- Weft: "You discussed all of this while I was asleep?"
- Starros: "Your dad died."
- Rwoh: "Avon! Please, be more sensitive."
- Starros: "The philosopher Grat Resa's treatise on mourning says acknowledging the passing of a loved one is important to the healing process. The other part of the grieving process is getting enough rest. Loss can be emotionally draining. You sleeping was a good thing for your body. It wasn't personal."
- Rwoh: "Science cannot replace empathy, Avon."
- Starros: "Oh. I'm sorry. I was trying to help."
- ―Honesty Weft, Avon Starros, and Vernestra Rwoh[1]
Avon Starros (pictured) quoted Grat Resa's treatise while stranded on Wevo.
Grat Resa was a philosopher who wrote a treatise on mourning stating that acknowledging the passing of a loved one was important to the healing process, and that getting enough rest was also part of the grieving process.[1] By 232 BBY,[2] during the High Republic Era, the scientist Avon Starros became familiar with Resa's treatise.[1]
That year,[2] while among a group stranded on the Outer Rim moon Wevo, Starros informed the Dalnan boy Honesty Weft of a plan the group had come up with while he was sleeping after an attack in which his father had died. When Weft questioned they had made the plan without him, Starros bluntly replied that his father had died, to which Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh told her to be more sensitive. Confused, the scientist quoted Resa's treatise, informing Weft the sleep had been good for his body. Rwoh then countered the scientist by noting science could not replace empathy, and Starros apologized to Weft.[1]
Behind the scenes
Grat Resa was mentioned in the 2021 junior novel The High Republic: A Test of Courage, written by Justina Ireland and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[1] Phase I.[3]
Appearances
- The High Republic: A Test of Courage (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
