Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, everybody. My name is Bryce Rankins, and that's Brian Romero.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Yo.
[00:00:03] Speaker C: That's me.
[00:00:03] Speaker A: And you're listening to episode five of the Starlight archive.
Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Starlight archive, the best crypt in high Republic podcast. This side of heads, all today, is our spoilery episode.
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Spoilers.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: So this is your official warning. If you don't want to hear about phase one, wave one of the high.
[00:00:30] Speaker C: Republic, get out now.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Go. Just go. I know you're scrambling for your great cool. Go. But just go.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: You got it.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: And. All right, bye. See you later.
Okay. Now that they're gone. Okay, so, actually, this entire episode is exclusively dedicated to our love of boss Nass. Boss nasty, as they call them on the streets.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: Is the coolest Gungan part of a different race of gungans? Technically, like, a subset of gungans?
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: Than jar jar.
[00:00:57] Speaker C: Extra strong.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Only two of them even know about them. Sorry. Only two of them know. Only two. Only two of them are even known, like. And named.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: In the. In the canon.
[00:01:05] Speaker C: And who's the other one?
[00:01:06] Speaker A: I don't remember his name. It's like, al Garada or something like that.
[00:01:09] Speaker C: Is that a thing?
[00:01:10] Speaker B: There is.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: There's one other one. There's one other Gungan. I think Star wars explained was like, why does boss nast not look like that?
[00:01:17] Speaker C: Cause he's boss frickin ass.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: But apparently, it's a different type of Gungan, and they're like, an older gungan.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: Whoa.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: That's like, there's not a lot of them anymore, but canon. Only one of them has appeared elsewhere, and the only one that's ever been actually seen in any media at all has been boss Nas.
[00:01:33] Speaker C: Wait, why are we doing a podcast on high Republic when we could be talking about gungans?
[00:01:38] Speaker A: I know. The whole time. Okay, we should probably talk about gungans. We are actually talking about.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: I know.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: I want to.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: No, we need to not talk about gungans. We're instead going to talk about wave one, phase one, higher public.
[00:01:49] Speaker C: So I want to do that anymore.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Well, I'm sorry, buddy, but that's the contract. We signed it. We signed it. Deal with the devil. That said, you can have an okay sonic podcast.
Weren't you there for that?
[00:01:58] Speaker C: No.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a real nice guy. She something or other.
[00:02:03] Speaker C: Reminds me of that metalocalypse episode where they make a deal with the devil, but they're all, like, lawyers, and he's like, I'm gonna need a notary. And then murder face is like, I'm a notary.
I'll have to think on this.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: And he disappears. They're like, we can't even make a.
[00:02:20] Speaker C: Deal with the devil.
So good.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Not sure how much of this is staying in, but I will say today we're talking about wave one, phase one of the high Republic.
[00:02:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: And that includes the light of the Jedi novel by Charles Soule, into the dark by Claudia Gray.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: Test of courage.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: A test of courage by Justina Ireland. The star, the high Republic comic book through Marvel star, the High Republic adventures through IDW at the time. Now, printed through dark horse. Yes, at the time of recording this.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: And the High Republic adventures one shot.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: The High Republic adventures one. Well, it's not really a high republic adventures one shot, is it?
[00:03:05] Speaker C: It's a.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: It's a Star Wars.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: Star wars adventures.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: Star wars adventures. Tales of villainy number six. And only half of that book.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: And two stories that take place in Starlight stories.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: And we're gonna try to jam through that real fast. But here's basically what you missed on glee. So light of the Jedi opens up with a ship called the Legacy Run. It's captained by a woman named Hetta Cassette, and Hedda cassette loves her ship.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: She has been managing and running this freighter that transports people in a good way to the frontier so that they can go live their life. She's basically the organ trail.
[00:03:43] Speaker C: And no dysentery allowed.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: No dysentery allowed. And no hunting mini game, which, arguably. I'm not sure if hyperspace makes up.
[00:03:52] Speaker C: For that, but I don't want to hunt Pergil, though.
[00:03:55] Speaker A: You cannot hunt Pergol.
[00:03:56] Speaker C: No, no, you cannot do that.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: But she also has a little boy on the ship who's on his way. He's a bit of a scamp. His name's Serge Eukaryon, and she's off doing her thing, shipping people to the frontier and helping them start a new life. And you get a real sense that there's some pride in this. And then she dies.
[00:04:14] Speaker C: Yeah, the whole. The whole ship just blows up.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: So basically, a ship comes out of nowhere in hyperspace. In hyperspace shows up, like, alongside their ship, the legacy run, and just right into it. So now you have a ship and a half exiting hyperspace with no come to a stop.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: They are just flying out of hyperspace at near light speed. We are going so fast that anything like a small meter square meter box could devastate a city, given the impact, because, you know, small crater. Small rocks still make big craters, big craters. So suddenly, on this planet, called Hetzal, which happens to be an agriculture planet because you got to have a farm planet. We have a sand planet and a city planet and a forest planet and a forest based planet. And now we're going to have farm planet.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: Farm planet.
[00:05:10] Speaker A: So there's two moons. They got the rooted moon and the fruited moon, and there's some cool guys named Mervyn Getter and Vel Caron, and they run kind of the lookout station, and they're like, hey, nothing ever happens in this place. And you start to get to know them, and you start to kind of, like, get a feel for what they're doing, and then suddenly they see the emergencies coming out, and they die.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: Also rewinding just a little bit, I love that trope of just, like, a little base or just a little, like, outpost that are just like, I'm so bored. Nothing ever happens here. All of a sudden, everything always happens there. Like, that's.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: Sir, don't you know that you're in a Star wars? Yeah, you silly goose.
