As I continue on my journey of taking a long write up of my childhood and turn it into a webpage of my personal history I am finding that, as things go into their organized areas, I have to repeat myself a bit. This will be one of those sections.

I have an Art History section to the site, and I have a Star Wars section, these two areas will expand on stories from the main timeline and intersect a lot. This will also intersect with my BBS work and other things I do. There is a reason I gave Star Wars it’s own home. Let’s get to it.

Ever since the trip to the church to see the original film and the stormtrooper that came home with me I have been drawing Star Wars men and more. Some of my older work may be hard to find or track down, but I feel assured somewhere there may be a poorly writing Spanish story about a boy going to space based on Star Wars from some early elementary school project. And that will just snowball a bit as I get older.

With this I think there are a couple early key points to make. Lets start with the figures.

Here we have a Rebel Commando from ROTJ. This plastic man in particular is mentioned in my 1980s section. This very gentleman came to me as a Christmas present, unwrapped and hidden in a tree. Now obviously as a kid I tore him open of his carded prison and played with him. But that is a discussion for the collecting section. No here he is an example, of what the men looked like and how that worked on my brain when I drew them at that young age.

See I wasn’t using source images from the internet, we didn’t have access to it back then, and what internet was in the early 80s wouldn’t really be for doing that. I had a few image based storybooks for the trilogy and one really fun pop-up book. But, no, for the most part my source material on how to draw these guys was the action figures.

Most notably I remember drawing the torsos to make the design of the figure. So a Rebel Commando on paper would still have his points of articulation showing to some extent. That along with curved hands. GI Joes and Lego men helped reinforce the C shaped hands on men as well. So what I was doing was pretty much transposing 3D toys into 2D comic men. Maybe not movie accurate but still other details were making it off. However I was getting my details from the Kenner toys and not the actual sources. I don’t know if this was good or bad, just a fact.

As it turns out there is an argument to be made that Kenner had a lot more to do with the shaping my art style for Star Wars early on then Lucasfilm’s. Because I didn’t just use them as toys and reference art for my own work, I did more.

With a lust for more Star Wars men, and them starting to disappear, and maybe this is a collecting story. I would cut out the backs of the cards that the figures came on. And then played with my own micro collection of all the figures.

Seems weird to mention that here. Well I was hyperactive, so when I got tired of sorting though the 80 or so new toys I made cutting up the back of package, I would then put it back together like a puzzle. Because I needed more puzzles to solve. Which in turn was where I got a lot more subconscious influence on the way things looked.

Dad working at the thrift store would then turn around and bring home donated Star Wars puzzles. And I would work on those. This is now function two on my brain. I don’t know if what I am about to explain is normal, or if I am weird. But, putting together the puzzles, which coming from the thrift store could be an exciting adventure in how many pieces were missing. Forced me to study the images on the puzzles so intensely that I started to get some details ingrained in my brain. And maybe even got those details set to a priority level that was too important.

Once again I don’t know if I can find all these old pictures but overdetailing the wings on a Tie Fighter since I had to put together the puzzle and focus on which part went were could cause some distortion in my work.

I am finding it hard to explain. Above are a couple of the puzzles I still vivid remember forty years later. While I think I remember drawing crazy Tie Fighter Wings, the puzzle does focus on the X-wing so maybe I have mixed the two ships up in my head, only luck in digging through old school work might solve that dilemma. On the other hand the first example brings me back to remembering a couple things, one why I though Luke had a white belt. But more importantly another thing that stuck with me from puzzle to paper.

The lights. Those stuck with me, and were sort of the quintessential Star Wars back drop, even more than just, well, space.

That shape, probably my first ever design aesthetic, There it is on name plates for the figures, in the third picture in the actual structure of the Death Star Playset from Kenner, which thanks to Dad and the thrift store I had two almost complete versions of, and then in the middle, twenty years later I am shoving the shape and concept into the design of CoruscantCity.Net.

Then we get to back to our main list, the third item. With Star Wars men on the decline by the mid 1980s and less and less showing up at the thrift store, for a brief period, which seemed like a long period to a small child, I tried to figure out how to make molds out of my existing figures in order to make more figures. I should scour the internet at some point to see if other people tried this.

My attempts were eventually fruitless, I was also of course like seven years old. If I recall I worked with Mom on the project and we used clay and sand. I don’t remember exactly. I know it was an idea I spawned from having the Star Wars playdough sets.

