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Fictional Women Around the World: Mara Jade (Part 1) · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: stephan never told you a protection of iHeartRadio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another sub sub sub segment of fictional women around
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  Speaker 1: the world. We are moving into Star Wars territory, and
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  Speaker 1: I just want to start this one by saying I
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  Speaker 1: had a plan. I already knew the three because I
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  Speaker 1: usually do two in May because of Star Wars stuff. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I already had a plan for who I was going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about and Samantha. As you might have noticed
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  Speaker 1: at the top of this outline, this one says May. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it does. Well, that's because I originally intended to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it in May. Oh, but we're talking about it now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a two parter. Oh lot, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: That part probably longer than some of our actual episode.
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  Speaker 1: It is really long, and I cannot stress enough. I
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  Speaker 1: know you won't believe me. This was me reining myself
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  Speaker 1: in I even talk about like the throng objective What Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely got an email saying so it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a two parter FYI.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what, okay, I love it and it's
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  Speaker 2: nine pages long also, so I moved it to April because.
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  Speaker 1: I am very excited to talk about this character because
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  Speaker 1: I also feel like this is one of the few
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  Speaker 1: times where I'm going to get the jump on Disney.
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  Speaker 1: But also I wanted to talk about Bocushan Creeze and
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  Speaker 1: the Mandalorian. Season three is ongoing and she's very important
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  Speaker 1: too that season, So I think I'm still going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about her, but I wanted to wait until season
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  Speaker 1: three is done. I might not. I might change it though,
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  Speaker 1: but that is why we are talking about mar Jaide
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  Speaker 1: and sta Oh. I cannot stress enough how excited I
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  Speaker 1: am to talk about her. Oh my gosh, yes, yes, this,
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  Speaker 1: I know I've mentioned it, but one of my very
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  Speaker 1: favorite moments that happened in the quote Legends are EU Universe,
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  Speaker 1: which is what happened what was canon before Disney took over,
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  Speaker 1: is mar Jade and her her whole mess with Luke,
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  Speaker 1: which I will talk about and Luke the Clone that
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  Speaker 1: is Luke with two us that is what his name was.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. We are going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. There have been rumors of casting of
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  Speaker 1: this character. So far, she has not explicitly been in
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  Speaker 1: anything anything recent since Disney took over after the recently
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  Speaker 1: released Ahsoka trailer. People got to speculating there was like
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  Speaker 1: some hints based on like it was literally writing an
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  Speaker 1: Arab besh, which is like the language in Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: that people were like Emperor's hand, it's marjade. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so, but we'll talk about you know the language. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm what kind of phantom. I know. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot believe you. I don't believe you. No, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a tragedy. But they do do that a lot in
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  Speaker 1: the like the Mandalorian, like in the season in first season,
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  Speaker 1: you can see some Arabash that reads like Luke Skywalker
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  Speaker 1: blew up the dud Star. But I only know that
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  Speaker 1: because of other fans who do know Orbash show I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to assume very confidently, and who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe one day you'll you will bring this episode back
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  Speaker 1: to me and laugh in my face Samantha that everything
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about is not going to Buchanan.
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  Speaker 1: Not think any of this is going to be canon
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  Speaker 1: other than like maybe her backstory, but who knows. They
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  Speaker 1: are trying some interesting things. I would be shocked. I
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  Speaker 1: would personally be shocked. I have read some things that
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  Speaker 1: she is already canon in Disney, but they weren't the
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  Speaker 1: most reliable. I couldn't like, I couldn't find a single instance.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently there was some mention of her in and Door
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  Speaker 1: as well, and I was like, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm sorry yourself, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And I do apologize to you, Samantha, because
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  Speaker 1: this is just going to be me rambling and rambling.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. These are my favorites. Yeah, and we're recording
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  Speaker 1: them back to back. So yeah, all right, standard disclaimer
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  Speaker 1: about the EU Legends universe versus Disney. Uh, it's confusing.
