Echani (martial art)

"He doesn't teach you the Echani arts at his school."

―Bazine Netal, to Orri Tenro Echani was a type of martial art. As part of the standard training of every stormtrooper and Imperial officer in the Galactic Empire, it was taught alongside Zavat and the Imperial Combat Exercises. Admiral Rae Sloane's personal assistant, Adea Rite, tried to apply her training in the arts against the planet Akiva to subdue the escaped prisoner Wedge Antilles; however, Antilles accidentally shot her with a blaster during the brawl, defeating her. The energetic fighting style of former Nightsister and Imperial Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth blended the Echani firefist style with Dathomiri mistdance and Coruscanti Hijkata. The Elite Praetorian Guards serving the First Order were trained in Echani unarmed forms as well as other martial arts. The art bore the same name as the Echani species.

Behind the scenes

Echani first appeared in the first issue of the Star Wars Legends comic book series Star Wars: Crimson Empire, written by Mike Richardson and Randy Stradleyand was published on December 10, 1997.The novel Aftermath, written by Chuck Wendig and released in 2015, canonized it.

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