Legacy of the Force : Revelation Legacy of the Force : Revelation is the eighth novel in the " Legacy of the Force " series . It is a paperback by Karen Traviss and was released February 26 , 2008 . The is narrated by Marc Thompson . The cover is of Jacen Solo , now transformed by the dark side as Darth Caedus . Publisher ' s summary . During this savage civil war , all efforts to end Jacen Solo ’ s tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed . Now , with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers , no one – not even the Solos and the Skywalkers – knows if anything can stop the Sith Lord before his plan to save the galaxy ends up destroying it . " Jacen Solo ’ s shadow of influence has threatened many , especially those closest to him . Jaina Solo is determined to bring her brother in , but in order to track him down , she must first learn unfamiliar skills from a man she finds ruthless , repellent , and dangerous . Meanwhile , Ben Skywalker , still haunted by suspicions that Jacen killed his mother , Mara , decides he must know the truth , even if it costs him his life . And as Luke Skywalker contemplates once unthinkable strategies to dethrone his nephew , the hour of reckoning for those on both sides draws near . The galaxy becomes a battlefield where all must face their true nature and darkest secrets , and live – or die – with the consequences . " Plot summary . The novel starts off with Jaina Solo contemplating on what kind of monster that her brother , Jacen , has become , and that one day , she will have to kill him . But not before she is properly trained by Boba Fett to neutralize Jacen . The first story of the novel surrounds Ben Skywalker ' s investigation into his mother ' s death . Determined to prove that it was Jacen who killed Mara Jade Skywalker on Kavan , Ben takes fellow Galactic Alliance Guard member Lon Shevu — who makes sure that his boss , Heol Girdun , doesn ' t find out what he is doing — to Kavan in order to find proof over who Mara ' s killer really is . During their investigation where Ben found his dead mother , he sees her Force ghost , and , as well as telling each other that they still love each other , Mara implies to look for hair samples from Jacen ' s StealthX that would be hers , thus proving that he killed her . Ben and Shevu do this , and continue in other elements into their investigation , such as to Jacen and Mara ' s whereabouts , his visit to Hapes at the time , etc . The second story revolves around Jaina realizing that she cannot take on her brother because , even though they are equally powerful , Jacen is more mastered in the Force than Jaina is , and thus , would be able to defeat her more likely . So she goes to Mandalore where she receives training from Boba Fett and his Mandalorian allies into unconventional fighting that would make her a more dangerous opponent to her brother . Meanwhile , Fett finally has his ex - wife , Sintas Vel , unfrozen from carbonite , but she recovers slowly over time , letting her memories catch up with her , getting her sight back , etc . The third story revolves around Darth Caedus trying to recruit the Imperial Remnant into the Second Galactic Civil War on the Galactic Alliance ' s side by offering the Moff Council more territory in the way of Bilbringi system and Borleias . Though Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon is reluctant , he agrees to lend the Imperial Remnant ' s help to the GA ' s aid in order to defeat the rebelling Fondor . Meanwhile , Caedus ' s fellow Chief of State Cha Niathal sees the error of her colleague ' s ways and secretly betrays the Galactic Alliance by lending pertinent information of the GA military ' s tactics to the New Jedi Order for Luke Skywalker and his Jedi cohorts to sabotage their efforts at Fondor . And as for Pellaeon , predicting that Caedus would do something brash , he gets the help of Admiral Natasi Daala to counter Caedus in case he does anything stupid . To help Pellaeon , Daala hires out Fett and his Mandalorian lackeys to defeat Caedus if Pellaeon ' s predictions became true . Jaina decides to go on this mission with Fett and the other Mandalorians . After Niathal and Pellaeon are assured that Caedus will not be beyond their control , the combined GA - Imperial Remnant fleets attack and launch the Second Battle of Fondor . Initially , the battle does not go to the GA - Imperial Remnant ' s favor , but Caedus improves chances of victory by mind - manipulating the commanders and crews of the other ships in his command to become more aggressive and press their attack against Fondor . The battle eventually turns to the GA - Imperial Remnant ' s favor , and Fondorian President Shas Vadde begs his planet ' s surrender . Niathal and Pellaeon comply , but