ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks go to:

Steven S. Long, Beth Loubet, Bob Quinlan, Luray Richmond, and Sean Summers, my “Eagle-Eyes,” who valiantly hurl themselves between me and the incoming artillery of my errors;

All the Star Wars fiction authors from whose work I have been able to draw details, most especially Michael A. Stackpole and Timothy Zahn;

Drew Campbell, Shane Johnson, Paul Murphy, Peter Schweighofer, Bill Slavicsek, Bill Smith, Curtis Smith, and Dan Wallace, for the invaluable resources they have written;

Sue Rostoni and Lucy Wilson of Lucas Licensing, for their help; and

Denis Loubet, Mark and Luray Richmond, my roommates, for keeping me in realspace whenever my brain threatened to make the jump to hyperspace.