Foot soldier

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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.

"We could play shogi. Fourth foot soldier one forward."
―The Traveler, to the Ronin[1]

A foot soldier was a component of the board game shogi. After the former Sith known as the Ronin was injured during a duel with the Jedi lord Hanrai aboard the Imperial Dreadnought Reverent, the former Jedi known as the Traveler helped him escape the ship as it collapsed. To keep the Ronin engaged, the Traveler suggested they verbally play a game of shogi, beginning by moving their fourth foot soldier one forward. The Ronin, however, found the suggestion boring and instead wanted to learn of the Traveler's past.[1]

Behind the scenes

Foot soldiers were mentioned in the 2021 non-canon novel Ronin: A Visions Novel, by Emma Mieko Candon.[1] In the real world, pawns are pieces in the Japanese board game shogi that each player has nine of and can be moved one space forward. In Japanese, pawns are known as fuhyou (歩兵), literally meaning "foot soldier."[2]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ronin: A Visions Novel
  2. ↑ Premium-Era-real Pawn and Tokin in Shogi on shogi.cloud (backup link archived on July 17, 2025)