Fermented milk tea

Fermented milk tea was a fermented variety of a beverage involving milk and tea that was sold at a bar located in a hub near the equatorial forests of the Outer Rim world Ryloth during the High Republic Era. At some point no earlier than 379 BBY,The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. Marda Ro visited the hub after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met him no earlier than 379 BBY. Marda Ro—the Evereni founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil—visited the bar during herThe High Republic: Temptation of the Force search for others of her species and ordered fermented milk tea, which she then drank. Ro later mentioned the beverage in a recording she made for her descendants. 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 the recording, including the message where fermented milk tea was mentioned.
==Behind the scenes==
Fermented milk tea 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.
==Appearances==
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==Notes and references==
Category:Milk
Category:Teas