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Catalyst (Star Wars): A Rogue One Novel Paperback – May 2, 2017

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lauded Star Wars author James Luceno returns to pen an intense tale of ambition and betrayal that sets the stage for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the Republic and the Separatists have battled across the stars, each building more and more deadly technology in an attempt to win the war. As a member of Chancellor Palpatine’s top-secret Death Star project, Orson Krennic is determined to develop a superweapon before the Republic’s enemies can. And an old friend of Krennic’s, the brilliant scientist Galen Erso, could be the key.

Galen’s energy-focused research has captured the attention of both Krennic and his foes, making the scientist a crucial pawn in the galactic conflict. But after Krennic rescues Galen; his wife, Lyra; and their young daughter, Jyn, from Separatist kidnappers, the Erso family is deeply in Krennic’s debt. Krennic then offers Galen an extraordinary opportunity: to continue his scientific studies with every resource put utterly at his disposal. While Galen and Lyra believe that his energy research will be used purely in altruistic ways, Krennic has other plans that will finally make the Death Star a reality. Trapped in their benefactor’s tightening grasp, the Ersos must untangle Krennic’s web of deception to save themselves—and the entire galaxy.

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James Luceno is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars novels Tarkin, Darth Plagueis, Millennium Falcon, Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, Cloak of Deception, and Labyrinth of Evil, as well as the New Jedi Order novels Agents of Chaos I: Hero’s Trial and Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse, The Unifying Force, and the ebook “Darth Maul: Saboteur.”

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1

Pressure

“What if . . .”

It was as much as Galen Erso got out before falling silent and pacing away from the alphanumeric data field that hovered above the holoprojector. Galen’s fragment of a question also seemed to hang in the air, and his fellow researchers in the control room stopped what they were doing to regard him in palpable expectation. One of them, Nurboo, broke the pregnant silence.

“You’ve a new idea, Galen? Should we delay the test?”

Galen either didn’t hear him or didn’t care to. He stood motionless for a moment, his gaze unfocused, then resumed his determined pacing, mumbling numbers and calculations to himself.

A second Valltii gave his large and hirsute head a doleful shake. “It’s no good, we’ve lost him.”

From across the room, Tambo’s gravelly voice shushed him.

“Can’t you see he’s thinking?”

Galen’s pose certainly said as much. His head was lowered, eyes and lips narrowed, and his thick arms were folded across his chest, as if clutching something to himself. The new idea, perhaps.

Standing just over 1.8 meters tall, he was broad-shouldered and well developed, despite having spent most of his thirty-odd standard years in earnest rumination and reflection, often scribbling the results of all that thinking on whatever was handy. His hair was uncombed, falling around his face in heavy strands in a way that made him dashing in sunlight, dangerous in the dark.

Lyra finally pushed herself out of her chair and ambled over to him.

“What if . . .” she said in a patient, leading way.

Everyone in the control room took it as a good sign when the thumb and forefinger of Galen’s left hand went briefly to the corners of his mouth, stretching the skin.

“We’re getting there,” Lyra said. She loved it when Galen went so deep that he essentially disappeared from the world, going where few could follow, to his own private hyperspace.

A few centimeters shorter than him, she had a high forehead and layered auburn hair that just reached her shoulders. Arching brows and a slightly downturned mouth gave her a somewhat somber look, though she was anything but. She and Galen had wed on Coruscant almost five years earlier, and she was every bit her husband’s equal in appeal, with the physique of a natural athlete, honed by a lifetime of exploration on dozens of remote worlds. Bundled up in a coarse sweater and baggy trousers, Lyra affected a colorful earflapped cap made of local yarn, and she wore it well.

The only humans among the research group, they were a long way from the Core, and even farther from the conflict that had recently erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the so-called Separatists. The six stout Valltii they had lived and worked with for the past four standard months had large round faces and mouths made for chewing meat. Beneath lustrous growths of facial hair, their skin was as blue as the glacial ice that covered half the planet. Galen and Lyra conversed with them in a pidgin of Galactic Basic and the indigenous language, which was guttural and filled with lengthy words that were confounding to humans. With an ear for mimicry, Lyra did better with the language than Galen did.

She was on the verge of goading him again when he blinked as if remembering who or where he was, and his attention returned to the data field.

She smiled lightly. He was back.

Reviewing the lengthy differential equations top to bottom, Galen stepped closer to the field, as if there were something to be discerned behind it or along its faintly oscillating edges.

“Assis,” he said finally, addressing the droid on the far side of the holoprojector.

“Yes, Dr. Erso.”

“Line four. Change the coefficient to five and recalculate.”

The TDK-160 research-assistant, a reconfigurable droid that just then was standing on two slender alloy legs, complied and sent the results to the holotable.

Everyone kept their attention on the field while the quotient groups, coefficients, and derivatives began to shift.

