Star Wars: Clone Wars: The Cestus Deception: A Clone Wars Novel Audiobook (Free)

Ord Cestus, a world mostly barren and inhospitable to life, was first colonized being a prison world-until a small number of hardy pioneers discovered its wealthy ore deposits and managed to build-up an effective droid-manufacturing industry. But when the Clone Wars erupted, getting serious rationing of brought in assets and a Republic ban for the production of battle droids, Ord Cestus was threatened with imminent financial collapse.

Enter the Confederacy of Independent Systems-the Separatists-with a about Star Wars: Clone Wars: The Cestus Deception: A Clone Wars Book life-saving offer to purchase a generous quantity of the planet’s most lucrative export: bio-droids. Possessed of tactical features that rival the fighting capabilities of actually the innovative Jedi, these advanced, techno-organic hybrid units would confirm a most formidable weapon if ever deployed for armed service use. And today the Confederacy’s purpose to purchase what amounts for an army of bio-droids provides sent ripples of alarm through the highest echelons of the Republic government.

Determined to halt the bio-droid sale-but fearing a show of force can lead to a political backlash-Supreme Chancellor Palpatine dispatches a group of envoys, led by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Their objective: persuade Ord Cestus’s government to abandon its dealings using the Confederacy . while secretly stirring up trend among the planet’s struggling underclass. Diplomacy is paramount. But if everything else fails, the Republic will not hesitate to launch a full-scale attack-and get rid of not only the method of bio-droid production, but countless lives aswell, to demonstrate the results of disloyalty.

For Obi-Wan, the chance of such wholesale slaughter only acts to gas his growing suspicions about the sinister route the Republic appears to be taking. But the brash Jedi Grasp Kit Fisto as well as the detachment of clone military assigned to the mission are ready and ready to perform the Supreme Chancellor’s bidding. As the market leaders of Ord Cestus refuse to capitulate and Palpatine quickly loses tolerance, Obi-Wan’s hopes of a peaceful resolution are dwindling. Right now, facing an emergency of conscience, Obi-Wan must find the intelligence and strength to prevent a bloodbath and safeguard the Republic- while abiding from the ancient code to which he offers pledged his lifestyle.