Have you not seen that your planet has one biome? I'm sorry, but if you live on a planet and there's only one biome on the planet, you're in a star wars.
[00:05:57] Speaker C: Yeah, so.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: So there's the rooted moon. The fruited moon. Rooted. Because it's a rooted, fruited, rooted, and fruit. Man, this whole podcast is rooted and fruited. You got a podcast ready? Rooted and fruited, baby.
So the rooted moon is basically your root cellar. Not a whole lot of light. Tidally locked to be generally fairly dark. Much more for your onions and your potates. Sorry. Space onions and space potatoes and then space carrots, too. Space carrots. Space space turnips. Space beats.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: Actually, the space beats are wherever figuring Dan is coming from. Well, obviously, that's on the full biome for jizz planet. Yeah, it's just all one jizz nightclub.
And then the fruited moon, which is your forests, your trees, your. Your agriculture in the daylight, you know, the outside plants. That's the fruited moon.
[00:06:43] Speaker C: So space oranges and space oranges.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Yeah, that's where your space orchard is. And suddenly, there are giant chunks of ship flying, emerging, if you will, out of hyperspace directly at this place. And so they do what you do in an emergency when you live in that galaxy far, far away.
[00:07:03] Speaker C: You freak out.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: You freak out. But one of you calls the Jedi.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: And so they call up the Jedi. They call up the Republic, and they're like, you've got to send help. And so Jedi everywhere, are like, okay, we're on it.
[00:07:15] Speaker C: And luckily, a few were close.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: That's the nice thing about Jedi, not all being centered on Coruscant, is they're everywhere, which means when there's an emergency, they don't have to worry about flying out all the way from the core world.
[00:07:28] Speaker C: Those call times are solid.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: They can get there very quickly and efficiently because there's temples everywhere, and they're living at the temples everywhere, which is good. It's very convenient to have them nearby.
[00:07:38] Speaker C: But even more convenient, Avar Chris is palling around on a spaceship called the third horizon, and she actually arrives fairly quickly.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: Cause she's nearby.
[00:07:46] Speaker C: Cause she's nearby.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Cool. Avar Chris is awesome. She is noble. She is beauty. She is grace. She is Miss United space, and she is. If you played Knights of the old Republic, you know what this force power kind of is already, because it's something from the old canon, but she basically has battle meditation. Yeah, she's Bastila. She even kind of looks like Bastila, if we're gonna be perfectly honest. But she is a. I feel like she could also be voiced by the same woman who voiced Bastila, and it would make perfect sense to me.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Avar Kris can commune with other Jedi, tons of other Jedi, and, like, feel them through the force and then kind of center all of them so that they are of one goal, not necessarily of one mind. She's not, you know, hive minding them, but she's very much channeling all of them so that they can all use the force together and be properly coordinated and so that they don't have to work super hard to be connected to their fellow Jedi, because she's kind of weaving those threads.
[00:08:54] Speaker C: Yeah, she's kind of guiding. So, say, if there's a space battle, she can kind of guide all the Jedi to fight whatever big old spaceship's going on.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: She has the ability to kind of get everyone that feeling you get in the force where you go, oh, I probably should go over there. She has the ability to go, hey, this is the force. It's saying this to all of you. So she's very much a unifier. This is also one of the first people where we start talking about how do they view the force, because everyone kind of experiences the force differently, and we don't really talk about that a whole bunch in other canon, which something I really like about the high republic in general is that she views the force and feels the force as if it is a song.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: So she's less like, she's weaving threads, and it's more like she's a conductor, like, leading an orchestra. All that is to say, avar Kris is very much this orchestrator, if you'll pardon the pun, of all of the other Jedi in coordinating this effort on Hetzal.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: And Hetzal is in a panic, naturally, but all these other ships, any ships that are out just around the planet are now getting pelted and just blowing up. So they're like, everyone has to go. Like, this is. While Lena so is still very much trying to get the starlight beacon off the ground.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: And so this is this huge disaster that she's really worried about, because this is gonna kind of put a damper on everything if something bad happens. But also, Lena so cares about people.
[00:10:20] Speaker C: Right.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: She is the first to be like, I don't care what my public image is. She's a good lady, that the republic thrives, and if everyone is reeling from a disaster, then we're never going to be able to unify and expand the republic so that we can properly help the people we need to help, whereas others might just be like, otherwise, we can't expand and exploit all the resources.
[00:10:38] Speaker C: Right.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: Hetzel's also got something else that is very new to the galaxy, and that is bacta.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: And bacta is such an important healing chemical in the world of Star wars. So Hetzal is even more important than just being a ton of people.
In addition to Avar Chris being nearby belzed afar loading. Great storm Endyra Stokes and Porter Angle, who typically are hanging out on El Frona.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:11:05] Speaker C: Where they're stationed, which is not super.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Far from Hetzel system go over to help as well. And they like their boots on the ground. While Avar Chris is like, we've got to stop these things flying at the planet. They're the ones who are going, we need to move in case they don't do it.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: So they're on the ground and they're dealing with people, and it's kind of a nice lesson of, how are the Jedi handling bad faith actors in. In society? Because you've got a compound that has a bunch of ships that could free and save a bunch of people from utter disaster, and they're not. And they're not doing it. They even have guards stationed outside, and you kind of get to see that load. And great storm is extremely patient and extremely disciplined in how he handles.
