Star Wars: 10 Most Ridiculous Stories From The Expanded Universe
4. Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Because this is Star Wars, there has to be some massive machine engineered for the sole purpose of mass murder. In the novel Children of the Jedi, that machine is a giant ship called the Eye of Palpatine. Designed to look like an asteroid, the Eye had enough firepower to “waste an entire planet”. It is clear that the Empire is trying to compensate for something.
Anyway, the Eye of Palpatine is hidden away for the better part of 30 years when suddenly the ship’s artificial intelligence reactivates and realizes that it has a hankering for genocide. Eventually Luke Skywalker is captured and brought aboard the Eye, where he discovers that the consciousness of a Clone Wars-era Jedi named Callista has transferred her consciousness into the ship after she failed to destroy it decades prior.
While the Eye continues on its date with death and destruction, Luke and Callista get to know each other, communicating via the ships' monitors in an oddly accurate prediction of Internet dating. Unfortunately the Eye of Palpatine has to go, which means that Callista will be destroyed along with it. In a bizarre turn of events, Luke's own Padawan named Cray chooses to die and offers her body to Callista. This whole situation is cray.