Novel References

The Rising Force

PAGE QUOTATION COMMENTS

1 Chapter 1

3
If Obi-Wan had been using a Jedi Knight's lightsabre, it would have been a killing blow. But apprentices in the Jedi Temple used training sabres set at low power. The touch of the blade only gave a searing kiss, one that the healers might need to tend.

technology: The Jedi possess another type of lightsabre that does not cause serious injury. It would be interesting to know whether it penetrates the flesh (delivering only a small amount of heat) or whether it has poor penetration but heat comparable to the ordinary lightsabre.

3
Bruck Chun. Like Obi-Wan, Bruck was one of the oldest apprentices in the Jedi Temple. Like Obi-Wan, Bruck hoped to be a Jedi Knight.

character: Bruck Chun, another initiate.

5
In four weeks he'd turn thirteen and would have to leave the Temple. .... If he did not become a Padawan within the next four weeks, he'd be too old. He'd been listening for rumours intently, and had found that no Jedi was scheduled to come in search of a Padawan before it was too late. He was afraid that he'd never become a Jedi Knight.

culture: The significance of turning thirteen according to present policies of Jedi training.
chronology: This adventure takes place when Kenobi is almost 13 years old, therefore these events occur about twenty or more years before The Phantom Menace.

8

characters: Bant; Qui-Gon Jinn

11
Obi-Wan had been raised in the Jedi Temple since he was a baby.

A hint about Kenobi's origins; he has been indoctrinated nearly all his life. To whom was he born? Was he delivered to the Jedi at such a young age that the Jedi named him? His hyphenated forename is similar to that of Qui-Gon Jinn. Do both these men have similar origins? Are hyphenated forenames a tradition of the Jedi?

11-12
Obi-Wan smiled. "Bruck, three months from now, when you're thirteen, I hope you'll make a great farmer." It was the worst insult that he could muster, to suggest that Bruck's mastery of the Force was so smallthat he would be fit only for the Agricultural Corps.

chronology: Indicates the age of Bruck in relation to Obi-Wan.
culture: Agricultural Corps appears to be a subdivision of the Jedi whose operatives use their communion with the Force to improve farming rather than in defenders and arbiters of justice. Inside the Worlds of STAR WARS Episode I labels the tower of the Reassignment Council of the Jedi Temple, indicating that the fates of initiates rejected for Padawan training is a major and common concern for the Jedi.

13 Chapter 2

13
Docent Vant .... was a tall blue-skinned woman with an elegant head-tail that twitched nervously.

character: Docent Vant

14
".... your ship, the Monument, leaves tomorrow, with a thousand miners aboard."

starship: Monument, the freighter due to carry Kenobi from Coruscant to Bandomeer.

16
There was nothing else to do but pack his bags. Obi-Wan felt too devastated and ashamed to say good-bye. Not to Garen Muln or Reeft, or even to his best friend, Bant.

characters: Garen Muln; Reeft; Bant - Jedi initiates of Kenobi's approximate age.

17
The young Calamarian girl wore a green robe that set off her salmon-coloured skin. Her clothes smelled moist and salty, for she'd just come from her room, which was always kept as steamy as the air off a warm sea. She was small for her ten years of age, and she watched him steadily with her huge silver eyes.

character: Bant, physical description. The fact that this Jedi initiate is Calamarian is extremely significant, because the mainstream Calamarian civilisation was unaware of the existence of intelligent life beyond their home territory until they encountered Palpatine's Galactic Empire, which is decades in the future of this story. Perhaps the Jedi are aware of the Mon Calamari and are able to visit their planet without detection, abducting and indoctrinating suitably Force-strong fry. As guardians of the galactic peace, the Jedi might be keeping the existence of the Mon Calamari (and other pre-hyperspace primitives) secret from the larger culture of the Galactic Republic, for the purpose of protection.

20 Chapter 3

20
Reeft, a Dresselian with an abnormally wrinkled face, kept saying to everyone at the table, "I don't mean to sound greedy, but..." as he looked pointedly at some puff cake or drink.

character: Reeft, a Dresselian Jedi initiate. Curiously, this is one species that is even less advanced than the Mon Calamari. When did they come into contact with the outside galaxy? Is Reeft also a special case, abducted by aliens?

22
"Always knew he wouldn't make it," Bruck's friend Aalto said loudly.
....
A huge black Barabel fruit plopped on the table near his tray.

character: Aalto
This frui seems to be from Barab, a planet that was discovered and inducted into the Galactic Empire. However the Barabel were known to have had prior secret visits from the Jedi, as demonstrated in Dark Force Rising.

