The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure (audiobook)

The Weapon of a Jedi:A Luke Skywalker Adventure
Attribution information
Author(s)	Jason Fry
Narrator(s)	Jonathan Davis
Producer(s)	Aaron Blank (Executive producer)
Director(s)	Kevin Thomsen
Cover artist(s)	Phil Noto (Art) Jason Wojtowicz (Design)
Publication information
Publisher	Listening Library
Release date	September 4, 2015
Media type	Digital download
Run time	3 hours 16 minutes (196 minutes)
ISBN	9780147521866
Chronology
Timeline	0 ABY
Series	Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure is the unabridged audio version of the canon young-readers novel of the same name, written by Jason Fry. The audiobook was performed by Jonathan Davis and released on September 4, 2015.

Publisher's summary

Luke Skywalker returns for an all-new adventure in this thrilling upper middle grade novel. Set between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the story finds Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 stranded on a mysterious planet, and explores a dangerous duel between Luke and a strange new villain. Hidden in the story are also clues and hints about the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, making this a must-listen for fans old and new!

Development

The audiobook was performed by Jonathan Davis and was released by Random House Audio on September 4, 2015 as a digital audiobook. It was directed by Kevin Thomsen with Aaron Blank serving as executive producer.

Legacy

The story was adapted into a four issue German language comic miniseries that was published in Star Wars Universe magazine in 2017. An English language version was published in 2021 as a two issue comic miniseries.

Media

Editions

• ISBN 9780147521866; September 4, 2015; Listening Library; Digital download

Appearances

By type

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

Characters

Wedge Antilles Ello Asty (First appearance) (Appears in illustration only) Ponda Baba (Indirect mention only) C-3PO Chewbacca (Mentioned only) Vober Dand (First appearance) (Appears in illustration only) Cornelius Evazan (Indirect mention only) Farnay (First appearance) Farnay's mother (First mentioned) Duna Hilaris (First appearance) Obi-Wan Kenobi (Voice only) Kivas (First appearance) Knox (Appears in dream) Beru Whitesun Lars (Mentioned only) Owen Lars (Mentioned only) Mon Mothma (Mentioned only) Arhul Narra (First appearance) 0-MR1 (First appearance) (Left arm only) Opato (First appearance) Leia Organa (Mentioned only) Sheev Palpatine (Mentioned only) Jessika Pava (First appearance) Sarco Plank (First appearance) Porst (First appearance) Pyparr (First appearance) (Voice only) R2-D2 Luke Skywalker (First appearance as Korl Marcus) Han Solo (Mentioned only) Darth Vader (Mentioned only)

Organisms

Ape (Mentioned only) Ferijian ape (First mentioned) Bantha (Mentioned only) Bird Chuba (Mentioned only) Dewback (Mentioned only) Eel (Mentioned only) Purcassian river eel (First mentioned) Happabore (First appearance) Insect Sap drinker (First appearance) Krayt dragon (Mentioned only) Pikhron (First appearance)

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2 series astromech droid R4 astromech droid Battle droid (Head only) Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid RA-7 protocol droid (Arm only) Supervisor droid Training droid Marksman-H training remote

Events

Clone Wars (Mentioned only) Devaron massacre (Indirect mention only) First Coruscani Migration (First mentioned) Imperial Era Galactic Civil War Battle of Endor (Indirect mention only) Battle of Yavin (Mentioned only) Destruction of Alderaan (Mentioned only) Mission to Circarpous (First mentioned) Mission to Giju (First appearance) Mission to recover Imperial communication logs (First appearance) Rescue of Princess Leia (Mentioned only) Secret mission to Tatooine (Mentioned only) Skirmish in the Temple of Eedit (First appearance)

Locations

Alderaan (Mentioned only) Circarpous (First mentioned) Colonies Duluur sector Devaron system Devaron Assarda (First mentioned) Montellian Serat (First mentioned) Devaron capital city Imperial garrison (First mentioned) Temple of Eedit Tikaroo (First appearance) Unidentified depot (First appearance) Ton-biri (First mentioned) Devaron refueling station (First appearance) Giju (First appearance) Lower Flora Cloud (First mentioned) Outer Rim Territories Sanbra sector (First appearance, simultaneous with Lost Stars and Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure) Ileenium system (First appearance, simultaneous with Lost Stars and Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure) D'Qar (First appearance, simultaneous with Lost Stars and Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure) Resistance base (First appearance, simultaneous with Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure) Tatooine (Mentioned only) Ben Kenobi's home (Mentioned only) Dune Sea (Mentioned only) Mos Eisley (Mentioned only) Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina (Mentioned only) Yavin 4 (Mentioned only) Great Temple (Mentioned only) Shipwrights' Trace (First mentioned) Tertiary Usaita system (First appearance) Unidentified red dwarf (First appearance) Western Reaches (Mentioned only) Whiforla II (First mentioned) Wild Space (Mentioned only)

