Adventures in Wild Space: The Snare
Author: Cavan Scott Time: 18 BBY, a year after the events of Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place: Thune, an inhabited planet in Wild Space. This is a sequel to The Escape --well, technically it's the first book in the Adventures in Wild Space series. At the end of the last book, Lina and Milo Graf's parents were abducted by Captain Visler Korda. They are cartographers, and Korda wanted their maps of Wild Space. The children escaped Graf-World along with Milo's pet monkey-lizard Morq and droid caretaker CR-8R ("Crater"). Their mom transmitted some encrypted data to CR-8R, which he's been trying to decrypt. It's taking a very long time. The kids don't know where their parents were taken. They decide to go to Thune, where their parents' best friend and agent Dil Pexton lives. Thune's capital city is like Venice, but in a swamp. There are bugs everywhere and it smells bad. It's basically Florida. They contact Dil...