Moff Gideon

**Moff Gideon**, or just **Gideon**, is the main villain of the Disney+ series *The Mandalorian*. Gideon was a soldier in the Galactic Empire, who rose through the ranks to Marshal: By 9 ABY, he claimed the title of Moff and formed his own faction of the Imperial remnants, consisting of mercenaries and former Stormtroopers.

In Season 2, he finally succeeds in his goal of capturing Grogu aka The Child. However, in the season finale, he was defeated in combat aboard his light cruiser by Din Djarin, who had come to rescue Grogu. Djarin managed to take the Darksaber from Gideon during the fight and capture the Moff, taking him to the bridge of the cruiser, where Djarin's allies were waiting.

It is unknown whether Gideon was officially taken into New Republic custody or not after the episode's events, but it can be assumed that this is what happened after.

## History

### *The Mandalorian*

By circa 9 ABY, Gideon had attained the rank of moff and led a remnant of Imperial forces, having faked his execution for war crimes after the fall of the Empire. He wished to acquire a valuable asset from Arvala-7, tasking "the Client" and Doctor Pershing with bringing it alive by any means necessary. This asset was a Force-sensitive infant, Grogu, and Gideon used the remains of the Imperial Army in an attempt to acquire it.

Upon contacting the Client on Nevarro, he informed Gideon that they had Grogu in their custody. Gideon, however, told him to recheck Grogu's pram. Soon after, Gideon's squad of death troopers opened fire on the Client and the stormtroopers accompanying him in the cantina. Moments later, a K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport arrived, deploying stormtroopers to supplement the death troopers and secure the area outside the cantina. Shortly after, Gideon landed his Outland TIE fighter, behind the mass of troopers. As he climbed out from his ship and approached the broken cantina window, he confronted the mercenaries inside, the Mandalorian Din Djarin, Greef Karga, and ex-rebel Cara Dune. He told them that they did not understand Grogu at all and described how much he needed it. As he said this, two of Gideon's scout troopers intercepted and killed the Ugnaught Kuiil, who was taking Grogu back to Djarin's ship, the *Razor Crest*.

While the two scout troopers were retrieving Grogu, Gideon killed an officer for interrupting him. The scout troopers attempted to bring Grogu to him, but were stopped by the droid IG-11. Gideon's set up an E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon. Upon hearing Djarin and his crew desperately trying to escape through the vents, Gideon began to speak to the group. Gideon introduced his E-Web turret and described how it had mowed down many of Dune's ranks as well as many Mandalorian recruits at the Night of a Thousand Tears during the Siege of Mandalore. Gideon revealed both their full names in the process — Carasynthia Dune and Din Djarin. Lastly, he called out Karga as a disgraced magistrate and telling him to lay down his weapon and to come outside.

Gideon finished off by saying that the E-Web would soon destroy the cantina. After hearing this, Karga called out to Gideon to ask the moff what he was proposing. Gideon answered by offering reasonable negotiation. Karga further asked what assurance he offered, who told Karga that they couldn't trust him. Gideon continued by remarking how Karga broke their earlier arrangement and stated how he would gladly break any promise he made to them, and would happily watch the former magistrate die, and that all that Gideon could offer was that he would act in his self-interest. After he had finished, Gideon left his troopers to watch over the cantina. He turned around to tell Djarin and his crew that they had until nightfall to cooperate. Otherwise, he would order the E-Web to open fire.

After Gideon walked off, IG-11 began a rescue effort, giving Djarin, Karga, and Dune a chance to escape. A battle ensued, and amongst all of the chaos, Gideon watched the battle around him. He eyed Djarin while the Mandalorian utilized the E-Web. Before long, Gideon raised his blaster and shot Djarin in the back of the head. Before Mandalorian could fire back, Gideon took his time to adjust his aim and fire at the E-Web's power pack. It exploded, sending Djarin flying backward. His injuries forced him and the others to fall back into the cantina. Dune dragged Djarin into the cantina while Karga and IG-11 retreated inside. Frustrated with the lack of progress, Gideon ordered an incinerator trooper to burn them out. The trooper set the building alight but was overpowered and killed when Grogu used the Force to push back the flames.

As Djarin and his team escaped through the sewer vents, Gideon sent in more stormtroopers to stop them. When their efforts had failed, Gideon dispatched another platoon to wait at the end of a lava river. Upon anticipating his troops' failure, Gideon hopped into his TIE fighter to deal with Djarin himself. After IG-11 detonated, killing off the entire platoon, Gideon swooped in and began to fire at the Mandalorian and his team. He swerved his TIE back around and met Djarin. The Mandalorian flew up into the air on his new jetpack and grappled onto the back of his TIE fighter. Gideon tried his best to shake him off but was unsuccessful. After climbing on top of the TIE fighter, Djarin tried to shoot him from the roof of the cockpit, but was protected by the blast-proof glass, allowing him to continue shaking off the Mandalorian.

