Chandrilan tea

Chandrilan tea was a type of tea that was consumable by humans and Umbarans. The beverage could be served hot in mugs or cups and was also storable aboard ships. Chandrilan tea shared its name with the Core Worlds planet Chandrila and could be refreshed with heated water.

In 232 BBY, Chandrilan tea was stored in the mess of the Byne Guild transport ship Vessel. The Jedi Wayseeker Orla Jareni prepared herself some of the beverage during her voyage aboard the Vessel from the Core Worlds planet Coruscant to the Galactic Frontier. While traveling aboard the Vessel in 229 BBY, one month after Starlight Beacon's fall the pilot Affie Hollow kept some Chandrilan tea in the ship's mess. While speaking to her co-pilot Leox Gyasi, Hollow reflected that he had likely witnessed her drinking the tea late at night in the Vessels mess, hoping it would soothe her to sleep.

Years later, in 40 BBY, Chandrilan tea was kept aboard the Gozanti-class cruiser Meryx for its pilot, gemstone thief and former Czerka Corporation enslaved worker Rahara Wick. The owner of the Meryx, her colleague Pax Maripher, made some of the tea for his partner while they assisted Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi in locating the Opposition performance troupe during their mission to the Inner Rim planet Pijal. Maripher's displeasure with the pair's presence aboard the cruiser led him to purposefully avoid offering the Jedi any of the beverage. Days later, Wick poured herself a mug of the tea as she and Maripher waited for the pair of Jedi to return. On their next scouting operation with Jinn and Kenobi, Wick was recaptured by Czerka at the company's facility on Pijal's moon. Maripher mourned the loss of her presence aboard the Meryx with what she had left behind, including the Chandrilan tea in the mess store.

In 3 BBY, Imperial Senator Mon Mothma had a cup of steaming Chandrilan tea resting atop her desk while meeting with Alderaanian Princess Leia Organa in her offices on Coruscant. Days later, on the world of Alderaan, Viceroy Bail Organa discussed the aftermath of the arrests of Imperial traitors made on the planet Christophsis with his family while a droid refreshed his Chandrilan tea with hot water.

Chandrilan tea first appeared in Leia, Princess of Alderaan, a 2017 young-adult novel written by Claudia Gray.

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