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38:F1

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• Galaxy News Service reported on the launch of New Year Fete Week celebrations on Coruscant.

• Independent Traders’ Infonet reports Imperial Customs’ increasingly frequent boarding of transports. (Exact date of report via Independent Traders’ Infonet: 38:1:9 i.e. 9 Elona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • Colonial News Nets reports that Imperial forces have taken Lirra from the Hutts originally running the planet. This action was taken to free human slaves, an irony not lost on all the alien races enslaved by the Empire. (Exact date of report via Colonial News Nets: 38:1:9 i.e. 9 Elona 2 ABY)* (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #12)*

• NOTE: This entry was actually dated 37:11:9, but this is believe to be a misprint, as there are only 10 months in

the Star Wars internal calendar that Galaxywide News Nets uses. This is further backed up by the timing of AJ13 GWNN events in relation to those in the AJ12. We can safely assume these events were meant to take place the next month after Welona of the year ’37, which makes them take place during Elona of ’38. • Coruscant Daily NewsFeed announces that Thrawn has been inducted into the Order of the Canted Circle, having returned to Coruscant for a short time. Grand Admiral Rufaan Tigellinus was one of the leading opponents of Thrawn’s induction. (Exact date of report via Coruscant Daily NewsFeed: 38:1:13 i.e. 13 Elona 2 ABY)* (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #12)*

• NOTE: This entry was actually dated 37:11:13, but this is believe to be a misprint, as there are only 10 months in

the Star Wars internal calendar that Galaxywide News Nets uses. This is further backed up by the timing of AJ13 GWNN events in relation to those in the AJ12. We can safely assume these events were meant to take place the next month after Welona of the year ’37, which makes them take place during Elona of ’38. The Star Wars Timeline Gold 790 • Andor Javin of TriNebulon News reports that after a tour of several Kooroo shrines, he has determined that they are actually archaic communication devices used by Kooroo scouts millions of years ago to explore the galaxy. (Exact date of report via TriNebulon News: 38:1:15 i.e. 15 Elona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • Aboard the Zaker Besar, Kassihm knows that Grand Moff For-Atese will soon run out of uses for him and kill him, or have Burra Stone kill him. With the capture of the Rebels and B-1D4 and their subsequent shipment to Merakai for imprisonment, though, he sees a way out of it. For-Atese does not wish his involvement in Imperial Redesign or the Heart of Steel project known, which means that he cannot simply call the prison on Merakai and order B-1D4 turned over to him. The only hope of keeping his involvement a secret is for a small team, including Kassihm, For-Atese, Burra Stone, and several Imperial agents, to attempt a jailbreak of the Merakai prison. Kassihm is promised his life and the ship they are taking (the Optitron) when the mission is over in return for his aid, though he has no doubts that For- Atese will kill him before he can ever benefit from the bargain. The team takes the Optitron from the Zaker Besar to Merakai, where they set down and head for the prison. After battle with swamp creatures, Khil guards, and droid guards, a part of the group makes it to the detention control center and stages a full jailbreak to cover the intended jailbreak—that of B- 1D4, the Heart of Steel. As a result, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and company are also freed. The Rebels and Imperials make it out of the prison and while the Rebels end up hiding in the nearby woods, the Imperials are able to take the Optitron and escape. Shortly before their rendezvous with the Zaker Besar, Kassihm convinces Burra Stone to go back into stasis, and then takes a droid disrupter and uses it on B-1D4, the ship’s torturer droid, and Grand Moff For-Atese. Kassihm then takes the Optitron back to Merakai and picks up the Rebels who were left behind. He tells them that he wishes to join the Rebel Alliance, as he has seen the Empire’s cruel agents first-hand. He will gladly stay in a cell when they get to Hoth if necessary, but after he is officially part of the Alliance, he will remain a pirate, but only raid Imperial vessels and sell the materials for next-to-nothing to the Rebel Alliance. Thus Kassihm becomes the newest Rebel recruit. (Imperial Jailbreak) • Approximately one month after their mission to save Mika the Hutt on Endregaad, the heroes who carried out that mission are once again to be tossed into the events that will come to be called the Tempest Feud. They are called to Nar Shaddaa to meet with Popara the Hutt again. Upon arrival, they are met by Mika, who is standing in for Vago, and Vago’s droid, H- 3PO. When a sniper (paid by Mika to make things look realistic) shoots the droid, it looks like Mika may have been targeted. At the meeting/party with Popara, the heroes are given a mission to seek out the source of tempest spice. It is cutting in on normal spice business and, unbeknownst to many, Popara’s eldest, Zonnos, is addicted to the drug. Before they can carry out the mission, though, a biochemical explosive (planted by Mika’s stooges in the kitchen) causes Popara to explode. In the chaos, Zonnos blames the heroes, who are forced to flee. They are captured, but freed by H-3PO, and are asked to help Vago to find the true assassins. In their search, they eventually find themselves working through the tempestladen streets to the Headache Bar, where they meet with Mika and learn that they can get transport offworld with Mika’s contact. Upon reaching another cantina, the Murr, they discover that the contact is none other than Corporate Sector Authority officer Angela Krin, who has been promoted to Captain in the wake of the Endregaad crisis. She is now searching for the source of tempest on Nar Shaddaa, which, of course, Mika will never truly allow, given that he is the source of the spice. While making their plans to escape Nar Shaddaa, the heroes come across a young Evocii under attack by vrblthers. Upon saving the child, they meet with the Evocii, including their leader, Sorgoth, and learn a bit more about suspicions that the Hutts are up to no good. (Oh really? Gee, never saw that coming.) They then try to make their escape, but are ambushed by goons loyal to Zonnos, who has publicly challenged Mika for leadership of the Anjiliac Clan. Some are captured, then brought before Zonnos. Their comrades bust in and free them, and in the ensuing struggle, Zonnos, fighting in his own right in a tempest-induced rage, is killed. The heroes are rewarded, Mika takes over leadership of The Star Wars Timeline Gold 791 the clan, Angela returns to Nar Shaddaa, and the Tempest Feud is far from over . . . (To be continued below . . . ) (Tempest Feud) • TriNebulon News reports the banning of the Galladinium Datalog by Moff Shinda of Spirva sector. (Exact date of report via TriNebulon News: 38:1:27 i.e. 27 Elona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #12)*

• NOTE: This entry was actually dated 37:11:27, but this is believe to be a misprint, as there are only 10 months in

the Star Wars internal calendar that Galaxywide News Nets uses. This is further backed up by the timing of AJ13 GWNN events in relation to those in the AJ12. We can safely assume these events were meant to take place the next month after Welona of the year ’37, which makes them take place during Elona of ’38. • Coruscant Daily NewsFeed reports that Imperial Advisor Bregius Golthan has been asked by Palpatine to help ensure the safety of the Colonies and the Core Worlds. Golthan has left Coruscant to return to his sanctuary on Voktunma. (Exact date of report via Coruscant Daily NewsFeed: 38:1:29 i.e. 29 Elona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • Cynabar’s InfoNet reports that the Galladinium ban in the Spirva sector has opened up an entire black market for Galladinium in the area, urging those with the guts and know-how to head for the sector and make a hefty profit. (Exact date of report via Cynabar’s InfoNet: 38:1:34 i.e. 34 Elona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • Kaj Nedmak is in debt to Rass M’Guy and has a plan for how he and his partner, Celia “Crimson” Durasha, can save his neck. They travel to Yefowr to take a weapon smuggling job from Bwahl the Hutt. After leaving, though, they divert to Ord Mantell to give the weapons to Rass as payment for Kaj’s gambling debt. Rass, however, only accepts them as interest on the debt, and still forces Kaj to somehow come up with the principal. They leave Ord Mantell worrying about where to go for the rest of the money, but Bwahl’s agents, having followed them, attack in retribution for their betrayal. They have to land the Tryan Kajme at an old stellar-energy station on Ord Mantell to hide out, but upon arrival are still pursued. They split up and Kaj is captured by unknown assailants. In the station, Crimson meets Thune, a scavenger, though she would appear to truly be a smuggler. They use Thune’s droid, U-THR, to determine (it seems) that Kaj was captured by a bounty hunter named Treytis Prash, who is preparing to send him back to Bwahl. They track down Prash, but in the ensuing confrontation, Prash claims ignorance and Thune reveals that she is a bounty hunter, and Crimson has just helped her catch Prash, a known Rebel gunrunner. She was the one whose people captured Kaj, and they are waiting right now for her to take him to Bwahl. Crimson is also now a prisoner, ready to be taken to the Empire and her former lover, Adion Lang, for her escapades aboard the Kuari Princess two years ago. Upon returning for Kaj (being kept in a Y-wing), Kaj and Crimson make a daring escape attempt. They manage to knock out Thune and join the Rebel cause with Prash (which they’d been considering anyway). Thune is not as beaten as she seemed, though, and she stabs Kaj as they try to escape. As Kaj tries to keep Thune busy, Prash and Crimson race from Thune’s ship, the Faceted, and try to escape in the Y-wing, but Prash is killed in mid-stride. Crimson escapes from Thune’s minions in the Y-wing, but is soon tracked by the Faceted and attacked. The next thing Crimson knows, she’s waking up aboard the Faceted. Kaj had been left for dead, but managed, with accidental help from U-THR, to kill Thune and take over the ship, rescuing Crimson from damage caused by Thune’s attacks. U-THR, happily freed to do good instead of evil, as per his programming, joins with Kaj and Crimson in making the move into fully joining the Rebel Alliance, running supplies and guns in their new ship, the Faceted, rechristened the Starlight Red.* (Crimson Bounty)*

• NOTE: I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out one of the many hidden references in this story, co-written by friend and

fellow RASSMer, Rich Handley. In a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Star Wars newsgroup community we engage in, Rich named the debtor in this story “Rass M’Guy” or “RASSM Guy,” which is what Rich is--a rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc newsgroup regular. Ah, you gotta love little references like that. The Star Wars Timeline Gold 792 • Traveling aboard the Devastator, still technically under Vader’s command although he has taken command of the Executor, Darth Vader speaks with Imperial Security Bureau officer Sollaine. Vader gives Sollaine, who is jealous of Vader’s new ship, command of the Devastator in order to hunt down Rebel spies that a recent datafile, which is being decrypted, is supposed to reveal. Elsewhere, General Airen Cracken speaks with his old friend Cryle Cavv. He tells Cavv that the data revealing the spies has been found by Imperials and that Cavv is needed to go to Corulag to evacuate a high-level Rebel spy—Rivoche Tarkin, niece of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. Cavv is teamed with Quillin Arkell, a Velabri Lancer who owes a bloodvow to Cracken. The two travel in the G Cat to Corulag. Aboard the Devastator, the file is decrypted, and, upon seeing Rivoche Tarkin in the file, Sollaine orders the ship to Corulag to take her into custody before Vader can, thus, he hopes, ingratiating himself with the Emperor so that he can take command of the Executor. (Talk about delusions of grandeur!) Cavv and Arkell arrive at Corulag to find the planet relatively closed off due to the impending wedding of Rivoche Tarkin (for reasons of access to more info for the Rebellion) to Vastin Caglio, son of Moff Jamson Caglio. They pretend to be coming for the wedding and land. The Devastator arrives, but Sollaine is not allowed to land, by order of the absent Darth Vader. Sollaine causes a diversion by destroying a civilian vessel and takes a shuttle of Storm Commandos to the surface. In the palace, Cavv and Arkell meet Rivoche and prepare to escape, just as Sollaine arrives. Cavv uses and explosive “present” to decimate the Storm Commandos and cover their escape. Sollaine survives, but is hell-bent on stopping them. As the Rebels race to the roof of the Royal Galaxy Hotel to meet the G Cat, piloted by Cavv’s astromech, Sollaine determines their destination and hires bounty hunters to attack them on the roof. The droid informs the Rebels of the situation, and then end up trapped within the hotel. They open a door to see Beylyssa, the bounty hunter, standing outside. Arkell slams the door shut, but Cavv casually opens it. It’s not Beylyssa, but Finn Varatha, their back-up, in similar armor. The four Rebels then head for the roof and, against incredible odds, defeat the hunters and escape in the G Cat, which is then pursued by Imperial vessels. Unfortunately for Sollaine, Vader has foreseen his behind-the-back maneuvering and brings the Executor into the system just right to allow the Rebels to escape, which will be on Sollaine’s head. Vader informs Sollaine that “it is over for you.” As for the Rebels . . . upon speaking with Cracken again, Varatha and Arkell are surprised to learn that in return for coming out of retirement to help save Rivoche, Cavv asked to be reinstated, along with his special ops team, which will now include its first two new members—Varatha and Arkell. (Small Favors) • T’Charek Haathi is promoted to Major in the Rebel Alliance. (conjecture based on Special Ops: Shipjackers) • Imperial agent Crix Madine, wishing to defect to the Rebel Alliance soon, sends word of the Dark Trooper project to the Alliance. (conjecture based on Dark Forces) • As a demonstration of the Dark Trooper project, General Rom Mohc meets Darth Vader over Talay and releases the Dark Troopers, high-end attack droids, on the Rebel’s Tak Base on the world. (To be continued below . . . ) (Dark Forces) • As the attack on Tak Base commences, the Rebels on the world attempt to escape. One such escape craft makes it into hyperspace, but not before a Dark Trooper can come aboard and slaughter the crew. The ship exits hyperspace and crashes on Tatooine . . . (To be continued below . . . ) (Sand Blasted) • Five days after the attack on Tak Base, Kyle Katarn is sent by Mon Mothma, along with Jan Ors, to discover the truth behind the attack on Tak Base on Talay. Kyle heads for the base and discovers a broken prototype Dark Trooper weapon, bearing the “M.R.” initials of Imperial weapon manufacturer Moff Rebus. He then hunts Rebus down in Anoat City. Upon capture, Rebus is questioned and reveals that the weapons research he was involved in is based on Fest. Madine confirms that Fest is where new alloys are being tested, apparently for the Dark Trooper. Kyle goes to investigate and finds a metal called Phrik, which causes him to head for the source of Phrik, the Empire’s Gromas mines, which he subsequently destroys The Star Wars Timeline Gold 793 with a well placed explosive after having his first encounter with Phase I Dark Troopers. (To be continued below . . . ) (Dark Forces) • Crix Madine’s disgust at Imperial atrocities finally pushes him over the edge and causes him to steal a shuttle full of valuable information and defect to the Rebel Alliance. He is en route when . . . (Conjecture based on Darksaber) • Crix Madine is captured by Darth Vader and General Rom Mohc and taken aboard the Arc Hammer. He is sent to the Orinackra Imperial Detention Center. Mohc and Vader worry about Kyle Katarns progress against the Dark Trooper project, but Mohc is confident that his new hire, Boba Fett, will take care of Kyle. Kyle and Jan Ors, meanwhile, have studied information Madine supplied earlier and discovered that, after the Gromas mine, the Dark Trooper construction project still involves a robotics facility and an operation aboard the Arc Hammer. They make a strike on Orinackra, freeing Madine before escaping. Madine, will have more trouble on his way to the Alliance, but that will be detailed below. To discover the location of the robotics facility, Kyle goes to Ramsees Hed on Cal-Seti and tracks a smuggler back to the facility on Anteevy. Kyle then, true to form, blows up that installation as well, again after encountering a new stage of Dark Trooper, Phase II. Kyle, with a price on his head, then goes to Nar Shaddaa in hopes of discovering Imperial navigation information to lead him to the Arc Hammer. He manages to find a few leads, but when he and Jan leave, they are caught by Jabba the Hutt’s minions. (Jabba is in league with Mohc.) Jan is imprisoned, and Kyle is fed to Kell dragons. Unfortunately for Jabba, Kyle kills the dragons and saves Jan, escaping with a Nava Card that holds the encrypted Arc Hammer coordinates. To decrypt it, they must go to Coruscant, where Kyle infiltrates the Imperial Security Operations building to decode it, collecting his newest toy, a working Dark Trooper weapon, in the process. The information is actually the coordinates for the Executor, which meets with the Arc Hammer when it comes out of hiding. Thus, Kyle must go to Fuel Station Ergo to hijack a smuggler ship to take to the Executor and await the rendezvous with the Arc Hammer. When the Arc Hammer arrives, Kyle stows away in some cargo and gets transferred to the vessel. Once on the Arc Hammer, Kyle faces down various Dark Troopers, while setting charges on the ship. He kills General Moch and escapes in a Lambda-class shuttle before the entire Arc Hammer, and thus the rest of the Dark Trooper project, is destroyed. Upon returning to the Alliance, Kyle receives a the Star of Alderaan medal for his efforts. Aboard the Executor, though, Darth Vader senses that the Force is strong in Katarn, a hint of what is to come for Kyle . . . (Dark Forces) • With the destruction of the Arc Hammer, the Emperor refuses to approve funding for a new construction facility for Dark Troopers. He is essentially cutting the Empire’s financial losses after the ship’s destruction and that of the first Death Star. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Droids) • After his incarceration on Orinackra, Crix Madine meets with Rebel Alliance General Carlist Rieekan in Coronet on Corellia. Rieekan is to retrieve Madine from this layover and bring him back to the Rebel proper, but Imperials attack, knowing Madine is there. Luckily, Rogue Squadron and the Millennium Falcon are there to save the day, allowing them to escape just before the building Rieekan was in explodes. A short time later, Madine returns to action, aiding Gold Squadron in the liberation of stolen property on Gerrard V, where the local governor was seizing private property. Rogue Squadron flies cover, which brings them into conflict with the Imperial 128th TIE Interceptor squadron. In the fierce battle between the legendary squadrons, the Rogues are victorious, and the leader of the 128th, Kasan Moor, defects to the Rebel cause. Kasan joins Rogue Squadron and helps them to target Imperial strongholds that they might never have known existed. They hit the Jade Moon and other locations before a mission to Kile II ends in the successful destruction of an Imperial Enclave, but also the capture of Wedge Antilles by Imperial forces. Wedge is sent to Kessel, but Rogue Squadron charges in and rescues him, leading the Alliance to send them, under Wedge’s command, along with Crix Madine and his troops, on a return mission to save other Rebel prisoners. Shortly thereafter, the Rogues, including Kasan, are forced into conflict with The Star Wars Timeline Gold 794 Kasan’s old mentor, Imperial Moff Kohl Seerdon, who is planning to take over Thyferra, thereby consolidating all main bacta production facilities under his (or the Empire’s) control. Rogue Squadron begins going after Seerdon by hitting one of his Tibanna gas mining setups on the planet Taloraan, which they soon follow-up by protecting a group of Rebels that steal AT-PTs from an Imperial research facility on Fest (which they subsequently destroy). In retaliation for assaulting his facility on Fest, Seerdon blockades Chandrila, home to the known Rebel leader Mon Mothma. The Rogues again intervene, saving the day, but in doing so, they unwittingly allow Seerdon to learn that Kasan is now with the Rebels. This fact allows Seerdon to plan a ruse a short time later, when Rogue Squadron, acting on a plan created by Kasan herself, goes after one of Seerdon’s bases (this time on Sullust, based on apparently secretive information), only to discover that the Sullust base was a false target, made known to them so that Rogue Squadron would be too busy to help the real target of Seerdon’s simultaneous assault—Thyferra. With Luke Skywalker as ever at the helm, Rogue Squadron heads for Thyferra. They engage Seerdon’s forces in an all-out battle in the skies. During the battle, Kasan is shot down, but survives. As for Seerdon, his vessel is destroyed with him on-board by none other than Skywalker himself. The threat of Moff Seerdon is over. (Rogue Squadron)*

• NOTE: This is, of course, not to be confused with the novel of the same name.

• Due to events during the campaign against Moff Kohl Seerdon, Wes Janson is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. (conjecture based on A Cast of Thousands) • Tanda Marelle of Galactic Resorts the preparations for a presentation of the opera trilogy known as the Kellea Cycle on Brentaal. (Exact date of report via Galactic Resorts: 38:2:7 i.e. 7 Kelona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • Sector 242 NewsLine reports that, in response to TriNebulon News correspondent Andor Javin’s earlier story giving the Kooroo shrines a secular purpose instead of their attested religious significance to the Fellowship of Kooroo, the Fellowship has taken out a contract on Javin for his statements. (Exact date of report via Sector 242 NewsLine: 38:2:9 i.e. 9 Kelona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • TriNebulon News reports that the Tombat has struck again, putting his trademark quella stones in dinners being eaten by various investigators pursuing him on Brentaal. (Exact date of report via TriNebulon News: 38:2:12 i.e. 12 Kelona 2 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • On the forest moon of Endor, the starcruiser of the Towani family lies wrecked. The Towani family (Catarine, Jeremitt, Mace, and Cindel) are stranded. When Catarine and Jeremitt vanish, the children are found by the Ewok Deej Warrick. After Mace tries to kill them, the Ewoks subdue him and take both children to the Ewoks’ home. There, Cindel and Wicket W. Warrick become friends. Shortly thereafter, the Ewoks kill a beast only to find a life-monitor from one of the Towani parents with the creature. They seek out the Ewok Logray who informs them that the parents have been taken by the monstrous Gorax, who resides in a deserted, dangerous area. A caravan of Ewoks is formed to help the children find their parents. They meet up with a wistie named Izrina and a boisterous Ewok named Chukha before finally reaching the lair of the Gorax. They engage the Gorax in battle, freeing Jeremitt and Catarine, but Chukha is killed. The Gorax is thought destroyed when he is knocked into a chasm, but it takes a final blow from Mace (using Chukha’s axe) to kill the creature, who tries to climb back up after them. Thus reunited, the Towanis decide to stay with the Ewoks until they can repair the starcruiser, and Izrina leaves to go back to her family. (Caravan of Courage) • Having served the Rebel Alliance well, Kyle Katarn comes to lead a group of Rebel guerillas that will come to be known as Katarn’s Commandos. Very soon, though, they will come The Star Wars Timeline Gold 795 under the command of Page, who will rise from the Rebel ranks around the time of the Battle of Endor and its aftermath. This new group will be known as Page’s Commandos. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--"Dark Force Rising Sourcebook") • Kira Lar is promoted to Corporal. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game profile for Kira Lar, found on the Wizards of the Coast website) Vernost (cancelled video game: LucasArts)* Vernost (cancelled video game: LucasArts)*

• NOTE: This story never came to exist. Consider it historical curiosity.

Credit Denied (cancelled AJ16 short story: Chris Cassidy & Tish Pahl)* Credit Denied (cancelled AJ16 short story: Chris Cassidy & Tish Pahl)*

• NOTE: This story never came to exist. Consider it historical curiosity.

Special Ops (AJ short stories: John Beyer & Kathy Burdette)* Art of Infiltration (cancelled AJ17 short story: John Beyer & Kathy Burdette)*

• NOTE: This story never came to exist. Consider it historical curiosity.

Treasure Hunt (cancelled AJ17 short story: Unknown)* Treasure Hunt (cancelled AJ17 short story: Unknown)*

• NOTE: This story never came to exist. Consider it historical curiosity.

