Rascal

Rascal was a tooka who lived at the Jedi temple on the Outer Rim planet Dalna during the High Republic Era. In 230 BBY, Rascal and the temple's other tookas were at the temple's entrance when Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her apprentice, Jedi Padawan Imri Cantaros, arrived on a mission. Cantaros was excited to see the cats and cradled Rascal. When they relocated inside, Jedi Knight Yacek Sparkburn arrived carrying a bag of moon fish, prompting Rascal and the other tookas to swarm him.

After the Nihil pirates devastated Dalna, the planet was evacuated by the Jedi Order and Galactic Republic, with the temple's tookas, including Rascal, being sent to live in new homes. As he lived on the Outer Rim planet Aricho in 228 BBY, Sparkburn missed the tookas, but knew they were in happy homes.

Biography

Life on Dalna

Rascal was a tooka cat who lived at the Jedi Order's temple on^[1] the Outer Rim^[2] planet Dalna during the High Republic Era.^[1] In 230 BBY,^[3] when Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her apprentice, Jedi Padawan Imri Cantaros, arrived at the temple to investigate kidnappings carried out by the Nihil pirates, Rascal and the temple's other tookas were present at the temple's entrance. Cantaros was excited to see the cats.^[1]

Jedi Master Nyla Quinn^[1]—the lead Jedi of the temple^[4]—then arrived at the entrance to greet the Jedi and told Rwoh to enter the temple. As she did, she gestured over to Cantaros, who was cradling Rascal and cooing to the tooka, and warned Rwoh that the tooka may begin to nibble on his Padawan braid. After the Jedi made their way inside the temple, Jedi Knight Yacek Sparkburn appeared carrying bags of items and the tookas all flocked to him, wailing piteously. The situation caused Sparkburn to laugh, and he stated that the cats must have smelled the moon fish he had brought with him.^[1]

A new home

During the Jedi's investigation on Dalna, the Nihil triggered massive volcanic eruptions and groundquakes using a crystal matrix tied into the planet's crust,^[1] devastating Dalna,^[6] resulting in the Galactic Republic and Jedi carrying out an evacuation of the planet to an emergency shelter on Hansibel Island.^[1] Eventually,^[5] Rascal,^[1] and the rest of the Dalna temple's tooka's were sent to live in new homes.^[5]

In 228 BBY,^[7] Sparkburn and Cantaros resided on^[5] the Outer Rim^[8] planet Aricho, and Sparkburn was reminded of the Dalna temple's tookas each time they visited a tavern named the Blue Tooka, which had a number of tookas living in it. When the two visited the tavern one day, Sparkburn informed Cantaros of his remembrance of the tookas, stating that while he knew they were in happy homes after being evacuated from Dalna, there was nothing that compared to one of the tooka's testing their claws on his chest.^[5]

Personality and traits

According to Nyla Quinn, while the Dalna temple's tookas looked "cute and cuddly," they were also mischievous, which she noted to Vernestra Rwoh when Imri Cantaros was cradling Rascal.^[1]

Skills and abilities

The tookas of the Dalna Jedi temple, including Rascal, were good at keeping pests out of the temple according to Yacek Sparkburn.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Rascal first appeared in the 2022 junior novel The High Republic: Mission to Disaster, written by Justina Ireland and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's^[1] Phase I.^[9]

Appearances

• The High Republic: Mission to Disaster (and audiobook) (First appearance)
• The High Republic: A Valiant Vow (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only)

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