Rescue speeder

Rescue speeders were speeders used by the Jedi Order during the High Republic Era. In 232 BBY, Jedi Padawans Lula Talisola, Farzala Tarabal, Qort, and Bibs rode the vehicles to the planet Trymant IV's surface to help evacuate Bralanak City's residents during an Emergence of the Great Hyperspace Disaster impacted the world. Using a rescue speeder, Talisola and Tarabal shot a flaming piece of debris headed toward several civilians on a rooftop, saving them.
==Description==
A type of speeder used by the Jedi Order, rescue speeders were equipped with engines and blaster cannons. They were operated by two crew members, with its cockpit featuring positions for a forward-facing pilot and a rear-facing gunner. The rescue vehicles had silver-colored plating with darker grey accents.
==History==
During the High Republic Era, the Padawan Academic Cruiser Star Hopper carried several rescue speeders to aid in its efforts for outreach and exploration.Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi In 232 BBY, Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro orchestrated a collision between the Byne Guild freighter Legacy Run and an obstacle that resulted in the Great Hyperspace Disaster, which spurred Emergences—pieces of hyperspace debris—emerging from space and impacting celestial bodies throughout the galaxy.Star Wars: Timelines One such Emergence threatened the Trymant system, prompting the Starlight Beacon space station to divert the Star Hopper to the planet Trymant IV to help its civilians while a Republic rescue fleet was assembled.The High Republic Adventures (2021) 2 
As the Padawan Academic Cruiser approached the system, the Jedi Master Yoda ordered the vessel's Padawans—Lula Talisola, Farzala Tarabal, Qort, and Bibs—to board their rescue speeders. After landing on Trymant IV, the Padawans flew their speeders through the skies above Bralanak City, intending to break up smaller pieces of flaming debris and help evacuate civilians. Tarabal and Talisola weaved their rescue speeder toward the planet's surface, dodging several pieces of debris falling around them as the former encouraged his fellow Padawans to stay close. After the four Padawans safely landed, Tarabal noticed a piece of debris hurtling toward a group of civilians on a nearby rooftop. Talisola indicated they could still take out the threat before it harmed anyone, telling Bibs and Qort to follow her and Tarabal with a hover platform to save the citizens.
Though Tarabal was unsure they would make it in time, once in their rescue speeder, he used their vessel's cannons to disintegrate the fiery debris. Talisola congratulated him on the shot as they zoomed away from the scene, though she wondered how they would manage to evacuate Bralanak City's other residents. Tarabal noticed the nearby Spider Cruiser Squall Spider. After musing that it would be big enough for evacuations, the pair landed their rescue speeder to ask the Nihil marauders operating it if they could borrow the cruiser. Though a skirmish ensued, Trymant IV's residents were eventually successfully rescued. In 229 BBY, the Vurk Jedi Master Harli Cogra wrote a book titled Chronicles of the Jedi detailing the Jedi of the High Republic Era and mentioned the speeders that the Star Hopper kept aboard in its fifth chapter.
==Behind the scenes==
Rescue speeders debuted in the first issue of the 2021 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, released as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I. The issue was written by Daniel José Older, illustrated by Harvey Tolibao, and published by IDW Publishing on February 3, 2021.The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic: Volume I
The panels featuring the speeders were included in an uncolored preview of of The High Republic Adventures 1 released in The High Republic Free Digital SamplerThe High Republic Free Digital Sampler on December 12, 2020. The 2022 reference book The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic: Volume I by Kristin Baver included several of Tolibao's sketches and uncolored linework for rescue speeders in the series, including one piece that labeled them as "JEDI SPEEDER" and others depicting several iterations of the rescue speeder on the first issue's cover.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic Adventures (2021) 1 
*The High Republic Adventures (2021) 2 
*The High Republic Adventures (2023) 14
==Sources==
*The High Republic Free Digital Sampler 
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*The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic: Volume I
*Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Speeder models