Those sets came with plastic molds. In my brain we just had to make those. But, and of course I will forget a lot of details, it ended up being not as simple as I thought. Now I do remember not caring if they had working arms, I was just happy if I could have a legion of stormtroopers. But I remember Dad talking to Mom about using metal pins to make the joints as we used this sort of soft clay sand concoction to try and make a impression for the mold out of one of my stormtroopers. Probably our old friend from so many adventures and that first viewing night.

I remember being unsatisfied with the amount of detail we got from it and I cant remember if that disappointment led to a loss in interest in the project, or if it was the other thing I remember which was that there was some debate on what to pour into the makeshift mold to make the prototype. Once again pre- YouTube and Google, my folks couldn’t just lookup what might work best and go to the corner drug store. And I think that was a point of failure completely on the project. I am trying really hard to remember if we tried something and it didn’t work, or if my parents gave up on the what to use or how to make it end of things.

I do remember there being an issue with the way we made the mold itself, and I feel like I wouldn’t remember the issue with detail if we didn’t poor something in it as a test and it came back as a mutant. Either way, while a disaster in the end, I probably learned more about figure creation and little plastic men anatomy doing this than I would have otherwise and it continued to motivate art projects around Star Wars for years to come.

One of those early projects was restoration. As an adult this was highly destructive to the preservation of my dudes. As a kid I thought I was saving them. In the end what I got was a lot of understanding of how model paints worked and some odd ducks in my collection.

I think I tried restoration twice growing up, once in the late 1980s and then again in the early 1990s.

I want to say this was the second restoration project, but something nags at me and says I could have been the first, it makes sense as the first, I’ll explain.

The ATAT above. He came from DI (the thrift store) when I was still in just play mode. Like my original Falcon, he came in while the toys were still hot. He never had any of his accessories, but he was an ATAT and I loved him.

So, I painted him. He had yellow, blue and maybe a hint of red legs. When I got old enough to recognize that wasn’t a good look for an ATAT I wanted to fix the situation. When I was in and around the 5^th grade or so, 1988 maybe 87 maybe 89. I got into trying my hand at model making, again. It was always something I liked. Reise had so many out in the garage when I was little. And after he left Dad introduced me to the snap together cars they would have in the model section at Long’s Drug Store around the corner from us.

So when I started to achieve some financial independence, it wasn’t all sports cards and Nintendos. I dabbled in that ideal I had from Reise’s displays in the garage. I had a tank I was pretty proud of at the time, and a couple others. I also got into the little army pacts of one inch men in various war like poses that needed painting before being setup to form a scene. Or as I would do, just using them as whatever and whatnot.

Doing so got me flush with the paints. That led to the idea I could fix up some of my scratched up Star Wars men, and of course the big one, fix the Rainbow Brite looking ATAT. I went down to Long’s and I rember looking at the examples for the colors that came out of every spray can. I picked a metallic silver color because in my brain that’s what the ATAT was, a big metal dog. Now if you look at him in the picture, you see he is surrounded by a light grey ATAT, which is the repainted more modern POTF2 era ATAT and then a darker gray which is another vintage ATAT like himself. I should have just grabbed flat gray. But I took a silver, that looked like the right metal shade as I said.

I got home and took the rainbow warrior out back, laid down the days newspaper and got to work getting him all one even color. Admittedly at the time the finished product still didn’t look that off to me. It was the shine only that had me a little puzzled. I of course was a kid and didn’t realize the gloss from the sample on the display isn’t going to be the same as it will be on a plastic toy. What I ended up with is a silver ATAT.

He honestly is not to out of place. But it was the wrong choice. This was going to be a theme with the restorations. Because another thing I wasn’t going to realize was how the model paints, designed for the processes and plastics of the model kits wasn’t going to apply, dry and be the same on the plastic of molded men from the early 80s.

Initially though again, I was decently pleased with some of the results. I was meticulous with one of the sessions and IG-88.

 

IG, the droid bounty hunter from ESB. He was an alright figure at the time. But his bandolier like the one in the picture above was losing some of its black. So I took a fine brush and filled in the spots where it had rubbed off.

Then my history with the ATAT gave me an idea. There is a lot of detail on IG, but he is for the most part one flat color. But I have all these cool silver and gunmetal paints. So, I meticulously started adding color to his various parts. But the time I was done I felt like I had the most amazing IG-88 figure on the planet. I wasn’t wrong, he looked pretty cool.

But as I was going to find out later in the 90s. The model paint, Star Wars figures, and dust create a magnetic connection. The figures I worked on went from looking nice to being dust and hair sponges. Forcing them to be the first figures to have to live in little plastic baggies.

