Star Wars / Star Wars Visions: Ronin
A Visions Novel (Inspired by The Duel)
(Sprache: Englisch)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A mysterious former Sith wanders the galaxy in this stunning Star Wars tale, an original novel inspired by the world of The Duel from the Star Wars Visions animated anthology.
The Jedi are the most loyal servants of the...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A mysterious former Sith wanders the galaxy in this stunning Star Wars tale, an original novel inspired by the world of The Duel from the Star Wars Visions animated anthology.The Jedi are the most loyal servants of the Empire.
Two decades ago, Jedi clans clashed in service to feuding lords. Sickened by this endless cycle, a sect of Jedi rebelled, seeking to control their own destiny and claim power in service of no master. They called themselves Sith.
The Sith rebellion failed, succumbing to infighting and betrayal, and the once rival lords unified to create an Empire . . . but even an Empire at peace is not free from violence.
Far on the edge of the Outer Rim, one former Sith wanders, accompanied only by a faithful droid and the ghost of a less civilized age. He carries a lightsaber, but claims lineage to no Jedi clan, and pledges allegiance to no lord. Little is known about him, including his name, for he never speaks of his past, nor his regrets. His history is as guarded as the red blade of destruction he carries sheathed at his side.
As the galaxy's perpetual cycle of violence continues to interrupt his self-imposed exile, and he is forced to duel an enigmatic bandit claiming the title of Sith, it becomes clear that no amount of wandering will ever let him outpace the specters of his former life.
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CHAPTER ONETwo months after the Ronin arrived on the Outer Rim world of Genbara, he ran out of credits. This concerned him less than it did B5-56, who took every opportunity to scold.
Look at it this way, he told his trundling companion. No need to worry about where we ll sleep.
A man with no coin had no reason to pace his trek in terms of outposts and inns. He could pay for no bed. Thus, he could wander to his heart s content, and the woodland vistas of Genbara did reward the wandering. Vast stretches of pine were interrupted only by patches of farmland, claimed by settlers rebuilding their lives far from the scars war had left on worlds nearer the galaxy s Core.
The Ronin slept that night under a small lean-to that a local woodcutter had told him of the day before, when he passed the old man s hut on his way into the mountains.
The mountains, sir? Are you sure? the woodcutter had said as he sucked his teeth. They sat on the veranda of the man s hut and shared a pot of stale tea. It had been the last in the Ronin s tin, but he offered it freely in exchange for hot water and company. You ll want to follow this road up, past the ridge. It will take you to a village in the valley. If it s still there.
An ominous thing to say. To the Ronin, it suggested he was on the right course. B5 saw the look in his eye. The droid s own eye flashed from red to blue under his thatched hat as he murmured a warning.
The woodcutter, who had no facility with Binary, mistook the dome-headed astromech s sound for nervousness. He grinned. There were four villages up there, little droid, when I first built my humble hut. Then there were three, then two now just the one. Word is they angered a spirit. A spirit that doesn t take kindly to settlers.
Yet he thinks the spirits don t mind him? said a voice in the Ronin s ear.
Mountains are different, the Ronin said.
The woodcutter, who thought he had been spoken to, nodded sagely. B5 swiveled a baleful
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eye to fix on the Ronin in what was likely supposed to be a glare. The Ronin pretended not to notice it, but he did remind himself to be careful. On occasion, when in the company of others, his responses to the voice were dismissed. On other occasions, they were not, and this could go quite badly. If the village in the mountains still stood, he would be among new people soon, and they sounded like a superstitious lot.
The following morning, he stretched the cold out of his limbs as he rose and ate half a ration-stick from his pouch, the last remaining. The chewing was slow going, with the ache; he rubbed at the line of old metal that supported his jaw from ear to ear.
B5 grumbled at him all the while, calling him old and simple besides. Surely, the droid said, his master remembered that he had the means to acquire enough credits to fund his fool journey until it killed him or at least enough to purchase a more up-to-date prosthetic. Yet he hoarded his bounty to the point that some shamefully mundane evil would doubtless get him first. Perhaps the chill, or infection, or worse.
You know I would be more foolish to try to sell one of these, said the Ronin, patting the treasures hidden in the folds of his robes. Where would I say I got it?
Then what do you plan to do with your winnings, other than collect them? the voice asked, rather bitterly at that.
He couldn t give her an answer. Not one she could stand.
Moved by a reflexive guilt, he glanced at the inner lining of the long hooded vest he wore as a cloak. The robe had weighed the same for at least a year now, when he had last added to the collection within. The crystals sewn into the seam glinted as if in greeting, letting off red flicke
The following morning, he stretched the cold out of his limbs as he rose and ate half a ration-stick from his pouch, the last remaining. The chewing was slow going, with the ache; he rubbed at the line of old metal that supported his jaw from ear to ear.
B5 grumbled at him all the while, calling him old and simple besides. Surely, the droid said, his master remembered that he had the means to acquire enough credits to fund his fool journey until it killed him or at least enough to purchase a more up-to-date prosthetic. Yet he hoarded his bounty to the point that some shamefully mundane evil would doubtless get him first. Perhaps the chill, or infection, or worse.
You know I would be more foolish to try to sell one of these, said the Ronin, patting the treasures hidden in the folds of his robes. Where would I say I got it?
Then what do you plan to do with your winnings, other than collect them? the voice asked, rather bitterly at that.
He couldn t give her an answer. Not one she could stand.
Moved by a reflexive guilt, he glanced at the inner lining of the long hooded vest he wore as a cloak. The robe had weighed the same for at least a year now, when he had last added to the collection within. The crystals sewn into the seam glinted as if in greeting, letting off red flicke
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Autoren-Porträt von Emma Mieko Candon
Emma Mieko Candon is a queer author and escaped academic drawn to tales of devouring ghosts, cursed linguistics, and mediocre robots. Her work includes Star Wars Visions: Ronin, a Japanese reimagining of the Star Wars mythos, and The Archive Undying (2023), an original speculative novel about sad giant robots and fraught queer romance. As an actual cyborg whose blood has been taken for science, Emma s grateful to be stationed at home in Hawaii, where they were born and raised as a fourth-generation Japanese settler. By day, they edit anime nonsense for Seven Seas Entertainment, and by night they remain academically haunted by identity, ideology, and imperialism. At all hours of the day, they are beholden to the whims of two lopsided cats and relieved by the support of an enviably handsome wife.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Emma Mieko Candon
- 2021, Internationale Ausgabe, 352 Seiten, Maße: 15,8 x 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Del Rey
- ISBN-10: 0593496973
- ISBN-13: 9780593496978
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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