Shadow Stalker (comic: Ryder Windham) Shadow Stalker (comic: Ryder Windham) Classic Star Wars [continued] (comic trilogy: Archie Goodwin) The Rebel Storm [continued] (comic series: Archie Goodwin) Ice World Ice World [continued] (SWH comic: Archie Goodwin) Ice World [continued] (SWH comic: Archie Goodwin) Classic Star Wars [continued] (comic trilogy: Archie Goodwin) The Rebel Storm [continued] (comic series: Archie Goodwin) Revenge of the Jedi Revenge of the Jedi [continued] (SWH comic: Archie Goodwin) Revenge of the Jedi [continued] (SWH comic: Archie Goodwin) Escape to Hoth (comic series: Archie Goodwin) Doom Mission Race for Survival Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Rebel Strike [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Revenge of the Empire Tales from the Star Wars Universe [continued] (comic series: Ryder Windham & Mike W. Barr & Henry Gilroy) Death Star Pirates (comic/SWT8 short story: Henry Gilroy)* Death Star Pirates, Part I (comic/SWT8 short story: Henry Gilroy)* Death Star Pirates, Part II (comic/SWT8 short story: Henry Gilroy)* Death Star Pirates, Part III (comic/SWT8 short story: Henry Gilroy)* Death Star Pirates, Part IV (comic/SWT8 short story: Henry Gilroy)* Death Star Pirates, Part V (comic/SWT8 short story: Henry Gilroy)*

• NOTE: When this 5-part Star Wars Kids story was reprinted in Star Wars Tales #8, it was all as one unit, not in

the serialized units. Force Commander [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Force Commander [continued] (video game: LucasArts) The Trap at Yavin IV Classic Star Wars [continued] (comic trilogy: Archie Goodwin) Escape to Hoth [continued] (comic series: Archie Goodwin) Race for Survival [continued] The Adventures of the Vorsoons [continued] (AJ/TFTE/SWH short stories: Angela Phillips) The Most Dangerous Foe (AJ11/SWH short story: Angela Phillips) Battlefront [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Battlefront [continued] (video game: LucasArts) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 796 Historical Campaigns [continued] Galactic Civil War Tatooine Desert Extermination Siege of Mos Eisley Rhen Var Sabotage at Rhen Var Battlefront II [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Rise of the Empire Campaign [continued] Rise of the Empire [continued] Yavin IV Orbit Vader’s Fist Strikes Back Yavin IV Revenge of the Empire Battlefront [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Historical Campaigns [continued] Galactic Civil War [continued] Yavin IV Assault on Yavin IV The Fall of Yavin IV Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Rogue Leader [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Ison Corridor Ambush X-wing [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Imperial Pursuit (video game: LucasArts) Evacuate Yavin Provide Area Protection Evacuate Cruiser Maximus Protect Frigate Anvil Abandon Ship (Anvil) Guard Repair Operation Hide and Seek Clear Minefield Destroy Comm Area Guard Cargo Transfer Grain Snatch Capture Ghorin's Y-wings Raid Storage Area Grain Exchange Confirm Delivery Steal TIE Advanced Escort Base Convoy Support Allies Attack the Frigate Red Wind Capture Imperial Gunboats Capture Imperial Corvette (Ram's Head) Defend Ram's Head Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Part V [continued] Part VI Part VII Chewbacca [continued] (comic series: Darko Macan) Chewbacca, Part III [flashback] (comic: Darko Macan) Chapter 6: Wedge—“A Pilot’s Anecdote” [flashback] X-wing [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 797 B-wing (video game: LucasArts) Protect B-wing Assembly Area Cover B-wing Evacuation Protect B-wing Delivery Destroy TIE Staging Area Destroy Secret Weapons Base Prisoner Rescue Help Neutrals Out of Ambush Escort VIP to Alliance Cruiser Guard Cargo Pick-up Probe Capture Destroy Corvette Base Destroy Imperial Base Intercept Imperial Attack Protect B-wing Delivery (again) Capture Imperial Frigate Capture Imperial Officers Escort B-wing Attack Attack Probe Calibration Site Ambush Imperial Arms Shipment Disrupt Delivery of TIE/ln's Destroy (ISD) Relentless Operation Blunt Stick Save the Cruiser Cathleen Escape to Hoth Classic Star Wars [continued] (comic trilogy: Archie Goodwin) Escape to Hoth [continued] (comic series: Archie Goodwin) The Paradise Detour A New Beginning Showdown The Final Trap A Valentine Story (comic: Judd Winick) The Heart of the Rebellion [continued] (comic series: Randy Stradley & Judd Winick & Ron Marz & Steve Hartly & Paul Chadwick)* A Valentine Story (comic: Judd Winick)*

• NOTE: This trade paperback is for the Empire comic series. It seems that they decided to include A Valentine

Story in with that series for some odd reason. Also, one might note that in the Stars Wars Comics Companion, this story is given the alternate title Breaking the Ice. Ghosts of Hoth (SWT17 short story: Rob Williams) Ghosts of Hoth (SWT17 short story: Rob Williams) Cynabar’s Droids Datalog (AJ short stories: Drew Campbell & Eric S. Trautmann) Cynabar’s Droids Datalog Version 4.7.110 (AJ13 short story: Drew Campbell & Eric S. Trautmann) Droid Classifications Droid Personalities First Degree Droids Second Degree Droids River of Chaos (comic series: Louise Simonson) River of Chaos, Part I (comic: Louise Simonson) River of Chaos, Part II: The Path to Honor (comic: Louise Simonson) River of Chaos, Part III (comic: Louise Simonson) River of Chaos, Part IV (comic: Louise Simonson) Splinter of the Mind's Eye (novel: Alan Dean Foster) Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Novel: Alan Dean Foster) Chapters 1 – 12 Splinter of the Mind's Eye Comic Adaptation (comic series: Terry Austin) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 798 Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Part I (comic: Terry Austin) Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Part II (comic: Terry Austin) Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Part III (comic: Terry Austin) Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Part IV (comic: Terry Austin) Tempest Feud (RPG: Jeff Grubb & Owen K. C. Stephens) Tempest Feud (RPG: Jeff Grubb & Owen K. C. Stephens) A Hutt’s Best Hope The Briefing (AKA The Offer) Meeting Popara Hutt Machinations Trouble at Endregaad Above the Plague Planet Running the Blockade Tel Bollin To Temple Valley The Crashed Ship The Bomu Way Leaving the Planet Rendezvous First Intermission The Nebula Assassin (RPG: Owen K. C. Stephens) The Nebula Assassin (RPG: Owen K. C. Stephens) All Aboard All Hell Breaks Loose Star Wars Missions [continued] (youth novel series: Ryder Windham & Dave Wolverton) Star Wars Missions, Cycle IV (youth novel series: Dave Wolverton) Prisoner of the Nikto Pirates (youth novel: Dave Wolverton) Preliminary Mission Chapters 1 – 2 Mission Briefing Your Mission: Prisoners of the Nikto Pirates The After-Mission The Monsters of Dweem (youth novel: Dave Wolverton) Preliminary Mission Chapters 1 – 4 Mission Briefing Your Mission: The Monsters of Dweem The After-Mission Voyage to the Underworld (youth novel: Dave Wolverton) Preliminary Mission Chapter 1 Mission Briefing Your Mission: Voyage to the Underworld The After-Mission Imperial Jailbreak (youth novel: Dave Wolverton) Preliminary Mission Chapters 1 – 3 Mission Briefing Your Mission: Imperial Jailbreak The After-Mission Tempest Feud [continued] (RPG: Jeff Grubb & Owen K. C. Stephens) Tempest Feud [continued] (RPG: Jeff Grubb & Owen K. C. Stephens) Night on Nar Shaddaa Gathering the Troops Viva Nar Shaddaa! Weekend at Popara’s The Star Wars Timeline Gold 799 Down and Out on Nar Shaddaa Angela Krin Blast On, Blast Off The Announcement Zonnos Enraged The Last Hutt Standing Second Intermission The Adventures of Celia "Crimson" Durasha [continued] (AJ/SWH short stories: Charlene Newcomb & Rich Handley & Peter Schweighofer) Crimson Bounty (AJ14 short story: Charlene Newcomb & Rich Handley) Small Favors (AJ12 short story: Paul Danner) Small Favors (AJ12 short story: Paul Danner) Sand Blasted (SWT4 short story: Kilian Plunkett) Sand Blasted (SWT4 short story: Kilian Plunkett) The Dark Forces Cycle [continued] (video game series: Justin Chin & Stephen R. Show & LucasArts) Dark Forces [continued] (video game: Justin Chin) Talay: Tak Base Cutscene II Mission II: Talay: Tak Base--"After the Massacre" Anoat City Mission III: Anoat City--"The Subterranean Hideout" Research Facility Mission IV: The Planet Fest--"Imperial Weapons Research Facility" Gromas Mines Cutscene III Mission V: Groma Mines--"The Blood Moon" Cutscene IV Detention Center Cutscene V Mission VI: Imperial Detention Center, Orina Ckra--"Crix Madine's Fate" Ramsees Hed Mission VII: Ramses Hed Docking Port, Cal-Seti--"Deadly Cargo" Robotics Facility Cutscene VI Mission VIII: Robotics Construction Facility, Anteevy--"Ice Station Beta" Cutscene VII Nar Shaddaa Mission IX: Nar Shaddaa, The Vertical City--"The Death Mark" Jabba's Ship Cutscene VIII Mission X: Jabba the Hutt's Ship--"Jabba's Revenge" Cutscene IX Imperial City Mission XI: Imperial Center, Coruscant--"The Imperial Mask" Fuel Station Mission XII: Imperial Fuel Station, Ergo--"Smuggler's Hijack" The Executor Mission XIII: The Executor--"The Stowaway" The Arc Hammer Cutscene X Mission XIV: The Arc Hammer--"The Dark Awakening" Cutscene XI Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game: LucasArts) The Rebel Opposition [continued] The Star Wars Timeline Gold 800 Defection at Corellia Liberation of Gerrand V Rogue Squadron The Jade Moon Imperial Construction Yards Assault on Kile II Rescue on Kessel Prisons of Kessel The New Threat Battle Above Taloraan Escape from Fest Blockade of Chandrila Raid on Sullust Moff Seerdon’s Revenge The Ewok Adventures (telemovie series: Bob Carrau & Ken Wheat & Jim Wheat & George Lucas) Caravan of Courage (telemovie: Bob Carrau & George Lucas) The Ewoks and the Lost Children (children's book: Amy Ehrlich) The Ewoks and the Lost Children (children's book: Amy Ehrlich) 3 - 3.3 ASW4 • Brema News reports a massive exodus in preparation by the Pinacists in the Brema sector. It is currently unknown as to whether or not Moff Malcom will intervene to stop Von Doobba and his followers from leaving the sector. (Exact date of report via Brema News: 38:3:18 i.e. 18 Selona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • Yun is sent by his father to the Benduki to learn with the Followers of Palwa to help benefit the family business in the future. (conjecture based on The Dark Forces Saga, Part III: Pride of the Dark Side) • Around this time, a Chiss probe passing through the Klasse Ephemora system’s planet Mobus had acquired a new moon. It was dubbed M-Eighteen by the probe and forgotten, but little did the Chiss know that the new “moon” was the sentient planet Zonama Sekot. (conjecture based on Refugee) • It has been approximately two months since the death of Popara the Hutt and his eldest child, Zonnos the Hutt, and the resultant ascension of Mika the Hutt to the head of the Anjiliac Clan. On Nar Shaddaa and elsewhere, the hyper-addictive, extremely dangerous new form of spice, known as “tempest,” continues to spread, as the Tempest Feud continues. The heroes who have been entangled in the Tempest Feud since saving Mika on Endregaad have been running missions for Mika for the past couple of months, and they are now sent to Joodrudda to deliver a pair of Corellian sand panthers to Lungru the Hutt as a gift from Mika. After doing so, they head back toward Nar Shaddaa, but are intercepted by Angela Krin’s Corporate Sector Authority vessel, the Vigilance. She shows the heroes some interesting things she has learned about the plague on Endregaad and tempest. It appears that the virus on Endregaad is a mutation of a virus on Varl, the original Hutt homeworld, and when normal spice is exposed to this virus, it transforms into something very much like tempest. She believes someone on Varl is producing tempest with the virus, and the Endregaad plague was an unfortunate side effect from the crashed spacecraft the heroes discovered (Mika’s ship). She wants the heroes to hijack a spice-running pirate vessel, the Barabi Run, then head for Varl to discover and hopefully destroy the source of tempest. The heroes agree, and once they have taken over the Barabi Run, they meet H-3PO, one of Vago the Hutt’s many identical droids. Vago, the droid says, hasn’t been himself lately. The heroes search around, finally discovering that the manufacturing plant is actually a landed vessel called, appropriately enough, the Tempest. Inside, they encounter Vago, who is under the mindcontrol of the two remaining Utrila Sisters, Dai and Koya. They are able to suggest to them The Star Wars Timeline Gold 801 that Mika arranged the death of their former master, Popara, shifting their anger and saving themselves from Vago and the sisters. The group then enters the bridge, confronting Mika and learning the truth behind his machinations in the past. In the ensuing battle, Mika is killed, and the heroes manage to escape just before the Tempest and the tempest spice within, is destroyed by their sabotage. The Tempest Feud is over. (Tempest Feud) • Nal Hutta Kal’tomak reports the destruction of the shadowport smuggler enclave on the moon of Syvris by the Imperial Death Squadron. (Exact date of report via Nal Hutta Kal’tamok, Basic Edition: 38:3:31 i.e. 31 Selona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #13) • A Rebel named Garve meets with fellow Rebel Colonel Phlik in Chalmun’s Cantina. He tells Phlik about a mission he went on for the Empire to Jellyfish Cove. He was hired to go there and work at the local Imperial station, only to be told not to go out at night or into the fog. He soon learned that the fog brought with it strange creature that could appear as female humans, but then become life-sucking semi-solid creatures that would kill any humanoid near for sustenance. When he witnessed some new arrivals get attacked, he realized that the planet was a penal colony. He managed to kill the Imperial guards on the base, steal their pay, and escape in one of the Imperial prison ships, bringing with him a load of former Imperial prisoners, ready and willing to join the Rebel cause under Phlik’s command. (Tales from Mos Eisley: Light Duty) • In Chalmun’s Cantina, Tem Chesko and Bezzem sit and share a drink and stories. Tem tells Bezzem of how it took him 71 years to reach Tatooine from Cirus II. He had been on a mission for a mining company when his ship’s drives were damaged. After spending several years alone, thinking of his lover, Maia, and going semi-insane and , he found a service droid (MILL-247-EE, which he called “Millie”), and finally had a companion. As time when by, he tell Bezzem, he and Millie became close and she seemed to even love him, at least as much as a droid can. When he turned 86 and was about to die, she saved his life by giving her power core to him as an artificial heart. Shocked, Bezzem can only watch as Tem opens his jacket to reveal Millie’s power core in the center of his chest. (Tales from Mos Eisley: Mostly Automatic) • Leaving Chalmun’s Cantina for some peace and quiet, Sam Heggs discovers Jeet Travis, a bounty hunter, drinking Vascheah Rye, which Heggs offers to trade grumph eggs for. When Jeet refuses to believe that any human could survive to steal a grumph egg, Hegg shows one to him and tells him how he came by the eggs. A short while earlier, he had been on a frozen planet and discovered the eggs. After consulting a guidebook, he learned that grumphs hibernate in winter, which meant he was safe until a thaw. He then saw an entire area that was thawed, lush jungle. He saw a young man being attacked by a grumph, and soon realized (by dumb luck, basically) that he was witnessing a portal in time (yes, the only known time travel tale in Star Wars history). He ran back into the frozen “present” and destroyed every egg he could find until the grumph chasing the young man vanished, and the portal in time closed. Heggs realized, based on the young man’s knapsack that he was witnessing a younger version of himself battling the grumph, and by saving the young man, he believes he saved himself. When Jeet points out that it makes absolutely no sense for destroying an egg in the present could cause a beast in the past to never be born, Heggs simply replies “Beats me,” and downs the last of Jeet’s rye.* (Tales from Mos Eisley: Heggs’ Tale)*

• NOTE: Of all of the Official Continuity comics Dark Horse has produced, Tales from Mos Eisley has been

regarded by many (well, those who actually realize it exists at all) as the absolute weakest of the lot. Heggs’ Tale takes the cake within the comic, though. This was our first look at time travel in the Star Wars universe (assuming Hegg wasn’t just drunk off his ass and making it all up). It appears that whatever phenomenon Heggs encountered caused him to be able to walk from the “present” into a “past” that never actually happened. Once there, he could walk around in the “past” like normal, but he passed through solid objects like a hologram, and could be heard, but not seen by the people in the “past.” Also, time seemed to work in a completely backwards fashion. Heggs destroys a grumph egg in the present in order to cause a creature in the past to never have been born. For this to make any logical sense, the creature would have to either exist in complete temporal reversal of how everything else does (i.e. “time’s arrow” points the opposite direction, akin to one of Stephen Hawking’s theories), or the egg would somehow have to have been transported into the past from a point after Heggs’ The Star Wars Timeline Gold 802 “present” to a point before the young Heggs’ encounter with the creature. At any rate, the story pretty much sucked, but at least now we can say that time travel does exist in Star Wars, albeit in a highly idiotic manner this time around. (Time travel is handled one more time, in a much more intelligent manner, in the Star Wars Tales story The Secret of Tet-Ami.) • The Hopskip (with crew Haber Trell and Maranne Darmic) is carrying supplies and two Rebels (Riij Winward and Rathe Palror to Derra IV. En route, they are taken aboard the Imperial Star Destroyer Admonitor to see Captain Niriz. Niriz forces them to take on a mission for the Empire—a little “side trip” to Corellia in exchange for being allowed to continue on their way. Their cargo is unloaded and replaced with a new cargo of 200 sleight boxes, and a new member joins them—Jodo Kast. At least they think it is Jodo Kast. In reality, it is Admiral Thrawn, who is undertaking a special mission to Corellia. They all head for Corellia on the Hopskip and Jodo Kast/Thrawn has them attempt to contact their supposed buyer, Borbor Crisk (local Black Sun head Zekka Thyne’s rival), at an incorrect booth on Treasure Ship Row, alerting Zekka Thyne to their presence. They are noticed by Hal and Corran Horn of CorSec, who manage to help the group out during a bar fight, thus joining the team to discover their motives. Later, Kast/Thrawn has Corran, Maranne, and Riij stay with the ship while he, Rathe, Hal, and Haber go to where the incorrect shopkeeper said they should meet their Crisk contact. It was a setup, though, and Kast/Thrawn allows the other three to be taken by Black Sun goons. The prisoners are taken to Thyne’s base, while Kast/Thrawn returns to the others. Meanwhile, Maranne, Corran, and Riij have popped open the only two sleight boxes with broken seals to discover that they contain uncut durindfire gems (a fortune worth) and spice. When Kast/Thrawn returns and informs them of the others’ capture, he and Corran prepare to go to Thyne’s fortress to bargain for the others. Corran has Maranne and Riij take the two boxes they had opened and store the rest at a storage facility (that Kast/Thrawn notes as they pass by on their way to Thyne’s, despite Corran’s attempt to look casual as they pass by). Elsewhere, Colonel Maximillian Veers speaks with Corellia’s Imperial liason officer, Kirtan Loor, about a tip he received regarding Rebel activities in Zekka Thyne’s fortress. He intends to strike the fortress soon, based on this information. At Thyne’s base, Kast/Thrawn and Corran meet with Thyne. Kast/Thrawn turns Corran over to him, tells him about the others taking boxes to the storage facility, tells Thyne that Haber and Rathe are Crisk-paid assassins, and that Corran and Hal are just buffoons pulled in on it. Corran is placed in a holding cell with Hal, right next to one holding Rathe and Haber. Before leaving, he slips the Horns a molecular stiletto, which will allow them to escape. And escape they do. They make their way up to Thyne’s main room, where Kast/Thrawn helps them defeat Thyne’s henchmen, while Thyne escapes. While Kast/Thrawn leaves and Rathe and Haber make their escape, Corran and Hal hunt down Thyne, finally capturing him when Hal stuns him while he’s holding Corran hostage. Once outside, Hal and Corran speak with Veers, who is leading an Imperial raid on the fortress. They “invite” Veers to help them clean out the “Rebels” inside, which allows Veers and his men to stomp Black Sun’s Corellian operation flat. Elsewhere, Riij and Maranne are attacked by Thyne’s goons sent to get the boxes, but are saved when Haber and Rathe arrive. Finally, the two Rebels and two smugglers escape on the Hopskip with a datacard from Kast/Thrawn and the two opened boxes. The datacard thanks them for their help and informs them that the spice and gems are fake, and the other boxes were empty. The card’s imprint will prove to Niriz that the mission was accomplished and they will be allowed on their way. A short time later, the Hopskip has returned to the Admonitor and picked up its crates of “sausages” (covering weapons for the Rebels). As they leave, Thrawn speaks with Niriz as Darth Vader arrives and joins them. Thrawn’s plan has been a major success. With his planning, Black Sun has taken a major blow, which was Vader’s wish. The Rebels are now carrying a homing device which will lead the Empire to the Rebel base in the Derra system. Veers is suggested by Thrawn for promotion to the rank of General and assignment as head of the Executor ground forces. And in return, Vader has given Thrawn command of the Noghri. The mission has been profitable all around. Thrawn orders Niriz to return them to the Unknown Regions. (Side Trip) • The “Hammers” Elite Armor Unit is pulled from active duty for retraining and reorganization. (conjecture based on Special Military Unit Intelligence Update) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 803 • Kyp Durron’s parents speak out against the destruction of Alderaan (and other atrocities), causing all three of them to be sent to the spice mines of Kessel. The eldest brother, Zeth, is not sent, but instead brainwashed and taken to the Caridian Academy for stormtrooper training. (conjecture based on the Star Wars Encyclopedia) • Medtech Industries declares bankruptcy. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Droids and Look Sir, Droids!) • TriNebulon News reports that riots on Lenthalis have led to martial law being imposed throughout the Spirva sector, under orders from Moff Shinda. Imperial forces within the sector have been sent to quell the unrest. (Exact date of report via TriNebulon News: 38:4:7 i.e. 7 Telona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Nal Hutta Kal’tamok reports that the Imperial Death Squadron has apparently not been reported as seen since the attack on Syvris. (Exact date of report via Nal Hutta Kal’tamok, Basic Edition: 38:4:15 i.e. 15 Telona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • The planet Somavva is the first to report to the Independent Trader’s Infonet that the Empire is boarding free-traders’ ships. (conjecture based on The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal via TimeTales, abridged) • During the height of the Galactic Civil War, Carbanti United Electronics begins to reverseengineer its own products to create new sensor-jamming products. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology) • When Darth Vader arrives on Zaloriis to force its leader, Minister Transe Decaar, to pay the planet’s scheduled tribute to Emperor Palpatine, Decaar declares the planet’s independence from the Empire and has his forces attack Vader’s. Vader makes short work of Decaar and his forces, then saves Colonel Maximillian Veers from execution in Zaloriis City. When Veers gives Vader access to his new AT-AT models at his secret Camp Culroon base, Vader uses them to attack Zaloriis again, then promotes Veers to the rank of General, while Veers lets the Dark Lord know that there is word that the Rebels may be in the Elrood system. (To be continued below . . . ) (Galactic Battlegrounds) • Taking a breather from smuggling to eat at Feyodor’s Tavern, Drake Paulsen and Nikaede are approached by Padija Anjeri, and anthropology student. Feyodor has recommended them to her, and she wants them to help get her, two others, and a crystal Twi’lek skull off of the planet. The skull belongs to a primitive Twi’lek tribe, and they will not make important political decisions (like joining the Rebel Alliance, which Padija is a part of) without the skull present. She offers 30,000 credits, which Drake can’t turn down, so they go to meet Padija’s comrades. They come across her mentor, Dr. Maa’cabe, as Imperials kill him. The other Rebel, Colonel Tyneir Renz, is missing. The smugglers and their new client race toward a smuggler hideout that Drake’s father used to use, only to find Imperials chasing them. Upon arrival, the hideout is no safe. Renz has found it. Renz is a Jedi and is wounded, but puts up a good fight. Luckily, between the smugglers and the Rebels, they defeat the Imperials. That is when Padija, who has taken a liking to Drake, reveals that Renz is her father. Together, they get to the hidden Steadfast and escape with the skull, taking it to Derora and the Rebel base there. Shortly thereafter, Renz is part of a ceremony formally returning the skull to the Twi’lek clan and bringing them into the Alliance, the first step toward a hopeful Alliance pact with all of Ryloth in the future. Drake and Nikaede must leave for the rest of their “vacation” and prepare for new jobs, but both he and Padija hope their paths will cross again.* (Idol Intentions)*

• NOTE: I know that the bio for Drake with this story says he is 17, which would put this at the same year as A

Bitter Winter, but that bio is apparently a copy of the earlier bio, since the story itself specifically states that Drake is 19 at this point. • Arriving on Byblos on business, smuggler Crimson Durhasa is arrested by Imperials, but has time to signal her droid, U-THR for help. The droid manages to exit their ship, the Starlight The Star Wars Timeline Gold 804 Red, and track down Crimson. The two then make their way past Imperials and a lockeddown docking bay before blasting off to freedom in the Starlight Red. U-THR has saved the day. (Crimson Jailbreak) • After finally getting the Rebel base on Hoth (built as an expansion of a smaller base set up by the Mon Calamari smuggler named Salmakk) up and running, Major Kem Monnon writes a summary of the process the Rebels used to turn the frozen world into a suitable base. At about the same time, employees of Durga the Hutt’s Orko SkyMine Corporation submit a report outlining the mining opportunities to be had in Hoth’s asteroid belt, but also mentions an incident when two mining droids mined each other, thus destroying themselves. The employee is soon executed, or so we are to believe. (The Illustrated Star Wars Universe: Hoth Entry) • Core News Digest reports that the Brentaal League of Guilds has declared a Landmark Holiday to celebrate a record week of commodities trading. (Exact date of report via Core News Digest: 38:4:21 i.e. 21 Telona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Cynabar’s InfoNet reports an update on smuggler activity. Tru’eb has been making a killing in the Spirva sector. Basz Maliyu has left the Outer Rim for the Colonies. Han Solo is still underground. Platt Okeefe had attended the premiere of the Kallea Cycle on Brentaal. Bryce-Kelley and Rypka have made their annual sojourn to Ryloth. (Exact date of report via Cynabar’s InfoNet: 38:4:31 i.e. 31 Telona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Mitth'raw'nuruodo (AKA Thrawn) is promoted to Grand Admiral.* (conjecture based on Specter of the Past)*

