The New Jedi Order : Traitor The New Jedi Order : Traitor , part of the , is a novel by Matthew Stover , published in 2002 . Publisher ' s summary . From the depths of catastrophe , a glimmer of hope . " After the capture of Coruscant , the mighty heart of the New Republic , a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong . Still , that crushing defeat produces one small miracle : Jacen Solo is alive . Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances . " " The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere , a fascinating creature of mystery and power , her intentions hard to fathom , her cruelties rarely concealed . But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi … for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force , to take it to another level — dangerous , dazzling , perhaps deadly . " " In the wrong hands , the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating . And there are others watching Jacen ' s process closely , waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes . Now , all is in shadows . Yet whatever happens , whether Jacen ' s newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness , he will never be the same Jedi again … " Plot summary . The story opens with Jacen Solo being tortured aboard a Yuuzhan Vong ship . He receives frequent visits from Vergere , who betrayed him to the Yuuzhan Vong after he killed the voxyn queen at the end of the Mission to Myrkr . Vergere begins showing Jacen that there is no dark side of the Force and that the " dark side " is rather the full power of the Force . During this time , Vergere helps the Vong shape Jacen into one of their own . This process is observed by Executor Nom Anor . Eventually , Jacen is sent to a Yuuzhan Vong seedship , the seedship being for the purpose of forming a new planet for the Vong to have as a home . Jacen is given the task of tending to the non - Yuuzhan Vong workers developing the ship into a planet , and he begins to have a belief that the cruel non - Vong workers need to die after the death of a Devaronian , which those workers caused , who was assisting Jacen in an assignment . At the beginning of his stay on the seedship , Jacen is implanted with a slave seed in his chest by Vergere to connect him with one of the dhuryam of the seedship . During the course of this bond , the dhuryam realizes Jacen cannot be broken and forced into doing work , so the dhuryam resorts to a mutual partnership with Jacen . Soon more Yuuzhan Vong forces arrive at the seedship in order to select one of the dhuryam for a World Brain . The dhuryam would then be able to have complete independence in controlling a Yuuzhan Vong - formed planet , in a ceremonial ritual . But Jacen refuses to join the ceremony . The dhuryam he is bonded to then allows him to take control of the immature amphistaff s and wear them as armor as he goes through the seedship and causes a great massacre that kills Yuuzhan Vong and non - Yuuzhan Vong alike , and further , he makes all the other slaves attack the Vong with immature weapons , which turns out to be as much a danger to them as it is to the Yuuzhan Vong . Jacen reaches the dhuryams and kills all of them save the one he is bonded to , for when he is about to kill that one , Jacen believes he sees his late brother Anakin telling him not kill the dhuryam because of their partnership ( all appearances of Anakin Solo here are ambiguous as to whether or not they are real or illusion ) . Vergere convinces Jacen not to kill the last dhuryam , and he falls unconscious . When Jacen wakes up , he finds he is on the Yuuzhan Vong homeworld of Yuuzhan ' tar , and thanks to Vergere , who aids him on his trek to the city capital , he realizes it was once Coruscant , now captured by the Yuuzhan Vong . Jacen learns that he can sense the Yuuzhan Vong in the Force , a result of the slave seed Vergere had implanted in him on the seedship to make him obey the Yuuzhan Vong . He uses this " Vongsense " to escape Yuuzhan Vong forces on Coruscant . After a confrontation with the Yuuzhan Vong , Jacen and Vergere travel underground on Yuuzhan ' tar to get underneath what was once the old Jedi Temple that was destroyed after the fall of the Old Republic and the rise of the Galactic Empire . Vergere questions Jacen further as to who he is , while blinding him in the dark of the underground . Jacen states proudly that he is a Jedi , and Vergere tells him that it was all a game and that Jacen has lost . She reveals that he is surrounded by Yuuzhan Vong with Nom Anor . Jacen slips into unconsciousness and unleashes the dark side of the Force upon Vergere and the Yuuzhan Vong . When confronted by a wounded Vergere about it afterward , she argues that there is no difference between the light and the dark sides of the Force : they are both the same . Jacen , shocked at this revelation , leaves Vergere to discover who he is and chases after what he believes to be the spirit of Anakin . However , this is a