Ringers
Author: Laurie Burns
Medium: Short story
Publication date: May 1995 in Star Wars Adventure Journal #6
Timeline placement: 0 BBY
A surprisingly refreshing and enjoyable offering from the Adventure Journal, “Ringers” is a police procedural following Imperial Special Investigator Zeck Tambell and his partner, Rizz, who ironically has none. They’re on a potential fraud case involving gambling on the local sport of ringers, where competitors try to throw disks through moving rings. It seems like someone is fixing the competition, but the investigators can’t figure out how. It’s almost like someone in the audience can move objects with their mind…
The two investigators themselves aren’t especially interesting characters, but I wish the EU had produced more stories featuring either them or Imperials occupying a similar niche: normal people conducting the day-to-day business of the Empire without being cartoonishly evil psychopaths or defecting to the Rebellion by the end.
A story with a cool premise, written well enough. 3.5/5 Death Stars.
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