Across the Portal: Insurgence

### **Rating**

Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action violence and brief suggestive content and alcoholism.

### **Series**

*Across the Portal*

***Across the Portal: Insurgence*** is a 2018 crossover science-fiction book. It is the sequel to the 2017 D.I.T. science fiction *Across the Portal: Interference* and the sixth installment in the DIT-Star Wars Universe. It was released on November 3, 2018.

## Plot

In 1838, Kristen still talks of her adventure in a galaxy far, far away, dropping the charade that it's a bestselling book she wrote, troubling her parents, who believe she is fantasizing. Kristen is disturbed to see the sign of the Jedi Order on a tree, prompting her father to take action. She has a horrific nightmare predicting B'en's death and the capture and torture of Master Yoda by unknown forces. She wakes with a start, wondering if coming home was truly a good idea. She decides to go on a walk, but suddenly, two large hands grab her and knock her unconscious by bending her neck in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Xerin Hedashield of the oligarchial Third Order is tightening her iron grip around the galaxy. Her pawn, Darth Mutialatus, begins expanding on the Third Order by ordering them to scourge nearby planets of their resources in order to obtain the fuel and materials needed for extensive weaponry.

Kristen regains consciousness and realizes she is on Coruscant. She incapacitates the monstrous culprit and runs into a basement of an empty one to scream, cry, and shatters a window glass of the kitchen. She makes her way into a bar and meets some alarmingly nice people and she gets high with them. One of them, named Abonin, promises her work in exchange for transport to the Jedi Temple, which is almost on the other side of the planet. Kristen returns in an inebriated state to the Jedi Temple and sees B'en'jamin Thorrn at the doorway and Kristen passes out in his arms. She has a horrible hangover the next day and in the afternoon, she is greeted on her bed by Thorrn. The two have a proper, albeit tearful reunion and she tells him that she has been witnessing horrible visions and the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Mutialatus, at the center of all of it.

Arriving on Tatooine, Kristen meets the People of Orenbach and confronts "the Captain" in Orenbach's Observatory, but is nearly destroyed when Third Order missiles bombard the civilization.

B'en and Xerin sit down in her personal chamber and discuss morals of the Jedi Order and the Third Order. Xerin tells B'en the Jedi are blind, and while he initially defends this, he finds himself being increasingly taken by his attraction to her. She gets him to talk about Kristen whilst ingeniously pretending he brought it up because she finds it an uncomfortable subject. Wondering just how different he and she are, he chooses to surprise her by asking if he can fight alongside the Third Order during their upcoming siege on Coruscant, in return for revenge against Kristen. Xerin agrees to let him tag along with her as long as he wears a ring to show his allegiance.

The Battle of Coruscant begins. Inside the Jedi Temple, Kristen eventually changes her mind and leads the Men of Thorrn to join the battle. While the others aid what remains of Volto's forces, Kristen takes off with him, Victoria, and Phoenix to kill Hedashield and save Thorrn. But they are too late: Darth Mutialatus appears and stabs Phoenix in the back before throwing her off a tower. Thorrn lashes out at him, but Hedashield outsmarts and captures the Padawan.

After several days of confusion, Kristen finally finds him. However, Thorrn, having already been corrupted to Hedashield's cause, imprisons Kristen aboard the *Vindicator*. Back at the Jedi Temple, Victoria senses Thorrn, but when he ignores her, she joins what's left of the Jedi in dispelling a green vortex threatening to consume them all. In the meantime, Hedashield looks out the window, considering the fate of the Jedi Order sealed.

## Appearances

### Events

* Attack on Tatooine
* Battle of Coruscant

### New Characters

* Abonin
* Kreddus
* Reid