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  Speaker 1: It's especially confusing now because they're bringing in characters like Thron,
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  Speaker 1: who was a huge pivotal character in the Legends universe,
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  Speaker 1: which is like what happened before Disney. As I said,
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  Speaker 1: but it was huge in like the nineties, like books
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  Speaker 1: and gangs and comics and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're like me and you read that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you grew up reading that stuff, and you know what
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  Speaker 1: Thron did in that And now they're bringing Thrown into
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  Speaker 1: this but he's not the same canon, but he's doing
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  Speaker 1: the same things. It gets confusing. Okay, Also, I am
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  Speaker 1: condensing a lot. I know you won't believe it. I am,
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  Speaker 1: I swear I am. It is the truth. I had
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  Speaker 1: to skim over entire storylines I wanted to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to focus. I'm mostly like relating to feminism,
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  Speaker 1: kind of kind of we're speaking of. I have not
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  Speaker 1: read these books and forever. I did read a lot
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  Speaker 1: of books with mar Jade and them, but I do
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  Speaker 1: remember nineties sexism and some of them, especially like there
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  Speaker 1: was a whole storyline with Leah. We talked about it
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  Speaker 1: in Leya's episode in the nineties books where she was like,
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  Speaker 1: there's this species of creature that can emit pheromones and
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  Speaker 1: like attract you. Oh, there was a whole storyline with
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  Speaker 1: that Lea And Okay, so A, what I'm saying is,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure it stands up, but I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: But I will say I thought mar Jade was bad.
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  Speaker 1: She's kind of like, if you're more familiar with Marvel,
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  Speaker 1: she's kind of their version of Black Widow Down two,
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  Speaker 1: the red Hair. She had green eyes, but like the
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  Speaker 1: assassin spy type character. That was her. One of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons I've been wanting to talk about her is I
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  Speaker 1: have noticed a resurgence of her in fan fiction, and
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this in our zine episode. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's because people are publishing their zines from like the nineties,
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  Speaker 1: the fan fiction that they published in those scenes to
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction, but also some people and that I find
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  Speaker 1: this so incredibly fascinating. I have just discovered mar Jade
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  Speaker 1: because they've been watching the shows and sought out the
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  Speaker 1: books and now they're like, who's this and they're writing
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  Speaker 1: about her. But she's popping up a lot and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of fan fiction right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and also talk about religious drama. Eh, poor oh mar JdE.
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  Speaker 1: So in this one we're going to talk mostly about
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  Speaker 1: her early history, and the next one we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: what happened to her later, and look tune in. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care. This character is very fascinating. It is funny.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm telling you, if you're unfamiliar with this story,
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  Speaker 1: your mouth might drop us some parts. Anyway, it is
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  Speaker 1: not what you would expect, I think if you've only
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  Speaker 1: seen the Disney version of Star Wars stuff lately. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: So just to set the scene, we are talking about
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  Speaker 1: mainly the original trilogy of Star Wars movies and after
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  Speaker 1: Before Disney, mar Jade was a human for sensitive woman
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  Speaker 1: that had quite a journey from Emperor's hand smuggler to
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  Speaker 1: Jedi master and member of the newly built Jedi Council.
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  Speaker 1: She was first introduced in nineteen ninety one's Heir to
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  Speaker 1: the Empire by Timothy Zann and oh, I loved that book.
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  Speaker 1: I still have its right over there. I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard also, by the way, that thron is sort
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  Speaker 1: of based on Timothy's on who wrote like it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of him that he wrote. But anyway, mar Jade has
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  Speaker 1: been called the most influential and important character never featured
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  Speaker 1: on screen in the Star Wars universe. She was in
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  Speaker 1: over ninety EU our legend's works. She consistently has made
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  Speaker 1: her way on list a favorite Star Wars character despite
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  Speaker 1: never being in a movie or show, and she has
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  Speaker 1: appeared in comics and games, and was one of the
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  Speaker 1: first EU characters to get a toy. This surprised me
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  Speaker 1: because I thought people would hate her, actually, and I
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  Speaker 1: am going to talk about that in part two. I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like a lot of Star Wars fandom isn't
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  Speaker 1: super welcoming to a strong woman character, at least not
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  Speaker 1: where she would be on these lists as someone who's
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  Speaker 1: not even in like the movies or any of the shows.
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  Speaker 1: But here we are. Her name was chosen because it
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  Speaker 1: means bitter and Hebrew, that's what I read, and Jade,
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  Speaker 1: according to one of Zion's dictionaries, meant discarded woman. So
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  Speaker 1: bitter discarded woman. Okay, yeah, Well she had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of reason to be bitter because as a child she
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  Speaker 1: was kidnapped and raised and trained to serve the Emperor
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  Speaker 1: as his assassin. He kind of treated her in a
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  Speaker 1: very unhealthy and abusive way as his adopted daughter. He
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  Speaker 1: hid her training under the guys that she was an
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  Speaker 1: imperial palace dancer or one of his concubines. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: she was a powerful and deadly force operative. She was very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very competent from a young age. She was conditioned to
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  Speaker 1: obey the Emperor's orders, like conditioned assassinating rebels, corrupt imperial operatives,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much anyone that somehow caught the Emperor's attention in
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  Speaker 1: a bad way. She was trained by the Imperial Guard,
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  Speaker 1: So if you have only seen the original trilogy, the
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  Speaker 1: Imperial Guard are those like guys in red in return
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  Speaker 1: the Jedi that are hanging out around the emperor. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and she was very, very very deadly. She was very
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  Speaker 1: very professional by fourteen and was named the Emperor's hand,
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  Speaker 1: one of his prize assassins. Although he totally lied to her,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to be talking about it. He lied
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  Speaker 1: and said she was the only one. There were multiple
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  Speaker 1: Emperor's hands, but she believed she was the only one,
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  Speaker 1: and she earned this position by breaking into Tarkan's private quarters.
