With Kun's influence removed, Kyp suddenly realizes how far off the deep end he's gone. The other students stop him, then apparently destroy Exar Kun. Han Solo tracks Kyp down and Kyp threatens him while Exar Kun moves openly, influencing one of the students to try to kill Luke. Turns out his brother was still alive, was being the operative word, as the supernova weapon is irreversible and Kyp's brother got caught in the blast seconds before Kyp could save him. Kyp, looking for his brother, swings by the Imperial training academy, a world with twenty-five million inhabitants, and makes its star go supernova when they tell him his brother is dead. At some point Luke is put into a sort of coma, able to astral-project but not able to speak to anyone. After snapping at a student who is filking about one of Exar Kun's Jedi opponents and generally being a jerk, Kyp waits until Mara Jade swings by, steals her ship, yanks the Sun Crusher out of its gas giant, and flies away in it, supposedly to fight Daala, destroying entire systems in the process. Turns out the dark man is the long-dead spirit of Exar Kun, Dark Lord of the Sith, who has been trapped on Yavin for four thousand years. While Daala wages war, Kyp is brought to Yavin to pitch the Sun Crusher into a gas giant, and it turns out he is Force-Sensitive. The leader of the Maw's forces is Natasi Daala, characterized by being a rare woman in the Imperial military, by being prideful, by getting as far as she did by being Tarkin's lover, and by being wildly incompetent.
![star wars jedi academy trilogy star wars jedi academy trilogy](https://s3.gaming-cdn.com/images/products/1577/screenshot/star-wars-jedi-knight-jedi-academy-wallpaper-2.jpg)
There they steal the Sun Crusher, a tiny indestructible ship that can blow up stars, and break out, in the meantime cluing in the Maw's carefully isolated defensive armadas to the fact that the Rebellion has won.
![star wars jedi academy trilogy star wars jedi academy trilogy](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a9/e3/29/a9e329563c1f15c52c4a66eac6c07b9c--star-wars-music-jedi-knight.jpg)
Meanwhile, Han and Chewbacca are sent to the prison world Kessel, where they pick up a lucky, prideful young man named Kyp Durron, escape with him, and find their way to the Maw, a secret Imperial installation where superweapons were designed and made. The Jedi Academy Trilogy deals with Luke Skywalker and a couple of quasi-Jedi, with training even more incomplete than his, setting up a Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, seeking to train a selection of Force-Sensitives including, most promisingly, a prideful leader from a dying world, who rants about a "dark man", attacks Luke, is not reprimanded, and then is found burned to death in his room.