Fermented milk tea

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"I found a dark bar and sat in the corner, as usual, nursing a fermented milk tea."
―Marda Ro, in her journal[1]

Fermented milk tea was a fermented variety of a beverage involving milk and tea that was sold at a bar located in a hub near the equatorial forests of[1] the Outer Rim[2] world Ryloth during the High Republic Era.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[3] Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil[4]—visited the bar during[1] her[5] search for others of her species and ordered fermented milk tea, which she then drank. Ro later mentioned the beverage in a recording she made for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[6] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to the recording, including the message where fermented milk tea was mentioned.[5]

Behind the scenes

Fermented milk tea 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

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
  2. ↑ StarWars-DatabankII Ryloth in the Databank (backup link)
  3. ↑ 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. Marda Ro visited the hub after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met him no earlier than 379 BBY.
  4. ↑ YouTube 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
  6. ↑ "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.