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The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
The final confrontation between the Jedi and the Nihil…
"Or Die Trying" is a short story bySean Williams andShane Dix that features theJedi KnightJaina Soloinfiltrating theheadquarters ofOnadax Droid Technologies on theplanetOnadax. The company has manufactured aHuman replica droid (HRD) thatbetrayed the citizens ofBakura, and Solo hopes to bring them to justice for the crimes committed by their clients. She confronts anHRD namedStanton Rendar and engages him in a discussion regarding the moral implications ofimmortality and near-invincibility, but ultimately remains firm in her convictions and prepares to apprehend him. Rendar looses a group ofbattle droids on Solo and sets the compound toself-destruct, but she defeats thedroids and escapes while Rendar flees the planet.
"Or Die Trying" included a full-page illustration byLeanne Buckley in its publication in theseventy-fifth issue ofStar Wars Insider. The issue was made available to subscribers onMarch 19,2004, followed by a release to newsstands onApril 6. In2003, Williams and Dix had written theForce Heretic trilogy, three volumes ofThe New Jedi Order book series; "Or Die Trying" is set between the trilogy'ssecond andthird installments. The six-page story builds on thecontinuity ofForce Heretic and additionally ties up several loose ends of theStar WarsExpanded Universe, such as the fates ofDash Rendar andGuri from1996'sShadows of the Empire multimedia project. "Or Die Trying" was also published in thefifty-ninth issue ofStar Wars: The Official Magazine, and later went on to be archived online as part ofStarWars.com'sHyperspace fan club. Its characters and events have since been mentioned in several reference guides.(Read more…)
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