Unidentified marketplace

An eclectic marketplace was located on an astronomical object. Around 379 BBY,"A Closed Fist Has No Claws" establishes that the section depicting Marda Ro assaulting the Jedi take place when Ro is roughly eighteen years old. The High Republic: Path of Deceit, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 382 BBY, establishes both that members of the Path of the Open Hand received full membership at the age of fifteen and that Ro had recently become a full member, meaning that she is around fifteen years old. Therefore, the section of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting the Jedi's capture must take place around 379 BBY. Marda Ro—the Evereni founder of a group of marauders who would eventually become the Nihil—visited the marketplace during herThe High Republic: Temptation of the Force hunt for other members of her species. Simultaneously, a Jedi walked through the marketplace and was approached by Ro, who asked if he had a Padawan. After learning he did not, she assaulted him. She left the Jedi alive and took him to her ship, the Gaze Electric, in a shuttle. Back on the Gaze, she told Rox—a member of her group—that the Jedi was still alive, but would regret that she had not killed him on the celestial body the market was located on.
Later, Ro mentioned the marketplace in a message she recorded for her descendants, but chose to not reveal its location. By 252 BBY,"The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year. during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the message where the the marketplace was mentioned.
==Behind the scenes==
The marketplace appeared in a flashback in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Markets
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