Silandra Sho's shield

Silandra Sho's shield, also known as Silandra's shield, was a plasma shield used by multiple members of the Jedi Order, including Jedi Master Silandra Sho. The shield was an ancient artifact of unknown origin created during or possibly before the Old Republic-era and was passed between Jedi for hundreds of years. It eventually came into Sho's possession when she received it from her master on the day she passed her Jedi Trials. In 382 BBY, while searching for the missing pathfinder team of Jedi Master Rok Buran on the planet Gloam, Sho used the shield to fend off predatory creatures and fought with it again against monsters in Gloam's mines. The same year, Sho made a pilgrimage to the moon Jedha and activated the shield on several occasions while investigating the bombing of a peace summit between the warring planets Eiram and E'ronoh. After a battle broke out between Eiram and E'ronoh forces, Sho used the shield to protect other individuals and during a duel with disciples of the Brotherhood of the Ninth Door.

Around 379 BBY, Sho hid the shield on the planet Batuu, deliberately allowing it to be taken by a salmaca creature that had been raiding Peka village for several weeks. The next day, she challenged her Padawan, Rooper Nitani, to locate the shield in order to pass her Jedi Trials. Nitani found the shield in the salmaca's cave and used it to protect the salmaca and a group of villagers from each other. Upon Nitani's return, Sho gave the shield to her, honoring the tradition of passing it down.

The shield eventually came into the possession of a dealer on Batuu, before being rescued by the former Jedi Cohmac Vitus shortly after he left the Jedi Order in 230 BBY. Vitus later gave it as a gift to his former Padawan Reath Silas during a mission to the planet Tolis in 228 BBY. On Tolis, Silas used the shield to fight against the Jedi hunting Child of the Storm Sicarus and several Force-consuming Nameless creatures. Silas later used the shield to battle stone guardians and flying droids in a temple on the planet Varovia.

Silas frequently trained with the shield in the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant and researched techniques for fighting with it from holocrons. In the same year, Silas was selected as a member of a Jedi team who would return several Nameless to their homeworld Planet X to stop the plague known as the Blight. Silas attempted to use the shield to stop Nameless from attacking each other after they were compelled by Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro using the Rod of Power artifact. Silas also used the shield while preventing the former Jedi Azlin Rell and the monster hunter Ty Yorrick from fighting. Following the success of the mission, Silas brought the shield with him while searching for Rell.

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