1980s

This is a timeline of events that occurred during the **1980s**.

#### 18th

* Echo Base is established inside a mountain on Hoth by the Rebel Alliance. The base is expanded after scouting and surveying work was done on several locations within Hoth's temperate zone.

#### 20th

* An Imperial Star Destroyer, dispatched by the Sith Lord Darth Vader, continuing his quest for Luke Skywalker, launches thousands of probe droids across the galaxy, one of which lands on Hoth and begins its survey of the planet. Luke Skywalker, on patrol astride his tauntaun, discovers the probe, which he mistakes for a meteorite. After reporting to comrade Han Solo that he'll investigate the site, Luke is knocked unconscious by a deadly wampa.
* When Luke fails to report in at Echo Base, Han Solo goes out on his tauntaun to search for him in an encroaching storm. Upon waking up, Luke finds himself hanging upside down in a cave; his eyes opening to the sight of a wampa eating his tauntaun. Using the power of the Force, Luke is able to pull his lightsaber out of the snow and towards himself. After he ignites it, he cuts himself free and cuts off the attacking wampa's arm just in time, running out of the cave and escaping into the cold night of Hoth.
* Luke tries to make his way to Echo Base on foot, but he finds himself lost in the blizzard and collapses in the snow. Suddenly, he sees the Force spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi appear before him. Kenobi's spirit ghost instructs Luke to go to Dagobah to undergo training under Yoda, a Jedi Grand Master. After the spirit ghost disappears, Han arrives to find an almost unconscious Luke, who is mumbling indistinctly about Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Dagobah. At this point, the tauntaun that Han was riding on collapses in the extreme cold. To keep Luke from freezing to death during the blizzard, Han uses Luke's lightsaber to cut open the dead tauntaun and places Luke in it. Han then sets about erecting a shelter that he and Luke will stay in during the night. They are forced to stay out during the night as the aircraft (snowspeeders) that the Rebels use for atmospheric flight had not yet been adapted for the extremely low temperatures of the Hoth night and are therefore unable to mount a rescue operation to retrieve Han and Luke.