I think the flat paint ones did okay, but yeah IG-88, one of the camouflage biker scouts I made, dust adhered to them and they got sticky. Interesting side note, I think Hasbro eventually released a camouflage biker scout as an official release decades later. But mine was one of a couple failed experiments in fixing up my toys. But it did give me some background in working with the figures to make my own versions.

So when I picked up the hobby again later, I made some pretty awesome, well decent, head-swaps to make a slave girl Padme and a never finished version of Jen as her Jedi Master Princess persona. And learning to paint was pretty important for other things. My skill improved, and I did things like the Slave I paint job, that at the time, with the weathering and such, I thought was a landmark achievement in model making. (see the 1999 section for video of that).

These projects, which all stemmed from the action men really did help with my understanding of what stuff looked like and what colors belonged with things. More than 64 pack of Crayola and its crayons, a decade of drawing and goofing around with crafts projects on my figures lead to an increased skill I might not have otherwise learned.

So it was with this background and desire to have more Star Wars that by seventh grade and my resurgence of stories drawing comics with Keith I started exploring the world of Star Wars a little deeper. Although 90 and 91 are kind of looked at as the dead time for the franchise I managed to really find some source material I hadn’t had before and got to work.

Now sadly, this is still junior high so I don’t know if I will ever find much finished product still around, but I can talk about what I was doing and where I was getting ideas from.

The next part will seem obvious. I started looking into the Star Wars comics.

I had been drawing comic styled stories for a while, but this was my first foray into buying comic books. From this though was a whole new wealth of, well I guess even at the time, non-canon Star Wars material.

Coming from trading cards, as much as I would go through the stories and characters for ideas of my own, I started to get that collecting mentality and complied a nearly complete collection of the things. That of course is a story for the collecting section, but it is a point here to let it be known in a small amount of time I influxed a lot of story ideas.

Most notably from these was that first example above. The female Darth Vader (Lumiya). Or just the idea that a Star Wars villain could be like Darth Vader but not.

I had at this time started drawing more Star Wars stuff in general, I made a spoof on the New Kids on Block with a bunch of Star Wars Aliens and was just getting into the genre of my own take on Star Wars. Then I had the Darth Vader thing in the back of my head and the stuff I was doing with Keith.

Nootch Vadar. I might spell it differently now than I did then. It was my new main character for Star Wars for a time. It was at its core, Darth Vader mixed with inspiration from the Lumiya character and Keiths version of himself he was drawing in our basketball and other comics. A wise assed Dark Jedi.

I have attempted to redraw from memory what the character was I have probably forgotten details but that is at the heart of it what the character looked like to the best of my ability to re-create a drawing from 1991. I think remembering the weird shoulder curve for the musculature was impressive.

This was the start of my personal attempt to expand the Star Wars universe in my own little head. Now once again for those that may have entered into the story of my life, there are some other things happening at this time that might help with my Goku/Keith Vader thing. And that was that Keith and those friends got me places that had role playing game books, and luckily this meant I found out about West End Games Star Wars RPG.

For a long while all I had was the main book, but it itself seemed like a treasure trove of new Star Wars knowledge. Then I got the Heir to the Empire sourcebook, before even reading the novel. I was markedly excited with the prospect of understanding the post ROTJ world, which I felt was this open universe of interesting stories. As time went on, I tracked down more, the main sourcebook I believe I had to special order from Waldenbooks, but I got a good core of books over time.

Each one helped add to the understanding of what I could do in the galaxy. After seventh grade Nootch seemed really, lame. He was an anime idolization of Keith’s with Darth Vader armor. I know had a rule structure to build Star Wars characters. So, I went back to my action figures.

Which race did I feel like was cool and under used enough for me to use as a protagonist to the RPG games I might get friends to play, and to whatever I was going to write down in Word Perfect and not very much later Word. The answer was the Weequay.

 

It was probably the cyan shirt underneath. But he is where I came up with my simple named Weequay space pirate/scoundrel Jak.

Now don’t get me wrong, by this point some of what the sourcebooks told me about the Weequay I felt was garbage. I had noticed going through the books on species and the Guide to the Star Wars Universe that a lot of these “expanded” universe writers were taking the two seconds they saw of an alien on screen and then homogenizing the species. So say as an example that is not taken from any source, a Weequay, well Weequays work for the Hutts and are good guards on skiffs. Because well some of the writers, just collecting a pay check.