[00:11:53] Speaker C: It's a good way of putting it.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Crappy people.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Certainly more patient than I am. Bell is like, we can't just let them do this. And he's like, hey, we're not pulling out lightsabers just yet.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:12:03] Speaker C: Let's see what we can do.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: Let's see what we can talk them into. And then people start doing bad stuff. They pull out a gun and load in's like, okay, you wanted badass Jedi. You get to fight badass Jedi. I tried to give you consequences. I talked to you. You knew what the consequences were. Then you did it anyway. Your actions are telling me that you just want to get to those consequences sooner, and that involves your arms getting chopped off, loading.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Great.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Storm gets to be a badass Jedi, and it's awesome. Then so good. Up in space, Avar Chris is trying to stop things, and that involves this weird cable system that I don't fully understand, where they're launching cables, and they're trying to stop these lightspeed things from moving, but they have to launch them very specifically.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: So she's having to become very in tune with the force as she's doing this, but she's also got civilians that are also participating. So she's, like, kind of having the other Jedi guide this. I think Buriaga and Nivasik are in that pulse.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:00] Speaker A: And Buriaga, if you don't know, is an awesome Jedi.
[00:13:04] Speaker C: One of my favorites.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: And his little old lady who, like, helps him out. I don't know if you've ever seen Yu Yu hakusho, but the voice of Frieza voices a little old lady who is, like, very awesome in Yu Yu Hawk's show and has, like, super kung fu power kind of things. Yeah, that's who I imagine every time I see Nibbasik. I'll show you the picture.
[00:13:26] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: She's just like, yeah, I'm afraid of you. But, you know, she's like, master Roshi.
[00:13:33] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: With.
[00:13:34] Speaker C: But with less purvy.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: Well, yeah.
So burialga and Nivaseek and a bunch of other Jedi, they're all stopping lightspeed emergences, and they basically do it, and it works. They stop most of them from hitting. I think there is impact of little things.
[00:13:53] Speaker C: Seven pieces from the legacy run appear in the system. Six go through the system, don't hit anything. But one hits Abdallus Abdallahs.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: Okay, so there were two things they thought they could ignore. Several pieces because they were gonna slow down, and they were just gonna hit asteroid fields, et cetera. Yeah, but there was one that had a bunch of tibana gas pressurized on it.
[00:14:15] Speaker C: That's what it would do.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: And they needed to stop that before it hit a sun, because if the Tibona gas, in that capacity, at that pressurization, hit the sun, it risked the sun going supernova.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: And then it wouldn't matter what they saved. That's when Avar Chris's, for lack of a better term, battle meditation really comes into play, because that's when she starts going, I need any Jedi that can hear this. I don't care what planet you're on. We need to spirit bomb. Like. They all lend their force energy out, and several die from the exertion.
One collapses and falls off the edge of a building after saving a bunch of people. Some of them just don't wake up from the utter exhaustion of giving everything they can to try to stop this thing and lend their power of the force.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: Size matters not, but, uh, very fast things. Yeah, that's a good point.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: So then we get to the nile, and the couple days later, so the first emergence comes out. That's the chunks of the legacy run. But that's only seven chunks of the legacy run. Then there's other emergences.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: So they stop all the stuff with the sun, and one gets through that, they still miss that. They're like, that's fine. And it winds up hitting Abdullah's.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: But because the Jedi are so exerted, they're so overspent from stopping this thing, from destroying an entire system, they kind of just miss the other one.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: And it winds up killing.
[00:15:49] Speaker C: Hits a city and kills 20 million people.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: 20 million people.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: That's rough. And then it's kind of over for the moment. And then more emergences start coming out.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: And they're like, oh, the rest of the ship is still coming out of hyperspace, but because it's hyperspace, it could be happening 1015 systems over.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:10] Speaker C: The way I kind of figured is, like, it exploded and then fanned out, and they're just. The first couple things to get hit were planets that were close to the. To the system itself. To the planet.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: And then all these other emergences that end up coming out are planets further out in the outer rim.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: Right. But they're also coming out of hyperspace.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: So, still. So they're not. They're not even visible.
[00:16:32] Speaker C: No.
[00:16:34] Speaker A: So they don't track, which means. Which makes it impossible, because there's no hyperspace tracking.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: Hyperspace tracking makes no sense.
[00:16:39] Speaker C: No.
Now they're coming out at just under light speed. That's when they start really picking them up, like something really fast. Just came out of hyperspace, and it's not slowing down. What is going on?
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: And that's when Lena so tasks the Jedi with figuring this problem out. So the whole next half of the book is, we need to solve this so that this doesn't keep happening.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Because at any moment, but also more of these could come out, we might not.
[00:17:04] Speaker C: Why did it happen? And how did it happen? And the Jedi were like, yeah, we'll look into that too.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: She tasks Yariel pouf with trying to figure out what caused this. And then Avar and Elzar go to the Santecas and the Senteca. Those are very dicey about how they.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: They're cool about it, but they're also, like, they got something going on behind the scenes.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Elzar's very much. They're lying. Something's missing. And avars, like, trying to maintain the peace, please. And they wind up getting a hold of a guy named Kevin Tarr. And Kevin is a genius. And Kevin links together a bunch of droids like, every Navajoid. They're stripping ships like crazy, and they are basically creating a supercomputer.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: And that supercomputer is made of so many droids that you're, like, walking among them to keep track of what's happening. And some of them start burning out. But he essentially creates a giant circuit board.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: Of Nava computers and droids. And Nava droids, which is when weird stuff happens with Elzar, because Elzar is known for experimenting with the force that Elzar's like, hey, I have an idea to cool this area, but it's gonna require some meteorological knowledge. And I thought this was so cool because then he becomes storm, and I am Elzarman, mistress of the elements.
