Chariot

This article is non-canon within the canon continuity. This article covers a subject from a Star Wars: Visions story that Lucasfilm declared is set in an alternate history within a reimagined galaxy.

A chariot was a component of the board game shogi. While aboard the light freighter Poor Crow, the former Sith known as the Ronin and the former Jedi known as the Traveler played several games of shogi in which the Traveler always began cheating after the first few turns. During one game, the Traveler slid their chariot while the Ronin was not looking, putting them in a position in which their victory was assured.^[1]

Later, the Ronin played shogi with his daughter Mirahi in Shinsui Temple on the planet Rei'izu. The table on which the board was placed existed simultaneously both within the temple's kyber mirror, where Mirahi sat, and outside of it, where the Ronin sat. At one point during the game, Mirahi moved a chariot while telling the Ronin she had anticipated his arrival after learning from the mirror that someone would be coming.^[1]

Behind the scenes

A chariot appeared in the 2021 non-canon novel Ronin: A Visions Novel, by Emma Mieko Candon.^[1] In the real world, the rook is a piece in the Japanese board game shogi that is known in Japanese as hisha (飛車), meaning "flying chariot." It can be moved as many spaces as desired forward, backward, or horizontally.^[2]

Appearances

• Ronin: A Visions Novel (and audiobook) (First appearance)

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