- "We had a multilayered Corellian opera playing."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journall
Corellian opera was a type of opera[1] that shared its name with the planet Corellia.[2] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[3] a feast was thrown on the Gaze Electric, a ship belonging to Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil.[4] At the feast, a multilayered Corellian opera played, which Ro later noted in a journal entry[1] she[5] recorded for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[6] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the message where Corellian opera was mentioned.[5]
Behind the scenes
Corellian opera appeared in a flashback in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.[1]
Appearances
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (First appearance) (In flashback(s))
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑
Corellia in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. The feast occurred after the Jedi's death; therefore, it must have taken place no earlier than 379 BBY.
- ↑
Interview with Tessa Gratton: "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" (TALES OF LIGHT & LIFE) on the Friends of the Force YouTube channel (October 6, 2023) (backup link)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
- ↑ "The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year.