So he and Avar sit down, start meditating together. She uses kind of her. We're going to be in sync, but they're in sync already because they have history, and they work to manipulate the force well enough to change the weather.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: That's so in sync.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Everyone's like, who's gonna keep this navajoid array from burning? And the two of them together are like, it's gonna be me. Ooh, good work.
And then they do. They, like, cool. They use the weather essentially as a cooling system, and they can't control the weather for very long, and it wears them out because obviously, you're moving air and blowing things, and you have to kind of understand how weather works. But thankfully, Elzar man is all about science. Science and hyperfocus. So they cool the droids well enough that they can start calculating. Okay, we're going to have emergences at this point, at this point, at this point, at this point. And then effectively they've made this insane hyperspace sort of tracking system.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: If we know where this was and we know the trajectory that these are going, we should be able to predict almost every single piece flying out of hyperspace.
[00:19:52] Speaker C: Mathematical.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: So then they predict it and everything is just fine. Everything's a okay. No, we still have. We still have. That's not how Star wars works. People are celebrating. They're often there, just like, woo. Hanging out in no space, which is a super cool platform. And there's Lorna Dee, Kassev, Milikki, and a doatan named Pan Ada. And they are the three tempest runners. They are currently working under Marquan Rowe, the eye of the storm. And he's celebrating with all of them that they have effectively done this. And the Jedi do not know this. The first half of this book is just a disaster book.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: You don't know what came out of space and hit the legacy.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: Stuff's going wrong left and right. Everybody's freaking out. And, yeah, it's. It's chaos.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: And so while you're dealing with some weird version of Armageddon meets deep impact meets event horizon. Event Horizon meets Dante's peak.
While you're dealing with all that, there's, you know, machinations in the shadows.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: So the Nile, they're nihilists, and they.
[00:21:03] Speaker C: You're pirates out around the unknown regions and.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: Unknown regions and outer rim.
[00:21:07] Speaker C: Yeah, outer rim.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: They. They wear gas masks. We've talked about them before on the podcast. You should definitely listen to those episodes because we talk about their whole power structure. But they're out there, they're celebrating, and they're excited because they've done it. They have shown the Republic that they are not invincible. And then the eye is very cagey about what comes next. But we start to understand that they have access to the paths, and we don't really know what the paths are at this time, really. They can move in and out of hyperspace in weird ways, which means that they can move into a hyperspace lane, right. Where a ship like the legacy run, which is making regular trips, is going to be.
[00:21:49] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: And that's how the legacy run blew up. Oh, man. And the Jedi don't really know why. Meanwhile, over on Alfrona Porter, angle's making nine egg stew and loading. Great storm is pushing his padawan off a cliff. You know, as you do as you do. Load and great storm is training Belle to land, doing force landing. Hey, when you're falling, you gotta stop yourself with the force. All right? So loading. Great storm is pushing him off, and he's like, you gotta catch yourself.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: And he kind of didn't.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: And he didn't.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: No, you know, loading. Great storm has to keep on saving him, but he's like, hey, as soon as you figure that out, you're basically ready to be a knight. So get your stuff together, Belle. Load and great storm and Belle have a very, very cool, friendly relationship. It's not really quite Obi Wan and Anakin. It's probably more like Qui Gon and Obi Wan, because later on, yeah, is a little bit better. Like what you see in the prequels, not necessarily what you saw in the books. Yeah, but cuz Obi Wan and Anakin are basically brothers. They're not father and son. No, not the way that qui gon and Obiwan kind of were. So they're off doing their thing when a bunch of nihil raiders show up. And now we are seeing the nile on the ground. Up until then, this has been a disaster book.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Now we have these pirate raiders. So we go to the blythe compound. We're going to go take care of them. During the course of this action, we lose loading. Great storm. His ship goes down, and no one really knows what happened to him. And you're not going to know for a while.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:20] Speaker A: Everyone's like, we lost load. And that's so sad. And Belle's like, I didn't see the body. I know how this works.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: He's my master. I would have felt it. And everybody's like, bruh, he's gone.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: Just.
[00:23:30] Speaker C: Just deal with it.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: And in later books, he even has conversations with other Jedi who have lost their masters. And they're like, yeah, you would've felt it.
[00:23:36] Speaker C: No, you absolutely would've felt that.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: You'd know. You'd know.
[00:23:39] Speaker C: You'd know, bro.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: You'd know.
That's a direct stellan geos quote, you know. You know. Anyway, so the Nihil are now mounting their offensive. There is somebody named Kasav. He's one of the three tempest runners. Kasav decides, well, I know where the next big emergence is allegedly gonna be, so why don't I go and ransom them?
[00:24:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: So he goes out there and he's like, hey, you pay me this many credits, and we'll stop an emergence from coming through. And they're like, we don't negotiate with terrorists.
And he's like, well. Well, you should, or we're not gonna be able. Oh, shoot, there it goes. Because he doesn't calculate it very well.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: No.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: And people get hurt because we still haven't quite calculated the navajoid thing. So Kasev screws up and the eye is livid, and he.
[00:24:33] Speaker C: Cause he told not to go.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: Told him specifically, you cannot go do this thing, Kasuv.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: Kasuv's like, okay, cool, whatever you say.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: Bye bye.
And Marquion Rowe is like, I'm pretty sure you killed my dad. So you get hurt.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: You get hurt.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: I don't really care.
So then we start to stop emergences and we can predict them, and we're shooting things out of the sky. And then we have a little bit of an issue because we go to shoot something out of the sky and then bury Agu goes, wait, yeah, we can't shoot those guys out of the sky. There's people in there.
[00:25:04] Speaker C: But he can't quite say it like that because he's a Wookiee.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: Because he's a Wookiee. So instead, he goes.
[00:25:09] Speaker C: And everybody's like, what's nib like, what's up, YouTube?
[00:25:13] Speaker A: He's like, I don't know. I never understood him. I pretend I do. And no, Nib is like, he. He's saying there's people on board.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:20] Speaker C: Cause he can feel their fear and their just. He can feel them.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:25] Speaker C: And he's like, very often he's very.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: In tune with people.
[00:25:27] Speaker C: In fact, he got taken out of a mission because he kept feeling everybody else's feelings too much. And it was affecting the way he was flying his ship, and he almost became a liability. Liability.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: So he tells them, hey, that chunk of the legacy run flying through right now is full of people flying at crazy speeds. And so they do what they do. They save them using some crazy cable technique that I don't entirely understand, using Jocelyn, Picka, Adrian, doing their cool thing. And in saving them, we now have survivors of the legacy run to go. What happened?
[00:26:00] Speaker B: Yeah, what happened?
[00:26:01] Speaker A: And so that little rambunctious boy from the beginning, turns out he didn't die, except now he feels horribly guilty because he thinks he offset the navigation system, because when everything went down, he had taken over part of the calm.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:14] Speaker C: To watch some sort of hollow movie.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: He was mad that she had gotten him in trouble, and he had put his face up on the hollow in front of the captain just before it was down, which gave him an opportunity to see out the viewport through the Hollow, and he saw the three slashes from the Nile ship, and he's like, that thing that hit us had three slashes on it. And then they do a little bit math, and they're like, oh, the Nile.
[00:26:40] Speaker C: That sounds familiar.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: We should probably deal with them. Then comes the battle of Kurt, and that's where we get Skere and a whole battle with Jedi vectors. And Jorah Molly is there, and she's flirting with Skere, which is pretty dang cool, if I do say so myself. And we can talk more about Jedi and how much they flirt in another podcast, because we do want to address that.
[00:26:59] Speaker C: We will.
[00:27:00] Speaker A: But there's is like this whole battle, and Kassev is kind of leading the charge in it. And we can tell throughout the whole book that Marquion row does not like the tempest runners. He does not trust them. He thinks that one of them is responsible for the death of his father, which we don't really know exactly the conditions that led to the death of his dad.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: But we know that there's something amiss there. And so he thinks Kassev did it. And so he's like, yeah, Kassev, you go lead the charge. And then he doesn't provide Kassav with backup. But then when the tide is turning in the favor of the Jedi, Kassev is like, we don't know what to do.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: Yada, yada, yada.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: There's a whole bunch of other niall there. And then Marquon Rowe says, here, I'm sending you new paths. And this is kind of the first time we see just how good the path engines are.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: Right.
[00:27:45] Speaker C: And what exactly they do. Yeah.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: Because until then, it's still this very weird thing. Like, how did they appear right next to the legacy run in hyperspace, in the hyperspace lane? I mean, they're fighting dirty. They're releasing radiation. People are dying in the worst ways. You're seeing arguably some of the nastiest tactics.
[00:28:05] Speaker C: It's pretty messed up.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: Like, clone wars is full of war crimes. This is nowhere near the level. Like, faking a surrender to a bunch of droids does not come near. Using chemical weapons in a space battle, like, irradiating the area to ruin things. And then when the tide's about to be, like, fully turned in the favor of the Jedi, the path engines start, launching the ships within, like, half a mile of each other, and they're just bouncing all around within that same area.
[00:28:37] Speaker C: Yeah, they're flashing in and out and.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: Yeah, basically just disappearing and reappearing. It's like Goku's instant transmission.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: Basically.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: He was to just do it all around in the fight, and then they start like, what's the word? I don't want to use warping because that's obviously wrong.
They start basically jump hyperspace. Jumping into ships.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: And effectively doing a bunch of holdo maneuvers.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: Because of this special engine that they have. Because of the special code that he has. Because of Marquion rose, old lady that hangs out with him.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:08] Speaker C: And meanwhile, Avar Chris and her battle meditation are like, it's throwing them off.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: It is because they're all terrified, because.
[00:29:14] Speaker C: They'Re all like, what is this? No one fights like this. And they're not used to that.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: Backed into a corner. They're a wild animal. Backed into a corner for sure. So the battle goes on. Kassev definitely dies, which Mark Yon Rowe kind of thinks to himself, I'm pretty sure he killed my dad, but if he didn't, I'll get to Lorna Dee and Pan Ada eventually. So one down. At least he's out of the way.
Jorah Molly dies tragically, which really sucks because I loved her reaction with skere and skier loses an arm.
[00:29:48] Speaker C: That was brutal.
[00:29:50] Speaker A: So then what happens in no space?
[00:29:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:52] Speaker C: So after the battle's over, the Nighthill make it seem like the Jedi kind of won.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: Yeah. The whole galaxy's kind of convinced that. Yeah. Okay, this threat's done.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:01] Speaker C: And Avar, you know, with all the crazy jumping in and out of hyperspace with the path engines, things that are kind of throwing them off, she finally kind of gets everybody back under control. Not under control, but on the same page, should I mind meld wise? And then, yeah. So mid battle, mark yon Rowe is, like, giving them the paths and just ways to go, like, hey, trust these paths, and it'll take you where you need to go. It'll make the battle way easier, and we'll come out on top. But the paths end up going in all sorts of random places.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:33] Speaker C: And that's when a lot of the ship into ship crashes happen.
[00:30:36] Speaker A: And this isn't a Kamikaze maneuver on purpose. No, they're just being used as giant cannonballs.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:30:45] Speaker C: So eventually the Jedi win, and koss of kind of starts figuring things out a little bit. Like, hey, something's not right here. And so he orders his crew to disconnect his path engine. Cause he realizes he could be next and he wants to survive.
[00:31:00] Speaker A: He doesn't know. Cause the input is there. And so it's kind of automatic.
[00:31:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:04] Speaker C: But Kasov realizes that Marquis Unro is really starting to take over everything and that the nihil themselves is kind of a semi dis, not just, I wouldn't say disbanded, they're just, they just haven't fully joined up yet. But they still rely on Marquion rose paths that he's getting from Miss Santeca. So he's like, something's not right. I don't trust this guy, but let me see what else I could do. So he makes a deal with a governor that's around there.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: Kasso tries to cut a deal, and they don't believe him. And they shoot him on the spot.
[00:31:33] Speaker C: Yeah, basically.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: So Kassif dies, the battle is won.
[00:31:38] Speaker C: There are heavy losses on both sides, but the Jedi won the battle, basically.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: And the Jedi, I'm pretty sure, are fairly present at this one because this was kind of a combo of republic and Jedi coming together to last stand against this group that's TR, this up and coming group that's trying to show up. And so they see this massive group, they see them playing all these dirty tactics. Several people wind up dying, who you've been introduced to throughout the books. And then the Nile go home and they celebrate.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:13] Speaker A: Because the Nile, even though they've lost a bunch of people, have just scared the Jedi and the Republic and made an impression. And the Jedi, while they do think, oh, we've won or we've taken that, we've severely hurt these people, they're also.
[00:32:32] Speaker C: They don't know about the other tempest runners or the nihil in general, that there's way more of them.
[00:32:37] Speaker A: They don't know what they don't know. And I think the Jedi recognize that for the most part, except for certain council members.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:44] Speaker A: And I don't like.
[00:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:45] Speaker C: They don't want to really acknowledge it. They're like, in denial. They don't want to go and research more. They're like, oh, no, that was just all of them at that one battle.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: It'll sort itself out.
[00:32:54] Speaker C: It'll sort itself out.
[00:32:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: Or the Republic's view of, it's a frontier problem.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: That's happening out in the wild space. That's why they call it wild space. Meanwhile, on no space, they're having a huge party, even though Kassev is dead. A bunch of Kassev's tempests that did manage to survive, which there aren't a lot of them, but they get absorbed into other tempests. And Marc Yanro does his big Marc Yan row speech where he basically goes from, I'm your benefactor, who gives you these paths to, I am the leader of this group.
[00:33:29] Speaker C: Yes, I am your leader, and I'm gonna be their leader. Time to go mess stuff up in.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: The force awakens when Hux gives his great speech and all of these people, and you realize just how many there are, just imagine that. But they're all drunk and they're all partying.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: So that at a rave, on a platform, floating in space, surrounded by a force field bubble.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:33:55] Speaker A: That's what's happening. Yeah, but that's the moment that Lorna Dee realizes that she needs to play politics.
[00:34:02] Speaker C: Right? She realizes that Markeon Rowe is way more dangerous than she's been led to believe by Markeon himself. Yeah, he's definitely playing chess, and everybody else is playing checkers.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: And I love the way that he's voiced. I mention this all the time, obviously, because he's very. I'm choosing my words to be the ones absolutely necessary, and that's kind of it, right? Yeah, but it also makes him sound weak until he starts to talk like this. He takes off his mask, he starts screaming at the crowd, and you're like, oh, oh, your weak little milquetoast boy is really scary. And that's when Lorna Dee goes, I gotta play my cards right, and she can give him a gift, which she happened to get on Alfrona. And that gift is what actually happened when loading. Great storm fell.
[00:34:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
He got taken.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: He is kidnapped.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:59] Speaker C: So they have his lightsaber and Lorna Dee gifts. Marquis unro. His lightsaber.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: Like, what a gift? Like, hey, you hate the Jedi. And he and Marquion row in his speech is very clear. He hates chancellor, so he hates the Jedi, and he hates the Republic.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:14] Speaker A: And right there, there's talk here and there of what are his motivations. Exactly. Why he does is still nebulous, enigmatic, whatever, but exactly what he hates and what he's against is very clear. And to me, that moment in this book.
[00:35:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: The best moment of phase one, in my opinion, that was the moment where I was just like, I love this man. I love this bad guy. This is the best bad guy we've seen in recent Star wars since Grand Admiral Thrawn.
[00:35:47] Speaker C: And he's not even a force user.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Not even a force user. He's just so smart and so methodical. And unfortunately, I think his ego is a little bit stronger than thrawn.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: Which will eventually become a problem. And that's, like, one of those things that I. That's one of those tropes where it's like, oh, your weaknesses, that you're cocky. Like, that gets frustrating sometimes, but I feel like he's smart enough to be. I feel like this entire face, he just has so many moments of outsmarting the people who think they've got one over on him.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:21] Speaker A: And thrawn doesn't have a lot of people constantly trying to undermine him.
[00:36:25] Speaker C: No.
[00:36:25] Speaker A: Everybody knows all the nihil are, like, finding ways to try to undermine him or.
[00:36:30] Speaker C: Cause that's what they do in generality.
[00:36:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: Cause they're all sneaky bastards. But he is chef's kiss. Anyway, I love. I love Marquis. It's one of the first times I've read a character and instantly been like, I have to cosplay this man, because I don't. I don't really do cosplay, but, like, you know, I put that fur on my shoulders and file my teeth to points.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: Anyway, so all that happens in no space. What happens after that?
