The next storyline, “The Shadow of the Nihil” has begun and last issue ended with a final test for Storm (Keeve) Trennis and Jedi twin, Terec which is to kill Myraga the Hutt! A Batman Begins (2005) Ra’s al Ghul situation! The Jedi, Keeve and Terec, face the Nihil with their lightsabers in the Phil Noto cover. Chapter Two of the storyline, “Out of Balance, Out of Time” is by Cavan Scott and Georges Jeanty. We open with Storm surrounded by Nihil. Keeve struggles with Marshall Avar Kriss to do what she can to fit in with the Nihil, but now she has to kill in cold blood a former ally? Keeve notices that a container held by an alien, kinda like a rabid dog with white fur, reads Nagnol. She closes her eyes and uses the Force to drop the container, and then in a two page splash has everyone tossed by a massive explosion! A really good scene to put the Jedi in danger.
On fire, the dog alien shouts for help from Zeetar who is in a powersuit, but instead he blasts the worker. Keeve tries to explain about the Hutt and that he may have knowledge of the Jedi so Myraga to be spared unti they use his information. On the Ataraxia moving through hyperspace, Avar asks Ceret about what he knows about the thoughts of his twin. He says they are safe, but worried. While this goes on, Sskeer, Keeve’s former master, tries to raise his lightsaber to his hand through the Force. Avar wants the ship headed to the coordinates sent by Terec. The conversaton brings up Myraga and the lightsaber falls. Dr. Ginole, through hologram, talks to Sskeer in private. Sskeer wants his findings to be revealed and the doctor says they have found why Sskeer is losing the Force! The group of Nihil are walking past the factory smelting pits. There was a factory in Attack of the Clones (2002).
Keeve whispers to Terec about the arrival of the Ataraxia. She asks Zeetar about the preparations made by the Eye, the Nihil plans may be a threat to the galaxy?, and then if there is an opening for a tempest runner. Instead, Zeetar leads them to a chamber, the surprise is Myraga is in a tank. Zeetar says it is being filled with Nagnol gas that will kill the Hutt! The Nihil worker finds the valve for the gas has been blocked, Keeve realizes that this was Terec using the Force! The worker just continues the exectuion, electrifying the Hutt, it is gruesome with Myraga’s skeleton revealed as she screams! Zeetar asks what the Hutt knows of the Jedi and the Hutt says they are fools. The Jedi are already there, the jig is up!, Keeve and Terec activate their lightsabers. As the saying goes, “It’s a trap!” Almost a full page spread has the Jedi facing the Nihil!
Their identities revealed, I think it would be important to free Myraga, the gas would endanger the Nihil, but the Jedi have Breath Control like Obi-Wan and Qui-Gonn in the gassed chamber in The Phantom Menace (1999)! Keeve uses a Force push on the powersuit sending it back, but Zeetar activates a device that again shocks Myraga! Terec severs a hand holding a blaster with his lightsaber, a Jedi move called a Cho mai, a nice touch for a battle! Keeve is struck in the back of her head by a Nihil. Zeetar uses the powersuit’s extended arm to strike Terec! They are interrupted by a Twi’lek wearing a deep sea-like helmet. Zeetar notes that he is Lourna Dee, the Eye of the Nihil! She is the leader of the Nihil Tempest group that was the object of Keeve’s mission. Lourna takes off her helmet punches Terec and blasts Myraga! The end for Myraga? A fun character from the Drengir war. Even worse, Lourna opens a box with deadly consequences for the Jedi! What happened to Sskeer?, is it connected to his Drengir merge? Star Wars: The High Republic #10 has some dangerous moments for the Jedi trapped by the Nihil!
Four Lightsabers out of Five!
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