The Official Star Wars Site has announced that LucasBooks will be examining the historic Clone Wars through a unified publishing program incorporating novels, comics, middle grade fiction, audio books and more.

Scheduled for June 2004 is The Cestus Deception, a Clone Wars hardcover novel by author Steven Barnes, published by Del Rey Books. The book will feature Obi-Wan Kenobi and Kit Fisto uncovering a deadly new type of bio-battle droid being built on the foundries of Ord Cestus.