23
In an upper room of the Jedi Temple, Master Yoda argued with the senior members of the Jedi Council. They were meditating in a huge greenhouse, the Room of a Thousand Fountains, where fountains and waterfalls streamed through an emerald forest.

location: Room of a Thousand Fountains, within the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. It will be interesting to see whether this feature can be located on exterior views of the Temple in The Phantom Menace and associate concept drawings.

25 Chapter 4

33 Chapter 5

33
Qui-Gon sat quietly in the star map room. Among all the rooms at the Temple, this was his favourite. A velvety blue ceiling curved above him in a dome. The only light came from the stars and planets that surrounded him, pinpricks against the blue in all the glowing colours of the spectrum. He had only to reach out a hand and touch a planet for a hologram to appear, detailing its physical properties, its surrounding satellites, and its form of government.

location: star map room, within the Jedi Temple.

36
"But why send the boy to Bandomeer?" Qui-Gon asked. "It's a brutal world. If the weather doesn't kill him, the predators will. He'll need all of his skill just to stay alive — never mind the Agri-Corps!"

location: Bandomeer, environmental description.

37 Chapter 6

37
The Monument was an old Corellian barge, pocked and scarred from meteor hits. It was shaped like a crate, and attached to the front of it were a dozen cargo boxes it would push to Bandomeer. It was the ugliest, dirtiest ship that Obi-Wan could have imagined.
if the exterior was ugly, the interior was foul. Its battered corridors smelled of miners' dust and the sweaty bodies of many species. Repair ports were left open, so that wires and pressure hoses — the ship's guts — spilled out as if from an open wound.

starship: Monument physical description.

41 Chapter 7

42

character: Clat'Ha

43
"Offworld is one of the oldest and richest mining companies in the galaxy," Clat'Ha told him. "And they didn't get that way by letting others compete with them. Miners who get in their way tend to die."
"Who's their leader?"
"No one knows who owns Offworld," Clat'Ha said. "Someone who has been around for centuries, probably. And I'm not even sure that we could prove he or she is responsible for the murders. But the leader on the ship going to Bandomeer is a particularly ruthless Hutt by the name of Jemba."

character: Jemba the Hutt, and Offworld Mining described.

44

location: Varristad, an inhospitable world on which Jemba is alleged to have undertaken some murderous exploits.

47 Chapter 8

49,50
An Arconan edged into the room. He was slightly shorter than most, with skin that was more green than gray.
....
"Our name is Si Treemba," the Arconan said....

52-53

character: Jemba the Hutt, physical description.

60 Chapter 9

61
but not all the workers for Arcona Mineral Harvest were Arconan. Some were short, silver-haired Meerians returning to Bandomeer, some Human.

aliens: Meerians are described as humanoids. Contrast this with the "Meerian Hammerhead" in the Mos Eisley cantina in the radio play of A New Hope. It's possible that they're from different planets with coincidentally similar names.

66 Chapter 10

72 Chapter 11

76

character: Grelb, the Hutt who attacked Obi-Wan upon his arrival aboard the Monument.

80 Chapter 12

84 Chapter 13

89
The bridge mutst have taken a direct hit from one of the Togorian ships. But a hit from a heavy blaster or a proton torpedo would have done more than just start a fire. Most likely it had punched a hole in the hull.
It would be dangerous to try to open the door. There might only be a fire, but it could be worse. All of the air could have escaped from the room.

How is it that the room could contain a fire in the absence of air?

100
Obi-Wan flew over a watery world from daylight into darkness, to a night lit by five glowing moons that hung in the sky like multicoloured stones. Beneath him, enormous creatures flew in great flocks. They were silvery in the moonlight, with long bullet-shaped bodies and powerful wings. They looked like some strange species of flying fish whose wings had evolved to remarkable size. They stretched their wings wide, half-asleep as they rode the wind. Some of them looked up at his ship curiously.

location: Obi-Wan's mysterious emergency landing world, and some of its terrifying animal inhabitants.

102 Chapter 14

107 Chapter 15

114 Chapter 16

120 Chapter 17

123
"Yoda once told me that there are trillions of people in the galaxy, and only a few thousand Jedi Knights. ...."

The abundance of Jedi compared to the galactic population, according to the approximations of the child Obi-Wan. Considering the number of inhabited worlds, "quintillions" would be a better description of the galactic population, but perhaps the youth only knows the lesser term "trillions".

124 Chapter 18

134 Chapter 19

146 Chapter 20

152 Chapter 21

157 Chapter 22

161 Chapter 23

164
She went to one of Jemba's chieftains, a Hutt named Aggaba, and said....

character: Aggaba, another Huttese official in Offworld Mining, destined for Bandomeer.

