The Vow of Silver Dawn

The Vow of Silver Dawn, titled 《白银誓约》 in the original simplified Chinese, is a canon web-novel written by an author under the pseudonym "His Majesty the King." Announced in 2019, The Vow of Silver Dawn was written to incorporate Chinese culture to tell an authentic Star Wars story that would resonate with teenagers. Its chapters began to be released online on China Literature's Qidian web-novel platform on December 17, 2020 and concluded with chapter 324 on September 21, 2021. The story is set during the High Republic Era, in 200 BBY.
The web-novel follows a teenage Jedi Padawan Sean as he journeys through the Aakaash system, located far from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant he was familiar with. Adapting to the local culture, such as chopsticks and the native tongue, Sean realizes that the corporation ruling the Aakaash system is corrupt to the core; separated from his Jedi Master, Mostima, by the authorities, Sean works with local businessman Li Yu and his group of mercenaries to bring freedom to those whose individual rights were oppressed by the state-run corporate system and to find his master.
==Publisher's summary==
Original simplified Chinese:
:充满活力、年轻气盛的绝地学徒肖恩，在一个偏远独立的乾星系中调查一起凶杀时，第一次遭遇了真正的黑暗。他被迫与师父分离，独自对抗崛起的邪恶。当他的绝地训练受到挑战，面临信仰危机时，他踏上自我发现之旅，希望为这个星系带来和平与正义。
An English translation:
:The energetic, youthful Jedi Padawan Sean meets true darkness for the first time while investigating a murder in the remote and independent Aakaash system. He is separated from his master, resisting the rising evil alone. When his Jedi training and beliefs are challenged, he sets foot on a journey of self-discovery, hoping to bring peace and justice to this star system.
==Notes on translation and transliteration==
===Official and unofficial===
The web-novel was published in the simplified form of written Chinese. Matt Martin of the Lucasfilm Story Group gave the official English title of The Vow of Silver Dawn on Twitter, while the official promotional video for the web-novel on Weibo confirms the canonical spelling of "Sean," the novel's protagonist. Begamor and Aakaash's spelling were confirmed in the Star Wars Galaxy Map,Star Wars Galaxy Map with Mostima, Jamie Brasson, Nan Holi, Loongren, the Silver Knights, and the Land & Sky Corporation being confirmed as well in the 2023 reference book Star Wars: Timelines.Star Wars: Timelines All other translations and transliterations provided by Wookieepedia are unofficial and conjectural.
Translating and transliterating the content and words of the simplified Chinese–written web-novel into English for usage across Wookieepedia articles requires a standardized format, which is detailed as follows. It is assumed that the web-novel is read in Mandarin Chinese—the spoken Chinese language that is widely used in mainland China in conjunction with simplified Chinese characters. Therefore, for example, 陈 is transliterated as "Chen" based on the Mandarin pronounciation, rather than another Chinese language such as Cantonese, where 陈 (written as 陳 in traditional Chinese) is pronounced as "Chan."
Characters being referred to by the Chinese personal pronouns 他, 她, and 它 are assumed to correspond to the English pronoun sets he/him, she/her, and it/its. There are a few instances of regional-specific Shanghainese terms in the web-novel. A very few words in the web-novel appear to have been censored, leaving blank spaces or asterisks amidst the rest of the text.
===Transliterating names===
====Personal names====
Each Chinese character, in the logosyllabic sense, is spoken with one syllable. Rather than translate the meaning of words, Chinese names are converted to the pinyin format, which is the standard romanization for Mandarin in mainland China and beyond, albeit without diacritics denoting tones (e.g. 安平 converted to An Ping, rather than Án Pǐng). Although 南鹤礼 in pinyin is "nán hè lǐ," Star Wars: Timelines names him as "Nan Holi."
Particularly relevant to formal writing where individuals are sometimes addressed by only their surname, Chinese names begin with the surname, as opposed to the European convention of ending with a surname. It is assumed that only the first character of a Chinese name is the surname, rather than having compound surnames. For example, Zhuang Yuanying is sometimes referred to as "Zhuang," her surname. For consistency, Chinese names with more than two syllables in the forename (e.g. Zhuang Yuanying) have their romanized forename grouped into one single group of letters (e.g. Yuanying) instead of being sorted into groups per the number of syllables (e.g. Yuan Ying or Yuan-ying).
However, names clearly derived from English are romanized and treated per English language conventions (e.g. 莫斯提马 and 杰米·布拉森 are Mostima and Jamie Brasson, respectively, based on the spelling provided by Star Wars: Timelines).
====Interpretative romanizations====
夏 has a variety of meanings and therefore it is simply romanized as "Xia" and capitalized since it is used as a proper noun or surname, such as the Xia capital and the Xia family. 龙人 can be translated as "dragon people," but Star Wars: Timelines uses the romanized form "Loongren." Loongren, as with 龙人, does not have a separate plural form since Chinese does not distinguish plural nouns using inflections such as the suffix "-s" in English.
When the Mandarin pronunciation corresponds with existing English Star Wars terminology (e.g. 科洛桑 in pinyin is "kē luò sāng," which resembles Coruscant; 米思罗尔 in pinyin is "mǐ sī luō ěr," which resembles Mythrol), they are assumed to refer to the corresponding subjects. Generally, English "r," "t," and "th" sounds do not exist in spoken Chinese (e.g. "r" and "th" sounds in English are typically substituted with what would be in English "l" and "s" sounds, respectively). Additionally, when the Chinese words in a new name have little meaning of their own, the sounds are transliterated into the the Latin script with the assumption that it is pronounced in a form of standard English, therefore producing anglicizations with conjectural spelling and capitalization (e.g. 卜哈 in pinyin is "bo hā," which could be anglicized as "boohar"). Transliterations could be combined with translations; since the web-novel uses 卜哈猫 and 猫 is the word for cat, it could be referred to as a boohar cat.
====Ancient Chinese====
The web-novel incorporates classical terms derived from the "Old Chinese" language, such as 乾 and 坤 in 乾坤集团. 集团 is a modern term for a company or corporation, and the reference book Star Wars: Timelines refers to it as "Land & Sky Corporation." In the context of Chinese philogophy, specifically the nearly three-millennia-old text I Ching, 乾 roughly refers to force or heaven, while 坤 roughly refers to flow or land. Additionally, the web-novel is set in 乾星系, alternately named 乾坤星系, where 星系 is the term for a star system. However, Star Wars: Timelines refers to it as the Aakaash system. Nevertheless, 乾坤, when used in other contexts, is translated as "Land & Sky," for example in Land & Sky currency. When separated, 乾 is translated as "Sky," for example in the Sky series engine model, while 坤 is translated as "Land," for example the Aakaash system's capital planet, Land. Other parts of the Aakaash system are named 兌, 離, 震, 巽, 坎, and 艮, which in the context of I Ching roughly corresponds with Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, and Mountain, respectively.
====Idioms====
The web-novel frequently uses Chinese idioms derived from Chinese poetry over the millennia. Their literary meaning is dependent on the context of their usage and may not be apparent in prose, but the following list and the "Behind the scenes" sections of relevant articles may attempt to explain such idioms.
*红杏出墙 (red apricots reaching beyond the wall): refers to the disobedience of customs in chapter 61. The red apricot squad (红杏小队) was named after this phrase. It is traditionally written as 紅杏出牆, originating from a Southern Song (1127–1279) era poem by 葉紹翁 (Ye Shaoweng) titled 遊園不值. As the title suggests, it describes an unsuccessful visit to a garden; it was closed, but he saw some red blossoms of spring (apricots) reaching out of the wall. The phrase 紅杏出牆 later became an innuendo for sexual affairs.
*请君入瓮 (may thou enter the jar): refers to luring another person into a trap of their own device in both the title and prose of chapter 104, from Sean's perspective regarding Xia Xi. It is traditionally written as 請君入甕 and refers to a conversation between two Tang era secret police officials during Empress Wu's reign (690–705) about how to extract a confession—one suggested threatening to cook the person inside a jar, prompting the other official to use that tactic against him.
==Plot summary==
===A dictator, conspiracies, and the Silver Dawn===
During the High Republic Era, in 200 BBY, Jedi Padawan Sean and his teacher, Master Mostima, are sent to the planet Begamor to uncover the corrupt nature of its ruler and representative in the Galactic Republic's Senate, Jamie Brasson. After successfully infiltrating Begamor's Presidential manor and completing his mission, Sean is sent to investigate the murder of Nan Holi alongside his master by the Jedi Council.
