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Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures: Season 2: Story 39: Fossil Hunt

What is it ? : The Young Jedi are visiting the Explorer Droid OG-LC who shows them various fossils that he has been excavating, Kai is uninterested because he thought it would be more exciting seeing the remains of old monsters.
Suddenly there is noise from OG-LC's camp, and two droids come in and start flattening the area. The Young Jedi de-activate the droids, but Ozon Nimbee, the property developer who tried to flatten Black Spire Outpost in the past. He wants to redevelop this place into a spa, and flashes authorisation at OG-LC.
Kai is interested in a modern redevelopment, but Lys is not, worried that the past that is being discovered will be destroyed. OG-LC leads the group to show off his best discovery, the fossils of a large fearsome lizard, so they rappel down to it, but Ozon is not impressed and cuts the ropes trapping them down the dig hole.
The Young Jedi use their lightsabers to climb out of the hole, and see Ozon has a large digger which he is using to aid his droids. The Young Jedi distract him, and he crashes the digger into a pit, and leaves distraught that his plans have been thwarted.
OG-LC is worried about the amount of work that the dig site needs to recover, but the Young Jedi reprogram the droids to help, and the Young Jedi discover a new fossil and begin to excavate it. . . .

High Points : While not a great episode, it's exciting enough, and I have to say I really like the excavator droids that Ozon uses. They're beetle like, but still have manipulator arms, so aren't just monster droids, just non-humanoid but useful droids.

Low Points : Protecting fossils I find difficult to get excited about, while discovering history is important, this is Tenoo, which isn't the home world of any of the characters, no known intelligent species have developed her, and the fossils are just random remains, like would exist on so many worlds which aren't investigated.
The episode also relies a lot on characters from previous episodes, but it's been so long since we saw OG-LC and Ozon, that I had to look both up as I'd totally forgotten who they are.

So what do you really think ? : So, I take it Ozon was lying about having authorisation to build here, although I'm intrigued as to what he flashes at OG-LC. But if he does have authorisation, which is entirely possible since they're in the middle of nowhere then OG-LC is trespassing. If he doesn't, then what is his plan, to build a spa resort on someone else's land where it can be taken from him by the legitimate owner.

Final Words : And the moral of this one seems to be, Fossils are important, nothing more, nothing less.

Score : 7.5/10

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