#### 21st

* Rebel Pilots flying the snowspeeders set out from Echo Base to search for the missing men. Zev Senesca, one of the pilots in Rogue Group, makes contact with Han over comlink and the pair are rescued. When they are taken back to base, Luke is put in a bacta tank for healing under the care of medical droid, 2-1B.
* Princess Leia Organa tries to urge Han to stay with the rebels, and when Han assumes it is because she has feelings for him, Leia loses her temper and calls him a "stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder."
* Meanwhile, the probe droid has spotted signs that indicate Hoth is occupied and sends a signal to the Imperial fleet, shortly before being shot at by Han Solo and Chewbacca and triggering its self-destruct mechanism.
* Several wampas inflitrate the rebel base. R2-D2 is chased down a hallway by one while the Rebels blast it. One of the Rebels calls in the report saying, "We got it, sir, but there may be more". Alarms are buzzing and Leia inquires if the creature has been examined yet. The general tells her they are working on it and then they are alerted to a "visitor"—the Imperial probot. Since it is revealed to be metallic, Leia remarks, "Then it couldn't be one of those creatures"—referring to the wampas.
* Aboard the Executor, Admiral Kendal Ozzel dismisses the information as evidence of smugglers, nothing more. However, Darth Vader knows better and orders the fleet to Hoth. Han warns General Rieekan that the Empire is probably aware of their location, and Rieekan orders the evacuation of Echo Base to begin.
* Darth Vader and the Imperial forces set course for the Hoth system to set up the attack. The rebels load whatever equipment they can onto transports and plan a rear-guard action to secure their escape. Luke, now fully recovered from the Wampa attack and subsequent exposure, says farewell to Chewbacca and Solo, who have decided to leave the Alliance to resolve their debt to Jabba the Hutt. As the Imperial forces enter the Hoth system, General Rieekan orders full power to the energy shield that is protecting the base from orbital bombardment.
* Aboard the Executor, General Maximilian Veers notifies Vader that Admiral Ozzel has emerged from lightspeed too close to Hoth. Ozzel intended to catch the Rebels unaware before they could set up their defenses. However, Vader realizes that the Rebels have been alerted to the fleet's arrival. Via video communication, Vader Force chokes Ozzel to death for his incompetence, then appoints Captain Firmus Piett the new Admiral on the spot.
* **Battle of Hoth**:
	+ As Vader previously ordered, the Imperial ground forces, commanded by General Veers, land outside the Rebels' shield and march overland to destroy the power generator.
	+ Princess Leia gives the Rebel fighters instructions on the evacuation to leave Hoth two to three ships at a time past the energy shield to a rendezvous point, which is beyond the outer rim. Rieekan lowers the shields to fire the Ion cannon at one of the Imperial Star Destroyers allowing the first transports to escape. The Rebel pilots assigned to hold off the Imperial ground assault depart the Hoth base for the oncoming battle against heavily equipped Imperial forces, who are armed with agile AT-STs (All Terrain Scout Transports) and monstrous AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) walkers, led by General Veers.
	+ The Rogue Squadron snowspeeder group led by Luke commences the attack. Luke quickly realizes the AT-AT's armor is far too strong for blasters and decides to use attached harpoons and tow cables to tangle the walker's legs. Luke's gunner Dak Ralter is hit and killed during the first approach. This leaves Wedge Antilles and his gunner Wes Janson to make the first pass. They manage to topple one of the AT-ATs, which is destroyed as Rebel troops storm it. The main AT-AT, commanded by General Veers, prepares to take their aim at the Rebel base's main power generator. Suddenly, Luke's speeder is shot down by the Imperials, and crash-lands in the snow. Luke escapes before an AT-AT can step on and crush his ship.
	+ The Rebel base is now under direct attack and Imperial snowtroopers have entered the base, forcing Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO to escape. Leia gives the evacuation command for the base as they leave.
	+ Han, Leia, and C-3PO are scurrying to get Leia to her transport. On the way out, they pass a door with a familiar yellow sign with red lettering. Han gives the door a quick look and almost stops but continues on past it after recognizing the warning. He then proceeds to catch up with Han and Leia as they make their way to the Millennium Falcon.
	+ Luke, meanwhile, manages to destroy another AT-AT by using his hoist cable and lightsaber to get into the belly of the transport, tossing in a thermal detonator, and then detaching himself from the cable as a series of explosions neutralize the AT-AT. The Rebels suffer major casualties as the result of the battle. The main AT-AT, being driven by General Veers, gets within firing range of the power generator, then successfully blasts and destroys it.
	+ Han, Leia, and company, now realizing they are being followed by Vader, who has arrived personally on Hoth, make their way to the Millennium Falcon in time to escape. As the Falcon flies off, Luke reaches R2-D2 and his X-wing starfighter and finally departs Hoth. Changing course from the rendezvous point, he sets his coordinates for Dagobah.
* After the snowtroopers burst into the base, they come across the door, left with only a small piece of the original warning sign. They open the door, only to be attacked by the already annoyed wampas inside.
* Han and company are pursued by Imperial TIE fighters. Flipping the switch to take them to lightspeed, Han realizes (with reluctant help from 3PO) that the hyperdrive has been damaged. While trying to fix the hyperdrive system, Han enters an asteroid field to hamper pursuit. He manages to land his ship inside a cavern on one of the larger asteroids to rest and find a way to fix the ship.
* Luke lands on the marshy planet Dagobah, swamping his X-wing in the process, and R2 is nearly eaten by a Dragonsnake, which later spits him out, finding him inedible. There, he discovers a diminutive and eccentric figure who fiddles around with Luke's gear. After Luke tells him that he is looking for a Jedi Master, the being offers to take Luke to Yoda.
* Back on the Falcon, while Leia tries to make repairs, Han makes his move on the Princess, drawing himself closer to her before both end up in a passionate kiss. When Threepio arrives, Leia withdraws and walks away.
* Vader orders the entirety of Death Squadron to begin sweeping the asteroid field to find the Millennium Falcon As the search continues, the dangers of the field begin to take their toll: an asteroid smashes into the bridge tower of a Star Destroyer, presumably killing all aboard. On the Executor, Vader communicates with the captains of the other ships. One officer, Captain Lorth Needa, tells Vader that they should consider their damage. Vader firmly replies that they will continue the search. Shortly afterward, Admiral Piett informs Vader that Emperor Sheev Palpatine commands he make contact immediately. Vader orders his ship out of the asteroid field for a clear transmission.
* In his private quarters, Vader receives a holographic message from Palpatine, alias Darth Sidious, who alerts the Dark Lord to a "new enemy who could destroy" the Empire - Luke Skywalker. Vader suggests that if Luke could be turned, he would be a "powerful ally". Lord Sidious agrees, saying that Luke would be a "great asset" and asks his apprentice if it could be done. Vader declares Luke will join the Empire "or die".
* Instead of going straight to Yoda, Luke is brought to the creature's hut. Luke insists on going to find Yoda immediately, but the small creature only responds with "Not far. Yoda not far." The diminutive figure then declares the boy lacks patience, but the voice of Kenobi tells the figure that the boy will learn patience if he is to be trained. Only then does Luke realize that the small green figure is Yoda. Yoda asks Kenobi if he will finish whatever training he begins, then suspects that Luke will someday succumb to fear.