Nan Holi was an executive member of the corporation that ruled the largely independent Aakaash system in the Oplovis sector, far from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Nan was an advocate for his star system to further integrate with the Republic despite the local populace's independent tendencies. While Nan Holi studied the Force extensively and was cautious for his own security, the businessman was killed at his own secluded estate, which Sean and Mostima inspect. The two Jedi are briefly detained by Xia Yan, the Land & Sky Corporation Security Bureau's leader. Xia wanted the Jedi to leave and drop their investigation, though Mostima threatens to kill herself, which would result more Jedi being sent to investigate the Aakaash system. Xia is thus forced to detain the Jedi, and he chooses to detain them in Nan Holi's villa. During their stay, however, the Jedi duo are separated by a pirate raid on Nan's estate, and Sean is forced to handle the conspiracy himself. Meanwhile, weary of the Jedi Order and the Republic, the ruling corporation of the system works to frame the Jedi for Nan Holi's death in the goal of ensuring their hold to power.
Sean is rescued from the pirates by the Silver Dawn, captained by Li Yu and White, leaders of the Silver Knights. Indebted to Li and sought by the system's authorities, Sean, concealing his identity as a Jedi, decides to work as a Knight to pay off his debts, biding his time before leaving to rejoin Master Mostima. The Knights, a group of mercenaries who mainly work to support their community back home in the wastelands of the planet Wind, invite Sean to the elite red apricot squad, named after a local phrase which meant disobeying customs. Sean thus works alongside group leader An Ping, master sniper Lu Nan, the medic Xu Bo, and the expert mechanic Zhuang Yuanying. Together, aboard the ship red apricot, they pursue a lost Silver Dawn shipment of xuanming, a deadly biological hazard to be used as the core raw material of a new biological water-purifying device.
===The slaves, the Dragon, and the shipment===
After a chaotic visit to the space station named Fire, red apricot squad traces the shipment to the Blue Dragon, the most powerful paramilitary force in the system, which had been allowed to take the biological hazard by the station's masters. While the squad realizes that they have been manipulated by the ambitious manager of the station, Zhang Jincheng, in his attempt to bring down the Blue Dragon pirates, Sean boosts red apricot squad's morale by suggesting that they place the blame of recent misfortunes on the manager after raiding the Dragon. Seeing that the Blue Dragon was affiliated with the star system's corrupt authorities through the contact Chief Ning Tao, an official of the Security Bureau, An Ping leads red apricot squad in an attempt to capture the official on the asteroid Lake 4399 and ransom him to the Dragon for the return of the xuanming.
Just before the raid on Lake 4399, Xu Bo tells Sean that sparing enemy lives may jeopardize the entire operation and result in their deaths. Xu Bo also speculates that the elite Security Bureau guards protecting Chief Ning Tao may all be corrupt officers, as such would be the type of people Zhang may employ for his secret dealings. While Xu Bo further adds that the enemies they are about to face may all be innocent of any crimes, and that to kill them would be to become a murderer of innocents, Xu Bo states that what matters is one's choice between the dichotomy of whether to always be a pure, good person, or to be a person who can act to achieve things. Finally, the medic Xu Bo states that the more experienced a doctor, the more errors—sometimes lethal—they would make, and that there is one type of doctor who never makes an error or accidentally kill their patients, always remaining cleared of any wrongdoing: a doctor who never acts.
After killing multiple squads of security guards and a group of high-ranking associates of Chief Ning Tao, red apricot squad captures Zhang and finds out that he was holding slaves to fulfill his and his men's sadistic pleasures. While the mission was a success, Sean's disguises were useless in every turn of his attempt to infiltrate Zhang's stronghold. Xu Bo explains that the reason for Sean's failure was that he was good-looking; by rule of thumb, corrupt evil-doers had ugly faces. An Ping then forces Zhang to contact the Blue Dragon, telling them to come to the base with the xuanming in hand. Thus, the dragon head, their leader, personally arrives at Lake 4399, receiving a warm welcome from their friends amongst the Security Bureau forces.
The dragon head returns the xuanming to red apricot squad and leaves, though not before destroying several vials of the Land & Sky Corporation's dark yellow blood, an invaluable substance rumored to grant immortality. With Zhang's jurisdiction now responsible for massive losses of the corporation's assets, Zhang is left to die at the corporation's hands. Before red apricot squad could leave Zhang's base aboard their ship, however, Sean hires them to rescue the twenty-seven slaves who would be otherwise left to die at the base. To rescue the slaves, red apricot squad requires their cooperation. However, the slaves were established by the system's authorities to be dead and thus could not reclaim their old identities or rejoin their loved ones.
===Freedom, letting go, and profits===
While some slaves remained skeptical of whether the squad would truly rescue them or did not desire a new life, some other slaves were determined to live, for where there is life, there is hope. All the slaves eventually agree to be rescued from Lake 4399. To rescue the slaves, red apricot squad also requires the assistance of Zhang, who reluctantly agrees to help after Li Yu offered to smuggle him out of the Aakaash system to safety afterwards.
After loading the goods stored in Zhang's vault on the asteroid onto an armored freighter containing the twenty-seven slaves, red apricot squad, with Zhang piloting the armored transport, battles an elite squadron of Blue Dragon starfighters in space aboard the red apricot. The squad and their transport destroy most of the Blue Dragon forces, though Sean discovers that Zhuang Yuanying is a non-human while treating her injuries. Red apricot returns to the home of the Knights of Silver Dawn on Wind, and Zhang circumvents Wind's satellite defense network to allow for the Land & Sky Corporation–marked armored freighter to follow suit.
The slaves are set free to find new lives for themselves in the abandoned wastelands of Wind, though Sean realizes that they have lost everything but their lives. While the Jedi Padawan was uncertain of what to say to the survivors, Li Yu arrives to reassure them that Wind's abandoned area is free of the Land & Sky Corporation's evils of violating individual rights, and offers work for the survivors so that they may build up enough capital for themselves to live in whatever way they choose, reigniting their hope. Li Yu also honors his deal with Chief Ning Tao, respecting his property rights and allowing him to take his 23.14 million credits. As part of their deal, Li also gives Zhang a ship ticket to the Republic Core Worlds.
Li ushers Zhang to a nearby hostel and detains him there before the eyes of Sean, exclaiming that the Land & Sky Corporation official was scum for enslaving other individuals, which would have granted Zhang ten death penalties and 200 years of imprisonment in courts. Sean also deduces that letting Zhang—whom he refers to as a "Land & Sky Corporation thug"—go would imperil the Knights' position in the wastelands of Wind as the local population would be displeased. Li asserts, however, that while the majority of the population may oppose letting go in a poll, if he ignores the population's expressed wishes and decides to do so, at least half of the population would back him on-site. Li explains with confidence that many people trust him more so than themselves. Li also states that while killing Zhang would fulfill a democratic, collective wish of the majority people and also give them 23 million credits, letting Zhang go would tell everyone in the Aakaash system that the Knights of Silver Dawn can help those wishing to escape the system. While Sean was confused, Li stated that it was simply the truth; any corrupt, oppresive organization would inevitably hurt those within it, prompting such victims—however much corrupt themselves—to tear down the entire party.
===Questions===
Sean realizes that letting go would cause more Land & Sky Corporation victims such as Zhang to have a change of hearts; to rebel against the authorities and lead to their demise. Li assures the teenager that he was only looking out for his own long-term profits, encouraging a change of hearts within the corporation to increase the likelihood of more business opportunites with deserters such as Zhang. Later at night, Sean secretly visits Zhang in search of answers regarding the status of the Aakaash system.
Sean asks whether Xia Yan had any conflicts with the Nan family, and is told that the Xia family had always competed against the Nan family, but by a millennia-old custom, Aakaash system politics forbade war between the four great families of the ruling corporation. Sean also learns that Xia Yan listened to no one but the Xia family's elder council, which elevated Xia to his current position as the Security Bureau leader in the first place. Additionally, while seeking information on Master Mostima, Sean learns that even Zhang, the Security Bureau Lake branch branch leader, had not heard of the pirate attack on the Nan Holi villa.
Together, Sean and Zhang deduce that the only possible culprit behind the pirate attack on Nan Holi's villa would be a member of the Nan family. Zhang tells Sean that the culprit could have been Nan Yujin, though a guard enters Zhang's room soon after, taking him to his ship off-world. Sean was thus forced to leave to evade detection, and the Jedi Padawan returns to red apricot squad's base. There he is met by Li Yu, who reveals that he knows, though does not care for, Sean's secret of being a Jedi who antagonized a high-ranking member of the Land & Sky Corporation. Li emphasises that he rescued Sean not for his status, but for his skills and character, and further reveals that Sean's next job is to escort an anonymous individual—secretly Nan Moyou, the daughter of Nan Holi—from Wind to the planet Land's Xia capital, the capital city of the Aakaash system, and that that individual is privy to information regarding the other Jedi involved in the pirate attack on the Nan family villa.
