The book summarizes and details the events, characters, situations, and backgrounds of seven novels: The Courtship of Princess Leia, Before the Storm, Shield of Lies, Tyrant's Test, Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia, and Showdown at Centerpoint. It is written from the in-universe viewpoint of being a New Republic Intelligence dossier prepared for General Airen Cracken.
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Many of the images and some of the statistics this book gives for starships differ from their descriptions in the novels. Some of the plot points given also differ from what occurred in the novels (for example, Han and Leia being married by Augwynne Djo on Dathomir).