The New Jedi Order : Edge of Victory I : Conquest The New Jedi Order : Edge of Victory I : Conquest , the first book in the Edge of Victory Duology and also part of the larger , is a novel by Greg Keyes , published by Del Rey in 2001 . Narration for the audio version was performed by Alexander Adams . Publisher ' s summary . " No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have already sown , Warmaster Tsavong Lah has demanded the heads of all the Jedi . Now the Jedi Knights are in terrible danger — and none more so than the young students at the Jedi academy on Yavin 4 . Already the sympathizers known as the Peace Brigade are in the Yavin system — and a Yuuzhan Vong fleet is not far behind . " " At Luke Skywalker ' s request , Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students . Anakin Solo has his own ideas . Impatient , and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission , he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X - wing . " " When it comes to confidence , courage , and raw Force talent , Anakin has few peers . But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong , even Anakin may be in over his head . For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri , and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific ends … " Plot summary . After Warmaster Tsavong Lah of the Yuuzhan Vong proclaims the Jedi to be captured to stop the Vong invasion of the galaxy in the previous novel , " " , Jedi are now being hunted down across the galaxy and are either killed or captured by the Vong , desperate citizens of the galaxy and / or the Peace Brigade . And on Coruscant , the New Republic figures out the Yuuzhan Vong will be taking over Yavin 4 , which is where the Jedi praxeum is being held . Anakin Solo disobeys both his Uncle Luke and the New Republic and he goes to Yavin 4 to save the Jedi there . After he fights Peace Brigade forces stationed around orbit of the moon , he reaches the praxeum and he meets up with Master Ikrit and Anakin ' s old friend , Tahiri Veila . They and all the other Jedi , including Kam Solusar , his wife , Tionne , Valin Horn , and Sannah , have a brief reunion with Anakin ' s return . But the Peace Brigade attacks the praxeum , kills Ikrit and captures Tahiri while Anakin manages to hijack one of the Brigade vessels with Valin and Sannah and he has the vessel crash a long way from the praxeum . Later , the full Yuuzhan Vong force led by Tsaak Vootuh come to claim the moon finally arrive ; they kill the Peace Brigade forces stationed at Yavin 4 and take over the jungle moon . Meanwhile , the rest of the Jedi are picked up by Talon Karrde ' s company , sent by Luke to save them . But due to Anakin , Tahiri , Valin , and Sannah still on the surface , Karrde and his forces don ' t leave the Yavin system and decide to play a game of cat - and - mouse with the occupying Vong forces long enough to get the four Jedi off the moon . Anakin , vowing to save Tahiri , leaves Valin and Sannah with a captured Peace Brigade member , Remis Vehn , and a former Imperial TIE fighter pilot , Qorl , who was trusted by Luke years earlier when Anakin ' s siblings , Jaina and Jacen attended the academy as kids . Anakin then begins a long trek back toward the praxeum . Meanwhile , the Yuuzhan Vong Shaper caste , lead by Master Shaper Mezhan Kwaad and her aide , Nen Yim , decide to begin shaping Tahiri and the whole jungle moon of Yavin 4 themselves , both mentally and physically for Tahiri , into making her think she is a Yuuzhan Vong . Back with Anakin , his long trek takes him into a fight with Vong forces that destroys the crystal in his lightsaber and his weapon becomes useless to him . Another confrontation with Vong forces nearly kills him had it not been for a rogue Vong who saved him and tended his wounds . As the New Republic figures out about Anakin ' s presence and intentions on Yavin 4 , the rogue Yuuzhan Vong reveals he is Vua Rapuung . Rapuung tells Anakin that the only reason he saved him was because the Vong warrior ' s body chemistry had been physically altered by a Yuuzhan Vong shaper to Shame Rapuung by deforming him , turning him into the Yuuzhan Vong ' s outcast Shamed Ones society , and he needs Anakin ' s help to get to the praxeum and shame the shaper further . Since the Jedi praxeum is Anakin ' s destination anyway , the young Jedi agrees and travels with the Shamed Vong warrior , and along the way , the two develop an uneasy relationship because of their cultural differences that neither finds appealing toward the other ( for example , Anakin finds Rapuung ' s cold - blooded murder of a fellow Shamed One , Qe ' u , to be horribly reprehensible , while Rapuung found it be necessary ) . When Anakin and Rapuung finally arrive to the praxeum , Anakin is disguised as a slave for Rapuung and the young Jedi begins to understand the ways of the Vong in his false services to them . Along the way , Anakin discovers a lambent crystal that he puts into his lightsaber as a new blade . And not only does he become one with his old weapon again , but his connection with the lambent makes him able to detect the Yuuzhan Vong in a non - Force sense , albeit as unclear presences . When the Yuuzhan Vong find out that Mezhan Kwaad has been Shaping Tahiri using heretical practices , Tsaak Vootuh and his warriors attempt to take Kwaad , Yim and Tahiri off of Yavin 4 for execution on the count of heresy . Anakin and Rapuung soon find out about this , stop the Vong , and force her reveal to all Vong present about the heresy she committed onto Rapuung because he rejected her love for him . Instead of doing so , she proclaims that there are no gods , thus proclaiming her to be a heretical atheist in her kind , which is forbidden in Vong culture . This fulfills Rapuung ' s revenge , but Kwaad attacks Anakin and Rapuung , as well as killing her captors , and mortally wounds Rapuung . But the Shaped Tahiri decapitates Kwaad with her lightsaber in her guise as the Yuuzhan Vong warrior Riina Kwaad , but Anakin reminds Tahiri about who she really is and how much Anakin loves her . Tahiri is reminded about who she is but her Vong knowledge stays with her . The Vong of the praxeum proceed to attack Anakin and Tahiri , but Rapuung states that as long he lives , no one will touch Anakin , honoring the young Jedi as a warrior after he helped him . Then Vua Rapuung fights the Vong and dies in the battle , leaving Anakin and Tahiri on their own from the Vong as they steal the ship that was going to take Kwaad , Yim and Tahiri , and escape the praxeum with all the other captured Jedi . They get shot down , but survive . They ' re chased on foot from the Vong , but they get saved by Talon Karrde and his forces . Corran Horn , returned from his self - imposed exile on Corellia since after the Battle of Ithor in " " , and Booster Terrik also come along to help Karrde with saving Anakin , Tahiri , Valin and Sannah , as well as Remis Vehn and Qorl . Along with Valin , Sannah and Vehn , all the protagonists get saved from the Vong and return home . In the aftermath , Anakin and Tahiri become valuable assets in the Yuuzhan Vong War because of Anakin ' s fuzzy sense of the Vong and Tahiri ' s knowledge of them in the aftermath of her shaping . The novel concludes with Nen Yim planning to do heresy of the Vong tradition to defeat the New Republic . Shaping . This book shows that the Yuuzhan Vong have a caste known as shapers . The shapers plan on ' remaking ' the captured Jedi into Yuuzhan Vong . According to the plan , they will also keep their Jedi abilities — a deadly combination . Tahiri Veila is the only shaped Jedi . The Yuuzhan Vong implanted false memories , their language , and more into her , using a provoker spineray in an attempt to prevent her from remembering her old life . Cover gallery . This is a gallery of the different cover variations of " Edge of Victory I : Conquest " .