Ferrying the mysterious client, the Silver Dawn—with Li Yu, White, Sean, and the ship's crew aboard—travels from Wind to Land with a detour through the Lake asteroid field, which was personally chosen by the client. Sean attempts to make contact with the client, though the latter remains inside her cabin. The crew thus speculates that the two were lovers, drawing connections between their mission to rescue Sean at the Nan family villa and the present situation to form a logical possibility that their client is a scion of one of the four ruling families of the Land & Sky Corporation, yet is barred from marrying Sean for his relative lowliness. While Sean has nothing to say about such speculation, he found leads in certain points raised by the crew. The Silver Dawn is ambushed in the Lake asteroid field soon afterwards, and Sean is dispatched to maintain the ship as a mechanic.
===Secrets===
While saving the Silver Dawn by replenishing lost coolants, Sean encounters the mysterious client and, openly using the Force, saves her from wiring that had come off the walls due to the fighting. The battle is eventually won, and the client asks Sean to open a metal box that was electronically sealed. When Sean forcefully opens it though the Force, the client suddenly takes away the box and retreats to her quarters. There, she is contacted by Li Yu, who asks for her progress with Sean. Nan Moyou states that she thought Sean would not provide the answers she seeks, and tells Li that the only option going forward is to find the other Jedi. Afterwards, since the Silver Dawn was attacked on a route personally chosen by Nan, Li invites his client to join him in interrogating three captured ambushers.
After revealing that the attack was organized by He Shan of the Vermilion Birds, the captives are mercilessly executed on the spot by Li in revenge for two of his men dying during the previous battle, shocking Nan. However, Li states that each and every member of the Knights of Silver Dawn are family, and raises the point that she might do the same to the people who murdered her beloved father. Li further rationalizes that, since the laws of civilization would not protect his people, killing the captive pirates was the only option to protect his people. Sean watches on in secret as White brings out the next batch of captives.
The next three captives reveal that while the Vermilion Birds' attack was led by He Shan, their presence was orchestrated by an outsider. Li gathers that the outsider is Nan Moyou, who admits her part in hiring the pirates to ensure her safety while aboard the Silver Dawn. Nan also expresses her anger that she was betrayed by the pirates, who attacked the Knights of Silver Dawn and nearly killed her. In particular, one of the captives who were executed was Nan Zaizhou, Nan Holi's secretary who was Moyou's uncle figure. Moyou also expresses puzzlement as to why Zaizhou, who was wealthier than her, risked his own life to betray her. Li abruptly interrupts Moyou's thoughts, asking how her father died. Nan replies that she does not know, which was the reason why she hired the Knights of Silver Dawn to investigate the Nan family estate to gather evidence, and expressed her regret that the only evidence is a box that no one could open. Li awkwardly changes the subject, and announces that the interrogation is over. However, one of the captives pleads for his own survival by offering further information.
As the captive stepps forward, he recognizes Nan as the heir to the Nan family and asks if she was the one who hired the Vermilion Birds to disturb Land & Sky security on Lake 9527—the location of the Nan family villa. While Li rants about the ruling class' incompetence, Nan reveals that she contacted the Vermilion Birds through the late, treacherous Nan Zaizhou, which would explain why all of the Vermilion Birds pirates know of her identity. After Li prompted him to continue, the captive said that the pirates only attacked the Silver Dawn in pursuit of Nan since she owed them payment for the Lake 9527 job. While Nan insists that she fulfilled the payment, Li asks White to investigate the status of the overdue money, and White reports that the money is being withheld by the Nan's bank because her processing fee had expired. Nan to fulfill her contract with the Vermilion Birds, and the situation is settled in peace.
===Trust and power===
====Trust and family====
The Silver Dawn lands on Land, and Li Yu and Sean discuss the Nan family as Nan Moyou departs for a Land & Sky Corporation meeting about her inheritance. Li explains that the Knights and the Nan family work together for mutual benefit, which leads Li to hope that the Nan family's new leader would not be unwilling to continue working with the Knights. Should the Knights be robbed of their ally, Li plans to bring down the Land & Sky Corporation's headquarters, the skytop, with him. While Li recognizes that a peace provided by threat is a fragile peace at best, and that his plan may be opposed by some of his Knights, Li states that a good leader never surrenders to people's opinions, and that a leader should withstand people's opposition to do the right thing. Li elaborates that as an outlaw, one should never expect to be protected by the rules of civilization. Li also states that he wishes the Knights to become a legitimate organization, though he teaches Sean to be practical and focus on what is closer ahead, such as the Nan family succession and the people around him. Li Yu then tells Sean that he, having saved everyone aboard the Silver Dawn during the previous battle, has become part of the family of the Knights of Silver Dawn, and is responsible for helping to repair the embattled Silver Dawn.
After spending an entire day repairing, Sean is told by Li Yu of a new lead on the events on Lake 9527. In the Xia capital, Li had talked to a survivor of the pirate raid there, and the survivor revealed that all of the colleagues he had lost contact with were located inside the Nan family villa during the raid. Li thus deduces that the Land & Sky Corporation is attempting to cover up a secret that occurred inside the villa. Li also informs Sean that he is high up on the internal, non-public wanted list of Land & Sky security, accused of killing Nan Holi. While Sean wishes to be smuggled out of the Aakaash system as Chief Ning Tao did, Li strongly warns against it, stating that the Hutt Kong Zhang, who helped the chief escape the system, is secretly in league with the system's ruling corporation. However, as the Silver Dawn departs Land, Li raises the possibility that the Knights may be able to help Sean escape the Aakaash system.
Meanwhile, Nan Moyou rests in a hotel in the Xia capital after a long conference on skytop regarding her inheritance. She is visited by her uncle Nan Yujin, and while she had enjoyed a happy childhood with Yujin, Moyou forces herself to assess the situation with logic instead of emotion and decides that Yujin is not to be trusted. Yujin, who had just returned from Muunilinst to hear that his brothers Nan Holi and Nan Qianyu have died and that Moyou endured a pirate attack, expressed concern for Moyou. While Moyou resists the urge to embrace her uncle's kindness, she accepts his help, determined to gain his support in reclaiming her inheritance. Probing the seemingly selfless Yujin, Moyou asks if her recollection that Yujin disliked handling family business matters was true. Yujin replies that he simply disliked working with his brother, Nan Holi.
Yujin elaborates that, during their childhood, he disliked being ordered around by Holi. And while Holi managed the family business and kept it afloat, Yujin was free to do as he liked, drawing Holi's envy that Yujin was free to have the time and effort to make Nan Moyou happy by gifting her a Mon Calamari toy. While Moyou remains suspicious of Yujin for steering her emotions, she agrees to his proposal that they travel to skytop and acquaint with the corporation's ruling board of directors in preparation of taking over as the Nan family leader.
====The foundation of power====
On skytop, Nan Moyou expresses her desire to bring justice for herself as the rightful heir of the Nan family. However, Yujin states that justice does not matter in the Land & Sky Corporation; there is no justice amongst the four great families, which has ruled the Aakaash system for over two millennia. Moyou then asks what is important. Yujin replies that wisdom only makes one calculating, focusing on gains and losses and in pursuit of so-called justice—yet justice itself rocks the very heart of the foundation of the corporation's rule. Ergo, the people of skytop would value a person's subjective will more so than their wisdom.
Moyou does not comprehend Yujin's words, and so the latter further states that the core of power is the dismissal of calculating gains and losses, the disregard of justice and axioms, and to do as one desires; what is spoken, the law follows. To take power, one must simply act. Yujin tells to Moyou remember that the four great families have a monopoly over power, and reminds her not to become a puppet of power. Yujin further reminds Moyou that Nan Holi, as a member of the corporation's board of directors, was directly involved in corruption, having pocketed public funding to build his family villa. While Moyou was reluctant to accepts Yujin's words, she follows his lead and listens to his advice as they traverse the corridors of skytop.
The two meet Nan Qiwen, an elderly member of the board of directors' secretariat. At his request, Qiwen gives Yujin a classified copy of the minutes of the previous day's board of directors' meeting. Yujin then meets with Chen Lu of the board of directors, who was also a leading member of the Chen family and the manager of the recent meeting agendas. Yujin asks Chen to grant Moyou attendance at the board's conferences and Chen agrees, arranging a nonvoting seat for Moyou. After parting with Chen, Yujin recommends that Moyou stay at the Xia capital to gain influence with the four families' elders, although Moyou, choosing to rely on only her power, decides to return to Wind, the Nan family's headquarters. Before she leaves, Yujin asks how Nan Zaizhou, who he thinks would be more protective of Moyou, is faring. While still shocked by Zaizhou's betrayal, Moyou finds the question to be unavoidable as Yujin was her lone supporter.