#### 22nd

* While cleaning parasitic creatures called Mynocks off the Falcon, Solo and his companions are forced to escape what turns out to be a titanic space slug which resided in the asteroid the Falcon landed on. Meanwhile, Luke begins a rigorous training regime from Yoda which includes moral lessons about the dangers of the dark side of the Force. That particular lesson is driven home when he is told to enter a cave that is strong with the Dark Side's power. Ignoring Yoda's counsel to leave his weapons, Luke enters the cavern armed. Once inside, he has a vision of himself angrily confronting Darth Vader and beheading him. However, the severed head's mask bursts apart and reveals Luke's face with a scared look underneath; it is a warning that if Luke battles Vader with no emotional control, he will become Vader himself, seduced by the Dark Side.
* On the Star Destroyer, Vader enlists the bounty hunters, Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88, Bossk, 4-LOM, and Zuckuss to find the Millennium Falcon for a "substantial reward". One of the Imperial commanders finally spots the Falcon, leading to another pursuit which results in the Falcon eluding the Empire by making the insanely counter intuitive move of attacking the lead Star Destroyer. However, at the last moment, the ship veers off and secretly attaches itself to the rear of the cruiser's command tower, which is not extensively covered by sensors, making it appear to have vanished from the Destroyer's point of view.
* While training, Luke becomes distracted when he finds that his X-wing fighter has almost completely submerged into the swamp. Luke declares he will never be able to get the ship out, seeing that it is too big for him to extract from the water. Yoda says it is "no different, only different in your mind." Luke says he'll "try" to lift the ship, but Yoda says "No, try not! Do or do not, there is no try." Luke tries to use the Force, but to no avail. Yoda reminds him that "size matters not" and gives him wisdom about the Force. Luke denies all of this, then Yoda decides to use the Force to lift the ship out himself. Luke is dumbfounded and incredulous. Yoda senses the youngster's failures within his mind.
* When the fleet disperses to search for the Falcon, the Rebels wait for the ship to do its standard dump of refuse before jumping, then detach to float away with it. The Falcon's hyperdrive needs repairs, so Han decides to make their way to Cloud City, a gas-mining colony run by his "old friend" Lando Calrissian. Unfortunately, the bounty hunter Boba Fett had deduced the Falcon's escape method and had his ship jettisoned with the waste to stealthily follow the fugitives.

#### 23rd

* Yoda reminds Luke of the things the young Jedi will see in his mind, the future, the past, and of friends he recognizes. Luke loses concentration again and has a vision of his friends in danger. He wants to leave Dagobah to rescue them, but Yoda reminds him that if he leaves now, everything his friends fought and suffered for will be destroyed.
* Upon arrival at Cloud City, Han's party is welcomed by an old friend of his who goes by the name Lando Calrissian. However, there are numerous elements that make the Rebels suspicious, not the least of which being C-3PO being found deactivated, dismembered, and almost recycled.
* That evening, Luke and R2-D2 prepare themselves to leave Dagobah, but are warned by both Yoda and the spirit form of Kenobi not to end training so soon for a fight Luke is not ready for. Ben declares that should Luke decide to face Vader, he will have to face him alone without interference. Luke understands this, promises to return and complete his training, and his ship takes off from Dagobah. Yoda is disappointed, declaring Luke is reckless. Ben tells Yoda "That boy is our last hope", however, Yoda answers back, "No... there is another..."

