When the Domino Falls
Author: Patricia A. Jackson
Medium: Short story
Publication date: August 1994 in Star Wars Adventure Journal #3
Timeline placement: 2 BBY
Drake Paulsen returns, this time in a story that feels like two stories crammed into one. Drake helps a female Wookiee named Nikaede evade Imperial slavers in an okay adventure that primarily exists to flesh out Patricia Jackson's supporting cast of OCs. Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated twist, Drake's father dies off-screen and Drake has to come to terms with that in a tacked-on ending. Nikaede then swears a life debt to Drake because if you invent a Wookiee character they have to owe someone a life debt, I guess. The Essential Reader's Companion places this story the year after its predecessor, but a full year can't have passed because Drake is still 15.
Better than the previous Paulsen parable, but I still don't find any of these characters particularly compelling. Drake Paulsen is a nice kid, I guess, but why do I want to read about him? 2.5 out of 5 Death Stars.
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