Unidentified Faer ship

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"There are six other Faers spread in the galaxy, most of them together on a three-hundred-year-old ship."
―Marda Ro, in her journal[1]
Marda Ro (pictured) mentioned the ship in her journal.

Marda Ro (pictured) mentioned the ship in her journal.

A ship housed members of the Evereni family known as Faers during the High Republic Era.[1] Created around 679 BBY,[2] long before the High Republic Era,[3] the Faers came to inhabit the ship during the next three centuries.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[2] while most of the eight Faers alive at that time resided on the ship, the siblings Vika and Velya lived on their own ship. At that time, the siblings met Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] leader of the marauder group who would eventually become the Nihil.[4] Ro, wanting to know more about[1] her[5] species, asked them about the Evereni. Among the things they told her was about the ship on which most of their family resided.[1]

Ro later recounted her encounter with the Faers and mentioned the ship in a message she recorded for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[6] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the message where the ship was mentioned.[5]

Behind the scenes

The ship was mentioned 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]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. The ship being three centuries old is established during their encounter, meaning it must have been created around 679 BBY.
  3. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the beginning of the High Republic Era to around 500 BBY, over a century after 679 BBY.
  4. ↑ YouTube 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
  6. ↑ "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.