• NOTE: I had placed this item before Side Trip earlier, but now I’m convinced, based on Command Decision and

reviewing my old Thrawn notes, that Thrawn must’ve been promoted between showing up as Admiral in Side Trip and Grand Admiral in Soontir Fel’s flashback to the aftermath of Derra IV. The Essential Chronology confirms on page 59 that Thrawn was a Grand Admiral when he took down Zaarin’s coup, instead of being promoted as a result of the affair as suggested in TIE Fighter. Of course, the EC then goes on to completely reverse its stance and go with the TIE Fighter version of events on page 72. Only the former makes sense, given the surrounding C-Level Canon materials. • Grand Admiral Rufaan Tigellinus makes it a point to befriend the new Grand Admiral Thrawn, with intentions of betraying him in the future. (conjecture based on Who’s Who: Imperial Grand Admirals) • Councilman Po Ruddle Lingsnot of the Exex on Bespin writes a glowing report of life on Bespin to attract visitors. He describes much about the general workings of Cloud City and the history of the planet. Most ironically, he mentions that Bespin’s neutrality in the Galactic Civil War is working out well . . . (The Illustrated Star Wars Universe: Bespin Entry) • Imperial Defense Daily reports that Arakyd probe droids will soon be seeing wider use. (Exact date of report via Imperial Defense Daily: 38:5:6 i.e. 6 Nelona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Core News Digest reports that Brentaal Governor Jerrod Maclain has been placed under investigation after making large financial gains during Brentaal’s landmark trading week. Grand Admiral Rufaan Tigellinus is to head the investigation. (Exact date of report via Core News Digest: 38:5:11 i.e. 11 Nelona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Cynabar’s InfoNet reports that Lando Calrissian has resurfaced as Baron-Administrator of Cloud City on Bespin. (Exact date of report via Cynabar’s InfoNet: 38:5:20 i.e. 20 Nelona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 805 • A Rebel escort group travels with Walex Blissex to Cloud City to meet with Dr. Issan Len and escort him and his X0-X1 prototype droid to the Alliance. No sooner do they enter Bespin’s atmosphere, however, then cloud cars try to destroy them!! A close look reveals that droids (?!?) are flying the cars. After shooting the cars down and landing, the Rebels race to Len’s lab – only to be blocked by a security droid. After a protracted battle, the Rebels finally reach Len’s lab – only to hear the scientist be shot to death behind a sealed door. They can’t find any sign of the killer anywhere – and there was only one way in and out of the lab! Just as the Rebels find the real culprit – a reprogrammed protocol droid(?!?) – Lando Calrissian and the city guards tear in and arrests them for Len’s murder!! Lando’s not stupid – he realizes the Rebels probably aren’t the killers. But his hands are tied by political considerations. He gives the Rebels 24 hours to find Len’s real murderer, or stand trial in that person’s place. The Rebels’ first stop: Bioniip Labs, home of Len’s assistant Dr. Vreen. The receptionist droid there tells them that the reprogrammed protocol droid is owned by Lira Wessex – Walex’s evil daughter. The droid directs them to the Royal Casino, where Lira is participating in a sabacc game. As they confront Lira, the casino suddenly starts going crazy – sabacc cards changing into a nightmarish image, droids shorting out – and then a labor droid rushes in and tries to kill everyone! Lira escapes as the Rebels fight the droid and destroys it – finding proof at the same time that it came from Bioniip. Every door into Bioniip is now sealed, and the Rebels are forced to break in. Fighting droids all the way through, they make it to the labs…. to find Vreen and five other scientists half converted into droids. It seems their mystery enemy (and Len’s killer) is not Vreen at all – it’s the prototype droid, X0-X1!! And X0, in an attempt to improve Cloud City’s efficiency (it was secretly reprogrammed by Vreen to turn Cloud City into a weapons platform), has designed “evolution droids” to turn people into droids! At that point, X0 releases the “evolution” virus into the room, infecting some of the Rebels. Working with the Vreen-droid, Blissex reengineers the viral mini-droids into a poison to destroy X0. As he finishes this, every light in Cloud City goes out…Vreen directs the Rebels to a forger he gave the plans of X0 to – a woman named Bellum. Fighting through droids all the way there, they get some hints as to X0’s location from her. But the data box that can find X0 has been stolen – by Lira! As they find this out, a droid shoots Bellum from behind, killing her instantly. The Rebels make their way to Lira’s ship, but Lira puts every thug at her service between her and the Rebels and flees into the city. Using borg implants in her skull, Lira gets the location of X0 from the data box. Nearly blown off a ledge by high winds, Lira throws the data box to the skies and offers the Rebels a deal – she’ll help them in return for them letting her live. She leads them deep into Cloud City’s computer core, where X0 has set up shop. Fighting their way through several traps and ambushes, the Rebels are jumped from behind – Vreen is now entirely a droid and under X0’s control. The Rebels, some of whom are nearly droids themselves now, are forced to destroy Vreen. When they reach X0, they learn only minutes remain – the droid is ready to release the evolution virus through the air circulation system of the entire city! Blissex decides on a desperate gambit – shut down the computer core (unfortunately shutting down the city’s repulsorlift engines as well) and destroy X0 before the falling city is crushed. The Rebels, against all odds, manages to pull that off. With only 27 seconds left, the city is safe. Then Lira puts a blaster to her father’s head as her thugs run in. But then city guards run in as well, surrounding the whole bunch – and finally Lando and Lobot comes in. Lando forces Lira out of the city and cheerfully drops the charges against the Rebels. (Crisis on Cloud City)*

• NOTE: This summary was borrowed, with thanks, from Christopher McElroy’s TimeTales. I have placed it here,

instead of where he has it located, based on Lando being on Cloud City. • A Rebel group is enjoying a vacation on the Ithorian herd ship Bazaar – until a terrified man runs into them, pursued by an assassin droid out to kill him. Despite their best efforts, the droid, XS3, manages to fatally wound the man, Hanos Darr and escape. In his dying gasps, the miner Darr scratches a message in the dirt - “Kamiroz.” The Rebels begin searching the herd ship for him, only to find him mortally wounded by assassins as well. But before he loses consciousness, he relates a message meant for Princess Leia Organa and the Rebellion; the Royal Palace of Alderaan has been discovered fully intact within the asteroid ruins of that planet, now known as “The Graveyard.” It is possible that within the sealed palace may be The Star Wars Timeline Gold 806 Bail Organa and the rest of the royal family – alive!!! As the Rebels arrive at what’s left of Alderaan, a large ship suddenly appears from out of nowhere, which they very nearly hit. It’s an Alderaanian War Frigate from the time of the Clone Wars. And it jumps into hyperspace before they can do anything. They continue on to Mining Outpost 11 to confirm Kamiroz’s story. The miners there (all Imperial agents) harass and test the miners, trying to determine if they are the Heroes of Yavin. Imperial Security Bureau agent Dal Rogos, unaware of the miners’ identities, tries to capture the Rebels himself. In the outpost’s computer, they find confirmation that Bail Organa is alive – and a message to Darth Vader to bring in the fleet, as Skywalker and his friends are here! The Rebels race off the outpost and into the Graveyard. They fly to an asteroid that has apparently been converted to a base… No sooner do they enter than stormtroopers jump them and the entrance to the asteroid is sealed off. A holoimage of Vader appears, meant for Luke, Han and Leia. It appears all of this was just another of Vader’s traps for them. The Rebels are locked in until he arrives. They run deeper into the asteroid, into what appears to be the Royal Palace (or at least part of it). They encounter “ghosts” (or rather, holoimages of ghosts) intended to psychologically torture the heroes of Yavin. Then they find an old man named Orinn Tathis, who was a member of Alderaan’s Council of Elders. He intends to help Leia and the Rebellion by revealing Alderaan’s “greatest gift – and its greatest shame.” It seems the Frigate they’ve been seeing, the Another Chance, is filled to the brim with all the weapons Alderaan gave up decades ago. It’s been in hyperspace all that time, awaiting a summons home in times of war – a summons that never came. He leads them to a hidden hangar which contains a Skipray Blastboat - an escape vessel for the Royal Family. They fight through TIEs as Tathis works on a “last-hope” homing beacon to bring the Chance to them. It arrives, and they board it as the Imperial fleet shows up and sets up a blockade around the system… The Rebels race against time to gain control of the ship, fighting past its’ automatic defenses at the same time. As they gain control, the Millenium Falcon arrives, as does Vader’s shuttle. The Chance plows into the Imperial blockade, convincing the Heroes of Yavin to beat a hasty retreat. The Chance follows it into hyperspace, joining the Rebellion with all the armaments of Alderaan with them. The Alliance has just gained a badly-needed advantage in the war… (Graveyard of Alderaan)*

• NOTE: This summary was borrowed, with thanks, from Christopher McElroy’s TimeTales.

• A black vessel descends through the polluted atmosphere of Ord Mantell, a lone figure disembarks after the Corellian transport lands. Many locals flee when the catch a glimpse of the solitary person, a Nalrithian bounty hunter named Cypher Bos. Cypher has come to speak to a Chandra-Fan named Baajik, a secret double agent for either the Rebels or the Hutts, whichever side serves his immediate needs. A robed figure watches Cypher Bos walk down the street to the Drunken Bantha, the only place worth traveling this far for. The robed figure, a Rebel, is shocked to see his own agent sell him out to Cypher Bos. The Rebels hood falls away to reveal that he too, is a Nalrithian, the same insectoid species as Cypher Bos. Nalrithians, who share a mental link between eggmates, allows them to think and act at a limited range no more than a dozen meters. Phoedris Bos, the Rebel, has managed to suppress his thought link until realization strikes to the fact that he is being sold out, and one powerful thought of “No1” reverberates across the Drunken Bantha. Cypher detects his eggbrother, and pursues him, eventually killing him. Cypher Bos takes the place of his eggbrother, and infiltrates the Rebellion. Baajik, the Chandra-Fan returns to the Rebel base, and notices something awry due to his heightened senses, and confronts Cypher, but Cypher shoots him down. (Double Cross on Ord Mantell)*

• NOTE: This summary was borrowed, with thanks, from Christopher McElroy’s TimeTales.

• Darth Vader is informed by Major Herrit of Imperial Intelligence that, as per his request, the bounty hunter Nariss Siv Loqesh will be joining in the hunt for Han Solo and Leia Organa. Meanwhile, a young Bothan agent named Bie Breil’lya views a recording from a Twi’lek contact, but he is interrupted by the arrival of Nariss, who takes him into custody. Nariss intends to use Bie, who has a bounty on his head, as bait to lure in and defeat other bounty hunters, earning him a greater reputation. He has the chance to do that already, though, as Crote, his contact, brings him news of the Empire’s desire for him to hunt for Solo and The Star Wars Timeline Gold 807 Organa. Instead, though, Nariss intends to do things his own way. Unfortunately, the Empire is not turned down lightly. Nariss does go his own way, but in doing so, he earns a “locate and detain” order being placed on his head. The hunter is now the hunted. (Hunting the Hunters) • Talon Karrde survives an intricate assassination scheme by one of the lieutenants in Jorj Car’das’ former smuggling organization. (conjecture based on Vision of the Future via TimeTales, verbatim) • Rutralli Optor, the leader of a team of hijackers, commandeers the passenger liner Telgordo's Pride in the Trax sector. Optor was unusually belligerent and perceptive for a Mon Calamari. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Gamemaster Kit” via TimeTales, verbatim) • Kell Tainer becomes infatuated with Tuatara Lone, a beautiful holo-actress on Sluis Van, where he lives and works as a mechanic. He will be obsessed with her for three years, when he’ll find out that she’s happily married with kids of her own. (conjecture based on Wraith Squadron via TimeTales, verbatim) • A Rebel base on Nentan is discovered by the Empire. Barely two months old, the base begins a hasty evacuation – but it is filled to bursting with civilians looking for passage to Rebel safeworlds. As General Carlist Rieekan continues the evacuation, Captain Bren Derlin sneaks past the invading Imperials’ enemy lines and captures an Imperial transport which he uses to evacuate the remaining Rebels and civilians right under the Imperials’ noses. Derlin is promoted to Major as a result, and assigned to the then-under-construction Hoth base with Rieekan. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Galaxy Guide 5: The Empire Strikes Back” via TimeTales, verbatim) • Emperor Palpatine places Grand Vizier Sate Pestage in charge of the day-to-day running of the Empire, as he becomes more and more involved in Dark Side studies. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Dark Empire Sourcebook” via TimeTales, abridged) • An alien named Ap Kormar begins to play center for the Shockball team, Quent Assassins. After the Assassins defeated the Shad Furies 21-20 in a match in Imperial City, Ap was attacked and beaten to death by seven humans who claimed to be Furies fans. In reality, the seven were Imperial supporters, working for a distant Moff, who killed Ap as an example to other Alliance sympathizers. His death was nearly prevented by Ytavarg Aleema, but Aleema arrived too late to save Kormar. In anger, Aleema used his shockball equipment to kill the seven attackers. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Cracken’s Rebel Operatives” via TimeTales, verbatim) • M-3PO (AKA Emtrey) is assigned to Lieutenant Losca, in the Quartermaster Corps, based at the planet Hoth. Losca had to work hard to try to build up stores after the losses at Derra IV and she wasn’t having much luck. At that point in time, the defeat made things look bad for the Rebellion, so resources began to dry up. Lieutenant Losca was getting killed at negotiations and wasn’t getting the job done to her or Alliance Command’s satisfaction. She wanted to create a database that would allow her to function like a commodities trader, but computer resources were limited and tied up coordinating things like defenses. Apparently the Alliance leadership wasn’t too high on the idea of becoming a commodities exchange, so they forbade her from doing anything that ambitious and urged her to keep doing what she was doing. The Hoth base was supposed to be a top secret, and the opinion that setting it up as some sort of market – place would have led to it’s discovery. Lieutenant Losca appeared to think that without some sort of trade, the Rebellion would run out of supplies. The base would remain hidden, but be out of everything that made it possible to rebel. In desperation she had some techs cobble Emtrey together out of spare parts. She sliced some commodities brokering code together and burned it into some chips that were implanted into Emtrey. The brokering chips gave him a second personality that operates without the normal 3PO personality being aware that it exists. The scrounger can be brought to the fore by The Star Wars Timeline Gold 808 asking it to scrounge something, or telling it to “shut up.” When the latter technique is used, the droid becomes a simple data terminal that gives access to all its data. (conjecture based on Wedge’s Gamble via TimeTales, verbatim) • Admiral Hiram Drayson and Joi Eicroth, a scientist, begin a romantic relationship that they keep secret. (conjecture based on Tyrant’s Test via TimeTales, verbatim) • Booster Terrik is released from the Kessel prison complex after his five-year jail term is completed. (conjecture based on The Bacta War via TimeTales, verbatim) • The planet Asher III, an Alliance maintained staging base, is tracked down by the Empire and destroyed. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Stock Ships” via TimeTales, verbatim) • The Human Events Network reports that the Kallea Cycle will now be touring the Core Worlds and Colonies. (Exact date of report via Human Events Network: 38:5:25 i.e. 25 Nelona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Corporal Maer is assigned by Echo Base to work as a tauntaun handler. (conjecture based on Jedi Knights Trading Card Game via TimeTales, paraphrased) • Herglic Trading Journal reports that Ororo Transportation and Xizor Transport Systems have both had amazing profit increases in recent months. (Exact date of report via Herglic Trading Journal, Basic Edition: 38:6:2 i.e. 2 Helona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Shortly before the Battle of Hoth, Luke Skywalker and Dack Ralter discover a dianoga in the waste system of a transport. The dianoga was allowed to stay, so long as he didn’t get in the way. (conjecture based on The Essential Guide to Alien Species) • On Aruza, Dengar carries out a hit on COMPNOR’s General Sinick Kritkeen, whom he has been paid to kill by the locals Kritkeen has been subjugating and turning over to Imperial Redesign. One local, Abano, pleads for the life of his daughter, Manaroo, and Kritkeen orders her brought to him. Before she can arrive, Dengar kills Kritkeen. Manaroo arrives and he agrees to take her off of the planet. He drops her off on a backwater planet before continuing on to Toola, where he makes a contact and joins the Rebellion. He knows that this could lead him to the object of his hatred, Han Solo, which is why he’s been killing COMPNOR officers—to prove his anti-Imperial sentiment so the Rebels would take him in. He receives nav-coordinates to Hoth. (To be continued below . . . ) (Payback: The Tale of Dengar) • Just days before the discovery of Echo Base by the Avenger and its probe droids, Captain Wyron Serper, a Rebel spy aboard the Avenger, which is, at this point, far from Hoth, reports to Echo Base that the Imperials are nowhere near discovering their base. As such, he is pulled from the assignment (and somehow manages to leave the Avenger undetected, it seems) and reassigned to Echo Base, where he will remain until killed by Darth Vader’s snowtroopers in the Battle of Hoth that he might have helped to prevent, if only he’d stayed a few days longer until the Death Squadron changed course for the system. (conjecture based on Who’s Who in Echo Base) Tempest Feud [continued] (RPG: Jeff Grubb & Owen K. C. Stephens) Tempest Feud [continued] (RPG: Jeff Grubb & Owen K. C. Stephens) The Spice Lord of Varl Working for Mika Special Delivery Krin’s Angle Barabi Run Welcome to Varl The Star Wars Timeline Gold 809 Into the Mountains The Manufacturing Plant Aboard Tempest The Bridge Up, Up and Away Tales from Mos Eisley [continued] (comic: Bruce Jones) Tales From Mos Eisley [continued] (comic: Bruce Jones) Light Duty Mostly Automatic [continued] Hegg's Tale Side Trip (AJ/TFTE/SWH short stories: Timothy Zahn & Michael A. Stackpole) Side Trip, Part One (AJ12/TFTE/SWH short story: Timothy Zahn) Side Trip, Part Two (AJ12/TFTE/SWH short story: Michael A. Stackpole) Side Trip, Part Three (AJ13/TFTE/SWH short story: Michael A. Stackpole) Side Trip, Part Four (AJ13/TFTE/SWH short story: Timothy Zahn) Galactic Battlegrounds [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Galactic Battlegrounds [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Darth Vader Campaign [continued] The Adventures of Drake Paulsen [continued] (AJ/SWH short stories: Patricia A. Jackson) Idol Intentions (AJ12 short story: Patricia A. Jackson) The Adventures of Celia "Crimson" Durasha [continued] (AJ/SWH short stories: Charlene Newcomb & Rich Handley & Peter Schweighofer) Crimson Jailbreak (AJ5 short story: Peter Schweighofer) The Illustrated Star Wars Universe [continued] (book: Kevin J. Anderson) The Illustrated Star Wars Universe [continued] (book: Kevin J. Anderson) Hoth Entry Planet Section Asteroid Belt Incident Report Bespin Entry Bespin's Industrial Investment Opportunities--Tap Into a Fountain of Wealth Natural Wonders--Exotic Life in the Clouds Cloud City--The Silver Lining of Bespin's Clouds Ugnaughts--An Efficient and Enthusiastic Workforce Ready to Serve Your Needs Recreation Opportunities--A Place to Play, a Place to Relax Crisis on Cloud City (RPG: Christopher Kubasik) Crisis on Cloud City (RPG: Christopher Kubasik) Graveyard of Alderaan (RPG: Bill Slavicsek) Graveyard of Alderaan (RPG: Bill Slavicsek) Double Cross on Ord Mantell (SWGM5/SWH short story: Mike Mikaelian) Double Cross on Ord Mantell (SWGM5/SWH short story: Mike Mikaelian) Hunting the Hunters (SWGM6/SWH short story: Bill Smith) Hunting the Hunters (SWGM6/SWH short story: Bill Smith) Payback: The Tale of Dengar (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Payback: The Tale of Dengar (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) One: The Rage 3.3 ASW4 • At Darra IV, a supply convoy bound for the Rebel base on Hoth is attacked. The attack is orchestrated by Thrawn and carried out by Captain Needa's Imperial Star Destroyer Avenger and its compliment TIE squadrons, including Soontir Fel. The attack destroyers Commander Narra's Renegade Flight and the rest of the Rebel convoy. On Hoth, the Rebels are informed of the convoy’s destruction, and, although it is a bad way to earn a promotion, Narra’s absence gives Rieekan the chance to promote Luke Skywalker to Commander. Shortly thereafter, the Avenger enters the Hoth system and dispatches probe droids to search for The Star Wars Timeline Gold 810 Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance. On Hoth, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo are on patrol and about to head back when Luke is attacked by a wampa ice beast. Back at the Rebel's Echo Base, Han informs General Carlist Rieekan that he will be leaving the Alliance to pay off Jabba the Hutt. Leia Organa is flustered by this, but the two still do not admit to true feelings for each other. Later, after Luke has not reported in at his scheduled time, Han enters the deadly Hoth night to find him. Luke has, in fact, escaped the wampa, using the Force to reclaim his lightsaber and killing the creature. In a delirium on the frozen plains, he sees a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi telling him to go to Dagobah and learn the Jedi ways from Jedi Master Yoda. Han finds him and they take shelter for the night. In the morning, Rogue Squadron (minus their leader, Luke) finds them and Luke is nursed back to health. A probe droid finds Echo Base and destroys itself while Han tries to destroy it. The Avenger (and its brethren) arrive in orbit and Blizzard Force AT-ATs (led by General Maximillian Veers) head for the surface. The Rebels put up a valiant effort in T-47 snowspeeders and with ground forces until finally retreating in full force from the base. Han, Leia, Chewie, and C-3PO escape in the Millennium Falcon. Luke, his T-47 destroyed, rejoins Rogue Group at Echo Base and they evacuate in their X-wings. On the way from the planet, they disable a Star Destroyer with a concentrated volley of proton torpedoes and escape safely. Luke heads for Dagobah, while the Falcon is pursued by the Imperial forces, taking refuge in the Hoth asteroid belt. They enter the asteroid dubbed "Big One" and unknowingly enter a space slug's digestive tract, before finally escaping and attaching themselves to the command tower of a Star Destroyer. During their seclusion, Han and Leia begin to show their feelings for each other more openly. On Dagobah, Luke has met Yoda (unknowingly) and been taken to his hut. Yoda speaks with Obi-Wan's spirit, who convinces Yoda that Luke (years too old to be trained) can be trained, despite Yoda's objections at the time. Aboard Darth Vader's flagship, the Super Star Destroyer Executor, Vader speaks with Emperor Palpatine on Coruscant (unknowingly with Xizor at Palpatine's side) about the quest to turn Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side. On Dagobah, Luke trains with Yoda. He then enters the Dark Side Cave near Yoda's hut and receives a vision in which he battles and defeats Darth Vader, only to find that under Vader's mask is his own face--a sign both that Vader is related to Luke, but more importantly that Luke holds the promise of great good or great evil. Later, Yoda lifts Luke's X-wing from the swamp where it sank, uttering the "Yoda-isms," "Do or do not. There is no try," and "Size matters not." Back on the Executor, Darth Vader places a bounty on the Millennium Falcon, setting Dengar, Zuckuss, 4-LOM, IG-88, Bossk, and Boba Fett on the heroes' tail. Shortly thereafter, Han sets course of Bespin and leaves as the Star Destroyer ejects its garbage, but is followed by Boba Fett in Slave I. On Dagobah, Luke receives a vision of Han and Leia in great pain. He decides that, against Yoda and Kenobi's advice, he must go to them. On Bespin, Han is reunited with Lando Calrissian, who offers to have his people repair the Falcon's hyperdrive. Shortly after their arrival, C-3PO stumbles across a group of stormtroopers and is blasted into several pieces before he can warn the others. On Dagobah, Luke sets off for Bespin, promising to return to complete his training. Obi-Wan fears that Luke is their last hope, though Yoda reminds him: there is another. At Cloud City on Bespin, Chewie finds C-3PO's parts and brings them to Han, moments before Lando takes the heroes straight into Darth Vader's hands. Fett had informed Vader of the heroes' presence and Lando could not afford to say "no" to Vader. Once they are sealed in the room with Vader, Chewbacca and Han prepare to attack Vader to escape, but upon realizing that Vader would easily kill Chewie as an example, Han and Chewie stand down, resigned to their capture. Han is tortured, but never asked questions. Lando reveals that they are simply bait to bring Luke to Cloud City. Vader plans to freeze Luke in carbonite to bring him to the Emperor, so they test the facility on Han. Just before being frozen, Han hears the words he's been wanting to hear from Leia--"I love you." Vader then turns the carbon-frozen Han over to Fett to be taken to Jabba the Hutt. Leia, Chewie, and C-3PO are to be taken away by Vader. Luke arrives and is warned of the trap by Leia, though he charges ahead anyway. As Leia and Chewie are escorted by guards, Lando arranges for his security force to ambush them, freeing them to escape. Lando (while being nearly choked to death by Chewbacca) informs them that they can still save Han. They race to the East Platform where Fett has just lifted off with Han aboard. As Lando informs the denizens of Cloud City that the The Star Wars Timeline Gold 811 Empire has taken control and the heroes race to the Millennium Falcon, R2-D2 joins them. Luke as been herded into a meeting with Darth Vader. In the carbon-freezing chamber, Luke and Vader duel until Luke escapes deeper into Cloud City. The two duel again. This time, Vader uses the Force to hurl objects at Luke, finally breaking a window into the core of the city, sending Luke out of the level. Luke clings to a floor grating and pulls himself up onto a platform extending into Cloud City's heart, only to be attacked again by Vader. Elsewhere, Leia, Lando, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 escape in the (hopefully fixed) Millennium Falcon and are pursued from the city by Obsidian Flight TIE fighters. Back on the gantry, Luke and Vader duel until Vader cuts off Luke's hand, sending the hand and Anakin Skywalker's old lightsaber down into the bowels of Cloud City. Luke hangs on for dear life from an outcropping, with his only ways to go being with Vader, or down, down, down through the station's core. Vader attempts to seduce him to the Dark Side with talk of power and might until finally revealing the awful truth--that Obi-Wan had lied about what happened to Anakin Skywalker and that Darth Vader is his father. Luke, in shock, but wary of the situation, drops into the core and falls through a garbage hatch. He catches himself on a weather vane, calls through the Force to Leia and is rescued. The Rebels then head for their rendezvous with the Rebel Alliance fleet. Luke receives a new hand, while Lando and Chewbacca set out in the Millennium Falcon to find Han Solo. The situation has rarely been graver for the heroes of the Rebel Alliance . . . (Exact date of report via Imperial HoloVision: 38:6:9 i.e. 9 Helona 3 ABY)* (Star Wars: Episode V--"The Empire Strikes Back" et al)*

• NOTE: I place ESB at 3.3 ASW4 instead of the usual 3 ASW4 due to the Galaxywide News Nets report on 38:6:9

which describes the recent Battle of Hoth, which places it not merely three years after ANH, but three years and three months after ANH. Given that by SW reckoning, there are 10 months in a year, 3.3 ASW4 makes sense for 33 months post ANH. The exact date given is an approximation based on the report of the defeat. The Star Wars Classic DVD Trilogy [continued] (movie trilogy: George Lucas & Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan) Star Wars: Episode V--”The Empire Strikes Back” (movie: Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan & George Lucas) The Star Wars Special Edition Trilogy [continued] (movie trilogy: George Lucas & Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan) Star Wars: Episode V--”The Empire Strikes Back” (movie: Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan & George Lucas) The Original Trilogy [continued] (movie trilogy: George Lucas & Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan)* Star Wars: Episode V--”The Empire Strikes Back” (movie: Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan & George Lucas)*

• NOTE: This represents the original version of The Empire Strikes Back, with all of its normal scenes intact.