Realizing that news of Zaizhou's betrayal would spread sooner or later, Nan Moyou tells Yujin that Zaizhou had arranged a pirate ambush to assassinate her and froze her bank account. She also tells Yujin of the recent incidents that befell herself, and both of the Nan family members find the fact that the elder council tolerated the "accidental" death of Nan Holi and the attempted assassination of Moyou suspicious. By virtue of the Silver Dawn surprising victory over the pirate ambush in the Lake asteroid field, Moyou and Yujin decide that the Knights of Silver Dawn were their most powerful ally. While the Nan family should not put any trust in their business partners—and the Knights are no exception—Yujin says that they must allow the Knights to get near—though not enter—the family's inner ring of power to gain their trust.
===A combination of work and rest===
At red apricot squad's base on Wind, Sean is given two weeks of mandatory rest—rest had become mandatory as some Knights had the tendency to overwork themselves to death. An Ping also explains that most people hate it when one amongst them excels in their work, and that doing so in a company would undermine the benefit of the collective whole of the group as its boss would demand that the whole group follow the outstanding member's lead to work harder. While Sean does not understand An Ping's logic, he is invited to spar with An Ping. An Ping dislocates his limbs to prioritize speed and extend his reach, which would surely kill even a Jedi if An Ping had a dagger in hand. Sean realizes that he underestimated An Ping's skills, and that the captain's moves are as deadly as they are unpredictable.
After Sean's cookery lesson–turned–brawl with Lu Nan in the kitchen regarding Lu's poor cooking techniques, Xu Bo argues with Lu Nan regarding her violence against Sean. When Xu Bo mentions how Little An's sense of taste was lost to food poisoning at Lu Nan's hands, Xu Bo is shot in the chest. While Little An is the subject of psychological trauma for Lu Nan, Lu had the blaster bolt on a non-lethal setting to prevent killing her team mates. Amidst the awkward silence, Sean asks who Little An was.
However, the heated, blaster-raised response that was expected from Lu Nan by the other members of red apricot squad never surfaced. Instead, Lu Nan directed the question back at Sean, asking who he was. Sean is left speechless, and Lu Nan invites him to train handling a blaster downstairs. While the two left, An Ping and Xu Bo speculate that Lu Nan's unusual response was due to Sean's resemblance to Little An, who was Lu Nan's little brother and who left Lu in a decade-long state of madness. Xu Bo further points out that unlike An, Sean bore no blood relation to Lu Nan, suggesting a growing romantic relationship between Sean and Lu Nan. Xu Bo and An Ping thus spy on Sean and Lu Nan in the training grounds below.
Below, as An Ping poises to stamp Xu Bo in the eye with his middle finger for suggesting a romantic relationship between Sean and Lu Nan, the two spies are spotted by Lu. After exchanging unpleasantaries with the two, Lu Nan sends them away and continues training Sean. In the evening, Lu Nan tells Zhuang Yuanying that Sean was not to be let out of the base per Li Yu's orders. The squad speculates that Li did not want Sean to hear of bad news from Lake 9527, and deduces that Sean only joined the Kngihts of Silver Dawn to use its intelligence network for news of a person lost on Lake 9527 whom he cared about. The next day, as part of his martial arts course, An Ping offers to teach Sean about the inner self to balance his fighting techniques. Sean eagerly accepts, seeing that the idea resonates deeply with Jedi teachings. However, Lu Nan swears at the notion, thinking that it is idiotic and feeling gravely disappointed by Sean.
===Secret of the dragons===
====Hidden lair====
On the third day of training, Zhuang Yuanying takes Sean to the lowest level of the base. A factory, the level contained Sky Three, a starship engine model that was designed by North River Industries 700 years ago and was the most common ship engine in the Aakaash system. Zhuang teaches Sean how to modify an otherwise ruined Sky Three into a smaller yet functional engine. When Sean does the modification himself, he enters a trance-like state in the Force, although he is disturbed by the collapse of Zhuang Yuanying, who fell to the ground unconscious, breathing violently.
Zhuang reawakens and storms off to the deepest level of the base. Sean follows, although he is thwarted by the base's automatic defense system. However, the remainder of red apricot squad joins Sean and deactivates the system, leading Sean to the base's deepest level. To Sean's astonishment, he finds a medbay containing lumps of flesh as well as several dragon-like individuals—who share Zhuang's characteristic of possessing two horns on the forehead. Zhuang herself was inside, sleeping by one of the medpay's red-orange containers, which are filled with nutritional fluid.
An Ping explains that the medbay had served as a retreat for Zhuang Yuanying for over a decade, and that Zhuang suffered from traumas as a subject of experiments, although she had been rescued by Gu Zheng, the former leader of red apricot squad. While An Ping and the other squad members pick up Zhuang and turn to leave, Sean realizes that the equipment in the medbay bore labels of Xia Moist Pharmaceuticals, a company closely connected to the Aakaash system's government. Astounded by the fact that such a mega-corporation conducted inhumane experiments on people, an angered Sean questions if there were actually any laws in the star system.
Red apricot squad find Sean's naïve question to be ludicrous, although Sean goes on to elaborate that while he understands laws may be ineffective in solving issues, issues would only increase if everyone abandoned them. While Sean concedes that acting outside of the system of law is necessary when the law is ineffectual, people must always uphold the bottom line of the law, regardless of vigilantes' benevolence. Despite Sean's speech, red apricot squad remain unconvinced, having already lost faith in the Aakaash system's system of law. As they move on, An Ping tells Sean that the laws of the star system will not protect Zhuang Yuanying; by law, Zhuang could not enjoy full individual rights—the peaceful life she has now is inherently criminal, and they themselves are complicits in helping a fugitive.
====Philosophy of rights====
Sean and An Ping continue to discuss the Aakaash system authorities' restrictions on Zhuang Yuanying's very existence. Sean remains skeptical, and points out that while Zhuang only featured two horns, there were countless other aliens of much stranger appearances in the galaxy; the slithery Anacondans are allowed to live on Fire, which is under the Land & Sky Corporation's jurisdiction as well.
Yet An Ping refutes Sean's argument, sarcastically asking whether Sean is suggesting that a living being's rights should be decided based on the closeness of their appearance to humans, with Anacondans being used as a contradictory example. The captain further states that whether a life-form or a group deserves rights or not cannot be decided by one person. Who gave Sean such authority? An Ping argues on: Sean, in determining that Zhuang deserves rights with righteous anger, reached such rash decisions as to destroy Zhuang's medical equipment; such ways are little different to those of dictators and tyrants. Sean sees that An Ping is correct—the power to determine whether a life-form deserves rights rests, unfortunately in the case of the Aakaash system, in the Land & Sky Corporation.
Sean then queries why would the corporation wish to persecute such a person as Zhuang Yuanying, and is met with a Lu Nan–esque mocking laughter from An Ping. Such an act greatly discomforts Sean, who feels as though all of his thoughts remained within another's control; as if the conversation was rehearsed, with himself playing but a complementary role. An Ping then replies that there is no need for a reason in persecuting a race. Or rather, any one reason is enough to persecute a race. While the Aakaash system has a population of a hundred billion, there are very little non-human inhabitants outside of Fire. Sean and An Ping rule out the possibility that the system is far too remote, and the captain explains that the people of the star system simply do not like foreigners.
Many of the system genuinely believe in resisting foreign ideas. Despite prosperity brought by closer ties with the Republic, historical practices do not disappear, and so while species from abroad are treated as guests, the Aakaash system's natives were never liberated. While Sean states that such discriminations are in breach of Republic values and suggests that Republic intervention would solve the issue, An Ping interjects, expressing disappointment in Sean's faith in the Republic to shine its light on the shadows of the Aakaash system's corruption; where there is light, there is always darkness.
Sean admits that the Republic is imperfect, and knows in his heart that the Republic must have knowledge of the racial persecution occurring in its allied system—and yet does nothing about it. Without his master, Sean realizes that he must solve the situation by himself. An Ping hammers in his point: as beings of similar status as monkey-lizards, the Loongren, even if set free by Republic legal mandate, will remain precious testing material for Xia Moist Pharmaceuticals, and as a mega-corporation, they will not let go; measures, such as seemingly innocuous contracts signed at birth and laws that allow the reclamation of anyone attempting to breach said contracts, are in place to ensure continual control over those people's lives as medical supply. Ultimately, the Aakaash system's laws are in place to restrict individual freedoms and rights. The Padawan, having naïvely believed in the system of law, is left torn and undecided.
====A long-oppressed people====
Feeling that the secrets of Zhuang Yuanying and her people are tied to his investigation of the Aakaash system, Sean delves into the underground base's database for information on the Loongren. Data show that the people were active long before colonists first arrived, and reliable records of them gradually decreased to zero three centuries past. With horns on the head and supernatural physical prowess, the Loongren once served as religious leaders in the early phases of colonization, telling fortunes, making offerings, and praying for rainfall, leaving a legacy of legends and folklore amongst the colonists, such as the Loongren summoning winds and rains and controlling the weathers of entire worlds.
