title: Rogue Planet (Star Wars)
author:  Greg Bear 
description: AND APPRENTICE<br /><br />The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker . . . so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan? like his slain Master Qui-Gon?believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance.<br /><br />Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Anakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal. They sense a disturbance in the Force unlike any they have encountered before. It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye. But the search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi-Wan and Anakin . . . and bring the troubled young apprentice face-to-face with his deepest fears?and his darkest destiny.
zlib_text: Star Wars
  
  Rogue Planet
  
  By Greg Bear
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
  Anakin Skywalker stood in a long, single-file line in an abandoned maintenance
  tunnel leading to the Wicko district garbage pit. With an impatient sigh, he
  hoisted his flimsy and tightly folded race wings by their leather harness and
  propped the broad rudder on the strap of his flight sandal. Then he leaned the
  wings against the wall of the tunnel and, tongue between his lips, applied the
  small glowing blade of a pocket welder, like a tiny lightsaber, to a crack in
  the left lateral brace. Repairs finished, he waggled the rotator
  experimentally. Smooth, though old.
  
  Just the week before, he had bought the wings from a former champion with a
  broken back. Anakin had worked his wonders in record time, so he could fly now
  in the very competition where the champion had ended his career.
  
  Anakin enjoyed the wrenching twist and bone-popping jerk of the race wings in
  flight. He savored the speed and the extreme difficulty as some savor the
  