DOCTOR APHRA (STAR WARS) (audiobook) by Sarah Kuhn
Published in 2020 by Random House Audio. Performed by multiple voice actors. Duration: 4 hours, 35 minutes. Unabridged. Set in the time between Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV) and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V) , Doctor Aphra is the story of a rogue archaeologist who specializes in weapons of the past. It is based on a comic series. She doesn't collect them to stick them in a museum, she collects them to use them. She thinks an ancient weapon unused is a travesty, like an ancient symphony unplayed. So, she specializes in tracking down weapons that were locked away and hidden so no one could get their hands on them. Her other skill is modifying ships and droids to make them effective weapons. While Dr. Aphra is looking for the operating system of a murderous protocal droid (he hates "organics" and loves to torture), she is captured by Darth Vader. Vader doesn't care about the droid software, but he does want to use Dr. Aphra's skills to track