"Star Wars: Riptide" Quiz

Answer: Crosscurrent

"Riptide" is a sequel to the novel "Crosscurrent", which was Paul S. Kemp's first "Star Wars" novel. This novel directly continues "Crosscurrent"'s story; in fact, it takes place just two days after the closing events of that novel. The story that Kemp uses for this book is one that had been greatly implicated just as "Crosscurrent"'s two major stories came to their end.

Answer: Jaden Korr

One of the clones to have escaped from the cloning facility back in the previous novel, Soldier, is a genetic copy of Jaden Korr. After Jaden finds out about this, he begins to wonder how this could be, since Grand Admiral Thrawn's cloning project came about during his campaign to remove the New Republic from leading the galaxy, which was, at the time, preceding Jaden's admittance into the Jedi Academy. For those not in the know, Thrawn was a military and tactical genius of the Galactic Empire who very well almost overthrew the New Republic five years after Emperor Palpatine died.

Answer: The Nenn siblings

The Nenn siblings, brother Nyss and sister Syll, were sent by Wyyrlok to retrieve Jaden Korr for the One Sith. Specifically, Wyyrlok showed the siblings holovid footage taken by the late Kell Douro of his involvement throughout the course of the previous novel.

The key image inadvertently projected by Douro that coerced Wyyrlok into sending the Nenns into going after Jaden was when he used Force lightning, a dark side trait, on the clone of Kam Solusar, Alpha.

Answer: Luke Skywalker

As Jaden and his friends try to track down the clones that escaped the frozen moon base back in the previous novel, Jaden contacts Luke Skywalker to tell him of what happened on that moon. One thing that visibly struck Skywalker was when Jaden mentioned that one of the escaped clones may very well be of his late wife, Mara.

While the novel is ambiguous about this, it is implied that one of the clones, Hunter, is indeed a clone of Mara.

Answer: Seer

Seer was the nearly-unchallenged leader and prophet of the escaped clones, who said that she was having visions of an entity known as Mother, who was guiding all of them to her home. The only one to question Seer's authority was Soldier, who was the most faithless out of all the clones.

It is revealed by this novel that she is a clone of the late Lumiya, who died back in "Legacy of the Force"'s "Sacrifice".

Answer: Fhost

By happenstance, Jaden and his friends track the clones down to Fhost, which was one of the most likely destinations that the clones could have went to in the Unknown Regions. Coinciding with Jaden and his friends' hunt for the clones are the Nenn siblings, who are not only looking to capture Jaden, but also one of the clones who is known as the Prime. What happens on Fhost is one of the novel's biggest action set pieces.

Answer: Khedryn Faal

When the clones manage to capture the medical frigate that they've been trying to find, they take an unconscious Khedryn, who tried to stop them, so that they could learn from him how Jaden was able to find them. When Khedryn wakes up, he tells them that it was simply through happenstance, and the clones ultimately decide that they don't need him any longer.

His life, however, doesn't simply end like that...

Answer: Runner and Hunter

The first clone that Nyss, who managed to sneak aboard the medical frigate, was able to kill was Runner (who is a genetic copy of Jedi Master Kyle Katarn, Jaden Korr's own Master). Nyss was able to do this through one-on-one combat with the clone, who was just minutes, if not moments, away from venting Khedryn Faal out into the vacuum of space. Hunter died last after Nyss was able to use the darkness around him to simply shoot her dead with his crossbow.

Answer: A Rakatan entity

Mother was an ancient Rakatan entity whose spirit was imprisoned within a space station that was tethered to a barren planet within an irradiated system. She was strong in the Force, and was able to call to Seer so that she could get herself and the other clones to the station.

When the surviving clones arrived, Mother took hold of Seer's body in order to use her so that she could be set free in the galaxy.

Answer: Khedryn Faal

As the heroes of the novel fled from Mother, who proved to be too powerful to fight head-on, Khedryn managed to sabotage the docked medical frigate that the clones took so that its core could blow, destroy the ship, and cause significant damage to the station that Mother was imprisoned in.

The resulting explosion from the ship caused a chain reaction of explosions that reached all the way to the base of the station connected to the barren planet below via its tether. The disconnection between the space-bound station to the planet caused it to fall below, where Mother died in the final explosion that came.