The Original Trilogy CED Releases [continued] (movie trilogy: George Lucas & Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan)* Star Wars: Episode V--”The Empire Strikes Back” (movie: Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan & George Lucas)*

• NOTE: This represents the early CED release of the film that was compressed down to less than 120 minutes

(leaving out some scenes) to fit the media format. See the Star Wars Video Release History in the Appendices. The Novelization Trilogy [continued] (novel trilogy: George Lucas & Alan Dean Foster & Donald F. Glut & James Kahn) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (novel: Donald F. Glut) Chapters 1 – 14 The Radio Drama Trilogy [continued] (radio drama trilogy: Brian Daley) The Empire Strikes Back (radio drama: Brian Daley) Freedom's Winter The Coming Storm A Question of Survival Fire and Ice The Millennium Falcon Pursuit Way of the Jedi New Allies, New Enemies The Star Wars Timeline Gold 812 Dark Lord's Fury Gambler's Choice The Clash of Lightsabers The Original Comic Adaptation Trilogy [continued] (comic trilogy: Roy Thomas & Archie Goodwin) Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (comic series: Archie Goodwin)* The Empire Strikes Back, Part I (comic: Archie Goodwin)* The Empire Strikes Back* Battleground Hoth!* Imperial Pursuit!* The Empire Strikes Back, Part II (comic: Archie Goodwin)* To Be a Jedi!* Betrayal at Bespin* Duel a Dark Lord!*

• NOTE: The issue titles here are from the Dark Horse reprinting, while the subtitle names are from the original

printings in issues 39 – 44 of the Marvel Series. These issues were also reprinted in the third Classic Star Wars: A Long Time Ago . . . trade paperback. The Photo Comic Adaptation Trilogy (comic trilogy: Tokyopop & George Lucas) [forthcoming] The Empire Strikes Back (comic: Tokyopop & George Lucas) [forthcoming] The Manga Comic Adaptation Trilogy [continued] (comic trilogy: Hisao Tamaki & Toshiki Kudo & Shin-Ichi Hiromoto) Star Wars: Episode V--"The Empire Strikes Back" (comic series: Toshiki Kudo) The Empire Strikes Back, Part I (comic: Toshiki Kudo) The Empire Strikes Back, Part II (comic: Toshiki Kudo) The Empire Strikes Back, Part III (comic: Toshiki Kudo) The Empire Strikes Back, Part IV (comic: Toshiki Kudo) The Chronicle Books Adaptations [continued] (children’s books: John Whitman) Star Wars: Episode V—“The Empire Strikes Back” (children’s book: John Whitman) Princess Leia: Rebel Leader [continued] (children's book: Unknown) Princess Leia: Rebel Leader [continued] (children's book: Unknown) Luke Skywalker: Jedi Knight [continued] (children's book: Unknown) Luke Skywalker: Jedi Knight [continued] (children's book: Unknown) R2-D2 and C-3PO: Droid Duo [continued] (children's book: Unknown) R2-D2 and C-3PO: Droid Duo [continued] (children's book: Unknown) The Fun Works Adaptations [continued] (children’s books: Jane Paley & Ken Steacy & John Whitman & Unknown) The Empire Strikes Back (children's book: John Whitman) The Golden Books Adaptations [continued] (children's books: Unknown) The Empire Strikes Back (children's book: Unknown) The Hoth Adventure (children's book: Unknown) Meltdown on Hoth (children's book: Unknown) The Empire Strikes Back Panorama Book (children's book: Unknown) The Empire Strikes Back Panorama Book (children's book: Unknown) The Star Wars Storybooks [continued] (children's books: Geraldine Richelson & Shep Steneman & Joan D. Vinge) The Empire Strikes Back Storybook (children's book: Shep Steneman) Classic Star Wars [continued] (children's book series: Larry Weinberg & Jim Thomas & Elizabeth Levy) The Empire Strikes Back (children's book: Larry Weinberg) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 813 Star Wars Pop-Up Book [continued] (pop-up book series: Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta & Ken Steacy & Kay Carroll & John Whitman & Unknown) The Empire Strikes Back (pop-up book: Unknown) CONCURRENT TO SW5 • As the probe droid on Hoth discovers the existence of the Rebel base, it transmits its data to the Empire, but also to Mechis III, where IG-88 takes it as a prime opportunity to see the Executor in action. (To be continued below . . . ) (Therefore I am: The Tale of IG-88) • Knowing that Han Solo’s discovery of the Imperial probe droid means that the Rebel base on Hoth will soon come under attack, a young man named Corporal Jobin records a message for his mother. In the coming hours, Jobin will be present at Echo Station Five-Seven, which gets some support from Luke Skywalker’s Rogue Group. He will help ensure that the ion cannon continues working to cover escaping ships. He will even wind up entering the Millennium Falcon’s docking bay just after the ship lifts off and be pursued by Darth Vader and his snowtroopers before Vader chokes the life from him. The recording will eventually make it, thanks to a survivor of Hoth, to his mother . . . Mon Mothma. (To be continued below . . . ) (Entrenched) • Boba Fett arrives in the Hoth system just ahead of the oncoming Imperial fleet, taking advantage of their offer of payment for help rounding up Rebels in the oncoming Battle of Hoth. (To be continued below . . . ) (The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett) • Brenn Tantor, now a General, is placed in command of General Maximillian Veers Blizzard Group. Knowing that the shield generator must be destroyed, he has his Imperials focus on that task . . . (To be continued below . . . ) (Force Commander) • While waiting as the Battle of Hoth rages, Leia Organa cannot leave, but cannot do much more at the moment, so she takes the time to record a holomessage for Luke Skywalker, suggesting that there is some connection between them that they don’t understand yet. (To be continued below . . . ) (Free Memory) • Dash Rendar participates in the Battle of Hoth and then fights his way back to his ship, the Outrider and escapes through the Hoth asteroid belt. (To be continued below . . . ) (Shadows of the Empire) • Dengar arrives at Hoth to join the Rebels just as the Battle of Hoth rages. He sits out the battle and is taken aboard a Star Destroyer, where he is presumed to be a Rebel and subjected to interrogation. (To be continued below . . . ) (Payback: The Tale of Dengar) • IG-88B, after observing the Battle of Hoth but not interfering, decides to lurk around until Darth Vader issues a call for bounty hunters to chase Han Solo, which is only logical. (To be continued below . . . ) (Therefore I am: The Tale of IG-88) • During the escape from Hoth, Wedge Antilles, Derek “Hobbie” Klivian, and Wes Janson run interference for an escaping transport without cover fire from the now-destroyed ion cannon. They pull a Tallon split, evading the incoming Star Destroyer and making it to safety.* (Running the Gauntlet)*

• NOTE: If you don’t recognize this small story, don’t fret. It is simply a small side story on page 26 of Star Wars:

The Roleplaying Game—“Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back.” • Dengar is visited in his cell by Darth Vader, who makes him a deal—he will hunt Han Solo for Vader, and Vader might let him live. At the moment, Solo and the Millennium Falcon are in the Hoth asteroid belt, but Vader isn’t confident in his imminent capture. Taking a lead from his “hiring” of Dengar, Vader decides to call other bounty hunters to join in the search. (To be continued below . . . ) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 814 (Payback: The Tale of Dengar) • Boba Fett boards the Executor and meets with Darth Vader before he is set to meet with the bounty hunters as a group. Vader is impressed that Fett was able to determine that Hoth was the Rebel base the Imperials were after. (To be continued below . . . ) (The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett) • Heeding the call for bounty hunters, Zuckuss and 4-LOM arrive in the Hoth system as the Bright Hope, one of the last Rebel ships leaving the planet, begins its escape. Aboard the Mist Hunter, they help stop the ship and then head for the Executor. They hope to capture whatever bounty Darth Vader is going to send them after in order to pay for treatment for Zuckuss’ damaged lungs. 4-LOM also hopes to learn how to use the Force or “intuition” that Zuckuss can use. Aboard the Bright Hope, Toryn Farr takes care of her sister, Samoc, and then takes charge of getting the vessel ready to jettison its escape pods down to Hoth, though many will be left behind. (To be continued below . . . ) (Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM) • Black Sun’s Prince Xizor overhears Darth Vader speaking with the Emperor via hologram and learns that they are after Vader’s son, Luke Skywalker. He prepares to use this information for his own purposes. (To be continued below . . . ) (Shadows of the Empire) • While studying under Master Yoda on Dagobah, Luke Skywalker notices an intruder on the planet. He chases the droid bounty hunter, Milko, to his ship, where Luke overpowers him, using intimidation to make sure that the hunter will not let it be known where Luke was found. (Slippery Slope) • Dengar attends the bounty hunter “meeting” aboard the Executor and promptly leaves to chase Han Solo, though before he can go after Solo, Boba Fett disables his ship. (To be continued below . . . ) (Payback: The Tale of Dengar) • IG-88 B attends the bounty hunter “meeting” aboard the Executor and then digs into the ship’s files, where he learns of the construction of the Death Star II. He transmits details back to Mechis III, where IG-88A and the other two confer, deciding that they should make a duplicate computer core for the Death Star II with IG-88’s sentience inside, which could then take over the station at a later time. At the same time, Gurdun is assigned to go with the real core to the battle station. (To be continued below . . . ) (Therefore I am: The Tale of IG-88) • Zuckuss and 4-LOM attend the bounty hunter “meeting” on the Executor and decide that to catch Han Solo, they will find a way to join the Rebellion at their presumed rendezvous point above the galactic plane. To do so, they go back to the Bright Hope and rescue the passengers. As the ship’s computers and droids receive memory wipes to keep information out of Imperial hands, they head off to the rendezvous point. (To be continued below . . . ) (Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM) • Shortly after the bounty hunter “meeting” on the Executor, Boba Fett speaks with the Imperial escorting him back to his ship. They speak of Fett’s observations of Han Solo fifteen years earlier on Jubilar. (To be continued below . . . ) (The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett) • Shortly after the bounty hunter “meeting” on the Executor, Bossk is met by two other bounty hunters who arrived too late for the meeting. They are Tinian I’att and her Wookiee Ng’rhr (master to Tinian, the apprentice), Chenlambec. They tells Bossk they will use Chen’s Wookiee contacts to hunt down Han Solo for a cut of the profits. Bossk agrees, though he wants to take them both out of the picture and have Chen’s pelt as a prize. Tinian and Chen know of an operation where Imperial Governor Io Desnand in the Aida system has helped set up a Wookiee slave camp on the planet Lomabu III, hoping to use it as bait to trap a Rebel rescue fleet. They tell Bossk that it is part of a Rebel-friendly Wookiee network, which they use to bring Solo to them. As Tinian’s miniature droid, Flirt, ingratiates herself with the computer of Bossk’s ship, the Hound’s Tooth, they make their way to Lomabu III. There, Bossk sends Chen and Tinian out in a small craft, the Nashtah Pup, which he has armed with a weapon that will rain down death all across the Wookiee populace, not just in the impact The Star Wars Timeline Gold 815 area as Chen and Tinian believe. As the Wookiees below begin to revolt against their Imperial captors, Flirt manages to fulfill her mission and trap Bossk in a holding cell, after taking over the Hound’s Tooth’s computer system (well, more like seducing it). Flirt tells Chen and Tinian about the weapon and they race back to the Hound’s Tooth and take command. They use the ship to destroy the Imperial weapons towers on Lomabu III, freeing the captive Wookiees, before heading to meet with Governor Desnand and give turn Bossk over to him for a hefty bounty. Tinian and Chenlambec leave. They have their reward, a new ship, and now Flirt has a new body in the form of Bossk’s old X10-D droid. Later, the Governor brings his female companion, Feebee, to see Bossk, where Bossk learns his fate— he will be killed and have his skin used to make a lizard-skin gown for Feebee. (The Prize Pelt: The Tale of Bossk) • Bossk somehow manages to escape from Governor Desnand.* (conjecture based on Hero’s Trial)*

• NOTE: I’ve yet to hear any of the circumstances surrounding his escape, but there he is in Hero’s Trial, still

alive. Could this have been an error on Luceno’s part, an over-inference on the part of TOTBH readers, or perhaps a mixture of the two? • Awarru Tark, a mercenary invited to the bounty hunter meeting that took place earlier, finally arrives (late) to meet with Darth Vader aboard the Star Destroyer Avenger, where Vader has gone for tactical planning (it would seem). When Tark is finally alone with Vader, he removes his cloak and attacks Vader with lightsaber-like blades on each arm. During the fight, Vader reaches into Tark’s mind and learns the motives behind the attack. Tark was an alien named Stauz Czycz, who lived on a world that Palpatine ordered Vader to attack. Stauz was left for dead, and his family and home were destroyed. Stauz vowed vengeance and had his body replaced by a new more humanoid body, in which he’d exact his revenge under the guise of Tark. Vader learns this truth just as he defeats Tark/Stauz, decapitating him. After the battle, Vader returns to the Executor’s meditation chamber, where he has a moment of doubt, thinking of how similar he and Stauz truly are—dead men who have lost their children and sacrificed their humanity in their need for revenge, more machine than man. As Vader muses, the Executor receives a message from Bespin . . . (Moment of Doubt) • As the Millennium Falcon arrives at Cloud City on Bespin, Darth Vader waits with Boba Fett. A few minutes later, stormtroopers and an officer bring in the blasted remains of C-3PO, who was destroyed upon discovering Gamma Squad’s position. Vader looks at the droid and remembers himself, years ago, when he first discovered the parts he used to rebuild C-3PO. He orders that the parts be destroyed. A short time later, after Vader takes possession of Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca, his Imperial minions discover the remains of C-3PO back in the guests’ quarters, where Chewbacca had brought them. After another round of memories, Vader allows the parts to be sent back to Chewbacca. (Thank the Maker) • IG-88 learns that Boba Fett has located Han Solo, so IG-88B goes to Cloud City. There, he wants to ambush Fett and take Solo, but Fett destroys IG-88B instead. On Mechis III, IG-88A sends IG-88C and IG-88D after Fett. (To be continued below . . . ) (Therefore I am: The Tale of IG-88) • At Cloud City on Bespin, a group of heroes saves Dr. Shemza from Imperial-hired mercenaries. Darth Vader had wanted Shemza for his research knowledge, but Shemza had been in contact with the Rebel Alliance. They save the doctor, but as they try to escape, Lando Calrissian’s warning comes over the speakers and the Empire begins to take control of Cloud City. They are stopped by stormtroopers, but shoot their way out and escape in their ship. Shemza’s knowledge will make it to the Rebels after all. (The Fall of Cloud City) • Dengar finally makes it to Cloud City to find Boba Fett and Han Solo, but instead of tracking Fett, he runs into Manaroo dancing in a bar. They take time out to talk, and she tells him she wishes to bond with him through the Attanni procedure/device used by her culture. As they continue to talk, Lando Calrissian warns the populace to evacuate before more Imperials arrive. They escape and intend to chase down Fett and Solo, who are on their way to Tatooine. (To be continued below . . . ) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 816 (Payback: The Tale of Dengar) • Shortly before the Rebels the Millennium Falcon escape Bespin and reunite with the Rebel fleet, General Crix Madine issues a datafile on repulsortank battle tactics to the Rebel forces, hoping that more effective use of repulsortanks on the battlefield will negate the possibility of another ground battle as devastating as that on Hoth. (Repulsortank Battlefield) Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Part VIII Free Memory [flashback] [continued] (SWT10 short story: Brett Matthews) Free Memory [flashback] [continued] (SWT10 short story: Brett Matthews) Entrenched (SWV short story: Alex Jaeger & M. Zachary Sherman) Entrenched (SWV short story: Alex Jaeger & M. Zachary Sherman) The Tales of Boba Fett [continued] (TOTBH/TFJP short stories: Daniel Keys Moran & J. D. Montgomery) The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett [continued] (TOTBH short story: Daniel Keys Moran) "Hoth" Section Force Commander [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Force Commander [continued] (video game: LucasArts) The Battle of Hoth The Battle of Hoth (G6 game: Ryan Miller)* The Battle of Hoth (G6 game: Ryan Miller)* It’s a Good Bet the Empire Knows We’re Here Our First Catch of the Day Prepare for Ground Assault

• NOTE: This game allows players to play out the events of the Battle of Hoth on their own. It is only part of

continuity insofar as any game materials do not directly contradict more widely-accepted G- and C-Level Canonical sources. Star Wars: Dark Side Developer Kit (toy set and trailer: Lego Mindstorms) Star Wars: Dark Side Developer Kit (toy set and trailer: Lego Mindstorms) Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Rogue Leader [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Battle of Hoth Rebel Strike [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Battlefield Hoth Battlefront [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Battlefront [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Historical Campaigns [continued] Galactic Civil War [continued] Hoth The Battle of Hoth Battlefront II [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Rise of the Empire Campaign [continued] Rise of the Empire [continued] Hoth Our Finest Hour Shadows of the Empire (novel/comic series/video game: Ryder Windham & John Wagner & Steve Perry & LucasArts) Shadows of the Empire (video game: LucasArts) Cutscene I Part I: The Battle of Hoth Battle of Hoth Stage One Stage Two Stage Three The Star Wars Timeline Gold 817 Stage Four Star Wars Trilogy Arcade [continued] (video game: Sega) Star Wars Trilogy Arcade [continued] (video game: Sega) Episode V: Hoth--"Destroy Imperial Walkers" Episode V: Hoth--"Escape from Echo Base" Shadows of the Empire [continued] (novel/comic series/video game: Ryder Windham & John Wagner & Steve Perry & LucasArts) Shadows of the Empire [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Part I: The Battle of Hoth [continued] Escape from Echo Base Stage One Stage Two Asteroid Chase Stage One Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Rebel Strike [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Escape from Hoth Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Two: The Hope Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Part VIII [continued] Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Two: The Hope [continued] The Tales of Boba Fett [continued] (TOTBH/TFJP short stories: Daniel Keys Moran & J. D. Montgomery) The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett [continued] (TOTBH short story: Daniel Keys Moran) "Executor" Section Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM (TOTBH short story: M. Shayne Bell) Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM (TOTBH short story: M. Shayne Bell) Shadows of the Empire [continued] (novel/comic series/video game: Ryder Windham & John Wagner & Steve Perry & LucasArts) Shadows of the Empire (novel: Steve Perry) Prologue Slippery Slope (SWT15 short story: Scott Lobdell) Slippery Slope (SWT15 short story: Scott Lobdell) Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Two: The Hope [continued] Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Part VIII [continued] Part IX Part X Running the Gauntlet (short story: Michael Stern) Running the Gauntlet (short story: Michael Stern) Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM [continued] (TOTBH short story: M. Shayne Bell) Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM [continued] (TOTBH short story: M. Shayne Bell) The Adventures of Tinian I'att [continued] (AJ/TOTBH/SWH short stories: Kathy Tyers) The Prize Pelt: The Tale of Bossk (TOTBH short story: Kathy Tyers) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 818 Moment of Doubt (SWT4 short story: Lovern Kindzierski) Moment of Doubt (SWT4 short story: Lovern Kindzierski) The Tales of Boba Fett [continued] (TOTBH/TFJP short stories: Daniel Keys Moran & J. D. Montgomery) The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett [continued] (TOTBH short story: Daniel Keys Moran) "Executor" Section [continued] Thank the Maker [continued] (SWT6 short story: Ryder Windham) Thank the Maker [continued] (SWT6 short story: Ryder Windham) Rogue Squadron [continued] (video game series: LucasArts) Rebel Strike [continued] (video game: LucasArts) Trials of a Jedi Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88 [continued] (TOTBH short story: Kevin J. Anderson) Part XI The Fall of Cloud City (RPG: J. D. Wiker) The Fall of Cloud City (RPG: J. D. Wiker) Foul Play on Platform 14 Escape from Cloud City Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Payback: The Tale of Dengar [continued] (TOTBH short story: Dave Wolverton) Two: The Hope [continued] Repulsortank Battlefield (AJ9 short story: Timothy O’Brien) Repulsortank Battlefield (AJ9 short story: Timothy O’Brien) Bounty Hunters (cancelled comic series: Andy Mangels)* Dengar (cancelled comic: Andy Mangels)* Bossk (cancelled comic: Andy Mangels)* 4-LOM (cancelled comic: Andy Mangels)* Zuckuss (cancelled comic: Andy Mangels)* IG-88 (cancelled comic: Andy Mangels)*

• NOTE: This series of Bounty Hunter One-Shots never came to exist. I place it here since this is where our other

bounty hunter story series, such as Tales of the Bounty Hunters tend to center. Consider it historical curiosity. 3.3 - 4 ASW4 • Imperial HoloVision reports the defeat of the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Hoth. (Exact date of report via Imperial HoloVision: 38:6:9 i.e. 9 Helona 3 ABY) (conjecture based on Galaxywide News Nets supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #14) • Shortly after the Rebel rout at Hoth (while at a conference where incoming news has been cut off from the attendees), Rebel Alliance Major Viran Qol gives a lecture on Imperial garrisons. (Imperial Garrisons) • Zuckuss and 4-LOM arrive with the Bright Hope passengers at the Rebel rendezvous point. The Rebels welcome them as heroes and offer to give Zuckuss treatment for his damaged lungs. Shortly thereafter, though, they decide to leave their offered home and go after Boba Fett in order to find Han Solo. As they prepare to leave, 4-LOM has what seems to be a Force vision of a future in which he is studying at Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy, which will not yet be formed for eight years. (Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM) • Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Toryn Farr is promoted to Commander and awarded the Kalidor Crescent, after which, she is allowed to lead a Special Forces team back to Hoth on a rescue mission. (conjecture based on Who’s Who in Echo Base) • Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Sergeant Reye Hollis is given a promotion and the Kenobi Medallion to go with his Kalidor Crescent, due to his selfless valor during the battle. (conjecture based on Who’s Who in Echo Base) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 819 • ISB agent Blount defects to the Rebel Alliance. (conjecture based on Star Wars: Customizable Card Game via TimeTales, paraphrased) • Trammis Loof is stationed on Coruscant. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Graveyard of Alderaan” via TimeTales, abridged) • Rebel bases on Yinchorr (apparently there without the backing of the Elder Council) are leveled in the wake of the Battle of Hoth. This and following Imperial action will slowly reduce the Yinchorri to nomadic tribes. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Alien Anthology”) • With his own lightsaber lost on Bespin, Luke Skywalker begins using a spare lightsaber, perhaps one taken from Orman Tagge or during his other early adventures, until he can create a new one soon.* (conjecture based on Death Probe)*

