With her knowledge and his inheritance of the advanced Path engines from his forefathers, Ro can achieve seemingly impossible hyperspace jumps at any time. Though Ro lacks the Force at his side, he has access to one of the greatest navigators in the history of Star Wars, Mari San Tekka. A strange, towering alien, Ro is as impulsive as he is clever, like if you sprinkled just a pinch of Jack Sparrow into Darth Vader. Their horde is led by the menacing pirate lord Machrion Ro, also known as the Eye of the Nihil. The Nihil ensconce themselves in storm-related imagery, viewing themselves as a rolling thunder, ready to plunder the galaxy as they please. They wield strange technologies that grant them incredible power, even boasting a headquarters that doesnвЂ™t need walls, simply hanging in the void as a massive platform. Rather than a traditional threat like the Sith or Empire, the Nihil are vicious marauders, stripping ships from port to stern with makeshift vessels and scavenged armaments. What at first seems like an accident is revealed to have been the scheme of the eraвЂ™s current main menace, the Nihil. The Great Disaster, as it comes to be known, first scars the harvest world of Hetzal Prime, with more worlds swiftly following as the catastrophe cascades.

Fragments of the ship hurtle across the cosmos, exiting hyperspace in вЂњEmergencesвЂќ that threaten whole worlds. Unfortunately for all parties, thereвЂ™s little that diplomacy and kind words can do when galaxy-spanning tragedy strikes.ДЄ single colony ship is torn to shreds while traveling through hyperspace. The Republic is a peacekeeping government, cooperating alongside planetary governments to withstand whatever troubles arise. The Jedi are at the height of their power, with outposts and enclaves spanning the galaxy. Set roughly three hundred years before The Phantom Menace, The High Republic touches upon the types of adventures people enjoyed in content set before the prequels like Knights of the Old Republic and Knight Errant. There will be light spoilers, primarily for the novel Star Wars: Light of the Jedi. But really, what is this new setting and, more importantly, is it for you? LetвЂ™s break it down. So, you may have heard about Star Wars: The High Republic, the new multimedia push in the Star Wars universe told across novels, comics, and more mediums.

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