Or Die Trying

Or Die Trying is a short story set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was written by Sean Williams and Shane Dix for Star Wars Insider 75. The story takes place between The New Jedi Order books Force Heretic: Refugee and Reunion, 29 years after the Battle of Yavin.

For The Boondocks episode, see ...Or Die Trying. For the video game, see O.D.T.
Or Die Trying
AuthorSean Williams
Shane Dix
IllustratorLeanne Buckley
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCanon C
SubjectStar Wars
GenreScience fiction
Set inGalactic year 29 ABY
New Jedi Order
PublishedMay 2004 Paizo Publishing
Media typeMagazine

Summary

Following the events of Force Heretic II: Refugee, Jedi Knight Jaina Solo investigates the origins of the Human Replica Droid Bakuran Prime Minister Cundertol had infused his essence into. Her investigation leads her to the droid manufacturer ODT's headquarters on Onadax, in the Minos Cluster.

There, she confronts Stanton Rendar (head of the factory and the brother of the infamous smuggler Dash Rendar) concerning the morality of granting immortality to sentients through droids and attempts to persuade him to surrender himself to the Galactic Alliance. However, Stanton and his associates unleash their droids on Jaina, creating a diversion which allows them to escape. The story ends with Jaina feeling bitter over the failure of the mission.

Characters
  • Jaina Solo; Jedi Knight (human female)
  • Stanton Rendar (human male)
  • C-3PO; protocol droid (Mentioned only)
  • Darth Vader; Sith Lord (human male) (Mentioned only)
  • Dash Rendar; smuggler (human male) (Mentioned only)
  • Guri; Human Replica Droid; assassin (Feminine programming) (Mentioned only)
  • Han Solo; former smuggler; captain, Millennium Falcon (human male) (Mentioned only)
  • Luke Skywalker; Jedi Master (human male) (Mentioned only)
  • Molierre Cundertol; prime minister, Bakura (human male) (Mentioned only)
  • Palpatine; Emperor, Galactic Empire; Sith Lord (human male) (Mentioned only)
  • Rufarr; smuggler (Wookiee male) (Mentioned only)
  • Simonelle; creator of Guri (Mentioned only)
  • Tahiri Veila; Jedi Knight (human female) (Mentioned only)
  • Thrumble; researcher (Mentioned only)
  • Xixor; prince, House Sizhran; leader, Black Sun (Falleen male) (Mentioned only)
gollark: You don't know that. We can't really test this. Even people who support utilitarian philosophy abstractly might not want to pull the lever in a real visceral trolley problem.
gollark: Almost certainly mostly environment, yes.
gollark: It's easy to say that if you are just vaguely considering that, running it through the relatively unhurried processes of philosophizing™, that sort of thing. But probably less so if it's actually being turned over to emotion and such, because broadly speaking people reaaaallly don't want to die.
gollark: Am I better at resisting peer pressure than other people: well, I'd *like* to think so, but so would probably everyone else ever.
gollark: Anyway, I have, I think, reasonably strong "no genocide" ethics. But I don't know if, in a situation where everyone seemed implicitly/explicitly okay with helping with genocides, and where I feared that I would be punished if I either didn't help in some way or didn't appear supportive of helping, I would actually stick to this, since I don't think I've ever been in an environment with those sorts of pressures.

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