The Only Thing is Luck

The Only Thing is Luck is the very first novel in the entirety of the Vesal Chronicles saga, and the first novel in the first half of the saga, following the lives of the three Vesal siblings alive during the Old Republic era.

Publisher's summary
The Great Galactic War is coming to a brutal end. Coruscant has been besieged by the Sith Empire and the Jedi Order has been decimated, while across the galaxy, the Empire takes control. Through the eyes of three children, all from different backgrounds and circumstances, the reader sees both the horrors of war, and the restoration from recovery.

Plot synopsis
The novel is split into two parts, with the first part following the characters in the week or so after the Siege of Coruscant begins, and the second part being between 3 and 5 ATC.

Salovan
Salovan is a young but street-smart thirteen-year-old boy, traded between different pirates, crime lords and thieves as an errand boy. After ending up on the Sith homeworld of Dromund Kaas, Salovan finds himself a member of a gang led by the ruthless Kaliv, who takes a liking to the young boy. After helping Kaliv fend off an Imperial search party, Sal leaves Dromund Kaas alongside Kaliv and three other gang members. Jorak, a muscular Dathomirian Zabrak; Calara, a Mirialan pilot with a sharp wit; and Hereson, a Twi'lek gunslinger who tries to help Sal.

The gang arrive on Coruscant, finding it decimated by the Sith Empire, who have attacked the planet to end the war. Sal and Hereson end up killing two Imperial soldiers, gaining the gratitude of the local populace on Coruscant. With it looking permanent for Sal to be a member of the gang, he learns to use a blaster, training under Hereson.

Ciniriel
Ciniriel Fenaran is a fourteen-year-old girl who grew up with a wealthy upbringing in the Empire on Dromund Kaas. On the day of the Siege of Coruscant, Ciniriel graduates from Imperial Cadet Academy, hoping to work for Imperial Intelligence. Forced to say goodbye to her past life, Ciniriel doesn't go peacefully, violently protecting a Chiss cadet from two racist Cadets. Ciniriel befriends the Chiss student, a girl named Marsa, and the two become friends as they get the first true taste of Imperial Intelligence 'boot camp'.

Vidril
Vidril Vesal is a fifteen-year-old Jedi intiate, who witnesses first-hand the Siege of Coruscant. Inside the Jedi Temple during the attack on it by Sith warriors, Vidril is rushed to safety by Cathar Jedi Master Yulic Namex and a group of Jedi-friendly smugglers. During the escape, Vidril meets and quickly befriends a Miraluka boy named Jarn Walon. The Jedi who escape Coruscant and the battles elsewhere in the galaxy come to Kurano Station, a hidden space station in the Deep Core. Grand Master of the Order, the Kel-Dor Zym, soon discovers that peace negotiations went ahead on Alderaan despite the Siege, and the Empire made Republic delegates sign an unfair armstice to end the war: the Treaty of Coruscant.

Left to wonder Kurano Station alongside Jarn and another Initiate, a female Twi'lek named Erana, Vidril's pessimism gets the upper hand of one conversation, causing Jarn to storm off. However, Vidril and Jarn soon discover in the logs of the old space station the logs of Tython, the original home of the Je'daii. Informing Zym of the discovery, the boys realize one thing: the Jedi have a new home.