Short story
Galactic Tales: Another Face in the Crowd
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"Galactic Tales: Another Face in the Crowd" is a short story written by Christopher Cooper. It was published in the 237th and final issue of Star Wars Insider, on May 5, 2026, as part of the "Galactic Tales" series. The story is set on Coruscant "a couple of years" after the the fall of the Galactic Empire and follows a retiring HoloNet News reporter during his last week and his successor as they uncover a former Imperial war criminal.
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Facts
- Title
- "Galactic Tales:
- Another Face in the Crowd"
- Author
- Christopher Cooper
- Released
- May 5, 2026
- Published in
- Star Wars Insider 237
- Timeline
- Between 7 ABY and 34 ABY
- Series
- "Galactic Tales"
Who turns up here
Characters: 2
- Dooku (mentioned only)
- Sheev Palpatine (mentioned only)
Species: 8
Planets: 5
- Biklai (first mentioned)
- Coruscant
- Raxus Secundus (mentioned only)
- Onderon (mentioned only)
- Worosta (first mentioned)
Places: 4
Galaxy: 6
Organizations: 8
- Confederacy of Independent Systems (mentioned only)
- Galactic Empire (mentioned only)
- Imperial Security Bureau (mentioned only)
- Stormtrooper (mentioned only)
- Galactic Republic (mentioned only)
- HoloNet News (first identified)
- New Republic
- Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service (mentioned only)
Events: 6
- Clone Wars (mentioned only)
- Invasion of Onderon (indirect mention)
- Galactic Civil War (mentioned only)
- Battle of Endor (indirect mention)
- Separatist Crisis (indirect mention)
- Raxus Address (indirect mention)
Lore: 4
- Imperial Era (mentioned only)
- New Republic Era
- Count of Serenno (mentioned only)
- Journalist
Everything else: 12
Not in the archive: 37
- Zork Aurlex (first mentioned)
- Ama Immi (first appearance)
- Elix Kynch (first appearance)
- Taylo Mar (first appearance)
- Moldreth (first appearance)
- Unidentified Kubaz (Ricta Varsh) (first mentioned)
- Ricta Varsh (first appearance)
- Ja Wen (first mentioned)
- Sard-fin (first mentioned)
- Invasion of Worosta (first mentioned)
- Biklai uprising (first mentioned)
- Elix Kynch's plot (first appearance)
- Skylanes Agency consultation (first appearance)
- Administration district (first appearance)
- Unidentified building (administration district) (first appearance)
- Ric's office (first appearance)
- Ric Varsh's apartment (first appearance)
- Unidentified auditorium (first appearance)
- Unidentified apartment building (Elix Kynch) (first appearance)
- Floor 138 (first mentioned)
- Unidentified tavern (Coruscant) (first appearance)
- Editor
- Junior editor (first mentioned)
- Graduate intern (first appearance)
- Municipal Records (first mentioned)
- Skylanes Agency (first appearance)
- Dataslate
- Data terminal
- Holo-reader
- Memory drive
- Apartment block
- New Republic administration uniform (first identified)
- Bowee soda (first appearance)
- Drejil stew (first mentioned)
- Ja Wen's Kalikori (first appearance)
- Fierfek (first appearance)
- Public transit
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