- "'Get out!' I screamed. My holo-mirror screamed it silently with me."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
A holo-mirror was a device that could generate a silent holographic reflection of its user that mimicked their actions. During the time the Evereni pirate leader Marda Ro owned the Gaze Electric starship, a holo-mirror was installed in its throne. Around 379 BBY, Ro used the holo-mirror to view a reflection of herself after she became covered with a Jedi's blood, and when she screamed at her assistant Alirya to go away, the holo-mirror mimicked Ro's expression. She later mentioned the holo-mirror in a journal entry she recorded for her descendants, which her great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to by 252 BBY.
Description[]
Holo-mirrors were devices that could generate a holographic reflection of their user. The reflection imitated the user's gestures and movement but did not reproduce sound.[1]
History[]
- "Turning, I touched the controls to project an image of myself, a mirror self."
- ―Marda Ro, in her journal
The Gaze Electric (pictured) was equipped with a holo-mirror.
During the time Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil[2]—was the owner of the ship known as the Gaze Electric,[1] her[3] throne in the ship's throne hall was equipped with a holo-mirror.[1] Around 379 BBY,[4] Ro used the throne's holo-mirror to inspect herself while covered with the red blood of a Jedi she had assaulted on an astronomical object. Seeing the reflection of the blood splattered on her white shawl and suit made her recall how soft and easy to tear the Jedi's flesh was. When she screamed at her assistant Alirya for interrupting her, the holo-mirror's holographic reflection copied her expression but did not replicate the sound.[1]
Later, Ro mentioned the holo-mirror in a message she recorded for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[5] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the entry where the holo-mirror was mentioned.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
A holo-mirror appeared in a flashback in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.[1]
Appearances[]
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (First appearance, simultaneous with audiobook) (In flashback(s))
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life audiobook (In flashback(s))
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑
Interview with Tessa Gratton: "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" (TALES OF LIGHT & LIFE) on the Friends of the Force: A Star Wars Podcast YouTube channel (October 6, 2023) (backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
- ↑ "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" establishes that the section depicting the Jedi's death aboard the Gaze Electric takes place when Marda Ro is roughly eighteen years old. The High Republic: Path of Deceit, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates the events of to 382 BBY, establishes both that members of the Path of the Open Hand receive full membership at the age of fifteen and that Ro had recently become a full member, meaning that she is around fifteen years old. Therefore, the section of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting the Jedi's death must take place around 379 BBY.
- ↑ "The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year.