• Annihilation

  • Star Wars: The Old Republic, Book 4
  • By: Drew Karpyshyn
  • Narrated by: Marc Thompson
  • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (5,111 ratings)

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Annihilation

By: Drew Karpyshyn
Narrated by: Marc Thompson
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Based on the epic videogame from BioWare and LucasArts.

The Sith Empire is in flux. The Emperor is missing, presumed dead, and an ambitious Sith lord’s attempt to seize the throne has ended fatally. Still, Darth Karrid, commander of the fearsome Imperial battle cruiser Ascendant Spear, continues her relentless efforts to achieve total Sith domination of the galaxy.

But Karrid’s ruthless determination is more than matched in the steely resolve of Theron Shan, whose unfinished business with the Empire could change the course of the war for good. Though the son of a Jedi master, Theron does not wield the Force - but like his renowned mother, the spirit of rebellion is in his blood. As a top covert agent for the Republic, he struck a crucial blow against the Empire by exposing and destroying a Sith superweapon arsenal - which makes him the ideal operative for a daring and dangerous mission to end Ascendant Spear’s reign of terror.

Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff’ith, with whom he has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid’s former master, Theron must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark-side disciples. But time is brutally short. And if they don’t seize their one chance to succeed, they will surely have countless opportunities to die.

©2012 Drew Karpyshyn (P)2012 Random House Audio

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Probably more background if I'd played the games

great book series. another fantastic job of narration as usual. just wish I didn't have to rely on the games to get more info about what happened between the books.

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Excellent performance

The voice actors really made this book, there performance gave it just the push it needed to be a great story

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Excellent story, an excellent narration!!

I absolutely love this narrator. He really brings the stories to life and it’s really impressive. How many different voices he is able to do. The story is really cool. The combination of Sith energy with a ship was a really neat plot I thought. I would definitely recommend this one. Probably my second favorite of all of the stories I’ve read so far

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Fun Story

Good Ole Old Repulic Fun. Jedi, Sith, the force and ofcourse the action hero with family issues.

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Good Listen!

Not one of my favorites, but entertaining none the less! If you love Star Wars then you will always appreciate the early Republic series, enjoy!

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Good, but wish there was additional story on a battle reference

At first I felt lost, like I missed a book between this and the Old Republic Fatal Alliance. There were references to a silth from the Old Republic Deceived then a later battle. Other than that I really liked it and hope I’m later books I can get the back story from above.

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Brilliant

What a way to round out the old republic novels. Marc Thompson again does a fantastic narration. I will continue reading these books. They are wonderful.

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Another great Book in the saga

This was a great book and the performances are top notch. I highly recommend to any Star Wars fan!

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a decent listen

enjoyed the story overall , story was above average and the performance as always was top notch. Would be interesting to have the sith with the twin purple lightsabers come back in a story to learn about him.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic, Book 4 - Annihilation

The 4th book Drew Karpyshyn wrote as companions with the Star Wars - The Old Republic MMO.

(most of the lead characters of this novel have featured in the cinematic cut scenes that were released at the beginning years of SWTOR)

The novel situates in the 'present' in 3640 BBY (Before The Battle Of Yavin)

Focuses, mostly on Theron Shan and his Mother Satele Shan (both related to, ancestor, Bastila Shan) and Master Gnost-Dural, Smuggler Teff'ith and Theron's Father Jace Malcom.

Theron Shan has no Force Powers, but is a highly trained Covert Agent with cybernetic implants and a force to be reckoned with.

The beginning of the audio-book focuses on covert missions in Hutt and a plea with Morbo The Hutt, the later part of the story revolves around Dark Council and Empire trying to attack the Republic and, former Jedi, Darth Karrid trying to attack Coruscant with, it's flagship, the Ascendant Spear and Theron Shan and Master Gnost-Dural trying to stop it by infiltrating the capital ship.

I enjoyed this book, reading it more than 12 years ago and I highly recommend this audio-book version of it, the special effects are spot-on and very 'Star Wars' and Marc Thompson does an excellent job narrating, as he always does.

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