Star Wars: Echoes in the Void is a fan fiction e-book novella written by Seth Hoover. It follows the events surrounding four mercenaries, also known as the Retribution Squad, as they become stranded within an abandoned platform facility. The squad stumbles upon the facility after completing a mission for their employer: the Empire. The squad has to use their wits to discover the inner secrets of abandoned platform drifting off into space and escape with their lives. It covers the redemptive story of four people, three male and one female, as they bring peace back to the disturbed station and find the truth hidden within by listening to the echoes in the void.
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Two years after Supreme Chancellor Palpatine reorganized the Galactic Republic into a new Empire, four mercenaries, known as the Retribution squad, return to their base after completing a mission for their new employer: the Empire. Upon their return, their ship was jumped out of hyperspace and caught in a tractor beam. They are pulled into the station, which appears abandoned, at first.
While searching the hangar, the squad discovered the Force ghost of a late Jedi Knight, who agreed to help them uncover the platform’s secrets, as he had been made a victim of them as well. Upon further discovery, the squad soon learned that the station used to be a convent of a thriving religion, the Brotherhood of E’d’I. They were a generally peaceful religion and their demise came as a surprise to the squad.
While trying to assist the spirits left behind from a massacre, the squad also learned a dark secret behind the convent. The Director had been using the convent as a campaign base to conduct secret research and spread further lies outside the convent he ran, hoping to bring false peace to the galaxy. The squad, along with a befriended droid unit, found the Director hidden away and escaped the platform, but not without severe consequences from their employer.
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“For who hears the voices of the forgotten? Who claims to know their names? Who remembered them on the days of tribulation, when the worlds brought their armies against them? Was it not I that heard the echoes in the void, the screams of the terrorized? Was it not I, the Redeemer, Jat’ey?” The cold grew thick. Ruin could feel his blood thicken, his arteries clot, and heart freeze. The coldness of the phantom had a grip on his heart. The frigid digits of the spirit had slipped through time and space and Ruin’s skin, burrowing deep within his chest through the ribs and flesh, grasping his slowly freezing heart. The cold spread. It was no longer in his heart, but his entire torso. He started shivering. His breath became a dense cloud as it exited his mouth. The red eyes of the phantom burned with anger. “Ha nerkocth, bonh.” A voice called out from behind the crew; his heavy accent emphasized the words with rolled r’s and hard vowels. Suddenly everything stopped. The phantom retracted his hand. Carpo felt a shiver run down his back and he knew there was something behind him. He twisted around to catch a glimpse of a foggy blur pass through him. His extremities chilled briefly, and then thawed. He did not recognize what hit him, but he knew something did. He felt the chill return to his spine and twisted around once more. Instead of one, he now saw two phantoms, one of them a Force ghost. “You seem surprised.” The former Jedi spoke up, speaking in clear Basic. “Who are you?” Carpo wondered, finding it hard not to stare at both ghosts. “My name is of no consequence to you. You may know it if I come to trust you. Now, why are you here?” The Jedi persisted, avoiding answering Carpo’s question. | |
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Installments[]
- Star Wars: Echoes in the Void/Initiation
- Star Wars: Echoes in the Void/The Haunted
- Star Wars: Echoes in the Void/The Horde
- Star Wars: Echoes in the Void/Illumine
- Star Wars: Echoes in the Void/The Passageway
- Star Wars: Echoes in the Void/The Revelation
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