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  Speaker 1: Though notably, she refrained from killing anyone in what she
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  Speaker 1: viewed as a training exercise, and there are a couple
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  Speaker 1: of instances of her sparing people she believed to be innocent,
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  Speaker 1: even going so far as to help them. Also, notably, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Emperor lied about that, her being the only one.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big part of her story. He lied to
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  Speaker 1: all of them, all of the Emperor's hands. He told them,
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  Speaker 1: you're the only one. Though I think I think some
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  Speaker 1: of them knew. I think some of them knew, but
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  Speaker 1: he lied about it. He did give her quote special
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  Speaker 1: treatment because he was so impressed with her work. Like
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  Speaker 1: he gave her private quarters, he gave her vacation she
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  Speaker 1: was terrible at taking them, but it gave them to
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  Speaker 1: her a violet colored lightsaber. And her relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: Vader was contentious. Oh, it was contentious. The Emperor jazzed
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  Speaker 1: her was spying on Vader and giving him regular reports.
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  Speaker 1: So this is when he was like, I know Vader's
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill me. I need you to keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye on this. But mar Jade grew jealous a vader
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  Speaker 1: of his power who's placed in the empire, his place
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  Speaker 1: with the Emperor, and she could sense he was divided
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  Speaker 1: and that it had to do with a young Jedi
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  Speaker 1: named Luke Skywalker. And she was completely baffled by this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, and it got her hoping that Vader would
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  Speaker 1: in fact tray the Emperor so she could kill him
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  Speaker 1: and take his place. All of this was happening while
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  Speaker 1: she was working with Vader, like that whole espionage saying
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  Speaker 1: a layers upon layers, Oh my gosh, Like they work together,
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  Speaker 1: but they both know they're kind of betraying each other.
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  Speaker 1: Thing a lot of classic disguises and gadgets. Literal art
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  Speaker 1: heist like stealing of paintings happened. Yes, going to the
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  Speaker 1: opera house, you know, of course do they wear like
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  Speaker 1: the sexy clothes. Of course goes into the Star War
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  Speaker 1: as well. All every gallaxy she had aliases. She has
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  Speaker 1: like ten different names, and all of them are funny.
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  Speaker 1: They're like the names are like really no one thought
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  Speaker 1: something like oh, I'm gonna steal your stuff was a
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  Speaker 1: fake name. Not quite on the noses that, but pretty
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  Speaker 1: the nose. There's lots of run ins with the Millennium Falcon,
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  Speaker 1: lots of interrogations and escapes, including a rescue operation for
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  Speaker 1: the family of one of her potential victims, who she
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  Speaker 1: had decided was innocent and being manipulated by those holding
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  Speaker 1: his famley hostage that involved her working together with Luke Skywalker.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh hmm. She didn't know it was him at
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  Speaker 1: the time. She didn't know. Not too long before the
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  Speaker 1: pivotal Battle of Endoor, the Emperor summoned mar j just
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  Speaker 1: as Vader was introducing a new hand, a new Emperor's hand.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh So. While maraa Jade still believed she was
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  Speaker 1: the only one, there was an immediate distrust in hostility
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  Speaker 1: between the two that lasted a long time. After the
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  Speaker 1: Battle of Hawth, mar Jade was made aware of the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor's worries and concerns about Luke Skywalker, and she was
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  Speaker 1: assigned with infiltrating Java's palace since intelligence was pointing to
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  Speaker 1: the fact he was working on a plan to save
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  Speaker 1: his friend Han Solo, who was in carbonite hanging in
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  Speaker 1: that palace. Of course, yes, her disguise was a dancing
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: girl named Arika. She is in the Star Wars radio
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  Speaker 1: drama which I cannot recommend enough. I really can't. She
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  Speaker 1: is in it. Some people like to try to point
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  Speaker 1: out and Return of the Jedi, which is coming back
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  Speaker 1: to theaters by the way, because it's the fortieth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: that she's in there. She's not, but people like to
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  Speaker 1: be like that's her. No. She interrogated c Threepo about
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  Speaker 1: Luke but didn't get much out of him. Surprise, surprise,
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  Speaker 1: some of Jaba's security suspected her, but she turned the
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  Speaker 1: tables on them using the force. When a Luke was
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to be executed, she tried to sway Jaba to
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  Speaker 1: let her come watch. She wanted to see it, but
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  Speaker 1: Jaba refused, instead telling her that she should leave and
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  Speaker 1: never come back because he had since her trying to
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  Speaker 1: use a Jedi mind trick on him, and he was
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  Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, no no. Maara Jaide returns
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  Speaker 1: to a very unhappy and skipping ahead. Years later, Luke
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  Speaker 1: has a vision that if she had not been turned away,
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  Speaker 1: she would have captured him on Tattooin. So as the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor died, mar Jaide got the last command of the Emperor,
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  Speaker 1: you will kill Luke Skywalker. It was like this creepy,
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  Speaker 1: brainwashy voice in her head that was like booming commanding her.
