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Han Solo, now a Lieutenant in the Imperial Army, rescues a dozen Wookiee slaves -- including one called Chewbacca -- from the bounty hunter Bossk. He defends Chewbacca against mistreatment by Imperial Commander Nyklas, and is promptly dishonorably discharged. Chewbacca, somehow freed, believing he owes a life-debt to Solo, trails him around. At first wary, Solo eventually comes to accept Chewbacca as a partner. With the aid of Mako Spince, Solo eventually becomes a pirate and smuggler.
"SW: The Hutt Gambit" and "SW: Tales of the Bounty Hunters.
A rebel uprising on the Devaronian system results in a massacre in the holy city of Montellian
Serat, with over 700 rebels killed.
"SW: The Hutt Gambit."
Irek Ismaren, son of Imperial concubine Roganda (and Emperor Palpatine?), is born. He shows
early aptititude in the Force, and Roganda trains him in the ways of the Dark Side.
"SW: Children of the Jedi."
Prince Isolder's older brother is killed by the pirate Harravan. The teenage Isolder goes
undercover as a pirate and begins to hunt for Harravan.
"SW: The Courtship of Princess Leia."
Soontir Fel becomes a teacher at the Prefsbelt IV academy. Among the students he teaches in
the following years are Hobbie Klivian, Biggs Darklighter, and Tycho Celchu.
"X-Wing Rogue Squadron: In the Empire's Service."
Dash Rendar's older brother Stanton is killed in a freighter crash in Coruscant. The freighter
crashes into the Emperor's private wing of the Imperial Museum, destroying several Jedi and
Sith artifacts. A furious Palpatine orders the Rendar family stripped of everything short of their
lives and banishes them from the Core Worlds. (Their holdings are given to Prince Xizor, who
"arranged" the crash.) Cadet Dash is expelled from the Academy of Carida and banished as
well. He eventually becomes a smuggler.
"SW RPG Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook."
Moff Willhuf Tarkin kidnaps several Omwati children and trains them to serve as designers and
tacticians. (Failure means the destruction of not only the child, but the child's family and home
city.) Of the ten children, only Qwi Xux survives the training.
"SW: Jedi Search" and "SW Jedi Academy Sourcebook."
Lando Calrissian comes into possession of the Millenium Falcon (bought in a sabacc game on
Bespin), and sets off on a series of adventures that helps to build his reputation.
Shortly before "Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu," at the same time as the early
chapters of "The Hutt Gambit."
In one of his earliest smuggling runs, Han Solo and the rest of the crew of a Corellian
Rimrunner are captured on Skye and hunted like animals by the vindictive Majestrix. Of the
20-man Corellian crew, only Han and "Laughin'" Katya M'Buele survive.
The Marvel Series, Annual #1.
"The Hutt Gambit."
Now a struggling amateur smuggler, Han Solo makes his way to Nar Shaddaa with his new
friend Chewbacca, chased all the way by bounty hunters working for Teroenza. They meet up
with Mako Spince, who helps Han learn more about the smuggling business.
Five months later, Solo is starting to make a name for himself. He travels to Kessel for the first
time, and comes to work for Lord Jiliac and his great-nephew Jabba. Three months later, Han
rescues one of Jiliac's ship from Drell pirates working for Aruk, a rival Hutt. At the same time,
Teroenza finally hires the most dreaded bounty hunter of all -- Boba Fett -- to catch Han.
Two months later, Han has just met (and had a brief fling with) the magician Xaverri when Fett
catches up to him. Just when it seems Han's finished, a gambler named Lando Calrissian
comes to the rescue and forces Fett off. In return, the grateful Han helps teach Lando how to fly
the Millenium Falcon.