• NOTE: The Marvel Series simply jumped from ESB to Luke having a lightsaber in Death Probe. I believe the

idea of him using one taken from Orman Tagge originated with Chris McElroy’s TimeTales. • Within only a few days of his duel with Luke Skywalker aboard Cloud City, Darth Vader arrives at Mount Tantiss on Wayland to deliver a trophy of his battle to Emperor Palpatine, who is there waiting for him with his guardsmen and Noghri bodyguards. The trophy given to Palpatine is none other than Luke’s severed hand and Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber, which Luke used during the duel. Both had been recovered by the Noghri . As Palpatine makes plans to store away the hand and lightsaber (which will eventually form the source DNA material for “Luuke Skywalker” years later), Vader leaves Wayland to deal with more pressing matters, such as the construction of the new Death Star and his continuing rivalry with Black Sun’s Prince Xizor . . . (The Emperor’s Trophy) • The Agony of Tarkin is written and produced by the Imperial Opera Company (conjecture based on Mara Jade: By the Emperor’s Hand via TimeTales, verbatim) • Maarek Stele, having been conscripted into Imperial technical service after being separated from his family during the invasion of the Taroon system, saves the life of Admiral Mordon. For this, he is given a shot at the Imperial Navy. At present, though, his is only a repair technician. He will have his chance at piloting soon. (conjecture based on The Emperor’s Pawns) • During the height of the Galactic Civil War, the diamond born missile is refined into a much deadlier weapon. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology) • At some point before the conflict with Prince Xizor, Lando Calrissian frees Rystall Sant from slavery to Xizor by winning a card game. (conjecture based on Who’s Who in the Max Rebo Band) • In the wake of the Battle of Hoth, Carlist Rieekan becomes a permanent member of Alliance High Command as Chief of Sector Command. (conjecture based on Who’s Who in Echo Base) • Jinjur Thomas, a Mining Guild Recruiter, discovers Alabard’s Comets’ secret base in the Tapani Sector but keeps quiet due to pay-offs. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Lords of the Expanse” via TimeTales, paraphrased) • Having maneuvered their way into control over the government on Sullust and declaring their allegiance with the Empire, SoroSuub finally realizes the error of its ways (and the public’s outrage) and supports the Rebel Alliance in the months leading up to the Battle of Endor. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology) • General Brenn Tantor is met by his brother, Major Dellis Tantor, who is now a member of Imperial Intelligence. Dellis has found proof that their father was killed by the Empire as an example after losing a shipment of grain to pirates. Dellis is now to help quell an uprising on Ruul, but it may be that he has been discovered, and there is every chance that he will not survive the mission. It could very well be a suicide mission. (conjecture based on Force Commander) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 820 • Hamar-Chaktak, a Herglic was a wealthy merchant and sometime-supporter of the Alliance, but had no love for either the Alliance or the Empire. He was known to have a weakness for betting on cracian thumper races, and spent a great deal of time at the Heatherdowns Hotel and Track on Tallaan. Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, he agreed to help supply the Alliance with bacta, if a team of agents would meet him at the Heatherdowns. However, the only reason for offering to help was to sacrifice the team in order to collect insurance money on the ship he told them to steal--the Theta-2Y, a ship owned, in fact, by Hamar-Chaktak himself. Not only did Hamar-Chaktak hope to claim the lost bacta to receive an insurance payment, he hoped to actually sell the bacta to the Alliance later on, as well as ransom the team back to the Alliance. Unfortunately for Hamar-Chaktak, the Alliance team discovered his treachery and managed to avoid being captured. Hamar-Chaktak was forced to flee into hyperspace on his starship, the Crusader. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Tapani Sector Instant Adventures” via TimeTales, verbatim) • Imperial Intelligence operative Shira Elan Colla Brie is sent by Darth Vader and Ysanne Isard to infiltrate the Rebel Alliance as a pilot. Given the death of so many aces during the Battle of Hoth and previous encounters, the Rebels easily accept her, especially as she proves her skills in combat. (conjecture based on Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire) • Beski Miko is promoted to Senior Lieutenant in the Rebel Alliance. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Rules of Engagement: The Rebel SpecForce Handbook” via TimeTales, abridged) • With now 7-year-old Irek already well schooled in the Dark Side, Roganda Ismaren begins training him in the use of his converter, teaching him how to control machines with the Force. He is also given a accelerated learning course, bringing him up to university level in just a few years. (conjecture based on Children of the Jedi via TimeTales, verbatim) • Viera Cheran, known to members of Rogue Squadron as “Chief”, as she serves as the squadron’s chief technician, is stationed on the moon of Kile. There, she ensured that the squadron was ready for the attempt to recover Han Solo’s body from Boba Fett. It was during this time that she was approached by an operative who offered her 10,000 credits to ensure Luke Skywalker was killed. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook” via TimeTales, verbatim) • Steven “Mak” Makintay becomes commander of an X-wing Starfighter group known as Green Squadron. (conjecture based on Dark Empire and Firepower via TimeTales, verbatim) • Rogue Squadron flies sorties against the shipyards at Fondor. (conjecture based on Star Wars: Customizable Card Game via TimeTales, paraphrased) • General Maximillian Veers is the Empire’s latest military hero, after the Battle of Hoth. Returning from a short leave, his son Zev is treated like a hero as well. By the side of his father, Zev went to endless celebrations and heard countless speeches about the glory of the Empire and how the Alliance was immoral and doomed to defeat. After Zev returned from the glamour and ceremony, he learned what the Empire really stood for. During a routine police action, Zev was assigned to bodyguard the battalion commander while he interrogated prisoners. Intending to harden the young man to the sight of torture, the commander, Ivo Laibach, showed off his ISB training. Zev was horrified as the Rebel, an old man, was beaten mercilessly and tortured. Even the other two “CompFarcers”, boys younger than he, started turning green. Luckily for Zev, while the commander man – handled the local librarian, the real Rebels showed up. Laibach, idiot as he was, went outside “to take care of the nonsense” and got wounded by the Rebels for his trouble. It would be funny if it weren’t all so horrible. Zev came to a decision: he couldn’t just let the old man die. So he untied the librarian and used a medpac on him – just as the librarian’s daughter, the Rebel squad leader, came to the rescue. Initially she was distrustful of Zev, but she was won over by her The Star Wars Timeline Gold 821 father’s sincerity. Zev was still taken as a prisoner, but not treated much like one. In the years since, Zev becomes a full – fledged Rebel. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Dark Empire Sourcebook” via TimeTales, verbatim) • Diblen Harleys joins the Rebel Alliance. (conjecture based on The Last Command and Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game— “Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook” via TimeTales, abridged) • Niclara Varnillian goes on leave from the Imperial Star Destroyer Pulsar to Ord Mantell. While there, she identifies a group of Alliance operatives, including Alton Lochner and Anson Blazer. She attempts to apprehend them, but the mission ends in general failure, with only two Rebels alive and in Niclara’s custody. She returns to the Pulsar, where she knows a demotion is waiting for her. (conjecture based on Wanted by Cracken supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #8) • Luke Skywalker begins using the lightsaber he took from Ormon Tagge until he can build his own lightsaber. (conjecture based on Christopher McElroy's TimeTales) • Dirk Harkness is reassigned from Rebel Intelligence to be chief engineer on a capital ship. (conjecture based on Chessa’s Doom) • In need of new pilots, the Rebel Alliance and the Empire both continue training pilots via simulated scenarios and a few real excursions. This new generation of pilots will see action in, among other places, the Airam Sector. (X-wing vs. TIE Fighter) • Pushed from their base (presumably Hoth, though it could be Yavin IV, placing this game’s story earlier), the Rebel Alliance partners with traders in the Airam Sector. They are, however, being chased by an Imperial force under Admiral Wooyou Senn. Senn’s force includes the Imperial Star Destroyer Rage, Interdictor vessel Compellor, and Senn’s own Super Star Destroyer Vengeance (not the same vessel as Jerec’s of the same name, apparently). The Imperials strike against the Rebels and their trader allies over and over again, eventually gaining an advantage by allying themselves with a traitorous trader named Ilay. Eventually, though, the Rebel force, which includes Rogue Squadron and Phoenix Squadron (B-wings), is able to defeat the task force, saving themselves and the traders. Their victory ensures that a new shipyard operation under the traders and Rebels will be safe for a while. (Balance of Power) • Tomaas Azzameen’s Otana as among the vessels escaping from the Battle of Hoth. Now, shortly after the battle, the family’s trading business is in trouble. Viraxo Industries shipping interests have increased their profits by leaps and bounds, and it seems that everyone else is experiencing extreme losses. Into this mix are thrown Tomass, the patriarch of the family, and his four children: Galin; Emon; Aeron; and Ace (who has a trusted droid companion, Emkay). During a trip to pick up supplies to fix the Otana, Aeron and Ace (who is only a rookie pilot) end up in the middle of a Viraxo attack on the space station with the parts they need, Harlequin station. After helping fight off the Viraxo, they return to the Azzameen family space station, where Emon begins training Ace in starship weapons. They practice, then try to celebrate Ace’s progress with rinks at Dunari’s Casino, but are driven off by Viraxo ships, including the Enkidu, which was also present at Harlequin Station. When they discover that Aeron accidentally erased supply logs, they have to turn around and check on their supplies again, only to find a Viraxo agent has planted a container of illegal spice in their stores. In retaliation, the Azzemeen children turn around and plant the spice at a Viraxo installation, then use their rather loud escape from the area to draw an Imperial Victory-class Star Destroyer to attack the Viraxo for “their” illegal spice possession. Meanwhile, Tomaas is still involved in trading with the Rebel Alliance. They procure a shipment of bacta from illegal sources (who try not to hand it over), then go with Aeron’s boyfriend, Olin Garn (now a Rebel himself) to a Rebel hospital platform, where many of the wounded from the Battle of Hoth are needing that bacta shipment. Unfortunately, their timing is terrible, as the Empire quickly The Star Wars Timeline Gold 822 descends upon the hospital platform, destroying it. Tomaas and Galin are killed, and the entire family is considered to have betrayed the Rebellion, since they’d only just arrived when the attack took place. Moreover, their presence (and some Viraxo maneuvering) has branded the family traitors to the Empire as well, allowing Viraxo to seize their family holdings. The remaining Azzameen children and their uncle Antan try to salvage the family’s situation, but in their race to gather supplies and weapons (in two pairs, Ace with Aeron and Antan with Emon), the Imperials and Viraxo are ready for them. The Azzameen space station is destroyed and Antan is captured. The remaining three Azzameens choose to risk the ire of the Rebels and join the Rebellion. Luckily, Olin speaks up for them, convincing the Rebel leadership to let them join. Ace becomes a Rebel pilot, part of Red Squadron and assigned to the Defiance. His first mission is to help keep the heat off of the Hoth survivors, who are still scattered and being hunted for by Imperial Admiral Garreth Holtz, by helping to strike at Imperial convoys to draw away their attention. After one such mission, Emon brings news from a mole within Viraxo that Antan is alive, but being held captive. He will soon be transferred to the mole’s location, which allows them to carry out a daring raid and save their uncle from imprisonment. Ace is promoted to Flight Officer. Soon, Ace is part of another mission, this time to help clear the way for the Hoth refugees. They save prisoners from Hoth by striking at an Imperial dreadnaught, then later take out Imperial probe droids. After helping to delay repairs on Holtz’s Star Destroyer Corruptor, they take out a major Imperial sensor array, allowing the Rebels to escape through the resulting “blind spot” and onward to the Outer Rim. Holtz has been defeated and is recalled, while the victorious Ace receives a transfer to the Liberty. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), Ace doesn’t even make it to the Liberty before seeing action. He is en route to the Liberty in the Vilonis Sector when he is distracted by a distress call from a convoy that is under attack by a strange new starfighter that appears to be some kind of TIE variant. Upon finally reaching the Liberty, his experience causes the Rebels to strike at the Imperials to steal prototypes of these new TIEs. They end up being able to get their hands on two different prototype TIEs, along with an ETR device. While the Rebels research these stolen Imperial goods, Ace goes on a personal family mission with Emon to kill K’Arymn Viraxo en route to Destreg II. Unfortunately, the “target of opportunity” is actually a trap, and the two brothers barely escape with their lives from bounty hunters, hired by the Viraxo. Back with the Rebels, a new mission is launched, this time against Imperial Director Lenzer’s production facility, the origin of the strange new TIEs (which seem to be prototypes for a fully-automated, droid-brained TIE starfighter, similar to those that the World Devastators will create many years later). They fend off some of these droid TIEs before destroying the facility utterly . . . but Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin has already gotten his hands on the computer core from the facility, meaning that the new designs may still see action one day . . . With the droid TIE project destroyed, Ace Azzameen is ready for further missions with the Rebel Alliance. Shortly after helping the Rebels to liberate a convoy of Bothan slaves, Ace takes another personal, familyoriented mission with his sister Aeron. They strike at a Viraxo Industries convoy bearing warheads to the Empire, seemingly in conjunction with Black Sun. The Azzameens capture the warheads and give them over to the Rebels, despite Black Sun ships trying to stop them. The Rebels then receive a mysterious transmission (from the same source that led them to the Bothan slaves), which reveals the location of a secret Imperial research facility. They strike the facility, destroying it, but the question of who is helping them lingers. They decide to raid an Imperial comm relay to figure out where the transmission are coming from, and it leads them to Imperial Commander Zaletta, who claims to want to defect to the Alliance. Ace plants his own listening device in the comm relay so that they can track Viraxo communications, then Ace and Rebel Commander Kupalo manage to get Zaletta to the Rebel starship Redemption. They are attacked shortly thereafter, making the Rebels believe Zaletta is only posing as a defector. They lock him up, but it turns out that Kupalo is the traitor, not Zaletta. Kupalo steals the shuttle Zaletta came aboard, wipes out much of the Redemption’s docking bay, and escapes into space. Ace manages to capture Kupalo, though, and he is revealed to be a brainwashed Imperial agent, captured after Hoth and made to do the Empire’s bidding. The Rebels have lost one ally, but gained another in Zaletta. With this done, Ace again helps his family. He helps Aeron steal some Viraxo cargo The Star Wars Timeline Gold 823 for the Alliance (a blow to their enemies and a boon to their new allies), then leaves her at Vergesso Base. Meanwhile, Zaletta tells the Alliance of a convoy of materials from Xizor Transport Systems that is meant for a major Imperial construction project. After a quick recon of the vessels, Ace returns to hear that Vergesso Base is under attack. Apparently the operators of the base, Ororo Transportation, had gotten on the bad side of one of Black Sun’s subsidiaries, prompting the Empire to have Darth Vader himself smash down on Vergesso. Ace is able to get there and save Aeron and a few others, but it’s a very close call . . . (To be continued below . . . ) (X-wing Alliance) • Aboard the Star Destroyer Vengeance, now under the command of Admiral Mordon, a young repair technician named Maarek Stele is plagued by an unfulfilled desire to be a pilot, and memories of his earlier life on Kuan, where he lost (as in missing, not dead) his father during the Bordal War. Luckily, when his piloting skills are shown briefly aboard a repaired TIE fighter, he is given the chance to enter flight training and becomes a TIE fighter pilot. He attracts the notice of Admiral Mordon, who takes Maarek under his wing and eventually reveals to Maarek a bit about the nature of the hooded “acolytes,” the Secret Order, that prowls the halls of Imperial vessels. Mordon finally reveals suspicions that high ranking Imperial officers may be plotting against Imperial interests, but Mordon is killed shortly thereafter. In a message left for Maarek before his death, Mordon tells him that he will soon be contacted and moved to a safe place, free of suspicion. That move comes in the form of a transfer to the out-of-the-way Platform D-34 outpost, under the command of Major Thorbo. They are working in conjunction now with Admiral Flanken of the Hammer to draw out Rebels in the area and crush them. Maarek, meanwhile, is contacted by the Secret Order and given secondary orders to carry out during his missions, which feed a “higher purpose.” After a while of relatively dull missions around D-34, Maarek is transferred to the frigate Fogger, where he makes friends with fellow pilots Grommet, Kechel, and Alimet. His Fogger missions begin with an attack on the Mugaari depot that sold the weapons used during a recent attack on D-34, only to find upon return that Rebels have used the distraction to take over D-34 itself. They drive the Rebels off, then strike at the ship that was the attack’s staging point. After taking out the Rebel vessel Lulsla, Maarek is once again transferred. This time, it is to the Victory-class Star Destroyer Protector, under the command of Admiral Harkov (who has recently been talking with Mon Mothma about defecting). There, he meets Captain Trace, a fellow pilot, and finds himself thrust into the middle of the Sepan Civil War, in which the Sepan system planets, Ripoblus and Dimok, are at war and the Empire is there to, supposedly, keep the peace. Unfortunately, someone has been selling Imperial arms to both sides in the struggle. While Trace tries to fake being part of the Secret Order as a means of getting info (and maybe a Secret Order introduction) from Maarek (who isn’t biting), the Secret Order gathers evidence, with Maarek’s help, to prove that the weapon shipments are coming from Admiral Harkov himself, who is doctoring manifests and has been conspicuously “interrogating” a Rebel prisoner for far too long. The Secret Order brings this information to Darth Vader, who requires more evidence before Harkov is “dealt with.” The Secret Order has also caused Trace to disappear after asking so many questions about them . . . (To be continued below . . . )* (The Stele Chronicles)*

• NOTE: I’m listing this story under the title of the novella that was expanded upon in the TIE Fighter Official

Strategy Guide to create an overall fiction story to go with the game strategies. Most of the events, though, were originally covered in the TIE Fighter computer game. (It’s just easier to merge the story and present it as one tale, rather than trying to split it up, which would get really, really ugly.) • On Trevura, the Imperials test a new type of weapon. Due to the Rebellion using so many droids, they have created a blaster with three settings: kill; stun; and inhibit, which is very much like a Jawa ion gun. They are field testing it in a sweep through the capital city’s streets, on orders from Governor Merno Blask, who has discovered that an assassin droid has been sent to kill him. While he fears it may be IG-88, it is, in fact, S-R6 (Essar), an undercover assassin droid. When a group of Rebels is in the middle of town during a sweep, they end up duking it out with several stormtroopers, taking charge of the weapons. They are approached by T-3PO, who says an interested party would like to buy them. At the meeting, where the party is revealed to be S-R6, the stormtrooper attack again, being defeated yet The Star Wars Timeline Gold 824 again. S-R6 and the heroes both are presumed to have escaped with some of the prototype weapons. (Gun Nut) • On Zelos II, a Rebel Alliance Special Ops team led by Major T’Charek Haathi stakes out a well-guarded Corellian YT-1300, the Maker, owned by Sythluss Leethe. The team, including Haathi, Morgan Q. Raventhorn, Ivhin Jayme, and Dren Nord, is successful in getting to the ship, but then must fight both Imperials outside the ship and internal security inside the ship in order to steal the vessel for the Rebel Alliance. In the nick of time, things finally start going the team’s way, and they manage to take their prize and escape Zelos II with only minor injuries to both bodies and pride. (Special Ops: Shipjackers) • T’Charek Haathi’s Special Ops shipjacking crew takes their newly acquired ship, the Maker, to the drop point on Gelgelar for supplies. Upon arrival, they meet Colonel Arik Stijhl, his medical officer, Lady Maglenna Pendower, and other members of his staff, including Kovings, who had earlier been joking with Stijhl about how they should have shot the ship down, since Haathi tends to bring trouble wherever she goes. This is the case once again, as shortly after landing, Morgan Raventhorn is nearly killed by an unknown attacker. Once she is checked out, Ivhin Jayme goes in search of the attacker, which turns out to be an assassin droid. The droid manages to lock everyone in the warehouse where the Maker is being repaired, planning to kill everyone who is interfering with its mission. The Rebels realize this and race for the ship. Stijhl is nearly killed, as is Jayme, but they all manage to escape in the Maker (by busting through the doors) before the droid self-destructs, taking the entire drop point with it. Afterwards, they discover that in checking the background on the Maker, they didn’t check the background on whom they stole it from. The previous owner, Sythluss Leethe, was an underworld droid dealer, and the assassin droid was apparently readied for one of his clients, set up on a timer. When it activated, it perceived everyone as a threat and thus attacked Morgan and then the base. After all is cleared up, Stijhl agrees to let Maglenna join Haathi’s team in return for Dren Nord, the disenfranchised medic of the team, remaining with Stijhl’s staff. (Special Ops: Drop Points) • One of the many probe droids sent to search for the hidden main Rebel base (which was just attacked on Hoth) discovers a Rebel base on Taul in the Gunthar system and destroyed by Rebels of the world’s small outpost before it could send its report. When no word is received from the probe droid, the Dominator is sent to check out what has happened. The result is a major ground battle between Imperial and Rebel ground forces in the swamps of Taul. (Uninvited Guests) • A Rebel group left behind to attack the Imperials when the Rebels fled from Taul is found by Imperial forces from the Dominator. A battle once again rages . . . (Return to Taul) • Alliance Intelligence discovers that Santhe/Sienar Technologies has reached a breakthrough in its move toward cloaking technology. A polarity-changing flux refractor is set to be sent from a Santhe/Sienar base on Dennaskar to Imperial hands for further testing. The Alliance sends a group of Rebels to stop the Santhe Security forces from getting the refractor into Imperial hands . . . (Surprise Visit) • Dengar and Manaroo finally perform the Attanni, cementing love between them. Dengar realizes how important it is to save Manaroo’s people from COMPNOR, so he uses his Rebel contacts to free them, as he should have two years before. (To be continued below . . . ) (Payback: The Tale of Dengar) • An Imperial survey sent to Endor and nearby worlds returns very little useful information.* (conjecture based on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe: Endor Entry)*

• NOTE: This assumes that Pfilbee Jhorn is sent out on a new survey very soon after this initial survey.

