Crosscurrent

Crosscurrent is a Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Paul S. Kemp focusing on Jedi Knight Jaden Korr six months after Legacy of the Force, and Jedi Master Relin Druur as he is flung 5000 years into the future aboard a ship full of Sith. It's sequel Riptide was released in late 2011.


 * Apocalyptic Log: Jaden and Kheydan find some of the last logs of the Imperial scientists in the abandoned cloning facility.
 * Anti-Hero: Assailed by self-doubt and uncertainty, Jaden is solidly a Type I.
 * Anyone Can Die:
 * Arc Words: "There be dragons."
 * Back from the Dead:
 * Bloody Handprint
 * Clone Degeneration: The escaped clones suffer from a horrific disease/syndrome caused by them being clones. Even the children of two clones suffer from it. The only one immune is Soldier and possibly the Iteration.
 * Clones Are People, Too: In the second novel, the clones of Mara, Lumiya, Kyle Katarn and even that escaped from the facility in the first novel have their own personalities that are different than their base. Most of them are completely mad and sick from some sort of disease, though.
 * Clone Degeneration
 * Cloning Gambit:
 * Cool Ship: The Junker and Kell Douro's Predator.
 * Darker and Edgier: It's no Death Troopers, but it's definitely more gruesome than the average Star Wars book.
 * Determinator: Early on Relin is subjected to a maiming from Saes' lightsaber, numerous minor injuries, radiation poisoning that is slowly killing him throughout the book,, but he refuses to give up on his mission to destroy the Harbinger.
 * Distress Call: Jaden thinks one is coming from the Imperial facility.
 * Expendable Clone:
 * Fat Bastard: Reegas Vance.
 * Fallen Hero: Saes Rrogon,.
 * Fingore:
 * Good with Numbers: Marr Idi-Shael, who is capable of calculating perfect hyperspace jumps with minimal aid form the nav-computer.
 * Gone Horribly Right: The old Imperial experiment to create
 * Heel Face Turn:
 * Here There Be Dragons: Jaden Korr uses "There be Dragons...”, when thinking about his doubts about himself, the force, and everything.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:.
 * In Medias Res: The second novel opens with a scene from the last portion of the book, the majority of which is a flashback to how they got in that situation.
 * Me's a Crowd:
 * No Such Thing as Space Jesus:
 * Thrown Out the Airlock:
 * Time Travel: The Harbringer travels 5,000 years into the future, leaving both the Sith crew and lone Jedi Master aboard as Fish Out of Temporal Water.
 * Vomit Indiscretion Shot: There is a surprising number of instances of puking.
 * You Cloned Hitler!: The second novel reveals that one of the escaped clones from the first book is a clone of Lumiya, a Sith who was a secondary villain in the Legacy of the Force series.
 * Your Head Asplode:
 * What You Are in the Dark: Kheydan Faal.
 * Your Head Asplode:
 * What You Are in the Dark: Kheydan Faal.