Deciding to lay low for a while, Han tells a now-pregnant "Lady" Jiliac (Hutts are
hermaphrodites) that he's leaving Nar Shaddaa. But first he transports the Hutts to a meeting of
all Hutt clans on Nal Hutta, where Aruk of the Besadii clan accuses Jiliac of raiding Ylesia. (The
real raiders are Corellian rebels led by Bria Tharen.) Jabba counter-accuses Besadii of stealing
from fellow Hutts, and putting the Hutts in danger of the Emperor's wrath.
[The rest of the book summary continues down below.]
Brendan Tonkin, I hope you're happy now! :)
(NOVEL -- Bantam Books -- Ann Crispin -- 1997)
"Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu."
Intrigued by stories of ancient treasure, Lando Calrissian sets off from Oseon 2795 for the Rafa
system in the newly bought Millenium Falcon (Note: This is before Lando became a good pilot).
No sooner does he land on Rafa IV(and buy the droid Vuffi Raa to fly the Falcon) than he is
attacked and arrested by local police on trumped-up charges. The planetary governor, Duttes
Mir, in league with a Tund sorcerer named Rokur Gepta, offers Lando a choice--death, or help
them find the fabled Mindharp of Sharu, a religious artifact of rumored great power.
Given a a Key that would unlock the the way to the Mindharp, Calrissian doesn't even know
where to begin. He begins hopping bars, hoping to find someone who would know the Key. He
finds one in a old Toka who calls him "Emissary." The man, Mohs the High Singer, offers to
help Lando find the Mindharp. He leads Lando to Rafa V, where the party is attacked by
Captain Jandler (the cop who attacked Calrissian at the hotel and the bar earlier) ordered to
get the Key by Governor Mir. The team defeats Jandler and finds a glass pyramid that serves as
gateway to the Mindharp....
Four months later, Lando returns to Rafa IV--having felt like he was only a few days away.
Giving the Mindharp to Mir, he's immediately thrown back in jail, but manages to escape as
Mir, believing he'll receive absolute power, inadvertantly uses the Mindharp for its true
purpose--reawakening the former civilization of Rafa, the Sharu. The Millenium Falcon gets
away with the last Life-crystals to be harvested from the system, and Gepta vows revenge....
(NOVEL -- Del Rey Books -- L.Neil Smith -- 1983)
Lando Calrissian buys a spaceship lot from a Duros with the money from the life-crystals.
"SW: The Hutt Gambit."
Lola Hask purchases the Buzzzer, a Cindev series IV picket ship, formerly used by pirate Crimson Jack. Hask continues his terror spree across the galaxy. "X-Wing Rogue Squadron Handbook."
"The Hutt Gambit (continued)."
Han rents a ship from Lando (calls it the Bria) and goes back to work for Jabba. Jabba in return
talks Boba Fett out of the bounty for Han. Han meets mechanic Shug Ninx, Rik Duel, and a
female smuggler named Salla Zend, whom Han falls in love with. He also adopts a street kid
named Jarik.
Fed up with Aruk, Teroenza makes a deal with Jiliac to kill him by poisoned nala-tree frogs. To
the Hutt's shock, Sector Moff Sarn Shild announces that the Emperor has ordered a crackdown
on Hutt activities and all illegal activites in Hutt space. Han is sent to Coruscant as a peace
emissary to Shild, who says that the Hutts will not be hurt if they "cooperate," and that Nar
Shaddaa will be "made an example of." Han is shocked to see Bria as Shild's apparent
mistress. (She's not.)
The Hutts desperately attempt to bribe Admiral Greelanx, head of Shild's fleet. With the battle
plan purchased, Han and Mako gathers every smuggler on Nar Shaddaa to create an army to
battle Shild.
Meanwhile, Bria learns that the Emperor wants Besadii clan untouched in the coming attack --
they're provding him with useful slaves. Shild plans to secede that part of the Empire, use the
Hutt's wealth to build his power base, and challenge the Emperor himself. At the same time,
Greelanx is ordered by the Emperor to throw the fight.
