Out of the Cradle
Author: Patricia A. Jackson
Medium: Short story
Publication date: May 1994 in Star Wars Adventure Journal #2
Timeline placement: 3 BBY
First appearance of Drake Paulsen, another of Patricia Jackson’s recurring OCs. Also features not one but two Corellian YT-1300 light freighters, as well as a repeat of the old smuggler’s trick of hiding illegal weapons in a shielded compartment meant for irradiated space tools that Jackson already used in “The Final Exit.” And like Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross before him, Drake spends a lot of time nervously thumbing open his holster’s safety strap, with no mention of it being fastened again between unsnaps.
The main purpose of this story seems to be RPG worldbuilding for the Coynite species of the planet Coyn. Did you know that, in the Coynite tongue, la’chu means “little fox” (wait why are there foxes), but chu’la means “cunning little fox” or “the fox who cannot be caught”?
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