Crispin, A. C

The students of Starbridge Academy--a training school for Earth's young diplomats, translators, and explorers--meet representatives from sixteen other races and, together, they journey across the universe.

Jack Sparrow, living as a clean-cut merchant seaman, is promoted for his negotiating skills when his ship is attacked by some familiar pirates and Jack's captain is killed, and in route to recover some treasure hidden on a magical island, Jack comes up with an alternative plan to keep the natives free from enslavement, but if a certain East India Trading Company official finds out, Jack could lose both his ship and his freedom.

Tells the story of young Han Solo, of how he was abandonded to the Corellian streets, and then taken by the Garris Shrike to a nomadic band of spacefaring criminals, then driven by dreams of adventure and glory fights against their tyranny and learns to fly spacecrafts on Ylesia.