The Battle of Nar Shaddaa begins. The smugglers put up such a ferocious fight that Greelanx
forgets orders and plows into them. After a protracted slaughter, the Hutts send in mercenary
reinforcements. With the fleet shattered, Greelanx finally orders the retreat.
As Han attends a friend's wedding, Aruk the Hutt dies. Durga, Aruk's son, takes over Besadii
clan, opens talks with Black Sun and vows revenge.
Going to pay Greelanx off, Han listens from another room as Darth Vader murders the admiral,
and races back to Nar Shaddaa, escaping the attacked and exploding Bria in a lifepod. Shild,
not even knowing why he did the things he did, commits suicide.
"Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon."
Rokur Gepta manages to lure Lando Calrissian into Oseon space with an anonymous meesage
offering great gambling wins. Gambling on the asteroid Oseon 6845 (and 2,300 credits ahead),
Lando Calrissian finds himself a walking target. However, an invitation to a sabacc tournament
is an inescapble lure for Calrissian. And if he sticks around long enough, he can see the Oseon
sun flare into the legendary Flamewind.
He does okay, until the Falcon is sabotaged and he's attacked by (and forced to kill) an Oseon
cop. He isn't charged for killing the cop, but sentenced to death for carrying a gun. As always,
he's offered a deal--to free himself, he must get two cops to Oseon 5792 to entrap and arrest a
drug-using trillionnaire named Bohhuah Mutdah, thus allowing his rivals a chance at his
fortune. And survive the lethal radiation of the Flamewind in the process. And survive Rokur
Gepta's numerous attempts to kill him.
Fighting his way to Mutdah's home, Calrissian is stunned when one of the cops kills the other,
and then Mutdah (who talks to the cop like he's an employee) shoots him. And then, suddenly,
Mutdah's morhps into his true form -- that of Rokur Gepta, who's set all of this up (and killed
Mutdah to take his place) just to kill Lando. The gambler barely survives Gepta's mental torture,
stabs him in the eye, and makes off with twenty million of Mutdah's fortune. On the way out,
Lando and Vuffi rescue Klyn Shanga, a Renatasian with a grudge against Vuffi.
(NOVEL -- Del Rey Books -- L.Neil Smith -- 1983)
The Empire puts an extremely violent end to the civil war between Garos IV and Sundari, imposing peace on the two worlds.
"The SW Encyclopedia."
"Lando Calrissian and the StarCave of ThonBoka."
Having survived Rokur Gepta's revenge (at least for the moment), winning a fortune on Oseon,
and learning how to fly the Falcon (with Vuffi's help), Lando's life is good--until he comes upon
a starving living spaceship called Lehesu. After being told about the Oswaft's plight, he tries to
help out the besieged space-living Oswaft race in the cloud called the ThonBoka. In return for
the Falcon's garbage (food for the Oswaft), the Oswaft will make various gems and valuables
out of what materials they can't digest and give it to Lando. But there are a few obstacles
between Lando and those riches.
For one thing, Rokur Gepta and Klyn Shanga have teamed up, both vowing either to kill Lando
and Vuffi or die trying. For two, a massive fleet stands between the Oswaft and the Falcon.
Unable to fight, run from, or run around the fleet, Lando falls back on what he knows best -- the
con job. He presents himself as a trader, and ingratiates himself to the soldiers. Then, he sets
up his own apparent death as he escapes the fleet and races into the ThonBoka. He meets with
and feeds the Oswaft, but war is imminent -- "negotiations" between the Oswaft and the fleet
have ended in bloodshed and the entire fleet heading into the ThonBoka. And Gepta and
Shanga, refusing to believe Lando is dead, are right on their tail. And with them is Vuffi Raa's
former owner, a spy who claimed to be an archaeologist, Osuno Whett. Lando sets up a
desperate plan: the Oswaft will jump between the ships, expel their waste, and jump out again
while the fleet fires at the waste, hitting themselves instead. Gepta arrives and expels
electromagnetic torpedos onto a few of the Oswaft, announcing that he will empty tons of them
upon the ThonBoka unless Calrissian fights him in a duel to the death (he personally plans to
wipe out the nebula regardless of the outcome).