So, I would take the better ideas and then expand from there. I liked the leather skinned, dreadlock having pirate I built and then I plunked him down in the corporate sector and had a fun old time writing stories and drawing pictures of him messing with Imperial Remnants and New Republic fascists.

Above are images from three different decades of Jak on his adventures. The earliest featuring Chris M’s Captain Tripp and the mouse man character, then later Jak with his female partner in crime when I got more into the idea that we didn’t blast our way through the bad guys, we were sneaky. Jak went from a blaster to an old fashioned sword and his friend was a technically expert.

Then as I have said probably a few times before, all my other Star Wars characters started merging into the same world, giving him the Ninja Jawa, Jen’s alter ego and various others by the 2010s.

This over the years has been sort of my mainline alternate Star Wars and contributes to a view I have that Star Wars can be done without constantly referencing what has come before. Other than Chris M’s character being a disgraced royal guard, which is fine, nothing that happens with these guys, for the last thirty years in Word or on paper has involved any great galactical conflict or the main characters of Star Wars. Instead they’re just making a living taken nick-naks from anyone.

Years of just adding, changing and whatever, its not like this is anything I do for anyone but myself. I am featuring a lot of what I put online, so hopefully through scouring the archives of storage I can find some older stuff I have forgotten about.

As I said if there is a set story line its just making it through the galaxy. Jak has developed into a laid back leader who uses stealth and cunning to keep the credits coming in. The technician, I think has gone through a couple names, using my generic Jacinda at some point, but while writing this I think I just like “the tech” better. Has now at this point probably been the most consistent companion for Jak on the adventures. Even more so than Chris M’s Captain Tripp, who I have show up more for violence than anything else. Since Chris made him sort of a character gone mad, he helps bring the conflict.

Then as time went on and Jen and I stopped talking like we did in the 00s, I just morphed her character into being a delusional along for the ride that thinks she is a Jedi, and eventually decided I could just work in the Ninja Jawa, because well I don’t have to make perfect sense of everything, and at this point I have a melee strike team, might as well at the little guy to the main narrative.

Now there is another Star Wars art project like this I worked on for a while side by side. And that was the Bossk and Selphie adentures. Obviously, that was also just for fun, but I kind of dropped that one since it involved characters that were not my own, but not before I spent a long period of time drawing for that as well.

Now I do have just regular Star Wars stuff drawn around that I might find and be able to scan in. But for the most part I do my own guys and insert them into their corner of the galaxy. And so, my work, and what I have currently scanned and online is that. It is kind of a weird journey to see that playing with my action figures kind of led us here. But this is the main portion of what I do Star Wars Art style, now.

Now, well there have been some deviations in the past, a lot of that around ANSI art.

Rolling back to Jak Pizzo. I think I covered Jak a bit in both the Art section and somewhere in the 1990s as well. But since I covered the Star Wars RPG and his origins in here, I am going to continue on with his story as I have found some more stuff that I didn’t even remember.

 

While I mentioned I had not very good success getting Star Wars RPG campaigns off the grounds, I did get some stuff to go, and Jak was the main storyline. I think I have mentioned Chris M’s former Imperial Guard character a few times by now, but I recently found a Star Wars RPG sourcebook style word document from 1994 that briefly covers the stories and has the stats of the campaign and stories.

 

                               Pizzos' Zizzos'

            The Pizzos are a mercenary group that to current date counts up to 5 mercs and 2 astromech droids. There leader Jak Pizzo, a mysterious Weeqauy, is searching throughout the galaxy with Carrasen, a female bounty hunter, and Captain Trip, a Left over Imperial Guard, Gunther a marauder, and Akal a Oversized Jawa.

They all mount on there bas in the Arbra System, on the planet of the same name. The Group,  the Zizzos, was mainly Jak idea, and with his found companion of Captain Trip, the came across the base on the planet. A extremely lucky find.

Jak and the good captain got the Base into working order. They then managed to gain 3 skipray blastboats, with needs of repair though bare in mind. After they brought the base up they went to the moon of Endor and pickup someone from Jaks past Gunther, and swinging by the planet of Tantooine to higher there little Jawa Merc.

From there they went back to the base and meet up with a RICH bounty hunter contact and know with her money in the organization  they set off to find other mercs, etc. there first mission together after all its catastrophic bad coincidences they ended up with a long lost Victory-Class Star Destroyer that Caraseen ended up calling the Big Fish in a con game with the infamous Grand Admiral.

After the little run in with the New Republic and then the Empire on there quest for the ship, they returned back to the base for self modifications and a good needed rest.

