Star Wars: The High Republic #11 continues Keeve Trennis’ undercover mission with a deadly threat for the Jedi twin Terec! The cover art by Phil Noto has the Jedi twin suspended by a red field with a black background. “Only Fear” by Cavan Scott and Georges Jeanty is the first chapter of Jedi’s End. The last issue had the end of the two chapter of The Shadow of the Nihil. They have discovered the Nihil leader, Lourna Dee, but she has opened a box that turns Terec into crumbling stone. This also affects his twin Terec on the Jedi ship, Ataraxia! We have a series of panels, Keeve horrified around colorful crystals, she tries to remind herself of having no fear, as we close in on her tearful eyes.
A two page spread has Keeve reaching out, there is the dark form of Lourna with Medusa-like eyes, as we see the dissolving body of Terec! Keeve tries to retreat and turns to run from the distorted shapes of the Nihil, nightmarish, whatever Lourna unleashed, Keeve it is twisting her brain. Zeetar in his powersuit closes in on the paralyzed Jedi. He powers up his suit’s blaster, but it is severed by the green lightsaber wielded by the Nihil Twi’lek, Lourna Dee. She first appeared in the novel, The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, by Charles Soule. Lourna holds the lightsaber to Zeetar and says she wants the Jedi alive to see there was a random event on Grizal, a planet also from Light of the Jedi. Then, we see the agonized look of Ceret.
Jedi Master Skeer asks Marshall Avar Kriss about Ceret’s condition and she replies that she can’t detect his “song” similar to Sskeer. He may have been affected by the Drengir. Ceret awakens and is insistent that they get to Terec. He Force pushes the furry Jedi, Nooran, to reach the controls. Ceret explains to Sskeer that he is lost in a void, cut off from the Force! This is something very new, The Force is always present even in death, it reminds me of Game of Thrones with false Dragons cut off from the One Power. The Ataraxia has reached Xais which was where we left Keeve. Ceret collapses, a medical droid detects no life sign, and Avar says that he is in a hibernation trance. The ship comes under fire, Nihil fighters are blasting it, Avar and Sskeer rush to board Vector fighters. Avar says in the fighter that she spotted the Nihil coming from the refinery, the base of the Nihil.
Sskeer spots Keeve’s Stormship on the landing pad of the refinery. Several Nihil ships start to launch, but Sskeer destroys them against Avar’s orders. Sskeer leaps out of his Vector with his lightsaber. He is meet by several Nihil gunmen and um, Force throws his lightsaber that cuts through all of them! Lourna wants her men to fall back and previously encountered Sskeer. Zeetar launches grenades from his powersuit that explodes around Sskeer! Lourna leaves Zeetar to face Sskeer and heads off to evacauate on the Leveler. He is about to smash Sskeer with his battlehammer, but it flies out of his suit’s hand!! Sskeer cuts through the powersuit with his lightsaber. If they can somehow find Lourna Dee, they could maybe restore the Jedi! What is in the box that severs the Force from Jedi? Star Wars: The High Republic has the Jedi dealing with a threat to the Force!
Four Lightsabers out of Five!
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