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Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire
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Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire is a Legends junior novel written by Donna Tauscher. It is part of the Star Wars Journals series, and it was published by Scholastic in July 1998, in conjunction with Star Wars Journal: Captive to Evil and Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice.
Hero for Hire is presented as a group of in-universe datapad entries recording a conversation between Han Solo and the B'omarr monk Sai'da, during the time Solo was captive in Jabba's Palace in 4 ABY.
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Facts
- Title
- Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire
- Author
- Donna Tauscher
- Cover artist
- Maren
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Released
- July 1998
- Media type
- Paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Isbn
- 0590189018
- Timeline
- 4 ABY
- Series
- Star Wars Journal
- Preceded by
- The Fight for Justice
- Followed by
- Anakin Skywalker
Who turns up here
Characters: 17
- Ponda Baba (indirect mention)
- C-3PO (mentioned only)
- Chewbacca
- Jan Dodonna (mentioned only)
- Cornelius Evazan (indirect mention)
- Boba Fett
- Garindan (indirect mention)
- Greedo (mentioned only)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (mentioned only)
- R2-D2 (mentioned only)
- Sai'da (first appearance)
- Luke Skywalker (mentioned only)
- Leia Organa Solo (mentioned only)
- Han Solo
- Bria Tharen (mentioned only)
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure (mentioned only)
- Darth Vader (mentioned only)
Species: 9
Planets: 7
- Alderaan (mentioned only)
- Beckoning Call Starr 3 (first mentioned)
- Camus IV (first mentioned)
- Tatooine
- Yavin Prime (mentioned only)
- Yavin 4 (mentioned only)
- Ylesia (mentioned only)
Places: 6
- Detention Block AA-23 (indirect mention)
- Jabba's Palace
- Mos Eisley (mentioned only)
- Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina (mentioned only)
- Docking Bay 94 (mentioned only)
- Massassi Temple (mentioned only)
Galaxy: 2
- Alderaan system (mentioned only)
- Kessel Run (mentioned only)
Starships: 8
- Death Star (mentioned only)
- Escape pod (mentioned only)
- Imperial I-class Star Destroyer (indirect mention)
- T-65 X-wing starfighter (indirect mention)
- TIE Advanced x1 (indirect mention)
- TIE/ln space superiority starfighter (mentioned only)
- YT-1300 light freighter
- Millennium Falcon (mentioned only)
Organizations: 9
- Alliance to Restore the Republic
- B'omarr Order
- Galactic Empire (mentioned only)
- Imperial Navy (mentioned only)
- Stormtrooper Corps (indirect mention)
- Stormtrooper (mentioned only)
- Jedi Order (indirect mention)
- Order of the Sith Lords (mentioned only)
- Corellian
Events: 5
- Clone Wars (mentioned only)
- Galactic Civil War
- Battle of Toprawa (indirect mention)
- Battle of Ylesia (mentioned only)
- Royal Award Ceremony (mentioned only)
Technology: 10
- Mandalorian armor
- Binders (mentioned only)
- Lightsaber (mentioned only)
- Anakin Skywalker's second lightsaber (mentioned only)
- Darth Vader's lightsaber (mentioned only)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi's third lightsaber (mentioned only)
- Marksman-H combat remote (mentioned only)
- Credit (mentioned only)
- Medal of Bravery (indirect mention)
- Parsec (mentioned only)
Lore: 4
- Jedi Knight (mentioned only)
- Dark Lord of the Sith (mentioned only)
- Sith Lord (mentioned only)
- Galactic Basic Standard
Media: 1
- Sabacc (indirect mention)
Everything else: 36
- Eberon spider (first mentioned)
- Commander (mentioned only)
- Bounty hunter
- Imperial Academy (mentioned only)
- Moisture farmer (mentioned only)
- Pilot
- Princess (mentioned only)
- Smuggler
- Spy (mentioned only)
- Landspeeder (mentioned only)
- Armor
- Blaster (mentioned only)
- Comlink (mentioned only)
- Datapad
- Garbage compactor (mentioned only)
- Proton torpedo (mentioned only)
- Targeting computer (mentioned only)
- Tractor beam (mentioned only)
- Vocabulator (mentioned only)
- Carbonite (mentioned only)
- Chess (mentioned only)
- Cockpit Daredevils (first mentioned)
- Dejarik (indirect mention)
- The Force (mentioned only)
- Hibernation sickness
- Hyperspace (mentioned only)
- Life debt
- Lightspeed (mentioned only)
- Moon (mentioned only)
- Planet
- Shyriiwook
- Slavery (mentioned only)
- Spice (mentioned only)
- Glitterstim (mentioned only)
- Torture (mentioned only)
- Tree (mentioned only)
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