Author: Ryder Windham
Genre: Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
Hans Solo and Chewbacca made their living transporting things in space for money or credits as they called it. After Hans and Chewbacca sell Jabba some worms that they said were extremely hard to get (actually they had gotten them for free), he hires them to pick up some type of silk from the planet Fornax and bring it back to him. The story humorously describes a princess that they run into who is there for her wedding. Then they wittingly get the silk from the storage unit but before they can leave the Fornax station, the chief of security stops them and accuses them of smuggling. The security searches their ship and comes out with the bag they had taken Jabba’s silk back to the ship in filled with the princess’ wedding gown. He was holding them for stealing her dress which was valuable. The chief also wanted whatever they had come there for because he thought they did take something else but couldn’t figure it out. They made their way to their ship by automatically having the ship fire on the security droids. They had an adventurous escape with the security chasing them. They had to maneuver through the fire rings that surrounded the planet Fornax, which was very dangerous, to finally win the battle. They tricked the chief of security into saying that they hadn’t stolen the wedding dress and he had planted it on them over the intercom so the Fornax authority could hear. They returned the dress and left with their cargo for Jabba and completed their job for Jabba.
Before reading the story I would ask how many students had seen the Star Wars movies. I would explain that this story was before Hans Solo had joined the group against the Empire in the movies. I would the read story aloud over a few days. At the end of each day I would have the students write what they thought would happen next when we read more of the story the next day. We would share what they thought would happen next in class before reading more each day. This story can relate to science lessons about space and galaxies and can be a read aloud when in that unit.
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