#### 24th

* Han and company find themselves betrayed by Calrissian who was approached by the Empire just before the Rebels' arrival and threatened him and the city unless he cooperated. They became the captives of Darth Vader, who proceeds to torture Han and Leia to create a disturbance in the Force for Luke to detect.
* Meanwhile, Chewbacca makes an attempt to rebuild C-3PO only to accidentally put the latter's head on backwards. After being tortured, the rebels are informed by Lando that Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO would be confined to Cloud City and Han would be given to Boba Fett. Leia believes Vader wants them all dead, but Lando tells her and the rebels otherwise and that he is after someone called "Skywalker." The rebels immediately realize that Vader wants Luke and has set a trap for him, using them as bait. After Lando announces that Luke is on his way, Han attacks his "friend," only to be restrained by Calrissian's security detail.
* That afternoon, Vader enters a carbon-freezing chamber intending to freeze Luke Skywalker once he arrives. The Dark Lord uses the opportunity for Boba Fett to deliver Solo to Jabba the Hutt (to whom Han owed a debt) by testing the device on Solo himself. Han and company enter the chamber for the experiment. At first, Chewbacca resists the stormtroopers, but Han restrains him, saving his strength for another time. Han says goodbye to Leia with a passionate kiss before he is escalated into the carbon freezing chamber. When he is successfully entombed in carbonite in a state of suspended animation, Vader hands over Han to bounty hunter Boba Fett for transportation to Tatooine to receive a bounty from Jabba. One of the Imperial commanders informs Vader that Luke's starfighter has arrived on Bespin. The Dark Lord orders Lando to take Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO to his Star Destroyer, reneging on a deal he made with Calrissian. However, the Cloud City administrator has other plans.
* Luke makes his way to Bespin safely. He quietly walks down the corridors of Cloud City. He spots Boba Fett who is taking the now-frozen Solo back to his ship. He attempts to follow but is thwarted when the bounty hunter notices and opens fire. Luke narrowly escapes and runs down farther into the corridor. He finally meets up with Leia, Chewie, and Lando, who have been captured by stormtroopers. Luke tries to ambush the group of Imperials, but is unsuccessful. Leia yells at him and tells him that "it's a trap!" Luke runs after his captured friends, hoping to save them, but wanders into the carbon-freezing chamber. There, he meets with Vader and the two fight in an epic lightsaber duel, where Luke's undeveloped Jedi skills are no match for Vader's experience.
* The Imperials escorting the Rebel prisoners out of Bespin are overpowered by Cloud City security, setting Lando and company free. Chewbacca turns against Lando for betraying Han and chokes him, but he manages to tell the Wookiee there's still a chance to rescue Han at the East Platform. C-3PO is reunited with his companion R2-D2. Lando and company arrive too late as Fett's ship takes off, then engage in a fierce battle with stormtroopers.
* Luke and Vader continue the duel in the darkened rooms of the Cloud City. Luke didn't follow Han's sad fate when he fell into the freezing mine, but he manages to jump out of it with the help of the Force a moment before Vader activates the freezing system. The fight continues. Vader uses the Dark Side of the Force, hurling everything that comes to hand at Luke: equipment, construction elements and furniture. One of the items breaks the window, creating a vacuum. Luke is quickly pulled out and the fight moves to the emergency platform.
* As the gunfight continues, Lando orders an evacuation of Cloud City before the arrival of the main forces of the Empire, then the rebel company manages to find their last hope of escape, the Millennium Falcon.
* On the emergency platform of the Cloud City, Luke and Vader continue the duel. Vader knocks Luke off his feet and invites him to surrender so that he won't let himself be killed, like Obi-Wan. However, the young man is not yet defeated and continues to fight. During the duel over the abyss, Luke beats Vader with his saber in his right shoulder, slightly damaging his dark armor. Vader is furious and cuts Luke's right hand holding a lightsaber, the hand and the saber fall into the abyss. Then he reveals to Luke the fatal truth about his father.
* Luke does not want to believe what he heard, and accuses Vader of lying, but he advises the young man to listen to his own heart, and thus understand that this is pure truth. Shocked and frightened by the cruel truth, Luke falls into despair, still not wanting to believe what he heard. Vader invites the young man to reunite with him in order to destroy the Emperor together and rule the galaxy as a father and son. However, Luke chooses suicide over being corrupted and throws himself down a deep shaft.
* Luke is sucked into an air vent, exits the underbelly of the city and catches an antenna beneath Cloud City. Facing clear death, Luke calls out to Ben Kenobi in vain. Then, he calls out to the only other one who could help, Leia. Leia mysteriously senses Luke's telepathic distress signal. The Falcon turns around and comes back to Cloud City. Using an escape hatch, Lando manages to catch Luke and rescue him before the wounded Jedi falls helplessly to the planet as TIE Fighters race toward them. The Falcon finally leaves Bespin's gravitational field and is about to escape into hyperspace when the hyperdrive system again fails. Vader asks for confirmation that the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive system was deactivated to prevent their escape, then orders weapons be set to stun.
* As the Imperials pursue the Falcon, the injured Luke telepathically hears the voice of Vader calling to him. He answers, "Father...", while Vader telepathically calls, "Son, come with me". Luke senses it is Vader, then cries, "Ben, why didn't you tell me?"
* C-3PO commands that R2-D2 finish reconstructing him after his ordeal in Cloud City. However, with quick ingenuity, R2 manages to re-activate the Falcon's hyperdrive system just in time for the ship to flee to hyperspace. Vader is disappointed and retreats to his secret quarters in his Star Destroyer, ignoring Piett's failure.
* Luke's lightsaber is discovered on Bespin and eventually ends up in Maz Kanata's castle.

