013 - The High Republic Adventures issues 6-7, An Uneasy Alliance

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Starlight Archive, the best Griffin High Republic podcast this side of beautiful. Now, Hana, Today we are joined by Kev of the Jedi Archive podcast. It's a great little podcast, about 10 to 20 minutes, nice and digestible. Goes through bunch of planets, goes through a bunch of animals and creatures of the Star wars world, and it's almost in universe, which is really, really cool. And he is on here to talk to us about High Republic Adventures, issues six and seven. And welcome to the show, buddy. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Yeah, man. [00:00:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Bright suns, everybody. I'm super excited to be here. Super excited to talk about the High Republic. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really interesting and exciting that we're getting to start this off, because you're kind of one of our first stories in Wave two, which we haven't been posting for a little bit. And now we're actually moving into wave two of Phase one. As we've said in all of our other episodes, the wave two of Phase one is basically broken into three parts. The before the faire stuff, the faire stuff, and after the faire stuff. Yeah. [00:01:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:01:20] Speaker A: You know, we circle it all around the Faire, but this is very separate from the Faire in that it is the continuation of the Drengir plot for. From the first wave, which started in into the Dark. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:01:34] Speaker A: I forget into the Dark and call it Rising Storm all the time. So before we begin, I guess we can just jump right into it, really. Yeah, yeah. So before we begin, the High Republic Adventures comics at the time were being released by idw. They are collected, I believe, in the Dark Horse omnibus. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I think they just put that out. [00:01:57] Speaker A: So for. For all of Phase one, and that is available on Hoopla, if you want to go pick that up. But we are talking about the books that specifically appear in the second trade, the High Republic Adventures. It's got a great picture of Ram Jamaram and Zine Morala and Lula Talosola on the front. And it takes place. It actually opens up. We should probably talk a little bit. It opens up. The trade does with the annual. Which takes place. [00:02:25] Speaker B: Is it the annuals or the Free Comic Book Day? [00:02:26] Speaker A: Oh, you know what? It is the Free Comic Book Day. Okay. [00:02:28] Speaker B: That's what was confusing earlier. I'm like, the annuals later. [00:02:30] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, you're right. The Free Comic Book Day issue takes place during the Republic Fair, and it involves Lula Talisola and Zine Marala and Ram Jamram, which in another issue. In the other. In the other episode, I think I said that Vern and Ram took on the drengier going up to the tower. But that was Lula. Vern was on the ground. [00:02:57] Speaker B: Oh, Vern was around. [00:02:58] Speaker A: She's around and she helps with the fog. [00:03:00] Speaker B: And it still makes sense. [00:03:02] Speaker A: They're all. They're all there. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Anyway, you'll listen to that in the next episode. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll make sense later when we talk to Rachel. Yeah, but we're gonna skip past that episode and go straight into High Republic issue number six. Six Mission to Bilbosa. Bilbosa City being the capital city on Now Hutta, which is why I mentioned Nel Hutta in the this side of. In fact, if you've been listening to our episodes, you'll note that this side of almost always has to do with the episode. Except for that one time we mentioned Brindock because Acolyte was coming up. We were very excited. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that is true. Because we love the Acolyte. [00:03:37] Speaker A: We do love the Acolyte. So Kev is on here. His podcast is really informative about some planets that appear in the High Republic and some that appear in the main trilogy. I mean, non elegy the Skywalker Saga and other media and print media, et cetera. So we're really excited to have you on here. Let's jump right into the comic. [00:04:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:01] Speaker A: Before. As far as what we need. Sorry, let's not jump right into the comic. I see. That's not what I meant. Let's jump right into, like what we need for. We're not jumping Right. Before we start talking about the comic. Yeah. I want to talk about what sort of things you might need to know before this happens. [00:04:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:19] Speaker A: So thankfully, the High Republic adventures, by and large, doesn't really impact the main High Republic story, especially going later on, but it is impacted by the main High Republic story. And every now and again, things will pop in. Yeah. [00:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Different characters, characters will show up. Some minor storylines will kind of bleed into it, and that's what we'll see these next few issues. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Yeah. So before you begin reading this, if you're looking to have the backstory to make this make sense, then feel free to read the things we're about to mention. And if you would rather we just explain the backstory. Congratulations, you came to the right podcast. There are spoilers abound in this episode. We do have a spoiler free episode. If you haven't listened to that, go ahead and listen to that. If you're looking to read it and want just a little bit of background. But going into this, you need to know that the Drengir are a giant plant monster hive mind that are released across the galaxy in the events of a book called into the Dark. And really, for these two issues, you really just need to know that the Jedi are fighting them in an uneasy alliance with the Hutt clan that was. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Set up by Avar Kriss. [00:05:30] Speaker A: Avar Kriss and Mayorga the Hutt. [00:05:34] Speaker B: In. [00:05:35] Speaker A: The High Republic series by Marvel. And those are issues three through about five when this takes place. But that uneasy alliance does have a little bit of diplomacy that needs to happen, which is what happens in these two issues. And I would say that the only other thing you might need to know are the crew of the vessel. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Who are not normally in High Republic adventures and have just shown up here. [00:06:01] Speaker B: But. But we do see them in into the Dark. [00:06:03] Speaker A: We do see them in into the Dark released. [00:06:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Yeah. The crew of the vessel includes Afy Hollow, who is captain of the vessel. She's the captain of the vessel. And then their main pilot is a guy named Leox Jassy. He's basically Matthew McConaughey. [00:06:18] Speaker C: I was gonna say, is it just me or, like, does any. You know, does anyone just picture McConaughey? [00:06:24] Speaker A: He literally says, all right, all right, all right. In the tail end of Phase One. Yeah. Like, they know. [00:06:30] Speaker B: Yeah, well. And. Yeah. And Claudia Gray we talked about before she even said, like, oh, I. He's 100% Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey. That's who I based them off. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:44] Speaker C: I don't know if you guys have listened to the audiobooks, but it doesn't. It doesn't. You know, it doesn't hurt that, like, Mark Thompson, the guy that narrates most of the. The main novel, the. The adult novels. Yeah, absolutely. Uses a Makani. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Oh, 100%. He does. [00:06:59] Speaker B: He does. Yeah. Yeah. [00:07:00] Speaker A: He doesn't go all, all right, all right, all right. When he does. When it finally does come up. But, like, you know. You know, he's like, oh, yeah, yeah. I prefer the old way a little bit. [00:07:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So that crew's there, but not only those two. [00:07:14] Speaker A: We also the most important. [00:07:16] Speaker B: The most important guy. [00:07:17] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, you can't Geode the hero. [00:07:20] Speaker A: You know it, dude. Geode. What a guy. [00:07:24] Speaker B: I want to be Geode when I grow up, dude. [00:07:25] Speaker A: Stand up, dude. Just. Just great. And honestly, Geode in the comics is so fun because, like, they always say things like, Geode, a man of. You know, he was. They knew he was a man of few words, but he always Made a good. Yeah. Or Geode. Geode sat in. In stunned silence. Yeah. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Contemplative silence. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Geode, you know, listened attentively and said nothing. Yeah. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Or like they're chilling in a bar. Like, there's Geode across the room flirting it up as usual. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah. But it's never on camera, as it were. And the comic here, really, these two issues take all of those fun little bits, no pun intended, and really just play it up. Oh, it's perfect. It's so great. So for those of you who aren't aware, Geode is Aventian, which is basically a large slab of rock. [00:08:16] Speaker B: He's sentient. Rock. [00:08:17] Speaker A: He's sentient. But we never see him speak on screen. [00:08:20] Speaker B: We never see him move. [00:08:21] Speaker A: We never see him move. He always just shows up places and is places and. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Yeah, sometimes. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And there's some great moments of that in this particular comic. Yeah. Other than that, I don't think you really need to read too much to be fully aware of who these guys are, except for the High Republic Adventures comics, in order to know who Farzala and Court are. Lula, Talisola, and Zeen are not on this mission with the crew of the vessel, but. And they call it the vessel. Farce the record, because they like to call things as it is, and it's simple and it's elegant, and it names. Giving something a name gives it that power. Vessel is exactly that, a vessel. So Kort and Farzala are on their way to a meeting at Nal Hutta, and they are two Jedi in what I lovingly refer to as the Padawan Pals. They're a group of Padawans and younglings that were on a mission, like, kind of like a field trip with Yoda at the very beginning of all this. And they rescued a young girl named Zane and ended up making enemies with a boy named Chrix Camera, who joined the Nihil. But the Nihil aren't really a factor in this whole thing too much. Right. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Because at this point in the galaxy, they're kind of. They've been largely defeated, and there's only little small pockets of them. But the Drengir are the main issue. [00:09:46] Speaker A: Yeah, Drengir are kind of our main threat right now, so. And, like, we'll see, like Lula, you know, as a youngling fighting. You know, play. Fighting with. With practice sabers with Farzala and stuff, even on the first page. Yeah, but that's. Those characters. Quart doesn't speak basic. He kind of just speaks with this weird Symbol thing, which I always kind of hear in my head as kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like. [00:10:11] Speaker C: Like the Cuber sound. [00:10:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Farzala has some pretty impressive mutton chops and some cool markings on his head and a ponytail and nice little elf ears. And the two of them are. Honestly, they're my favorite characters in that whole group. Me too. Yeah. They're on their way with Obra Tik Glee, who is kind of just an octopus with. [00:10:36] Speaker C: Kind of like a helmet. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah, like an octopus with like a mushroom style helmet. Yeah. [00:10:41] Speaker B: He's got three eyes. [00:10:42] Speaker A: He's got three eyes, but also kind of looks like he reminds me of a probe droid. Almost like a. Oh, like a. Like a organic probe droid. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:10:50] Speaker A: I feel like his face looks like Dick Van Dyke. Like, he looks like Dick Van Dyke with three eyes to me in the way that he's drawn. Yeah. And maybe that's just me. I could. [00:11:02] Speaker C: I can. I can definitely see that. [00:11:03] Speaker A: I hear sort of a Dick Van Dyke voice with him when he goes to speak, but, like, one of those things, I could see him stumbling over his. Especially, like, when he's having the. The really good talk in the next issue and he's like, talking about the Living Force and the Cosmic Force and all that. Like, I'm seeing some serious Dick Van Dyke faces. Look at that guy. Like that. [00:11:22] Speaker B: I could dig that. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Dick Van Dyke with a third eye. Yeah. Anyway, Obra Tik lives for. Has lived for like a thousand years. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he's already around a thousand years old at this point. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah. He's had multiple Padawans and he's got tentacles. And he. He is unfortunately very sleepy at the beginning of this whole issue. So let's jump into the issue. We open up on a cool splash of this character who is unknown to us, and it's Master Talbota. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he's kind of the superhero to these kids, which it's really cool with this because. Well, his name. Yeah, he's basically an ancient Jedi that has become legend. And so these Padawans grow up, like, idolizing his adventures from eons ago, is what they said. [00:12:10] Speaker A: So they watch these holo dramas of him with some, you know, some actor who's out there doing this stuff because it's not like they're watching archival footage. [00:12:18] Speaker C: Right, right. [00:12:19] Speaker A: They're basically all just watching the episode of Tartakovsky's Clone wars when Mace Windu just wrecks the droid army silently. They're just watching that, basically. [00:12:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the energy. It gives, and it's great. [00:12:31] Speaker A: Yeah, but he's, like, doing some. The Force Unleashed stuff, you know, dropping Star Destroyers with the Force and doing all this stuff. And Farzala's narrating, and he's kind of talking about how, like, Talbota was the greatest Jedi ever. Like, that's who we all aspire to be. Yeah. And he was our hero. And Lula and I used to, like, argue about, you know, who this. Who this Jedi was and. And which one of us would grow. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Up to be him. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry. Not just who this Jedi was, but. Yeah, that. And there, you know, it talks about them, like, kind of pretending to be him and playing as him, and he is their Luke Skywalker, their Indiana Jones. [00:13:10] Speaker C: Right. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And he talks about how, like, I don't know if I'm like, I don't know if I can be that guy, because that guy wasn't afraid of anything. And that. Know, all these. These High Republic Adventures comics definitely put the message kind of up front in a way that some of the other ones may do it a little bit more subtly. Yeah. But it's really fun, too, because I feel like these stories. Oh, wait, I don't have to worry about that. We hear the dog, but I'm like, wait, that's not my problem. That's. That's not even going to be in the audio. I feel like these stories, like, they put the message up front, but they also really have open, very clear conversations of what it is to be a Jedi. Yeah. And I find that to be kind of refreshing. [00:14:00] Speaker B: I love it. [00:14:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:01] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [00:14:02] Speaker B: Jedi lore and how they learn, and especially around for this era of the High Republic that's before the Skywalker saga, like, we get just a different perspective of the different Jedi Masters teaching perspectives as well. [00:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And that, you know, kind of comes up with a lot of the conversations that we see in the rest of the higher public of, like, how everyone sees the Force and how everyone views the Jedi code and Jedi attachments and. [00:14:25] Speaker B: That kind of thing and their role within the galaxy. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah. It's nice to see a lot of philosophical conversation about what the Jedi are among the Jedi and see how that varies from Master to master, from temple to temple. And we see also, just like, their own, you know, their clothing change depending on what temple they're from, and. And that kind of stuff. So very, very cool. [00:14:50] Speaker C: I always thought it was a great. A great part of. Of the High Republic is seeing, you know, how different Jedi picture the Force in a different way. Or how they envision it or how they relate to it. I always thought it was a really cool, like, kind of feature that they did. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:08] Speaker C: You know how, you know, Avar sees it as a song and Elzar sees it as a, you know, an ocean. You know, Ram sees it as, like, in the mechanics of a. Of a machine. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Right. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:15:22] Speaker C: You know, it's just. And you can kind of. And you can kind of relate to that in your own way. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Like when. And I think anybody who's ever meditated kind of can relate to that. Like. Oh, yeah. Like, they're all. They're all using, like, a visualization technique, basically. And some visualization techniques just don't work for you, especially if you've tried multiple forms of meditation. You're like. Yeah, the idea of, like, the world pulsing as an ocean does not. I don't. [00:15:50] Speaker B: Doesn't speak to me. [00:15:51] Speaker A: I don't. Yeah, yeah. But, like, I see the world more like this. And, like, Ram being very autism coded. Like, it makes sense that, like. Oh, yeah, the world is a machine and it works. The universe is a machine, and it's. And it works this way. Right. And it's supposed to, like, all the things are supposed to be working together, and when they're not, you can see how that begins to break down everything else. Yeah, exactly. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Love that stuff. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Yeah. So they're. They're on the vessel. Yeah. And Obra Tik is napping. Taking a nap. Hibernating up a storm. [00:16:25] Speaker C: I mean, what else are you going to do on a long flight? [00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:29] Speaker B: It's super chill, relaxing. [00:16:31] Speaker A: Yeah. And Geode and Leox and AFI are taking them to Nal Hutta, and they're going to have their little meeting with the. With the Hutts to help, you know, foster this relationship that Avar Kris is trying to keep going, because Avar has a working relationship with Mayarga. But the Jedi Order as a whole needs to make sure that the conditions of this alliance are clear. Yeah. Outside of just what's happening on the battlefield, like, we still need to keep our diplomatic negotiations and understanding of our terms good for the Council and for the Hutts. And obviously, like, the Jedi Council cares about what the Jedi Council is going to be doing and needs to make sure that we're not using this as an opportunity for more slave trade or whatever other awful atrocities that the Hutts might do. And so that's what they're known for. Yeah. [00:17:23] Speaker C: Right. [00:17:24] Speaker A: So that's where Obra Tik comes into play. And he's. He's currently passed out. So they go. They get to the planet and they're like, not going to land and told, hey, let's not bring the ship down. Yeah. [00:17:34] Speaker B: It's like, there's a lot of construction going on down here. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Just. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Just float and we'll come pick you up on a. On a couple of skiffs. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Yeah. So they come up on their skiffs because, you know, huts, hutts love skiffs. They love Return of the jedi. [00:17:44] Speaker B: Told us. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And they are like, okay, overtook. It's time to wake up. And he won't wake up. And it turns out that his species, which is par once, even when they're away from their planet, will hibernate during the seasonal shifts. And sometimes those seasons last for centuries. So when this happens, can come out of nowhere. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker A: And even though he's far away from his planet, his seasonal shift is clearly happening. He's got some sort of attunement with it. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Kitty and rhythm and. Yeah. [00:18:19] Speaker A: And he's just like, I'm tired. I got. I got four gallons of melatonin in my little squid head right now. So he's out like a light. And Farzala, being the steadfast padawan that. [00:18:31] Speaker B: He is, he's like, I'll handle it. [00:18:34] Speaker A: I guess I will handle it. [00:18:36] Speaker C: Right. [00:18:36] Speaker A: And he has a great moment where he's like, I mean, I'll just take his place. I have to. My Hatiz is pretty decent. I'm charming. And AFI goes and humble. Yeah. And so Leox is like, all right, I'll go with the kid. You know, we'll leave Court in his little qbert voice. I love the qbert analogy. That's perfect. Yeah. Courtney's Cubert voice. Up here with the squid, AFY and geode, you can kind of hang out in the air. We'll. We'll be back. And so we go down and, you know, they meet the envoy, and it's a. What is he? He's. He looks to be. [00:19:16] Speaker B: Oh, the Ishnar. [00:19:19] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Ishnar. He looks to be a. [00:19:22] Speaker B: Turns out it's a she that we learned next or in the next arc. [00:19:26] Speaker C: Oh, oh, yeah. [00:19:27] Speaker A: My be. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah. So we meet Ishnar, who almost looks like a weak way. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. A little weak way. [00:19:34] Speaker B: Ish, the head of security for. For the hut gang there, making sure that they don't have any weapons. Or. Or she actually takes Farzal's lightsaber and Leox's blaster for safety reasons. [00:19:46] Speaker C: Well, yeah. I mean, you know, don't wanna you know, don't wanna, you know, mistakenly set them all for anything. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Right, exactly. Yeah. [00:19:55] Speaker C: So it actually looks like she is a version of Nikto. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Ah, that's what it is. [00:20:02] Speaker A: That's Klaatubarata. Nikto are the words of the alien in the Day the Earth Stood still that says, like, hey, it's all clear. And they show up in other media as like, kind of a nod to the Day the Earth Stood still as a film. And George Lucas is a film buff. So Klaatu and Barada are two of the guards in Jabba's palace. And that's where Klatoonian and Nikto come from. [00:20:30] Speaker B: That's awesome. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah. So I was trying. I was like, I can't. I know it's those words, but I couldn't remember what it was. But, yeah, she looks. She appears to be a Nikto. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:37] Speaker A: So. [00:20:38] Speaker B: So as this is going on, the vessel starts flying off and AFI's like, well, I'm here with these guys, I might as well strike up a conversation. And she tries to talk to Court and Court just looks at her. [00:20:49] Speaker A: Yeah, Court's like. She's. Yeah, she's like, so you wear that skull all the time or. And Court, you know, for those of you who've never actually read the comic, like, Court has a giant skull of this crab thing, which we don't know quite yet what it is, but he has this skull over his head and it's just sort of this mask. Yeah. And she's like, so what's up with the skull? And Quartz? Just. [00:21:13] Speaker C: Yeah, just stares. [00:21:14] Speaker B: Yeah, awkwardly stares. And she's like, well, I'll be in the cockpit if you need anything. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:20] Speaker B: And then him and Gio, and after that. [00:21:22] Speaker C: Yeah. They have this in depth conversation with Geode. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Suddenly he has two full bubbles, like three lines and five or six lines of just whatever his qbert language is, with a hand on Geode. And then Geode looks back at him silently, just being there for support. And then they hug. [00:21:42] Speaker C: And it's beautiful. [00:21:43] Speaker B: And it makes sense. [00:21:44] Speaker A: And it makes perfect sense. Just like the world does when Geode's around. Meanwhile, down over on Nal Hutta on the floor, we get a new hut. Skarabda the Hutt. And I don't know that Skorabda the Hutt has shown up in anywhere else. [00:22:00] Speaker B: This is her first appearance. [00:22:02] Speaker A: Her first appearance. Yeah. So Skarabda is Mayerga's sister. Mayerga's sister. I did not know that. That's exciting. [00:22:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:11] Speaker A: And you Know, they're here for some diplomatic envoy stuff, and, you know, they want to have a lasting peace. But also, Skarab does also notes like, hey, greetings, you know, Republic envoy and my old friend Leox. Yeah. Because, you know, sometimes Leox's vessel shenanigans take some jobs, make may do some jobs for the. [00:22:38] Speaker C: For the huts, apparently some legally questionable work, you know. [00:22:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So they're, you know, having their conversation as best they can, and then suddenly, just before. Just before this page, we do see, we do hear, like, a click and a thunk and a. What is that? But we don't know what it is. And then suddenly, there is an explosion coming out of the sky, and the ship, the vessel is firing upon now, Hutta. Yeah, and that's a real bad sign for diplomatic negotiations. Diplomatic negotiations. [00:23:14] Speaker C: That's not a great way to kick it off. [00:23:16] Speaker A: No, no. And then we have a quick galactic data file, which is one of the best parts about the High Republic adventures is they'll throw in these little things to be like, hey, just in case you need some awareness of how this whole thing is working. And honestly, these data files, I love them. I mean, I love them, but some of them are so important to understanding what's going on. And if you don't read the High Republic adventures, like, you might not see. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Like, we don't necessarily know for sure what those big gold statues are. We can assume by reading into the Dark. But here, those exact statues in the same form from into the Dark and from the issues of the higher public Marvel series are, like, laid out and clear. They are relics of a forgotten past. They are some sort of dark Force statue, and they have something to do, as we've gleaned from the High Republic. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Comics, which we'll get to next issue. [00:24:09] Speaker A: Which we get to next episode. They'll have something to do with the sealing of the Great Progenitor, perhaps. And then we also see. This is also the only other time I think we've seen the appearance of this particular Jedi in this next panel. He's, like, flying in the air with a blue lightsaber. Oh, yeah. And we only see him in this and issue 8, or at least that I can recall of the Marvel comics. Unnamed, not sure who this guy is. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Shows up, like, three times in Phase. [00:24:39] Speaker A: One, and we know there is a Drangir homeworld, and we know that there is an Amaxene station, and it kind of catches everybody up. And they do note the Jedi and Hutt coordinated attack. And we see, you know, the other Hutt gang people, we see Mayarga with her badass ponytail and her big arm armor. Arm armor. And armor. And then of course, Sarek and Terror there. And an armored rancor, which is like the best part about that entire series. So. Yeah, and then the explosions. Right. We were in the middle of explosions. Yeah. So explosions start happening down on. [00:25:16] Speaker B: He starts running out, trying to get into hiding, and then a huge blue rancor just shows up and breaks out of whatever holding he was in. [00:25:24] Speaker A: Yeah, they like dive into a corner and they're like, okay, we got to get under the, you know, quick. Duck and cover. And they get under and then they're like, oh. [00:25:34] Speaker C: And who knew there were blue rancor, right? [00:25:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:37] Speaker A: Like we haven't seen multicolored rancor really since Battlefront, I want to say. Or no. Force Unleashed on Felucia. There's like multi colored rancor that show. But we don't really see them very often in if at all in many other places in the current canon, which is very exciting. So, yeah, a big old blue rancor shows up. [00:26:00] Speaker B: And then we cut back to the vessel. Turns out it's been taken over. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:26:05] Speaker B: By some pirates. They're not nihil, but they're sketchy. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah, they're clearly Hut Clan type pirates, like just based on their clothing. And so, yeah, they're there and they're going to take the fighter and get out of there. And then suddenly the pilot realizes that Geode is right there. How did Geode get there? We don't know. [00:26:25] Speaker B: And it freaks out the pilot, which is hilarious. [00:26:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, yeah, there's a bunch of Hut fighters coming in fast. Ah, who's this guy? How did that rock get in there? How did it get in the cockpit with me? And they're like, oh, no, we have to fix this. You know, figure that out where everybody is. Quick, go catch them. And he's like. And deal with the rock. [00:26:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I put a bell on that guy. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Right? Right. Yeah, he's like, get back in there and get in the, you know, get back in the pilot seat. And he's like, not with that evil rock in there. It very much freaks him out. [00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah. So as they're fighting on the ship, we're going back to the planet where they Then where Farzala and Leox run into some more. They run into the Hut Clan crew that first greeted them and they're like, including Ishnar. Yeah, including Ishnar. And they're like, what are you doing? And he's like, hey, we don't know why the vessel's firing, but that's not us. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Something sketchy is happening, and turns out. [00:27:21] Speaker A: That that really doesn't matter, because as much as they want to jump out the window, they. Because they chase them down, they're like. When they jumped out the window, they realize the Drengir are on Nal Hara. Yeah, that's a bad. [00:27:31] Speaker B: That's not good. [00:27:32] Speaker A: Which is. Which explains. And they say so, like, why they didn't want anybody landing on the planet. Landing on the planet because then they would know. And, like, they wanted to. I don't. I don't think Scarabna fully had faith that the Jedi would help with this. And it's a bad look because it puts them in a sign of weakness. I mean, this isn't necessarily explicitly said, but, like, knowing what we know about huts, like, the huts are not going to be like, hey, Jedi, come here and help us. [00:27:59] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [00:28:00] Speaker A: You know, they're. They're. They don't have that sort of humility. They're going to be like, no, we want to basically get them in our good graces. And then we can be like, oh, how'd this happen? Since you're here, you want to help us out. Because they don't want to owe anything to them Jedi. It puts them in a. A bad side of the treaty when, hey, your planets are fine and you're helping us. Now we need you to help our home planet because it's been overrun by Drangir. [00:28:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And Farzala. Yeah. And then Farzala actually ends up saving Ishar because they. With all this ruckus going on, she almost falls out of the window. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Yeah, Right. [00:28:34] Speaker B: So far, Allah saves her. And she's like, you saved me, even though I've been trying to catch you. And he's like, that's what the Jedi do. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Yep, that's the Jedi way. So they're like, cool. Well, because you're a cool guy, I'm not going to feed you to the rancor yet, but you're going to prison. [00:28:52] Speaker B: Yeah. We'll just lock you up. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Meanwhile, up on the. Actually, meanwhile, it looks like the artist changed for a hot second. I don't think it did. But, like, there's a definite shift in the art, the way AFI is drawn and all that. But it's only for that one page. Oh, yeah. [00:29:12] Speaker B: Art by. We didn't get into this earlier, so it's written by Daniel Jose, older. And the art by Harvey Tolobaugh, who's been Writing the last few issues, but. [00:29:21] Speaker A: Also doing the art for the last few issues. [00:29:24] Speaker B: Yes. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:29:25] Speaker B: And then. So Harvey's on this issue, and so is Pow Rodricks. [00:29:29] Speaker A: Oh. So he took over for a couple of panels then. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Which pretty common in the. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes sense. So anyway, it turns out we find out in that last page or so that the other saboteurs up on the vessel who've taken over the ship and snuck on when the skiff came were part of Jabba's crew. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Which tells us that Jabba is alive at this time. And up until then, we don't. They might mention him in, like, light of the Jedi or something like that. This may be the first of them in the high. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I think this might be the first mention of them and that we kind of realize, like, oh, huts are. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Old, Huds are old. [00:30:09] Speaker B: They can live. [00:30:10] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. Also no honor among huts, I guess. [00:30:14] Speaker A: No. Right. Jeez. So the Hutts are clearly trying to sabotage this deal. Maybe because they don't want to rely on the Jedi. Maybe it's a principles thing. Maybe the Jedi and the Hutt alliance is bad for business because it's going to limit what the Hutts can do. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Maybe he wants Scarabna to be reliant on Jabba. [00:30:33] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe. Maybe. We'll find out next issue. But also, as these last few pages are going on, we get a little kind of thought bubble from Farzala. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Coming back from the earlier thought bubbles of himself and how he grew up and his thoughts and philosophies, and he's having doubts about himself. [00:30:55] Speaker A: Yeah. And his ability to be Talbotta. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And that he always felt stronger with everybody else and who needs to look up to. And so that's kind of where it leaves him. He's in his cage and he's thinking about all these things that have happened that he can't help thinks he may not be strong. [00:31:13] Speaker A: But he does say, like, it always seemed so exciting to be off on your own fighting evil enemies. They don't tell you, of course, bringing. Or. Sorry. And bringing justice to the galaxy. They don't tell you, of course, that all being out there on your own really means is that you're alone. Yeah. [00:31:30] Speaker C: Right. [00:31:31] Speaker A: And he talks about, like, oh, being out there alone, up against the galaxy. But, like, I don't think. I think this is kind of that point when he realizes, like, oh, Talbota is alone out against the galaxy. That's not a great place to be. And I think he kind of takes for granted that the people around him will always be there. And that's. That's a really. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Definitely hits him in his cage now. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Yeah. When he's caged up and floating in there, like. Yeah, yeah. Especially. [00:31:59] Speaker C: I mean, it's a lesson, kind of a lesson to learn where. I mean, it's the high Republican. You know, you have the drain here on one side and the Nile on the other side. And you don't know, you know, who's. Who's going to come back. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Right. [00:32:13] Speaker C: You know, who's going to go out and take these, these forces on. You don't know who's going to come back. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Yeah. A little bit of a war of attrition here. They're just getting worn down. Yeah. [00:32:24] Speaker B: Well, that leads us into the next issue. [00:32:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:27] Speaker C: A little bit of, a. Little bit of a positive aside here. We get to see one of the panels there. Master Overtake slept through the whole thing. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Yeah, right. He's snoring like every time. They're like, we gotta find that girl. Like she. He is just. He's in the background. Yeah, in the background. But at this point we've got Quart and AFY hiding, stowed away somewhere in the ship. Geode seems to be missing. Again, we don't know where Geode went. He was in the cockpit. Now we don't know where he is. He slipped off while no one was looking, as Geode always does. Yeah. Obra took is just passed out in his chair, just still snoring away. Having a great nap. Very comfy. Yeah. And then on the ground, Leo, Jassy and Farzala are now imprisoned. They've been captured. They're not getting fed to the rancor, but they're. They're not going anywhere else. Yeah. [00:33:27] Speaker C: They're not in a. They're not in a great spot. [00:33:30] Speaker A: So the next issue opens up with more Talbota. Goodness. He's out there fighting hordes much. Again, this is actually when I was like, oh, he's basically Mace Windu in that episode. [00:33:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:40] Speaker A: Because he's going up against this full army. [00:33:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And it looks like it's a whole bunch of Sith. There's. We don't see the color of the lightsabers, but like. Yeah, there's a whole army of looks like lightsaber wielding people. [00:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he's going up against them. Oh, and they've got spears too. And they're writing some sort of horrific creatures. But I want those stories now, right? Yeah. How do I get Talbota stories? So he's out there and he's again. Narrating, Thinking about Talbota again. And he's like our favorite hero of old. Master Talbota would face down the whole, whole armies by all by himself. At least that's how they showed it on the Hollows. And it shows our Padawan pals back as real younglings playing with their little training sabers that don't, you know, don't hurt you. And he talks kind of about how he was never afraid. He didn't even fear death. And when we imagined that we'd become Jedi, we never really considered the fact that we'd have to, like, go into battle. Like, you know, this is a time when Jedi really think that learning the lightsaber and learning the forms is about discipline and activity. Like, this is P.E. you know, it's P.E. and mindfulness, obviously. But, like, they're. It's. At the. At most, it's. It's their weekly karate lesson. Like, this is there to teach them discipline, to teach them both mental and physical, like, strength. But it's not there for them to go to war. Right. They kind of take for granted that the world is at peace and, you know, as. As one does when. When they're a youngling. And then we see the dungeon in Bulbosa on Nal Hutta. Yeah. [00:35:15] Speaker B: He said it's been a few days, or at least a day. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's been at least a day. And he's run down already. Just defeated and. And hurt. [00:35:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's having these. These internal thoughts going on, and he's like, no, the worst part about this whole thing is I'm afraid. [00:35:33] Speaker A: Jedi aren't supposed to be afraid. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Jedi aren't supposed to be afraid. And he thinks about all the Jedi in the last few issues and books. [00:35:43] Speaker A: I mean, clear back to Light of the Jedi, because Joram Ali's in there. [00:35:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. He talks about, you know, there's. There's so many Jedi that been. That have gone missing or that have been killed. Oh, and that. That he's learned under a lot of them, that he misses them, which is another kind of non Jedi thing he does. [00:35:58] Speaker A: He's got the four Jedi kind of floating around him at that in that scene, too, where he's, like, really thinking about all these who've died. And he's got Master Joramali, who died at the battle of Kerr and Loden, Great Storm, who, at this point, everyone kind of is pretty sure he's dead. He got captured. In light of the Jedi Yoda, who has been missing since the first arc of the High Republic Adventures. The only in canon moment we've seen of him since then only came out just this last year in the Young Jedi Adventures. And then he went AWOL again. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Right? [00:36:32] Speaker A: And then we also see another Jedi who we haven't seen yet named Ra Barachi. And Ra Barachi is the Jedi who collapsed after everyone in the galaxy lent their force to stop the debris with Avar. And he fell off a 20 story building because he was hold. He's the Jedi holding on, lending as much of his strength through Avar's. Not battle meditation, but totally battle meditation. And he lent his strength so much and gave so much of it that he collapsed much in the way that Luke does at the end of the Last Jedi. But when he did it, he didn't just fade into the Force, he just fell off and he. He died horribly. But this is somebody that Farzala is aware of. And this is one of those moments where, oh, it's a kid's book. Like, we're talking about some heavy stuff. And this next sequence is arguably one of the best things that Daniel Jose Older has written, in my opinion, in the entirety of the High Republic. And it is a conversation between Obra Took and a younger Farzala. [00:37:46] Speaker B: Well, and also leading into that Farzal is, you know, having this kind of come to the Force moment. And he's like, shoot, maybe my memories of these great Jedi Masters should be keeping me going. Not this memory of this legend Jedi that I didn't actually know. Like I knew these other Jedi Masters and I know they were strong and. [00:38:10] Speaker A: But he says even more than that, maybe not just the ones that he's lost, but his own master. [00:38:15] Speaker B: Yeah, and that should be kick into the really cool. [00:38:20] Speaker A: And then we cut into a flashback. Or do we meanwhile back over on the vessel, they're all on the hunt. And this, that poor pilot is still panicking about Geode. He does