Thornbush

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A thornbush was a type of bush with prickly leaves that was found on the Outer Rim planet Palagosal.[1] In 228 BBY,[2] after the Hutt Churo crashed on Palagosal, he saw the Galactic Republic yacht Redemption being pursued by members of the Nihil pirates. Churo attempted to assist the Redemption by firing on the Nihil starships with a laser cannon, but missed and hit the Redemption, causing it to crash. The Hutt then scurried into the cover of thornbushes and covered his eyes, not wanting to watch. Because of his thick sticky skin, the prickly leaves of the thornbushes glanced off of him. Soon after, when the Redemption's crew encountered Churo, the Jedi youngling Kildo scanned the area and noticed Churo's campsite brushing up against thorny bushes and trees.[1]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, thornbushes appeared in the 2024 junior novel The High Republic: Beware the Nameless, written by Zoraida Córdova and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[1] Phase III.[3] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, a thornbush first appeared in the The Last Command, a 1993 novel written by Timothy Zahn as the final volume of Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy.[4] The spelling thorn bush was then first used in The Crystal Star, a 1994 novel by Vonda N. McIntyre.[5]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The High Republic: Beware the Nameless
  2. ↑ 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: Beware the Nameless takes place one and a half years after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, it must be set in 228 BBY.
  3. ↑ StarWars.com SWCE 2023: 9 Things We Learned from the Star Wars: The High Republic Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
  4. ↑ The Last Command
  5. ↑ The Crystal Star