• The same survey that initially discovers the forest moon of Endor also discovers the planet Lahsbane with its native Lahsbees and Huhks. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Alien Anthology”) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 825 • With the Empire in control of Cloud City on Bespin, Bespin Motors begins selling its Cloud Cars to other markets, aside from just Bespin. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels) • An annoyed Imperial scout, Sergeant Pfilbee Jhorn is sent to Endor on a survey mission because the previous survey team had returned little useful information. After seeing everything from Ewoks to the Gorax, the team of nine Imperials is captured by the marauders led by Terak and tortured. Finally, they escape and three of the original nine manage to get off the planet with their pick-up ship. Jhorn files his decidedly harshly-worded report and is soon transferred to a solar focusing mirror above Coruscant (and then a stint in the deserts of Tatooine) for his insubordinate tone. (The Illustrated Star Wars Universe: Endor Entry) • A Rebel team is sent to newly Imperial Cloud City on Bespin to help rescue a group of Rebel refugees in the city. Upon arrival, the team’s contact, Silver Fur, is killed, and the team has to battle Zardra and Jodo Kast and race to recover an encrypted datapad with information vital to the mission. Upon getting the datapad, they seek out Spensor Kluub for decryption and find him nearly dead at the hands of an ISB agent, Kal Vorusk, who is working for the ISB team leader on the mission to capture the refugees, Govin Thane. Upon getting the datapad’s information, the team discovers and escapes to the outer platforms with the refugees, where they are confronted by Thane and his wardroid. In a fierce battle, the Rebels win the day and escape to Kaliska. (Cloud Cover) • Ral Shawgrim defects from the Rebel Alliance to the Galactic Empire, taking plans for the T- 65B X-wing starfighter with him. (conjecture based on Wanted by Cracken supplement in The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal #4) • Pano is recruited by Crix Madine and quickly moves through the ranks to become a Major by the Battle of Endor. (conjecture based on Star Wars: Customizable Card Game via TimeTales, paraphrased) • Oola is taken from Ryloth and sold as a slave to Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Before being taken to Jabba’s Palace, a fellow slave girl, Sienn, is saved by Luke Skywalker, while Oola covers their escape. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--"Special Edition Sourcebook" and A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Oola’s Tale) • On Borcorash, the Resinem Entertainment building is damaged by a nearby explosion. (conjecture based on Specter of the Past) • A Kuat Drive Yards subsidiary known as Kuat Systems Engineering is sold to Vaathkree merchants with Rebel sympathies, under the guise of a group of Imperial loyalists. (conjecture based on The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels) • Grodin Tierce becomes a Royal Guardsman. (conjecture based on Specter of the Past) • The Empire’s Procurator of Justice, Lord Hethrir, is aboard Crseih Station, which has recently relocated into orbit of a black hole and crystallizing star, when his scientists manage to breach the wall between dimensions. A strange Anti-Force creature is brought into this dimension (or created through the mingling of dimensions)—Waru. (conjecture based on The Essential Chronology) • Shortly after joining the Royal Guard, Grodin Tierce is rotated into a regular stormtrooper squad (in keeping with the practice of rotating Guardsmen through the regular military forces to keep up fighting prowess). (conjecture based on Specter of the Past) • Following the success of the Viper probot in discovering the Rebel base on Hoth (and the subsequent capture of that base), Arakyd Industries releases a new line of probots known as Infiltrators, which have been developed in cooperation with Imperial techs under orders from Admiral Damon Krell. (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Droids) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 826 • Shortly after his promotion to Grand Admiral, Thrawn is sent into the Unknown Regions aboard his Victory-class Star Destroyer Iron Fist. After exploring that area he is to head into the area known as Wild Space to explore its territory and prepare for colonization and/or invasion. (conjecture based on Specter of the Past and Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--"Heir to the Empire Sourcebook") • An entire company of the First Sun Mobile Regiment is executed by Moff Nile Owen in the Rayter sector for slaughtering Rebels at a target outpost instead of capturing prisoners for interrogation. This begins First Sun’s slow move away from Imperial employ. (conjecture based on Special Military Unit Intelligence Update) • Emperor Palpatine orders construction to begin on two new classes of Star Destroyer. The first is the Sovereign-class Star Destroyer, larger than the Super Star Destroyers in production. The second is the Eclipse-class Star Destroyer, larger than even the Sovereign Star Destroyer and set to be the line from which the Emperor will take his own personal flagship. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--"Dark Empire Sourcebook") • When a Rebel squadron led by Stevan Makintay tries to steal a carrier full of supplies and ends up failing and losing one pilot, Makintay will have no more of Eyrie Base’s Commander Baran’s refusals to give them backup. Makintay goes on a mission to his homeworld, Hargeeva, to speak with his ex-lover Ketrian Altronel, who would be able to help create and refit technology and supplies instead of the Rebels having to steal it. On Hargeeva, Ketrian and Rebel-sympathizer Alikka Nolan meet with Imperial Major Nial Pedrin about a new alloy she has created, which could be very beneficial to the empire, and Pedrin’s career. Later, Alikka takes the anti-Rebel Ketrian to meet with a shady “friend,” which turns out to be a meeting of Rebels, including Mak. Mak tries to convince Ket to join the Rebellion, but she refuses. She still believes that Mak just left her for his starship piloting dreams, and that he is now a riot-instigator. Mak agrees to slip them past Pedrin’s guards, who had been tailing the women and have reappeared, and back to safety. After the three leave the meeting place, it is destroyed, and the Rebel inside are killed. Mak pretends to take the girls hostage to get them out of trouble, but Pedrin’s troopers simply stun all three of them. Ket awakens and finds herself getting injections for “stun shock” from a medical droid. Pedrin tells her that while she may still be a loyal Imperial citizen, Mak and Alikka are in custody. Pedrin wants to get the location of a Rebel base from them, so he can boost his career. If she will help get the information from Mak, Alikka will live. She is to be sent to Coruscant to continue her alloy work, taking the same shuttle to the capital that Mak is being transported on as a prisoner. She is to get the information en route. Once they are away, she confronts Mak. She’s already starting to become wary of the Imperials and to lighten up to Mak, partly because a Rebel at the meeting suggested that there was proof that Mak was taken away forcibly, and thus did not abandon her. She asks for the information, and Mak tells her that Alikka has already been executed, right before his eyes. She died in his arms. The ship is beset by pirates. During the fighting, Mak is freed, but Ket keeps getting sicker. The injections weren’t for her health, but a counteragent for the first injection, which was a poison. Mak needs to get to the medical bay to save her life. The ship, under pirate control, is then attacked by Mak’s squadron for supplies. The Rebels reunite. The doctor of the group helps to get the counteragent to Ket and begin treatment to save her life. Mak and Ket finally make up and expect a new life together, with Ket as a member of the Rebel Alliance right alongside Mak and his friends. (Firepower) • After a day and a half in medical treatment at Eyrie Base, Ketrian Altronel is still not recovering from the poison she received by Imperials before leaving Hargeeva. When Stevan Makintay is refused permission (by Commander Biros Baran) to go back to Hargeeva to find a cure or find someone with the antidote, he knocks Baran out. Then he and Merinda Niemeh go anyway. They head for Hargeeva and check computer records, to no avail. They decided to take a different approach. Major Nial Pedrin, demoted in position for losing Ketrian in the first place, hopes to lure Rebels trying to save Ketrian into a trap. The trap catches him, though, when Mak breaks into his mistress’ home as Pedrin is beating her. Mak The Star Wars Timeline Gold 827 takes Pedrin back to their ship, with Thera, the mistress, tagging along to join the Rebellion. When Pedrin awakens on the ship, hoping that it will go to the Rebel base, to which he can direct Imperials based on a homing beacon implanted in his arm, he is questioned. He truthfully tells Mak the antidote, but it is something that has already been tried, to no avail. Not knowing any other course of action, Pedrin lies and says there’s a different antidote that he will have to deliver personally. They let him live and head to Eyrie Base, but they realize he has the transmitter in his arm and remove it, tossing it into space. Upon arrival at the base, they keep things hush-hush. They bring Pedrin to deliver the antidote and it requires Dr. Tarrek to go get more datacards and such to help them create the (false) antidote. After Tarrek leaves, Mak and Pedrin are forced to hide in the back of Ketrian’s room when Assistant Medic Griek, a fellow Hargeevan enters. From hiding, they listen as Griek tells the unconscious Ketrian that Griek has been the one poisoning Ketrian (since the Imperial poison was cured), to repay her for helping the Imperials on Hargeeva. She is about to administer an antidote, though, since Ketrian’s technology is badly needed. Revenge can wait. As Mak comes out of hiding to confront her, Pedrin stabs him with a scalpel and holds Griek at blasterpoint with Mak’s weapon. The standoff is broken when Tarrek and Merinda enter. Mak kicks the distracted Pedrin’s shin, then Griek lunges at him. Pedrin kills Griek, but Merinda stuns Pedrin (unfortunately, it was a stun, not a killshot). Before Mak allows the doctor to tend to his major bleeding, he tells him to administer the antidote to Ketrian. He then loses consciousness. Later, Mak awakens to find a healthy Ketrian sitting over him. He’s going to be fine, and she has been cured. Also, Colonel Farland is back, and the semi-incompetent Baran has been transferred to a new post. Life, for Mak, is good. (Desperate Measures) • Emperor Palpatine contacts the advancing Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium and arranges to trade prisoners (which the Ssi-Ruuk can entech and use in their droid starfighters) for Ssi-Ruuvi technology. (conjecture based on Truce at Bakura) • On the forest moon of Endor, the Towani family (Jeremitt, Catrine, Mace, and Cindel) prepare to leave. Repairs are nearing completion on their crashed star cruiser. As Jeremitt works on the ship, the Ewok village is attacked by a group of marauders (originally crash-landed from Sanyassa) led by Terak and his witch-like sorceress (a Nightsister who escaped from Dathomir, according to earlier Imperial survey by Pfilbee Jhorn) Charal. Many Ewoks are killed, along with Catrine and Mace. Terak confronts Jeremitt at the ship wanting "the power," the power cell for the star cruiser. Terak takes the cell and kills Jeremitt. Cindel escapes while Ewoks are gathered up to be taken back to the marauder's castle. Cindel's escape is short-lived, though, as she is captured by Charal and placed in a prisoner carriage, where she is reunited with Wicket W. Warrick. With the other Ewoks' help, the two escape from the carriage, pursued by a few marauders. They hide out in a cave in a nearby mountain. Wicket builds a hang glider for them to escape from the only other cave opening. A dragonlike creature in the cave is disturbed by their activities and attacks them, taking Cindel as it flies from the cave mouth. Wicket follows with the glider and saves her, though they both crash back to the forest below. They hide again in a hollow tree and awaken the next morning to meet Teek, a speedy creature also native to the forest moon. Learning that they need food, Teek takes Wicket and Cindel to the home of Noa Briqualon, a human man who has also been stranded there. When he arrives home to find Wicket and Cindel in his house, uninvited (at least not by him), he is angered and throws them out. Teek sneaks them some food, using his incredible speed, which Noa allows, since he really isn't the hard-ass he'd appeared to be. When Wicket and Cindel try to start a fire for warmth (which, uncontrolled, could burn down a lot more than just a few trees), Noa invites them in, using that as an excuse. That night, Cindel has a dream that the marauders have come for her. She awakens with a start, and once again, Noa shows his fatherly nature in calming her. At the marauders' castle, Charal tries to use her magic to draw "the power" from the energy cell, to no avail. She is ordered by Terak to find Cindel, for she must know how to use "the power." Noa returns home later in the day with a surprise--a new bed for Wicket and Cindel. They return the favor with a surprise of their own--enough of a type of flower to make a pie. He allows them to stay another night. When Noa leaves the next day, they follow him and The Star Wars Timeline Gold 828 discover where he goes each day. Noa has a starship of his own, which he is repairing. It appears that he and his friend Salak crashed on the planet years before. The crash destroyed the crystal for their power drive, and Salak went to find another, never to return. Now, Noa has the ship repaired as best he can. All he needs is a power drive crystal--an energy cell like the one Telak captured from the Towanis. That evening, Cindel tells Noa of her family and their adventures thus far on Endor. As Noa, Wicket, and Teek sleep the next morning, Cindel is awakened by the sound of a woman singing a song her mother used to sing to her. She follows the voice to find a beautiful woman. Wicket finds that she is gone and he and the others race to Cindel, but arrive too late. The woman transforms into Charal, who takes Cindel prisoner. Cindel is taken before Terak and ordered to activate "the power," but when she cannot, she and Charal are both imprisoned with the Ewoks. Noa, Wicket, and Teek make their way to the castle to free Cindel and the other Ewoks. In the cells, Charal tells Cindel that it was Noa's friend Salak (now lying dead, as a skeleton, in the cellblock) who spoke of "the power" to be found in the energy cells. Terak killed him for not turning over that power. Outside, the trio of unlikely heroes sneak into the castle. They make their way to the cellblock and free Cindel and the other Ewoks. A marauder sounds an alarm bell, and the marauders head for the cellblock, even as Noa blasts a hole in the wall to escape through. As they are escaping, Cindel mentions the fate of Salak, prompting Noa to take the energy cell with them. Terak frees Charal to help him find the ship Noa is repairing. The marauders trace them back to the ship, where Wicket leads the Ewoks in defense of the ship and Noa tries to get the ship up and running using the energy cell from the Towani family's spacecraft. The Ewoks put up a valiant effort, but are being beaten until Noa gets the ship running and they use the ship's laser cannons to fend off the marauders. When Cindel goes to save Wicket, though, she is captured by Terak, even as the other marauders retreat. Terak and Noa meet. Cindel is released, but Noa and Terak will fight for the energy cell. Noa is nearly killed, until Wicket hits the ring he is wearing from a string around his neck with a rock from his sling. The ring is the one that allowed Charal to change forms. He took it from her to keep her in raven form so she could track the group without betraying him. Now it proves his downfall, as its power burns him to a crisp. Charal swoops down and reclaims the ring. Shortly thereafter, goodbyes are said and then Noa and Cindel leave the forest moon of Endor aboard Noa's starship. They will travel the stars together until the Battle of Endor before later settling down in a modest home as a “family” in the Mid-Rim. Cindel will go on to become a successful reporter and editor for Coruscant NewsFeed and Noa will later retire from trading.* (The Battle for Endor)*

• NOTE: Information about the characters after the telemovie is based on Endor and the Moddell Sector.

• With Terak dead, his son Zakul takes over rule of his Marauders. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--"Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds") • Dasha Defano joins the Rebel Alliance. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--"The DarkStryder Campaign") • Viscount Tardi of the Rebel Alliance dies. A droid is created to take his place in next month’s loan negotiations on Aargau. (conjecture based on The Third Law) • Imperial scientists begin to study space slugs, originally thought to be mythological creatures until one was found in the asteroid belt near Hoth. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Alien Anthology”) • A Rebel blockade runner is attacked and boarded by a super-powered Imperial probe droid, sent by Admiral Damon Kreel. While out on a mission to check his skills after the events on Bespin, Luke Skywalker (with R2-D2) takes an X-wing near the blockade runner, which blasts the X-wing. Luke and R2-D2 barely escape. They work their way aboard the ship, discovering that its computer is working against them. They soon reach the main computer chamber, where they discover the probe linked into the entire ship’s system. It is setting the ship’s drives to overload and explode, but is to join up with the Rebel fleet first. Hoping against hope, or following the Force, Luke attacks the ship with his lightsaber, shouting his name for the probe droid to hear. The droid’s programming is overridden by programming The Star Wars Timeline Gold 829 from Darth Vader to capture Luke alive. It turns from the fleet, and as it does so, Luke destroys its guidance system connection. Luke and R2-D2 escape to be picked up by the fleet while the ship leaps to hyperspace to rendezvous with the nearest Star Destroyer— Kreel’s. It nears just as the drive finally explodes, taking both the blockade runner and the Star Destroyer with it. (Death Probe) • Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca are aboard the Millennium Falcon when its hyperdrive croaks, thrusting them into a parallel dimension. In this dimension, they find a city. They land nearby, but come under attack by a monster. They are saved by Cody Sunn-Childe, a rather violent Rebel long thought dead. Cody appears to have become very peaceful and now leads the city’s community. They can still communicate with their original “outside” dimension, but would rather not do so. He tells Lando of how he gained the power of the M’ust flame-god and created this entire dimension from his own troubled mind. The creatures outside are manifestations of the darkness he tried to defeat within himself. In our normal dimension, Imperials discover the rift created by the Falcon and try to widen it with their hyperdrives to make use of the dimension and whatever might be inside. They manage to get through at the expense of their hyperdrive resources. Lando and Chewie take off and try to escape and take on the Imperials, but know they won’t do much good. Given a guilt-trip by Lando’s parting words, Cody uses his control over the dimension to create huge monsters that leap out and attack the Imperial ships. Calling on his peaceful side and ideals again, Cody brings back the creatures before they can totally destroy the Imperials, and his followers agree that it is better to die than to give in to such destructive thoughts. The Imperials destroy the city and all within, but Lando and Chewie have the last laugh, if one can laugh through tears. The Imperials, led by Captain Plikk, now have no way to escape from the deserted dimension. The Falcon heads back to the dimensional doorway, leaving the Star Destroyers to an eternity of peace and loneliness in the other dimension. (The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe!) • The Rebel Alliance has captured a damaged Imperial Warbot. R2-D2 tries to work on it, but his work causes more damage, forcing the Alliance to send the droids with Luke Skywalker and the warbot to Klingon’s Moon AKA Droid World for Klingson’s help. Upon arrival, they learn that Klingson will only help if he can keep the Warbot, and only the droids can enter. C- 3PO and R2-D2 board and soon gain schematics for the Warbot (which is more valuable than the Warbot itself) and meet Z-X3, a former Imperial wardroid created by Tagge Industries. The droid seems devoted to Klingson, but when R2-D2 follows him, he is revealed to be an Imperial infiltrator using the blasted Warbot to refit an older, captured Warbot. With the Warbot completed, Z-X3 blasts Klingson to bits, then begins a revolt on Droid World, taking it over in the name of the Empire. Z-X3 chases R2-D2 and C-3PO down in a vehicle, but just as the droids are set to fall into a smelting pit, magnets above them catch them, saving them as Z-X3 falls to his doom. The magnets were activated by Klingson, who is very much alive. It was a replica that was destroyed. Elsewhere, a Warbot that he had refit from what was left of the Rebel-captured Warbot is cleaning up the mess started by Z-X3, but at terrible price. Klingson’s moon is a veritable “bloodbath” of droid bodies. He decides to stay, but when C- 3PO and R2-D2 return to Luke with the Warbot schematics, they witness Droid World activate huge thrusters, leaving for where the Empire could never again find it. (Droid World!) • Leia Organa, C-3PO, and R2-D2 accompany Viscount Tardi to the planet Aargau, galactic banking hub, to secure a loan for the purchase of X-wings for the Rebel Alliance. Tardi knows the protocols for the world and is essential to the mission. After declaring their luggage and being assured that their diplomatic pouch is exempt from scans, they are shown the three laws of Aargau. Three laws exist, all punishable by death: removal of precious metals which back their currency; possession of weapons by non-citizens and lack of weapons by citizens who are required to have them; and conspiracy to defraud/discredit/deceive the Bank of Aargau. In customs, the discover another party has arrived, Darth Vader, whose porter, secretary, and valet are actually a high-gravity creature, telekinetic, and shape-shifter. Leia worries that Vader is there to destroy Tardi and foul the loan. While driving, they are attacked by the “porter,” and Leia uses a device to send him The Star Wars Timeline Gold 830 through the ground. When Vader tries to cite this as a violation of the second law, she notes that it is a gravitational field disrupter, not a weapon. That’s one stooge out of the way. Next, in the butterfly gardens, Vader sends his “secretary” as a poisonous butterfly, but R2-D2 hits it with fire retardant spray and Leia squashes him. Later, on a tower from which they can watch battlegames, Leia and Tardi stand side-by-side with Vader and the “valet.” The “valet” uses his telekinesis to direct a missile from one of the fighters toward them to wipe out Tardi. Unfortunately for him, R2-D2 had been projecting a hologram of Tardi over the “valet” and of the “valet” over Tardi for a moment, causing the “valet” to send the missile into himself. Three down, only Vader to go. Vader sends a message for the Rebels to meet him at the old spaceport that night. When they (minus C-3PO) arrive, Vader takes out his illegal lightsaber and slashes Tardi. Leia, meanwhile, takes a blaster from their diplomatic pouch. Both have now broken the second law. Unfortunately for Vader, if he was trying to foul the loan, he is too late. It was approved earlier using Alderaan’s crown jewels as collateral. Tardi, for his part, was actually a droid, created shortly after Tardi’s death. They needed Tardi’s status to get the loan, but knew that the droid may be discovered when leaving, so she had to ensure that the Imperials, namely Vader, destroyed the droid by using a weapon, so that the Imperials would have to cover up the “body” or risk being executed for having a weapon. This is guaranteed by R2-D2’s holorecord of Vader attacking Tardi with his lightsaber, which has been simultaneously sent to C-3PO outside the main police headquarters. Vader, however, has outfoxed her. Sure, the Rebels will get their X-wings, but he knew about Tardi all along. It was merely a scheme to get the Alderaan crown jewels, for which he bribed a bank official. In the end, both sides got what they wanted, and leave in peace . . . (The Third Law) • The Rebel Alliance sends Rogue Squadron with a force of Y-wings to strike at a newlydiscovered Imperial prison in the Maw near Kessel. The action frees numerous prisoners, taken during the Battle of Hoth. (To be continued below . . . )* (Rogue Leader)*

• NOTE: This summary is based on the Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader video game, not the comic book miniseries

X-wing: Rogue Leader. • Luke, Leia, R2-D2 and C-3PO arrive on a jungle planet in response to a distress signal from Prince Denid of Velmor. Two decades earlier, Denid had been ousted from Velmor and sent into hiding by treacherous Imperial elements on the planet. He escaped with Loren, his betrothed, and Jedidiah, an alien who was once asked to be a Jedi Knight, but declined. When they crashed on the jungle planet, Loren died and Jedidiah suffered brain-damage. Now with Denid and Jedidiah, the Rebels head to Velmor to help Denid reclaim his throne, but arrive just as Regent Zelor (who is in league with Imperial Captain Traal) is about to be coronated in Denid's place. Leia acts as the late Loren, while Luke acts as a bounty hunter named Korl Marcus, and they interrupt the ceremony. Denid's identity is proven, and he announces that Loren (Leia) is to be his queen, much to Luke's dismay. Zelor and Traal are also less than thrilled at the idea of losing the throne, so they hire Korl (Luke) to kill Denid. Luke plays along until later. Shortly before the ceremonial hunt for the royal "family," C-3PO learns that Jedidiah's brain-damage is irreversible, just as Luke is getting to the limits of his tolerance with the alien. During the hunt, Luke confronts Traal, only to have them both fired upon by Zelor, who wants no witnesses to his plot to kill Denid. As Luke duels Zelor, Traal tries to kill Luke, but Jedidiah leaps into the line of fire, saving Luke, but dying in the process. Luke then defeats Zelor and knocks Traal out. Denid is made king. Leia decides to return to the Rebel Alliance. Luke, in the meantime, buries Jedidiah, a true Jedi in action, if not in title. (The Last Jedi) • Luke Skywalker is called upon to lead a group of Rebels aboard an abandoned Star Destroyer that had appeared suddenly in the vicinity of Golrath. Aboard, they come upon a red stone, which somehow inflicts all of the party with the Crimson Forever. The ship is quarantined, and every person who was on-board dies, except for Luke Skywalker, who is slowly succumbing to the Crimson Forever, but fighting it through the Force. (conjecture based on The Crimson Forever) • Vael DeVay graduates from college (an Imperial university) with a degree in xenobiology. Her profession will eventually lead her to Kal’Shebbol. The Star Wars Timeline Gold 831 (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game--“The DarkStryder Campaign: The Kathol Outback—‘Plant Food’”) • The planet Annaj experiences an economic boom from the Death Star II’s construction at Endor. (conjecture based on Endor and the Moddell Sector) • After Leia Organa, aboard a Rebel blockade runner, saves Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca aboard the Millennium Falcon, she informs the two that they must call off their search for Han Solo and go with her to Golrath, one of the Rebel Alliance's temporary bases. Once on Golrath, Leia informs Lando and Chewie that Luke Skywalker has been stricken by the Crimson Forever, a deadly illness, brought on by a mysterious red stone. They are stumped as to how to help him until Chewbacca begins to tell them an amazing story . . .* (The Crimson Forever, Chapter I) • Chewbacca tells Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, and C-3PO about a time when he and Han Solo were forced by Imperial Star Destroyers to take refuge on the world Terminus and encountered a strange set of gems. Just as Chewbacca finishes the story, they are informed that Luke has succumbed to the Crimson Forever . . . (The Crimson Forever, Chapter II--"Chewbacca's Story: Rage in the Red Nebula!") • Knowing that the two red gems hold the key to curing the Crimson Forever, Lando Calrissian, Leia Organa, C-3PO, and Chewbacca head for the Red Nebula to find them. What they find instead is a derelict House of Tagge mining explorer. Inside, they find a group of bounty hunters including Bossk, Dengar, IG-88, and Zuckass (probably just Zuckuss spelled incorrectly) and their employer, Domina Tagge. Domina had sworn revenge for the death of her brother, Ormon Tagge, and set out to find something that could wipe out both the Alliance and the Empire. She found her answer with the Crimson Forever. She had hired the bounty hunters to help her take the gems from the planet in the Red Nebula and had succeeded. As they left the Red Nebula, they were caught by an Imperial Star Destroyer, which had pummeled the mining explorer and left it dead in space. The Imperials had boarded and tried to take both canisters holding the two gems, but the bounty hunters had made it so that they could only escape with one. The kidnapped priest opened the remaining container aboard the explorer and most of the crew died from the Crimson Forever. Out in space, the Imperials entered hyperspace, causing the other container to open, killing the crew and leaving the Star Destroyer to drift through hyperspace before leaving hyperspace at Golrath, due to Golrath's mass shadow. The Rebels escape from Domina, and instead of leaving her on the derelict explorer, offer her a bargain--if she will help cure the Crimson Forever's effects, they will grant her and the bounty hunters their freedom. They take them to the derelict Star Destroyer at Golrath, where the gems are reunited. They learn that the gems are sentient and create a positive aura when together, but a negative aura when apart. It is this aura that causes lifeforms to enter a suspended animation so thorough that it is impossible to tell from death. Reuniting the gems causes the positive aura to return and "bring the victims back to life." Luke recovers, as do the other victims. Domina is released with a small ship, and so are the bounty hunters, though Lando has convinced them that Domina would fetch a high bounty from the Imperials. The gems are then sent, aboard the Star Destroyer on auto-pilot, beyond the rim of the known galaxy, where they can, hopefully, do no one else any harm. (The Crimson Forever, Chapter III--"Against the Scarlet Night") • Captain Maraba Tev returns to the Rebel Alliance fleet, dead of internal injuries. When his ship is recovered, his message canister is found intact. When General Carlist Rieekan reads the contents of the canister, he sends a message to Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and Chewbacca. They are all recalled to the fleet (Leia from an uncharted world, Luke from a mission to recover an Imperial beacon, and Lando and Chewbacca from hunting for Han Solo). Back with the fleet, they are informed that the Empire is creating a new, modified Death Star known as the Tarkin. Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO are to infiltrate the Tarkin as workers at its spaceport supply depot on Patriim. Lando, being left out because of what he did to Han, feels he should try to make up for his betrayal and stows away on the mission. The team easily infiltrates the Tarkin, but Darth Vader senses Luke's The Star Wars Timeline Gold 832 presence and decides to lay a trap for him. He orders Captain Voal to leave the main reactor, which the Rebels will undoubtedly sabotage, unguarded. Voal, believing that Vader has overstepped his authority in executing several officers for failure, meets with his fellow high-ranking Imperials on the station and they enter into a pact--Darth Vader must die.* (Resurrection of Evil) • The Rebel team aboard the Tarkin manages to get to the main reactor, where Darth Vader is stalking in search of Luke Skywalker. The treasonous Imperials aboard the station know this as well, and decide to take advantage of the situation and open an airlock in the area, hoping to kill Darth Vader. Both Luke and Vader manage to survive, however. Vader heads out of the area while Luke rejoins the others, only to become pinned down by Imperial forces. On Patriim, Lando, newly out of hiding, is ordered to take the Millennium Falcon off-planet. Back on the Tarkin, the Rebels fight their way to an escape vessel, and are pursued shortly thereafter by a TIE fighter squadron, including Darth Vader. They dock and transfer to the Falcon just as the TIEs arrive in the vicinity. As Vader closes in, they jettison the ship's water supply, leaving a path of ice blocks in Vader's path. His TIE is disabled, but he is not killed, though those aboard the Tarkin believe him dead. The Tarkin then prepares to blast the Millennium Falcon, but when it tries to fire, it explodes. Leia had managed to reverse the polarity on the station's superlaser, causing it to backfire. With the Tarkin destroyed, the Rebels head back to the Rebel fleet. * (To Take the Tarkin) • Leia Organa goes on a mission to Yinchorr with several Yinchori. She is told they will be meeting with the Yinchori Elder Council about them joining the Rebellion, but instead, the Yinchori pull weapons on her and tell her that the local Imperial CO, General Wessel, has taken the Elder Council hostage and will only release them when they bring Leia to him. Wessel is not good on his word, though, and his forces attack the ship as it comes into range. Only Leia survives. Wessel sends stormtroopers to check the wreckage and the last one to depart discovers Leia. He recognizes her because he is from Alderaan and frees her from the wreckage. As he marches her back to the Imperial camp, the two argue over the merits of the Rebellion. He believes Alderaan was destroyed in vain, and all that is left of it is a small fragment of the planet that he wears on a chain around his neck. He begins to “come around,” but changes his mind and takes her to the Imperials anyway. Just then, the Millennium Falcon arrives, flown by Luke Skywalker, having tracked her down via an emergency beacon. During a heroic escape, the Alderaanian man turns to the Rebel side and helps Leia escape, but as he prepares to board the Falcon, he is shot and killed. His chain breaks off in Leia’s hand as the Falcon escapes. Leia can only mourn the loss of their new, if short-term, ally.* (The Alderaan Factor) • Over the planet Shiva, Leia Organa, deeply missing Alderaan, joins with Captain Chedaki in a Rebel shuttle preparing to launch from a Rebel vessel to explore Imperial activity in the area. They wander into a minefield, though, and the shuttle, sticking out from the ship, is hit badly. Chedaki is killed, and to keep the fire from alerting Imperials to the larger Rebel vessel, Leia releases the shuttle and allows herself to crash land to Shiva with little hope of rescue. Days later on Shiva, Aron the Peacebringer, co-leader of the Calian Confederacy, the second leader (Keral Longknife) and their associates see Leia under attack by outcasts. Aron and his men save Leia, but she cannot yet understand their language. Leia goes with them back past the throne city (Illyriaqum) to the blasted ruins of K’avor, recently destroyed. Leia realizes that the blue flame is the Cherenkov Effect, which means it was hit by an anti-matter bomb and pantomimes to convince Aron and the others to avoid the area. Unbeknownst to Aron, Prince Ygal Delois, his close advisor, was behind the attack. He’s in league with the Imperials. A few weeks later, Leia has come to almost integrate herself into Shiva’s royal society and has become the object of Aron’s attention, despite the fact that he’s married to Alisande. Leia has told of the Imperials, and Alisande believes her, it seems. Soon, at the gathering to celebrate the Concordat of Peace a year earlier, Leia dances with Delois, but races out crying, remembering Alderaan and how she is basically shirking her Alliance duties because she has no way to contact the Rebels or to get offworld. Suddenly, Imperial stormtroopers appear, capturing both Leia and Aron. Aron is then brought to Sk’ar, an alien The Star Wars Timeline Gold 833 Imperial General and head of the Strike Force for Shiva. Aron vows (right to Sk’ar’s face) to fight the Imperials . . . (The Last Gift from Alderaan!) • At the Imperial base on Shiva, Aron is taunted by Sk’ar and Ygal Delois, his betrayer. Leia Organa is brought in as well, as Delois outlines how the Empire intends to wipe out the capital, Illyriaqum and take over from the ashes of the leadership. While being escorted to their cells, Aron helps Leia get free and attack the Imperials, but Leia’s experiences getting closer to her Alderaanian heritage on Shiva makes killing a stormtrooper up-close somewhat unsettling to the once-hardened princess. They escape in a flier and race to the capital, where Aron faces Imperials and Leia begins defusing the anti-matter bomb planted there. Delois leaps in to kill Leia, but is stopped by the surprise arrival of Luke Skywalker. Luke, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian had come looking for Leia and found Keral Longknife, who brought them. The bomb is stopped, while Sk’ar escapes Lando, only to be slammed out of the sky by a gun mount tossed by Chewie. Shiva is safe from the Empire, but Aron knows his heart must return to Alisande and let Leia go. After a celebration of their victory, the heroes take the Millennium Falcon into space to stop an approaching Star Destroyer. Their luck is nearly out when Luke decides to race them around the event horizon of a black hole, a maneuver that the Star Destroyer fails to duplicate, causing its destruction. Glad to be back with her friends, but missing Alderaan and grieving for everyone lost in the Civil War, Leia recommits herself to the cause, vowing to finish her role as leader, for better or worse. (Starfire Rising!) • The Ugnaughts on Cloud City above Bespin rig Cloud City with bombs, forcing an evacuation of the city. (conjecture based on Coffin in the Clouds) • While the Death Star II is temporarily shifted to another location for further construction, the Rebels learn of its new position in space. Seeking to hide it once again, the Emperor orders it returned to orbit of the forest moon of Endor. En route back to Endor, the Death Star is boarded by Darth Vader, who has discovered a Rebel base on D’rinba IV. Rather than striking at it with Star Destroyers, Vader decides to attack it as a test of the new Death Star’s superlaser. He boards the vessel, right around the same time that a Rebel team (including Kyle Katarn, Shira Brie, and Erling Tredway, working for Corwin Shelvay) infiltrates the new Death Star. While the Rebels are unable to destroy the new battle station, they are able to disable its superlaser long enough to save D’rinba IV before they escape, assuming that the superlaser will remain out of commission.* (Assault on the Death Star and The Dark Forces Saga, Part I)*

