Line #31 Literature/Crosscurrent


1	''Crosscurrent'' is a Franchise/StarWarsLegends novel by Paul S. Kemp focusing on Jedi Knight [[VideoGame/JediAcademy Jaden Korr]] six months after ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'', and Jedi Master Relin Druur as he is flung 5000 years into the future aboard a ship full of Sith. Its sequel ''Riptide'' was released in late 2011.
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3	!!Tropes featured in this work include:
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5	* AbortedArc: Presumably, the fact that [[spoiler: Jaden is in the Iteration's body]] would have been addressed if not for ''Legends'' being cancelleed.
6	* ApocalypticLog: Jaden and Kheydan find some of the last logs of the Imperial scientists in the abandoned cloning facility.
7	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Even the main character...]]
8	* ArcWords: "There be dragons."
9	* BackFromTheDead: After [[spoiler: Korr is killed by a clone of himself by having his memories (and perhaps also his consciousness) pulled into a Rakatan device, his apprentice brings him back by subduing the clone and using the device on him, transferring Jaden into his body.]]
10	* BloodyHandprint
11	* CallBack: The line about "dragons" is a call-back to ''Jedi Academy,'' during which Kyle told Jaden that the Light and Dark sides of the Force are just tools. He argued that sentience causes people to draw lines, to say "beyond this, there be dragons," but there are no dragons, just greater understanding.
12	* ClassicalAntiHero: Assailed by self-doubt and uncertainty, Jaden. He straightens up by the end of ''Crosscurrent,'' though.
13	* ClonesArePeopleToo: In the second novel, the clones of Mara, Lumiya, Kyle Katarn and even [[spoiler:Jaden himself]] that escaped from the facility in the first novel have their own personalities that are different than their base. Most of them are completely mad and sick from some sort of disease, though.
14	* CloneDegeneration: The escaped clones suffer from a horrific disease/syndrome caused by them being clones. Even the children of two clones suffer from it. The only one immune is Soldier and possibly the Iteration.
15	* CloningGambit: Unintentionally on the part of [[spoiler: Jaden.]]
16	* CoolShip: The ''Junker'' and Kell Douro's ''Predator''.
17	* DarkerAndEdgier: It's no ''Literature/DeathTroopers'', but it's definitely more gruesome than the average Star Wars book.
18	* DefiantToTheEnd: The trope is name-dropped when Khedryn is being dragged to the airlock, and he determines to go out with dignity.
19	* {{Determinator}}: Early on Relin is subjected to a maiming from Saes' lightsaber, numerous minor injuries, radiation poisoning that is slowly killing him throughout the book, [[spoiler:and emotional trauma that eventually causes him to slide into the dark side]], but he refuses to give up on his mission to destroy the ''Harbinger''.
20	* DistressCall: Jaden thinks one is coming from the Imperial facility. [[spoiler:It's actually a warning to stay away.]]
21	* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler: Played somewhat straight with the Iteration, who was never allowed to have a personality of his own and implanted with an earlier version of Jaden Korr's memories and then with Korr's own personality]]
22	* FatBastard: Reegas Vance.
23	* FallenHero: Saes Rrogon, and [[spoiler:Relin Drurr]].
24	* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Jaden]] looses three of his fingers while dueling an insane Jedi clone.
25	* GoodWithNumbers: Marr Idi-Shael, who is capable of calculating perfect hyperspace jumps with minimal aid form the nav-computer. A JustifiedTrope due to the Force.
26	* GoneHorriblyRight: The old Imperial experiment to create [[spoiler:Force-sensitive clones by combining the DNA of various Jedi and Sith. Suffice to say that the result involved gratuitous amounts of human sacrifice and cannibalism.]]
27	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Soldier at the end of the second novel.]]
28	* HereThereBeDragons: Jaden Korr uses "There be Dragons...”, when thinking about his doubts about himself, the force, and everything.
29	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Drev Hassin, Relin Druur]].
30	* InMediasRes: The second novel opens with a scene from the last portion of the book, the majority of which is a flashback to how they got in that situation.
31	* MesACrowd: At one point toward the end of ''Riptide'', there are three versions of [[spoiler: Jaden Korr in the same area: the dead body of Korr himself, Soldier, and the Iteration that killed Korr.]]
32	* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: [[spoiler:Mother, whom the majority of the escaped clones worship, turns out to be a sentient Rakatan space station who has gone partially mad from the isolation of space. She absorbs the head of her cult amongst the clones and rampages through the station before being killed.]]
33	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Nearly happens to [[spoiler: Kheydan]] in the second book at the hands of the clones. When they state their intentions of executing him, he actually ''demands'' that they kill him this way (rather than with a lightsaber).
34	* TimeTravel: The ''Harbringer'' travels 5,000 years into the future, leaving both the Sith crew and lone Jedi Master aboard as FishOutOfTemporalWater.
35	* TomatoInTheMirror: Throughout the second novel, [[spoiler: Korr]] is shocked to see a clone of himself (Soldier) amongst the escaped clones from the first book. He wonders if he actually is a clone. Happens later when the resurrected [[spoiler: Jaden]] cleans himself up at the end of the book and finds that a childhood scar has disappeared.
36	* VomitIndiscretionShot: There is a surprising number of instances of puking.
37	* [[YouClonedHitler You Cloned Lumiya!]]: The second novel reveals that one of the escaped clones from the first book is a clone of Lumiya.
38	* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler: Kell]] suffers this from a blaster shot at point-blank range.
39	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Kheydan Faal [[spoiler: is attacked by Kell Douro and left badly injured but not killed as a message to turn back, leave the facility, and not come back for Jaden.]] Kheydan knows he could just leave and save himself, but decides to finally take a stand and stop running, and follows after Kell to save Jaden. He has another moment aboard the clone's ship, when he could just run and save himself, but decides to [[spoiler: make sure that Grace is all right]].

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