Organizations and titles

Alliance to Restore the Republic Alliance Military Rebel Alliance Navy Rebel Alliance Starfighter Corps Rebel pilot Red Squadron Red Leader Red Three Red Five Alliance officer Alliance High Command (Mentioned only) (First identified as Alliance High Command) Diplomatic corps (First mentioned) Antilles family Chief (Appears in illustration only) Collector (Mentioned only) Controller (Appears in illustration only) Galactic Empire Galactic Emperor (Mentioned only) Imperial Military Imperial Army Stormtrooper Corps Stormtrooper Imperial Navy Imperial Officer Corps Imperial officer Governor (Mentioned only) Jedi Jedi Order (Mentioned only) Jedi Knight (Mentioned only) Jedi Master (Voice only) Padawan Lars family (Mentioned only) Mercenary (Mentioned only) Officer Commander Lieutenant Navigator (Mentioned only) Old Republic (Mentioned only) Pirate (Mentioned only) Princess (Mentioned only) Resistance (First appearance, simultaneous with Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure) Resistance ground crew (First appearance) (Appears in illustration only) Ground Logistics Division (First appearance) (Appears in illustration only) Resistance navy (First appearance) Blue Squadron (First appearance) Blue Three (First appearance) Resistance pilot (First appearance) Scavenger Scout (Mentioned only) Sith (Mentioned only) Darth (Mentioned only) Sith Lord (Mentioned only) Skywalker family Slicer (Mentioned only)

Sentient species

Abednedo (First appearance, simultaneous with Lost Stars, Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure, and Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure) (Appears in illustration only) Aleena (Mentioned only) Aqualish (Indirect mention only) Devaronian Duros Herglic Human Corellian Hutt (Mentioned only) Melitto (First appearance) Nautolan (Appears in dream) Rodian Sikurdian (First mentioned) Tarsunt (First appearance, simultaneous with Lost Stars and Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure) (First pictured, simultaneous with Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure) (Appears in illustration only) Tusken Raider (Mentioned only) Whiforlan (First mentioned) Wookiee (Mentioned only)

Vehicles and vessels

Repulsorcraft Speeder Airspeeder Landspeeder Speeder bike Battle station (Mentioned only) Death Star (Mentioned only) DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station (Mentioned only) Equatorial trench (Mentioned only) Skyhopper (Mentioned only) Starship Freighter Bulk freighter Millennium Falcon (Mentioned only) Spice freighter (Mentioned only) Freight tender (First appearance) Frigate EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate (Mentioned only) Hospital ship (Mentioned only) Razor-class frigate (First appearance) Kreuge's Revenge (First appearance) Shuttle Sentinel-class landing craft Starfighter BTL Y-wing starfighter BTL-S3 Y-wing Starfighter Y 4 (First appearance) TIE fighter series TIE/ln space superiority starfighter X-wing starfighter T-65B X-wing starfighter Red Five Wedge Antilles' X-wing T-70 X-wing starfighter (First appearance) Transport Warship (Mentioned only) Yacht Mark V Struthimer star yacht (First appearance) Luxury 3000 space yacht (First identified as SoroSuub 3000)

Weapons and technology

Armor Stormtrooper armor Binder Blaster Blaster cannon Blaster pistol Blaster rifle E-11 medium blaster rifle Code cylinder Comlink Datapad Deflector shield Docking tube Electromagnetic pulse Electrostaff Grenade Hydrospanner Ion engine Laser cannon IX4 laser cannon KX9 laser cannon Lightsaber Darth Vader's lightsaber (Mentioned only) Obi-Wan Kenobi's third lightsaber (Mentioned only) Skywalker lightsaber Macrobinoculars Moisture vaporator (Mentioned only) Navigational beacon (First appearance) Photoreceptor Pistol Portable heater (First appearance) Proton torpedo (Mentioned only) Reader socket Recharge coupling Remote Retrorocket (First identified as retrorocket, simultaneous with Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure) Vocabulator

Miscellanea

Army Astrogation Black market (Mentioned only) Blood Bone Callsign Chance cube (Mentioned only) Chitin (First appearance) Cilium (First appearance) Clothing Glove Flight suit Imperial military uniforms Jacket Corps Officer corps Starfighter Corps Credit (Mentioned only) Demon (Mentioned only) Dream Farm Foodstuff Porridge (First appearance) Stew Chuba stew (First mentioned) The Force Dark side of the Force (Mentioned only) Disturbance in the Force Force-sensitive Living Force Meditation Mind trick (Indirect mention only) Vergence Gas (Mentioned only) Tibanna (Mentioned only) Humanoid Hyperspace Insectoid Jedi temple Jedi training Kilometer Lightsaber combat "May the Force be with you" Meter Military rank Navy Oil bath (Mentioned only) Plant Moss Tree Plastoid Rank insignia plaque Ronin (First appearance) Scatter protocol (First appearance) Sexes Sleeping bag (First appearance) Spice (Mentioned only) Squadron Stang Star Red dwarf (First appearance) Stun (Mentioned only) Suicide (Mentioned only) Tea Tarine tea Time Standard decade (Mentioned only) Standard hour Standard minute Tranlang database (First mentioned) Twin Water Whiforlan fluting (First appearance) Whiforla-song (First mentioned) Writing (Appears in illustration only) Aurebesh (Appears in illustration only)

External links

• Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure on Penguin Random House's official website (backup link) (Audiobook download)

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