The records also reveal that as the colonists' civilization evolved, the Loongren were ostracized from society and blamed for misfortunes. The people were gradually persecuted by the colonists, long before the time of the Land & Sky Corporation. Sean thus determined that as long as the wheels of history continue to repeat itself, even the dismantling of the corporation would not stop the persecution of the Loongren. Sean thus travels to a nearby tavern named Omnivore in the wastelands of Wind in search of more information about the Loongren.
Meanwhile, Li Yu gathers in a Xia capital tavern that just over a month ago, a man with the blessing of the Xia family walked into the bar and hired the Vermilion Birds to assassinate Nan Moyou. The man, Nan Zhaizhou, provided detailed plans, and claimed that he worked for the Ma family—one of the four great families—and the plot had received clearance from the company board of directors beforehand. However, Li thinks that the story was made up, since he heard in two taverns and a bar droid gave an exceptionally spirited and detailed account of the deal. Li then decides to relay his findings word-for-word back to his client, Nan Yujin; Li believes that Nan wanted a false account. White points out that the information holds grave significance for Nan Moyou and the Nan family, asking Li whether he wanted to side with Nan Yujin or Nan Moyou. As Li argues with White, he claims that Nan Moyou had decided to trust Nan Yujin, and that none of them had a choice in letting the matter play out.
Li then meets with Chen Xuangan, a renowned information broker of the Aakash system's underworld who traded solely with information rather than material goods. Taking a Zhurong model through the Xia capital with White, Li enters a decrepit tavern and meets a Gotal—a rare sight in the star system since a group of Gotals disappeared in the Fire space station around a hundred years ago with no logical explanation from the Land & Sky Corporation. Li asks for the status of the survivors from the pirate raid on Lake 4399. The Gotal immediately replies that most of the servants are alive, under house arrest. Li speculates that the servants who have seen some of the state secrets in the villa's basement would not be allowed to leave freely, and he presses the Gotal on a "special" person who was at the raid. The Gotal then shows Li the latest Xia capital news report: Land & Sky security believes that Nan Holi's murderer was the Jedi Master Mostima, sent by the Galactic Republic.
In the Omnivore bar, a gruff miner recounts the little knowledge he had of the Loongren when he lived in the city, with the dragon-like people being frequently assaulted by rocks on the streets. He was typically unenthused by the Xia capital news, feeling cynical about the news channel constantly chiming false positivity about the Aakaash system when many people were relegated to the wastelands in reality. While the miner thought the news of Nan Holi's murder inquiry was pointless and boring given the utter irrelevance of whoever was in power to the lower classes of society, Sean watched the news intently. A patron walked toward the television to switch channels but felt an immense fear as he approached and left the place instead; the news continued playing even when no one at the bar wanted to watch it. The news broadcast shows Mostima in the uppermost floor's conference room in the Jade City Hotel, seemingly cooperating with the state investigation, and insinuates that Nan's death was orchestrated by foreign forces, given his family's prominence in the financial order within the star system. Sean leaves the bar in a hurry, overhearing in dread as the broadcast mentions that the Jedi Master had received assistance from the Knights of Silver Dawn.
===Quest for Mostima===
====Back to Fire====
Li Yu returns to the red apricot squad's base to hear that they had failed to keep track of Sean; the Jedi had disappeared in the wastelands of Wind, evading the Knights of Silver Dawn. The Padawan speculates that the news report either indicates that the Knights of Silver Dawn had a hand in his Jedi Master's false testimony; or is a sign that the Land & Sky Corporation has knowledge of his involvement with the Knights and threatens to quash the group unless Sean surrenders himself. Additionally thinking that the state media is "brainwashing" the populace to believe in their slander of the Republic, Sean plans to stow away to the Xia capital's Jade City Hotel and find his master alone. The Jedi left without saying goodbye to the Knights, wanting to eventually meet them again.
Hiding on the Great camel-head class cargo ship Bountiful Harvest heading to the Xia capital, Sean overhears the crew's chatter and learnt that he was hiding amidst illicit cargo, including smuggled weapons and intellectual property–violating knock-offs of medicininal substances produced in the wastelands. The Padawan believes that he has been caught in a trap by the Knights. Indeed, he meets an individual strong in the Force and connected to the dark side who claimed that they had been hired to bring Sean alive to the space city of Fire so that he may rejoin his detained Jedi Master and allow the corporation to complete its business and return the pair to Coruscant. The bounty hunter threatens to to start killing the innocent passengers outside the cargo bay unless the Jedi locks himself back into the box in which he had been hiding and throws what Sean thinks to be a thermal detonator; however, it is a false detonator, instead playing a popular, festive Huttese jingle. All the while, Sean is taunted by his opponent, but the Padawan attempts to remain calm and emotionally unaffected, using his lightsaber to damage the ship's systems. However, as crew members enter the cargo bay ostensibly to fix the ship, one of them incapacitates Sean.
Security Bureau Director Xia Yan speaks with the assassin—who is named Xia Xi and is his brother—but they are interrupted by news of the ship's failing engines. While Sean modifies the Sky Three engine with the help of the agent and the ship's engineer, Tang, the ship's captain had been reminded of an old Aakaash system idiom that means when the powerful fight, ordinary people suffer. He had brought his daughter along for the trip and was paid a lowly wage as an employee of the Security Bureau, resorting to smuggling between Wind and Land. Nevertheless, he and his crew cooperated with the young Jedi to fix the ship and were unwilling to heed Xia Xi's order to re-capture Sean. Xia stabbed a crew member as a threat, but Sean managed to subdue the agent and convince the crew to let him crash the ship into the space city of Fire's least prosperous district, Dark Sky district nine.
The crashed ship is surrounded by troops led by Xia Jiang, who find that Xia Xi had let Sean go after a brief scuffle in which the agent stole the Padawan's lightsaber. The agent tells his brother, Xia Yan, via comlink that the only way to counter the young Jei is not by direct force but by exploiting his cleverness and to show him the price of his pursuit of justice—before he could form a clear understanding of the full picture like his master and become another impenetrable enemy. Xia Xi claims that he had allowed Sean to reach Fire because the conditions there would be optimal in planting the seeds of doubt that he hoped would eventually crumble the Jedi's worldview. The Security Bureau chief agrees and tasks his brother with handling Sean, and the agent, with the effect of his mad blood wearing off, is taken to the prestigious Nirvana hospital in Dark Sky district two by Xia Jiang's forces despite their reluctance to help the man who had allowed a starship to crash into the space station. They had been threatened by Xia Xi, such as hinting at sending a bomb to the deputy Luo Ming's girlfriend after reciting from his thoughts of reuniting for their anniversary at 422 Pacific Street, Yellow Sky district seven.
====The doctor====
Sean quickly discovers that a bounty of twenty million units of the Aakaash currency has been placed on him, with corporate security and mercenaries guarding Dark Sky district nine's checkpoints to the most populous Dark Sky districts eight and seven. While hiding in a dump, Sean has a vision of his past in a courtyard of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Someone was helping him to learn to walk, and he was waved over to a pavilion by a person there—an unforgettable face asks Sean if he remembered them. Sean awakes from his dream to someone who has been treating his injuries for three days. The Jedi sees a middle-aged wanderer he likens to an artist in a small cave with belongings gathered from all nine districts; the person urges Sean to drink the congee they had made for him while it was hot. The person introduces himself as Wang Yi, a doctor who believes in saving lives as a duty who had been living as a hermit in the wastes for five years, deeming those that focus on the bounty to be greedy gangsters.
Wang brings Sean to the food court of Dark Sky district seven and had Ma's soup, run by a Gungan and authentically cooking in big pots with poor quality tinned bantha meat. The pair briefly meet Wang's daughter, Wang Lu, and the Jedi realizes that the doctor has been remaining optimistic while living in the wastes on Fire because he could still see his largely estranged daughter. Sean then parts ways with Wang to stay in the district, overhearing a pair of Mon Calamari shipwrights debating about whether to leave Fire, where they have found employment repairing hangars, and move to Land, where the North River corporation are setting up a heavy industry company but where they would receive less equal treatment. The Mon Calamari then discussed the seeming retrenchment of civil order on the space city, including their witness of armed thugs serving as law enforcement officers forcibly taking away a homeless man despite the cries of Wang Lu.
Sean then makes his way to district two, where the Nirvana hospital is located, intending to save the doctor who saved him by tracking a speeder to the private clubhouse of Wang Lu's stepfather, Lei Yongxun. The newly appointed director of the Nirvana hospital, Lei is a prominent figure whose father is the director of Xia Moist Pharmaceuticals and a member of the Lei family of Thunder, which is allied with the Nan family. Xia Jiang confronts Lei about Wang Yi's abduction, calling the act out of order. Later, Lei himself is abducted by Sean, who attempts to interrogate the man about Wang Yi's location. The Jedi mimicked the tactics of Xia Xi, exploiting the director's fear despite knowing that this was the way of the dark side. They traveled to a warehouse in Yellow Sky district three.
