The Millenium Falcon had taken on some serious damage after a tough battle near what used to be Alderaan.  In case you didn’t read about it in the Rebel Alliances Times, that is where I took out Darth Vader which cleared the way for Luke to fire his proton torpedoes and blow up the first Death Star setting the galactic Empire back a lot of money and time in their quest to rule the galaxy.  Actually, most of that damage came during the dramatic rescue of her Worshipness from that planet sized battle station which was only a success because of yours truly.  Chewie and I decided to use some of the reward money from saving the Princess to not only make some repairs to the ship, but to toss in some much needed upgrades.  She’s the fastest ship in the galaxy (ya know…Kessel Run in 12 parsecs and all), but this ol Corellian cruiser could always use a few new mods. 

On the way to Echo Base in the Hoth system I made a quick stop at Coruscant to hit my favorite local bookstore (yeah that’s right…Social Media Han Solo is a shop local first kinda scoundrel).  We stopped in so I could pick up a new manual called “Trust Agent Rules to Engage Your Hyperdrive Motivator 2.0″ to help us out with those new modifications.  Chewie and I finally make it to Echo Base and are getting ready to start work on the repairs then I notice something when I opened the book.  Someone has scribbled all over the title page and it should go without saying that at this point I’m pretty ticked off.  Then General Rieekan tells me it was too dangerous for anyone to leave the system until the energy shield is activated, leaving me stuck there and unable to return it for a new one.  I send a transmission to the bookstore and the owner has no idea what I’m talking about so he goes over and grabs another copy…sure enough…that book has writing on the inside cover too which matches the writing in mine.  I then tossed the book over to C3-PO (since he is fluent in over six million languages) to see if that babbling protocol droid could determine what the writing says. 

It turns out the author of the book must have visited the store at some point then signed and wrote a little note in all the copies without the store owner even knowing about it.  This so called hyperdrive guru thought he was so much of a celebrity and conceited to the point that he actually went into the store without the owner knowing about it just to sign copies of the book thinking that people would be excited when they discovered his autograph.  I’ve got news for you pal, you are not a celebrity or any kind of rock star and not everyone who grabs a copy of your book cares about getting your autograph (nor do they want it).  Stop walking into every book store you pass and signing all the copies on the shelves.  If I really cared about getting a signed copy of your book I would travel across the galaxy to whatever hyperdrive repair conference you weaseled your way into getting a booth or a speaking session at and ask for it in person.  Book store owners should all start calling your publisher and demand refunds for you defacing copies of their books.