Talk:Platt Okeefe/Legends

Lying about her age?
Based on the source information in Platt's Starport Guide and Platt's Smugglers Guide, I suspect that Platt may be lying about her age. Here's why: Anyone got any more on this? --McEwok 18:10, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Her captain's license is dated 33:2:7, and gives her date of birth as 13:7:17. This would suggest that she was born in Second Month, 22 BBY, and became a captain in Seventh Month, 2 BBY, aged 20 (not 21, as the page claims). However, let's take a closer look at what we know about her.
 * 2) Starport, p. 6,  says that she ran away to space on her twelfth birthday, as a cabin steward on a Sullustan liner, then served on a freighter in the Anarid Cluster.
 * 3) Smugglers, p. 12, depicts her as having crewed on Captain Kassler's Ravlev for two years, and the Sullustan liner for two years before that; the Ravlev is confirmed as being the ship in the Anarid Cluster on p. 13. At this point, she gets her first ship, the Brentaal Princess (pp. 28-29). And being a captain requires her to have a captain's license.
 * 4) Simple arithmetic: she runs away on her twelfth birthday, and spends two years on the Sullustan liner, then two years on the Ravlev. At this point. She becomes captain of the Brentaal Princess, which must be the date her captain's license is issued. The issue date, 7th of Second, 2 BBY is likely to be accurate, but she was actually around sixteen at the time, so born around 18 BBY.
 * 5) There's one thing which may complicate this: the page says that after her stint as a cabin girl, "Okeefe followed this job up by working as a technician onboard numerous bulk freighters while trying to make her way to Romar", citing a "Smuggler's Log" in Star Wars Adventure Journal 3. This probably adds a period between the liner and the Ravlev, but even if this is accurate, I don't think it stretches the four years out much.
 * 6) The character even seems to tease the reader about it (Starport, p. 7): "Many spacers have asked how old I am... really. Well, I'm not telling. Sure, I look pretty young, and could pass for a girl about 20 standard years old. That sounds pretty good. Let's say I'm in my early twenties." Given the explicitly pre-RotJ dating for Starport, the subtext is probably that she's not yet twenty at the time.