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[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Black_Fleet_Crisis The Black Fleet Crisis] is a trilogy in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], consisting of ''Before the Storm'', ''Shield of Lies'', and ''Tyrant's Test''. Written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, this is known to be one of the more [[Military Science Fiction]] books in the SWEU, with great attention paid to ships and their positioning.

 

Luke Skywalker shirks his responsibilities to go on a [[Hold Your Hippogriffs|wild bantha chase]] to find his mother, and meets an all-female group of Force users. Han Solo and Leia, meanwhile, have to deal with the bigoted Yevetha. At the same time, Lando heads off on an even wilder [[Running Gag|bantha hunt]], chasing after a wandering ship called the Teljlkon Vagabond which ends up being as essential to the plot as Luke's mother.

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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Yevetha apparently have their brains in their chests.

* [[Cool Ship]]: Yevetha thrustships.

* [[Deus Exit Machina]]: Luke.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Anybody reading the trilogy today knows that Luke's search for his mother really is a [[Rule of Three|wild bantha chase]] from the moment her supposed name is revealed, but the books were written in 1996.

* [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]]: Inverted; Etahn A'baht's subordinates nickname him "Eating-A-Boat".

* [[Last of His Kind]]: Plat Mallar is the only known survivor from Polneye, the largest of the worlds that fell victim to the Yevethan Genocide and the only one able to put up a fight, but still utterly annihilated.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: When he was first introduced in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'', Admiral Drayson was portrayed as a stuffy bureaucrat who, in a space battle, is merely "competent." Here, the stuffiness is revealed to be an act, and his expertise (or lack of thereof) is shown to be largely unimportant, since his real job is to head up the New Republic's intelligence division. And he's ''good'' at it, scarily so.

* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: Not like the Wookiees, this PWR is evil.

* [[Recycled in Space]]: The main plot is very much that of a Tom Clancy-style political/military techno-thriller [[In Space]]. Arguably a lot of the continuity issues with the books stem from the fact that this didn't mesh well with the status quo of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]].

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The SWEU tends to have three broad categories which enemies fall into: 1) Imperials, 2) Sith, and 3) evil alien hordes. Guess which one this is.

* [[Slave Race]]: Tarkin enslaved the Yevetha. On top of destroying Alderaan and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|cheating on his wife]].

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: These books attempt to move on from the status quo by suggesting technological evolution, saying X-wings have become outdated and even Luke now flies an E-wing, and introducing a whole host of new ships. This is ignored by later books, though there are sometimes justifications used, like an upgraded model of X-wing being produced so it regains supremacy.

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Nil Spaar manages to maintain this for a while.

 

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