Unidentified local group

Unidentified local group
General information
Location(s)	Hosnian Prime
Historical information
Date dissolved	By 235 BBY

"I was kidnapped by a local group who wanted my mother to agitate for stronger trade controls in the Senate."
"You were kidnapped? That's terrible."
"Yeah, it wasn't great. My uncles found me and killed the people who had taken me, but my mother was upset when she found out."

―Avon Starros and Honesty Weft

A group was local to the Core Worlds planet Hosnian Prime during the High Republic Era. By 235 BBY, the group wanted Hosnian Prime's Republic junior senator—Ghirra Starros—to agitate for stronger trade controls in the Galactic Senate. To ensure she did, the group kidnapped Ghirra's daughter Avon when she snuck out of the family's home. During Avon's time as captive, she was forced to speak into a holorecorder so the group could demand a ransom. Eventually, Avon's uncles rescued her and killed her kidnappers.

In 232 BBY, when she spoke with the Dalnan boy Honesty Weft on the Outer Rim moon Wevo, Avon told him about the group that had abducted her. Two years later, after she had been kidnapped by the Nihil pirates, Avon was left with other abducted children. She then mentally compared the situation of being made to speak into the holorecorder by the local group to being dumped with other children like she had by the Nihil.

Behind the scenes

The local group was first mentioned in the 2021 junior novel The High Republic: A Test of Courage, written by Justina Ireland and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I.

Appearances

• The High Republic: A Test of Courage (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
• The High Republic: Mission to Disaster (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only)