166 Chapter 24

170 Afterword

The Rising Force
PAGE	QUOTATION	COMMENTS
1	Chapter 1
3	If Obi-Wan had been using a Jedi Knight's lightsabre, it would have been a killing blow. But apprentices in the Jedi Temple used training sabres set at low power. The touch of the blade only gave a searing kiss, one that the healers might need to tend.	technology: The Jedi possess another type of lightsabre that does not cause serious injury. It would be interesting to know whether it penetrates the flesh (delivering only a small amount of heat) or whether it has poor penetration but heat comparable to the ordinary lightsabre.
3	Bruck Chun. Like Obi-Wan, Bruck was one of the oldest apprentices in the Jedi Temple. Like Obi-Wan, Bruck hoped to be a Jedi Knight.	character: Bruck Chun, another initiate.
5	In four weeks he'd turn thirteen and would have to leave the Temple. .... If he did not become a Padawan within the next four weeks, he'd be too old. He'd been listening for rumours intently, and had found that no Jedi was scheduled to come in search of a Padawan before it was too late. He was afraid that he'd never become a Jedi Knight.	culture: The significance of turning thirteen according to present policies of Jedi training. chronology: This adventure takes place when Kenobi is almost 13 years old, therefore these events occur about twenty or more years before The Phantom Menace.
8		characters: Bant; Qui-Gon Jinn
11	Obi-Wan had been raised in the Jedi Temple since he was a baby.	A hint about Kenobi's origins; he has been indoctrinated nearly all his life. To whom was he born? Was he delivered to the Jedi at such a young age that the Jedi named him? His hyphenated forename is similar to that of Qui-Gon Jinn. Do both these men have similar origins? Are hyphenated forenames a tradition of the Jedi?
11-12	Obi-Wan smiled. "Bruck, three months from now, when you're thirteen, I hope you'll make a great farmer." It was the worst insult that he could muster, to suggest that Bruck's mastery of the Force was so smallthat he would be fit only for the Agricultural Corps.	chronology: Indicates the age of Bruck in relation to Obi-Wan. culture: Agricultural Corps appears to be a subdivision of the Jedi whose operatives use their communion with the Force to improve farming rather than in defenders and arbiters of justice. Inside the Worlds of STAR WARS Episode I labels the tower of the Reassignment Council of the Jedi Temple, indicating that the fates of initiates rejected for Padawan training is a major and common concern for the Jedi.
13	Chapter 2
13	Docent Vant .... was a tall blue-skinned woman with an elegant head-tail that twitched nervously.	character: Docent Vant
14	".... your ship, the Monument, leaves tomorrow, with a thousand miners aboard."	starship: Monument, the freighter due to carry Kenobi from Coruscant to Bandomeer.
16	There was nothing else to do but pack his bags. Obi-Wan felt too devastated and ashamed to say good-bye. Not to Garen Muln or Reeft, or even to his best friend, Bant.	characters: Garen Muln; Reeft; Bant - Jedi initiates of Kenobi's approximate age.
17	The young Calamarian girl wore a green robe that set off her salmon-coloured skin. Her clothes smelled moist and salty, for she'd just come from her room, which was always kept as steamy as the air off a warm sea. She was small for her ten years of age, and she watched him steadily with her huge silver eyes.	character: Bant, physical description. The fact that this Jedi initiate is Calamarian is extremely significant, because the mainstream Calamarian civilisation was unaware of the existence of intelligent life beyond their home territory until they encountered Palpatine's Galactic Empire, which is decades in the future of this story. Perhaps the Jedi are aware of the Mon Calamari and are able to visit their planet without detection, abducting and indoctrinating suitably Force-strong fry. As guardians of the galactic peace, the Jedi might be keeping the existence of the Mon Calamari (and other pre-hyperspace primitives) secret from the larger culture of the Galactic Republic, for the purpose of protection.
20	Chapter 3
20	Reeft, a Dresselian with an abnormally wrinkled face, kept saying to everyone at the table, "I don't mean to sound greedy, but..." as he looked pointedly at some puff cake or drink.	character: Reeft, a Dresselian Jedi initiate. Curiously, this is one species that is even less advanced than the Mon Calamari. When did they come into contact with the outside galaxy? Is Reeft also a special case, abducted by aliens?
22	"Always knew he wouldn't make it," Bruck's friend Aalto said loudly. .... A huge black Barabel fruit plopped on the table near his tray.	character: Aalto This frui seems to be from Barab, a planet that was discovered and inducted into the Galactic Empire. However the Barabel were known to have had prior secret visits from the Jedi, as demonstrated in Dark Force Rising.
