- "The Scarlet Skull was here. He robbed me, you see. He stole supplies from me and left. All of my food, all of the special tip-yip jerky I was saving… I'd had that jerky for decades and now it's gone!"
- ―Kunpar Vasivola lying to Vark Tarpalin
Tip-yip jerky was a type of jerky made from tip-yips,[1] a type of bird.[2] During the Nihil marauders' occupation of the Outer Rim planet Valo[1] in 229 BBY,[3] Nihil commander Vark Tarpalin interrogated Jedi Master Kunpar Vasivola for the whereabouts of the "Scarlet Skull" saboteur—who was actually the Master's Padawan, Ram Jomaram, operating under a code name. Kunpar pretended to be a helpless caretaker of the world's Jedi temple and lied to the man that the Scarlet Skull had broken into the structure and stolen his tip-yip jerky. When he sobbed that he had kept the treat for decades, the Valon Nihil Idrax Snat teared up at the tale.[1]
Behind the scenes
Tip-yip jerky was mentioned in Escape from Valo, a 2024 junior novel written by Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[1] Phase III.[4]
Appearances
- The High Republic: Escape from Valo (and audiobook) (First mentioned, in book)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The High Republic: Escape from Valo
- ↑ A Crash of Fate
- ↑ The events of The High Republic: Escape from Valo take place one year after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, which equates to 229 BBY per Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia.
- ↑
Star Wars: The High Republic Chronological Reader's Guide on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)