At that point, Whett loses patientce and tries to kill all three of them, giving Lando the
opportunity he needed to kill Gepta -- but not before Gepta apparently kills Vuffi. Realizing
Whett is the true Butcher of Renatasia, Shanga sets out after him.
Suddenly, a HUGE starship arrives in the area, announcing itself to be....Vuffi Raa's father. Vuffi
is repaired, and explanations made. Vuffi is a larval starship, sent out to explore the universe
and learn about it, then report back to his people. Vuffi leaves with his father, and Lando sets
out for parts unknown, the Falcon stuffed to bursting with gems and jewels..
(NOVEL -- Del Rey Books -- L.Neil Smith -- 1983)
"Droids: The Kalarba Adventures."
The misadventures of C3P0 and R2D2 continue, as Master Wena sells them to a junk trader, who in turn sells them to Olag Greck of the Kalarba system. Arriving at Hosk Station, Artoo is taken hostage by IG-88 (sent to kill Greck, but caught and slated for reprogramming). The assassin droid takes the two droids and steals a ship, only to be chased by Greck and his Corellian pilot Jace Forno. The droids get away in a lifepod that lands on Kalarba -- near the Pitareeze family, who hire them as babysitters for the mischievous young Nak.
As they try to deal with the young tyke, they learn about the elderly Baron Pitareeze, who was a starship designer -- until Greck stole his design and put out an inferior model, then ruined Pitareeze's good name with it. And now Greck wants his new hyperdrive unit to sell to the Empire. Nak tries to get it to him, but ends up Greck's hostage instead. He and Threepio escape, only to crash land in one of Greck's cruisers. They stop the Baron from giving Greck what he wants.
The family goes into the flying restaurant business, but pirates board them and take the droids (for their cooking skills) and Nak, who tries to escape and is apparently shot down (he is instead caught by Greck). The droids learn that the "pirates" are former cooks who were put in a crystal mine thanks to another of Greck's schemes (this one to poison a Hutt). Nak is saved, and the cooks take most of Greck's treasure.
Shortly thereafter, Threepio is damaged while going to pick up Nak from Hosk Station. The repair makes him look like C3PX, an assassin droid (modified by -- who else? -- Greck) who just happens to be there too. In the resulting confusion, Greck is again put on the run.
After a couple more adventures (one involving a form of rock life, another dealing with two preschool duty droids), the droids finds themselves at Hosk Station again -- which is about to explode and is in full evacuation. To allow the Baron and several Ithorians to escape, the two selflessly elect to stay behind. They meet a group of droids led by security head Zed, as well as mechanic Trillka, who was trying to correct the sabotage to Hosk's reactor -- by Greck, who is trying to steal a barge. Artoo and Zed face off against Greck's wrecking droid while Threepio saves the reactor. Artoo and Threepio are deputized, and sent with Zed to catch Greck...
(COMIC BOOK MINISERIES -- Dark Horse Comics -- Dan Thorsland/Ryder Windham - 1994)
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Maw Installation, a secret Imperial weapons project, is constructed in the Kessel system. 100 Wookiee slaves are used in its construction, 74 of whom are dead within a few years.
"SW RPG Jedi Academy Sourcebook." It was rumored to be in construction in "The Hutt Gambit."
"Droids: Rebellion."
The newly deputized C3P0 and R2D2 hunt down Olag Greck on Nar Shaddaa. The chase ends
in the accidental death of Movo Brattakin, a criminal lord who had promised to help Greck. The
droids are captured by Brattakin's lieutenant, Jace Forno, who leaves Greck in jail to rot.