Caedus continues even after a decisive victory , wanting to press home the advantage so that Fondor can never be a threat to the GA ever again , which is also decided by the rage of the dark side of the Force that he had built up inside himself . When Caedus refuses to follow Niathal ' s orders to withdraw his forces , she officially renounces him of command and tells her forces to aid Fondorian battle forces against Caedus . However , Caedus still has loyalty among the forces , and he takes in more than Niathal in terms of numbers to totally defeat Fondor . Meanwhile , aboard Pellaeon ' s Star Destroyer , the " Bloodfin " , Pellaeon refuses to help Caedus , prompting Tahiri Veila , acting as a liaison to the Sith Lord , to threaten the Grand Admiral at blaster point in his day cabin to assist in defeating Fondor . Pellaeon still refuses , and Tahiri shoots him . However , before dying , Pellaeon finds that the Moffs , led by Quille , will take over and agree to help Caedus , but the Grand Admiral manages to notify Daala on his comlink to attack Caedus ' s forces and that the Moffs have betrayed him . With that , Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon , ruler of the Imperial Remnant , dies . As the Second Battle of Fondor progresses , Daala and her fleet arrives to decimate Caedus ' s forces . But as the battle nears its end , Caedus ' s forces manage to hold their own , and the Sith Lord , disguised as an evac medic aboard a medical transport , goes over to the " Bloodfin " to help evacuate Tahiri as Fett , Jaina , and the other Mandalorians also board the Star Destroyer to neutralize the Moffs for Daala . Both operations go successfully , although some of the Moffs like Drikl Lecersen manage to escape , even after one of the Mandalorians , Baltan Carid , nearly kills Caedus , but is held back via comm by Fett so that Jaina can kill her brother . However , Caedus and Tahiri escape severely wounded , but they make it back to the " Anakin Solo " alive . And because Caedus controls a majority proportion of the GA military , Niathal is branded a traitor to the government and is forced into exile with her obedient forces . Following the Second Battle of Fondor , Caedus confesses to Shevu that he was responsible for Mara ' s death , and that he is a Sith Lord . Shevu takes this in stride , but because he had a wire on him , recording everything that Caedus has said , Shevu gives the recording to Ben . Finally having evidence that positively matches Jacen ' s involvement with Mara ' s death , Ben shows this to the rest of the Solos and Skywalkers , confirming their suspicions as to how low Jacen Solo has sunk . Fett ' s arc in the novel comes to an end as Sintas finally recovers her memories thanks to the healing abilities ex - Jedi Mandalorian Gotab . Sintas reconciles with Fett , despite the age difference thanks to the carbonite freezing , as her assumed hatred toward him was nonexistent , and that their late daughter , Ailyn , had misinterpreted her mother ' s feelings toward her ex - husband . Fett ' s granddaughter , Mirta Gev , gets married to fellow Mandalorian boyfriend Ghes Orade , and Jaina comes to grips with her morals as a Jedi thanks to Gotab , revealing himself to be Bardan Jusik , Jedi veteran of the Clone Wars . Jusik tells Jaina to set aside those morals until she can kill her brother , and then she can ponder her actions when the war is over . The novel ends at the new undisclosed Jedi base , moved from Endor , with Luke sleeping and Ben still wondering what to do now that he knows that Jacen killed his mother . Then Luke wakes up in his tent and begins to talk to someone that Ben cannot see , but he knows who it is . With that , and a tear shed , Ben falls asleep , finally at peace with his mother ' s death . Behind the scenes . Caedus ' s new Sith lightsaber , as depicted on the cover , resembles that of his grandfather , Darth Vader . Though depicted on the cover , Caedus does not actually wield this lightsaber in the book . An extract from " Revelation " was published prior to its release with " " . This contained a continuity error , " Qui - Gon Jinn killed a Sith on Naboo " , a reference to the presumed death of Darth Maul in , who was actually killed by Obi - Wan Kenobi . This error was fixed when " Revelation " was released and the words " Qui - Gon Jinn " were switched for " Kenobi " . Pellaeon fantasized about the furor Daala might create , should she decide to become the " first " female Moff , contradicting earlier mentions and appearances of Crowal , a female Moff from Valc VII who supported Pellaeon during the Yuuzhan Vong War . Tahiri ' s murder of Pellaeon would become the focus of a subplot in " " , when she is put on trial by GA Chief of State Natasi Daala for the crime .