==Chapters==
The following is a list of all 324 chapters, along with their titles and the dates in which they were published.
No.	Chapter title 	Original chapter title 	Publication date
1 	Welcome to Begamor 	第1章 欢迎来到贝加摩尔 	December 17, 2020
2 	A simple plan 	第2章 简单方案 	December 17, 2020
3 	The dawn before action 	第3章 行动前的曙光 	December 17, 2020
4 	With heart, everyone is a master chef 	第4章 只要有心，人人都是厨艺大师 	December 18, 2020
5 	A unique recipe 	第5章 独门秘方 	December 18, 2020
6 	Contact 	第6章 联络 	December 19, 2020
7 	Food allergy 	第7章 食物过敏 	December 19, 2020
8 	A change of plans 	第8章 计划有变 	December 21, 2020
9 	Confusion 	第9章 混淆是非 	December 21, 2020
10 	Legends not forgotten 	第10章 不被忘记的传说 	December 22, 2020
11 	New mission, new system 	第11章 新任务、新星系 	December 22, 2020
12 	On the passenger ship 	第12章 客船上 	December 23, 2020
13 	I have a bad feeling about this 	第13章 我有种不祥的预感 	December 23, 2020
14 	Informant 	第14章 线人 	December 24, 2020
15 	The right method of threat 	第15章 正确的威胁方法 	December 24, 2020
16 	Pampered cleansers 	第16章 养尊处优的清修者 	December 25, 2020
17 	A visitor from beyond the skies 	第17章 天外来客 	December 25, 2020
18 	Bravery for a just cause comes with a price 	第18章 见义勇为是要付出代价的 	December 26, 2020
19 	The door to the new world is already open 	第19章 新世界的大门已经敞开 	December 28, 2020
20 	Please pay 	第20章 请付账 	December 28, 2020
21 	The heating stick of a Jedi Knight 	第21章 绝地武士的加温棒 	December 29, 2020
22 	Sean one million 	第22章 肖百万 	December 29, 2020
23 	Going with the flow to the next stop 	第23章 随波逐流下一站 	December 30, 2020
24 	Returning home? 	第24章 回家？ 	December 30, 2020
25 	The first round of testing 	第25章 第一轮测试 	December 31, 2020
26 	Dinner 	第26章 聚餐 	December 31, 2020
27 	Introduction 	第27章 入门的章程 	January 1, 2021
28 	Can't ask for it 	第28章 求之不得 	January 1, 2021
29 	Hunter and prey 	第29章 猎人与猎物 	January 2, 2021
30 	Medical care 	第30章 医护 	January 4, 2021
31 	Good news 	第31章 好消息 	January 4, 2021
32 	Inhuman 	第32章 不是人 	January 5, 2021
33 	A team's warmth 	第33章 团队的温暖 	January 5, 2021
34 	A middle-aged man disabled by stroking cats 	第34章 撸猫致残的中年人 	January 6, 2021
35 	Efficient negotiation 	第35章 高效谈判法 	January 6, 2021
36 	To kill without blinking 	第36章 杀人不眨眼 	January 7, 2021
37 	Windstorm 	第37章 风卷残云 	January 7, 2021
38 	To kill with a borrowed blade 	第38章 借刀杀人 	January 8, 2021
39 	To strike a dog, one must first strike the owner	第39章 打狗就要先打狗主人 	January 8, 2021
40 	Killing license 	第40章 杀人执照 	January 9, 2021
41 	Test fire 	第41章 试射 	January 11, 2021
42 	Solo 	第42章 单枪匹马 	January 11, 2021
43 	Infiltration 	第43章 渗透作战 	January 12, 2021
44 	Disguise failure 	第44章 伪装失效 	January 12, 2021
45 	There are more important things than killing 	第45章 比起杀人，还有更重要的事值得关注 	January 13, 2021
46 	True colours exposed 	第46章 颜值暴露 	January 13, 2021
47 	Galactically famous painting 	第47章 银河名画 	January 14, 2021
48 	Dragon head 	第48章 龙头 	January 14, 2021
49 	Doing good is never simple 	第49章 行善从来不简单 	January 15, 2021
50 	Doing evil is like a shortcut 	第50章 作恶仿佛一条捷径 	January 15, 2021
51 	Precious gratitude 	第51章 一声谢谢便弥足珍贵 	January 16, 2021
52 	Difficulty is always relative 	第52章 难易永远是相对而言 	January 18, 2021
53 	Ace pilot 	第53章 王牌驾驶员 	January 18, 2021
54 	Shell shedding 	第54章 脱壳 	January 19, 2021
55 	Secret revealed 	第55章 秘密曝光 	January 19, 2021
56 	Reborn? 	第56章 重获新生？ 	January 20, 2021
57 	Reborn?? 	第57章 重获新生？？ 	January 20, 2021
58 	A chat at night 	第58章 夜谈 	January 21, 2021
59 	All evil people seem forced to act evil 	第59章 每一个恶人都仿佛迫不得已 	January 21, 2021
60 	Actual good news 	第60章 真的好消息 	January 22, 2021
61 	A new job 	第61章 新的工作 	January 22, 2021
62 	Imagination 	第62章 想象力 	January 23, 2021
63 	Without a feasible plan 	第63章 无计可施 	January 25, 2021
64 	Saving a life 	救人一命 	January 25, 2021
65 	Metal box 	金属盒 	January 26, 2021
66 	Living towards death 	向死而生 	January 26, 2021
67 	Tacit understanding 	无言的默契 	January 27, 2021
68 	南载舟 	January 27, 2021 	
69 	Arrears 	欠费 	January 28, 2021
70 	Family 	自家人 	January 28, 2021
71 	To steal from oneself 	监守自盗 	January 29, 2021
72 	Smuggling 	走私 	January 29, 2021
73 	Nan Yujin 	南于瑾 	January 30, 2021
74 	Trust 	信任 	February 1, 2021
75 	Skytop 	苍穹顶 	February 1, 2021
76 	An idol's fall 	偶像的崩塌 	February 2, 2021
77 	Distinguishing the public from the private 	公私分明 	February 2, 2021
78 	An unavoidable problem 	无法回避的问题 	February 3, 2021
79 	Accumulation of trust 	信任的积累 	February 3, 2021
80 	Combining work and rest 	劳逸结合 	February 4, 2021
81 	Improvements 	进步 	February 4, 2021
82 	Running out of fuel 	油尽灯枯 	February 5, 2021
83 	Rapid fire 	速射 	February 5, 2021
84 	Déjà Vu 	似曾相识 	February 6, 2021
85 	Don't let him get out 	不要放他出门 	February 8, 2021
86 	Eager to learn 	勤学好问 	February 8, 2021
87 	Reuse and recycle 	回收再利用 	February 9, 2021
88 	A new course 	新的课程 	February 9, 2021
89 	Sky Three 	天穹三号 	February 10, 2021
90 	Resonance 	共鸣 	February 10, 2021
91 	Strict precautions 	天罗地网 	February 11, 2021
92 	Medbay 	医疗舱 	February 11, 2021
93 	Law 	法律 	February 12, 2021
94 	In the spirit of contracts 	契约精神 	February 12, 2021
95 	Necessity of distance 	距离感的必要性 	February 13, 2021
96 	Yet more mysteries 	越探越多的谜团 	February 15, 2021
97 	Negligence of duty 	玩忽职守 	February 15, 2021
98 	A thrilling tale 	惊悚故事 	February 16, 2021
99 	Who is responsible? 	对谁负责？ 	February 16, 2021
100	Trading intelligence 	情报交易 	February 17, 2021
101	News interview 	新闻采访 	February 17, 2021
102	Vanished? 	人间蒸发了？ 	February 18, 2021
103	One-man band 	只身上路 	February 18, 2021
104	It's a trap! 	请君入瓮 	February 19, 2021
105	In the dark 	黑暗之中 	February 19, 2021
106	Old tricks anew 	故技重施 	February 20, 2021
107	Outside the box 	盘外招数 	February 22, 2021
108	The cost of naïveté 	天真的代价 	February 22, 2021
109	Brothers 	兄弟 	February 23, 2021
110	Lowly staff 	基层人员 	February 23, 2021
111	The guest becomes the host 	反客为主 	February 24, 2021
112	Hidden 	暗藏 	February 24, 2021
113	Friend or foe? 	敌我之辨 	February 25, 2021
114	Ask heart 	问心 	February 25, 2021
115	Indirect 	间接 	February 26, 2021
116	Crash 	坠落 	February 26, 2021
117	Return to space city 	重返太空城 	February 27, 2021
118	Warning 	警示 	March 1, 2021
119	Escape route 	逃生路径 	March 1, 2021
120	Missed 	漏算了 	March 2, 2021
121	Eye-opener 	开眼界 	March 2, 2021
122	Do not pursue the hapless 	穷寇莫追 	March 3, 2021
123	Convenient to kill 	方便灭口 	March 3, 2021
124	Impenetrable 	无懈可击 	March 4, 2021
125	Exchange 	交接 	March 4, 2021
126	Dark Sky district nine 	天玄九区 	March 5, 2021
127	In the dump 	废墟之中 	March 5, 2021
128	Dream 	梦 	March 6, 2021
129	Duty 	天职 	March 8, 2021
130	In recovery 	恢复中 	March 8, 2021
131	A great guy 	妙人 	March 9, 2021
132	Eat all you want 	食为天 	March 9, 2021
133	Soup 	杂煮 	March 10, 2021
134	Daughter 	女儿 	March 10, 2021