#### 25th

* On a EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate at the Rebel fleet's rendezvous point, Luke is under the care of 2-1B again which includes the implantation of a prosthetic hand. Lando and Chewbacca begin their parts of a most dangerous mission to rescue Han. Lando promises to Leia they'll bring her back the man she loves. Luke, Leia, and the droids look on as the Falcon departs for unknown territories.

## 1981

### April

#### 16th

* **Great Purge of Mandalore**:
	+ Realizing they would never be able to control Mandalore and wanting to make sure no other faction could, the Empire instead sets out to punish the Mandalorians, wipe out their memory, and deter unrest on other worlds. Joined by the Imperial Army, the Imperial Navy launches an assault, with the aim of destroying the entire Mandalorian people as a warning to the whole galaxy.
	+ TIE/sa bombers lay waste to settlements on Mandalore by dropping fusion bombs that destroy cities, including the capital of Sundari and its Civic Center, in what became known as the Night of a Thousand Tears.
	+ During the Night, Gunships equipped with repeating blasters wipe out fields of Mandalorian recruits and those who had survived the TIE Bombers. Imperial ground troops kill any survivors they find, with KX-series security droids and Viper probe droids picking over the wreckage to kill any stragglers. The Empire bombs every surface twice over, intercept any ships they see leaving, and take no prisoners. During the Purge, the Mines of Mandalore were said to be destroyed. In reality, the mines remain intact, but the bombings trigger seismic activities, causing the Living Waters in the Mines to become deeper. The fires of the Great Forge are extinguished after the bombings.
	+ Most of Clan Wren is wiped out during the purge, including Sabine Wren's family.
	+ Bo-Katan Kryze and her people attempt to fight the Imperial effort, living around the Great Forge on the planet, but Kryze would lose most of her forces in the Night of a Thousand Tears. Following the Night, Moff Gideon, who participated in the Purge, meets with Kryze after the Imperial Security Bureau reaches out to her to negotiate a ceasefire. Gideon tells Kryze that all Mandalorian lives, as well as all cities that remained at the time, would be spared if she agreed to submit to the Empire and disarm. Aware of the shame such an act would bring, but believing the survival of her people came first, Kryze gives up the Darksaber to Gideon as an act of surrender. However, Gideon would betray Kryze, continuing the purge while taking the Darksaber for his own.
	+ Some Mandalorians, including Kryze, survive the Purge and flee Mandalore, though they scatter across the galaxy. Some Mandalorian survivors stay on the planet, and never leave during the Purge. They survive by migrating along the surface in a Langskib until the war ends, remaining loyal to Bo-Katan.
* The mass-bombing and fusion rays glass the surface, turning the sand to trinitite, and disrupt the magnetic field around the planet, making it impossible to scan the surface from above atmosphere.
* As spoils of their victory, the Empire gathers Mandalorian beskar and casts the metal into Imperial ingots.

#### 17th

* Descendants of Death Watch known as the Children of the Watch survive the Purge by being cloistered on Concordia.