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  Speaker 1: And she did have this like telepathic force link with
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  Speaker 1: the Emperor, so she could hear him no matter where
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  Speaker 1: she was, which is rare, like it's kind of hard
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  Speaker 1: to do. And the pain of it, the pain of
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  Speaker 1: this last command of him dying, knocked her unconscious. And
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  Speaker 1: because oh, she hated Luke Skywalker and her hatred did
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  Speaker 1: come from this telepathic command, but she didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: and vowed to kill him. She was like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: is your last command. Got it. The death of the Emperor,
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  Speaker 1: who had essentially controlled every aspect of her life for
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  Speaker 1: most of her life, sent her into a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a spiral. She was captured by those looking to fill
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  Speaker 1: the void left by the Emperor, she escaped. She went
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  Speaker 1: on the run. She took a bunch of odd jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Her force grew unpredictable, like she couldn't control it anymore,
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  Speaker 1: But still she could still hear the Emperor's last command.
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  Speaker 1: She joined up with smuggler Talon cart. I've always pronounced
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  Speaker 1: it karade, but now I'm like, oh, it's probably definitely
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  Speaker 1: card because his ship is called wild Card. Anyway, one
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  Speaker 1: way to figure it out? Oh, well, that's me with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pronunciations. So she rises up the riggs
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  Speaker 1: to become the second in command in his organization. She
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  Speaker 1: becomes as hugely successful smuggler. When grand anmirle Thorn started
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  Speaker 1: making moves to store the Galactic Empire, he was like
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  Speaker 1: your next big villain. After the Emperor, she was forced
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  Speaker 1: to work with I guess who, Luke Skywalker, revealing herself
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  Speaker 1: to be quite competent with the blaster. She's very good
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  Speaker 1: at hand to hand compact. She's a good mechanic, she's
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  Speaker 1: a good pilot, and Luke, in his lukeway, earned her respect.
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  Speaker 1: She kind of hated it. It was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: he's good, he's good in a fight. I guess. Still,
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  Speaker 1: she did avoid him, seeing him only every now and then.
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  Speaker 1: She took over the Smugglers Alliance. Some of this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of out of order, but a lot is happening
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  Speaker 1: in these things, and I did condense it, I swear
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  Speaker 1: to God. Through spending time together and working together through
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  Speaker 1: things like the Karelian Crisis, she and Luke grew closer
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and closer and eventually admitted they were in love with
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  Speaker 1: each other and wanted to spend their lives together. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: they got the huge trope, huge trope. They got married,
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  Speaker 1: and we aren't going to dive into their wedding in
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  Speaker 1: the next one. Oh my gosh. All right, mar j
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  Speaker 1: took Luke's last day. She became Mars Skywalker sometimes is
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  Speaker 1: mar Jae Skywalker, but generally Mars Skywalker, and after a
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  Speaker 1: very severe, nearly fatal belt with a disease, they had
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  Speaker 1: a kid together named Ben. Well, but we're gonna we
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: gotta break all this down. I really just gave you
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  Speaker 1: a huge spoiler alert, so I was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: they need to know why I'm talking so much about
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  Speaker 1: her run ins with Luke. All right, So, while working
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  Speaker 1: with card, mar J's force abilities did re establish and
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  Speaker 1: led her to locating Luke Skywalker in a damaged X wing.
