Riptide ( novel ) Riptide is a paperback novel by Paul S . Kemp . It is the sequel to " Crosscurrent " , also by Kemp , and was released on October 25 , 2011 . Publisher ' s summary . " When a ship full of Sith warriors arrived in Galactic Alliance space , the fight to destroy it accidentally uncovered a deadly menace : a long - hidden group of clones , secretly created as insidious weapons capable of wielding the Force and heedless of the differences between light side and dark side . Now the clones have escaped - - and evidence suggests they are flawed by genetic disease and violent madness . " " Jedi Knight Jaden Korr pursues the clones , hoping to heal them but prepared to destroy them . What he doesn ' t know is that Sith agents are hot on his heels , determined not only to recover the clones for their Master but to capture Jaden for their own dark - side purposes . In a life - or - death battle , Jaden will confront a shocking reality that will rock him to his core and bring him face - to - face with the question of what makes a man . . . and a Jedi . " Plot summary . The novel begins when Jaden Korr wakes up aboard an unknown station , wondering where his friends , Khedryn Faal and Marr Idi - Shael , are . He soon realizes that he will confront something truly monstrous . The novel shifts about two days earlier aboard the " Junker " , just after the events of " Crosscurrent " . Jaden and Khedryn discuss what will happen to Marr , since Jaden is considering having him join the Jedi Order as an apprentice . Another topic they bring up is the ship full of Jedi - Sith clones that had escaped the unknown frozen moon where Alpha and Kell Douro died . Aboard the " Predator " , the Jedi - Sith clones that escaped are undergoing a collective illness that had been accelerated after they flew through the fiery remains of the " Harbinger " from the previous novel ( this was thanks to the Force - enhancing Lignan contained in the " Harbinger " ) . The only exception from this illness is Soldier , who was the last clone produced by the dead scientists on the frozen moon , and the most faithless of the clones ' belief that they will be saved by Mother . According to the clones ' prophet , Seer , Mother is an entity who will bring all of them salvation from the illness — and they are traveling to her . Meanwhile , Mother , who really exists , lies in wait for the Jedi - Sith clones to arrive at her home . On the One Sith world of Korriban , Darth Wyyrlok holds a private meeting with Nyss Nenn , secretly watched by his sister Syll Nenn , two mysterious Umbaran siblings who , while not necessarily Force - sensitive , somehow suppress Force - users through their own power . Wyyrlok shows Nyss Nenn the record inadvertently taken by Kell Douro through his optic nerves , which had been secretly installed thanks to the One Sith . The footage shows Jaden Korr ' s fight with Alpha , and Wyyrlok and Nyss noticed that during the fight , Jaden had utilized green Force lightning on his fingers summoned by fear or anger , a sign that he ' s falling to the dark side . They agree that it is too early for Korr to turn to the dark side , and after that , Syal Nenn reveals her presence . The siblings agree to do what they can in order to stall Jaden from falling too early and Darth Wyyrlok gives them two mindspear s , pieces of ancient Rakata n biotechnology for mind transfer . He also tells them to take the Iteration , a clone of Jaden , with them . After Jaden tells Grand Master Luke Skywalker the events that had occurred in the unidentified system , Skywalker agrees to send help for him to track down the Jedi - Sith clones , but it won ' t come for quite a while , leaving Jaden to take care of the situation with Khedryn and Marr . Skywalker also allows Jaden to teach Marr to become a Jedi . Later , Jaden and Khedryn bring up Marr ' s training and how it will affect his position aboard the " Junker " , but the Cerean is steadfast that he will remain even as a Jedi . Then his training with Jaden begins even as they manage to track the Jedi - Sith clones down at Fhost . On Fhost , most of the clones , such as Maker , Scar , and Two - Blade , as well as two of their children Blessing and Gift , have already died from the illness , leaving Soldier , Seer , Hunter , Runner , Grace to leave the " Predator " and continue their journey . The clones travel to Farpoint so they can hijack a medical shuttle for the medication that has allowed the surviving clones to live through the illness so far . However , when they arrive at the medical station , much trouble has been caused by them , alerting the city ' s local authorities just as Jaden and his party , as well as the Nenns , arrive to confront them . Jaden confronts the clones , surprised to find that Seer is a clone of the late Lumiya , Runner is a clone of Jaden ' s own Master Kyle Katarn , and Soldier is a clone of himself . Jaden fights Soldier and Runner , but he is defeated , allowing the clones to make it to the hospital ' s roof , where , despite Khedryn trying to stop them , they hijack the shuttle and take it off - world . They take Khedryn with them so that he can tell them how Jaden tracked them down ( he can ' t tell them immediately because he was knocked