Adumar, a neutral planet, has decided to choose sides in the war, and requests that delegations from the New Republic and the Empire consist solely of fighter pilots. The pilots sent by the New Republic are completely unused to diplomacy, and once they arrive their military skills become and unexpected necessity.

During a war in a fantasy land, a prince captures an enemy woman and they fall in love. But their nations' politics dictate that they separate and they both marry within their own culture. One day, however, fate will reunite them.

The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population, and fomenting a counter-revolution, at the same time as the treason trial of Rebel hero Tycho Celchu. And X-wing pilot Corran Horn, given up for dead in Iceheart's inescapable prison, discovers an extraordinary power in himself--the power of the Force!

The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations...