- "We have three small ships that live in the hold of the Gaze now. One [is] left over from the Mother’s reign."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
A ship belonged to the Path of the Open Hand cult during the time it was led by a woman called the Mother. After the Path's violent end[1] in 382 BBY,[2] the starship became a possession of former Path member Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil.[3] Ro's pirates then used the ship to carry out their raids, sometimes using it alongside their other ships.[1] At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,[4] the starship was one of those sent by Ro to intercept the ship of the Evereni siblings Vika and Velya Faer while[1] she[5] sent the twins an invitation to meet with her.[1]
Ro later 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 entry 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
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑ The High Republic: Quest for Planet X establishes that the Path of the Open Hand dissolved in the aftermath of the Night of Sorrow, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 382 BBY.
- ↑
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)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
- ↑ "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.