Quelques semaines après les événements survenus dans Star Wars Episode VI Le Retour du Jedi. En dépit de la mort de l'Empereur Palpatine, des terroristes impériaux ont lancé une attaque dévastatrice contre la planète Corellia et capturé un membre du Rogue Squadron. Wedge Antilles, leader de l'escadron, lui porte secours aux côtés de Luke Skywalker. Les Rebelles parviendront-ils à secourir leur ami et à stopper ses kidnappeurs avant qu'il ne soit trop tard ?

Rogue X-Wing pilot Plourr is requested to return to her home planet . . . as a princess! When attempting to stop an internal rebellion, the planet's government finds that she may have her own way or running things. When she discovers that the dissenters are led by her long-presumed-dead brother, things go from hot to thermonuclear!

Wedge Antilles is the premier X-wing pilot of the Rebel Alliance, and his Rogue Squadron is the most feared fighter wing in the Rebel fleet. But just as the New Republic has its top guns, so does the Empire—the merciless Imperial 181st Fighter Division led by the Empire's greatest ace, Baron Fel, the man who trained Wedge and many of Rogue Squadron's best pilots. Wedge and the Rogues will get every opportunity to test the mettle of that training when Fel and the 181st are dispatched to square accounts with Rogue Squadron, once and for all

When acting Emperor Pestage makes a secret deal with the Rebel Alliance to betray the Empire, the Rebels' chance to gain the Imperial Center may be threatened.