Short story
First Contact
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"First Contact" is a short story written by Timothy Zahn with illustrations by Mike Vilardi. It was originally published in Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 in February 1994 and later reprinted in The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4, both by West End Games. It was subsequently featured in the short story anthology Tales from the Empire published by Bantam Spectra in November 1997 before being made available online at Hyperspace. Supplementary game information was provided by Peter M. Schweighofer.
The story takes place in 8 ABY.
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Facts
- Title
- "First Contact"
- Author
- Timothy Zahn, supplementary game information provided by Peter M. Schweighofer
- Illustrator
- Mike Vilardi
- Publisher
- West End Games
- Released
- February 1994
- Published in
- Star Wars Adventure Journal 1
- Reprinted in
- The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4
- Tales from the Empire
- Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club
- Pages
- 21; 28 with supplementary Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game material (Star Wars Adventure Journal 1)
- 10; 14 with supplementary Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game material (The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4)
- 25 (Tales from the Empire)
- Timeline
- 8 ABY (43:11 GrS)
- Preceded by
- X-Wing: Solo Command
- Followed by
- "Crisis of Faith"
Who turns up here
Characters: 19
- Joodiel Amgris (first mentioned)
- Buzzy (first appearance)
- Chin (mentioned only)
- Cob-caree (first appearance)
- Falmal (first appearance)
- Fleck (first appearance)
- Gamgalon (first appearance)
- Hav (first appearance)
- Jivis (first appearance)
- Talon Karrde
- Mara Jade
- Jombo (first appearance)
- Palpatine (mentioned only)
- Luke Skywalker (mentioned only)
- Tamish (first appearance)
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure (mentioned only)
- Quelev Tapper (first appearance)
- Adarian Tropis (first mentioned)
- Unidentified Imperial governor (Ison Corridor) (first mentioned)
Species: 10
Planets: 9
Places: 1
- Myrkr Base (indirect mention)
Galaxy: 1
- Ison Corridor (mentioned only)
Starships: 4
- Starry Ice (mentioned only)
- Wild Karrde (mentioned only)
- Luxury 5000 (indirect mention)
- Uwana Buyer
Vehicles: 2
- Arrow-17 airspeeder
- Swoop (mentioned only)
Organizations: 9
- Aratech Repulsor Company (mentioned only)
- BlasTech Industries (mentioned only)
- Botanist (mentioned only)
- Galactic Empire (mentioned only)
- Imperial Office of Customs (mentioned only)
- Galactic Republic (mentioned only)
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure's criminal empire (mentioned only)
- New Republic (mentioned only)
- Talon Karrde's organization
Events: 2
- Battle of Endor (mentioned only)
- Unidentified ecological disaster (mentioned only)
Technology: 8
- Blaster pistol
- Blaster rifle
- A280 blaster rifle (mentioned only)
- Hold-out blaster
- Hunting rifle (mentioned only)
- Hyperdrive
- Knife
- Melodium
Lore: 7
- Assassin (mentioned only)
- Emperor's Hand (mentioned only)
- Syndic
- Aleudrupe berry (first mentioned)
- Promhassic triaxli (first mentioned)
- Questions Three (first mentioned)
- Rethan-K (first mentioned)
Everything else: 55
- Destruction of Quelev Tapper's headquarters (mentioned only)
- Great Jungle
- Edgefields-on-Varonat (first mentioned)
- Tropis-on-Varonat
- Great Jungle Outfitters (first mentioned)
- Unidentified cantina (Phorliss) (mentioned only)
- Quelev Tapper's headquarters (mentioned only)
- Big-game hunter
- Captain
- Come-up flector
- Governor (mentioned only)
- Gamgalon's Morodin-hunting safari
- Pilot
- Quelev Tapper's organization (mentioned only)
- Sif-Uwana Council
- Smuggler
- Spy
- Swoop gang (mentioned only)
- Unidentified Caprioril swoop gang (first mentioned)
- Technician
- Sif-Uwani (first mentioned)
- Airspeeder
- Starship
- Organic space vessel (mentioned only)
- Yacht
- Blaster
- Comm-relay
- Hydrospanner
- Power flux connector
- Recorder
- Repulsorlift
- Restraint harness
- Sensor array (mentioned only)
- Starship tool kit (mentioned only)
- Transpond marker (first mentioned)
- Transpond marker tracker (first mentioned)
- Coin
- Foodstuff
- Fruit
- Berry
- Gravity
- Hotel
- Hunting
- Hypothetical Hrongar (first mentioned)
- Imperial standard meter
- Jumpsuit
- Local day
- Tibanna (mentioned only)
- Plant
- Slime
- Standard hour
- Standard month
- Standard week
- Star
- Tree
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