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[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Yoda:_Dark_Rendezvous Yoda: Dark Rendezvous] is a [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel by Sean Stewart. Set thirty months after the Battle of Geonosis, Count Dooku sends a message to Master Yoda, saying that he's tired of this. Like a prodigal son, he'd like to go home. Being Count Dooku, he sends this in the form of Jai Maruk, a Jedi he didn't let Ventress kill, and the lightsaber of a Jedi he did. Yoda being Yoda, he decides to go see, taking other Jedi in case this is a trap.
A [[Weak but Skilled]] young Jedi apprentice, Scout, conscious of how close she is to being cast out of the Jedi into the Agricultural Corps, takes on all of the other Padawans in a tournament and wins, taking advantage of their unwillingness to seriously hurt her and the fact that a training lightsaber won't cut her to pieces. This lands her a spot as the Padawan of Jai Maruk, who's going with Yoda.
Another Padawan, [[Born Winner]] Whie Malreaux, also comes with his Master. The Count's holed up in his family home, and a pair of Malreaux family droids want him back.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Chateau Malreaux. Also a [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|name to run away from]], since "Malreaux" is only a few letters away from "malheureux", which is French for "unhappiness".
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Scout.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: '''YODA.'''
* [[Death World]]: Vjun, which is steeped in the [[Dark Side]] thanks to an atrocity that killed everyone on the planet and rendered most of it otherwise uninhabitable anyway.
* [[Determinator]]: Scout is weak in the Force, but refuses to fail. She's kind of the Jedi Batman - Scout makes up for her weak, unreliable powers by training harder than anyone else, at everything, and by the time the tournament comes around she's studied all of the other Padawans and made plans for how to take them down. She's spent time burning herself with her own lightsaber in order to get used to the pain.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Whirry Malreaux.
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: A good part of how Scout wins.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Common in prequel-era books. Obi-Wan knows Anakin has someone back on Coruscant and covers for him, though he knows Anakin won't thank him for it later. Ventress tells the Count that Sidious will kill him when he's not useful anymore. Master Maruk, saddled with Scout as a Padawan, thinks that she's incredibly brave and determined but will probably be dead in six months - the book is set exactly six months before [[Revenge of the Sith]].
** Ironically, Scout does survive Order 66, getting rescued by the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Mandalorians]].
* [[Go Out with a Smile]]
* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]:
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* [[Guns Akimbo]]: When Anakin and Obi-Wan arrive at Vjun, the former leaps out of their ship and attacks a squad of battle droids in this way. Considering that he has a lightsaber, this is a rather odd thing for him to do.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Yoda and Count Dooku get ''duelling'' Hannibal Lectures that also serve as each other's [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]. And it is ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]].''
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* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: The premise of the novel. Dooku has set a trap for Yoda under the pretense that he wants to [[Heel Face Turn|return to the Light Side]], or is at least willing to negotiate. Yoda knows its a trap but goes in the hope that he can turn him anyway, since as [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Qui-Gon]] puts it "He thinks he's lying" and really ''does'' sort of regret becoming an evil Sith Lord. Of course, Dooku knows that Yoda will know its a trap and knows that Yoda only comes because he wants to turn him, and in turn Dooku wants to turn Yoda to the ''Dark'' Side and possibly justify himself to his old master, since he secretly sort-of knows that he really does want to turn back to the good guys...
* [[Last Second Chance]]: For Dooku to perform a [[Heel Face Turn]].
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