hallucination and Jacen unwittingly enters a cavern beast . Inside the belly of the gargantuan animal , he hears a voice , crying for help . He tries to shut it out , believing it to be another hallucination . Then , to his horror , he realizes that it has a presence in the Force . He tries to rescue the girl crying for help , but to no avail . But when he unleashes the hate inside himself , he uses the dark side to rescue the child . This confuses him and draws his mind back to Vergere ' s teachings : that the dark side was simply the Force ' s unleashed potential . He discovers more survivors , refugees of the conquest of Coruscant . He assumes that they , too , were drawn in by illusions and false hopes . Through his confusion , though , he also finds anger and rage . The refugees have a rule : whoever arrives last in the beast would be sent to feed its ravenous hunger . The girl arrived last , and she was undergoing an execution . The survivors and , most enraging to Jacen , the girl accuse him of being the last and then try to send him on his way to the stomach . Enraged , he draws on the anger he feels and uses the Force to make the animal believe that humans are poisonous , triggering it to forcibly eject all of them . Bereft of their shelter , the survivors would most likely die from Coruscant ' s many dangers . Lost and confused , he leaves them and goes on . Jacen then arrives at the Solo ' s now ruined apartment and is saddened by how much things have changed , his home and his life now a perversion of its former self . Shortly after his arrival he is visited by what he thought to be ( and may have been ) Anakin ' s spirit . This also challenges his thoughts on the Force . The apparition of Anakin engages in the playful banter they had once shared , and Jacen tells him of the things he has done , and also his confusion . Jacen also asks Anakin whether he is real or an illusion . Anakin counters , asking Jacen if there is a difference , saying that life , like the Force , is all one and that there is no difference , akin to Vergere ' s earlier teachings . Jacen then thinks that Anakin really is an illusion and tries to shut him out , falling into a deep depression . Vergere arrives and wakes him , once again challenging Jacen ' s beliefs . They are soon joined by Nom Anor and his entourage of warriors , who confront Jacen , saying that they believe him to be an avatar of Yun - Yammka , offering him Anakin ' s lightsaber if he would convert to the Yuuzhan Vong religion . Jacen agrees , although Nom Anor is unaware at this time that he is lying . The rest of the story reveals that Ganner Rhysode has been searching for Jacen due to rumors of him being alive . On a New Republic camp ship that keeps refugees from the Yuuzhan Vong war , Ganner finally confronts Jacen and the Yuuzhan Vong forces and is captured . After Ganner ' s capture , he is sent to Yuuzhan ' tar , and Jacen reveals he has not really converted to the Yuuzhan Vong ways and that he is simply acting . The Yuuzhan Vong do not know whether or not they can trust Jacen to be an avatar , and Nom Anor now knows that Jacen is acting . However , they still bring Jacen and Ganner to the Well of the World Brain where the Galactic Senate once met . Jacen and Ganner lock themselves in , their plan being that Jacen would destroy the World Brain that used to be the dhuryam he was partnered with at the seedship ( after Jacen killed all the rest of the dhuryams , his partner was selected to be the World Brain on Yuuzhan ' tar ) while Ganner would then escape . However , Ganner tells Jacen he will sacrifice himself so that Jacen will be able to kill the World Brain in time . Ganner confronts all the Yuuzhan Vong warriors who come his way after Jacen gives him Anakin ' s lightsaber and kills nearly all of them in combat , but he dies himself from the wounds inflicted upon him . Meanwhile , Jacen does not kill the World Brain , but convinces it not to make things imperfect for the Yuuzhan Vong in order to teach them compromise in the course of their invasion of the galaxy . Vergere , in the meantime , manipulates Nom Anor into revealing the location of his personal escape ship that would let him escape in case trouble came to Yuuzhan ' tar . Vergere betrays Nom Anor and lets biological lifeforms trap him while she and Jacen escape to become a third party of themselves in the Yuuzhan Vong War as they head back to the New Republic . Behind the scenes . " Traitor " lists Jacen Solo as Jedi Knight in its " Dramatis Personae " . However , he is not Knighted until later in the series with " " . It could have simply been referring to all Jedi as Jedi Knights , however , he was promoted to apprentice Jedi Knight at the end of Young Jedi Knights . Jacen Solo ' s torture and Ganner Rhysode ' s Battle of the World - Well were included in " Star Wars Insider " " 20 Most Memorable Moments of the Expanded Universe " . Cover gallery . This is a gallery of the different cover variations of " Traitor " .