135	Two five years 	两个五年 	March 11, 2021
136	Never hesitate 	绝不迟疑 	March 11, 2021
137	Lei Yongxun 	雷永勋 	March 12, 2021
138	Mind trick 	触心 	March 12, 2021
139	Threat 	威胁 	March 13, 2021
140	Giving up 	放弃抵抗 	March 15, 2021
141	District three 	三区 	March 15, 2021
142	Irretrievable 	第142章 无可挽回 	March 16, 2021
143	A difference 	第143章 一念之差 	March 16, 2021
144	Damn 	第144章 该死 	March 17, 2021
145	Dead 	第145章 死人 	March 17, 2021
146	Ambush 	第146章 埋伏 	March 18, 2021
147	Not revenge 	第147章 不是复仇 	March 18, 2021
148	Into the play 	第148章 入戏 	March 19, 2021
149	Opportunity 	第149章 机会 	March 19, 2021
150	Whimsical 	第150章 异想天开 	March 20, 2021
151	Risk 	第151章 行险 	March 22, 2021
152	Veteran 	第152章 老兵 	March 23, 2021
153	Good will 	第153章 善意 	March 24, 2021
154	Anti-customer 	第154章 反客为主 	March 25, 2021
155	Zhang Jincheng 	第155章 张进澄 	March 26, 2021
156	A story that is hard to tell from the truth 	第156章真伪难辨的故事 	March 27, 2021
157	Necessary sacrifice 	第157章必要的牺牲 	March 29, 2021
158	The story of the year 	第158章 当年的故事 	March 30, 2021
159	Cut off 	第159章 断 	March 31, 2021
160	Exchange terms 	第160章 交换条件 	April 1, 2021
161	Disappear forever 	第161章 永远消失 	April 2, 2021
162	Bodyguard 	第162章 保镖 	April 3, 2021
163	Murderer 	第163章 杀人真凶 	April 4, 2021
164	Authentic 	第164章 真实可信 	April 6, 2021
165	Unintentional work 	第165章 无心工作 	April 7, 2021
166	Bomb in the restaurant 	第166章 餐厅里的炸弹 	April 8, 2021
167	Special person 	第167章 特殊的人 	April 9, 2021
168	Have enough 	第168章 已经玩够了 	April 10, 2021
169	Foolish intimidation is meaningless 	第169章 虚言恫吓已经毫无意义 	April 12, 2021
170	Dark history 	第170章 黑历史 	April 13, 2021
171	Open the door first 	第171章 先开门 	April 14, 2021
172	Eighteenth 	第172章 十八号 	April 15, 2021
173	Focus 	第173章 专注 	April 16, 2021
174	Afterword 	第174章 后话 	April 17, 2021
175	Recycle 	第175章 回收 	April 19, 2021
176	Duty 	第176章 本分 	April 20, 2021
177	Staff 	第177章 职员 	April 21, 2021
178	Unknown information 	第178章 不明信息 	April 22, 2021
179	Go further 	第179章 更进一步 	April 23, 2021
180	Calm down 	第180章 冷静一点 	April 24, 2021
181	Courage 	第181章 魄力 	April 26, 2021
182	Allegations 	第182章 指控 	April 27, 2021
183	Years of layout 	第183章 多年布局 	April 28, 2021
184	No leeway 	第184章 没有余裕 	April 29, 2021
185	Invalid hostage 	第185章 人质无效 	April 30, 2021
186	Strong in the outside world 	第186章 外强中干 	May 1, 20211
187	Vicious 	第187章 人心恶毒 	May 3, 2021
188	Life's ups and downs 	第188章 人生的起落无常 	May 4, 2021
189	Over the line 	第189章 过线 	May 5, 2021
190	Matter within 	第190章 分内之事 	May 6, 2021
191	Hurt 	第191章 伤 	May 7, 2021
192	For what 	第192章 为了什么 	May 8, 2021
193	Brainstorm 	第193章 动脑 	May 10, 2021
194	No choice 	第194章 别无选择 	May 11, 2021
195	Don't be a conspirator 	第195章 不要做阴谋家 	May 12, 2021
196	Always win undefeated 	第196章 常胜不败 	May 13, 2021
197	Awakening 	第197章 苏醒 	May 14, 2021
198	An unrecognizable old friend 	第198章 面目全非的故人 	May 15, 2021
199	The landlord 	第199章 房东 	May 17, 2021
200	Optimism 	第200章 乐观 	May 18, 2021
201	Time issue 	第201章 时间问题 	May 19, 2021
202	Approaching 	第202章 临近 	May 20, 2021
203	Heroes 	第203章 英雄 	May 21, 2021
204	Troublesome 	第204章 嫌麻烦 	May 22, 2021
205	Lead the way 	第205章 带路 	May 24, 2021
206	Expectation of friends 	第206章 对朋友的期待 	May 25, 2021
207	Die again 	第207章 再死一次 	May 26, 2021
208	Lower body 	第208章 放低身段 	May 27, 2021
209	Inaction 	第209章 守株待兔 	May 28, 2021
210	Newcomer 	第210章 新人 	May 29, 2021
211	Investors 	第211章 投资人 	May 31, 2021
212	Come again when you have time 	第212章 有空再来 	June 1, 2021
213	Media person 	第213章 媒体人 	June 2, 2021
214	The role of the media 	第214章 媒体的本职 	June 3, 2021
215	Supernatural powers 	第215章 神通不断 	June 4, 2021
216	Final hurdle 	第216章 最后一关 	June 5, 2021
217	Professional ethics 	第217章 职业操守 	June 7, 2021
218	Meticulous 	第218章 一丝不苟 	June 8, 2021
219	Tracking all the way 	第219章 一路追踪 	June 9, 2021
220	Change of plans 	第220章 计划有变 	June 10, 2021
221	Anonymous account 	第221章 匿名账户 	June 11, 2021
222	It's good to be alive 	第222章 活着真好 	June 12, 2021
223	I'm alright 	第223章 我没问题 	June 14, 2021
224	A brief encounter 	第224章 一面之缘 	June 15, 2021
225	Again 	第225章 再来一次 	June 16, 2021
226	Of course 	第226章 理所当然 	June 17, 2021
227	Not a sound 	第227章 鸦雀无声 	June 18, 2021
228	Who is the wicked 	第228章 谁是恶人 	June 19, 2021
229	Family gathering 	第229章 家族聚会 	June 21, 2021
230	Righteous 	第230章 光明正大 	June 22, 2021
231	Veteran 	第231章 元老 	June 23, 2021
232	Nervous preparations 	第232章 紧张备战 	June 24, 2021
233	Jedi by my side 	第233章 绝地在我身边 	June 25, 2021
234	Intermingling 	第234章 同流合污 	June 26, 2021
235	Tit for tat 	第235章 针锋相对 	June 28, 2021
236	Nip in the bud 	第236章 先发制人 	June 29, 2021
237	Unimpeded 	第237章 畅通无阻 	June 30, 2021
238	Move forward 	第238章 临阵腾挪 	July 1, 2021
239	Aftermath 	第239章 余波不止 	July 2, 2021
240	Passing by 	第240章 擦肩而过 	July 3, 2021
241	The cavalry has arrived 	第241章 强援登场 	July 5, 2021
242	This is no accident 	第242章 这不是意外 	July 6, 2021
243	Shock 	第243章 惊变 	July 7, 2021
244	The only way 	第244章 唯一的办法 	July 8, 2021
245	Calm 	第245章 坦然 	July 9, 2021
246	Fully armed 	第246章 全副武装 	July 10, 2021
247	Stray dogs 	第247章 流浪狗 	July 12, 2021
248	Advantage 	第248章 优势 	July 13, 2021
249	Pick a side 	第249章 选边 	July 14, 2021
250	Dead end 	第250章 末路 	July 15, 2021
251	Liwei 	第251章 立威 	July 16, 2021
252	Get one's wish 	第252章 如愿以偿 	July 17, 2021
253	Stabbing 	第253章 捅刀 	July 19, 2021
254	Rules 	第254章 规则 	July 20, 2021
255	Two Choices 	第255章 两个选择 	July 21, 2021
256	Relic 	第256章 遗物 	July 22, 2021
257	Delivery 	第257章 送货上门 	July 23, 2021
258	The Truth 	第258章 真相 	July 24, 2021
259	Loongren 	第259章 龙人族 	July 26, 2021
260	Ambition 	第260章 宏愿 	July 27, 2021
261	The Meaning of Legacy 	第261章 遗产的意义 	July 28, 2021
262	The Value of Hostages 	第262章 人质的价值 	July 29, 2021
263	Nan Yujin, You Speak 	第263章 南于瑾你说话啊 	July 30, 2021
264	After the Carnival 	第264章 狂欢之后 	July 31, 2021
265	Unexpected Reinforcement 	第265章 意外的援兵 	August 2, 2021
266	Cornerstone 	第266章 基石号 	August 3, 2021
267	Lose it all 	第267章 一损俱损 	August 4, 2021
268	A Dead End 	第268章 一条死路 	August 5, 2021
269	A way out 	第269章 一条生路 	August 6, 2021
270	Long-term Investment 	第270章 长线投资 	August 7, 2021
271	Emergency 	第271章 紧急状况 	August 9, 2021
272	Why crazy 	第272章 为何而狂 	August 10, 2021
273	New Conditions 	第273章 新的条件 	August 11, 2021
274	Express one's own opinion 	第274章 各抒己见 	August 12, 2021
275	Fame and fortune 	第275章 轻名重利 	August 13, 2021
276	The Silver Dawn 	第276章 这就是白银 	August 14, 2021
277	The Jedi 	第277章 这就是绝地 	August 16, 2021
278	The Cornerstone 	第278章 这就是基石号 	August 17, 2021
279	Put away your sympathy 	第279章 收起你的同情心 	August 18, 2021
280	The Sad and Unbreakable Truth 	第280章 颠扑不破的可悲真理 	August 19, 2021
281	Slave Ship 	第281章 奴隶船 	August 20, 2021
282	Bottom deck 	第282章 底舱 	August 21, 2021
283	Neighbors 	第283章 邻居 	August 23, 2021