• NOTE: The whole idea of shifting the Death Star II from Endor is the only option in order to make this story,

which is now being considered in-continuity since the publication of The Dark Forces Saga, Part I, fit into established continuity. I would’ve made it take place earlier, perhaps before any references to the space station being at Endor, but I had to accommodate all of the characters involved in the mission being within the Rebel Alliance at the time. But, hey, it’s another Kyle Katarn story, so that’s alright, yes? (If only we’d known that we were playing as Kyle in the game. We might’ve found it more interesting at the time.) • The Rebel Alliance is still searching for a base to replace Hoth. A team led by Leia Organa discovers a possible new location—the planet Arbra. With the exception of a native population of Hoojibs, things look good. That night, while Luke Skywalker (at the Rebel fleet) sees Lando Calrissian off on a personal journey to check on Cloud City, the Rebels on Arbra settle in for sleep, only to be awakened when Hoojibs are fond to be chewing on their electrical devices. When Chewie grabs one of them, it speaks to him telepathically. The Hoojib is named Plif, and he reveals that his race is sentient and feeds on energy, but lately they have had to find alternate sources from their normal resources because of a monstrous creature (a Yuuzhan Vong living advance scout creature) called the Slivilith has taken up residence in the crystal cavern they’d been feeding from. As if on cue, the Slivilith appears and attacks the Rebel encampment. As it leaves, the Rebels realize that they will need to get to the crystals to recharge their electronics now that the Hoojibs have gotten their fill from some of their stores. The Rebels attack the Slivilith at its cave with spears, to little effect. Leia then acts as bait and leads the Slivilith into the crystal cavern, just far enough that Chewie can grab its hindtails and use them to send the creature into the crystals, skewering it. It is, unbeknownst to them, their first victory against a Yuuzhan Vong creature. The The Star Wars Timeline Gold 834 Rebels recharge from the crystals with their immense power stores, and realize that this could be an excellent base, but Leia knows that they cannot impose themselves upon the Hoojibs. Plif, though, simply assures them that their home is theirs to share, and they would like to share it with their new friends. The Rebel Alliance has a new base. Meanwhile, Lando lands at Cloud City to find it abandoned . . . (Plif!) • On Cloud City far, far above the surface of Bespin, Lando Calrissian is investigating the abandoned city when he is attacked by Lobot, who is babbling about saving the city from an intruder. Lando escapes at about the same time that an Imperial craft lands, bringing Captain Treece and his stormtroopers. They are there to find and disarm bombs set by rebellious Ugnaughts, which was the reason for the evacuation. Lando attacks the Imperials and the chase is on. Meanwhile, on Arbra, Luke Skywalker and Lt. Shira Brie set out for Bespin in their X-wings to check on Lando. Back at Bespin, Lando evades stormtroopers until one of the bombs explodes. Entering the wreckage, Lando finds Treece and they team up for survival. Lando finds Lobot and leads him to where Treece traps him, so that Lando can fix Lobot’s cybernetic implants and get him back to normal. Lobot then uses his interface to deactivate all of the bombs. No sooner is that done than Treece turns on Lando, kicking him over the edge and off of Cloud City toward the surface miles and miles below . . . (Coffin in the Clouds) • At Cloud City, Lobot grabs an emergency jetpack and leaps off of the structure to save the falling Lando Calrissian, who had been pushed overboard by Imperial Captain Treece. They manages to reach the surface in one peace, where they are caught by Ugnaughts, whom they help save from Imperials, and are then brought to King Ozz. Meanwhile, up above on Cloud City, Luke Skywalker, Shira Brie, and R2-D2 arrive, only to come under fire by Treece. Back on the surface, Lando learns that the Imperials under Treece had basically turned Cloud City into a slave camp, with Treece making huge profits. Lando and Lobot head back up to Cloud City with an Ugnaught force and join the battle with Luke and Shira against the Imperials. Treece knocks Lobot out of the fight, supposedly stopping the heroes from rearming the bombs, but Luke uses the Force to fire their primers, scaring the Imperials into thinking the bombs were exploding and forcing them to retreat from the city. In the wake of the crisis, Lobot is restored to his proper place, while the Ugnaught return en masse. Lando even makes sure Darth Vader will find out about Treece’s skimming of Imperial profits. The heroes take to their individual ships and leave Bespin behind. (Hello, Bespin, Good-Bye!) • Brenn Tantor and his Imperial forces head for the forest moon of Endor, where they encounter the Ewoks. Luckily for the Empire, though, they are able to secure a location to set up a station that will act as a shield generator for the Death Star II above. Shortly thereafter, when the Empire loses contact with the planet Abridon and its Imperial base, Brenn Tantor leads a force to investigate. They find that the world has joined the Rebellion. Brenn leads the retaking of the capital city, then, along with a force under Beri Tulon, rounds up a bundle of Rebel leaders. Unfortunately, Tulon is leaning too close to the Rebellion himself, and he later tries to defect, ending in his capture by Brenn’s Imperials. General Tyr Taskeen of the Rebel Alliance tries to convince Brenn to become a Rebel as well, when Brenn refuses to kill innocents. Brenn heads for Kalaan, where he is debriefed by General Brashin, but when Brashin tells him that his brother Dellis is dead, just as Dellis believed would happen to him, Brenn no longer believes he is safe within the Empire. He believes what Dellis told him about their father. He contacts Taskeen about defecting. Upon arrival, Brenn is arrested as a traitor and will soon be executed. His men, fiercely loyal to him from years of service, break him out. Together, they break another Imperial prisoner, Luke Skywalker, out of custody. Upon getting to the Rebel Alliance, Brenn is imprisoned (since he’s an Imperial General after all). He is able, though, to strike a deal for his freedom: he will steal an AT-AT for the Rebellion. He is freed to do so, but he first heads for Ruul to save Tulon from execution for treason. Brenn and a Rebel team manage to get into an Imperial base on Ruul, saving Tulon, who then helps them steal access codes they’ll need to get into an Imperial base in the asteroid field of Trasse, where they can steal an AT-AT as Brenn promised. They soon head for Trasse, managing to steal the AT-AT, but when an Imperial Star Destroyer appears in orbit, they have The Star Wars Timeline Gold 835 to make use of the base’s ion cannon to disable to ISD, then they are able to escape with the AT-AT. Brenn is then sent to Abridon (again) to remove the Imperial forces there . . . (To be continued below . . . ) (Force Commander) • Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian and C-3PO are hunted by stormtroopers on Ventooine. They had come to look for a mysterious power source known as the Shadeshine. To evade capture, they head into a temple where they find a huge golden statue of Han Solo. A monk (Rov) named Vetter Piin enters and speaks of Han as a savior of his people. Piin touches a memory stone, and from it comes a recording in which Han recounts his adventure on Ventooine several years before the Battle of Yavin. Those events are the reason for the shrine to Han Solo. As the story comes to and end, the stormtroopers catch up with the group, but Luke has a plan. He records his voice onto a memory stone and uses it to lure the stormtroopers into the Hall of Satabs, where they are immediately put into suspended animation. Luke reflects that they would not have been saved if it hadn’t been for the story told by their absent friend, Han Solo. And, Lando adds, he would not have been saved if it had not been for Chrysalla, whom is in the Hall of Satabs right before their very eyes. The Rebels leave Ventooine without the Shadeshine, but with the knowledge that even when he isn’t present, Han Solo’s life still effects each of them. (Shadeshine!) • Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, Leia Organa, and the droids head for Belderone from a secret (or so they think) Rebel base on Kulthis. Upon arrival they are met by secretive townsfolk and two young men, Barney and Flint. Flint notices Luke's lightsaber and takes an extreme interest in the group, since his own father had been a Jedi Knight. When they mention having come from Kulthis, though, the majority of the people gathered around the Millennium Falcon retreat back to the city. It seems that the Imperial-controlled planet are more than a little wary of having a planet with Rebel sympathies so close, let alone a rumored Rebel base. When a woman reports the new arrivals to Imperial General Andrid (who has no love for Darth Vader, who is leading the Imperial forces in the system), Andrid decides to send three assassins after the group. The assassins fail that night, leading to two of them dead at Rebel hands and one at his own. The Rebels are now aware that the Empire is onto them, and Darth Vader knows they are aware, due to an intercepted transmission from an Imperial agent to General Andrid. Vader executes Andris and then heads to the surface with Colonel Maldrod. As Luke and Chewbacca head to Kulthis for reinforcements, Leia and Lando, led by Flint and Barney, head for the construction area where the people of Belderone are forced to build Imperial war machines. Upon arrival, they find several AT-ATs active and preparing to be picked up for a raid on Kulthis. As Barney and Flint lead one ATAT away using a hovercar, Leia and Lando work their way into the underground staging area and steal an AT-AT. Luke arrives with a squadron of X-wings and, together with Leia and Lando's AT-AT, the AT-ATs are defeated by the Rebels. One AT-AT remains, though. It is the one being led away by Flint and Barney. When their hovercar crashes and they are knocked unconscious, the AT-AT continues on its path of destruction, right to the boy's home town. When Flint finally awakens, he believes Barney to be dead and rushes home to find his town destroyed and his mother dead. Amid the rubble, he meets Darth Vader, who has sensed the Force-sensitivity Flint has inherited from his father. Vader takes Flint off Belderone. Shortly thereafter, the AT-AT has been stopped and the Rebels prepare to leave. Their newest member, Barney (battered but alive) hopes Flint will be okay somehow. Aboard Vader's Executor, Flint, wearing Stormtrooper armor, takes one last look at a picture of him and his mother, then boards an Imperial shuttle with the rest of the Stormtroopers.* (The Apprentice)*

• NOTE: This is not to be confused with another story by the same name from Gamer #8 or yet another story with

the same name from Star Wars Tales #17. • As Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian leave the Rebel base on Arbra to meet with the criminal Orion Ferret on his artificial world, Bazarre (to acquire four TIE Fighters for the Rebel cause), Leia Organa and the Rebels on Arbra prepare for a desperate plan to keep the Rebel fleet safe. They intend to use five kertz-bhrg field generators as the vertices of a shielded pyramid-shaped area in which to store the fleet. The fleet, once inside The Star Wars Timeline Gold 836 the shielded area, would then be deposited into the chromosphere of Arbra’s sun. The shields would keep the ships safe, while a thruster at the top vertex of the pyramid, the control generator, would give enough thrust to keep the pyramid from being tossed out of the star through its normal gravitational pull. If successful, the fleet would be both hidden and safe. Leia orders the generators activated and the fleet taken into the star. When a group of Imperial TIE fighters appear on scanners, Leia decides to get herself and several others back to Arbra base. On the way to the shuttle back to Arbra, R2-D2 and C-3PO get separated from the group and R2-D2 discovers that the shields are failing. The shuttle launches without them, while they head for the control area, only to find that a power surge that knocked out much of the station’s regular power has also released noxious fumes (from burning computer components), rendering the crew unconscious. The droids must save the shield generator and shield, or the fleet will be lost. Far away from Arbra, Luke and Lando arrive on Bazarre. Back at the fleet, R2-D2 and C-3PO go EVA to hook a power cable from one of the fleet ships to the generator to give it enough power to save the fleet. At Bazarre, Luke and Lando are surrounded by armed guards. At Arbra, Leia thanks the droids for their heroism, but the celebratory mood is cut short when the communications officer informs her that they have lost contact with Luke, Lando, and Chewbacca.* (Sundown) • Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and Chewbacca are surrounded by thugs on Bazarre, where they are to meet Orion Ferret to acquire used TIE fighters. Ferret calls off his thugs and meets with Luke and Lando. He agrees to sell them four TIE fighters, which they will have to go to Patch-4 to get. Knowing that Ferret may be deceiving them, they leave Chewbacca with Ferret with instructions to kill Ferret if they aren’t back in an hour. They head for Patch-4, where they find the TIE fighters but must battle a giant creature known as Ceasar. They are met by Serge Kesselrook and a group of “hoboes” who had stuck on the world for a while. They tell Luke and Lando that there is a sonic pacifier in the ship the two arrived in, which can control the beast, but they must get past the beast to get to it. On Bazarre, Ferret traps Chewbacca in a liquid structure. Back on Patch-4, Luke, Lando, and the hoboes fight their way to the ship. Back on Patch-4, Chewie escapes the liquid and chases after the fleeing Ferret. On Patch-4, Luke makes it to the sonic pacifier and stops the beast. They then take the four TIE fighters and head for Bazarre, where they arrive just in time to stop Chewie from killing Ferret. They return to Arbra, but only after informing Ferret that they had left the sonic pacifier with the hoboes, so he won’t be using Patch-4 anymore. (Bazarre) • A Rebel assault force, using TIE fighters acquired on Bazarre, attacks the Imperial base known as Spindrift. The team, led by Luke Skywalker and including Shira Brie, finds encoded information at the base about the Empire's plans to build a secret armada of Star Destroyers even greater than the Death Squadron led by Darth Vader's Executor. They take the information back to the Rebel base on Arbra, where Shira requests leave to visit her home. When Leia Organa refuses to grant the request for security reasons, Luke Skywalker agrees to go along, with several other escort team members, to ensure Shira's safety and the Arbra base's secret location. Aboard the flagship of the Imperial armada, Admiral Giel learns of the Rebels' assault on Spindrift, but he sees it as not being much of a threat. Luke, Shira, and the others arrive on Shalyvane, Shira's home planet, and head for the city of Chinshassa. Shira heads to the Circle of Kavaan alone and drops a bit of her blood upon a stone in the center. At that moment, a group of nomadic barbarians attacks the group. During the fray, Shira tells the others who the barbarians are. It seems that back when Shira lived there as a child, there was a band of nomadic barbarians who wandered the world, apparently with no other goal than the total genocide of the human population. Wars between the two species went on for years until the barbarians sued for peace. When the humans gathered at the Circle of Kavaan, however, the area was destroyed by a squadron of Imperial TIE fighters. Shira escaped into tunnels under the city. She had later learned that the barbarians had struck a deal with the Empire by telling the Empire that Shira's village was in league with the Rebel Alliance. Shira, outraged, left the planet and joined the Rebellion. She had come back to the planet to add her blood to that of her murdered family in remembrance of them. Luke hears the story and decides that they should try to escape using the same tunnels Shira had The Star Wars Timeline Gold 837 used years ago. Using R2-D2, they find an entrance, but the tunnel entrance collapses after Shira jumps in alone. The Rebels are about to be beaten when Shira (having escaped the tunnel through its other end) arrives in her X-wing to scatter the barbarians. Saved, the heroes return to Arbra.* (Shira's Story) • For her actions on Shalyvane, Lieutenant Shira Colla Brie is promoted to Captain by the Rebel Alliance. Meanwhile, Admiral Giel’s Imperial Star Destroyer carries a new Imperial biological “weapon” toward an eventual destination of Coruscant. The creature aboard is a Teezl or “Screamer,” a creature that can communicate with any receptor in the galaxy at the speed of thought, which could prove a great advantage for the Empire. It is the only one of its kind, so Giel is proud of his mission and his hopes for promotion. On Arbra, Luke Skywalker, Shira, Alph, and Thorben prepare for a new mission. First, Luke and Shira (after finally kissing and beginning what might soon be a relationship, Luke hopes) lead an attack on a TIE fighter on recon, forcing the pilot to hand over Imperial codes (under threat of Chewbacca tearing him apart). They then use that code in four TIEs acquired from the Ferret to infiltrate Giel’s armada, causing confusion and damage. Thorben is blasted, but alive, while Alph is shot down and killed. With frequencies jammed and making friend-or-foe identifications impossible, Luke closes in on the ship with the Teezl for one last super-blast from his TIE when another TIE gets in his way, possibly coming to attack him. The Force urges him to shoot, and he does so, wiping out the TIE, then the tower of the Star Destroyer, resulting in the Teezl’s death. Luke then escapes into hyperspace in his modified TIE, returning to Arbra. He expects a warm welcome, but soon discovers why he is being treated like an outcast. Thorben had recorded the final confrontation with the TIE between Luke and the Star Destroyer, and his recording confirms that the pilot was not an Imperial. It was Shira . . . (Screams in the Void) • Due to her altered physiology, Shira Elan Colla Brie survives her encounter with Luke Skywalker. Her mangled body secretly recovered by Imperials and taken aboard the Executor to be taken to Coruscant, where cybernetics will soon be added to save her life. (conjecture based on Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire and The Emperor’s Pawns) • For apparently killing Shira Brie, Luke Skywalker is now a Pariah among the Rebels. Not even Leia Organa can stand behind him on this. He is to be placed on house arrest for the time being, but “steals” (with very little resistance, let’s say) the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian and heads for Shalyvane with Chewbacca (who insisted on coming). They arrive and are accosted by natives while trying to get to the Circle of Kavaan that Shira recently visited. They escape to a cave, where they meet an old native named G’hinji. G’hinji begins to cut through the story Shira had told Luke about her past. The city of Chinshassa had never been home to humans. Three years earlier, the Empire had attacked with no apparent reason. Shira had lied. G’hinji takes Luke and Chewie to the Circle of Kavaan, where Luke finds a transmitter on the spot where Shira supposedly dripped her blood in memory of her family. Luke thinks that perhaps blood can somehow activate the transmitter (or recorder) and drips his own onto it. Moments later, Darth Vader appears. “Luke,” he says, “I have come for you.” (Pariah!) • On Shalyvane, Darth Vader appears before Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, and G’hinji. They duck for cover, but it is merely a projection from the transmitter in the Circle of Kavaan, activated by contact with Luke’s blood. Vader reveals that Shira Brie was an agent for the Empire. She was sent to discredit Luke, as has been done, so that the only person to whom Luke could turn to be accepted as an equal is Vader himself. The transmitter then explodes. Seeking to clear his name, but knowing it is probably a trap, Luke and Chewie head for the Imperial data vault on Krake’s Planet. Aboard the Executor, Admiral Giel comes before Darth Vader and is demoted to Lieutenant thanks to his loss of the Teezl. Shortly thereafter, Vader learns that the Shalyvane transmitter has been destroyed. Vader has them set course for Krake’s Planet. On the planet, Luke and Chewie break into the facility’s kitchen area, forcing the Imperial there to access records for Shira from there. Luke learns of her birth on Coruscant, training, genetic manipulation, and insertion as a spy in the Rebellion. He puts it The Star Wars Timeline Gold 838 on a chip, but arriving stormtroopers force him to flee without it. He makes it to the Millennium Falcon, but Chewbacca is back at the vault. Luke flies close enough for Chewie to board and then blasts out of the area, narrowly escaping the arriving Executor. They are save, but Luke believes the data was left behind . . . until Chewie reveals that the reason he stayed behind was to secure the chip. Luke has all he needs to clear his name. Back aboard the Executor, Vader visits the medical bay to check on its star patient—Shira Brie, who is even now being recuperated in bacta on her way to Coruscant for further alterations. We’ve not seen the last of Shira Brie . . . (The Mind Spider!) • A fully healed and cybernetically augmented Shira Elan Colla Brie begins training under Darth Vader in the Dark Side, seeking revenge against Luke Skywalker. From this moment forward, Shira is dead. She is now Lumiya. (conjecture based on Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire and The Emperor’s Pawns) • While waiting for data recovered on Krake’s Planet to be analyzed to bring Luke Skywalker to trial, Luke is sent with Berl and Cinda to the Belial system to form ties with the Serps of Serphidi, who are now under the rule of pro-Imperial King S’shah. They arrive in X-wings, but are attacked by TIE Fighters. Cinda is shot down, but survives. When the others arrive to pick her up, Berl is shot and killed, while Cinda is captured by King S’shah’s minions . . for food. Luke escapes and saves an elder Serp, Elglih, from a carnivorous plant. Elglih tells Luke that the only way to free Serphidi from S’shah is to defeat him in the coming joust combat, as per tradition, and Elglih is determined to be that victor. Soon, it becomes evident that Luke would be a better fighter, so when the joust is held, Luke goes against S’shah to free the people of Serphidi and Cinda. Luke defeats S’shah, barely, and turns the planet over to Elglih, who will make the world a friend of the Rebel Alliance. Luke and Cinda leave, knowing that Berl’s death was not in vain. (Serphidian Eyes!) • Thanks to data from Krake’s Planet, Luke Skywalker is cleared of the charges brought against him after Shira Brie’s apparent death at his hands. Luke reconciles with Leia Organa, who had been forced to abandon him in his troubles. Shortly thereafter, they learn a disturbing fact. The rocks of their former base on Golrath act as natural recorders, taking light rays as they get hotter and emitting them as they get cooler. This means that the entire Rebel base that was abandoned on Golrath could be one huge recorder to tell the Empire all about what transpired there, along with the location of the base on Arbra. The Rebels, led by Luke and Leia, race for Golrath. On Golrath, at the abandoned base, newly demoted Lieutenant Giel leads Imperials searching for Rebel clues. They discover the secret of the rocks and contact Darth Vader. Meanwhile, the Rebels arrive and are attacked by TIE Fighters. Leia takes a jetpack down to the base to set explosives in the dome. She ends up in a standoff with Giel, who would not mind letting the base blow and kill them both, so long as it gave glory to the Empire and made him a hero. Leia manages to escape, but the reactor, thanks to Leia’s handiwork, is going critical. The Rebels escape, but Giel gets off one lucky shot at Luke’s X-wing. The Rebels get out of range as the base explodes, covering all evidence, but when they all go to hyperspace to escape TIEs in pursuit, Luke’s damaged X-wing remains behind. He’s all alone . . . (Golrath Never Forgets!) • With his X-wing damaged on Golrath, Luke Skywalker makes his way to Beheboth, with Imperials hot on his trail. (conjecture based on The Water Bandits) • On Beheboth, Luke Skywalker is still pursued by Imperials. Knowing that he needs a fresh supply of food and supplies, Luke heads for the local trading post, Garrotine. He enters a local restaurant and asks if he might purchase food and water, and the man in charge says "yes" to food, but "no" to water. When Luke retorts that Galactic law requires that water be shared with those in need of it, citing Tatooine as an example, other customers realize that Luke's cover about being "from the North" is a lie, and jump him, assuming that he is a brigand, a member of a group of local raiders. The men are stopped by Darial Anglethorn, leader of the local resistance to the brigands. She takes Luke to her large moisture farm, so he can help her before he leaves the planet. He agrees, knowing how hard his uncle Owen The Star Wars Timeline Gold 839 and Aunt Beru had it on their moisture farm. That night, a strange mist enters the area, knocking out the moisture farmers and allowing the brigands to attack. Luke awakens to find Darial gone, prisoner of the brigands, and sets off for the brigand base to save her. Upon arrival, Luke is captured and brought, with the captive Darial, before the brigand leader, Gideon Longspar. There they learn that the "mist" was actually part of a vaporous collective organism/species known as the Tirrith. Longspar holds a large portion of the Tirrith captive, using it as a hostage to force the rest of the Tirrith to do his bidding. Luke and Darial are placed in a cell, but with the help of the Tirrith and the Force, they escape and make their way to the main Tirrith container. Longspar arrives and attacks them with Luke's lightsaber, accidentally freeing the rest of the Tirrith. Luke takes advantage of the distraction and knocks Longspar out, taking back his lightsaber. ON their way out, they are confronted by Longspar's forces, and Darial is forced to destroy several canisters of precious water to flood the area and defeat the brigands. Days later, back at Darial's moisture farm, Luke learns that the Imperials have left the system, so he prepares to leave. The Tirrith arrives and assures Darial that everything will be well, just as another portion of its vaporous collective seeds the clouds and causes it to rain on Beheboth for the first time in years. Luke leaves the planet and heads back to the Rebel fleet. (The Water Bandits) • On Arbra, fresh from his encounter on Beheboth, Luke Skywalker is called to a meeting of the Rebel Alliance leadership. In the search for Han Solo, the Rebels have discovered that Boba Fett had teamed with another bounty hunter, at least temporarily, in the search for Han, but had betrayed that hunter and taken Han all for himself. They have narrowed the betrayed hunter down to Dengar, IG-88, or Bossk, and believe that if they can find the betrayed hunter, they might learn where Fett is hiding before taking Han to Jabba the Hutt. It’s a long shot, but they’ll take it. Everyone is given assignments. At the same time, R2-D2 is called by an unknown force down into caves that the Hoojibs avoid. Plif alerts C-3PO and, with Chewbacca, they head into the caves. They discover an abandoned city surrounded by an energy barrier to keep out harsh emotions. They meet a creature of mind-energy made corporeal known as the Darker. The original inhabitants found their dark impulses undesirable and sought to get rid of them, creating the Darker. They decide to stop the Darker from using R2-D2 (who is in desperate need of repairs, to say the lest) and C-3PO to dismantle the energy barrier and run free, but before they can attack the Darker, it turns Chewie against C-3PO, who is forced to flee. In the end, invoking Han’s memory snaps Chewie out of it and, with the help of the Hoojibs, Chewie gets the better of the Darker and hurls it into the barrier, negating its existence. They then escape the city just as the barrier implodes, destroying the city. One more crisis averted, but there will be no rest. The search for Han Solo is about to begin . . . (The Darker) • Tobbi Dala is captured by slavers. At about the same time, Dengar is captured by Fenn Shysa. (conjecture based on The Search Begins) • Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO head out to search for Boba Fett and rescue Han Solo. Leia and C-3PO decide to track down Dengar, who apparently was supposed to be Fett’s partner in hunting Solo until Fett found Solo himself. They go to Mandalore, Dengar’s last known location, and encounter slavers. The slavers are defeated by a group of mercenaries led by a man who appears to be Boba Fett. Leia calls him by that name and he laughs, revealing his true identity. He is Fenn Shysa. Years earlier, he and his fellow Mandalorian Supercommandos were called into the Clone Wars on the side of the Emperor. When the conflict was over, only 3 of the 212 commandos survived—Fenn Shysa, Tobbi Dala, and, supposedly, Boba Fett (though this was actually Alpha-02 AKA Spar AKA Mandalore the Resurrector). Fenn and Tobbi had stayed behind to help guard the people of Mandalore. Days ago, Tobbi had been captured by slavers who wish to exchange him for Dengar, whom Fenn managed to capture. Leia knows that Dengar could provide valuable information about Han’s whereabouts, so while she eats with Fenn, she has C-3PO free Dengar. She escapes from Fenn (using a kiss as a ploy) and she, Dengar, and C-3PO escape the Mandalorian encampment. Dengar knows who Leia is, The Star Wars Timeline Gold 840 though, so he has activated a beacon that brings the local Imperials right to them. There appears to be no escape.* (The Search Begins) • On Mandalore, the captive Leia Organa and C-3PO are taken to the local slaver base and brought before the Suprema. Fenn Shysa infiltrates the base as a stormtrooper and saves them, agreeing to help them get Dengar if they help him free Tobbi Dala. They find Tobbi, but he is shot (and badly wounded) by the Suprema. Fenn, Leia, and C-3PO must escape alone, while Tobbi causes the destruction of the base, while still inside with the Suprema. The heroes then capture Dengar and learn that Boba Fett may be taking Han Solo to the Anga system. Far away, aboard the gambling station known as The Wheel, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca learn the whereabouts of the bounty hunter Bossk, who may also have a lead for them about Boba Fett.* (Death in the City of Bone) • Both Lando Calrissian and Luke Skywalker now have leads on Han Solo in the forms of IG- 88 and Bossk, who are both on Stenos. Luke, Lando, R2-D2, and Chewbacca take the Millennium Falcon to Stenos, and while en route, Luke explains what happened with Rik Duel, Dani, and Chihdo the last time they were on Stenos nearly three years ago. (The Stenax Shuffle) • On Stenos, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian leave R2-D2 and Chewbacca aboard the Millennium Falcon and head into the capital city, where they intend to find IG-88 and Bossk in the local cantina. When they arrive, though, they are spotted by Drebble, who holds a grudge against Lando. In the middle of the firefight that ensues when Drebble offers a reward for his capture, they make their escape, but lose sight of their targets. Outside, they get separated, and Luke stumbles across Rik Duel and Danni (who is, in her usual Zeltron manner, overjoyed—or overly aroused—to see him). Rik explains how he, Dani, and Chihdo survived the attack of the Stenaxes a few years earlier, but Chihdo is missing, it seems. Luke says he’ll help them find Chihdo, but when they leave and he sees Lando, he takes off with Lando in pursuit of a carbonite storage block, which they believe has to be Han. They let Chewbacca know they’re found Han and track the block to a warehouse. When they get to the slab, though, they realize that it isn’t Han. It’s Chihdo, and they have fallen into the bounty hunters’ trap . . . (Return to Stenos) • On Stenos, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian are cornered by Bossk, IG-88, and other goons. They are saved, though, when Rik Duel and Dani leap out from behind the carbonite Chihdo and attack. Luke and Rik manage to escape, but Dani and Lando are captured. Luke tries to contact Chewbacca and R2-D2 to let them know the slab wasn’t Han, but Chewie and R2-D2 are already en route to Luke, despite encounters with the Stenaxes, who appear to ignore aliens on their world. Lando and Dani get free of their guard, but Drebble’s people are still in pursuit. At the base where they were being taken, Chewie and R2-D2 arrive by ground and Chewie assails a Stenax (with reason). Meanwhile, Rik and Luke break in from above. Inside, Lando and Dani realize they’ve been herded into a carbon-freezing room. They are recaptured, but Luke and Rik leap in to save them . . . and are captured as well, until Stenaxes burst in and attack the goons. Bossk and IG-88 escape, while the Rebels marvel at the Stenaxes. It seems they only get involved when persuaded by force, which Chewie knows all about. They leave, their mission a failure. Rik has been left behind to plot the creation of a Stenax fighting force, Chihdo is still in carbonite, and Dani . . . has stowed away on the Millennium Falcon. It looks like this core Rebellion group has one more member, for now. (Fool’s Bounty) • Prince Xizor replaces most of his Star Viper fighters with the slower but more sturdy Supa Fighters. (conjecture based on Iron Fist via TimeTales, verbatim) • Around this time, Raith Sienar is killed in an assassination. Sienar Fleet Systems falls under the full control of the Santhe family, and it will be Lady Valles Santhe that keeps the company growing even after the Battle of Endor.* (conjecture based on The New Essential Guide to Characters)* The Star Wars Timeline Gold 841

