Unidentified astronomical object (Marda Ro)

A terrestrial astronomical object was the location of an eclectic marketplace. Around 379 BBY,"A Closed Fist Has No Claws" establishes that the sections 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 pirates who would eventually become the Nihil—visited the marketplace during herThe High Republic: Temptation of the Force quest for others of her species. While there, Ro saw a Jedi and approached him. She inquired as to whether the Jedi had a Padawan and, upon finding out that he did not, attacked him. Leaving the Jedi alive, Ro took him back to her starship, the Gaze Electric, where she told Rox—a member of her marauder group—that the Jedi was alive but would soon regret that she had not killed him on the celestial body.
Later, Ro mentioned the astronomical object in a message she recorded for her descendants and opted to not disclose the location's name. 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 astronomical object was mentioned.
==Behind the scenes==
The astronomical object 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 part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Terrestrial astronomical objects
Category:Unidentified astronomical objects