Short story
Bottleneck (short story)
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"Bottleneck" is a short story by John Jackson Miller that was published as part of a compilation in The Rise of the Empire, set between Tarkin and A New Dawn. The story features Wilhuff Tarkin investigating a dispute for Palpatine.
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Facts
- Title
- "Bottleneck"
- Author
- John Jackson Miller
- Publisher
- Del Rey
- Released
- October 6, 2015
- Published in
- The Rise of the Empire
- Pages
- 22
- Timeline
- c. 11 BBY
- Preceded by
- Tarkin
Who turns up here
Characters: 12
- Pell Baylo (mentioned only)
- Everi Chalis (first mentioned)
- Lero Danthe (mentioned only)
- Yale Karlsen (mentioned only, first identified)
- Mawdo Larrth (first appearance)
- Sheev Palpatine (as a hologram)
- Thetis Quelton (first appearance)
- Rae Sloane
- Wilhuff Tarkin
- Darth Vader (mentioned only)
- Denetrius Vidian
- Tarkin family
Species: 8
Planets: 5
Places: 1
- Imperial Academy (mentioned only)
Starships: 6
- Calcoraan Depot (indirect mention)
- Imperial-class Star Destroyer
- Imperial I-class Star Destroyer
- Executrix
- Ultimatum (mentioned only)
- Gozanti-class cruiser (mentioned only)
Vehicles: 1
Organizations: 17
- Cladtech (first appearance)
- Galactic Empire
- Imperial Academy (mentioned only)
- Defiance Flight Training Institute (indirect mention)
- Imperial cadet (indirect mention)
- Imperial Department of Military Research (mentioned only)
- Imperial Military
- Imperial Army
- Imperial combat driver
- Stormtrooper Corps
- Stormtrooper
- Imperial Navy
- Imperial Officer Corps
- Imperial Security Bureau
- Galactic Republic (mentioned only)
- Quelton Fabrication (first appearance)
- Sith (as a hologram)
Technology: 12
- Stormtrooper armor
- Baton
- Comlink
- Cybernetics
- Artificial lung (first mentioned)
- Datapad
- Translator collar
- Engine
- Servomotor
- Clothing
- Imperial military uniforms
- Credit (mentioned only)
Lore: 26
- Imperial Era
- Advisor
- Baron (mentioned only)
- Cadet (mentioned only)
- Collector
- Count
- Emperor's adviser
- Galactic Emperor (as a hologram)
- Governor
- Grand Moff
- Imperial officer
- Agent
- Station chief (first appearance)
- Inspector (mentioned only)
- Officer
- Captain
- Commander
- Executive officer
- General (mentioned only)
- Lieutenant (mentioned only)
- Dark Lord of the Sith (as a hologram)
- Darth (as a hologram)
- Sith Lord (as a hologram)
- Sith Master (as a hologram)
- Bottleneck (first mentioned)
- Tree
Everything else: 65
- Butler droid (mentioned only)
- Aide
- Holographer (first mentioned)
- Lord (mentioned only)
- Cyborg
- Repulsorcraft
- Troop transport
- Speeder
- Speeder bike
- Starship
- Capital ship
- Star Destroyer
- Freighter (mentioned only)
- Shuttle (mentioned only)
- Armor
- Blaster
- Droid (mentioned only)
- Electronic translator
- Translating vocoder
- Hologram
- Polymer
- Viewport
- Alien
- Archaeology (mentioned only)
- Army
- Bone
- Capital
- Centimeter
- City
- Jacket
- Kilt
- Colonist (mentioned only)
- Death
- Disease
- Ear
- Eye
- Factory
- Forest
- Garrison
- Gas
- Hydrogen cyanide (first appearance)
- Imperialization (first mentioned)
- Jungle (mentioned only)
- Kilometer
- Lung
- Meter
- Money (mentioned only)
- Mountain
- Museum (mentioned only)
- Orbit
- Planet
- Plant
- Prisoner
- Ring
- Shipyard (mentioned only)
- Species
- Swamp
- Synthflesh
- Time
- Standard hour
- Standard month
- Standard week
- Standard year
- Water
- Zeyd cloth (as a hologram)
Not in the archive: 10
- Unidentified base commander (first appearance)
- Unidentified Imperial general (first mentioned)
- Unidentified Troop Transport driver (first appearance)
- Dispute on Gilvaanen (first appearance)
- Gilvaanen's capital (first appearance)
- Cladtech factory (first appearance)
- Quelton Fabrication factory (first appearance)
- Unidentified abandoned factory (first appearance)
- Thetis Quelton's mansion (first appearance)
- Ceramic composite
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