not know where and no one else is taking care of like taking him seriously. [00:38:34] Speaker C: Vintians are elusive. [00:38:35] Speaker A: They're elusive. So everyone's like, we gotta find that Jedi and that kid, you know, that girl and the other. He's always like, and the rock, what about the stone slab? And they're like, yeah, sure, him too, I guess. [00:38:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, the rock too. [00:38:51] Speaker A: But he's like, he's the one who winds up going in and hunting them down. Velociraptor in the kitchen style as they're hiding behind various portions of the vessel and staying as quiet as they can. And also, I should note the first moment we See one of the droids that's with them. And I don't know what model droid this is, Perhaps you do, but his. His name is Y99. He's. He's the what? He's the Matt Berry. Oh. Like, he. He has, like, a malfunction in his voice, and then suddenly he's speaking like this. I don't know, like. Like he's speaking like he's being written by a Victorian novel. Like, everything is overly verbose and very over the top. They're like, yeah, we gotta. We gotta find that weird little Jedi. And the girl. And the rock. Don't forget about the rock. And then the droids like, ah, tis indeed a thrilling escapade amongst the infinite stars with villains to be dispatched and planets to save. And they're like, what is going on with the droid? And we don't really. We don't really get to find out exactly what is going on with the droid, but something is off with him. [00:39:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:58] Speaker A: And so he, you know, then they're hunting down the girl, they're hunting down AFI in court, doing their stuff in the kitchen, which isn't actually the kitchen, but having their little velociraptor in the kitchen moment. And then we cut back to what's going on in Farzala's head, and that's his conversation. Young Farzala, like, his mutton chops are just starting to get dark. But we're having a nice flashback with him as a youngling very early on in his Padawan ship with Obra took glee, kind of explaining to him that fear is okay. Fear is all right. Which is, again, one of those. Those nice shifts from what we normally hear. You know, fear is. Leads to anger, and anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering, you know, and all that. And that's not the approach he takes. He's like, oh, fear is one of the great teachers. [00:40:52] Speaker C: And I think it's great. You know, we're. Says we're fools if we think that we're never going to feel fear, that we're never going to be afraid. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's. It kind of lends itself to the criticism of the Jedi we saw in the acolyte, where he's like, you're trying to control something that can't be controlled. She's like, listen, if he's controlling the Force. And he's like, no, I'm talking about emotions. Yeah. Like, you guys all act like you don't have emotions, and that's not true. I mean, Maybe with Vern, especially in that series. But, like, it's this idea that we can just like, ignore emotions or not love people is something that's really challenged during the High Republic. [00:41:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:31] Speaker A: And overtook. [00:41:33] Speaker C: And I, I really like that too, because, I mean, it's like, that's the thing is you can. You can. You can. You can have these feelings you can have. I mean, dare say even these attachments, you just can't put them above the Force. [00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:41:50] Speaker C: You know, it's. And I think that's why. I mean, personally, like, one of, you know, one of my. And I kind of getting off topic here, but one of my favorite Jedi is Kanan. Kanan Jarrus. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:42:02] Speaker C: Because, I mean, he's a prime example. He has those attachments. You know, he has this family, but when it comes time to do what the Force will, you know, calls him to do, he's able to set that aside. I mean, it probably helps that, you know, the fact that the Force is calling him to save his family. [00:42:23] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:42:24] Speaker B: But he still handles business. [00:42:26] Speaker C: Exactly. He. He puts aside his own personal, you know, fears and attachments and things like that and is able to sacrifice himself and then to do the Force as well, too. [00:42:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:39] Speaker B: While he's doing. [00:42:39] Speaker A: And he. And he has that argument at the end of season three with the Bendu. The Bendu's like, I'm not attached to anything. I am the light and the dark, whatever. I'm the one in the middle. And he's like, you're letting the dark side win because you're so busy being unattached to anything that you're like, you're not seeing the forest for the trees, for the weirdly oversized kind of mushroom looking things in the case of that planet. But like, that understanding of the Force that is away from the dogma of the Jedi Order, I think, is the same. I think. I mean, we're. Obviously, we're not going to spoil what's going on with the Jedi in Phase three or the end of Phase one, but there comes a point in the High Republic where the Jedi Order kind of consolidates and shrinks down and creates a bit of an echo chamber of what the Force is and how it should work. And we see the repercussions of that in the Skywalker saga and how when you have everyone in the same room and everyone has to answer to the same group, and there's not a level of independence for how Padawans might get taught, et cetera, which comes into play. [00:43:45] Speaker B: With Qui Gon Quite a bit while he's teaching Obi Wan. [00:43:48] Speaker A: Yeah. You wind up a lot. You wind up with a lot of dogmatism, I think, that comes up with that. And I. I think this is kind of true amongst just any. Any sort of faith. It does speak, I think, to. To sort of how dogmatism can start to overrun an ideology. And I think the High Republic thrives. And this is the height of the Jedi, because it gets to be interpreted in all these ways as long as the fundamentals of the Force are followed. Yeah. And Orla Djarini sees this and has these conversations with Stellan going, the. The Council is not infallible. They are not who I serve. I serve the Force. The Force. You know, I serve the tenants of, like, the light. You know, we are here for light and life, not for Jedi Order and making sure we're okay. [00:44:39] Speaker B: And the Republic. [00:44:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Or worse, the Republic. Right. [00:44:44] Speaker C: I've kind of always contended that Qui Gon Jinn would have been a way seeker. [00:44:48] Speaker B: Oh, 100. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And Dooku and Sifo Diaz. Like, if it weren't for Sifo Dyas Crippling visions, I think Sifo Dyas also would have been someone who could have just gone on his own and followed the Force. The two of them both, you know, especially. I mean, almost like they would have been really good together, as had the Jedi Order allowed for that sort of thing. [00:45:11] Speaker B: The buddy cop, way seeker movie. [00:45:13] Speaker A: I mean, I love Psycho Diaz so much. [00:45:15] Speaker C: It's. It's really interesting to me. Like. Like, I want to see. How does this. I think we kind. I think we'll kind of see that at the beginnings of it. But, you know, how. How does this. This. This Order who embraces all of these different views, you know, embraces that, you know, their own. You know, everyone has their own way of viewing the Force, you know, allowing way seekers to go out and kind of just follow their own calling. How does it become what we see in the prequels? [00:45:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And even in Tales of the Jedi. I just watched that episode with Dooku and Mace Windu, right. Where, like, Mace Windu followed orders and Dooku went off book, and when Dooku went off book, it cost him his seat on the Council originally, and eventually he gets on the Council. We see that in Jedi Lost. But, like, Dooku's. Dooku is clearly snubbed by the Council for not doing what the Council wants. And that's not something, you know, disobeying the Council, like, even when Qui Gon does it a little bit in Master and apprentice, they're like, yeah, we get it. Like, we come in here and we reprimand you. We know that you don't always listen to us, but, like, that's because we want to keep you on the straight and narrow as best we can, you know, even if you are a little off. And at this time, with Obra Took and with Elzar and Avar and all of these other ideas, even though Stellan is the one who's sticking to the rules through Phase one, he is still respected as one way to be a Jedi. Yeah. [00:46:56] Speaker B: And he does it not the way. [00:46:58] Speaker A: To be a Jedi. And he sometimes gets a little imposy on his opinions, especially with Elzar and Avar, but there's a conversation about it, about, are you doing the right thing? And they're all quick to say, like, I don't serve the council. I serve the light. You know? And so that conversation, I feel like, is really clear here. And in the comic, especially in this next kind of moment with Farzala and Obertuk, we see that deviation in a way that's really nice. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah. In explaining that fear is a teacher, you don't. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:32] Speaker B: You don't want to fully give in, but, like, be aware of it. [00:47:35] Speaker A: Yeah. So meanwhile, in the. In the world outside of Farzala's head, he starts swinging in his cage doing something, and Leo is like, farzala, what you doing? And then, you know, we cut back, and the guy who's, you know, one of the. One of the guys on the. On the ship is being kind of toyed with a little bit. They're starting to throwing up little decoys, putting some boots under sheets so that he starts firing at things that aren't actually real. And he's. He's. He's as home alone on the vessel. Yeah, All. Yeah, all going on the vessel. [00:48:06] Speaker B: And then the paint can comes through, and. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Yeah. So she smacks him over the head, and his, like, she hits him hard. Like, I don't. I'm surprised he makes it out of that. Like, a tooth comes out. [00:48:17] Speaker B: Same thing with Harry. [00:48:19] Speaker C: That's true. [00:48:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So then we come up on what is my favorite splash of the entire Daniel Jose, older, like, work of the higher public here. And it's this great speech back and forth, and I feel like the only way to really go through it is to actually read it. If y' all don't mind, go for it. So he asks, do you know why I carry so many lightsabers, Young Farzala? And he says, oh, I Figured it was because you have so many arms. And he laughs and he says, no. Each one was constructed in the memory of a Jedi Knight who was once one of my Padawans. And Farzala's like, oh. Oh, no. When you live to be a thousand, young Farzala, you must learn to watch those you care about grow old and die. But this is what it means to be a Jedi. It means we see the bigger picture. He's like, bigger picture. And he's like, when someone dies, what do we say? That they become one with the Force. It's not just a metaphor or poem, young Farzala, to make us feel better. Their passing gives life to the cosmic force from which the living Force springs. The Force is real. Yes. It moves through us. We feel it all around. Yes, of course I miss them all. But I cannot be sad that a loved one has become one with the greatest power in the galaxy, because they remain with us always through the Force. Nor can I fear the moment that it happens to me. You see? He says, I see, Master. On the day that death comes for me, I will not fear it. And then he's back in his kind of real world, and he says, but today will not be that day. And he breaks out of his cage like a badass. Smacks it. [00:50:01] Speaker C: Yeah, that's fantastic. [00:50:02] Speaker A: That's awesome. I mean, just. Yeah, Like, I love this whole idea. Like, Oberk has. All Obertuk's lightsabers are like totems, basically, of his fallen Padawans who have been knighted. Like, he's not like, oh, battle and keep dying, you know, they're all his attachments. [00:50:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. He just lives long enough to be like, hey, Like, I think that's. That comes back around to the Jedi philosophy. A lot of the Jedi are humans and humanoids, and they live about a human lifespan, whereas overtook is a. Is already a thousand at this point. So he has a different perspective on life and light. [00:50:40] Speaker C: Oh. [00:50:41] Speaker B: Or dark and dark, actually. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:50:44] Speaker B: But, yeah, he has a different perspective living for so long, which. I wonder if the Wookies and even Yoda. Yoda is kind of up and down. We. We get a lot of his perspective in. In the other books and comics and stuff, once we figure out what's going on with him. [00:50:57] Speaker A: Okay, so we're coming up on the. The end of this. He breaks free. We do have another galactic data file, and it shows us all the planets in the hut, like, protection, if you will. We've got Nalhada, Nar Shadda, but we Also have Sircon, Vodran and Klatooine, which is really cool. And then we see a couple of huts too. We've got Skarabda and Java and then someone called Gracchus, which we have not really gotten to explore that. But these slime covered slut. These client. These slime covered slug like huts use their physical power to run most of the galaxy's large criminal syndicates. Which is funny, they say physical power because like these guys aren't really doing anything physical at all, right? [00:51:43] Speaker C: They're all repulsor sleds. [00:51:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:45] Speaker A: Right. So yeah. So then they're out there, this guy's still panicking about the rock, calling him a inanimate mineral matter aggregate. [00:51:58] Speaker B: And I, when I first came across it, I read it like two or three times. I was like, what? [00:52:03] Speaker A: Who is he talking about? [00:52:04] Speaker B: Oh, genius. [00:52:07] Speaker A: And then boom. Court throws a lightsaber up and is like, no, except, you know. And so then the, the guy who's the most afraid of Geode finally catches him and he's like, aha. You stop right there and then right behind comes and you can see, you can see overtook, still passed out in the background. Yeah. And then AFI comes up and she's like, how about you stop, huh? And then behind her, you know, or as an alternative possibility, you stop. Delinquent, adolescent, vagrant. Haha. And that's the, that's the droid that's gotten a little wonky. And then, you know, we see Ishnar, right? We see Ishnar and they're getting their butts handed to them by Drengir. And then it's a wait, is it? Yeah, they're getting their butts handed to them by Drangir. And then out pops from the door this large squid. It's a tentacruel, like clearly, but it's being ridden by Farzala and, and Leox. And they come and they save her again. And she's like, you keep saving my life when I've done nothing but chase and imprison you. And Leox is like, confounding, isn't it? And so Varzala sends the thing after the Drengir. And then I love this little moment where he's like, I'm gonna need. I'll be needing my saber, please. And Ishar says, and if I refuse? And he's like, so be it. And then takes it out of her little holster with the Force. [00:53:46] Speaker C: I'm just going to take it anyway. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm taking it like I was being polite. So Far gets his lightsaber back, and. And they're like, cool, we got to go explain to the Hutts what's really going on here, that this wasn't us. And so meanwhile, Afy's up on the top, and this droid is just going off again. What a blessed, momentous rendezvous with fate this has been. What a wild and serendipitous ride for our rugged fellowship of unusual characters. Alas, I must dispose of. And then, boom. Lightsaber comes through the chest. Yeah. And then he's like, although I am perfect, it seems I may have slightly miscalculate. And then, you know that two other lightsabers show up. You know that moment when. When somebody made that. That gif of grievous, and he ignites, like, not just the four lightsabers, but, like, six more. Yeah, yeah. And then spins it and just kind of just disintegrates himself. It's kind of that. [00:54:42] Speaker C: You're right. [00:54:42] Speaker A: Yeah, just four lightsabers. Just. Yeah, there's. There's four lightsabers coming through here, and it's overtook. And overtook is finally woke up. [00:54:51] Speaker C: He's like, what? I meant what I missed, guys. [00:54:53] Speaker A: Yeah, basically. And so then we go back down to the bottom, and we see really what's happening here, and that is Jabba being. Jabba being Java. Yeah, like, yeah, really. Really. [00:55:08] Speaker B: You really messed this one up. Maybe I should take over. [00:55:11] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe. Maybe I can handle this sort of thing. And then in comes Farzala, going, hey, Scarabda, I. I swear to you, like, I had nothing to do with the attack on your palace. And Ishnar vouches, and Jabba's like, you. [00:55:27] Speaker B: Know, then everybody on the crew, or then everybody on the vessel ends up hollow, calling in, oh, yeah. [00:55:35] Speaker A: And they're like, hey, we caught the guys. [00:55:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:38] Speaker