284	Prophet 	第284章 先知 	August 24, 2021
285	Loyalty 	第285章 尽忠职守 	August 25, 2021
286	Do evil 	第286章 作恶 	August 26, 2021
287	Absurdity and Inevitability 	第287章 荒谬与必然 	August 27, 2021
288	Wave by wave 	第288章 逐波 	August 30, 2021
289	Behind the scenes 	第289章 幕后主使 	August 31, 2021
290	Go to Zhubo 	第290章 前往【逐波】 	September 1, 2021
291	Take a vacation 	第291章 休假 	September 2, 2021
292	Betrayal 	第292章 背叛 	September 6, 2021
293	Blue Justice 	第293章 蓝色的正义 	September 11, 2021
294	One hundred secrets and one sparse 	第294章 百密一疏 	September 17, 2021
295	Take advantage of the chaos 	第295章 趁乱起事 	September 19, 2021
296	Overlook 	第296章 俯瞰 	September 20, 2021
297	Friends hard to find 	第297章 知音难求 	September 21, 2021
298	Irreplaceable 	第298章 无可取代 	September 21, 2021
299	Complain 	第299章 诉苦 	September 21, 2021
300	What people want, the undercurrent is raging 	第300章 人心所向 暗潮汹涌 	September 21, 2021
301	Exit 	第301章 出口 	September 21, 2021
302	Goodbye 	第302章 再见 	September 21, 2021
303	Smooth sailing 	第303章 一帆风顺 	September 21, 2021
304	Closing the door 	第304章 临门一脚 	September 21, 2021
305	Secret passages 	第305章 密道 	September 21, 2021
306	The Unremembered History 	第306章 无法被铭记的历史 	September 21, 2021
307	On the Train to the End 	第307章 通往终点的列车上 	September 21, 2021
308	Disaster Prophecy 	第308章 灾厄预言 	September 21, 2021
309	Disaster 	第309章 灾厄 	September 21, 2021
310	Fighting Opportunity 	第310章 战机 	September 21, 2021
311	Domination of the Battlefield 	第311章 统治战场 	September 21, 2021
312	Fall short 	第312章 功亏一篑 	September 21, 2021
313	It's time to get to the front of the stage 	第313章 是时候走到台前了 	September 21, 2021
314	Don't be arrogant 	第314章 不可妄自尊大 	September 21, 2021
315	Do not ask 	第315章 不追问 	September 21, 2021
316	Sudden Elders 	第316章 突如其来的长辈 	September 21, 2021
317	Aftermath 	第317章 善后处理 	September 21, 2021
318	I can't change my words 	第318章 改不掉的信口开河 	September 21, 2021
319	Negotiations 	第319章 谈判 	September 21, 2021
320	The End of the Long Journey 	第320章 漫长旅途的终点 	September 21, 2021
321	Powerless 	第321章 无能为力 	September 21, 2021
322	Unbearable Justice 	第322章 不可承受的正义 	September 21, 2021
323	The Vow of Silver Dawn 	第323章 白银誓约 	September 21, 2021
324	The Force be with you 	第324章 原力与你同在 	September 21, 2021
==Development==
《白银誓约》 was written in simplified Chinese by an author under the pseudonym 国王陛下 (His Majesty the King), with cover illustrations by Huang Hai under the pseudonym 艾儿天空. It was announced by the People's Republic of China's biggest online publishing publisher, China Literature—a subsidiary of the state-affiliated technology company Tencent that maintains the Shanghai-based Qidian web-novel platform—and Disney's China branch on behalf of Lucasfilm at a media event in Shanghai, being attended by various speakers, including the author, Lucasfilm's Vice President of Franchise Content and Strategy, James Waugh, and China Literature's CEO. The event was reported by Chinese state media on October 16, 2019 and later by the United States' Variety magazine on October 18. Recent Star Wars films had been underperforming in the Chinese market since audiences had little connection with the franchise, with the original films being released in the 1970s and 1980s when China was just recovering from the Cultural Revolution and had few Western imports. The stated aim of The Vow of Silver Dawn was to boost engagement with Star Wars in China, and its release coincided with the publication of forty Star Wars novels translated into Chinese on the same online platform in the lead up to the release of the film Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker in December of the same year.
The English title The Vow of Silver Dawn was confirmed by Matt Martin of the Lucasfilm Story Group when asked on Twitter in 2020. The Vow of Silver Dawn aimed to incorporate Chinese culture to tell an authentic Star Wars story that would resonate with teenagers. James Waugh also said in the web-novel's promotional video posted on Weibo that the story takes place toward the end of the pinnacle era of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi, around fifty years before the events of the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which is set in 32 BBY, thereby placing the story around 82 BBY. However, the 2023 reference title Star Wars: Timelines changed the placement of The Vow of Silver Dawn to 200 BBY. Timelines also revealed some English names of the web-novel's characters and settings. The promotional video also features Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Executive Vice President and General Manager Lynwen Brennan, and a brief introduction by Waugh to the Lucasfilm Story Group, who made sure that the story could align with the wider Star Wars mythology.
The first three chapters of The Vow of Silver Dawn were published on Qidian on December 17, 2020, with subsequent chapters being gradually published over the course of China's COVID-19 pandemic, which had started in November 2019. While the wider English-language Star Wars: The High Republic publishing initiative was originally scheduled to launch with The High Republic: Light of the Jedi on August 25, 2020, Lucasfilm announced on May 26 of that year that the project's launch was delayed to January, 2021 due to "general marketplace delays" in the wake of the now-global COVID-19 pandemic. The Vow of Silver Dawn final chapters were published on September 21, 2021, the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. On the previous day, the official Star Wars account made a celebratory post for the festival on Weibo along with three illustrations. The illustrations star Sean, Luke Skywalker, and Din Djarin looking to the full moon, which features Mostima, Leia Organa, and Grogu respectively. The post explains that the galaxy's heroes are appreciating the Moon as with people on Earth and thinking of those they hold dear—in master-and-apprentice, sibling, and parent-child relationships—despite their physical distances. As of March 2024, the web-novel's webpage claims that it contains 863,000 words and has received 405,500 recommendations via the platform's recommendations system. An on-site award also indicates that an accumulation of 50,000 users adding the web-novel to their collection was achieved on January 11, 2021.
==Media==
===Promotional posters===
File:TheVowOfSilverDawnCover.jpg|Official cover
File:TheVowOfSilverDawnPromoPoster.jpg|Alternate cover illustration
File:TheVowOfSilverDawnPromo2.jpg|Sean character poster
File:SeanMostima.jpg|Promotional poster
==Appearances==
==Notes and references==
==External links==
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