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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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* [[Exclusively Evil]]: The Yevetha, who have no consideration for other species concepts of civilians, kill everyone else living in a star cluster they consider theirs, and use captured prisoners as living shields.

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

* [[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.

{{quote|"Your wars are decided by the death of a tenth of a population, a third of an army. Then the defeated surrender their honor and the victors surrender their advantage. This is called being civilized. The Yevetha are not civilized, General. It would be a mistake to deal with us as though we were."}}

* [[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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