Burt Jaxton

"It takes a certain mindset to become a scout. You have to love space and the spaceways, solitude and adventure. Just remember when you're running from a pack of savage cannibal headhunters on some backwater planet with no name but the one you've given it, that there's no other job in the world like the one you've got, and you love it."

- Burt Jaxton

Burt Jaxton was a talkative scout who had retired by the time of the New Republic. He had a penchant for regaling listeners with long stories and didactic platitudes.

Behind the scenes
Burt Jaxton's name and quotations are references to Jack Burton, a trucker character played by Kurt Russell in the 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China.