测机器人。机器人将数据传给达拉，里面显示其出数个对新共和海军极为重要的蒙卡拉马里造船厂的位置。
达拉根据这一情报最终做出进攻蒙卡拉马里的决定。但是却很衰：她使用塔金的一个早期战术，但是却被曾为塔金奴仆的鱼头上将快速识破。结果被鱼头上将拿一艘已半摧毁的蒙卡拉马里战舰撞击，损失一主力舰。达拉炸了些蒙卡拉马里非军用目标发泄后，在新共和国援军抵达前撤退。
此时卢克展开对基普·达伦的训练，基普很快就脱颖而出，他并感到天行者的训练进度太慢。
不耐烦之下，库恩找到了合适的诱惑目标：
Even in the deepest hours of the night, Kyp did not sleep. He had eaten a bland but filling meal by himself, then retired to his cool quarters to meditate and practice the skills he had already learned.
As he concentrated, with only a small glowlamp in the corner, he sent his mind out to feel between the cracks of all the stone blocks in the Great Temple. He followed the life cycles of the strands of moss. He tracked tiny arachnids skittering through the corridors and vanishing into dark spaces, where his delicate touch could follow them through the blackness into theirthe hidden homes.
Kyp felt as if he had plugged into a network of living things that expanded his mind and made him feel both insignificant and infinite at the same time.
As Kyp thought and dabbled with his fledgling abilities, he felt a great cold rip in the Force, like a black gash opening the structure of the universe. He snapped himself back to the present.
Kyp whirled and saw behind him the looming shadow of a tall cloaked figure. Even in the dim room the dark man's silhouette seemed intensely black, a hole that swallowed up all glimmers of light. Kyp said nothing, but as he continued to gaze, he saw the tiny starpoints of distant suns within the outline of his mysterious visitor.
"The Force is strong in you, Kyp Durron," the shadowy figure said.
Kyp looked up, feeling no fear. He had been imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Empire. He had lived in the pitch-dark spice mines of Kessel for over a decade. He had fought against a predatory energy spider. And he had flown through a black-hole cluster. As he looked at the imposing liquid-black outline, though, he felt awe and curiosity.
"Who are you?" Kyp asked.
"I could be your teacher," the dark shape said. "I could show you many things that even your Master Skywalker does not comprehend."
Kyp felt a thrill rush through him. "What things?"
"I could show you techniques that were lost thousands of years ago, secret rites and hidden doorways of power that no weak Jedi Master like Skywalker dares to touch. But you are strong, Kyp Durron. Do you dare to learn?"
Kyp felt reckless, but he trusted his instincts. They had served him well in the past. "I'm not afraid to learn," he said, "but you have to tell me your name. I won't learn from a man who is afraid to identify himself."
Kyp felt foolish even as he said it. The shadowy form seemed to ripple as if with silent laughter. His voice boomed out again, full of pride.
"I was the greatest Dark Lord of the Sith. I am Exar Kun."
（ 我说库恩，难怪卢克把你跟帕尔帕廷相提并论。你俩连给自己自吹自擂的语气都这么像……）
达伦被诱惑来到库恩阴魂所在神殿：
库恩对达伦表示，成为西斯可以帮他消灭帝国。
雅文这里的西斯遗留，总是有意无意跟银河帝国作对这点还真讽刺……
此时在科洛桑，三岁的杰娜杰森姐弟启动废弃电梯，在丘巴卡与C-3PO跟前溜走，到科洛桑危险的底层玩去了……
在雅文，卢克等人正在通过古代全息仪学习骑太阳的糯米阿姨和相对不太古老的尤达年轻时相关时（我说绝地全息仪还收录诗歌这玩意么？）
With Ackbar's refusal to return to Coruscant, and with Mon Mothma growing Daylight shone through the rectangular skylights of the Great Temple. Kyp sat on an uncomfortable stone bench in the grand audience chamber, listening to Master Skywalker. He pretended to pay attention, though it became more and more difficult as his opinion of Skywalker's knowledge dwindled.
