![]() Vildar is the opposite, which comes as a surprise to Tey, but it leads to him explaining the hold his past has over him. Tey, as we’ve seen in the flashback and last issue in how he convinces the Guardians to go out and help the city, doesn’t want to remain holed up in the bar, eager to get back out there and help the city. They hold off the droids long enough for Kradon to decide to activate the bar’s shield, preventing any further incursions. The front door might be covered but a secret entrance or exit, depending on who you ask, gains a lovely new hole in the wall as Representative Tarna is being chased by the wardroids rampaging throughout the city. Kradon is reluctant at first, but Vildar, Tey, and Matty make sure he doesn’t have much of a choice, so they all pack in while the Twinkle Sisters do what they do best and keep the doors from being breached by the mob outside. I’m glad we got some focus on what’s all happening here, even if it’s with only three issues left, as it puts what’s come before into perspective and gives us a goal of the final few issues besides protect the innocent of Jedha.īut protecting all the innocents isn’t what Vildar wants to do, instead he’s narrowed in on the band he’s already rescued, taking them to Kradon’s Enlightenment bar for refuge. I’m curious if there’s anyone still in the Order who knows why someone would want the item, of what it can do, or if Matty’s comment on such knowledge lost to the ages is simply the truth (which can happen purposefully at times, as we see in the recent Phase II release, Cataclysm). And while the characters don’t all put it together, especially due to the cliffhanger ending, it seems clear the felling of the Jedi protector statue wasn’t to send a message, but rather to explore it to find the hidden chambers where the Rod’s being kept! It answers a bigger question I had for two issues, how Jedi Knight Oliviah Zeveron’s Master Leebon knew the group would be out there before anyone else: because she knew about the secret vault there with the Rod in it, as well as question from the events of Path of Deceit, where the Rod of Seasons went missing, as the Jedi moved the Daybreak rod but we didn’t quite know where until now. Tey, Matty, and Vildar all help one another reach the conclusion the Herald incited the riot to give the mercenaries, who Tey fought back when they recently invaded the Temple of Kyber, a distraction to raid the city in search for the Rod of Daybreak, a mysterious item we only know from other sources is key to controlling the Nameless creatures the Path of the Open Hand plans to use against the Jedi (and the Nihil will use later in the era). Regardless, issue #7 provides cohesiveness and answers for its own story, making my above-mentioned concerns less of a problem. It’s only really in this issue’s opening crawl we get a hint here of the bigger battle sparked by the peace treaty talks between Eiram and E’ronoh, and while both stories share the scene of the Herald inciting a riot, the audiodrama makes it seem like a small incident while this shows it’s a much bigger event. ![]() You could read one or the other and have little to no idea what’s transpired in the other which, while it keeps reveals or surprises from being spoiled, makes it hard to reconcile they are both happening at the same time and place. It’s been a little weird reading this series alongside the rest of Phase II, which overall feels less connected than Phase I was, as the events of The Battle of Jedhaseem inconsequential to the events happening here, and vice versa. ![]() Revelations abound on what’s really happening in The High Republic – Phase II’s part of the Battle of Jedha, though issue #7’s cliffhanger ending lacks some bite. ![]()
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