The “Jedi’s End” arc had ended in failure with the escape of the Nihil leader and now is the aftermath and consequences to the Jedi! “The Spirit of Disunity” is by the creative team of Cavan Scott and Georges Jeanty with regular cover by Phil Noto. The cover features the Nihil leader, Twi’lek with his Nihil battle armor holding a green lightsaber! Re:cap - Tensions are high as Keeve Trennis’ mission to infiltrate the Nihil and find the leader, Lourna Dee, has risked the Jedi twin, Terec! He was exposed to some energy from a mysterious box. The Nihil member, Zeetar in his power suit, was about to smash Jedi Master Sskeer with his battlehammer, but it is Force Pulled from him and Sskeer destroys the suit with his lightsaber!
At Starlight Beacon, Jedi Master Avar Kriss, is silent as Estala Maru debriefs Jedi Council member Stellan Gios in hologram form. The station was towed to the world of Eiram by several starships to help reflief efforts after a “continent-wide” cyclone devastated the planet. We have a flashback to Xais where Lourna Dee is escaping on a ship! It is a full splash page which has Avar at the launch site trying to use Force to pull back the ship. She wants the help of Keeve and Sskeer. Jedi Master Sskeer looks worried holding up his former apprentice, Keeve, and tells Avar that she is wounded. Avar is straining with the Force, her face is stressed and tearing. She releases the ship and then collapses at her failure. Now at the station, Sskeer is concerned about Avar.
She has tired of the updates and wants to know about the new path drive added to the Jedi ship, Ataraxia. The drive was recovered from a Nihil battle. Avar wants the data from the drive to assault the Nihil base. Gios wants her to be cautious. She notes about the Jedi killing weapon and that they have discovered the Nihil come from something called No-space. The base, the Great Hall, is protected by vacuum shields. Avar wants to move from the defensive with its costs to the Jedi driven by her failure on Xais. Keeve also feels like a failure and goes to see the Jedi Twins in a stone-like state and a hibernation trance that keeps them alive. This is seen in a one and half page spread. She tries to take consolation from them and cries over the costs to the twins, herself, and Avar Kriss.
Maru enters and asks about the twins. He wants Keeve to look after Avar since she is not listening to the Force. Flashback, Avar wants to track Dee’s ship, but Sskeer tries to run after her and say the twins need medical attention. She turns on him angry that he was given orders to act defensively, but acted in rage against the Nihil. Avar says he didn’t act like a Jedi. In a stunning splash page, Marshall Avar Kriss reaches out for Sskeer to give her his lightsaber! The splash pages highlight the epic and the intimate moments of this comic! Avar takes away his duties as a Jedi! Keeve tries to move to contest this judgment, but then is about to fall. Sskeer supports her and she pleads to Avar that her former master is needed in the fight against the Nihil. We pick up with Sskeer in a hooded robe meditating in his room with burning candles.
He tries to ignore beeps to open his room’s door. It is Keeve who uses the Force to open the door. She wonders why Sskeer has separated himself. He is meditating over his failure. Sskeer tries to explain to Keeve showing her a hologram of a Trandoshan brain. He says Magra Syndrome affects Trandoshans making them savage. It has also made him disconnect from the Force! Dr. Gion`le is researching help for him, but he needs to be away from others. She pleads for him to stand with her and Sskeer says she has a duty as a Jedi. A very powerful moment between Jedi master and apprentice. The clearance for the Ataraxia is made and Avar asks Latero Jedi, Goonral Monshi, introduced in Star Wars: High Republic #8, about the drive. Star Wars: High Republic has the powerful and emotional beginning of a mission of redemption for three Jedi!
Five Lightsabers out of Five!
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