by Timothy Zahn
This was my first Star Wars tie-in book (yeah, after they imploded the expanded universe). And while I don't think this is a very *good* book, I did find it a terribly enjoyable one. Jedi Master C'boath believes in a project called Outbound Flight - a mission to send a group of people into unknown...
In Star Wars: Outbound Flight, the oftentimes cranky and ornery Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth is undertaking a far ranging mission of expansion to uncharted galaxies. Initially opposed by Emperor Palpatine, he sees it as a way to dispose of the jedi master as well as the other jedi that are taking part...