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'''''Crosscurrent''''' is a [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel by Paul S. Kemp focusing on Jedi Knight [[Dark Forces Saga|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.
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* [[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 [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type I]]. {{spoiler|Relin gradually slides into Type IV by the end.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Even the main character...}}
* [[Arc Words]]: "There be dragons."
* [[Back
* [[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.
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* [[Fallen Hero]]: Saes Rrogon, {{spoiler|Relin Drurr}}.
* [[Fingore]]: {{spoiler|Jaden looses three of his fingers while dueling an insane Jedi clone.}}
* [[Good
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The old Imperial experiment to create {{spoiler|Force-sensitive clones by combining the DNA of various Jedi and Sith. Suffice to say that the result involved gratuitous amounts of human sacrifice and cannibalism.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Soldier at the end of the second novel.}}
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* [[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]]: {{spoiler|At one point toward the end of ''Riptide'', there are three versions of Jaden Korr in the same area: the dead body of Korr himself, Soldier, and the Iteration that killed Korr.}}
* [[No Such Thing
* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: {{spoiler|Nearly happens to Kheydan in the second book at the hands of the clones. When they state their intentions of executing him, he actually ''demands'' that they kill him this way (rather than with a lightsaber).}}
* [[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]].
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* [[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]]: {{spoiler|Kell suffers this from a blaster shot at point-blank range.}}
* [[What You Are in
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