232 BBY

Prologue:

• Day One. The Republic don’t control this area of space, yet.
• The Nihil are from Kassav’s Tempest, meaning this begins before the Battle of Kur. Post-Great Disaster.

Chapter 1:

• This is Vernestra Rwoh’s first mission from the Council, her first tasking as a Jedi Knight. She’s a knight from Hynestia.
• She passed her trial the first time at 15, likely the youngest Jedi Knight ever.
• She is now 16.
• Avon Starros is an inventor. She’s 12, and so is the ambassador’s son, Honesty Weft.

Chapter 2:

• A month earlier Avon changed the personality of her protocol droid J6, so it would develop its own personality.

Chapter 3:

• Imri Cantaros spent his youngling years at the Temple on Coruscant.
• Imri just turned 14.
• A century or so before, Dalna was part of a war, which left a culture of blaster ownership rife.
• The Emergences are still happening. The ambassadors of Dalna think its a constant act of sabotage. Most of the in-system hyperspace lanes are still closed. The ship is destroyed.

Chapter 4:

• Avon stole her first ship to Mon Cala when she was 6.

Chapter 5:

• The Steady Wing explodes.
• Master Douglas and the Dalna ambassadors die.
• Avon has been to the Republic Fair before now.

Chapter 6:

• There hadn’t been a war on Dalna in over 100 years.

Chapter 8:

• Vern meditated and reached out to the Cosmic force when she was a padawan every night before sleep.
• When Master Douglas was 15 he was still training to perfect the third cadence.
• Imri has training in Wayfinding, something only seasoned Jedi are usually proficient in.
• Avon ate Jappa stew for a whole month on Mon Cala.

Chapter 9:

• Imri had been with Master Douglas for 2 years.
• Vern was barely 2 years older than him.

Chapter 10:

• Caden Starros, Avon’s Great Grandfather, is rumored to have chased someone all the way to Orandia after they stole his ship in revenge.

Chapter 11:

• Day Two. Arrival on moon.
• There’s regular rainfall.
• Imri’s lightsaber is a weak light blue.
• Honesty Weft spent the past 5 years as a combat medical doctor.

Chapter 12:

• A week after arriving at Port Haileap Vern woke up in the middle of the night to change her lightsaber into a lightwhip. That was a few weeks ago. Lightwhips are used by the Nightsisters.
• Imri is the first to see it.
• During the Sith Wars, Jedi used Lightwhips.

Chapter 13:

• Ancient Jedi had started the Sith.
• Imri had taken apart his lightsaber a few weeks before.
• Avon will likely make a questionable decision regarding Kyber crystals in the future.

Chapter 14:

• Avon was abducted on Hosnian Prime.
• She’s had J6 at least the last few years.
• About 300 years ago an almanac was created for habitable worlds.
• Avon hadn’t had a holo from her mother in a month.

Chapter 15:

• Day Three.

Chapter 16:

• They see a ship crushed by a boulder. A Nihil ship. Chiri, the handsy, is killed.

Chapter 17:

• Avon’s father left to go hyperspace prospecting.
• J6 had kept Avon alive for 3 years.

Chapter 18:

• Imri succumbs to dark side, and invites Honesty to join him in revenge against the Nihil.

Chapter 19:

• Day four.
• Honesty is taken prisoner and Imri is rendered unconscious.

Chapter 20:

• Imri and Vern fight, he gets over it.

Chapter 21:

• The Nihil didn’t want Dalna to join the Republic.
• Honesty wants to speak to the Senate.
• Two days later (day six) they were saved. Sskeer saved them on the way back from Shuraden (as seen in The High Republic 2021 #1).
• Avon steals Imri’s broken saber.

Chapter 22:

• Dedication of the Starlight beacon.
• It took two days of travel to get there, contradicting The High Republic (2021) #1.
• Everyone is still responding to Emergences.
• Sskeer asks Vern to become Imri’s Master. She does.

Epilogue:

• The Nihil don’t appear to know that Kassav’s tempest is dead.
• They plan to get more Nihil on Dalna.