The other Jedi trainees sat in rapt attention as Master Skywalker placed the small white Holocron on its pedestal. It told yet another story of the ancient Jedi Knights, extolling their heroic adventures, their battles against the dark side--all ultimately ineffectual, because the Emperor and Darth Vader had been stronger than the Jedi Knights, squashing them.
Skywalker refused to learn from that failure. If he meant to bring the new Jedi Knights to greater power, he would have to recognize new abilities, make his Order of Jedi Knights powerful enough to resist a purge like Vader's.
Exar Kun had shown Kyp the ways of the Sith. But Master Skywalker would never adopt those teachings. Kyp wondered why he bothered to keep listening to Skywalker. He seemed so weak, so indecisive.
The other students were a potential wellspring of strength. They had learned how to tap the Force, but they had gone no further than a novice level, mere magicians, playacting in a role that was too big for any of them. They refused to peek behind the doors of greater power; but Kyp was not afraid. He could handle the responsibility.
Another holographic gatekeeper of the Holocron appeared and began telling the story of how young Yoda had become a Jedi. Kyp stifled a yawn, unable to understand why they had to keep watching these trivial histories.
He craned his neck to look at the walls of the enormous stone temple. In his mind he tried to imagine the great Sith War four thousand years ago. He thought of the damp-skinned Massassi race enslaved by Exar Kun, used by him as tools to build the temples that he had reconstructed from even more ancient and forgotten Sith records. Kun had revitalized the dark teachings, granting himself the title of Dark Lord of the Sith, a tradition passed down all the way to Darth Vader, who had been the last Sith Lord.
Exar Kun's temples had been erected across Yavin 4--the last archaeological resting place of the incredibly ancient Sith race--as focal points for his power. Kun had ruled here on the jungle moon, controlling forces that had nearly defeated the Old Republic. But the warlord Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma had betrayed him; and all the united Jedi had swept down in a final battle on Yavin 4, exterminating the Massassi natives, leveling most of the Sith temples, razing most of the rain forest in a holocaust from the skies. But Exar Kun had managed to encyst his spirit here, waiting four thousand years until other Jedi came to awaken him....
Kyp fidgeted and pretended to pay attention. The temple chamber seemed extremely hot. The Holocron droned on and on.
Luke listened with a beatific smile, and the other students continued to observe the images. Kyp gazed at the walls and wondered why he was there.
As half night fell across the jungles of Yavin 4, Luke Skywalker sat back and allowed himself to relax in one of the meeting halls. Smaller than the grand audience chamber, the hall had arched stone ceilings and polished tables, along with serviceable furniture left behind by the Rebel occupation. Bright glowlamps hung in old torch sconces.
Luke felt bone weariness seeping through his body and hunger gnawing in his stomach. For now the students relaxed, recharging their mental energy.
All day long Luke had supervised them through Force exercises, levitation training, visualizing battles and conflicts, sensing other animals and creatures in the forest, learning Jedi history from the Holocron. He was pleased with how well they were doing; though the death of Gantoris still felt like an open wound, he saw that his other students were making great progress. He felt confident in being able to bring back the Jedi Knights.
One of the trainees, Tionne, sat in the corner preparing to play a stringed musical instrument: two hollow resonating boxes separated by a shaft strung with tonal cords.
"This is the ballad of Nomi Sunrider," she said, "one of the historical Jedi Knights." She smiled. Long silvery hair streamed past her shoulders, hanging down to her chest and splitting like a white-capped river down her back. Her eyes were small and close set, glinting with a mother-of-pearl sheen. Her nose was small, her jaw squarish. Luke thought she looked more exotic than beautiful.
Tionne had a great passion for the old Jedi legends and ballads and histories. Even before Luke found her, she had dedicated her life to resurrecting the old stories, digging them out of the archives and popularizing them. Luke had tested Tionne's Jedi talent, and while her potential was perhaps less than the other students', she made up for it with absolute devotion and enthusiasm.
The others found chairs, benches, or just a smooth spot on the floor to hear Tionne sing. She laid the instrument in her lap, and as the trainees listened, she plucked the strings with both hands, setting up an echoing music that fed and subtracted from her lyrics as she sang.
