Star Wars: The High Republic – Light of the Jedi is the novel that formally begins the new and enormously ambitious High republic multimedia storytelling initiative, but he may just be doing something more sneaky in the background: setting up Darth Plagueis, the Dark Lord of the Sith who would one day continue to teach, and be killed by, Darth Sidious, the main villain. from the Skywalker saga.
The era of the High Republic begins about 200 years before all current (and most of the next) Star Wars movies and television series, and represents the antithesis of those stories: a galaxy at peace, an Old Republic that is idealistic and prosperous, and a Jedi Order that lives mainly in the countryside, being part of the galactic community that it has. sworn guide and defend. Unfortunately, the public has already realized that this golden period is doomed to end in the long slide toward decay and collapse, as the Galactic Senate becomes corrupted and the Jedi become insular, preparing for the return of their own. mortal enemies, the Sith.
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But beyond one or two tantalizing hints or hints, former Jedi foes are nowhere to be seen on the pages of Charles Soule. Light of the Jedi. Instead, readers are introduced to a new High Republic villain, Marchion Ro, a man with a long and mysterious past and an apparent bloody revenge against the Jedi, who have seemingly afflicted his family before. Being the symbolic leader of Nihil, a band of savage space pirates and marauders who have thus far been too small to appear on the Republic’s radar, Marchion concludes that it is only a matter of time before Supreme Chancellor Lina Soh and the Council Jedi begin to appear. get closer to him, stripping him – and the rest of his “people” – of their way of life.
Ro then begins a vast and enormously complicated plot that will transform his Nihil, prepare him for the war to come, and awaken his true nature, allowing him to shed the placid and pampered life of a figurehead and transform into the crafty one. . , calculating and bloodthirsty strategist who was always secret. Even at this early juncture in your overall plan, remember that The high republic It is designed to operate for about five to six years. one cannot help but compare the convoluted and multifaceted scheme to that of Lord Sidious throughout the nine films in the Skywalker saga. All of which begs the question: Is Marchion Ro secretly Darth Plagueis, much like how Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine concealed Darth Sidious’s true identity? There are several clues buried in the text that seem to point in this direction.
Marchion Ro’s plot in The High Republic: Light of the Jedi explained
Decades before the events of Star Wars: The High Republic – Light of the Jedi, Mari San Tekka uses her strange power, probably driven by the Force, to locate special routes through hyperspace to help her family achieve fame and prominence, establishing them as the dominant hyperspace seekers of the galaxy and thus Thus, providing a family lineage to his distant relative, Lor San Tekka, the old scout who helps locate Jedi Master Luke Skywalker during the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. At some point, an individual by the name of Asgar Ro takes Mari as his own, using her otherwise computationally impossible ways to help transform a group of low-level Outer Rim pirates into a sizable and menacing force, and he presents himself as their leader.
That band of marauders is called the Nothing, and Asgar becomes his Eye, but it is only a symbolic position as opposed to a substantive one. Eventually this comes to an end with a sword drawn: one of the royal commanders on the ground wishes to eliminate him in a takeover. Marchion Ro, Asgar’s son, instead assumes the mantle and role of his father and is initially content to simply follow the line, collecting his share of the spoils and maintaining the status quo. This is until the Chancellor of the Republic, Soh, begins the effort to consolidate the presence of the Republic in the Rim in the form of Starlight beacon Spacial station. Seeing the writing on the wall, Marchion decides it’s time to remake the mixed bag into a real fighting force, with himself firmly positioning himself as their great general.
The incredibly complex plan begins with Mari San Tekka, who is now over a century old and kept alive in a kind of medical cocoon. Still believing that he is prospecting – and earning money – for his family, Ro deliberately has him plot a “Path” for one of Nihil’s vessels that lands directly in the ship’s path, a massive cargo freighter called the Legacy execution (he is a hundred years old himself) who is transporting supplies and settlers to a new life in the savage frontiers of space. The To run it shatters into pieces after it tries to avoid the collision, and its parts, some of which still contain living breathing passengers, emerge from hyperspace across the region, tearing apart space stations and ships and crashing into worlds and moons. Billions of sentient beings die.
In the ensuing chaos, Marchion provides his people with projections of exactly when and where the remaining remains of the Legacy execution it will fall into real space, with instructions to exploit the information for profit (blackmailing a planetary governor, for example). In the process, the Nihil are intrinsically linked to the Great Hyperspace Disaster, and the Republic unsurprisingly organizes a defense fleet to eliminate the threat, which, in turn, helps unite the disorganized devastators into a common cause. Ro is very happy to step up to meet the sudden needs of the moment, much like Supreme Chancellor Palpatine does in the unexpected start of the Clone Wars centuries later, revealing a new use for his unique hyperspace trails as he does so. – Combat, which throws the traditional war playbook out the window and demonstrates the true potential of a cohesive, unified Nihil.
Is it Marchion Ro Darth Plagueis?
While Disney and Lucasfilm may have shown a propensity to stick with certain elements or characters that were originally established in the Star Wars Legends stories, that original and now-defunct version of the Star Wars Expanded universe, they have also shown their willingness to go their own way, “overturning” the classic stories. Darth Plagueis will most likely follow the latter’s path, meaning that his backstory, and even his previously established species of Muun, could be cleaned up (it has never been established what kind of alien Marchion Ro is in). Light of the Jedi, but obviously not that). This, in turn, could mean that Lord Plagueis will receive some kind of grand presentation somewhere in The high republic – and Lucasfilm and the architects of the epic multimedia initiative could even try to put it at the forefront, right in the eyes of the public from day one.
This is not as big a jump as it may seem at first glance. With the next Disney + series Star Wars: The Acolyte chronicling the rise of the dark side of the Force during the High Republic’s nadir, you have a golden opportunity to show how the Dark Lords of the Sith maneuvered into position to enact their vengeance, slaughter the Jedi Order, and reestablish their empire. interstellar. Having the centuries High republic The transition from a time of peace and prosperity to the secret rise of Plagueis and his newly appointed apprentice, Darth Sidious, would be very similar to the narrative structure that George Lucas himself enacted with the prequel trilogy.
Another parallel, or “rhymer, “As Lucas liked to say – it would be Marchion Ro hiding his Sith identity for most of the story, only revealing it at the right and climactic moment, in the midst of some kind of victory or another, just like his student would in the course of Episodes I through III. And what that victory could be is already established in the last scene of Light of the Jedi– A vision of the Force set in a sickly purple light and showing “horribly mutilated“Jedi fighting battles they cannot win and fleeing in terror”horrible things that lived in the dark. “The prophecy ends with an image of“evil, horror, sweeping the galaxy like the tide”- which could well be another rhyme with the ravages of the Clone Wars and the establishment of the Galactic Empire during the Skywalker Saga.
And then there is a mysterious device Ro wields, a staff that has also been a part of his family for a long time and whose description sounds a lot like some kind of ancient Sith relic (lest it sound too far-fetched, Light of the Jedi features another Jedi wielding a recovered kyber crystal that was mined from an old Sith light spear and purged of its red-colored misery and pain). This weapon is covered in strange symbols, like screaming faces, and emits a purple glow, which only seems to seal the Sith deal.
There are many instances in the novel where it might appear that Ro might have a secret Sith identity. Whether Marchion Ro turns out to be Darth Plagueis in disguise, fans of The high republic they have plenty of tantalizing clues for you to keep guessing, and an exciting storyline even without that connection to the Star Wars trilogies.
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