Missed Chance

"Missed Chance"
Attribution information
Author(s)	Michael A. Stackpole
Illustrator(s)	Mike Vilardi
Publication information
Publisher	West End Games
Release date	August 1995
Published in	Star Wars Adventure Journal 7
Reprinted in	Tales from the Empire Hyperspace
Pages	29; 34 with supplementary Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game material
Chronology
Timeline	6 ABY
Preceded by	Deader than a Triton Moon
Followed by	"A Glimmer of Hope"

"Missed Chance" is a short story by Michael A. Stackpole. It was originally printed in Star Wars Adventure Journal 7 which was published by West End Games in August 1995 and was later reprinted in the short story anthology Tales from the Empire published by Bantam Spectra in November 1997. It was also made available online at Hyperspace.

The story takes place shortly before the novel X-Wing: Rogue Squadron.

Media

Collected in

• Star Wars Adventure Journal 7
• Tales from the Empire

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Mosh Barris Gil Bastra (First mentioned) Arali Dil (First appearance) Dromath (First appearance) Corran Horn (First appearance) Kirtan Loor (First appearance) Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Mentioned only) Lai Nootka (First appearance) Palpatine (as the Emperor) (Mentioned only) Voss Parck (Mentioned only) Saricia (First appearance) Sihha (First appearance) Luke Skywalker (Indirect mention only) Han Solo (Indirect mention only) Leia Organa Solo (Indirect mention only) Star's Delight pilot (First appearance) Luthus Tadrin (as Tadrin) (First mentioned) Wilhuff Tarkin (Mentioned only) Dynba Tesc (Also as "Kirtana Loor") (First appearance) Dynba Tesc's father (First mentioned)

Organisms

Gorgarian buzzadder (Mentioned only) Rdava-bird (Mentioned only)

Droid models

Droid Agrirobot (as agricultural droid) Astromech droid R2-series astromech droid R2-D2 (Indirect mention only) Whistler (First appearance) Courier droid Harvester droid (Mentioned only)

Events

Battle of Endor (Indirect mention only) Battle of Yavin (Indirect mention only) Destruction of Alderaan (Indirect mention only) Great Evacuation

Locations

Alderaan (Mentioned only) Corellian system (Mentioned only) Core Worlds (as Galactic Core) Coruscant (Mentioned only) Kessel (Mentioned only) Outer Rim Territories Garqi (First appearance) Garqi Agricultural University (as Garqi Ag University) (First appearance) Garqi vehicle shed Pesktda (First appearance) Imperial Court building Tatooine (Mentioned only) Unidentified planet (Thrawn's exile) (Indirect mention only)

Organizations and titles

Accountant (Mentioned only) Agent Alliance to Restore the Republic (Mentioned only) Bureaucrat Captain Colonel (Mentioned only) Corellian Security Force (Mentioned only) CorSec Imperial Liaison officer (Mentioned only) CorelliSpace (Mentioned only) Galactic Empire Garqi Eagles Imperial Army (Mentioned only) Imperial Army trooper (Mentioned only) Imperial Intelligence Imperial Liaison (Mentioned only) Imperial Navy (Mentioned only) Imperial Prefect Imperial Security Bureau (as Imperial Security) (Mentioned only) Stormtrooper (Mentioned only) Governor (Mentioned only) Grand Moff (Mentioned only) Gunner Incom Corporation (Mentioned only) Industrial Automaton (Mentioned only) Jedi (Mentioned only) Jedi Knight (Mentioned only) New Republic Rogue Squadron (Mentioned only) Pilot TIE pilot Prince (as princess) (Mentioned only) Sith (Mentioned only) Slicer Smuggler Soldier (Mentioned only) Technician (Mentioned only) Wingmate (as wing man)

Sentient species

Bothan Chiss (Indirect mention only) Devaronian Duros Human Alderaanian Sullustan Twi'lek

Vehicles and vessels

T-47 airspeeder (as T-47 landspeeder) (Mentioned only) Death Star (Mentioned only) Death Star II (Mentioned only) DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (as Death Star) (Mentioned only) Landspeeder Starfighter TIE/ln space superiority starfighter X-wing starfighter Starship Freighter Gymsnor-3 light freighter (as Gymsnor-3 Freighter) Star's Delight

Weapons and technology

Acoustic signaller Arc welder (Mentioned only) Binders Blaster cannon Blaster pistol (Mentioned only) Cargo pod Centrifugal debris extractor Circular saw (Mentioned only) Code cylinder (as rank cylinder) Codepatch Comlink Comnet Computer Datafile Datapad Deflector shield generator Deflector shield Duplex circuit (Mentioned only) Engine Etheric rudder Fire extinguisher (Mentioned only) Grasper arm (Mentioned only) Holoprojector (as holographic projector/recorder) Hyperdrive I/O jack I/O port Acceleration compensator (as acceleration compensator) Ion engine Twin ion engine Jumpseat Laser Navigation computer Proton torpedo Repulsorlift S-foils (as stabilizer foil) Sensor Rear Warning Sensor (as rear sensor) Solar collector Sublight engine Thermal exhaust port (as exhaust port) Triplex circuit (Mentioned only) Viewscreen (as video display screen) (Mentioned only) Video sensor (Mentioned only)

Miscellanea

Agricombine (as agri-combine) Alien Atmosphere Belt Cockpit Decimeter Djorra Foodstuff (Mentioned only) Glove Homeworld Leather Lekku (as head-tails) Lightspeed Liquor Cassandran choholl Local day Hyperspace Narco-interrogation Nova Planet Plasma Prison (as jail) Silver Spaceport Speciesism (as xenophobia) Spice Standard day Standard hour Standard month Standard week Star Steel Stone Transparisteel

External links

• Missed Chance on Hyperspace (content obsolete and backup link not available)

In other languages

• Deutsch