Mission on Manaan

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"To me it looks like a…light intensifier?"
"Yeah, that's what it is. I used some on a mission in the underwater caves of Manaan once."
―Avon Starros and Dez Rydan[1]

By 232 BBY,[2] during the High Republic Era, Jedi Dez Rydan of the Jedi Order undertook a mission in the underwater caves of[1] the Inner Rim[3] planet[4] Manaan. During the mission, Rydan used a number of light intensifiers.[1]

In 228 BBY,[5] Ryden was part of a team sent to[1] the Mid Rim[3] planet Kashyyyk to save it from the affliction known as the blight that had been found there. While on Kashyyyk, the team came across an object that the scientist Avon Starros thought was a light intensifier, which Ryden confirmed was the case. He then recalled using some of the devices during his mission in Manaan's underwater caves.[1]

Behind the scenes

Dez Rydan's mission on Manaan was mentioned in the 2025 young-adult novel The High Republic: Into the Light, written by Claudia Gray as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[1] Phase III.[6]

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 The High Republic: Into the Light
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The High Republic: Into the Light establishes that Dez Rydan undertook his mission on Manaan prior to taking the Barash Vow during the mission on the Amaxine station, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 232 BBY.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
  4. ↑ StarWars-DatabankII Manaan in the Databank (backup link)
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates Starlight Beacon's destruction to 230 BBY. The implementation of the Guardian Protocols, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia places in 229 BBY, took place one week after Starlight Beacon's fall according to The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight 1. As The High Republic Adventures (2023) 16, which features the Stormwall going down, takes place one year and a few months after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, it must be set in 228 BBY. The events of The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless also take place in 228 BBY per the reasoning here. As The High Republic: Into the Light states its events occur after the events of Tears of the Nameless and before the Stormwall goes down, they must also take place in that year.
  6. ↑ StarWars.com SWCE 2023: 9 Things We Learned from the Star Wars: The High Republic Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)