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Understanding the Blight requires first understanding the Nameless. These violent animals literally eat the Force within a person, turning them into a dead, calcifying husk. Just by being, a Nameless bends and distorts the Force, sending Jedi terrible sights they fight beyond. But the seeming disintegration, or consumption, of the Force seems to be having a cosmic consequence.
Entire planets have started to calcify, turning into crumbling stone and then implacably collapse. This is the Blight. This effect seems to be like a virus, in that everything that comes into touch with some of the Blight gets impacted by it. Tessa Gratton's Temptation of the Force shows that although a Jedi can fight the Blight by feeding it the Force, it is unrelenting and ravenous, so the Jedi can never quit.
Marchion Ro, head of the Nihil, is the main villain of the High Republic; he has already discovered sufficient about the Blight to weaponize it. He has found an ancient relic enabling him to withstand the Blight, and he has utilized that to move bits of impacted matter across the stars. Now he may distribute the Blight to any planet he chooses, and shockingly, Temptation of the Force finishes with him heading to Coruscant itself.
The most deadly superweapon Star Wars has ever produced is now The Blight. Though it is so slow in effect, it is far more terrible than the Death Star since it eradicates whole planets. The Blight is readily distributed only by dusting the air. Seeking to dominate the Force rather than destroy it, this Superweapon is so fierce even Palpatine would have flounced for it. How the Star Wars heroes might possibly stop it is yet unknown.
Beyond the Skywalker story, Star Wars is returning to the past in books and comics as well as on the small-screen. Set almost 200 years before Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, at a period when the Jedi thought the Sith to be extinct, Star Wars: The High Republic is This is not imply the Jedi are uncontested, though; rather, pirates known as the Nihil fight them by weaponizing Force predators called the Nameless against the Jedi. But the Nameless seem to have set off something much worse.
Books, comics, games, audiobooks, and Disney+ TV episodes all incorporate the High Republic Era, which marks the past and shapes the Star Wars galaxy going forward. The High Republic does a fantastic examination of the universe of Star Wars. The books have created a lot of excitement since they offer an original and intriguing perspective of the Jedi and the Force.
A new Superweapon introduced by Star Wars gives the Death Star a subdued appearance. Star Wars has always had superweapon technology; the Sith in particular are fixated on them. "Long ago, in forgotten times, when the Sith and Jedi fought for control over the galaxy, weapons there were, of unimaginable power," Master Yoda noted in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He never thought that a new era of superpowers was about start.
The shows offers an exciting fresh perspective on Star Wars' universe. Especially interesting is the idea of the Blight. The series clearly has produced a fresh challenge to the Jedi and the Republic.
The Blight still begs many riddles. It seems to start on worlds formerly touched by a race of hideous carnivorous plant-beings with a hive consciousness called the Drengir. Though exactly the link between the Blight and the Drengir is unknown, enough is known to enable the Nihil to weaponize it.
The book is destined to be a hit among Star Wars aficionados; it is written well. Given that the book addresses the Blight, it will also most likely spark a lot of curiosity. Future events will pique the curiosity of the enthusiasts.