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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Chomac senses Orla's death at Starlight, which disillusions him so much he leaves the Jedi Order at the end of the book.]]

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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Chomac [[spoiler:Cohmac senses Orla's death at Starlight, which disillusions him so much he leaves the Jedi Order at the end of the book.]]



* SpottingTheThread: Played for laughs when Crash reveals she knew all along Ram and Reath weren't proper Jedi Knights, on account of their youthful behavior and still having their braids... and also because she'd seen Chomac and Kantam before she ever approached those two.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two separate ones, with Reath and Ram and Chomac and Kantam.

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* SpottingTheThread: Played for laughs when Crash reveals she knew all along Ram and Reath weren't proper Jedi Knights, on account of their youthful behavior and still having their braids... and also because she'd seen Chomac Cohmac and Kantam before she ever approached those two.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two separate ones, with Reath and Ram and Chomac Cohmac and Kantam.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Nomar Tralmat hosts a masquerade ball where everyone is wearing a Nihil mask. As Corellia is in the Core Worlds, many of its residents believed the Nihil to be purely an Outer Rim problem. [[spoiler:As Nomar is actually the Nihil agent Respriler, many of the party-goers are Nihil themselves, wearing their masks in plain sight. As Ram notes, the Nihil were able to show themselves out in the open under the guise of a tasteless joke.]]
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''Star Wars: Midnight Horizon'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''[[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic The High Republic]]'' novel written by Daniel José Elder. It was released on February 1, 2022.

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''Star Wars: Midnight Horizon'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''[[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic The High Republic]]'' novel written by Daniel José Elder.Older. It was released on February 1, 2022.



* SimultaneousArcs: With ''The Fallen Star'' and the ''High Republic Adventures'' series, which was also written by Elder and has several plots that are continued or concluded within this novel.

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* SimultaneousArcs: With ''The Fallen Star'' and the ''High Republic Adventures'' series, which was also written by Elder Older and has several plots that are continued or concluded within this novel.
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''Star Wars: Midnight Horizon'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''[[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic The High Republic]]'' novel written by Daniel Jose Elder. It was released on February 1, 2022.

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''Star Wars: Midnight Horizon'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''[[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic The High Republic]]'' novel written by Daniel Jose José Elder. It was released on February 1, 2022.

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As the galaxy reels from the scale of the Nihil's attacks, word reaches the Jedi of a suspected Nihil presence of Corellia, far from their usual targets in the Outer Rim. With Corellia's own Jedi contingent busy, a group of Jedi set off from Starlight Beacon to investigate.

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As the galaxy reels from the scale of the Nihil's attacks, word reaches the Jedi of a suspected Nihil presence of Corellia, far from their usual targets in the Outer Rim. With Corellia's own Jedi contingent busy, busy with unrest on the planet's moon, a group of Jedi set off from Starlight Beacon to investigate.



* PresentAbsence: The Corellian Jedi are busy dealing with a problem on the planet's moon. Not a one of them makes a physical appearance in the novel.

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* PresentAbsence: The Corellian Jedi are busy dealing with a problem on the planet's moon.moon, [[spoiler:which was being secretly inflamed by Nihil agents to draw them away from the planet]]. Not a one of them makes a physical appearance in the novel.



* SimultaneousArcs: With ''The Fallen Star''.

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* SimultaneousArcs: With ''The Fallen Star''.Star'' and the ''High Republic Adventures'' series, which was also written by Elder and has several plots that are continued or concluded within this novel.



* ZergRush: The Nihil, once they reveal themselves, attack in force. Even with Jedi powers on their side, everyone takes so much cumulative damage it slows them down.

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* ZergRush: The Nihil, once they reveal themselves, attack in force. Even with Jedi powers on their side, everyone takes so much cumulative damage it slows them down.down.
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* ProductionForeshadowing: Early on, the Battle of Jedha, part of a following ''High Republic'' novel, is name-dropped.

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* ProductionForeshadowing: Early on, the Battle of Jedha, part of a following ''High Republic'' Phase II novel, is name-dropped.
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* RousingSpeech: Crash gives one to get the people of Corellia to help get rid of the Nihil, even if she finds it kind of corny herself.


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* SpottingTheThread: Played for laughs when Crash reveals she knew all along Ram and Reath weren't proper Jedi Knights, on account of their youthful behavior and still having their braids... and also because she'd seen Chomac and Kantam before she ever approached those two.
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''Star Wars: Midnight Horizon'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''[[Franchise/StarWarsTheHighRepublic The High Republic]]'' novel written by Daniel Jose Elder. It was released on February 1, 2022.

As the galaxy reels from the scale of the Nihil's attacks, word reaches the Jedi of a suspected Nihil presence of Corellia, far from their usual targets in the Outer Rim. With Corellia's own Jedi contingent busy, a group of Jedi set off from Starlight Beacon to investigate.

!!Tropes in this novel include:
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Yoda]] appears at the climax to help rescue the others from the Nihil. Once he shows up, things really go downhill for them.
* CallForward:
** Ram coins the phrase "wizard".
** A young [[Film/{{Solo}} Proxima]] appears momentarily at the climax.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Chomac senses Orla's death at Starlight, which disillusions him so much he leaves the Jedi Order at the end of the book.]]
* DudeNotFunny: Reath and Ram are utterly appalled at the party where the theme is "dress like a Nihil", even [[spoiler:before it turns out several Nihil are already there.]]
* EverybodyLives: Of the main protagonists, not a one of them dies, though some of them take a severe beating.
* IWillFindYou: Zeen [[spoiler:hears of Lula going missing]] and vows to find out what's become of them.
* LuredIntoATrap: Ram and Reath help take part in a sting operation so they can pass Zeen off as the hot new thing.
* PowderKegCrowd: A wake turns into an outright brawl, but as Crash admits with politicians, two bodyguarding agencies who don't get on, and more than a few drinks being knocked back, a fight was inevitable.
* PresentAbsence: The Corellian Jedi are busy dealing with a problem on the planet's moon. Not a one of them makes a physical appearance in the novel.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Early on, the Battle of Jedha, part of a following ''High Republic'' novel, is name-dropped.
* RankUp: At the end of the novel, Reath is made a full-fledged Jedi.
* RevengeBeforeReason: One of Crash's motivations, beyond professional and personal, is that Grindalid Standard Operating Procedure is to go after whoever they feel is responsible for the death of a loved one, which in this case is her if she can't find the actual culprit.
* SchmuckBait: A student protester on Corellia falls for that pretty girl he's just met. She's Sabata, who uses him to escalate the situation even further, then leaves him literally holding a bag full of thermal detonators.
* SimultaneousArcs: With ''The Fallen Star''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two separate ones, with Reath and Ram and Chomac and Kantam.
* ZergRush: The Nihil, once they reveal themselves, attack in force. Even with Jedi powers on their side, everyone takes so much cumulative damage it slows them down.

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