B: See these guys? And then Scrob is like, jabba, those are your crew. What the hell? [00:55:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Obra Took is like, hi, I'm supposed to be the Republic envoy. Farzala's gonna take over before me, Right? Right, Padawan. Then we have our little moment again with Farzala. You know Farzala's thoughts. The truth is that those Talbota stories have. Have it all wrong. The Jedi become a master by facing fear, not pretending they don't feel it. And the only way to do that is by realizing that a true Jedi is never really alone. And then we have a nice little splash page of Farzala kind of figuring it out. And the. The. The fallen Jedi or missing Jedi that are above him are both kind of. Are all kind of looking down on him in. In a sort of metaphoric way of like. Yeah, man, you get it. You get it. Yeah. [00:56:29] Speaker B: Well, we'll take care of the. The Dringier infestation with you guys and we'll. We'll continue this alliance a little bit longer. [00:56:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:39] Speaker B: And then whenever you need help, you just ask us because we're Jedi. And that's. [00:56:42] Speaker A: Right. [00:56:42] Speaker C: As opposed to, you know, just hiding and be like, oh, how'd they get there? [00:56:47] Speaker B: Right? [00:56:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. How did that happen? [00:56:50] Speaker C: So, oh, as on the. As an aside there, that exchange between Farzala and Orbitik in his. In his mind, you could really, really see the Dick Van Dyke comparisons. Oh, yeah, I was like. I was like, oh, oh, yeah, okay, yeah, I see it. [00:57:07] Speaker A: Yeah. It was those images when I started going, oh, I hear, like, that's Dick Van Dyke's face. Like, oh, yeah, of course. [00:57:15] Speaker C: Get a little. Get a little terrible Cockney accent out there. [00:57:20] Speaker A: Full on, Burt. I made a reference to Bert Ye yesterday because of Mark Thompson choice. That's in Phase three. But yeah, that's funny that Bert has come up twice now. [00:57:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:30] Speaker C: In two days. [00:57:32] Speaker A: Yeah. But anyway, so that's issues six and seven of High Republic Adventures. The next set of issues will take place after the fair, when we've officially been introduced. Yes, the next set of adventures issues will take place after the fair when Ramjammaram has officially kind of joined up with the team and they have to figure out whether Ramjamram is going to come with them or not. But it's. [00:57:59] Speaker B: We can actually catch up a lot with this team in Race to Crash Point Tower. [00:58:04] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of what this team goes through winds up being in Race to Crash Point Tower. [00:58:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I was reading through it because I got the omnibus. Like, the Attack on the Fair is like, oh, okay. This is kind of covering what's happening in, you know, Race to Crashpoint Tower and the Rising Storm. [00:58:21] Speaker B: Right. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Yeah. And Daniel Jose Older's books especially will have carryover with what's happening in High Republic Adventures. Sometimes full scenes getting repeated, if not fleshed out within the novelization you might have seen. And we'll see that really heavily in Midnight Horizon, which is one of the final books of Phase one. So this actually concludes the. The issues six and seven. The next chronological story that comes up in the High Republic is actually still. I guess it's technically the beginning of the Rising Storm, because that's all lead up. That's the Attack on That's kind of when the Nihil start. [00:59:05] Speaker C: Yeah. The attack on Valo. [00:59:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, before the attack on Valo. The attack on the Cyclor shipyards. [00:59:11] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. [00:59:11] Speaker A: And that's with Zetifar from online. And then we'll also have concurrent with that same storyline, we have Rachel of Jakku for issues 6 and 7 of the High Republic mainline series. Mainline series from Marvel. And yeah, that's about it. Was there anything else within these two issues that you wanted to talk about, Kev, before we close this up? [00:59:37] Speaker C: No, I think, I think we covered it pretty well. I mean, ton of great points and. No, it was, it was, it was a great, it was great couple of issues and I think we, I think we kind of covered all we all, we all. We wanted to cover. [00:59:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. How'd you like this arc? [00:59:56] Speaker C: I really enjoyed it. You know, I, I, I had to go back and reread it because it's, it's been a while. Like I, yeah, like, I like these days I kind of, you know, consume the High Republic releases as they come out. [01:00:11] Speaker B: Yeah, same. [01:00:12] Speaker C: So I come back and I was like, oh, it's like it was, it was, it was nice to see, you know, kind of Zine and Lula, you know, kind of where they, where they start off and kind of seeing where they are now. [01:00:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:00:28] Speaker C: So it's, it was, it was really nice. It was, it was, it was refreshing. Was a nice kind of nostalgic kind of walk back. [01:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's, and it's nice because there's always, everything's all interconnected, so you always end up catching little things. You're like, oh, that's where that came from. Or. [01:00:42] Speaker C: Right, that's what that person is. Yeah. [01:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:45] Speaker C: So I always love to see more of the, the vessel crew. [01:00:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, always. [01:00:48] Speaker A: Yes. The vessel crew are, are some of my favorite non Jedi in the entire High Republic era. Yeah. [01:00:55] Speaker C: Oh, absolutely. [01:00:56] Speaker A: Well, that wraps it up for this particular set of issues. So we, we'll see Kev again for the latter half of the post fair stuff, which really excited about and we hope that you'll join us for that as well. Make sure you find all of us online. Listen to Kevin's podcast. Kev, give us your social medias and all the places where we can hear your podcast. [01:01:18] Speaker C: All right. Again, the podcast is the Jedi Archive. New episodes drop every Wednesday. You can get that on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon and Pandora. Let's see. You can find me on social media. You can find me On Instagram, as it's going to be Archive. Underscore, Master. Underscore, Kev. I'm sure if you just, if you look it up, you'll be able to find it. You can also find me on Threads, you can find me on TikTok. It's all going to be under, you know, the same kind of theme there as Archive Master Kevin. Yeah, just. Yeah, check it out. And I, you know, really excited to see where we, where we go from here. You know, the brand new Droid feature. And again, we've got a lot of big stuff coming up. You know, the. The High Republic is actually ending. Well, the main story is ending next week, right. [01:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah. At the time of recording this, we are just four days away from Trials of the Jedi coming out. The last issue of the comic. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:19] Speaker A: Is. [01:02:20] Speaker B: I think we have, at this point, we have. Yeah. There's Trials the Jedi. We have two adventures issues left, and then one finale of the mainline issues. [01:02:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're, we're closing in very quick right now. So those of you who are just starting and joining up with the. The High Republic and getting on Team High Republic, we're really glad you did. And for those of you who are just following along, because now you've gone through the whole High Republic and want to just be nostalgic and listen to us talk about it, we appreciate you there, too. And if you've got any other interest in Star wars and you want like a little mini deep dive every week, go listen to the Jedi Archive, because there's a lot of really great information there. A lot of good research comes through. Of course, you can find our podcast, the Starlight Archive Podcast, anywhere podcasts are sold. You've got it. We've got. We're on iHeartRadio and Spotify and all that stuff. And then, of course, you can find us on Instagram. Typically, if you're talking to us on Instagram, you're probably talking to Brian. And if you're talking to us on Threads, you're probably talking to me. [01:03:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:19] Speaker A: But we would love to have you on there, join the conversation. 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