379 BBY, or 379[1] Before the Battle of Yavin, was a year in the 'ABY-BBY' dating system that was a part of the High Republic Era. Around that year, the Barabel Petrish Imglor ascended to the rank of Jedi Knight, and the village Peka on the world Batuu became subject to nightly raids by a salmaca creature. One of those raids resulted in the death of the villager Tuntis. Jedi Padawan Rooper Nitani passed her Jedi Trials by helping solve the issue with the salmaca and retrieving the shield of her Jedi Master, Silandra Sho, and ascended to the rank of Jedi Knight.
Around the same year, Marda Ro—the Evereni founder of a group of raiders who would eventually become the Nihil—ran into a Jedi at a marketplace during her quest for other members of her species and assaulted him. Afterward, she fed him to a Force-consuming beast called the Great Leveler aboard her starship, the Gaze Electric.
379 BBY simultaneously appeared in the George Mann short story "Shield of the Jedi" and in a flashback in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton. Both stories were published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.
379 BBY simultaneously appeared in the George Mann short story "Shield of the Jedi" and in a flashback in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton. Both stories were published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.