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  Showdown
at Centerpoint
by Roger MacBride Allen
NOTE: This
review was originally done as an English book report.
Review:
Star Wars books can be very difficult to understand for newcomers to the series.
Each one is meant to be just a small part of the larger story. However, I like
how everything that happens is really just part of a greater story. Showdown
at Centerpoint by Roger MacBride Allen (and the series it concludes, The
Corellian Trilogy) does a particularly good job of tying in with some of my
other reads. Even so, this is one Star Wars book in which all the main
characters were introduced in the films, so there’s not as much background
knowledge needed to follow along as there is in some of the other books.
One of my favorite parts of this book is how it follows
the adventures of the three Solo kids. All extremely gifted with the mystical
energy called the Force, they can do things no normal kids their age possibly
could. Throughout this series they walk through force fields, fix broken
starships, shoot down a professional pilot, and restart a giant engine powerful
enough to move a planet that has been dormant for millennia. Sometimes, though,
it can all get pretty overwhelming – though in the end, everything finally
becomes clear. In one way it is very satisfying when everything does come
together, yet in another way I suppose that all the deception and subplots make
it rather hard to follow the story up until the final resolution. Still, the
uncontainable curiosity that overcomes the reader as to what happens next makes
this a book that’s never boring – and that’s definitely a good thing. All in
all, this is an exciting, action-packed read doesn’t require much prior
knowledge. Four and a half Centerpoint Stations out of five.
Summary :
Showdown at Centerpoint by Roger MacBride Allen is the third book of The
Corellian Trilogy. When the galaxy’s Chief of State, Leia Organa Solo, heads to
the planet Corellia for a routine trade conference, she and her family are
kidnapped by a fanatical rebel group called the Human League. The Solos later
learn that similar rebellions popped up all over the solar system that same
night. Just to further confuse matters, the Corellian system is home to a
mysterious, giant space station called Centerpoint Station. It was built
millennia ago by an unknown race in order to artificially “build” the Corellian
solar system of five planets. As a Galactic Republic task force learns when they
head onboard the mammoth station, Centerpoint has the power to destroy entire
solar systems – and kill billions of innocent civilians. The station’s next
target is already hard-wired in, and the system in danger has twelve million
inhabitants. However, Leia and her allies find hope in giant engines secretly
buried underneath the surface of every world in the Corellian Solar System.
While they were originally used to move planets, those repulsors could also be
used as weapons – or, most importantly, as a way to neutralize Centerpoint’s
immense power.
Once Leia, her family, and an allied space-fleet find out the power of the
repulsors, they realize they must take control of one. However, the only person
who can operate it is seven and a half years old – Anakin Solo, son of Han and
Leia and strangely gifted with all machines. Not everyone in the task force is
happy with that. To make matters worse, there’s an 80-ship fleet just waiting to
blow the Republic’s three lonely starships out of the sky. Will they make it? I
won’t tell say how it ends – the only way to learn that is to read the book!
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