## Chapter 22

1 And now, with all the other books being written in the Expanded Universe, there are even more such incidents for Karrde to be thinking of.

—TZ

2 I used both watch and chrono to designate timekeepers in Heir. The former I envisioned as small, personal timepieces, while the latter would be located aboard ships or the equivalent of wall or desk clocks.

I don’t think anything like watches ever showed up in the movies. But surely people there still needed easily portable ways to tell time.

—TZ

3 More art imitating life. In those days, whenever I found myself on my own (usually when I was off on one of my three-day, writing-intensive retreats), I would follow this same schedule: early breakfast, early dinner, no lunch.

—TZ

4 Tuckerism: Wade Warren, another Tampa fan.

—TZ

5 For someone who was never intended to be anything but a minor character, Ghent has picked up a surprising following among the readers over the years.

No doubt it’s a combination of his computer skills, his open-faced honesty, and his complete oblivioun to all the political machinations swirling around him.

If he’s not the king of the Star Wars nerds, he’s certainly one of the royal family.

—TZ

6 An odd echo (pre-echo?) of the “Jaynestown” episode of the TV series Firefly, where an action that was seen by some as heroic was really nothing more than pure pragmatism on the part of the person involved.

In this case, Ghent saw Han’s donation of the slaver ship and cargo to the victims as an act of charity, whereas Han’s motivations had been less altruistic than practical.

I adopted this particular incident from the Star Wars Sourcebook, where it was described briefly by one of the slavers’ victims. I thought it would be interesting to show Han’s side of it, especially since back then he wasn’t the noble yet lovable rogue we all know from the movies.

—TZ

7 Again, a bit of foreshadowing for something that won’t become important until the next book.

—TZ

8 Droid rhino boot! This concept made me laugh. But it’s so believable!

—BM

9 Like the use of borg earlier, the term corvette got me another letter chastising me for using such a non-Star Wars term—and this one the name of a modern car, to boot.

I had to write back and explain that a corvette was originally a seventeenth-century warship, that its use was already well established in the Star Wars universe, and that there was nothing we could do about General Motors having borrowed the name before we got to it.

—TZ

10 On the surface, this looks like another comment that’s since been overthrown by other stories, including a bunch of my own.

But it’s clear from the rest of Heir and the other books of the trilogy that she’s actually quite skilled with a lightsaber. I don’t remember what exactly I was thinking at the time I wrote this line, but my guess is that she’s merely being sarcastic.

Either that or it’s a flat-out typo, and I meant to say that she hadn’t picked up a lightsaber very often in the past few years.

One of those questions where the answer is now unfortunately lost in the mists of time.

—TZ