 

I vaguely remember some of the names, although the descriptions don’t match up with which drawn characters I thought they were. But there is some interesting things to note for me. The main being that they ran with an oversized Jawa named Akal. As I have mentioned I had a separate story line which eventually joined up into my main Star Wars stuff about Ninja Jawa. I thought I just randomly started going that route, in fact I thought the origins was from this picture:

 

 

This was drawn though in like 2003. Here almost a decade before I started down the Ninja Jawa line I still had a Jawa with the group. I cannot for the life of me remember whether this was intentional or just random happenstance, but I guess the Jak story has not changed that much even when combining it with what I thought where independent ideas.

 

Then we have that Jak’s main sidekick is a younger female.

 

Karaseen

            Born on Correlia, Caraseen spent most of her life cheating the locals out of their life savings with "Authentic" relics from other galaxies.  After amassing about 1000 credits she set off for adventure.

After procuring "Box," her droid, she met up with Georgums Dinklehopper, a man she shared many profitable adventures with.  They where thrown through space/time and managed to find  themselves on the planet Earth.  After the idiot in the group gave up on trying to teach them blaster technology we managed to find our way home.

After getting home she went on another adventure with some very experienced adventures.  She managed to gather over 4 billion credits,  met some friends and fellow adventures, then bought a Victory Class Star Destroyer, named "The Big Fish."

 

So, reading this made me realize this was another player character, it had to be with the crazy Santa Claus type story of finding adventurer’s a pile of money. But unlike Chris’s character I don’t remember who she came from. Maybe I will find something to explain this, maybe I won’t. However, during that era I have a couple of mysterious drawings that maybe are explained by this character:

 

 

There is a lot for me to digest though. One, nowhere in the document does it explain the monkey on the shoulder. So, even though that doesn’t seem that far fetched an idea, to have it along and not be written in the brief description or later, meh. I also thought there was a similar styled version of this character hanging in my room around the same time, However I cannot find the image I was thinking had this.

 

Then to boot, I can find an image of my bulletin board with the Star Wars RPG art:

 

I need to see if I can find all of these, I have scans of some of them on this site, but I have not found everything obviously. Now the picture I was thinking of of the above character was her holding a large fun pointed at someone, which I swear was hanging up in my room, yet I can’t seem to find photographic evidence of this even though I swear I had it. Then there is that middle drawing. I had forgotten about that drawing and obviously haven’t found it in my storage unit when searching for stuff to add to the site. But once I remembered about its existence it throws the one wrench in the idea that the other character was Karaseen.

 

I wish I had the original, but I do have this:

 

Which is a picture out of the high school yearbook for that year that I used to make the character in the middle drawing. As I talked about in my art section, it was around this time that I started wanting my female characters to look, well, right. To this end I used a lot of source material where I could find it and, in this case, it was this classmate. Whom for the life of me I don’t remember if I ever actually knew.

 

I talked to a lot of people in my time and our paths may have crossed, but I mainly remember that I chose her picture to use as a study. I thought in my memories that I just sketched it out as is, but once I started looking into this Karaseen character I remembered that no, I turned her into a Star Wars character.

 

Beyond all of that she is pinned up amongst all the other characters I had drawn and was really happy with for these adventures lending a lot of support that this is Karaseen. I remember being very happy with

 

my drawings of the guys and the aliens so the idea I would have used a helping hand to make the one female character look spot on seems pretty legitimate as well. Then the kicker, her name was Karen, which is oddly like Karaseen, but then it would seem like if that wasn’t a coincidence how could these have been a player character, which it had to be from the description, so that might just actually be coincidental but worth noting.

 

Well, and that doesn’t solve the whole mystery. Maybe some day there will be an addendum after this explain the points I missed right now, but there is a third option that might explain why I remember everything about the above picture and still have a character I thought might also be her and that is that both versions were at different times. As I find with this project, decades old details sometimes get lost and there is a very likely possibility that the reason my brain won’t dismiss either once I go through the evidence, I have is that both are, and I just changed paths. There is also a distinct possibility with that path that I used the nice girl as a prototype until I felt more comfortable with my skills to draw an imaginary one. Which could then help explain why I can’t figure out where the image I thought was on the wall is.

 

It is likely though that this became The Technician later on in life.

 

 

Getting from Karen to the short-haired hydro-spanner wielding techy with a droid, I guess originally named “Box” is pretty impressive, but I think its also solid to re-discover my own path to the character. Thanks Karen, wherever you are for letting someone put your picture in the yearbook. (I wonder if it was Alyssa or Cy, that would be funny as well.)

