The Perfect Weapon

"The Perfect Weapon"
Attribution information
Author(s)	Delilah S. Dawson
Illustrator(s)	Scott Biel (Cover design)
Publication information
Publisher	Del Rey
Release date	November 24, 2015
Reprinted in	Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization
Pages	57
Chronology
Timeline	29 ABY
Series	Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

"The Perfect Weapon" is a short story by Delilah S. Dawson that was published as an eBook on November 24, 2015. The story is part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens series and features Bazine Netal, a character that appears in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.

Publisher's summary

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens with this exclusive ebook short story featuring a quick-witted mercenary who takes big risks for bigger rewards—and now faces the challenge that will take her to the edge.

There are plenty of mercenaries, spies, and guns for hire in the galaxy. But probably none as dangerous and determined as Bazine Netal. A master of disguise—and lethal with a blade, a blaster, or bare handed—she learned from the best. Now it's her turn to be the teacher—even if schooling an eager but inexperienced recruit in the tricks of her trade is the last thing she wants to do. But it's the only way to score the ship she needs to pull off her latest job.

An anonymous client has hired Bazine to track down an ex-stormtrooper and recover the mysterious package he's safeguarding. Payment for the mission promises to be astronomical, but the obstacles facing Bazine will prove to be formidable. And though her eager new sidekick has cyber skills crucial to the mission, only Bazine's razor-sharp talents will mean the difference between success or failure—and life or death.

Media

Editions

• ISBN 9780399177934; November 24, 2015; Del Rey; US eBook

Cover gallery

Placeholder cover

Final cover

Appearances

By type

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

Characters

Delphi Kloda (First appearance) Delphi Kloda's competitor (First mentioned) Tasu Leech (Mentioned only) Bazine Netal (First appearance) Aric Nightdrifter (First appearance) Ooda (First appearance) Suli (First appearance) Orri Tenro (First appearance) Jor Tribulus (First appearance) (Appears as a corpse) Unidentified ambulance crew member (First appearance) Unidentified child (First mentioned) Unidentified featherweight (First mentioned) Unidentified protocol droid (First appearance) Unidentified Toydarian merchant (First appearance)

Organisms

Cat Narglatch Chaakrabbit (First mentioned) Eel (Mentioned only) Rishi eel (Mentioned only) Insect Vashkan apidactyl (First appearance) Mynock (Mentioned only) Nerf (Mentioned only)

Droid models

Medical droid GH-8 medical droid (First appearance) Protocol droid Service droid Laundry droid (First appearance) Tech droid (First mentioned)

Events

Battle of Endor (Mentioned only) Mission to Vashka (First appearance)

Locations

Coruscant (Mentioned only) Unidentified Coruscant garage (First mentioned) Inner Rim Territories Chaaktil (First appearance) Chaako City (First appearance) Chaako City orphanage (First mentioned) Delphi Kloda's combat school (First appearance) Suli's cantina (First appearance) Naboo (Mentioned only) Outer Rim Territories Endor (Mentioned only) Orto Plutonia (Mentioned only) Pantora (Mentioned only) Vashka (First appearance) Vashka City (First appearance) Vashka City Medcenter One (First appearance) Vashka City spaceport (First appearance) Vashka Station (First appearance) Vashka Valley Retirement Facility 48 (First appearance)

Organizations and titles

Actor (Mentioned only) Galactic Empire (Mentioned only) Stormtrooper Captain (Mentioned only) Gunner (Mentioned only) Kanjiklub (Mentioned only) Masseur (First appearance) (Impersonated) Mercenary Merchant New Republic (Mentioned only) Pirate Queen (Mentioned only) Monarch of Naboo (Mentioned only) Senator (Mentioned only) Slicer Waiter

Sentient species

Devaronian Duros Human Hutt (Mentioned only) Pantoran Toydarian Twi'lek (Mentioned only)

Vehicles and vessels

Ambulance Repulsorcraft Speeder Landspeeder Starship Shuttle Starfighter Kom'rk-class fighter/transport Sparrowhawk (First appearance)

Weapons and technology

Blaster Comlink Long-range comlink (First mentioned) Computer spike disruptor (First appearance) Datachip (Mentioned only) Datapad Engine Flamethrower (Mentioned only) Flare Flexcuffs (First mentioned) Garrote (First mentioned) Goggles Night-vision goggles (First appearance) Grenade EM grenade (First mentioned) Thermal detonator Head lamp Hologram Holoprojector Hoverchair Hyperdrive Identichip (Mentioned only) (First identified as identichip) Knife Main planetary booster (First appearance) Mechno-chair (Mentioned only) Sensor (Mentioned only) Spanner Stun (Mentioned only)

Miscellanea

Armor Stormtrooper armor Baffleweave (First appearance) Black market Blood Bone (Mentioned only) Caf Candle Cantina Cigarra Clothing Boot Credit Credit chip Death Desert (Mentioned only) Echani (Mentioned only) Egg Farm (Mentioned only) Flimsiplast Foodstuff Nerf steak (Mentioned only) Gas Oxygen Glass Gold (Mentioned only) Graffiti Heart (Mentioned only) Honey Hyperspace Leather Liquor (Mentioned only) Medcenter Music Jatz (First appearance) Plant Fern Sunburst flower (First appearance) Tree Palm tree (First identified as palm tree) Plasteel Plastoid Poison (Mentioned only) Red sigil (First identified as red sigil) Rishi eel ink (First appearance) Rope Sabacc Silk Steel Tattoo (Mentioned only) Temperature (Mentioned only) Time Standard week (Mentioned only) Standard year (Mentioned only) Tooth Wax Wine (Mentioned only) Corellian wine (Mentioned only) Youngling (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Journey to The Force Awakens Panel at New York Comic Con – Recap on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "50 Things to Notice in Star Wars: The Force Awakens" — Star Wars Insider 165

External links

• Del Rey (@DelReyStarWars) on Twitter: "Just announced. Ebook short by @DelilahSDawson called #ThePerfectWeapon starring a TFA character named Bazine. Coming in November." (screenshot)
• The Perfect Weapon (Star Wars) (Short Story) on Amazon.com (backup link)
• The Perfect Weapon (Star Wars) (Short Story) on Penguin Random House's official website (backup link)

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