Silver general

This article is non-canon within the canon continuity. This article covers a subject from a Star Wars: Visions story that Lucasfilm declared is set in an alternate history within a reimagined galaxy.

A silver general was a component of the board game shogi. While aboard the light freighter Poor Crow, the former Sith known as the Ronin and the storyteller known as the Traveler played several games of shogi in which the Traveler always began cheating after the first few turns, though the Ronin never commented on it. During one game, they cheated by sliding one of their silver generals into the board's promotion zone. The Ronin considered it to be an audacious maneuver, but he had been unable to see the Traveler do it.^[1]

Behind the scenes

A silver general appeared in the 2021 non-canon novel Ronin: A Visions Novel, by Emma Mieko Candon.^[1] In the real world, a silver general is a piece in the Japanese board game shogi that can be moved one space in any direction except backward or horizontally. When moving into, within, or out of the promotion zone, silver generals can be promoted and have their movement replaced with that of a gold general, which can move in any direction except backward diagonally.^[2]

Appearances

• Ronin: A Visions Novel (and audiobook) (First appearance)

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