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Star of the Guardians is a series of four science-fiction / space opera novels written by Margaret Weis without assistance from usual co-author Tracy Hickman. The original trilogy, The Lost King, King's Test and King's Sacrifice, concerns Dion's adventures and eventual rise to the throne. A few years later, Margaret Weis realized that, while Dion had achieved his goals, the main characters of the series (sundered lovers Sagan and Maigrey) had not achieved peace, and penned the fourth book, Ghost Legion. She has since completed a trilogy of spin-offs concerning the mercenary team Mag Force 7 introduced in King's Sacrifice.

As the owner of a collectible card game development company, coincidentally also named 'Mag Force 7,' she was also able to bring the series to the gaming table, but it never caught on.

The Lost King (1990): 17-year-old Dion Starfire has lived on a backwater planet, Syrac 7, with Platus Morianna for his entire life, but that life is about to be turned upside down, as Sagan has finally found them. Platus contacts Mendaharin "Tusk" Tusca, the son of an old friend, and pays him to take Dion off-planet; Platus himself stays behind and buys time with his life. Tusk and Dion travel to the planet Vangelis to seek the advice of General John Dixter. Sagan, for his part, manages to track down Maigrey Morianna, who has also been off-radar for seventeen years. The fact that they were once lovers does not stop him for arresting her as a monarchist and sentencing her to trial. Sagan then travels to Vangelis to help put down the rebellion (IE, Dixter's forces). Dion goes voluntarily to the Warlord's flagship, where Sagan and Maigrey inform him of his true heritage. The novel is punctuated by an attack from the Corasians, an alien race bent on conquering our galaxy.

King's Test (1991): Though Dixter's mercenaries fought honorably beside Sagan's forces to repel the Corasians, Sagan orders them killed at the end of The Lost King; at the beginning of King's Test, which picks up moments after, Dion sallies out to save his friends. He flees with Tusk and Nola (Tusk's new girlfriend), though Dixter was captured. Maigrey leaves as well, traveling to the nauseous planet of Laskar, where a weapons magnate named Snaga Ohme has been building a new weapon. This space-rotation bomb, designed by Sagan and intended for his purchase, could theoretically destroy the entire universe. Maigrey buys it by selling her soul, in the form of her starjewel, only to realize that said jewel is the bomb's arming key. Meanwhile, Dion, Tusk and Nola travel to Laskar as well, called by a distress call ostensibly from Maigrey, but actually sent by Abdiel, leader and only remaining member of the Order of the Black Lightning. These mind-seizers, as they are informally called, use their Blood Royal telepathy and nanobiotic machines to take control of their followers' minds. Finally, Sagan arrives as well, having learned that Dion is now in the grip of the most manipulative man alive. The action culminates in a weapons exhibition at Ohme's, where Maigrey retrieves her starjewel, Dion publicly declares himself king and Sagan swears his fealty to him, Dion attempts to kill Sagan on Abdiel's advice, and Sagan is forced to cede the bomb to his new king. Abdiel, for his part, escapes.

King's Sacrifice (1991): Six months have passed, and there is no sign of Abdiel--except in the reflection of a water glass standing on the desk of Galactic President Peter Robes. It seems that Abdiel was actually the man who orchestrated the Revolution. Dion is now a public celebrity, but has not managed to take any concrete steps towards establishing his rule. Sagan returns home to the monastery of the Order of Adamant, where he was born (his father had only one lapse in his life, but it clearly bore fruit), as Sagan the Elder lies on his death bed. It turns out to be a trap orchestrated by Abdiel, however. Abdiel takes Sagan to the Corasian galaxy, where he plans on--and will succeed at--prying the secrets of the space-rotation bomb from Sagan's head and selling them to the Corasians. Maigrey organizes a rescue mission, while Dion sojourns on the home planet of one of his staunchest supporters, Bear Olefsky, a trip that doubles as Nola's and Tusk's honeymoon. There he meets Kamil Olefsky, Bear's daughter, and they fall in love. Shortly thereafter, however, he is forced to pledge his hand to the daughter of one of his other allies so that Maigrey's rescue attempt will succeed. Maigrey collects her supporters, including Brother Daniel, a member of Sagan's order, and Xris and his Mag Force 7 team. With Dion's eventual backup, she succeeds in rescuing Sagan and slaying Abdiel--but at the cost of several lives, including her own. Sagan, fulfilling a prophecy, is forced to kill her with his own hand to prevent Abdiel's final blow from driving her insane. The planetoid is then destroyed; Sagan disappears, presumed lost.

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