The Great Deeds of the Star Wars Republic Explained

This week’s episode from Skeleton Crew began to unravel the layers surrounding the mystery of Attin. the world our young heroes come from and (mostly) want to return to.But in doing so, it made some pretty interesting connections to the wider Star Wars sciences…ones that could have very interesting implications for the show’s setting in a galaxy far, far away.

In the third episode of the series, the children and the audience learn from Khim, an avian navigation expert, that Attin is the only surviving world among the group known as the Gems of the Old Republic; at least nine series: worlds placed under the protection of the Republic to keep hidden in one way or another to protect some surprising feature about them, ecological or as “Jod” believes.some great treasure waiting to be looted. All but Attin have been destroyed since the project’s inception, but while trying to figure out the defining characteristics of the world to limit Khim’s quest, Neal notes that no one on the planet is meant to leave the defense. . a barrier of nebular gases that the Athenian government calls “The Big Deal.”

Not the first time he enters Skeleton Crew we’ve heard that phrase. Fern’s mother, Farah, tells Vim and Neal’s class that their aptitude tests are meant to help the kids find their career path as part of that “Great Job” while serving the planet Atty is when someone makes a clear connection between the term and the intention behind the Jewels, and thereby invokes a particularly interesting idea from a long time ago. Star Warschronology, but a little more recent than our own.

What is a “big deal”?

The government’s project became the act of qualifying as one of the “Great Works” of the Republic prominent passage for world building High Republic a publishing venture depicting the Golden Age of the Galactic Republic, from the events of approximately 200 years ago; Star Wars prequel trilogy. There, “Great Works” was a pet project of then-current Supreme Chancellor Lina Soh, and a term intended for particularly large projects undertaken by the Republic to advance its expansionist goals and enhance its status as a de facto power state. in the galaxy.

What kind of “Big Job” might be different: building interstellar communications relays or a “Starlight Beacon” (a giant space station at the edge of Republic space in collaboration with the Jedi Order); Discovery of the effective cultivation of bacta as a medical aid. brokering a peace treaty between the Quaren and the Mon Calamari; and even, perhaps most interestingly in relation to the Jewelers, the environmental restoration of worlds on the brink of climate change. While all of these projects were largely philanthropic, calling them Soh’s “Great Works” caused some ire in the Republic senate and among its allies, the Jedi. their diplomatic intent in So’s self-serving vision of self-importance.

It has real-world parallels befitting an expansionist colonial effort, as the Republic was also to be; was a particularly disastrous “Big Deal”. Sohi Republic Fairkept on the planet Valo and eventually attacked by Nihil’s pirate forces in 231 BBY Originally intended to be a show of unity and a promotional celebration of the Republic as a federal unit and center of technological advancement, it draws parallels to the real-world colonial with exhibitions such as the World’s Fairs or the Festival of the Empire of Great Britain. Imperialist Propaganda as a force of developed civilization.

Are the great works of the High Republic and Attin connected?

It can definitely be argued that the Jewels fit into the “Great Works” we’ve seen High Republic material. But the jury is still out on whether that means Athens’ secrecy was established during that time, or whether the world’s isolation was longer than that.

It is at least very intriguing that while the term’s revival seems like a deliberate nod to the High Republic, the term “High Republic” should still be used in connection with it. Skeleton Crew. So far in the show, people have only ever described Athens as more broadly related to the “old republic”, not specifically the High Republic, and even; thatIt is uncertain. What? is “Old” in this context. At least we know that the population of Athens (if not its government, so far) is unaware of the events of the Galactic Civil War. But is it about 240 years since the Golden Age of the High Republic? Is it older than that? , maybe over a period of time a broader chronology called the Old Republic, both in the expanded universe and in the current continuity.Has Attin been hidden for hundreds of years, or maybe? thousandsPredating the concept of “Great Works” even before Supreme Chancellor Soh.

We’re not sure yet, of course Skeleton Crew will begin to narrow it down for us as we get closer and closer to finding out what Attin is protecting from the rest of the galaxy.

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