The Last of the Jedi : The Desperate Mission The Last of the Jedi : The Desperate Mission is the first in a series of young reader novels that chronicle the adventures of former Jedi Padawan Ferus Olin after the events of Order 66 . The Desperate Mission follows Obi - Wan Kenobi during his exile on Tatooine after . Publisher ' s summary . The Empire has risen . The Jedi Order has been destroyed . As far as the Emperor is concerned , the Jedi are all but extinct . " But on the remote planet of Tatooine , one Jedi Master remains : Obi - Wan Kenobi . Devastated by the loss of his fellow Jedi — and the betrayal of his former apprentice Anakin — Obi - Wan has been left with one last task : to watch over and protect a young child named Luke . " " When Obi - Wan finds out that a former Jedi apprentice has survived , he must make a painful decision : whether to stay on Tatooine or go on one last , desperate mission — right into the heart of the Empire . The thrilling new series from of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest . Plot summary . Obi - Wan Kenobi has lived for a year on the desolated Tatooine . He remains there to watch over Luke Skywalker ; he and his sister Leia may be the last hope for the galaxy . One night after fulfilling his duty of watching Luke for the day he stops by a cantina , to see if he can pick up any news worth hearing . He only hears the usual gossip and exaggerations and begins to walk out the door . But at the last second he hears Ferus Olin ' s name mentioned . Ferus is running from the Empire ( whereas Obi - Wan assumed he was dead ) , and Obi - Wan would love to help him , but is charged to stay and watch Luke . Troubled , he heads outside . He is confronted by Qui - Gon ' s ghost . After a brief conversation , Obi - Wan is convinced that his Master can watch over Luke for a short period of time . Long enough for Obi - Wan to help Ferus on the planet Bellassa . He receives a ride from Weasy , the same pilot he heard the information from , and starts his desperate mission to find Ferus and revive the Republic . His search first leads to Belassa where Ferus was born . He heads to Olin and Lands where a nearby tailor named Mariana tells him that the company is shut down and the owners are not there anymore . Obi - Wan leaves and meets a boy in the alley , named Trever Flume . Later a squad of stormtroopers come patrolling there and Obi - wan is forced to hop on the nearest gravsled and ride for his life . Unfortunately that gravsled was the one that housed the street - kid he met earlier , and forced to take over the vehicle learns that his name is Trever Flume . Eventually , his investigation led him to the hospital that housed Roan Lands , Olin ' s partner in business . He eventually found out where Olin lived and found him . Soon after , two bounty hunters attacked where they were hiding . They were identified as Boba Fett and D ' harhan . After that , Ferus attempted to save the planet and succeeded , by surrendering himself , with help from Kenobi . Behind the scenes . Clone troopers are erroneously written as stormtroopers during Clone Wars and Battle of Geonosis . It is noted that on the cover , Obi - Wan is holding his lightsaber from Episode I and II eventhough the book is set in the time period after Episode III . In Episode III , Obi - Wan used his final lightsaber . Cover gallery . This is a gallery of the different cover variations of " The Last of the Jedi : The Desperate Mission " .