### May

#### 25th

* Darth Vader lands in the docking bay of the incomplete second Death Star, which the Empire designed to be more powerful than the first. He is greeted by Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod, but demands construction be put back on schedule in order to complete the Death Star on time. Jerjerrod argues that they need more men, but quickly agrees to double their efforts when he learns that the Emperor is coming.
* Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and company have arrived on Tatooine in an attempt to rescue their friend Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt's desert palace.
* First, the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO arrive with a holographic message from Skywalker asking Jabba to release Solo. In exchange, the two droids are presented as gifts to the crime lord; Luke promises that both are hardworking and that they will serve him well, which Jabba agrees to silently. However, when the message finishes, he states that there will be no bargain and that he won't give up his "favorite decoration". The two droids are then sent to their quarters, where EV-9D9 harshly barks at the two when they explain what they can do. 3PO is ordered to be Jabba's interpreter, while R2 is tasked with working on the Khetanna.
* That evening, the Max Rebo Band, led by Sy Snootles, entertains the Hutt's guests. Jabba, engaged by the graceful gyrations of his collared slave girl Oola, starts tugging on her chain and commanding her to come to him on his throne. Oola fearfully resists him, and in annoyance, Jabba pushes a button on his throne, and Oola is dropped through a hidden trapdoor at the foot of his throne, into the hole of the rancor monster, which immediately devours her.
* Later, Princess Leia Organa, in the guise of bounty hunter Boushh, arrives with Chewbacca as her "prisoner" to collect part of the bounty Jabba sought years earlier when he put a price on Solo's head. After much bargaining, including Leia threatening Jabba with a thermal detonator, Jabba settles on a deal, and has Chewbacca imprisoned.
* That night, Leia releases Han Solo from his carbonite coffin, and after revealing her identity to him, she kisses him. As they prepare to escape, they are caught by Jabba and his thugs. Ignoring Han's pleas, Jabba has the captain thrown in prison with Chewbacca. Although Lando Calrissian, disguised as one of Jabba's prison guards, tries to sneak off with Leia, Jabba stops them and orders a Gamorrean guard to bring Leia to him. Leia warns the Hutt that he will regret capturing the Rebels, but Jabba ignores the threat and licks her face. Leia is forced to become Jabba's newest slave girl, being made to wear a dancing costume and chained to the throne as a trophy.