Gideon spun his TIE fighter and darted in multiple directions to lose Djarin, but the latter managed to plant detonators on the TIE. By the time Gideon discovered them, the left-wing blew off, and a fire started inside of the cockpit. After he crashed, the Mandalorian and the rest of his crew assumed he was dead. Djarin parted ways with his comrades and flew off-world with Grogu. Sometime later, a group of Jawas attempted to salvage the wreckage of Gideon's TIE fighter. Gideon, alive and still sitting in the rubble, carved his way out of the TIE using the Darksaber. The Jawa scavengers had been scared off before Gideon stepped out and climbed on top of the TIE fighter, scanning his surroundings.

On the estuary moon of Trask, Bo-Katan Kryze arranged a heist for weapons on a ship leaving Trask. Kryze worked with Djarin to infiltrate the ship and was also helped by two other Mandalorians, Axe Woves and Koska Reeves. As they were successful for taking the ship, a captain contacted Gideon in need of reinforcements, but Gideon simply said they took to much of the ship and that they knew what to do. The officer then turned off the hologram and killed both pilots and pushed the ship straight into the waters of Trask. He was unsuccessful however, and was stopped by Djarin and was then interrogated by Kryze for the Darksaber, but the officer followed Gideon's orders and commit suicide by setting off an electric suicide pill in his mouth.

Around the same time, Gideon had received a hologram message from Dr. Pershing, who was apologizing to him for failing an experiment involving Grogu and Strand-Casts. He also reported that he had exhausted their supply of Grogu's blood samples, and that he required more genetic material from the donor in order to continue his work.

Three days later, Djarin went back to Nevarro in need of repairs and was recruited by Karga, Dune, and a Mythrol to join them on their own mission first to destroy an Imperial base. As the four of them went on this mission, a Mimbanese worker started working on Djarin's ship, who Djarin unknowingly was installing a tracking device on his ship. Djarin and the others viewed the hologram of Pershing and realized that the Imperials were performing experiments. Gideon was later contacted and was told that the *Razor Crest* had the device installed. Gideon smiled to himself and continued to supervise the work of his scientists on his dark troopers.

Gideon's forces tracked Djarin's ship to Tython. From high atmosphere, two Imperial transports carrying stormtroopers launched from Gideon's light cruiser, to combat Djarin and his allies, Boba Fett and Fennec Shand. After the stormtroopers defeat, Gideon's cruiser fired on Djarin's ship, the *Razor Crest*, and destroyed it. Afterwards, four dark troopers were launched from the cruiser and landed near the seeing stone where Grogu had been meditating. There, one of the dark troopers seized Grogu and flew upwards back to the cruiser with the other three dark troopers while Fett pursued them from his ship. Upon seeing the cruiser, Fett remarked in disbelief that the Empire was back. Once the trooper droids returned to the cruiser with the captured child, Gideon's cruiser jumped to hyperspace. While still in hyperspace, Gideon briefly talked to the child in his prison cell, walking in on the child attacking two stormtroopers. Gideon showed Grogu the Darksaber before having his stormtroopers stun him and place him in shackles to prevent him from using his powers on them. Gideon then ordered his comms officer to send an encrypted message to Doctor Pershing informing him that they had their donor for his experiments once they exited hyperspace.

Sometime later, the comms officer informed Gideon that they had received a transmission from Djarin. Repeating what Gideon said during the skirmish at Nevarro city, Djarin said, "Moff Gideon. You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you are in possession of, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know." Gideon watched grimly.

Eventually, Din Djarin and his crew infiltrated Gideon's cruiser during their daring rescue attempt of Grogu, and they split, Bo-Katan searching for Gideon, and Djarin searching for the child. Gideon was prepared, and tried to trick the Mandalorian to lower his guard with promises of returning the Child, claiming to no longer need him, having already taken his blood. He attempted to strike at Djarin from behind, and proceeded to battle the Mandalorian, who fought back with his Beskar spear. Gideon was defeated, and Djarin brought him to Bo-Katan, and tried to return the Darksaber to her. Gideon laughed, knowing that she could not take the saber without winning it through combat.

Then the dark troopers, which Djarin had ejected into space, returned via their rocket boosters. Confident that everyone besides himself will be killed by the dark troopers, he did not anticipate the arrival of Luke Skywalker. After watching the Jedi destroy the dark troopers, Gideon tried to eliminate the Child, and then kill himself. He failed to do both and was knocked unconscious.

It's unknown what happened with Gideon afterwards, but it's implied that Cara will take him to the New Republic so he will pay for his crimes.

## Personality

A clever and formidable member of the Galactic Empire, Gideon valued knowledge and power. In particular, he was fiercely determined to capture a specific quarry, an infant member of Yoda's species known as Grogu. He believed that the infant meant more to his plans than Din Djarin, a Mandalorian bounty hunter and caretaker of the infant, and his allies would ever know.

He was imposing and ruthless, willing to kill fellow Imperials to achieve his goals, as shown by his non-hesitation in killing over a dozen stormtroopers when he first arrived on Nevarro and even killing an officer only for interrupting him. He was also an adept tactician and skilled at both psychological warfare and personal combat. He was willing to reveal information that would have infuriated his enemies just to taunt and destabilize them.

Gideon was a human male. He had dark eyes, skin, and black hair that was graying by the time of the New Republic Era.

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