Luke closed his eyes and heard her tale about young Nomi Sunrider, who, after her husband's murder, attended the Jedi training that had been meant for him. Nomi had become a pivotal character in the devastating Sith War that pitted Jedi against Jedi in the ancient days of the Old Republic.
Luke smiled as he heard the music, the resonating notes, Tionne's soft and watery voice as she sang with passion. From the far side of the room, Luke heard a restless stirring and turned to see Kyp Durron, his face stormy with a scowl. The young man sighed, scowled again, and finally stood up, interrupting Tionne's song.
"I wish you wouldn't perpetuate that ridiculous story," Kyp said. "Nomi Sunrider was a victim. She fought in the Sith Wars without ever understanding what the battles were about. She listened blindly to her Jedi Masters, who were afraid because Exar Kun had discovered a way for the Jedi to increase their power."
Tionne set her musical instrument on the flagstones and gripped her knees through the fabric of her robe. Her face looked stricken, her small eyes glinting with confusion. "What are you talking about?" Her voice was thick with discouragement. "I've spent weeks reconstructing that legend. Everyone here knew what I was doing. If you had other information, Kyp, why didn't you share it with me?"
"Where did you learn all this history, Kyp?" Luke said, standing up. He put his hands on his hips, trying to stare Kyp down. The young man had become more and more volatile as he acquired Jedi knowledge. Calm, you must be calm, Yoda had said, but Luke didn't know how to make Kyp calm.
Kyp flashed his glance across the trainees, who looked at him in astonishment. "If the Sith War had turned out differently," he said, "perhaps the Jedi Knights would have learned how to defend themselves when Darth Vader came hunting, and they wouldn't all have been slaughtered. The Jedi would never have fallen, and we wouldn't be here, taught by someone who doesn't know any more than we do."
Luke remained adamant. "Kyp, tell me where you learned all this."
Kyp pushed his lips together and narrowed his eyes. He drew several deep breaths, and Luke could sense the turmoil inside him, as if his mind were working rapidly to come up with an answer. "I can use the Holocron too," he said. "As Master Skywalker keeps telling us, we are all obligated to learn everything we can."
Luke didn't quite believe the young man's words, but before he could ask another question, Artoo trundled in, warbling and chittering in alarm. Luke deciphered some of the electronic language. "No idea who it is?" he said.
Artoo whistled a descending hooting negative.
被库恩教导的达伦听不下去了……
正疑惑间玛拉·杰德来到，本来Kevin J. Anderson还打算把兰多和玛拉凑CP，不过被官方否了。
于是兰多在这系列里各种大献殷勤外加自我感觉良好——被汉强烈吐槽——的白日梦。不过这系列里玛拉跟卢克间的JQ描写确实不够
此时达伦借机偷开玛拉的飞船，去找维德盔甲的火葬地，想验证下库恩的西斯能消灭帝国贯彻正义的理论……
而此时富尔甘则打算绑架阿纳金·索洛，他认为维德的外孙有助于确立自己在帝国的领导地位……富尔甘你脑抽么？
杰娜杰森俩小家伙被Onibald Daykim送回给父母
此时达拉姐姐想了个损招，用歼星舰撞科洛桑：
"I am fully aware of the battle statistics, Commander. I see the numbers in my sleep. I have studied the datapads over and over." Her voice rose and became molten with anger. "No matter how much damage we have done to the Rebellion, their losses have been insignificant compared to ours."
Then her voice dropped to such a sudden quiet coldness that she saw General Odosk's watery eyes widen in fear. "And so I intend to use my last resources in one final assault. If successful, it will fulfill both of our missions."
Her gloved fingers worked the controls at the end of the table. From a holoprojector in the center of the black slab rose the computer-generated image she had worked up that afternoon in her private quarters while the image of Grand Moff Tarkin droned on with his prerecorded lectures.
"I mean to stab at the heart of the Rebellion," she said. "Coruscant itself."
A high-resolution mapping of the last-known surface topography of the Emperor's planet focused on a world-sized metropolis with frozen polar caps and sparkling chains of city lights on the night side of the planet. She saw spacedocks, curved solar mirrors that warmed the upper and lower latitudes of the planet, communications satellites, large freighters, streams of orbital traffic.
