The Truest Duty

"The Truest Duty" is a short story that was published in the 2020 anthology book From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. It was written by Christie Golden and focuses on Maximilian Veers.

Plot summary

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Media

Collected in

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Derek Klivian (Snowspeeder only)
Lastok (First identified as Lastok and TK-7834)
Kesin Ommis (Snowspeeder only)
Kendal Ozzel (Mentioned only)
Firmus Piett (Mentioned only)
Darth Sidious (Mentioned only)
Luke Skywalker (Mentioned only)
Wilhuff Tarkin (Mentioned only)
TK-5187 (First identified as TK-5187)
TS-4068 (First identified as TS-4068)
Darth Vader
Maximilian Veers

Events

Imperial Era
- Duel on Mustafar (Indirect mention only)
- Galactic Civil War
  - Battle of Hoth
  - Battle of Yavin (Indirect mention only)

Locations

Outer Rim Territories
- Anoat sector
  - Hoth system
    - Hoth
      - Echo Base (Indirect mention only)

Organizations and titles

Alliance to Restore the Republic
- Alliance Military
  - Rebel Alliance Navy
    - Rebel Alliance Starfighter Corps
      - Rogue Squadron
- Rebel pilot (Mentioned only)
Diplomat (Mentioned only)
Galactic Empire
- Galactic Emperor (Mentioned only)
- Grand Moff (Mentioned only)
- Imperial Military
  - Imperial Army
    - Imperial combat driver
      - AT-AT pilot
    - Stormtrooper Corps
      - 501st Legion
        Blizzard Force
        
        Thundering Herd
      - Cold weather assault stormtrooper
      - Stormtrooper (Mentioned only)
    - Vehicle commander
  - Imperial Navy
- Imperial Officer Corps
  - Imperial officer
Gunner
Lord
Medic (Mentioned only)
Officer
- Admiral (Mentioned only)
- Captain
- General
Pilot
Sith
Skywalker family
Soldier
Troop
Trooper

Sentient species

Human

Vehicles and vessels

Weapons and technology

Armor
- Darth Vader's armor
- Helmet
- Stormtrooper armor
  - Snowtrooper armor (First identified as Snowtrooper armor)
Com-scan (Mentioned only)
Cybernetics
- Mechno-arm
Dagger (Mentioned only)
Deflector shield (Mentioned only)
Deflector shield generator
- DSS-02 shield generator
Droid (Mentioned only)
Hologram
Lightsaber (Mentioned only)
- Darth Vader's lightsaber (Indirect mention only)
Magnetic harpoon (Indirect mention only)
Meditation chamber
- Darth Vader's meditation chamber
Power generator (Mentioned only)

Miscellanea

Blood
Clothing
- Boot
Color
Cyborg
Death (Mentioned only)
Disease (Mentioned only)
Dream (Mentioned only)
Eye
Flagship
Force choke (Indirect mention only)
Force-sensitive
Ghost (Mentioned only)
God (Mentioned only)
Heart (Mentioned only)
Laser
Lightspeed (Mentioned only)
Limb
Orbital bombardment (Mentioned only)
Planet
Plastoid
Sleep (Mentioned only)
Snow
Soul (Mentioned only)
Star system
Time
- Second
- Standard day
- Standard decade
- Standard hour
- Standard year

Notes and references

↑ Empire at 40 | Check Out the Cover of From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back on StarWars.com (backup link)

In other languages

[Announcement-1] Empire at 40 | Check Out the Cover of From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back on StarWars.com (backup link)

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