 

While Kara to the Tech has some pretty big hops it seems Jak, or main character not so much:

 

 

Jak Pizzo

            Jak Pizzo is a Weeqauy. But unlike the other known Weeqauys of Jabba’s court, Jak speaks to the outside world.

Jak at one point in history was a computer technician for the imperial ship Immortal where after the loss of the Empires first Death Star he defected and went into the wonderful world of Smuggling and Piracy.

Working for Jabba smuggling spice in the Kessel system in his ship the Trizzo. He was a good smuggler and smuggled until the time of the prison riot over through.

Not Trusting Mourth Doole word to be his militaristic specialist he defected once again and made his way back to see Jabba. But by the time he got back Jabba had been destroyed by the likes of Luke Skywalker, along with his two Weeqauy brothers.

In a mad rage he headed out on his ship to intercept Luke and the Rebel Fleet mounting near Sullust.  But again, he lagged, and only cought up with the fleet after Luke had left with Han and the others to bring down the Second Death Stars Shield Generator.

So, in turn he said he would assist the Rebellion against the Death Star, in his own hopes of getting to Luke, or having the satisfaction of seeing his death.

Well, some protection maneuvers he pulled for the Independence he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant in the Alliance.

After a couple of years searching for Luke while doing piloting jobs for the Alliance, he decided that he had not a chance to catch up with Luke and once again defected from the Alliance.

Now with the two galactic superpowers not caring much for such a defector, he had a period of drought where he sat around in the underworld of Coruscant.

In the Underworld he meets up with one of the emperor’s personal guards that were not assigned to protection of the Emperor during the time of the second Death Star, the man calling himself Captain Trip.

They made their way out of the underground and started smuggling by the new smuggling lord Tessek, one of Jabbas old men.

After running shipments back and forth they both decided that this was not worth the time and drooped shipment and took of the to the remote planet of Arbra. There he found the before mentioned base and with a little work got it up and working. (in a different section of that document)

 

Same face etc.. just the uniform became less professional dress, I guess. His story has changed a bit, I forgot he was a double defector originally. I think the main thing that happened is that as I got older, and the Star War universe got bigger I wanted Jak to be independent of the main story line. Back in 1994 it probably seemed awesome to have him be a character that was just like right off screen or just a second behind the known action leading into the unknown post Return of the Jedi world that seemed so full of adventure possibilities.

 

I also just really find that old image I had in the document of him amusing. It was another thing that was just forgotten to time if not for having backups on a floppy disk and its amazing. I don’t know if it was made in the old Windows 3.1 drawing program or upper old Photoshop, either way it is definitely a product of using a mouse at low resolution.

 

A lot of the supplement though is character sheet stats and equipment, base and ship stats, probably used to help move things a long in case I could get more RPG campaigns together. Now this file was dated June 9^th 1994. Which is interesting because that had to be right before leaving for Germany, right after Sophomore year and might possibly have been made to test the laptop we were going to use on the trip.

 

But I had been using this timeline of events for longer than I even realized, maybe. There is also a document named story I found along with this. It’s dated June 8^th 1992. It features Jak, Karaseen and Trip:

 

"So where the hell is ol' Trippy?" she question, somewhat sarcastically.

"I believe he is on his way, you know how Trip is. Constantly mind drifting. You know I think that five years in the Coruscant underground really got to his nerves." Jak answered.

"If you ask me, I think the man went nut-so after ol' Palpatine kicked it." she added.

I didn't. he thought to himself. He was never really found of Karaseen's comments. She was too critical, and most likely made snide remarks about him to Trip and others when he wasn't around.

"Well, even though Trip isn't here, I still should start the briefing, because we are leaving tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Karaseen questioned.

Just then Trips voice came through the outside intercom.

               "Hey, let me in there Pizzo!". Trip demanded.

 

 

Once again, we have two possibilities here, one the date got messed up on the year side and I did this all in a twenty four hour period, which it seems like since there using the nicknames listed for Chris’s character in the source file material and other details along with all I went through figuring out the artwork for Karaseen. Seems kind of definitive, there is the weird coincidence though that the Heir to the Empire sourcebook for RPG, which I used for my New Republic information, came out in June of 1992.

 

Either way it’s interesting to see that somewhere in that section of the 90s (92-94). I really started to push forward on a Star Wars story that is almost exclusively just mine and would last for decades. I might try and proof read the story and post it up here if it’s not embarrassing or offensive.