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The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
The final confrontation between the Jedi and the Nihil…
PD-28 was apilot droid who was forced to serve theGalactic Empire'sDoctorRaygar. In3 ABY, Raygar tried tosteal the artifact known as theSunstar from theEwoks of theForest Moon of Endor. On his way there, he captured severalyoung Ewoks—Wicket Warrick,Latara,Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka, andTeebo—who ended upimprisoned onRaygar's freighter. PD-28 tried to bring somefood for the prisoners, but anImperial droid forcibly stopped him. Feeling bad for the Ewoks, PD snuck into theircell a different way and brought them food nonetheless. Thankful, the Ewoks devised a plan with thedroid to escape together, getting out in anescape pod.
The party flew to the Ewoks'Bright Tree Village, but they were too late: Raygar had already invaded andstolen the Sunstar. Afterward, while discussing the possibility of retrieving the artifact, Latara accidentally activated the pod once again, leading PD and the other young Ewoks to jump in before it flew away. PD helped them navigate to Raygar'sStar Destroyer, which they boarded.
Once onboard, PD tried to claim that his lateness was due to the Ewoks capturing him, but ImperialAdmiralKazz was unimpressed and ordered him recycled. The four Ewoks who had accompanied him split up, with Warrick and Kintaka heading to save PD and Latara and Teebo going to try and recover the Sunstar. Following a short skirmish with Raygar, the Ewoks, along with PD-28, got the Sunstar back and brought it home to Bright Tree Village. PD then left the Ewoks to try and find hisoriginal master.(Read more…)
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- 1970 –Lewis MacLeod is born.
- 1971 –Kate Dickie is born.
- 1976 –Rohan Nichol is born.
- 1979 –Kevin Thoms is born.
- 1979 –Star Wars Weekly 71 published.
- 1984 –Return of the Jedi Weekly 55 published.
- 2002 –Cloak of Deception paperback published.
- 2017 – "BB-8 Bandits" airs on YouTube.
- 2018 –Star Wars (2015) 50 published.
- 2018 –The Last Jedi Adaptation 4 published.
- 2023 –Star Wars: Hidden Empire trade paperback published.
- 2024 –Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire published in the UK.