Young Jedi Knights : The Lost Ones Young Jedi Knights : The Lost Ones is the third book in the " Young Jedi Knights " series . Publisher ' s summary . " During a break in training , Jacen and Jaina are reunited with their old friend Zekk , an orphan living in the streets on their home planet of Coruscant . Young , wild , and free , Zekk has never had a care in the world … until now . He sees the changes in his friends . Jacen and Jaina have learned so much , have grown in so many ways . Compared to them , he is only a lost little boy . " " However , a powerful being has seen his potential . Someone who knows about shame and jealousy — and how to make use of them . Someone who knows that the dark side of the Force is especially attractive when you ' ve got nothing to lose … " Plot summary . Jacen and Jaina Solo have returned to their home on Coruscant to take a month - long vacation from the strenuous curriculum of their uncle ' s Jedi Praxeum . Accompanying them are Tenel Ka and Lowbacca as well as Em Teedee , the young Wookiee ' s droid companion . The day after their arrival , Jacen and Jaina invite Tenel Ka and Lowbacca to meet their friend Zekk , an orphaned street youth . Ater an eventful meeting with Zekk , the five of them descend into the undercity of Coruscant , where Zekk has taken up the career of a scavenger — finding lost or abandoned objects for fun and profit . During this particular excursion , Zekk leads his friends to a the nest of a hawk - bat that he had scouted out earlier . Jacen , wanting to help his friend out , uses his ability to communicate with animals to get one of the hawk - bat ' s eggs . They manage to get back to the apartment that Zekk shares with his friend Peckhum , but not without a a hazardous encounter with the Lost Ones — a gang of detestable juvenile delinquents led by a bully named Norys . Over a meal of stormtrooper rations at the midlevel apartment which Zekk shares with Peckhum — an old spacer who took him in when he was orphaned — Jaina invites Zekk to a diplomatic banquet being held at the Imperial Palace in honor of the new Karnak Alphan ambassador two days later . Zekk accepts the offer and spends the next day buying new clothes so that he may look respectable when attending the banquet . The day after that , Zekk arrives at the Imperial Palace and is greeted by the Solos ' protocol droid , who informs him that his clothes are extremely out of date and tries to comb out his hair . Zekk keeps to himself during most of the ceremony , deathly aware that he is out of place . Zekk ' s embarrassment becomes a nightmare when he mistakes a bouquet for a salad and after consuming it , makes a complimentary statement regarding its deliciousness . Zekk utters not one word for the rest of the evening and takes off from the Imperial Palace . After exiting he wanders the city ' s lower levels in a haze , until he encounters a woman who asks him for a moment of his time . He refuses , but he is restrained by her accomplices . She then scans Zekk with a strange device . After he refuses to come with her , Zekk is stunned and abducted . Zekk regains his consciousness in a cell and is greeted by a man who identifies himself as Brakiss . Brakiss apologizes to Zekk for Tamith Kai ' s enthusiasm and informs him that he is a Force - sensitive . Brakiss then begins the process of convincing Zekk to train at his Shadow Academy , showing him his potential , turning him against his friends , and asking him if he wants to be more than a mere trash collector for the rest of his life . Meanwhile , Jacen and Jaina are worried sick about Zekk . They repeatedly try to comm him but are unsuccessful in their efforts . Eventually , Peckhum — who is off duty from his job as a caretaker of one of the Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellite s — shows up at their door asking them where Zekk went off to . To Jacen and Jaina this a sign that something serious has definitely happened to Zekk . Jacen and Tenel Ka set off into the undercity to see if they can find Zekk while remaining in constant comlink contact with the twins ' younger brother Anakin and C - 3PO . Meanwhile , Jaina , Lowbacca , Chewbacca , and Em Teedee join Peckhum for a flight up to the OSETS that he is charged with keeping an eye on to see if they can effect a number of repairs to keep it from breaking down entirely . While making their way through the undercity , Jacen and Tenel Ka find Zekk giving a speech to number of unusually subdued Lost Ones . They discover the reason for this when Tamith Kai appears after they confront Zekk and ask him what he is doing . Jacen and Tenel Ka are stunned and left behind . While they are aboard the OSETS , Jaina and Lowbacca take the opportunity to chart the debris that surrounds Coruscant — a project that they had been working on after they had learned that a shuttle named the " Moon Dash " had collided with something in the orbit of Coruscant . While she is taking a break from her task , Jaina views images of an earlier incident that had occurred near Coruscant when the bulk cruiser " Adamant " was hijacked by an Imperial strike force that had seemingly materialized out of nowhere . She puzzles over the problem presented by the presence of short - range fighters — that are not equipped with hyperdrive — during the raid . Lowbacca — who has been charting space debris all the while — notes an odd anomaly — an area of space impossibly devoid of any debris whatsoever . At the same time , Jaina is commed by Jacen , who tells her that the Shadow Academy is carrying out operations on the surface of Coruscant . Believing that all of these discoveries are not a coincidence , Jaina tells Peckhum to focus the light reflected from the mirrors of the OSETS upon the anomalous area of space as a fleet of New Republic ships descends upon that same area . However , the fleet is not fast enough and the Shadow Academy escapes , leaving behind a message pod . The message pod is taken down to the surface of Coruscant and opened by Jaina . Its contents consist of a central multitasking unit that Zekk had wanted to give to Peckhum and a message for his former friends , stating his reasons for wanting to be trained at the Shadow Academy . The Jedi trainees and especially Jaina feel a great deal of despair due to Zekk ' s choice . Their vacation is cut short and they are whisked away back to Yavin 4 by Luke Skywalker so that they may prepare for the struggle that lies ahead . . . Cover gallery . This is a gallery of the different cover variations of " The Lost Ones " .