Waning Shadow: The Dashade's Tale

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Waning Shadow: The Dashade's Tale
Author: Astrid Meadows
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"Waning Shadow: The Dashade's Tale" is a short story written by Astrid Meadows. It is currently scheduled to be released as part of the We Celebrate: Tales on Life Day collection in winter 2026.

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Ket Maliss, Xizor's personal assassin and the last of the Dashade, is stuck on Tatooine due to the Imperial occupation. Following a night of drinking at Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina, Maliss and his drinking buddies Arleil Schous, Bom Vimdin, and Caldera Righim are arrested for violating the recently-instated system-wide curfew and public intoxication.[1] For their crimes, they are sentenced to community service in the form of producing and filming a public service announcement advising the Imperial HoloNet of the dangers of piloting while intoxicated.[1]

During the production shoot, Maliss regales Vimdin, Schous, and Righim with the story of how he came to be on Tatooine. Xizor, having taken charge of his father's affairs in the aftermath of the Darth Vader's extermination of the Falleen royal family, tasked Maliss with exterminating the last son of the House of Xianfeng, Zhalo III, who was last seen in the Tatoo system.[1] Maliss stops first in Mos Eisley and then in Anchorhead to gather information as to Zhalo's whereabouts. Midway through his recollection, Maliss is interrupted by Supervisor Broyles, the Imperial bureaucrat in charge of the film—and the man who delivered his sentence.[1] With Vimdin, Righim, and Schous already having slunk off to sleep, Maliss finds himself alone with Broyles, and tells him the end of his tale.[1] Broyles, having sent Desert Sands to investigate the site of a disturbance near Anchorhead around the same time as Maliss' events, dismisses the story as the plot of a good holofilm.[1]

The next morning, Broyles and his crew film the PSA. With filming done, he commutes the beings' sentences and sends them on their way. As they leave the set, Vimdin asks Maliss how his story actually ended, knowing that he had cut the tale short. Maliss reveals that he destroyed both Zhalo's body and homestead with a series of thermal detonators, returning them to the sands as if they had never existed.[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Waning Shadow: The Dashade's Tale"


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