23	In an upper room of the Jedi Temple, Master Yoda argued with the senior members of the Jedi Council. They were meditating in a huge greenhouse, the Room of a Thousand Fountains, where fountains and waterfalls streamed through an emerald forest.	location: Room of a Thousand Fountains, within the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. It will be interesting to see whether this feature can be located on exterior views of the Temple in The Phantom Menace and associate concept drawings.
25	Chapter 4
33	Chapter 5
33	Qui-Gon sat quietly in the star map room. Among all the rooms at the Temple, this was his favourite. A velvety blue ceiling curved above him in a dome. The only light came from the stars and planets that surrounded him, pinpricks against the blue in all the glowing colours of the spectrum. He had only to reach out a hand and touch a planet for a hologram to appear, detailing its physical properties, its surrounding satellites, and its form of government.	location: star map room, within the Jedi Temple.
36	"But why send the boy to Bandomeer?" Qui-Gon asked. "It's a brutal world. If the weather doesn't kill him, the predators will. He'll need all of his skill just to stay alive — never mind the Agri-Corps!"	location: Bandomeer, environmental description.
37	Chapter 6
37	The Monument was an old Corellian barge, pocked and scarred from meteor hits. It was shaped like a crate, and attached to the front of it were a dozen cargo boxes it would push to Bandomeer. It was the ugliest, dirtiest ship that Obi-Wan could have imagined. if the exterior was ugly, the interior was foul. Its battered corridors smelled of miners' dust and the sweaty bodies of many species. Repair ports were left open, so that wires and pressure hoses — the ship's guts — spilled out as if from an open wound.	starship: Monument physical description.
41	Chapter 7
42		character: Clat'Ha
43	"Offworld is one of the oldest and richest mining companies in the galaxy," Clat'Ha told him. "And they didn't get that way by letting others compete with them. Miners who get in their way tend to die." "Who's their leader?" "No one knows who owns Offworld," Clat'Ha said. "Someone who has been around for centuries, probably. And I'm not even sure that we could prove he or she is responsible for the murders. But the leader on the ship going to Bandomeer is a particularly ruthless Hutt by the name of Jemba."	character: Jemba the Hutt, and Offworld Mining described.
44		location: Varristad, an inhospitable world on which Jemba is alleged to have undertaken some murderous exploits.
47	Chapter 8
49,50	An Arconan edged into the room. He was slightly shorter than most, with skin that was more green than gray. .... "Our name is Si Treemba," the Arconan said....
52-53		character: Jemba the Hutt, physical description.
60	Chapter 9
61	but not all the workers for Arcona Mineral Harvest were Arconan. Some were short, silver-haired Meerians returning to Bandomeer, some Human.	aliens: Meerians are described as humanoids. Contrast this with the "Meerian Hammerhead" in the Mos Eisley cantina in the radio play of A New Hope. It's possible that they're from different planets with coincidentally similar names.
66	Chapter 10
72	Chapter 11
76		character: Grelb, the Hutt who attacked Obi-Wan upon his arrival aboard the Monument.
80	Chapter 12
84	Chapter 13
89	The bridge mutst have taken a direct hit from one of the Togorian ships. But a hit from a heavy blaster or a proton torpedo would have done more than just start a fire. Most likely it had punched a hole in the hull. It would be dangerous to try to open the door. There might only be a fire, but it could be worse. All of the air could have escaped from the room.	How is it that the room could contain a fire in the absence of air?
100	Obi-Wan flew over a watery world from daylight into darkness, to a night lit by five glowing moons that hung in the sky like multicoloured stones. Beneath him, enormous creatures flew in great flocks. They were silvery in the moonlight, with long bullet-shaped bodies and powerful wings. They looked like some strange species of flying fish whose wings had evolved to remarkable size. They stretched their wings wide, half-asleep as they rode the wind. Some of them looked up at his ship curiously.	location: Obi-Wan's mysterious emergency landing world, and some of its terrifying animal inhabitants.
102	Chapter 14
107	Chapter 15
114	Chapter 16
120	Chapter 17
123	"Yoda once told me that there are trillions of people in the galaxy, and only a few thousand Jedi Knights. ...."	The abundance of Jedi compared to the galactic population, according to the approximations of the child Obi-Wan. Considering the number of inhabited worlds, "quintillions" would be a better description of the galactic population, but perhaps the youth only knows the lesser term "trillions".
124	Chapter 18
134	Chapter 19
146	Chapter 20
152	Chapter 21
157	Chapter 22
161	Chapter 23
164	She went to one of Jemba's chieftains, a Hutt named Aggaba, and said....	character: Aggaba, another Huttese official in Offworld Mining, destined for Bandomeer.
166	Chapter 24
170	Afterword

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