- "One of the members of Fori’s team had baked fresh finger cakes frosted with ground palm sugar."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
Palm sugar was a type of sugar[1] that shared its name with palm trees.[2] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[3] a feast was thrown aboard the starship called the Gaze Electric, which belonged to Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil.[4] An individual who was a member of Ro's organization baked finger cakes for the occasion, frosting them with ground palm sugar. During the feast, Ro nibbled on one of the finger cakes.[1]
Later, Ro mentioned palm sugar in a message[1] she[5] recorded for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[6] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her memoirs, including the entry where the sugar was mentioned.[5]
Behind the scenes
Palm sugar appeared in a flashback 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] In real life, palm sugar is a sweetener derived from palm trees.[7]
Appearances
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (First appearance) (In flashback(s))
Notes and references
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "The Perfect Weapon"
- ↑ 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.
- ↑
Interview with Tessa Gratton: "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" (TALES OF LIGHT & LIFE) on the Friends of the Force: A Star Wars Podcast YouTube channel (October 6, 2023) (backup link)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
- ↑ "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.
- ↑
What is Palm Sugar? on thespruceeats.com (backup link archived on July 11, 2024)
