Jedi Council: Acts of War 4

Jedi Council: Acts of War 4 is the fourth and final issue of the Jedi Council: Acts of War comic series, released 20 September 2000 by Dark Horse Comics.

Publisher's summary
The Jedi Council's quest nears its end as the hiding place of the Yinchorri High Command is at last revealed. But the Yinchorri aren't about to surrender without a fight, and Jedi blood has already been spilled. How many lives -- on both sides -- will Jedi Master Mace Windu risk to bring the warlike aliens to justice? A handful of lightsabers is all that stands between a relatively peaceful Republic and galactic war. Action and heroism in the grand Jedi tradition!

Plot summary
In 33 BBY, the Jedi Order dispatched a Jedi mission consisting of three Consular-class space cruisers to the Yinchorri system in an attempt to end the Yinchorri Uprising. Upon arriving in the Yinchorri system, the Jedi cruisers were pursued and attacked by Yinchorri starfighters but managed to evade their pursuers and land in their designated destinations. Their mission was to find and disable the Yinchorri command center. Jedi Master Adi Gallia's team lands on the watery moon of Yitheeth where they captured the Devaronian mercenary Olmar Grahrk, who was part of a Sith conspiracy to pit the Yinchorri species against the Galactic Republic and their Jedi defenders. Meanwhile, Master Micah Giett's team landed on Yibikkoror only to be trapped by their Yinchorri pursuers but were rescued by Gallia's team. Finally, Master Mace Windu's team on Yinchorr was besieged by a Yinchorri army. However, they were reinforced by Gallia and Giett's teams who helped fight off the Yinchorri. However, during the fighting, Master Lilit Twoseas and the Padawan Theen Fida were killed.

In the exposition, the remaining Jedi leaders meet at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Since the three Jedi teams had found no trace of the Yinchorri command center on the inhabited worlds of the Yinchorri system, Master Yaddle had consulted the holocron of Tharence Wo and found out that there was a fourth world within the star system known as Uhanayih. It was a lifeless rock that translated from the Yinchorri language into Galactic Basic as "Within World" and was associated with Yinchorri beliefs about the afterlife. She also suggested that the name was not only use figuratively but carried a literal meaning as well. Master Depa Billaba concurred and suggested that Uhanayih contained a base or city. Master Oppo Rancisis added that this explain why no trace of the Yinchorri base had been found on the other worlds. At that point, Bayts entered the room to informed the other Jedi that Windu was contacting them via hologram.

After interrogating the captured Devaronian arms dealer Olmar Grahrk, the Jedi mission found out that the Yinchorri command center was indeed located on Uhanayih. Windu also told his Jedi compatriots on Corsucant to relay the planet's coordinates to Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum. Back on Yinchorr, Masters Micah Giett and Plo Koon's team of Jedi were guarding the battlefield near the Consular-class space cruiser when Giet was shot in the back by a Yinchorri sniper. The grievously wounded Giett then told his comrades to move towards one of the Yinchorri tanks. He also reiterated that his comrades should not allow feelings of grief, sentiment, and revenge to distort their judgment. He also urged his Jedi to stop the Yinchorri but warned them against excessive violence. He also prophesied that Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were somehow destined to be Jedi of some renown. Finally, he told his friend Koon tha he would miss his company.

Master Giett opted to remain behind to fend off the Yinchorri reinforcements while his comrades continued their mission to find the Yinchorri command center. As soon as his companions had left, Micah was surrounded by a squad of Yinchorri. He told them to come closer on the pretext of revealing "Jedi secrets" to them. When they did, he told them that the Jedi were not afraid to die for a worthy cause before activating his lightsaber, plunging the blade into the tank's fuel cell. The resulting explosion killed Giett, and many of the Yinchorri. Giett's death was transmitted by the Force and felt by his Jedi companions all over the galaxy. Even Darth Sidious himself felt it in the Force. The Dark Lord then ordered his apprentice Darth Maul to contact Vilmarh Grahrk, the cousin of Olmar and an arms dealer working for the Sith Order. However, the Devaronian had already fled along with his relatives. However, Sidious was not worried because he was unable to reveal the existence of the Sith since he did not know the identity of Darth Sidious, who was in fact Senator Palpatine of Naboo.

Collections

 * Jedi Council: Acts of War (TPB)
 * Omnibus: Rise of the Sith