Outbound flight

Illustration for the novel of the same name by Timothy Zahn.
A gripping story of the amazing, but doomed to death project "Outbound Flight". In the years leading up to the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Jorus C'baot asks the Senate for support for an extremely ambitious endeavor. Six masters, twelve knights and fifty thousand men, women and children will embark on a gigantic ship, equipped with everything necessary for long years of travel, and set off on an expedition to establish contact with intelligent life and colonize as-yet undiscovered planets outside the explored galaxy.