The control room was designed to house technology rather than living beings. Lined with humming machines, it lacked windows and was always colder than it had any right being. Heat was pumped in through ducts high overhead, but the room’s real warmth came from its having acquired a lived-in look through long months of research and experimentation. No one minded the unpacked crates stacked in the corners, the empty food containers piled on Nurboo’s worktable, or the litter of backup data storage devices. As cluttered and claustrophobic as it was, it was more hospitable than just about anywhere outside.

Thick walls broken by sliding entryways kept out the worst of the cold. A rear doorway accessed a ramp leading to a labyrinth of corridors that connected disparate parts of the facility, a few of them wide enough to accommodate compact utility speeders. Elsewhere were banks of computers and analyzers, plotting boards, comm stations, even a rudimentary HoloNet transceiver for extraplanetary communications.

It wasn’t Lyra’s kind of place at all, but she had formed fast friendships with Galen’s colleagues, and Vallt was home for now.

Most of the ignition facility lay far below them, where gases were compelled to mingle and intense heat was generated. There, too, was the superheated ion-plasma reactor and the superconducting coils that cooled it, along with the hydrothermal autoclaves in which enormous crystals were synthetically grown. The fusion plant itself could power Vallt’s entire northern continent, and one day it might, but that wasn’t its present purpose. The goal was to generate outbursts of raw power that could be harvested, stored in capacitors, and doled out sustainably to worlds in need. The place hadn’t come cheap even in prewar credits, and Zerpen Industries, headquartered in an autonomous system in the Outer Rim, was still awaiting a return on its investment.

“The equation won’t resolve,” Nurboo said when the data field began flashing as if beside itself in confusion.

Galen addressed the droid once more. “Assis, go back.”

The original integrals and summation symbols returned to the field, and Galen studied them for a long moment.

“Is that a smile?” Tambo asked. “Lyra, is he smiling?”

Instead of retasking Assis, Galen leaned into the field and began to wave his arms in the air like an orchestra conductor or magician, altering the calculation. When the field had transformed and stabilized, everyone gathered around the holotable to scrutinize the results.

“That’s a fine number,” one of the Valltii said.

“An elegant solution,” another pronounced.

“Shall we conduct the test now?”

The six of them scattered to their workstations and instruments, exchanging comments and suggestions as they went about their responsibilities with renewed enthusiasm.

“The boule is in place,” Easel reported, referring to the synthetic crystal.

Galen fixed his gaze on the central display screen.

Nurboo cleared his throat. “Test sequence initiated.”

Illumination in the control room dimmed briefly as deep below them immense pressure was brought to bear on a massive crystal that had been grown only two months earlier. The synthetic gem had been modeled on an actual kyber, which Zerpen had gone to great lengths and cost to acquire. Relatively rare, the so-called living crystals were almost exclusively the property of the Jedi, who seemed to regard the kyber as sacrosanct. Finger-sized ones powered their lightsabers, and larger ones were rumored to adorn the ornate façades of their isolated temples.

“Results show a piezoelectric effect of point-three above previous,” Nurboo said.

The researchers watched Galen, who was shaking his head back and forth.

“No?” Tambo said.

“We should be seeing a much larger increase.” Galen firmed his lips and scowled at no one in particular, wrestling with what might have gone wrong. “The unit cell stacking in the synthetic isn’t stable enough. We’ll have to run a spectrographic autopsy and begin again. The entire batch of boules might be flawed.”

It was nothing they hadn’t been through countless times, but disappointment hung in the cool air regardless.

Galen returned to his thinking pose.

“We could try applying more pressure,” Easel suggested in the gentlest way. “Perhaps return the crystal to the vapor chamber and introduce a new dopant.”

Galen glanced around him, dubious and distracted. He had his mouth open to reply when a short chime issued from the control room comm station.

“Main gate,” one of the Valltii said.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Worlds; Media tie-in edition (May 2, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101967005
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1101967003
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1020L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.17 x 1 x 7.51 inches

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Origin Story leading into Rogue One

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The book is enjoyable. Seeing how Galen Erso becomes involved with working on the Death Star and his evolving relationship with Orson Krennic is good reading. The story starts as Lyra is pregnant with Jyn and Galen is working as a research scientist trying to manufacture synthetic kyber crystals. I am about halfway through the book now but I can see how it is faithful to the storyline we know in the Rogue One movie.
The narrative I thought most interesting so far is the way the Empire speaks about Order 66 and the Clones from the Grand Army helping to defeat the Jedi and eradicate them. From the point of view of citizens in mid-to outer rim worlds the Jedi are cast as villans who hurt Palpatine . Beings who had no real contact with Jedi are, over time, coming to accept the propaganda the Empire is telling.
Maybe most surprising so far is that Lyra seems to be force sensitive and is not accepting that line of thinking. Enough so that you can begin to see how the Lyra and Krennic story line will eventually bring us to the conclusion we see in Rogue One.

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Very excellent tie in to Rogue One film with better character development.