[00:36:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:55] Speaker C: So Markeon ends up talking to load.
[00:36:58] Speaker A: Oh, the conversation with Loden does happen in this book.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: Thank God.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:37:01] Speaker A: I wanted to talk about it, but I wasn't sure.
[00:37:02] Speaker C: Definitely.
[00:37:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: It's there. And there's. There's little hints to things that happen in phase two, but also loading. Tries to mind trick Marquis and Roe. Just try to get out. And he's like, no, no, you can't try Jedi mind tricks on me. Like, grandma taught me how to, like, prevent that from happening.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:19] Speaker C: So this whole thing kind of goes back generations. Like, his family's hate of the Jedi.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: And he meant he alludes to there being history.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: Though he doesn't really give much away.
[00:37:30] Speaker C: Right.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: Can we talk for a moment about how he chooses to torture load in great storm, though?
[00:37:35] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:37:36] Speaker A: Because, again, chef's kiss.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: Load and great storm does not get tortured because Jedi have various things to avoid feeling that pain and kind of zenning themselves out. However, they are very susceptible to empathy. And so to keep him from being able to focus, Marc yon Rowe tortures people in cells surrounding him, all simultaneously, barely keeping them alive, so that the anguish and pain and fear and horror is everywhere. And it makes it so that when he does want to torture load and great storm, he does not have the mental faculties to handle it because he's too busy trying to tune everybody else out. Tune everybody else out. Which he doesn't want to do because he's a Jedi. He's a Jedi.
[00:38:28] Speaker C: It's like, it's evil as hell.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: And it's one of those moments where you go, oh, this guy knows his enemy.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: Like, art of Lord, know your enemy. This guy knows his enemy. Yeah, so cool. Yeah, so cool.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: So that chapter ends, so that finishes up, and then we smash cut to the starlight beacon. Oh, yeah, because the dedication ceremony is about to start.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: Yeah, but before we get to the dedication ceremony. Yeah, because everything's gonna lead to the dedication ceremony, except for high Republic adventures. If you listened to our last episode, you realize that happened. What happens leading up to it in the high Republic comics? Ooh, that's our introduction to Keith Trennis.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, yeah.
[00:39:07] Speaker C: So bouncing over to the comics. Meanwhile, it's the first issue, and Keith Trennis and Skier are on a planet. Training skier is San's arm, but relatively healthy after the battle occurs.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: San's arm.
[00:39:23] Speaker C: Oh, it was right there.
After a quick little lightsaber duel, keeves like, why are we doing this? I should be training for my trials. And Skier's like, dude, why do you think we're here? Like, yeah, gasp. This is the trial.
Turn the page, and it's the big ol high Republic, you know, splash page of the. Of the title. And then Skiers says, these huge, tall needles have stood for a couple millennia, but I put a tithonian pendant at the top of one of the peaks. So Tython, if you remember from mandalorian, is an old Jedi planet. Oh, yeah. So some nice little tie ins, but Tython came from the expanded universe in the dawn of the Jedi comics. Python is, like, the main planet that the Jedi are training on. So love little sprinkles of EU stuff in there. Anyways, so it is go to the.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: Top of the pillar and get the.
[00:40:17] Speaker C: Ball and get the thing.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Jedi global guts.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: Yeah, basically.
[00:40:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. So skier's Mike O'Malley go over to mo.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: Yes, Skier. We're going to watch these people go.
[00:40:29] Speaker C: Up this little hole hill here, and.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: Oh, no, there's insectoids in the way.
That's my best impression of moe. I haven't heard global guts in probably 15 years pretty soon. My apologies to Moe.
[00:40:41] Speaker C: So, of course, it doesn't go as planned, because they never go as planned, and that's when you see our insectoid friends. But then there's a huge, like, swarm of these other insects flying, and they're actually probably gonna take out the insectoid's little community. Now, Kyiv has to go and prevent this from happening while also still trying to get the pendant. And you know, making things happen.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: She's not supposed to, like, land on the ground or something like that?
[00:41:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:41:09] Speaker C: Right now, it's just kind of like.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: Megan fall in the ball pit.
[00:41:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: No, not at all. No, she just has to get up there.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:17] Speaker C: But then we flash over to the starlight beacon to our good homies, Estalamaru and Avar Chris I love.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: He's so underappreciated, so freaking cool.
[00:41:28] Speaker C: And he's sitting there, like, half meditating but also half floating, but taking care of.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: He's the man in the chair. Yeah, without a chair. He's the man in the crisscross applesauce.
[00:41:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:38] Speaker A: And something. I don't know if it's mentioned at that point in the book yet, but we now. Jorah Molly was supposed to be the marshal of Starlight Beacon, and now that duty has passed on to Avar Chris.
[00:41:50] Speaker C: Right. She was offered it. She took it. So now she's in charge of the Jedi stuff on Starlight Beacon because it's a half Jedi temple, half republic outpost.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: Right.
[00:42:00] Speaker C: And traveling.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: I was honestly a little disappointed when I found out that she was gonna be there because I loved her so much in light of the Jedi, and I didn't want her relegated to just this one space. Yeah, I think it worked out really well.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: Given everything that happened may or may not have happened like that, but.
Yeah, well, I mean, once. Once we get to. Into the dark, that'll make a lot more sense.
[00:42:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: No, but I remember being like, oh, but I want her to hang out with Elzar man and stellan geos. Yeah. Like, I want to see those three together. That'll be fun.