unconscious by Runner ) . Meanwhile , Nyss had already stowed aboard the shuttle before the clones took it . In the aftermath of the chaos in Farpoint , Jaden and Marr , after they collect Jaden ' s R6 astromech droid , manage to track down the shuttle because of a beacon that Jaden placed on it before his fight against the clones . As they follow the stolen shuttle into space , Syll follows the shuttle because of her brother ' s own signal there . After the clones drop the shuttle out of hyperspace in a random system to interrogate an awakened Khedryn as to how Jaden found them on Fhost . Khedryn admits that it was simple happenstance in their search for the clones , so Seer orders Runner to eject Khedryn out into the vacuum of space . Nyss takes this time to cut out the shuttle ' s lights and he attacks Runner in a fight that he wins by ending the clone ' s life . He cuffs Khedryn up , hoping to use him as leverage on Jaden , and then he kills Hunter . He fights Soldier , who turns out to be the clone of Jaden who the One Sith also want , and despite Soldier being partially immune to Nyss ' s Force - repressing ability , the Umbaran defeats the clone in time for Jaden and Marr to arrive , and in time for Syll to arrive . Nyss blackmails the Jedi over communications into trading himself in exchange for Khedryn , which Jaden has no choice but to agree to as he suits himself up in a hardsuit and rockets over to the medical shuttle . However , Khedryn , who had been cut free by Grace earlier , reluctantly , and briefly , allies with Soldier , cutting him free of the bonds that Nyss had tied him up in , and this commences another fight between Soldier and Nyss as Khedryn flees to one of the shuttle ' s escape pods . Nyss , not wanting to kill Soldier as per Darth Wyyrlok ' s orders , also flees , allowing the surviving clones to retake control of the medical shuttle . However , as Syll reels him onto their ship , he orders her to blast Khedryn ' s escape pod even as Jaden rockets toward it . The attempt to kill Khedryn fails when Jaden uses his lightsaber , and his power in the Force , to deflect the laser blasts back at the ship , killing Syll . Marr saves Jaden , who had two leaks in his hardsuit thanks to Syll , and Khedryn in time , while Nyss , in his grief over his sister ' s death , vows to kill everyone associated with Jaden and Soldier after he captures them for the One Sith . The medical shuttle travels into an irradiated system where they find Mother , an entity imprisoned in a space station likely constructed by the ancient Rakatan Infinite Empire . The " Junker " and Nyss track the shuttle there as the clones meet Mother . The entity , however , turns out to be a false promise when she takes hold of Seer ' s body and uses her as a vessel to go free in the galaxy . Meanwhile , Jaden and Marr confront Nyss again , and after the Umbaran knocks Marr unconscious , Jaden manages to kill Nyss by strangling the life out of him . However , because of the fight against the Umbaran , Jaden falls unconscious , allowing the Iteration to use a mindspear to transfer Jaden ' s mind out of his body , effectively killing him and storing his memories and personality in the device . Marr fights the Iteration and defeats him , but holds off on killing him to use the mindspear to transfer all that was Jaden into the Iteration . Jaden is reborn in his own clone body , unknowing of it , and staggers to the direction of Mother , just as he did at the beginning of the novel . Marr , who hid Jaden ' s previous body so that he wouldn ' t discover what had happened to him , is taken captive by Soldier , but in the incoming threat of Mother , they all decide to become allies , especially when Jaden sees that Soldier , who had never personally caused any of the trouble back on Fhost , just wants to save Grace from the illness plaguing her . Jaden , Marr , and Soldier fight Mother , but after she proves to be too strong for all of them to take on , they decide to flee with Grace as Jaden instructs Khedryn , who meets them from elsewhere aboard the station , to load the docked medical shuttle ' s power core to blow , destroying much of the space station . However , Soldier decides to take himself and Grace over to the medical shuttle to take what medication he can to help Grace while Jaden , Marr , and Khedryn make it the rest of the way to " Junker " . Unfortunately , it is unable to break them out of the station ' s hold even as it suffers from numerous explosions following the destruction of the medical shuttle , which causes the station to fall to the planet that it orbits . Despite the power of Mother , " Junker " manages to break free and shoot out into space while the station with Mother crashes in a fiery explosion , killing the entity . As " Junker " proceeds to return to Fhost , Jaden notices that a scar that he had all his life is gone , and begins to have suspicions even as Marr begins acting odd around him , in light of the fact that he knows that Jaden is not in his real body . The novel ends with Soldier and Grace , who managed to collect the medication off of the destroyed medical shuttle in time and escape in Nyss ' ship , flying out into the Unknown Regions to start a new life together .