Brattakin's droid B-9D7 brings repair parts for Threepio (Forno had shot off his leg) and helps
them escape, even as Greck breaks out of jail. The ship B-9D7 helps the two board to return to
Kalarbra is full of droids -- due to be memory wiped. Artoo escapes and steals a ship to follow
the one with Threepio in it -- but is captured again by Forno and B-9D7, who stuns Forno and
escapes with Artoo.
On the drone ship, Threepio's personality is suddenly surplanted by a program in his new silver
leg. He reveals that Brattakin intends for the droids to stop Boonda the Hutt, who is turning
droids into weapons. Leading the new droid army (including Artoo and B-9), Threepio takes the
ship to Boonda's moon. Unbeknownest to them, Boonda has actually been running a legitimate
business (he's trying ethics for amusement). B-9D7 reveals there's a bomb in Threepio's new leg
-and reveals that HE'S Movo Brattakin!! (At least, he's Brattakin's brain in the droid.) He's
orchestrated the infiltration so that he himself could convert the droids into weapons. Artoo
takes control of the drone ship B-9 is on and crashes it into Boonda's palace. B-9 is killed by
Forno. Removing Threepio's new leg, the droids take off in the drone ship. Returning to Nar
Shaddaa, they leave the now-independant droids with the drone ship and join an Ithorian
herd-ship.
(COMIC BOOK MINISERIES - Dark Horse Comics - Ryder Windham - 1995)
Yeorg Captison becomes Prime Minister of Bakura.
"SW RPG Truce at Bakura Sourcebook."
"Droids: Season of Revolt."
The droids have finally found a peaceful job on an Ithorian herd-ship. Aboard Master Zorneth's ship, they find a group of Smilers, a recent phenomenon of permanently content beings, who got that way as a result of using an herb called savorium. Zorneth is protecting the Smilers from being used as slave labor.
While bargaining on Targonin, one Smiler -- the appropriately named "Smiley" -- breaks free, only to be kidnapped before the group. He is suddenly saved by a construction droid, and Zorneth decides to leave at once. It's explained that the droid became infected with "the Caretaker virus," which compels droids to aid Smilers.
The herd ship is attacked, and Artoo falls sick with the Caretaker virus, which drives him to follow the kidnapped Smiley and drag Threepio along. Despite their efforts, the kidnappers get away with Smiley and the droids. They are dragged before Dictator-Forever Craw, orders a complete brain-drain of Smiley. A computer scan by Artoo reveals why -- "Smiley" is the botanist Klorr Vilia, who invented savorium in the first place. Artoo and Threepio narrowly free Smiley from the brain-drain and flee -- right into the arms of attacking Revoltists, enemies of Craw. They escape, but Smiley's still in Craw's hands.
Artoo makes his way back to the palace, just as Zorneth's herd-ship attacks. The palace's force-field is lowered, giving the Revoltists their chance. Craw is driven off-world, and the reunited group takes off in the herd-ship, where Zorneth reveals a surprise -- an entire forest of savorium!!
Another Ithorian ship shows up for the first shipment of what Zorneth hopes will bring peace to the galaxy. Unbeknownest to them, it's been taken over by Craw, who boards the ship with his men. Smiley sets the savorium to self-destruct, and dies in the fire. The droids narrowly escape, while Zorneth gives Craw a bowl of savorium soup. The droids find themselves in a lifepod, months away from the shipping lanes...
(COMIC BOOK MINISERIES - Dark Horse Comics - Jan Strnad - September-December 1995)
Han Solo and Lando Calrissian participate in a sabacc tournament on Bespin, and are the last
two finalists. Lando, currently owning a shipyard, promises Han any vessel from the yard if he
wins. Han wins the game and takes the Millenium Falcon. Angry that Han chose that vessel
instead of a space yacht, Lando begins loudly complaining to others than Han stole the ship.
Han begins heavily modifying the ship.
"The Empire Strikes Back," "SW: Heir to the Empire," and "SW: Rebel Dawn." Lando said in
"Heir" that "{Han} was supposed to go for one of the flashy chrome-plated yachts on the yard
instead of the freighter I'd been quietly upgrading on the side for myself."
