Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (January 30, 2001)

 

I found that I got bored while listening to this audiobook. But, it still provided some good Star Wars narrative. Here is the plot summary from wookiepedia.

Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter is told in two parts: "Mean Streets" and "Labyrinth".
Aboard the Trade Federation freighter Saak'ak, Nute Gunray finds that his second-in-command Hath Monchar, the Deputy Viceroy of the Federation, has gone missing. Unfortunately, it is too late to do anything about it, because at that moment, Darth Sidious contacts Gunray. The Dark Lord of the Sith questions Gunray about the missing Neimoidian. Gunray panics and tells the Dark Lord that Monchar is sick. However, Darth Sidious sees through the lie, and when the conversation ends, he sends his apprentice Darth Maul after the missing Deputy Viceroy.
On Coruscant, Lorn Pavan and his protocol droid I-5YQ meet with Zippa the Toydarian, a merchant desiring to sell the two companions a Jedi holocron.
Meanwhile, Padawan Darsha Assant prepares for her final mission before becoming a Jedi Knight. She will be sent to the Crimson Corridor in the Zi-Kree Sector of Coruscant. There, she must pick up a former Black Sun employee named Oolth the Fondorian who is willing to trade information about the recent reorganization in the upper ranks of the criminal syndicate in exchange for protection by the Jedi Order.
Darth Maul learns that Hath Monchar plans to sell the information to Lorn Pavan and hunts them both down.
Darsha Assant and her master Bondara run into Pavan and I-five. Bondara gives loses his life fighting Maul while the rest escape.
After a long chase through the bowels of Coruscant, battling Cthons, a taozin, and other dangers, the group is once again tracked down by Darth Maul. Assant does battle with Maul while I-five carbon freezes Pavan in an attempt to hide and protect him. After a large explosion, Darth Maul can sense no life in the warehouse and believes all his targets are dead. He heads back to his master with news of success.
Pavan is thawed out and this time, he starts hunting Maul. Although he was able to get the drop on Maul using a taozin limb, a series of unfortunate events lead him to his end at the hands of Darth Maul.

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