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  Speaker 1: Luke had huge bodies on his head, so they captured him,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: hoping to start a bidding war. They secured him on
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  Speaker 1: this planet containing Yesala MARII you saw a mari. This
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  Speaker 1: is something else I've never heard aloud. But they're like
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  Speaker 1: these worm things that nullify the force. They're like furry
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  Speaker 1: creatures and people carry them on their backs to fight
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  Speaker 1: Jedi like because then they create this noll forest field,
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  Speaker 1: so they had some of those. Mar j just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kill Luke, but Card wanted the money from the
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  Speaker 1: alive only bounties, so this allowed Halup to escape, but
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in the ensuing chase, they were both crashed. They both
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: crashed him and Marjade, and they had to work together
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  Speaker 1: to survive and avoid Thron. This didn't prevent her from
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: telling Luke she fully intended to kill him. He was
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  Speaker 1: like whatever. With the help of Han and Lando, Luke escapes.
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  Speaker 1: Realizing that Thron would never stop pursuing her, mar and
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  Speaker 1: Jade turned herself over to him to reclaim her role
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  Speaker 1: as Emperor's hand because yeah, Thron was pretty much the
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  Speaker 1: new Emperor. In exchange for amnesty for Card and his crew,
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  Speaker 1: Thron tricked her though, putting a tracker ownership and capturing Card.
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  Speaker 1: Determined to free him, mar Jade ventured out to find
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  Speaker 1: a diel Samari whatever you pronounce it, to find Luke,
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  Speaker 1: who was now training under jorce Kebouth, who attacked her ship.
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  Speaker 1: She escaped, but then R two attacked her ship, but
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  Speaker 1: she convinced him that Kabboth was working with the Empire
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  Speaker 1: and that Luke had a debt to Card, and Luke
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  Speaker 1: eventually agreed. The pair rescued Card. Later, Luke saved her.
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  Speaker 1: She returned to sle and her family. It's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of like saving each other in equal turns. She learned
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  Speaker 1: of Thron's cloning efforts and the Emperor's cloning facility. She
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  Speaker 1: was forced to work with Luke once again, and he
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  Speaker 1: became convinced that the Emperor was influencing and controlling her
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  Speaker 1: even through death. And with his help, mar realized that
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  Speaker 1: she was being used as a tool of vengeance against
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  Speaker 1: Darth Vader for betraying the Emperor. Luke sore he'd help
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  Speaker 1: her remove the command, this final command, even though she
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  Speaker 1: was like being impelled to kill him when he was near,
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  Speaker 1: he was like, nah, it's all right, we'll figure it out.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: They both had visions of confronting Kabbalth, and Mara tried
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  Speaker 1: to get Luke to promise he'd kill her before letting
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  Speaker 1: the quote mad Jedi take over her mind. Instead, Luke
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  Speaker 1: promised that whatever happened, she wouldn't be alone. They confronted Kabbath,
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  Speaker 1: who forced Luke to fight a cone of himself Luke
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  Speaker 1: to use, wielding his father's life saver. Leah and Han
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  Speaker 1: tried to help, but they couldn't quite get the upper
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  Speaker 1: hand on Kabath and Luke until Mara took Lea's lightsaber
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  Speaker 1: and joined the fray. Because she had at this point
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  Speaker 1: lost her own, Luke was able to injure the clone
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  Speaker 1: and provide her backup force reserves, allowing her to kill
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  Speaker 1: the Clone. Luke, as the Emperor's last command boomed over
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  Speaker 1: and over again in her head, fulfilling it, she killed
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  Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker. Kebbath was pissed and attacked the two, but
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  Speaker 1: mar Jade fulfilled another force vision she had had of
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  Speaker 1: kneeling before him to dodge his attacks, allowing her to
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  Speaker 1: stab him with the lightsaber. Luke saved her from injury
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  Speaker 1: via the dark Force exploding from kebath as he died,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave her his father's light saber to replace
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  Speaker 1: the one she'd lost. Wow, and this is like her injury.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: This is how she re learned about her So that's
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  Speaker 1: a crash course, but we do have a part two, however.
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  Speaker 1: This is the end of part one for now, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the end of poor poor Luke, who I seen fan
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: fiction write him in like a positive manner of like
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he just needed somebody to guide him. Someone needs to
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  Speaker 1: set you him obviously. Yeah, the clones don't always have
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  Speaker 1: to be bad. What's the point of fair fiction? I
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  Speaker 1: part one, but you've got to tune in for part
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  Speaker 1: two because we're going to talk about wedding. I've got
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• 24:27
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