"SW Adventure Journal: Passages."
To be detailed...
Jake Harthan picks up C3P0 and R2D2 on Rudrig.
Immediately before "The Protocol Offensive."
"The Protocol Offensive."
Now working as diplomats in the Tion Hegemony, C3P0 and R2D2 try to help establish a trade
route between the Hegemony and the planet Tahlboor. Problem is, the two native races -- the
Troobs and Hobors -- have been fighting for over a century. One of the Troobs (Madame Krax)
likes Threepio so much, she buys him. As negotiations break down, the Hobor leader shows
they have a powerful ground-to-space weapon. And then he buys Artoo.
The negotiations move down to the surface of Tahlboor, where Larka, the Hobor leaders's
daughter apparently kills the Troob leader's son (who she really was in love with). With
genocidal war now imminent, the two droids investigate the mountain weapon. The Hobors
found this ancient weapon, which Artoo determines is really an energy tap. Threepio uses it to
inform both sides that the looming war was set up by Jake Harthan, who killed the Troob son.
Harthan is killed by the Troobs. Threepio and Artoo follow the grieving Larka off the planet as
the Troobs and Hobors unite..
(COMIC BOOK - Dark Horse Comics -Brian Daley/Anthony Daniels/Ryder Windham - 1997)
The Empire builds a maximum security prison on Dathomir, only to be run off by the
Nightsisters, the dark "witches" of Dathomir, led by the evil Gethzerion. The prison is bombed
from orbit, and Emperor Palpatine orders a patrol of at least two Star Destroyers around the
planet.
"SW: The Courtship of Princess Leia."
Chewbacca marries Mallatobuck on Kashyykk. Han Solo is best man.
"SW: Rebel Dawn."
Growing increasingly concerned over reports of rebellion, Governor Willhuf Tarkin presents the
"Tarkin Doctrine" to Emperor Palpatine, presenting suggestions for more directly putting the
Empire in the military's control. Among the provisions is the suggestion of a superweapon to be
used as a anti-rebellion deterrent. Palpatine adopts the accord, making Tarkin the first Grand
Moff, and putting him in charge of what comes to be known as "Project Death Star."
Conjecture from the SW RPG Death Star Technical Companion. Tarkin's first name is from the SW
Screen Entertainment Program.
The Empire is tipped off to Mon Mothma's Rebel ties by Boba Fett. Mothma is branded a traitor
by Emperor Palpatine, who orders her arrest. Mothma manages to escape the Imperials,
however. When the people of Chandrila protest this unexpected accusation, Palpatine orders a
general massacre of the Chandrilan population.
"SW: Rebel Dawn."
Kyle Katarn enrolls in the Imperial Military Academy on Carida.
"Dark Forces: Soldier of the Empire."
The Rebel Alliance captures a Rebel base on Mantooine, in the Atrivis sector. The Imperial fleet
sent to recapture the base slaughters every last Rebel on the planet.
"SW: Rebel Dawn."
Han Solo and Chewbacca run into a group of Zygerran slavers near Janodral Mizar. Solo and Chewie free the slaves and turn command of the slave ship and the captive slavers to them.
"SW: Heir to the Empire."
Mon Mothma, now officially a fugitive from justice, broadcasts the "Declaration of Rebellion"
over the Holonet, calling for the overthrow of Palpatine and the restoration of the Republic.
The SW RPG Rebel Alliance Sourcebook.
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Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan becomes the youngest member of the Imperial Senate, as
well as a secret Rebel sympathizer.
This would have given Leia time to gain experience in political matters, as well as gain her
position in the Alliance. She would have been about 17 at the time.
Prince Isolder finds and catches Harravan. The pirate is murdered in a Hapan prison before he
can name his accomplices.
"SW: The Courtship of Princess Leia."