#### 26th

* Luke arrives at the palace. Jabba and most of his court are asleep, but are awoken by Bib Fortuna, who, in trying to impede the Jedi's entrance, is Force-tricked into welcoming him. Leia remains silent beside the Hutt, despite her rising hope at seeing Luke. Luke demands that Jabba release Han and his other friends, but Jabba refuses the young Jedi's offer. Luke uses the Force to pull a nearby blaster and attempts to shoot Jabba, but the Hutt activates the trapdoor to protect himself, dropping the Jedi and an unfortunate guard into the rancor pit.
* After a battle with the rancor, which devours the fallen guard, Luke ultimately kills the monster by crushing it under the gate of its compound, piercing its neck with the spikes at the bottom of the gate. He is then captured and brought up by Jabba's thugs. Jabba, furious, chokes Leia until she falls back on his stomach, and orders the prisoners to be brought before him. Luke, Han, and Chewbacca are brought before Jabba, exchanging relief at each other's safety as Leia struggles with Jabba to sit upright before him.
* Using C-3PO as a translator, Jabba sentences Luke and his friends to be taken to the Dune Sea for termination over a course of a thousand years by the man-eating sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon. Leia is spared from execution since she is Jabba's favorite slave. As Jabba orders the prisoners to be taken away, Luke warns him that he's made his last mistake, at which the Hutt laughs in amusement.
* Jabba, accompanied by Leia and several of his thugs, travels to the Pit of Carkoon via his sail barge, while the prisoners are taken on a smaller skiff. En route, R2-D2 is tasked with serving drinks to Jabba's guests, and the Max Rebo band plays music in the background. Jabba allows Leia to climb off his throne and watch her friends from a window. After a while, he gives a tug on her chain, playfully commanding her to come to him. Leia glares back at him and returns to watching, and Jabba chuckles. He later pulls her chain again, this time forcing her to run to him on his throne. Jabba then informs Leia that she will soon learn to appreciate him and makes her drink from his goblet.
* Outside, Luke and his companions with Lando, still in disguise, discuss their situation. Han, still half-blinded from the side-effects of carbonization, is sure that they are all going to die, and Luke tries to reassure him of their ultimate safety, but Han is not easily convinced. Elsewhere in the sail barge, C-3PO literally runs into R2-D2 and knocks over the shorter droid's drink tray. C-3PO laments their friends' imminent deaths, but R2-D2 shows a kind of confidence, which C-3PO doesn't see any reason for.
* When the vehicles ultimately reach the pit, Jabba has C-3PO announce the group's deaths, but that he is willing to now listen to their pleas. Han calls Jabba names and tells him that he'll not get any pleasure from their pleading, much to the Hutt's amusement, and Luke offers a final chance for Jabba to free him and his friends or die. Jabba and his guests laugh off this last threat and order the execution to commence. Luke gets ushered off of a plank and into the sarlacc, only to Force-flip up through the air and onto the skiff. Meanwhile, R2-D2 launches Luke's new built lightsaber from a hidden panel in his housing, and Luke catches it and begins to kill his captors. As Jabba furiously orders his thugs to intervene, C-3PO gets knocked over. Leia looks around, ready to use her false submission to the Hutt to her advantage.
* Boba Fett uses his jetpack to fly off of the barge and land on the skiff as Luke is in the act of freeing Han and Chewbacca. Luke uses his lightsaber to cut Fett's blaster in half, and Chewbacca pushes the bounty hunter onto the deck. Luke then jumps onto another of the accompanying skiffs to fight off the guards and thugs there.
* While fighting a guard, Lando accidentally falls off the side of the skiff, and although he manages to hold onto a wire, one of the sarlacc's tentacles begins to pull him to his death, and Han and Chewbacca have to carefully rescue him. Han accidentally activates Fett's backpack when he turns around and smashes the butt of an axe against it. Fett subsequently flies out of control from the skiff, crashing against the hull of the barge before falling into the sarlacc's open mouth, making it belch.
* Aboard the sail barge, Leia smashes the controls for the sail barge's interior lights, throwing it into darkness, and proceeds to strangle Jabba with her chain, killing him. Leia jumps off of the throne and has R2-D2 help break her chain, then heads for the stairs to the top surface of the sail barge. Meanwhile, Salacious B. Crumb attacks the fallen C-3PO, and R2-D2 uses the same device he'd freed Leia with to chase the lizard-monkey away. Reaching the surface, the droids jump off the edge of the sail barge and land in the Tatooinian sand.
* Luke and Leia defeat the remaining guards on the Sail Barge, then Luke has Leia point the guns toward the heart of the vehicle. They prepare to swing from a loose cable on the Barge's sails, and Luke discharges the guns, beginning to destroy the barge. They swing to their rescue on the land skiff with Han, Lando, and Chewbacca, then use magnets to pick up the two droids from the sand. They all drive off just as the sail barge explodes.
* Later, all of the crew, except for Luke and R2-D2 depart Tatooine for the rendezvous point near Sullust where the Rebel Alliance is assembling, while Luke and R2-D2 head for Dagobah to fulfill a promise to Yoda made some time earlier.
* Boba Fett struggles within the digestive system of the sarlacc. Turning on an inbuilt sensor inside his helmet, he sees the remains of a stormtrooper. Fett retrieves an oxygen unit from the stormtrooper's armor before punching a hole through the sarlacc's gut. He then fires a flamethrower. Fett then climbs out of the sarlacc onto the sands of the Great Pit of Carkoon, which is littered with the wreckage of Jabba's sail barge Khetanna. A weakened Fett climbs out the pit and lies on the desert ground.
* On the second Death Star, Emperor Palpatine arrives and praises Darth Vader on his efforts in the construction of the Death Star. He also senses that Vader craves the continuation of his search for his son, Luke. The old Sith Lord assures his apprentice that Luke will seek Vader out, that only together would the Sith be able to turn Luke to the dark side of the Force, and that everything was proceeding as Palpatine has foreseen.
* Later that night, Fett is discovered by a party of Jawas, who strip the armor from his body and take his jetpack. Fett awakes but one of the Jawas knocks him unconscious with a blaster. The Jawas return to their sandcrawler.
* Luke and R2-D2 arrive on Dagobah to find a terminally ill Yoda. Luke has returned to complete his Jedi training, but Yoda declares no further training is required. All that remains for Luke is to confront Vader. Yoda then reveals that Vader is indeed his father. The 900-year-old Jedi Master gives one last mention of wisdom to the young Jedi before he dies, disappearing in the way Ben Kenobi did years earlier, thereby becoming one with the Force.
* As Luke approaches his X-wing, the ghost form of Obi-Wan confirms that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, a former Jedi Knight who turned to the dark side of the Force. Kenobi also reveals that Luke has a twin sister, hidden from Luke at birth as protection from the Emperor. Luke senses that his sister is Leia. Kenobi warns Luke to bury his feelings, for they could in time "serve the Emperor."

