The source material provides excerpts from a Star Wars novel focused on the perilous lives of those in the lower levels of the city-planet Coruscant, contrasting the squalor of the Blackpit Slums and Factory District with the civilized upper levels. The narrative centers on Even Piell, an injured Jedi Master on the run following Order Sixty-six, who is trapped and killed by stormtroopers while attempting to escape. Piell's dying wish to his rescuer, Nick Rostu, is to find the Jedi Knight Jax Pavan, who is also hiding in the underlevels and working as a bounty hunter while helping others escape via the Underground Mag-Lev resistance network. The text also introduces other dangerous figures pursuing the Jedi and a mysterious droid named 10-4TO, including Prince Xizor of the criminal organization Black Sun and Darth Vader's aide, Rhinann, who is tracking Pavan.

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