[00:42:33] Speaker C: Right? So then we get a nice little visit from the grandmasters vitor and Yoda.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, probably.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:40] Speaker C: Pro tree vitre.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:41] Speaker C: So they show up for a quick second.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: We're on nickname basis.
[00:42:44] Speaker C: I call him classic bra.
[00:42:47] Speaker A: Dude, what are you doing? Get over here, brah. Brah.
[00:42:52] Speaker C: This is where they offer Avar Kris, the marshal of Starlight Beacon job.
[00:42:57] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. So it happens in the book. It happens in the comic book, for sure.
[00:43:00] Speaker C: Yes, definitely.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: And then they go to the ceremony. Cause that first book ends at the ceremony, right?
[00:43:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:06] Speaker A: Cause I read that book before I read light of the Jedi.
[00:43:09] Speaker C: Oh, right.
[00:43:10] Speaker A: Cause you had originally, like, dropped the stack for me to read, and then I was like, no, I'm gonna read everything, Brian.
Everything.
[00:43:18] Speaker C: So, keev kind of messages, the starlight beacon. Like, hey, there's some stuff going down over here. We might need some help. And nostalgia always like, I got a whole bunch of things going on. Plus, everybody's arriving. You kind of have to, like, take things as you are over there. Like, we can't really send anybody, but you should be able to handle them. So Kiev ends up doing, like, a battle meditation for herself. Taps into the force, and she can kind of see things going on. She can also even feel what's going on on the Star League beacon, which is really cool. And she handles business like a boss.
[00:43:51] Speaker A: She's connected.
[00:43:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:52] Speaker C: She leads the big old swarm of insects away, and then she ends up helping out, repairing things.
[00:43:59] Speaker A: She does a bunch of good Jedi work, basically finishing her global guts challenge.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: And Almec is pissed.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:07] Speaker C: Wrong. Wrong show.
[00:44:09] Speaker A: I know.
I'm fully.
[00:44:11] Speaker C: It's all connected.
[00:44:12] Speaker A: No, she's all connected, dude. Everyone knows that global guts and legends of the hidden temple are in the same universe.
[00:44:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:18] Speaker C: Eventually, the day is saved. She didn't get the pendant. They go back to the starlight beacon. And, of course, on the way, Skier's kind of relaying everything that's been going on. What's happened? And Keeves kind of bummed, like, I didn't pass my trial, like, what's going on? So they finally meet up with Avar Chris and Keeves. Like, oh, my God, Avar Chris?
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Yeah, she's kind of got some star struck.
[00:44:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:40] Speaker C: Fan grown a little bit. And she's like, well, this happened, but this didn't happen. And, you know, these people were in danger. But, like, I could. I could do the test again.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: You want me to test again?
[00:44:48] Speaker C: I'll do the test again where Chris is like, are you good? Are you done? Breathe. Okay. And then boom. Knights are right on the spot.
[00:44:55] Speaker A: Boom. Chop that Padawan braid.
[00:44:57] Speaker C: And then later is the dedication ceremony, and we get shots of so many people from the books and the comics both that we've seen before and we haven't seen before. And then it ends with a for light in a life.
[00:45:10] Speaker A: For light and life.
[00:45:12] Speaker C: And everybody's raising their sabers up in.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: The air, which is also how light of the Jedi ends.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:17] Speaker C: Meanwhile, skier goes back to his room, and he's like, no, this doesn't feel right again. Oh, no. And all of a sudden, something's wrong with skier.
[00:45:26] Speaker A: What's wrong with Skier?
[00:45:27] Speaker C: We don't know.
[00:45:27] Speaker A: Why is he so scared? What's he so mad about?
[00:45:31] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:45:32] Speaker A: We don't know. It takes a while to find out.
Okay, we're recording. Cool.
I was saying, what's gonna happen to Skier.
What's going on? I'm worried about him. I'm worried about Skier. Brian.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: We're all worried about Skier.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: If you or a loved one is currently worried about Skier, get on board. Because we're all. We're all a little concerned about what's.
[00:46:10] Speaker C: Going on with the trains rolling quick.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:12] Speaker C: And I think that about covers it for this episode.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: I think so, too.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:16] Speaker C: Because there's a lot. So, you know, of what we're gonna just do more episodes.
[00:46:19] Speaker A: I mean, breaking down each arc into its coinciding book arc and where the comics kind of fit in with that.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:28] Speaker A: Allows us to get a lot more detail out for these recaps. So the next episode, we can do higher public adventures and the tales of villainy, Star wars adventure going into the events that happen into the dark.
[00:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Which, while not directly related, they are happening concurrently. Which then leads us into a whole bunch of other stuff going on in the comics. Which will then eventually lead us into test of courage.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:57] Speaker C: And even though test of courage kind of happens at around the same points of some of the other stuff, it makes sense just to cover a little bit later.
[00:47:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:05] Speaker A: And with test of courage, we can go out the rest of the way with the Waveone comics, and we'll do that in a third spoilery episode coming soon.
[00:47:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: So we hope you guys enjoyed it. We hope you guys had a good time.
[00:47:18] Speaker C: We sure did.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we did. So do we have anything else you need to say?
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[00:47:35] Speaker C: Yes, it's a lot of stuff to do, and we got stuff other stuff to do throughout the day. We got a whole other podcast.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: That's.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: That's a whole other podcast.
[00:47:41] Speaker C: That is a whole other podcast.
[00:47:43] Speaker A: Oh, thank you for listening to the Starlight archive. And in the words of Yariel Pouf, peace without justice is flawed hollow. At its core, it is peace provided by tyranny.
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