• NOTE: This could take place any time after Raith Sienar’s last appearance and the Battle of Endor.

• Imperial Lieutenant Virar Needa begins service on Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellite 2711 over the planet Coruscant. (conjecture based on Wedge’s Gamble via TimeTales, verbatim) • Jodar Frein, an Alliance Lieutenant, is placed in command of Sandwind Team. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Secrets of the Sisar Run” via TimeTales, verbatim) • Prince Xizor’s plans toward replacing Darth Vader as the Emperor’s right hand man take shape.* (Shadows of the Empire Prequel)*

• NOTE: This story never came to exist. Consider this historical curiosity.

• Bounty hunters Dengar and the Boba Fett look-alike Jodo Kast reluctantly team-up to catch an elusive bounty on pirates who have attacked a New Republic vessel.* (Dengar and Jodo Kast: Preying for Time)*

• NOTE: Don’t remember this one? Don’t be surprised. This information is based on research conducted by

frequent contributor Andrew Gordon into stories proposed or put into production for the Official Continuity but eventually cancelled for some reason. The most famous of these stories is Lightsider, of course, but this teamup is among them as well. The story never came to exist, so the information is just flavor text for our purposes, with no C-Level Canon backing whatsoever at this point. Consider it historical curiosity. • Imperial Rear Admiral Michael Unther speaks at the Duluur Sector Naval Academy during a Fleet Tactics 241 class. (A World to Conquer) • Near the Kuat Drive Yards, Shannon Vorsoon, a 9-year-old computer slicer, finishes a story about Veni and Vici Ramunee, two Jedi Knights of millennia past, and manages to slice into a Kuat Drive Yards file detailing that six new Star Destroyers (the Impervious, the Penetrator, the Inflexible, the Indomitable, the Inexorable, and the Exterminator) are being built. Her cousin Deen arrives to speak with Johan and Nell, Shannon’s parents. He tells her that he’s been out “slaying dragons,” implying that he’s part of the Rebel Alliance. He mentions being on the team adapting the T-47s on Hoth. When they talk about how the Empire destroyed Alderaan to try to kill an idea, Shannon shows Deen the file she sliced into, and he is amazed. That night at dinner, Deen suggests that Nell, who helps run the station’s docking area, help him to steal a Colony Class 23669 Power Generator that is meant for Imperial hands and make it look like a computer error. She is appalled and figures out that he’s a Rebel. The ensuing anger and conflict within the family grows to the point where Deen is forbidden from mentioning the Rebellion. All seems lost for the Rebel group until Shannon uses her slicing skills to do mess with the loading schedule, allowing the Rebels to take the generator. Shannon stows aboard the Rebel ship, Boo Rawl’s Long Run. As the Imperials discover the theft and both they and the station workers prepare to fire on the ship, the Rebels pretend Shannon is a hostage, instead of their newest recruit, allowing them just enough time to escape into hyperspace. Shannon has now joined Deen in his mission to slay the Imperial dragon. (Slaying Dragons) • Imperial slavers, led by Admiral Mir Tork and Dr. Leonis Murthe of the Azgoghk, arrive on Gulma and take the local Gulmarid populace as slaves. (To be continued below . . . ) (Agent of Doom) • As Admiral Harkov’s treachery continues behind the scenes, Maarek Stele is transferred yet again. This time, he is sent to the Pakuuni system to the frigate Ludwick. The Ludwick is part of a group of ships under the command of Vice Admiral (secretly Grand Admiral, but without an official granting of the title) Thrawn, aboard the Victory-class Star Destroyer Stalwart. They are to take out pirates in the area. Aboard the Ludwick, Maarek discovers his three old pilot friends—Grommet, Alimet, and Ketcher. They are all under Commander Buckeye, who soon is meeting with visiting Vice Admiral Thrawn, when Grommet convinces the others to talk their way into the hangar to take out ships on “maneuvers” to relieve their boredom. For their actions, they are assigned to clean up the pirate’s base when it is captured. During the cleanup, Ketcher discovers a strange, glowing crystal, which he keeps as a necklace. The Imperials then hold the Pakuuni system, while Space Station NL-1 is constructed. They help protect the station until it is completely finished, even as Ketcher’s health seems to be The Star Wars Timeline Gold 842 deteriorating, likely due to the strange crystal. Before long, Maarek is transferred again, this time to the frigate Shamus under Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin. While aboard the Shamus, he meets a cadet named Xeal, whom he takes under his wing to a degree. As for missions, Zaarin and Major Chundha, his XO, are dealing with two formerly partnered parties, the Habeen and the Nharwaak. Both had worked together to provide new technology to Zaarin for the Empire, but now the Nharwaak are thinking of selling to the Rebel Alliance as well. Maarek and his fellow pilots carry out attacks on the Nharwaak, defeating them, but Xeal is apparently killed (or, at least, Maarek can’t find him after the battle). As for the Habeen, they and the Imperials rendezvous at Mylok IV and make a former arrangement by which the Empire gets the technology and the Habeen earns full Imperial citizenship. They are later informed (in part by the Secret Order) that the Nharwaak are still dealing with the Rebels. Another raid is carried out, during which Maarek discovers new Habeen technology that they have not revealed to the Empire yet. Could they be hiding it from the Empire, or could Zaarin know of it and be hiding it for himself? He doesn’t have time to find out, as he is tapped by the Secret Order again. Their mission: to be transferred back to the Protector under Harkov, whom they are close to flushing out and arresting. Upon arrival, he discovers Alimet on the ship. All is not well, though. Ketcher has died, and Grommet met a woman during leave and ended up defecting to the Rebel Alliance. Even worse, Harkov is suspicious of Maarek and orders his subordinate, Vondruln, to be sure that Maarek dies during his next mission. The Secret Order warns Maarek, though, and he escapes, causing Harkov to kill Vondruln as punishment. As for Maarek, he escapes the mission (in which he narrowly escapes death at Imperial hands) by boarding the frigate Osprey. He is ready to tell the Secret Order to kiss off, until they reveal that it was Harkov who killed Maarek’s former mentor, Admiral Mordon. It was Harkov, it seems, that Mordon had suspicions about. Maarek is in it now for revenge. As the Empire strikes against Harkov, he goes fully to the Rebel side, taking refuge aboard a Rebel space platform. In preparation for an attack on the platform, Maarek is in the hangar in time to see a new arrival—Captain Trace! Trace is now working with the Secret Order, not eliminated as Maarek feared. Finally, the platform is attacked, and Harkov is captured. Unfortunately, his fleet is elsewhere, so the threat of his subordinates acting on his behalf still exists. As for Harkov himself, Darth Vader kills him when he refuses to reveal his fleet’s location. The question of Zaarin remains, however . . . (To be continued below . . . )* (The Stele Chronicles)*

• NOTE: I’m listing this story under the title of the novella that was expanded upon in the TIE Fighter Official

Strategy Guide to create an overall fiction story to go with the game strategies. Most of the events, though, were originally covered in the TIE Fighter computer game. (It’s just easier to merge the story and present it as one tale, rather than trying to split it up, which would get really, really ugly.) • A short time before rescue attempts are made to recapture Han Solo from Boba Fett, Guri kills the bounty hunter Boussh. (conjecture based on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game—“Rebellion Era Sourcebook”) • While on an undercover mission, CorSec officer Hal Horn is brutally murdered by the Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk in a tapcafe on Corellia, before his son Corran’s eyes. Corran captures Bossk, but Imperial liaison officer Kirtan Loor lets the hunter go. Corran is unable to take revenge on Bossk due to Loor’s Imperial ties. Horn’s body is cremated, and his ashes jettisoned into space between Corellia and Selonia. (conjecture based on The Krytos Trap via TimeTales, verbatim) • Gariel Captison becomes a Senator on Bakura, after finishing her year of postgraduate work on Coruscant. (conjecture based on Truce at Bakura and The New Essential Guide to Characters) • In space, the Rebel fleet is attacked by an Imperial force, but manages to win the foray. Aboard the Executor, Darth Vader is informed by Emperor Palpatine that he must call off his hunt for Luke Skywalker and deal more directly with the construction of the Death Star II at Endor. To do this, he must negotiate with Prince Xizor of Black Sun, whom he loathes. Based on what he observed during Vader's communication with the Emperor during the Hoth debacle, he intends for his hired hands or bounty hunters to kill Luke Skywalker and then blame Vader for the action--a blatant betrayal of Palpatine's wishes. Boba Fett arrives in the The Star Wars Timeline Gold 843 Tatooine system but is attacked by IG-88, who wants Han Solo. Fett destroys IG-88B and IG-88C, but must divert to Gall (which is to the Rebel’s benefit, as Fett had planted information as a diversion to send the Rebels to Gall, which may be reaching them even has he heads for the world). On Coruscant, Darth Vader hires Jix to capture Luke Skywalker. With the Rebel fleet, Luke, Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, and the others learn that Fett is on Gall. (A small group of traders on Gall were given the information by Vossuk, an information broker.) Along with their hired smuggler Dash Rendar, they head for Gall. The fleet attacks the Imperial vessels in orbit, while the Millennium Falcon and the Outrider head for the spaceport to find Fett. On the surface, Fett has trouble of his own, narrowly escaping Bossk, 4-LOM, and Zuckuss (the latter two of whom are working for Rebel Special Forces now), along with another group of ruffians who are distracted when they attack Vossuk and his companions as part of a decoy Fett set up. As they reach the spaceport, Dash takes the Outrider and leaves (since he was paid to guide, not shoot) and Fett escapes. In space, an X-wing is taken over by its astromech and it attacks Luke. The astromech, it seems, was programmed by a Black Sun operative to assassinate Luke. Luke decides to return to Tatooine and Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut to hide and build a new lightsaber. On Tatooine, Jix cons (and survives) his way into Big Gizz's swoop gang. Leia decides to infiltrate Black Sun to learn who is after Luke, while, on Tatooine, Dash arrives, hired by Leia to protect Luke. Shortly after Luke finishes building his new green lightsaber, the swoop gang attacks, but between Jix trying to save Luke for Vader, Dash trying to save Luke for Leia, and Luke trying to save himself, the swoop gang is defeated. As the dust clears, a Rebel message pod lands bearing a message for Leia. Luke listens to it and learns that Koth Melan and the Bothan spies have uncovered information about the Death Star II and know the location where the ship carrying the plans for that station will be open to ambush. (Along with these plans are a map to the Sanctuary Pipeline, the safe route to the station’s construction site at Endor.) The ship is alone, despite the objections of Darth Vader, who is unaware that Palpatine has hired Xizor to transport it specifically so that the Rebels can find it and walk into a trap. Luke and Dash intercept the Suprosa and Dash steals the plans. Luke then heads for Melan's base on Kothlis, but are attacked by Skahtul's bounty hunters. Luke is captured. Leia contacts Avaro, Greedo's uncle, and then meets with Xizor's Human Replica Droid (HRD), Guri, who provides them with disguises (as Boussh and Snoova). They go to Coruscant and meet Xizor, who tries to use his Falleen pheromones to seduce Leia. Vader heads to Kothlis to take Luke back to the Emperor, but Luke manages to escape with Lando (who had been told of Luke's predicament by Dash). When Vader arrives, he learns that Xizor has ordered Luke's death. Vader then is contacted by Jix, who tells him that the orders were masked to make people believe that Vader ordered Luke's death. At Coruscant, our heroes make their way through the sewers to rescue Leia and Chewbacca. They meet up with Leia and make their escape, but not before Luke must face off with Guri. Guri nearly dies when the explosives planted by the Rebels destroy Xizor's palace, but she manages to escape with a paraglider. Xizor also escapes and heads for his skyhook. Xizor orders a full-scale attack on the heroes (aboard the Millennium Falcon and Outrider) as Vader arrives, followed shortly by Rogue Squadron. The three-way battle ends in Vader ordering the skyhook (with Xizor aboard) destroyed, the Falcon and Rogue Squadron escaping, and Dash appearing to die, but actually escaping into hyperspace. Shortly thereafter, Fett arrives on Tatooine (after having repeated run-ins with the other bounty hunters) and delivers Han to Jabba the Hutt. Elsewhere on Tatooine, Luke and the others mourn Dash and prepare to infiltrate Jabba's palace as soon as possible, though another few quick missions will be necessary before the rescue plan can be finalized and put into effect. At Endor, Vader arrives aboard the Executor to oversee mid-stage construction of the Death Star II--the trap for the Rebellion has been set. (Shadows of the Empire, et al)*

• NOTE: By "et al" here, I am including the SOTE novel, SOTE comics, SOTE video game (beaten on Jedi

difficulty), Battle of the Bounty Hunters, and any other SOTE crossover materials. This includes the unlisted mini-comics that came with several of the toys, as their status is unclear, since they tell the same story in vastly different wordings and the like. • After a quick mission to help Luke Skywalker and Dash Rendar steal the Death Star II plans from the Suprosa, the computer is sent to Kothlis. When the Kothlis safehouse is destroyed, the Bothans send it to a new base (Kothlis II), only to have that “safe location” come under The Star Wars Timeline Gold 844 attack by Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer Executor. They then transfer the plans to the Rebel vessel Razor . . . (To be continued below . . . ) (X-wing Alliance) • The secret plans for the Death Star II, taken from the Suprosa, have made their way to the Razor, a Rebel blockade runner, stationed over Kothlis, where the Empire has attempted to recover the data. Unfortunately, the Star Destroyer Avenger emerges above the planet, striking at the Razor. Before the Imperials can get away, though, Rogue Squadron damages the Avenger badly enough to force a crash landing on Kothlis, where Crix Madine leads a commando squad to recover the plans from the Imperials. The plans are recovered. (To be continued below . . . )* (Rogue Leader)*

• NOTE: This summary is based on the Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader video game, not the comic book miniseries

X-wing: Rogue Leader. • Transferred to Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin’s Imperial research facility, Maarek Stele is surprised to be taken somewhat under the Admiral’s wing, similar to how Admiral Mordon had taken him in. However, he is suspicious of Zaarin’s motives, along with Zaarin’s desire that Maarek be loyal to him, rather than to the Empire. (Perhaps a poor choice of words on Zaarin’s part, but certainly suspicious to Maarek). Zaarin’s research facility is working on a new kind of TIE fighter, the TIE Defender. Maarek participates in missions to protect convoys and shipments of the vessels and their earlier prototypes, but the Secret Order suggests that not all is as it seems at the facility. A while after coming to the facility, Trace shows up there, now as a Major. He and Maarek discuss their doubts about the Empire’s current state, leaning toward a discussion about the merits of the Rebellion. Amid the conversation, “Major Trace” reveals his true identity. He is Hamo Blastwell of the Rebel Alliance (and, of course, comrade of Keyan Farlander). Maarek won’t turn him in, but he’s sick of different parties trying to use him and draw him to their side. He simply tells Hamo to get the hell out of his quarters. Maarek’s next mission comes when Galactic Electronics starts selling technology to the Rebels, requiring Zaarin to take action on behalf of the Empire. Zaarin, Chundha (his XO), Maarek, and others leave the research facility and head for Galactic Electronics aboard Zaarin’s Imperial Star Destroyer Glory. In the wake of a successful blow to the traitorous company, Maarek is drawn aside by a stormtrooper and brought to a secluded location. There, the trooper (who turns out to be his old friend from Kuan, Pargo) brings a prisoner to see him. The prisoner is Maarek’s father, who had gone missing during the Bordali War! Maarek cannot free him, the Secret Order may be able to do so. He offers to continue doing the Order’s bidding, only if his father is freed. They decide to do so, while Maarek is transferred to Darth Vader’s current flagship (basically that meaning whatever ship he’s on at the moment), the Garret. He then joins an elite group of pilots in missions to attack the remnants of the traitorous Admiral Harkov’s fleet, including his former posting, the Protector. While aboard the Garret, he also discovers his old pilot friend, the young Xeal, who is now a lieutenant. Soon, they make a final assault on Harkov’s old fleet, only to come under fire from their own reinforcements from Zaarin’s command. Zaarin has betrayed the Empire as well, but he isn’t planning to defect, only to gain power for himself. Maarek joins a small TIE Defender group led by Vader himself to get past Zaarin’s forces and to the Osprey, aboard which they will head for Coruscant to warn Emperor Palpatine of Zaarin’s bold move against the Empire. Meanwhile, Hamo “Trace” Blastwell manages to escape from Zaarin’s command with word of the TIE Defenders’ existence. Upon reaching the Osprey, Vader, Maarek, and their comrades set out for Coruscant, but it is almost too late. Zaarin has led a coup! Palpatine has been abducted by Zaarin’s co-conspirator, Arden Lyn, and is aboard a shuttle en route for Zaarin’s Glory. Vader and Maarek again lead a strike in TIE Defenders against Zaarin’s forces, saving Palpatine from the shuttle. Even as Palpatine is sent to a safe place for the time being, Maarek’s father is freed from Imperial custody, and Maarek is congratulated once again by Vader for his service to the Empire.* (The Stele Chronicles)*

• NOTE: I’m listing this story under the title of the novella that was expanded upon in the TIE Fighter Official

Strategy Guide to create an overall fiction story to go with the game strategies. Most of the events, though, were originally covered in the TIE Fighter computer game. (It’s just easier to merge the story and present it as one tale, rather than trying to split it up, which would get really, really ugly.) The Star Wars Timeline Gold 845 • Having helped save Palpatine from Arden Lyn’s kidnapping plot for Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin, Maarek Stele is discovered to have Force potential. The Prophets of the Dark Side begin to train him. As he learns to use his starfighter much like a Dark Jedi uses a lightsaber, the Emperor makes him his newest hand, granting him the title rank of Ta. (conjecture based on The Emperor’s Pawns)

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Behind the scenes

The vast majority of information here is taken wholesale from the Star Wars Timeline Gold by Nathan Butler, and is used with the author's permission.