What Wedge Said

Kyp laughed easily. “Something like that.”
This is in response to him falling to the Darkside in a week. I thought it was somewhat odd that he would have taken that lightly. Typically Kyp is humbled by his fall.
The novel proceeds to Chandrila to meet with Wedge and Gavin. Wedge is angry to have to meet with Kyp, whom he obviously still hates for violating Qui Xux’s mind fourteen years before. “Durron, I don’t t like you. The very best thing you are is a murderer.”
He listens to Kyp’s description of the ship yard and then irritates Kyp who angrily jumps up, to which Wedge commands, “Shut up and sit down.”
Wedge agrees to take on the unofficial mission and Kyp agrees to take his orders. Kyp was willing to submit to Wedge’s unbridled hatred in order to get what he needed.
Kyp asks Jaina to be his apprentice and she states she will think about it. This won’t come up again until Hapes after the ill-fated mission against the voxyn.
The team attacks the Vong shipyard and destroys it. They also destroy what they think is a super weapon, but it was an empty world ship. Jaina is furious that Kyp would lie to her. Wedge and Gavin of course are furious, but the others are happy to have struck such a blow. This action of Kyp’s remains controversially questionable: was it a dark act? But no Vong innocents were on the ship. They were on dying worldships. The Vong would have needed the new worldship eventually, but now they were set back in their creation of new homes.
Kyp does not behave like an honorable Jedi. He lies and deceives. He is the aggressor. He is vain and arrogant and willing to do anything necessary to get what he needs. He is “the ends justify the means” kind of guy at this point. He is still in danger of making choices which are dark and of possibly going all the way to the Darkside and he does not seem bothered by it in the least. “I will do what I must” he tells Jaina.