Daala gestured, and two fully rendered images of her Star Destroyers appeared traveling side by side at high speed toward Coruscant.
"I intend to take all ships and all personnel onto the Gorgon, leaving only a skeleton crew--of volunteers, of course--on board the Basilisk. Our Star Destroyers will come out of hyperspace just beyond the moons of Coruscant. We will drive in at full sublight speed, without hesitation, straight toward our target.
"We will give no warning, and we will fire every turbolaser battery we have, clearing a corridor to head directly for Imperial City. Any ship that stands in our way will become a cloud of ionized metal."
As she spoke, the computer animation demonstrated her tactics. The two Star Destroyers arrowed toward the capital city of the New Republic.
"The Calamarian commander who defeated the Manticore gave me an idea with his suicide run, and we shall turn the tables on them." Daala watched the stony face of General Odosk, the appalled look of disbelief on Captain Mullinore, and the stern support of Commander Kratas.
"This will be our deadliest hit-and-run," Daala said. "It will cause enough damage for our names to live forever in the annals of Imperial history. We shall deal a death blow to the Rebel government.
"As we approach in-system, the Basilisk's small volunteer crew will begin a self-destruct countdown. The Gorgon will run interference until we reach our target, at which time we will turn aside. At full speed the Basilisk will plunge into the atmosphere of Coruscant. It will be unstoppable."
On the simulated image one Star Destroyer split away before touching the skin of air, curving in a tight orbit around Coruscant and then streaking off into space as the first ship plummeted flaming into the atmosphere toward the most heavily populated center on the planet.
"When the Basilisk detonates..." Daala said. She paused as the planetary image flashed with a brilliant ring of fire that sent ripples igniting through the atmosphere. All the lights on the night side of the planet went dark. Cracks of fire appeared across the land masses.
"The explosion will be sufficient to level the buildings on half a continent. The shock wave traveling through the planetary core could topple cities on the other side of the world. The underground reservoirs will break open. Tidal waves will cause damage along the coasts. For the price of one Star Destroyer, we can lay waste to Coruscant."
Odosk looked grimly admiring at the simulation. "A good plan, Admiral."
"But my ship--was Captain Mullinore said.
"It will be a glorious sacrifice," Commander Kratas said. He steepled his fingers and leaned across the polished table. "I agree."
The simulated death of Coruscant continued, showing spreading fires across the cities, seismic disturbances and destruction that continued long after the Gorgon vanished into an incandescent spot of light in hyperspace.
"But what of us?" Kratas said. "What will we do then?"
此时卢克继续查询沃多-西奥斯克·巴斯大师的全息仪，却发现守门人可以给出巴斯大师死后的事情信息：
"I wish to see Master Vodo-Siosk Baas," he said.
The ghostly image of the nozzle-faced, stunted Jedi Master rose out of the cube, robed and covered with bangles, leaning on a long gnarled stick. "I am the gatekeeper, I am Master Vodo-Siosk Baas," the image said.
Luke squatted in front of the interactive holographic image. "I need information from you, Master Vodo. You were a Jedi during the time of the Great Sith War. You have told us about your student Exar Kun and how he created the Brotherhood of the Sith. You've told us that he fought for dominance over the other Jedi loyal to the Old Republic."
Luke took a deep breath. "I need you to tell me more. How did Exar Kun fall at the end of the war? What happened to him? How did he die--or were you finally able to bring him back to the light side?"
"Exar Kun was my greatest student," Master Vodo said, "yet he was corrupted. He was seduced by the powers available to him through studies of ancient Sith teachings."
Luke nodded gravely. "I am afraid that the same thing might have happened to some of my own students, Master Vodo. Did Exar Kun ever return to the powers of good?"
"That was not to be," the image of Master Vodo said. "Because I was his Master, I alone of the allied Jedi went to confront him, hoping that I could turn him back. I knew it was a foolish mission, but I had no choice. I had to try."
"What happened?" Luke asked.