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If I have one criticism of Rogue One the movie it's that it throws out a lot of superficial references to many different things and ideas and doesn't spend a lot of time developing two of the more interesting characters, Orson Krennic and Galen Erso.

I think this book is one of Luceno's best. There's not a lot of action, but the characters are rich, complex, and well developed. At times, Galen seems incredibly obtuse for no reason at all other than the book would end too quickly if he came to his sense about Orson, but I came away impressed with Orson's competence and depth as a character much more than I did in the film which barely goes into his motivations at all. In this book, he is so much more than a stock Imperial villain: he is smart, manipulative, and generally one step ahead of everyone else. His competition with Tarkin is very interesting. Lyra Galen is also very well done in this book.

Although at the end of the day, like in the rest of the canon novels, not too much of great significance happens in the book (again holding back for the movies/other favored media like Marvel comics), but it's well-written and a tour-de-force in how a character driven novel should be done in the Star Wars universe. Quite possibly it's the best of the new canon novels with the possible exception of Gray's Lost Stars.

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I am a massive Star Wars fan who first got into the books last year, when Disney first began releasing its new canon material. I have read and thoroughly enjoyed the majority of the canon novels that I've read, my favorites being Lost Stars, Lords of the Sith, and Bloodline in that order. With Catalyst, I have to crown a new champion.

The Force Awakens is arguably the most I have ever anticipated a film in my 22 years of life last year. More than anything, I was anticipating a return to a galaxy far, far away. I loved the film, so my expectations going into Rogue One are partially based on my happiness with what we got in 2015. My hype for The Force Awakens was almost instantaneous, while my Rogue One hype has been a slow burn that really picked up toward the end. After reading Catalyst, I can say that I am even MORE excited for Rogue One as a FILM than I was for The Force Awakens, while I was more excited for The Force Awakens as an EVENT.

I will not divulge spoilers. But I will say that Luceno introduces a rich cast of characters from Galen, Lyra, and Jyn Erso (Jyn being the star of Rogue One), Orson Krennic (a villain worthy of Tarkin, Thrawn, Palpatine, and Vader just from these pages alone), to Has Obitt. I have not yet read Luceno's other Star Wars novels, but now I have an incredible incentive to do so. He is illustrious and visceral with his writing, and what impresses me most about Catalyst is how it expands the science of Star Wars.

Catalyst is an enthralling, epic story of love, war, greed, betrayal, and the will of the Force. It is one of the richest stories in the Star Wars saga to date, which gives me even more confidence in the Lucasfilm team. At this point, we only have a few days until Rogue One hits theaters. Do yourself a favor and READ THIS BOOK BEFORE SEEING THE FILM. It's NOT required, and both the book and the film can stand on their own, but boy will it likely make the experience seeing the film even richer. I could see Catalyst as a film itself, but I suppose we would be missing out on James Luceno's captivating prose.

Remember, the Force will be with you. Always.

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Good

Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2023

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Another good story in the franchise

CedLikan

so good...

Reviewed in India on January 12, 2024

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i didn't know what to expect when i purchased it and .... woa, need to be read before watching the movie

Sonia Regina Ribeiro

A must-read!

Reviewed in Brazil on February 21, 2019

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Uma das melhores histórias do cânon de Star Wars! Uma porta de entrada perfeita para quem assistiu os filmes, e quer iniciar a leitura dos livros!

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lorenzo 90

un bel prequel

Reviewed in Italy on August 1, 2017

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un buon romanzo che fa da preludio alla storia di rogue one, vengono approfonditi i personaggi secondari del film: vediamo la carriera di krennic e tutte le sue manipolazioni, lyra ne guadagna tanto, è un bel personaggio, molto legato al pacifismo e alla fede nella forza oltre ad essere una donna molto determinata, galen è lo scienziato che si perde nello studio dei cristalli, e in dei punti diventano quasi un'ossessione perdendo di vista il suo lavoro e la sua famiglia. sullo sfondo c'è la nascita della morte nera, e tutti i problemi connessi, dove trovare la manodopera, le risorse, tenerla nascosta e infine sviluppare l'arma.
ho trovato alcuni termini in inglese un pò ostici, quando si parla di cose scientifiche o di ingegneria lì un pò mi sono perso, però son dettagli.
come al solito peccato che per ora non sia uscito in italiano.

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Ole Heydt

Ein muss für alle Star Wars Nerds!

Reviewed in Germany on April 16, 2017

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Wunderbar fesselnd von der ersten Seite an!
Catalyst zeigt viele Motivationen der Rogue One Charaktere sehr viel deutlicher auf, als der Film selbst.
Mit persönlich kam der Film daher absolut Gigantisch vor!
Dies war mein erstes Star Wars Buch und es wird definitiv nicht das letzte sein.

Wenn Ihr tiefer in die Rogue One Geschichte eintauchen wollt, dann ist das Buch das richtige für euch!

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