Chapter 1
"Mr. Solo!" shouts Mrs. Xavi. "Did you hear a single word I just said?"
"Huh?" Han replies, having just been woken from his almost daily in-class nap. The class begins to laugh.
"Han, how do you expect to bring up your grades if you cannot even manage to stay awake?" Xavi asks impatiently.
Han replies wittily, "How do you expect me to stay awake when your lessons are so boring?" The class holds in their laughter out of respect for the teacher.
"Well then," Mrs. Xavi replies in disgust, "at least I know it's not my fault if you don't know the planets of our galaxy. You may make your way to principle Auri's office." Han gets out of his seat, but before making his way to the door, he starts to speak.
"Corellia, Dantooine, Dathomir, Endor, Hoth, Kashyyyk, Lok, Mustafar, Naboo, Rori, Talus, Yavin IV, and our planet Tatooine." Xavi, astonished, asks,
"Can you imagine how smart you could be if you only applied yourself? Sit back down and stay awake." After another twenty minutes school ends. Han's father, Matthew, pulls up in front of the school in his cruiser. Han hops in to the passenger seat.
"How was school, squirt?" his dad asks. Han answers,
"Okay I guess."
"Good." Matthew replies, "Learn anything cool?"
"No." Han retorts, "We never learn anything about the war."
"Han, you're only eight. You will learn about it soon enough." For the remainder of the ride home, the two sit in silence. Later that night Han, Matthew, and Gina, Han's mom, set the table for dinner. As they begin to eat, Gina startthe first conversation.
"How was work, Matthew." He replies,
"It was good, very busy today." Matthew works as a mechanic for ships and cruisers.
"How was Sch-" Gina began to ask Han before stopping. "Did you hear that?" She asks them. The both shook their heads and tried to listen closely. They begin to hear it, a faded voice. It keeps getting closer and louder before they hear it clearly.
"Stormtroopers!"