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Star Wars: Outbound Flight Audible Audiobook – Abridged

Timothy Zahn (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery - only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend...and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable - and doomed - Outbound Flight Project.

The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, 12 Jedi Knights, and 50,000 men, women, and children, will embark - aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel - on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start - until Master C’baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.

Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward...and, ultimately, to fail.

Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission's most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as “Thrawn”. Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds and the most diabolical of adversaries.

Timothy Zahn's unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.

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Listening Length	6 hours and 18 minutes
Author	Timothy Zahn
Narrator	Jonathan Davis
Audible.com.au Release Date	20 February 2007
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Abridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPBPEB6
Best Sellers Rank	12,396 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 86 in Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-In Fiction 340 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 347 in TV, Film & Game Tie-In Fiction

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Ace Rimmer

The begining of a new saga.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2020

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The original Heir to the Empire hinted at Outbound Flight, now we have the back story.
Thrawn has gone from a minor villain in the Star Wars universe to a star in his own right. This is where it all began.

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Mr. Richard J. S. Blake

Out Bound Flight

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2020

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When three smugglers are running away from Pragga the Hutt, they end up in unknow region space as well as Chiss space and Pragga the Hutt gets destroyed by the Chiss, the three smugglers are then imprisoned, one of the Chiss being called Mith 'raw' nuruodo, also known as Thawn from the animation of Rebels. They end up going to the Chiss Base called Crustai, back in the Republic, Master Jedi Jorus C'baoth has a go at Supreme Chancellor Palpatine about his ship, the Outbound Flight Flight Project being thrown away, in the end if he did a favour for Palpatine then Out Bound Flight would be on it's way to unknown space. Lorana Jinzler who is 22 and eventually knighted as a Jedi Kight, has to go along to Barlok, but Mace Windu wishes for Obi-Wan-Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to go along and keep an eye on Master Jedi C'baoth, on the other hand Darth Sidious asks an assassin called Dorriana to go to the same Planet and assassinate Jedi Master C'baoth which fails. And Dorriana finds himself on board a Trade Federation ship as well as facing the Vagaari, with 17 Jedi but 19 because of Obi-Wan-Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker who have to leave halfway through, but will Out Bound Flight Project go right or will it face terrible warships and go to it's limit?

Cons:

1: You have Obi-Wan-Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker leave halfway through but even on board, you hardly hear from Anakin, more from Ob-Wan

2: You have 17 Jedi on board as said in the review but why is Master Jedi Jorus C'baoth and Lorana Jinzler just used?

G Quigley

Enjoyable filler

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2020

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Any Zahn Star Wars novel is worth a read and this is a good one. This is the first moment that his iconic Thrawn character announces himself. Thrawn is actually secondary to the main story which concerns a Jedi expedition into the Unknown Regions.

Zahn handles the action , the characters the politics and the narrative with equal aplomb. Jedi Masters try to handle the machinations of egotistical leader Jorus C'baoth whilst being offered the full "support" of Chancellor Palpatine. One does not need to have spoilers as to how that goes.

After all the difficulties of politicking, when the group of Jedi Masters with 6 fully armed Dreadnought class warships encounter an alien Empire embodied y 3 small Patrol boats under an over confident young Commander the threat level must seem so minimal as to be comical.

Not when that commander is Thrawn.

A good read that races by but apart from introducing Thrawn does not offer too much in canonical importance but is great fun.

Mr E

Good Audio book but the Adbridged version is noticed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2019

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Great audio book as an introduction to Thawns charactor, voice acting and special effects captured the vibe of SW. Shame i didn't realise till the end that its an adbridged version of the book. Without spoiling the "epiloge" of the audio book does feel like its missing something and then if you get the actual book theres more to the epilogue that i feel shouldn'thave been left out. Also some plot points muststop in the Audio book that believe continue in the actual book. Other than this, its a good listen. (Also recomend Darth Plagues for an origin story regarding Darth Plagues and Darth Sidius, which isn't abridged.)

Jelly

Enjoyable prequel era read (legends)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2021

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I really enjoyed this. It's no longer Canon but doesn't contradict Chaos Rising too much re the Chis and Thrawn, (Chaos Rising is set some 6-7 years later). It has Palpatine pulling strings in it, which is always fun and has a character from Darth Plagueus, Kinman Doriana, which is quite cool. It has a cool 3way battle where Thrawn is really clever etc. It has Admiral Aralani (but she's more interesting in Chaos Rising, while Thrawn is more interesting in this book). If I and Ani appear.

Kondorr

Wonderfull book with unnesesery side quest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2014

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The book is a delight to read, a true page turner... almost.
It all starts really intrueging... only to be slowed down by an overly long, not to nesesery side quest, which is meant to introduce some characters and give the main story a jump start. But once you get through it, Outbound Flight flies...
Timothy Zahn really knows how to make you want to keep reading, even when C'Boath's rule is to fast accepted and even Obi Wan is rduced to a help less bystander. The author also tends to overuse the phrase "his/heres throat/stomach/whatever thightened" every time someone feels kinda threatened..

Maybe not a perfect book, but definelty worthy of a Star Wars fans time.
Reading it I felt like beening that teenage boy again, having "Heir to the Empire" in my hands for the first time.

If you do not dig Star Wars... better keep away... or at least watch the movies first...

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