The parents of Wedge Antilles (Jagged and Zena) are killed when pirates destroy the station
they are on. The pirates, led by one Lola Hask, destroyed the station to stall the Corellian
police. Taking a Z95 Headhunter, the 17 year old Antilles attacks Hask's ship, destroying it. Hask
escapes in a spacesuit, leaving his crew to die -- at which point a space creature permanently
attaches itself to Hask's face. Hask eventually rejoins the Imperial fleet. Wedge goes into
private freighting, then joins the Rebels.
"X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair." The "X-Wing Rogue Squadron Handbook" fixed
the date.
At the Maw Installation in the Kessel sector, the Death Star is designed by Bevel Lemelisk and
Qwi Xux. Governor Willhuf Tarkin leaves Maw Installation with Lemelisk to begin construction,
ordering Admiral Daala (Tarkin's lover) and Xux to come up with something even more
destructive than the Death Star, within ten years.
"SW: Jedi Search."
Becoming bored with smuggling in Hutt Space (and avoiding a marriage proposal from Salla
Zend, who clings to Solo after a near-fatal accident at Kessel), Han Solo and Chewbacca travel
to the Corporate Sector to make some money. First, they have the Falcon's hyperdrive
reworked by expert mechanic Doc. Later on, after a smuggling deal with Big Bunji goes bad,
Han strafes Bunji's base with the Falcon's weapons.
"SW: Rebel Dawn," "SW: Han Solo at Stars' End" and "Han Solo and the Corporate Sector
Sourcebook."
Brathlen Corp. builds a light-amplification dome over the volcanic valley of Plawel on
Belsavis.
"SW: Children of the Jedi." Cray said it was "twelve or fourteen years ago", so I split the
difference.
"This Crumb for Hire."
Upon their return from Corporate space, Jabba invites Han and Chewie to see him on Kwenn
Station. After a little run-in with the hot-headed servant Bidlo Kwerve, Han and Jabba conduct
a spice/money transfer. When Jabba leaves, it's with a stowaway -- Salacious B. Crumb, a
Kowakian monkey-lizard on the run from an angry droid. Jabba finds the little critter in his soup
bowl and is ready to roast him -- until Crumb gets soup all over Kwerve and Bib Fortuna. In
return for his life, Crumb is hired to keep Jabba amused.
(COMIC SHORT STORY - Dark Horse Comics - Ryder Windham - August 1996)
The Corellian Treaty; the various splinter rebel groups against the Empire are formally joined
into the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The leadership is divided between Mon Mothma of
Chandrila, Bail Organa of Alderaan, and Garm Bel Iblis of Corellia.
Date fixed by "SW: Rebel Dawn."
Construction begins on the first Death Star around the prison planet Despayre, under the
auspices of Grand Moff Willhuf Tarkin and designer Bevel Lemelisk. An order is placed for a
second Death Star to be constructed, assuming the first is successfully operational.
Conjecture from the SW Roleplaying Game's Death Star Technical Companion. SW VI would
indicate a three-year construction period, assuming the second Death Star's construction was
begun immediately after the first's destruction. It was recently pointed out to me by Patrick Gonet
that in "SW: Tales from the Mos Eisely Cantina," a part for Death Star II was involved in the
"Hammertong" story, indicating Death Star II was under construction already. I personally choose
to interpret that as meaning the station was in pre-production, awaiting the success of the first test
of DS1 to authorize full construction.
The Rebel Alliance begins to supply the Alignment Forces against the Imperial-backed Aristocracy in the Virgillian Civil War.
"SW RPG Truce at Bakura Sourcebook."
15 year old Luke Skywalker and his friend Windy ride a dewback out into the Jundland wastes without their parents' permission. After the dewback throws and abandons them, the two are led home by Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was watching them. Strangely, Owen Lars becomes enraged, not at Luke, but at Kenobi, who orders him off the farm never to return. The SWIV radio program. Luke said this happened almost four 'seasons' ago.
