The Missing Life Day Feast

"The Missing Life Day Feast" is the first part of the ninth episode of the second season the animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. It was released on Disney+ on August 14, 2024.
==Official description==
The Jedi save Life Day.
==Plot summary==
===Sellaccc's Nephew===
The Ganguls' cruiser Rathtar's Revenge flies above the forests of the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. The Trandoshan pirate Sellaccc Orryak introduces Kashyyyk to her nephew Daynaal. When Daynaal asks Orryak why they are visiting Kashyyyk given her dislike for Wookiees, Orryak reminds him of the first pirate rule that pirates take whatever they want and they can do whatever they want. When Orryak reminds Daynaal that today is the Wookiee holiday Life Day which celebrates friends and family, her cousin replies that is nice. However, Orryak disparages Life Day as soft and vows to ruin the holiday before cackling with laughter. 
Daynaal is visibly uncomfortable with his aunt's malevolence. While Orryak disparages the Life Day cultural activities of feasting and gathering around trees, Jooro Jarrot adds that the pirates plan to ruin Life Day by stealing the feast and cutting down one of the Wookiees' Life Day trees. Toda-Joh cackles. Orryak and her crew shoot down a Wookiee aircraft carrying supplies for a Life Day feast, causing it to crash-land into the jungle. The Wookiee pilot emerges from the canopy unscathed. Orryak gathers her nephew and her crew to travel down in a shuttle to plunder the aircraft. While Orryak is ecstatic, Daynaal is uncomfortable. 
===The missing brother===
Meanwhile at a Wookiee village, the Jedi Initiates Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay and Nubs find their Wookiee friend Johgeshakka is waiting anxiously with her comlink. After Solay hugs Joh, she explains to her friends that Joh's brother Rudi was supposed to return with food for their Life Day feast but she lost his signal. Nubs and Brightstar offer to help Joh find Rudi. Joh lends them her family's speeder bikes. 
Later, the three Jedi and Joh approach Rudy's downed ship. At the site of the wrecked shuttle, Daynall loads crates full of foodstuffs onto a skiff connected to a speeder. Speaking via holoprojector, Orryak tells her nephew that they have imprisoned the Wookiee pilot aboard their shuttle. She says they are preparing to cut down the Life Day tree and tells him to hurry up with the supplies. Following the conversation, Daynaal is confronted by Solay and her friends, who demand to know where Rudi is. Daynaal flees on his speeder bike and skiff.
The Jedi and Joh pursue Rudy on their speeder bikes. Daynaal's skiff collides with a log, causing it to break free of his speeder bike. Various fruits including blue and yellow and red fruits rain on the forest floor. The Jedi use their training lightsabers to deflect the falling fruits. Nubs swallows one of the yellow and red fruits whole. Daynaal fishtails through the tree and reaches the Ganguls' landing site, where the pirates unload foods and crates into a big pile. Daynaal swerves to avoid several parked speeder bikes and crashes into a stack of crates containing fruits.
===Round one===
Despite pursuing Daynaal, Brightstar helps the Trandoshan up and explains that they did not want him to get hurt. Nubs and Solay spot Rudi at the foot of the shuttle. Rudi roars with delight upon seeing his sister Joh. Orryak emerges from the top of the shuttle and grumbles at the Jedi interfering with her plans again. She is joined by Jarrot and Joh who sport weapons. Daynaal apologizes to his aunt for letting the Jedi follow him back to their base. Solay is shocked to learn that Sellaccc is Daynaal's aunt.
Brightstar confronts Orryak, demanding the return of Rudi. Orryak refuses and attacks him with her spear, prompting Brightstar to Force jump with the Force. Solay and Nubs draw their lightsabers and flank Brightstar. Orryak orders her pirate crew to attack the Jedi. After forming a defensive circle, the Jedi split to parry with different assailants. While Nubs and Solay cluster together, Brightstar fights on his own. Joh and Rudy call out to each other. Brightstar manages to topple a stack of crates onto Orryak and Jarrot. 
