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Issue 3 of Cavan Scott’s High Republic comic series recently dropped and things got wild.
It was another fun issue that left me excited for the next installment, So, let’s discuss what issue
3 had in store for Star Wars fans and dive into some of my thoughts and feelings on the comic.
Picking up where we left off in issue 2, we return to Sedri Minor.
Jedi Masters Sskeer and Avar Kris are aboard the Ataraxia, attempting to
restrain Jedi Knight Terec, as our homegirl Keeve Trennis waits outside of the starship.
Ceret has still not been found and Terec seems to be plagued by some sort of malevolent force,
the same force that has abducted Ceret, since the two are bond twins.
Sskeer starts to lose it again and slams Terec down to try to stop the
Jedi from continuing to speak nonsense. Meanwhile, Some locals soon arrive, offer
the Jedi food, and tell Keeve that others amongst their community have also disappeared recently,
that the community’s crops are failing, and that the planet might be cursed.
An individual named Kal Sulman then arrives-who claims to speak on behalf of the community-and
let’s the Jedi know they’re not welcome on Sedri Minor.
Keeve then decides to take it upon herself to try to search for answers and one of the boys
from earlier sneaks up on her, before the two begin their search together.
They then come upon a sinkhole and the young boy, named Bartol, launches his ass down that sinkhole,
so Keeve has to follow suit and keep the boy from plummeting to his demise.
Back on the Ataraxia, Terec has passed out and Sskeer takes the opportunity to
apologize to Avar Kriss for being unable to detect the dark side on Sedri Minor
and for what he did to the Nihil last issue, when he chopped that dude into smithereens.
Estala Maru interrupts the two and informs Avar Kriss that Grand Master Lahru was perturbed by
her request to have an autopsy conducted on the murdered Hutt that was found in the previous
issue, and it appears that Avar was hoping the Jedi Council wouldn’t have discovered her request.
She then tells Sskeer to watch over Terec and heads out to search for Keeve, after Kal Sulman
barged in, told them the jedi were not welcome on Sedir Minor, and that Keeve has also disappeared.
We then return to our homegirl Keeve Trennis and see that the dark side
is beginning to physically affect her, and that she also hears it calling out to her.
She and Bartol then discover the bodies of Ceret and a young Rodian,
both of whom are wrapped in vines that appear to have lodged themselves into both individuals.
As Ceret warns Keeve to beware, the evil Drengir appears and starts
calling Keeve meat, which damn son. While this is happening, Terec awakens
on the Ataraxia and spits some sort of black vapor or spores into Sskeer’s face,
and it appears that Terec has become fully infected by the Drengir and the dark side.
Cutting back to Keeve, the Jedi tries to fight off the Drengir,
but Ceret -who’s also become fully consumed by the dark side-distracts her as he has captured Bartol,
allowing the Drengir to advance on the Jedi. Avar Kriss soon arrives, crashing through
the ceiling of the cavern they’re in, slicing the drengir in half.
Avar tries to talk sense into Ceret, who appears to have fought off the hold
the Drengir had on him, at least for a moment. However, Avar and the Jedi soon discover that,
the Drengir was merely split in two, healing the damage that had been done,
and two Drengir now stood before them. To make matters worse, Sskeer arrives-along
with another Drengir-and he’s consumed by the dark side and the Drengir.
Our homeboy’s missing arm has even grown back in the form of vegetation...and
that’s where the issue ends. Gotta say, when the Drengir were
initially announced, I was a little skeptical if they'd be a worthy adversary for the Jedi,
as they were described as sentient planets. However, based on what this issue revealed,
along with what was in Into the Dark, it’s clear why the Drengir are such a formidable foe.
Before we go any further, I’m gonna discuss some spoilers for Into the Dark, so turn back now
if you don’t want any spoilers for that book. In Into the Dark, Several Jedi and others are
stranded on an Amaxine Station following the Great Disaster.
At one point, it’s revealed that the Sith placed dark side idols in the station,
which the Drengir had once infested, so these creatures even scared the dang Sith
The station was strong in the dark side and once the Drengir were let loose, it’s revealed that all
they want to do is consume and destroy. Going back to the High Republic comic,
we can see that the Drengir have the ability to infect beings, and those infected beings
are able to infect others, which allows the Drengir to get those infected beings to do
their bidding, kinda like body snatchers. On top of that, chopping the Drengir in half
or even trying to slice them up with lightsabers doesn’t work against them.
In Into the Dark, the Jedi had to utilize Helix Rings to vaporize these sons a bitches.
Helix Rings were these powerful energy boosters that held the equivalent of enough pure coaxium to
fuel forty to fifty starships, so we can see that it takes a hell of a lot to destroy the Drengir.
I’m very curious to see how this is all going to play out and what the Jedi are going to do
to fight back against the Drengir, so we’ll have to see what the next issue has in store for us.
But what did you guys think about issue 3 of The High Republic and
what do you think will happen next? Let us know down in the comments.
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