Short story
The Truest Duty
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"The Truest Duty" is a short story that was published in the 2020 anthology book From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. It was written by Christie Golden and focuses on Maximilian Veers.
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Facts
- Title
- "The Truest Duty"
- Author
- Christie Golden
- Publisher
- Del Rey
- Released
- November 10, 2020
- Published in
- From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
- Preceded by
- "Beyond Hope"
- Followed by
- "A Naturalist on Hoth"
Who turns up here
Characters: 13
- Derek Klivian
- Lastok (first identified)
- Kesin Ommis
- Kendal Ozzel (mentioned only)
- Firmus Piett (mentioned only)
- Darth Sidious (mentioned only)
- Luke Skywalker (mentioned only)
- Wilhuff Tarkin (mentioned only)
- TK-5187 (first identified)
- TS-4068 (first identified)
- Darth Vader
- Maximilian Veers
- Skywalker family
Species: 1
Planets: 1
Places: 1
- Echo Base (indirect mention)
Starships: 5
- Death Star (mentioned only)
- DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station (mentioned only)
- Executor-class Star Dreadnought
- Executor
- All Terrain Armored Transport
Vehicles: 5
Organizations: 21
- Alliance to Restore the Republic
- Alliance Military
- Rebel Alliance Navy
- Rebel Alliance Starfighter Corps
- Rogue Squadron
- Rebel pilot (mentioned only)
- Galactic Empire
- Imperial Military
- Imperial Army
- Imperial combat driver
- AT-AT pilot
- Stormtrooper Corps
- 501st Legion
- Blizzard Force
- Thundering Herd
- Cold weather assault stormtrooper
- Stormtrooper (mentioned only)
- Vehicle commander
- Imperial Navy
- Imperial Officer Corps
- Sith
Events: 4
- Duel on Mustafar (indirect mention)
- Galactic Civil War
- Battle of Hoth
- Battle of Yavin (indirect mention)
Technology: 13
- Darth Vader's armor
- Stormtrooper armor
- Cybernetics
- Mechno-arm
- Dagger (mentioned only)
- Deflector shield generator
- DSS-02 shield generator
- Lightsaber (mentioned only)
- Darth Vader's lightsaber (indirect mention)
- Darth Vader's meditation chamber
- Power generator (mentioned only)
- Clothing
- Boot
Lore: 15
- Imperial Era
- Galactic Emperor (mentioned only)
- Grand Moff (mentioned only)
- Imperial officer
- Officer
- Admiral (mentioned only)
- Captain
- General
- Dark Lord of the Sith
- Darth
- Sith apprentice
- Sith Lord
- Force choke (indirect mention)
- Force-sensitive
- Orbital bombardment (mentioned only)
Everything else: 54
- Diplomat (mentioned only)
- Gunner
- Lord
- Medic (mentioned only)
- Pilot
- Soldier
- Troop
- Trooper
- Repulsorcraft
- Speeder
- Airspeeder
- Space station (mentioned only)
- Starship
- Capital ship
- Dreadnought
- Star Dreadnought
- Transport
- Walker
- All-terrain vehicle
- Armor
- Helmet
- Snowtrooper armor (first identified)
- Com-scan (mentioned only)
- Deflector shield (mentioned only)
- Droid (mentioned only)
- Hologram
- Magnetic harpoon (indirect mention)
- Meditation chamber
- Blood
- Color
- Cyborg
- Death (mentioned only)
- Disease (mentioned only)
- Dream (mentioned only)
- Eye
- Flagship
- Ghost (mentioned only)
- God (mentioned only)
- Heart (mentioned only)
- Laser
- Lightspeed (mentioned only)
- Limb
- Planet
- Plastoid
- Sleep (mentioned only)
- Snow
- Soul (mentioned only)
- Star system
- Time
- Second
- Standard day
- Standard decade
- Standard hour
- Standard year
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