Leviathan Gem

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The Leviathan Gem was a green-colored gemstone that was a royal jewel of the Nautolan species of the planet Glee Anselm. Along with the sacred firestone of King Skrawll, the royal jewel of the planet's Anselmi species, it was crafted into a valuable statue called the Hope of Glee Anselm that eventually came to rest in the Republic Museum. When the Galactic Republic attempted to broker a peace treaty around 33 BBY to end a war between the Anselmi and the Nautolans, the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum authorized the release of the statue to the people of Glee Anselm.

The handing-off of the artifact was planned to take place at the Regional Republic Headquarters on Jaloria, but the Hope of Glee Anselm was secretly replaced with a forgery by the Nautolan Ambassador Fiarok, who had been indirectly recruited by Count Dooku. While the real statue was kept at the ambassador's guest quarters, the counterfeit version was stolen from the presentation ceremony by a crew of thieves. The sole surviving thief, Nakano Lash, took the fake statue with her when she was transported off Jaloria, and eventually the bounty hunters Aurra Sing and Jango Fett tracked her down on the planet Roxuli, where she shattered the brittle forgery to reveal that it was a fake. Afterward, Fett revealed Fiarok's theft to the Republic governor Tok and the delegates, and the real Hope of Glee Anselm was recovered, although Sing had stolen both of the royal jewels.

Description

The Leviathan Gem was a royal jewel of the Nautolan species of the planet Glee Anselm. It was a polyhedral, green gemstone^[1] the size of a human's palm.^[2]

History

The Hope of Glee Anselm

At one point, the grandsire of a Nautolan relayed to them stories about the Leviathan Gem, in which the artifact was described as beautiful. Both the Leviathan Gem and the sacred firestone of King Skrawll, the royal jewel of the Anselmi species that the Nautolans harmoniously shared their homeworld with, were eventually sculpted into a statue called the Hope of Glee Anselm. The two jewels were placed atop a stylized wave, with the resulting artifact symbolizing the connection between the two species. The statue at some point came into the possession of the Republic Museum, becoming one of the institution's most valuable artifacts and with the Nautolan who had listed to stories about the Leviathan Gem coming to believe that it had been stolen from the Nautolan people.^[1]

The Anselmi and the Nautolans went on to fight each other in a war sometime after the creation of the Hope of Glee Anselm.^[1] Around 33 BBY,^[3] Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum of the Galactic Republic led peace talks^[4] with the aim of crafting a treaty between the two species. As a gesture of the Republic's support and symbolizing a renewed connection between the Anselmi and the Nautolans, Valorum authorized the release of the Hope of Glee Anselm as a gift to the people of Glee Anselm. The statue was to be presented to Anselmi and Nautolan delegates at a ceremony at the Regional Republic Headquarters on the celestial body Jaloria.^[1]

Thefts

However, Nautolan Ambassador Fiarok, who had been recruited by an intermediary of^[2] Count^[5] Dooku—who was planning to destabilize the Republic by re-igniting the war on Glee Anselm—covertly stole the Hope of Glee Anselm and replaced it with a forgery^[2] made of a brittle material^[6] that included a believable representation of the Leviathan Gem.^[1] Fiarok kept the real statue in his guest quarters of the same building.^[2] During the ceremony, Republic's^[1] Governor^[2] Tok unveiled the supposedly genuine Hope of Glee Anselm to the delegates. Upon seeing the statue, the Nautolan whose grandsire had told them stories about the Leviathan Gem—who by that point was a companion of Fiarok—proclaimed that the Nautolan royal jewel was even more beautiful than accounted by the stories. The Nautolan also expressed their regret that the gemstone had been stolen from their species, leading Fiarok to berate their companion for expressing such sentiment at an inappropriate situation and setting.^[1]

Moments later,^[1] a crew of Nautolan^[2] thieves barged into the room and,^[1] in a recorded incident,^[2] stole the counterfeit Hope of Glee Anselm. After the resultant skirmish, the sole surviving thief,^[1] Nakano Lash,^[6] was transported, along with the forged statue, aboard a garbage scow from Jaloria to the astronomical object Hallitron-7. There, Renzoh Silliac, the operator of a local salvage yard, booked Lash,^[4] who had the counterfeit artifact still in her possession,^[6] on a commuter shuttle^[4] that took her to the planet Roxuli.^[6] the bounty hunter Jango Fett,^[4] who had been hired by Tok to find the thief and recover the stolen statue.^[1]

Revelations

The bounty hunters Jango Fett and his rival and former partner Aurra Sing eventually both tracked down Lash on Roxuli, where the former confronted the young thief outside of a local settlement's cantina. In order to stop Fett and Sing from fighting each other over the fake artifact, Lash then showed it to the bounty hunters. When Sing subsequently still demanded that the young Nautolan hand over the statue, the latter, wishing for the others to understand the complexity of the situation they were in, smashed the forgery against a nearby wall, causing it to shatter.^[6]

Later, Fett and Sing traveled to Jaloria to present to Tok evidence of Fiarok's theft. After fighting off a group of bounty hunters in turn pursuing a bounty on Fett, Sing slipped away unnoticed, leaving Fett and the camera droid Arex-Fivesix to present the evidence to Tok and the Anselmi and Nautolan delegates. After learning of Fiarok's actions, Tok ordered a search of Fiarok's quarters, which turned up the real Hope of Glee Anselm—minus both of the royal gems, which had been stolen by Sing. The bounty hunter put the Leviathan Gem in the pocket of her vest while Republic Judicials were carrying the statue out of the Regional Republic Headquarters. The disappearance of the royal gems was later reported by the HoloNet News.^[2]

Behind the scenes

The Leviathan Gem was introduced in the first issue of the Star Wars: Jango Fett comic-book miniseries. The issue was written by Ethan Sacks, penciled by Luke Ross,^[1] and published by Marvel Comics on March 20, 2024.^[7] The series' third issue,^[6] published on May 29 of the same year,^[8] went on to reveal that the jewel previously seen had been a counterfeit,^[6] and the June 19^[9] fourth issue finally featured an appearance of the genuine Leviathan Gem.^[2]

Appearances

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• Jango Fett 1 (First appearance) (As forgery)
• Jango Fett 3 (As forgery)
• Jango Fett 4

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