Environmental team

An environmental team, also known as a science team,The High Republic: Seeds of Starlight was a Galactic Republic team sent out to investigate whenever a planet's environment was in danger or seemed to be unbalanced. During the High Republic Era,Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia around 382 BBY,Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia places Yoda 3 during Star Wars: The High Republic Phase II, which takes place around 382 BBY per the reasoning here. Grand Master Yoda and Jedi Master Pra-Tre Veter talked about requesting the Supreme Chancellor to send an environmental team to the planet Turrak.
After the Starlight Beacon fell into the planet Eiram's ocean in 230 BBYStar Wars: Timelines environmental teams regularly tested the planet's waters for pollution. Around 228 BBY,The events of The High Republic: Seeds of Starlight take place weeks after the events of The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless, which occur in 228 BBY per the reasoning here. during a mission to investigate the blight, such a science team was sent out alongside the Republic Defense Coalition to test Eiram's water and how the sunken space station had affected the local environment.
==Description==
Environmental teams were sent out by the Galactic Republic to protect a planet's environment.
==History==
Around 382 BBY, during the High Republic Era, Grand Master Yoda helped to resolve a conflict between the Scalvi and the Crulkon on the Galactic Frontier planet Turrak. After the Scalvi Bree Menaren found out that the Crulkon were starving due to the dissapearance of the fish that they survived on, Menaren told his people to end the war and help their neighbors by giving them food. When Yoda told his fellow Council member Pra-Tre Veter about the lifeless ocean on Turrak, Master Veter offered to speak with the Republic Supreme Chancellor about sending an environmental team to the planet.
In 230 BBY, the space station Starlight Beacon was attacked and destroyed by Nihil pirates while orbiting the planet Eiram. The wreckage of the station crashed into the planet's ocean near the city Barraza, disrupting the local environment around the city by polluting the water. In the tragedy's aftermath, the Galactic Republic regularly sent out science teams to protect the environment by testing the water to confirm that no pollutions had leaked from Starlight Beacon's wreckage.
During a mission to investigate the blight around 228 BBY, the research vessel Innovator, carrying Jedi and Republic Defense Coalition personnel, recieved a distress call from Eiram's Jedi outpost. When the group arrived on Eiram, an environmental team consisting of RDC volunteers was sent to investigate the planet Eiram. With the help of the Innovator scientific equipment and knowledge, the science team was able to examine in more detail how the wreckage of Starlight Beacon had affected the local environment. While Jedi Master Eve Byre was investigating the distress call, she met the local Duros Fido Blick, who told her that in the recent weeks, people of Barraza City have gone missing and that the Eirami blame the Jedi for that. Byre reassured him that the water was screened regularly and that the science team from the Innovator is carrying out further tests.
==Behind the scenes==
Environmental teams were first mentioned in a flashback in the third issue of the comic series Star Wars: Yoda, which was written by Cavan Scott and published by Marvel Comics on January 25, 2023. The capitalization of environmental team was confirmed by the Character Encyclopedia of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project released on December 5, 2023.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Seeds of Starlight 
*Yoda 3 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Republic organizations