By:  Roger MacBride Allen Published by Bantam Books October 1995 When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors into weapons of immense destruction.  Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian manage to discover the terrifying  secret of Centerpoint Station.  It is the infamous Starbuster itself, and its next programmed nova, hard-wired into, is set to annihilate a chosen star, its inhabited worlds, and millions of innocent lives.  There's only one way to stop it:  blow up the station.  But as a massive rebel fleet closes in on Centerpoint, Han, Luke, and their friends will discover time is running out. Then the true leaders of the rebellion reveal their identities, and issue their final ultimatum:  The New Republic must withdraw all claim to power over the entire Corellian sector.  With the future of Corellian freedom at stake, Han and those loyal to the Republic must somehow resist.  But how can they possibly stop the deadliest weapon the galaxy has ever known?

    Lightning flared out from the apex of the central cone in the great chamber, lancing out toward each of the lower cones, slamming into them with sparks and fire.  Thunder, deafeningly loud, the sound of the earth cracking open and splitting itself apart, roared through the great chamber.  Blinding light exploded out from the lightning strike to reflect off every silver surface, flooding the chamber with brilliance.
    The lesser cones answered back, sending their own thunderbolts back to strike at the top of the center cone, blasting it into incandescence.  Then, as suddenly as it had been there, the lightning was gone, and the cones were as they had been, unaffected by the massive power that had played around them.  The sound of the thunder echoed through the chamber, reverberating back and forth like the angry war-cry of some long-forgotten god.
    The chamber shuddered and shook with the thunder.  Chewbacca, aboard the Falcon, was thrown from his bunk as the ship bounced and lurched along with the chamber.  He was halfway to the ship's control room before he came fully awake and realized the ship was on the ground.
    Not just on the ground, but under it, in a sealed chamber, with no hope of escape.