Adventures in Wild Space: The Escape
Author: Cavan Scott Time: 18 BBY, a year after the events of Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place: Graf-World, an uncharted planet in Wild Space. Lina and Milo Graf are the children of two really cool cartographers, Rhyssa and Auric. The Grafs spend their lives mapping Wild Space, the vast, uncharted region of the galaxy. Milo is interested in biology. He often gets into trouble searching for new lifeforms. Lina isn't into all that, but she is pretty good with technology. They are accompanied by their droid assistant CR-8R ("Crater") and Milo's Kowakian monkey-lizard Morq (i.e., Salalcious B. Crumb's species). I really hate when droid's names are cutesy or form words (see: L3-37 and CH-33P). However, this is a children's book, and I do love CR-8R's character design. Rhyssa built him from a bunch of different droid parts, so he's not your standard protocol droid. Milo are Morq are out in the wild chasing some animal, and ...