CHAPTER 45 The hologram continued to stare at Hope as the story continued. Her eyes, at times caught by wonder and amazement, would occasionally stare in horror. Those of Nevar were not mere words. They had penetrated into her as images, and Hope had lived the history of the Eronians with her mind’s eye, experiencing it as one of them. She traced the endless journey of a nomadic people, through the perennial search for a living planet in which the Force had established one of its cores. She had rejoiced with the explorers when they found Eron, discovering a source of power and knowledge so great as to attract populations throughout the entire galaxy, and she was horrified when she witnessed the terrible battles they had faced to protect the Temple they had erected. There were wars agai

