Fori's ship

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"Milan and Fori work together, taking Fori’s ship in different directions to find smuggling work, or more often opportunities for simple theft."
―Marda Ro, in her journal[1]

Fori's ship was a ship that belonged to the Twi'lek Fori Nagor[1] by around 381 BBY. Around that year,[2] Nagor visited the oldest settlement on the planet Dantooine, where she met Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil.[3] She[4] asked Nagor whether she had a ship and offered Nagor a position in her group once Nagor mentioned the ship. Nagor then worked alongside the human Milan Stor, and they used the ship to search for opportunities for theft and smuggling.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[5] the vessel was among the three ships Ro sent to intercept the Evereni siblings Vika and Velya Faer's ship in order to send the two Faers an invitation to meet her.[1]

Later, Ro mentioned the ship in a journal she recorded for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[6] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her recordings, including the messages where the ship was mentioned.[4]

Behind the scenes

The ship was mentioned 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 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
  2. ↑ "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" establishes that Marda Ro visited Dantooine around a year after taking possession of the Gaze Electric, an event that Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 382 BBY. Therefore, Ro's trip to Dantooine must have occurred around 381 BBY. As Fori Nagor already owned the starship at the time of their meeting, she must have had it in her posession by that year.
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
  5. ↑ 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 met the Faers after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met them no earlier than 379 BBY.
  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.