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The Agents of Chaos Duology is a pair of novels written by James Luceno&mdash;Hero's Trial and Jedi Eclipse. Both installments were published in 2000, respectively as the fourth and fifth entries in the nineteen-book series The New Jedi Order. When the preceding Dark Tide Trilogy by Michael A. Stackpole was reduced to a duology, Luceno, who had originally been strictly a consultant and continuity advisor of the series, was contracted to write Agents of Chaos.

The duology covers the events of the latter half of the first year of the Yuuzhan Vong War, an invasion of the galaxy by an extra-galactic species of religious zealots known as the Yuuzhan Vong. As the former Princess Leia Organa Solo works to relocate refugees displaced by the war across a dangerous galaxy, the New Republic battles back against the bloodthirsty invaders. Members of the Yuuzhan Vong Priest caste plot to destroy Luke Skywalker's Jedi Order, and the pilot Han Solo, stricken with grief following the death of his long-time friend and co-pilot Chewbacca, travels across the galaxy to help both old and new friends in their times of need, hoping to find a way to come to terms with his loss.

Luceno wrote the duology as a tribute to his late friend Brian Daley, who had penned a series of Han Solo-centric novels over twenty years prior. Although reception to Agents of Chaos was mixed, several characters and other elements introduced in the duology continued to appear and play important roles throughout the remainder of The New Jedi Order. Luceno has since gone on to write five additional Star Wars novels, including the NJO's finale, 2003's The Unifying Force.