Orryak orders Daynaal to pursue Joh. Daynaal makes a half-hearted attempt and fails to stop Joh from reuniting with the bound Rudi. Seeing the affection between the two Wookiee siblings, Daynaal looks at them with a sad expression. He offers them a tentative smile. As the pirates gain the upper hand on the three Jedi, Orryak orders her other minions to seize them. When the Jedi deactivate their lightsabers, Daynaal questions his aunt about the ethics of attacking the Wookiees, saying that they only want to celebrate Life Day in peace with their friends and family.
===A new ally===
Orryak is enraged and reminds her nephew that celebrating friends and family is for the weak and soft. Daynaal reluctantly mouths in agreement. He offers to guard the prisoners while Orryak and the other pirates cut down a Life Day tree. This pleases Orryak who orders Daynaal to guard the prisoners while she and other pirates depart on their speeders with a trailer containing a large electrical saw. As Daynaal turns to face his bound captives, Brightstar tells the young Trandoshan that he doesn't have to follow his aunt in choosing to do bad things. Daynaal unlocks the Jedi and Wookiees' stuncuffs. 
When Nubs asks in Poobian why Daynaal is letting them go, Daynaal explains that when she saw Joh caring for her brother, he says that he knew that the people they love are worth celebrating despite what his aunt says. Brightstar thanks Daynaal for having the courage to defy his aunt. Daynaal is determined to stop the Ganguls from cutting down the Life Day tree but says the are outnumbered and need Rudi to help him. While Joh doesn't trust the Trandoshan, Rudi is willing to give Daynall a chance. Before Daynaal and Rudi depart on a speeder bike to get reinforcements, he tells the others to travel to the Life Day tree and hold off the pirates.
===Round two===
The Jedi depart for the Life Day Grove on their speeder bikes. While Solay is uncertain about Daynall's loyalty, Brightstar vouches for him. Later, Orryak leads her pirate band to the Life Day Grove. The pirates begin using their electrical saw to cut through the Life Day tree's trunk. The Jedi younglings and Joh arrive on their speeder bikes to confront the pirates, Orryak tasks Jarrot and Toda-Joh with manning the saw. Brightstar tells his friends to fight the pirates while he takes out the saw. 
While Solay and Nubs fight the pirates, Brightstar approaches the saw but is attacked by Orryak, who is armed with a spear. Brightstar uses the Force to push Orryak, Jarrot and Toda-Joh away from the saw. Before the can disable the electrical saw, Orryak knocks his lightsaber out of her hand. She pins Brightstar down with her spear and says that he and his friends are outnumbered. However, Daynaal arrives with several adult Wookiee warriors. 
When Orryak scolds Daynaal for freeing the prisoners, her nephew responds that he freed them and says that celebrating Life Day is not weak or soft. He says that it is their friends and family that makes them strong. He pleads with his aunt to stop. Orryak is furious and says she regret trying to train Daynaal to be a pirate. She orders Jarrot and Toda-Joh to continue operating the saw. Enraged at Daynaal for siding with her enemies, she charges at him with a spear but is blocked by Rudi, who throws her back. The other pirates begin to retreat. Brightstar summons his lightsaber with the Force and demands that Orryak surrender. While Brightstar disables the saw, Orryak grumbles about defeat before joining her fellow pirates in retreating. 
===Celebration===
As the Wookiees growl with joy, Brightstar commends Daynaal for standing up to his aunt. Daynaal expresses regret for Orryak's actions but hopes that she will change her mind one day. Joh invites Daynaal to join their Life Day celebration with Solay translating from Shyriiwook. Daynaal thinks that he is unworthy but Rudi and Solay reassure him that he is a friend of the Wookiees. Rudi hugs Daynaal. Later that evening ,Rudi joins the Wookiees and Jedi in gathering around the Life Tree grove. Solay says that as long as friends and family celebrate together, Life Day will always go on. 
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