The image flickered, as if something had sparked inside the Holocron; then Master Vodo reappeared. "Exar Kun destroyed me. He slew his own master."
Luke was suddenly jarred out of the story, remembering that the gatekeeper images in the Holocron were interactive simulacra with personalities imprinted upon them--not the real spirits of long-dead Jedi Masters.
"Then what happened to Kun at the end of the Sith War?" Luke asked.
"All the Jedi banded together and came to the jungle moon in a united front against the Sith stronghold Exar Kun had built. The allied Jedi combined their power into a massive annihilating strike."
Master Vodo's image flickered again, dissolved into static, then reassembled itself. his... which obliterated the surviving Massassi natives and..." The image broke up, flickered, re-formed, then broke up again--as if something were jamming it.
"But Exar Kun--whichat happened to Exar Kun?" Luke demanded. He couldn't understand what was going wrong with the Holocron. He shook the Holocron, tapped it a few times, then set it down on the flat, hard table and stepped back to get a better view of the holographic Jedi Master.
Inside the static-filled cube a dark knot appeared, like a storm gathering within its translucent walls. Master Vodo-Siosk Baas reappeared. his-comb Kun was able to--was
Suddenly Master Vodo's image shattered into a thousand glittering fragments of colored light, as if a greater force had torn it apart from within.
The darkness inside the Holocron grew deeper and larger, swelling like a slow-motion explosion. Arcs of red fire struck out in all directions from the black fist. With a high-pitched shrieking noise of discharged energy, the faces of the cube split. The Holocron steamed as it collapsed with a shower of sparks, a stream of black curling smoke, and a stench of melted electronics and organic components.
Luke backed away, raising his hands to shield his eyes from the blaze. For a moment it seemed that a solid black hooded form like a walking silhouette rose up from the Holocron, laughing in a deep subsonic voice. Then it drifted away, dissipating into the stone walls.
Luke felt cold fear grip him. The small white cube of the treasured Holocron lay in a melted lump on the table.
Luke would have to find his own answers--and soon.
接着库恩的阴魂当着卢克的面毁掉全息仪，并留给卢克一阵冷笑
达伦被库恩忽悠着到维德火葬地找过灵感后，相信了西斯能贯彻正义摧毁帝国的理论。他先是借库恩的帮助清除了某萌妹子的部分记忆，确保灭日者不会再被造出。
然后回到雅文4，借着库恩阴魂原力的帮助，取回已经被发射入雅文气态巨星核心的灭日者：
（在这顺便吐槽下《原力释放》里弑星者 那毫无美感的、明明推人或锁喉就行，却偏偏要面目狰狞显然吃力不小的拆房子啥的动作 那种简单粗暴型原力使用方式。
连已经很简单粗暴的KJA笔下人物都能鄙视之，能省力气时干嘛要费劲？）
值得一提的是：
后来脱离黑化的达伦说过，即使灭日者真被发射到恒星里，自己当初也能借库恩的原力将之从恒星核心取回。
接着就是卢克与被库恩附身的达伦这战
卢克被虐成灵魂暂时离体，肉身昏迷的状态。
基普·达伦在被库恩附身下虐翻卢克后，驾驶灭日者去满怀着为正义而复仇的想法，执行毁灭帝国的行为去了。虽然离开了雅文，不过已经跟库恩建立精神联系的他，即使跨越万千光年意识也仍能被库恩影响。
“战无不胜”的达拉酱继续衰运，还没来得及执行用歼星舰撞科洛桑的举动，在考尔德隆星云就被基普·达伦用灭日者攻击。在达伦引爆恒星前，达拉下令舰队进入超空间跑路，但仍有一艘主力舰没有及时撤离被超新星冲击化为做宇宙尘埃。
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出当众人无法唤醒卢克时，出现了一幕喜感剧情。
当众人无法唤醒卢克时，小杰娜爬到卢克身上，表示给舅舅一个吻看能否唤醒他——这是汉老爸还是C-3PO，给杰娜杰森姐弟讲了类似《睡美人》的睡前故事的后果吧？
不过话说：
发表于 2013-9-1 16:18