#### 27th

* At the rendezvous point near Sullust, the Rebel Alliance gathers to reveal plans to attack the Death Star. As part of the plans, Luke, Leia, Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and a strike team must penetrate the deflector shield generator on the forest moon of Endor in order to deactivate the shield if the Rebel fleet is to attack the Death Star. However, Vader knows this because he could sense that his son was with them and allows them to land on the planet. Luke senses his father as well and begins to believe that he would endanger the mission by coming.
* A group of Tusken Raiders stumble upon the unconscious Boba Fett. One of them turns him over with his gaderffii stick. Seeing the burnt and weakened Fett, they bind his hands with a rope. One of the Tuskens gives him a drink from a gourd. The Tuskens ride back to their clan with Fett bound behind a bantha. Fett is forced to walk through desert heat and sand and eventually collapses from exhaustion. They drag him through the sands to their encampment where Fett is bound to a wooden post and guarded by Tusken sentries. Several adolescent Tuskens beat him with gaderffii sticks, knocking him unconscious again.
* The strike team lands on Endor only to be discovered by Imperial scout troopers. A speeder bike chase ensues, only for Leia to be thrown off her speeder and knocked unconscious. Luke and Han discover Leia's helmet, then they, with Chewbacca and the droids, try to find her. Leia is awakened by one of Endor's forest creatures, an Ewok named Wicket W. Warrick. Suddenly, another scout trooper discovers Leia, but Wicket does away with the trooper before rescuing Leia.
* Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and the droids, meanwhile, fall into a booby trap set by the Ewoks. R2-D2 cuts open the net setting them free, but the Ewok tribe discovers C-3PO and proclaims him to be their god. The droid's Human and Wookiee friends are taken prisoner, and the Ewoks proclaim Han to be the main course in a banquet in C-3PO's honor. Discovered by Leia, Luke then uses the Force to levitate C-3PO to show off his "great magic." Convinced of the Rebels' good intentions, the Ewoks set them free and later that evening make them "part of the tribe," thereby agreeing to join the fight against the Empire. But Luke decides the time has come to leave Endor and face Darth Vader. Leia follows Luke out of the tribal gathering, whereupon he tells her that Vader is his father and she is his sister. Leia is rendered utterly shocked, but accepts the truth. She is comforted by Han Solo.
* Vader arrives in his shuttle on a docking bay, and Luke, having already surrendered to the Empire, talks with Vader in an attempt to bring the Sith Lord out of the dark side of the Force, but to no avail. The Empire takes Luke into custody for transportation to the Death Star. The next day, the Rebels attempt to locate the shield generator, and the Rebel fleet enters hyperspace from Sullust to prepare for the final attack. Luke and Vader finally enter the Death Star and confront the Emperor, who looks forward to completing Luke's training and believes that while Vader would never turn from the dark side, neither would Luke. He also reveals that it was he who coordinated the Rebels finding the secret plans and locating the shield generator so that the Alliance can fall into a trap of Palpatine's devising.
* **Battle of Endor**:
	+ The Rebels enter the heart of the shield generator, only to be taken prisoner by the Imperial forces. The fleet emerges from hyperspace for the battle, but discovers the shield is still up. As they contemplate their options, the Imperial fleet, which they were led to believe was away, appears and an intense battle begins. Han and the strike team are led out of the bunker by the stormtroopers, but the droids and the Ewoks have already orchestrated the attack on the Empire, and another intense battle commences with the Rebels and Ewoks on one side, the Empire on another. The Emperor shows Luke the full power of the Death Star as the station, now fully operational, destroys one of the Alliance's ships. Meanwhile, on Endor, the battle continues, with casualties already mounting. Eventually, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca gain access to the bunker.
	+ On the Death Star, Luke, with the encouragement of Darth Sidious, lashes out at him with his lightsaber, only to be deflected by Vader, and the final duel between father and son begins. As Luke climbs onto a balcony, Vader throws his lightsaber at his son. It misses Luke and knocks the balcony down, taking Luke with it. Vader stalks for a hidden Luke to let down his guard, while quietly sensing within his son's mind that Luke has a sister. Vader threatens to turn her to the dark side if Luke will not, prompting Luke to respond viciously in intense saber fighting, up to the point where Luke strikes off Vader's right mechanical hand. Sidious betrays Vader by encouraging Luke to take his father's place at his side, but Luke controls his anger and throws his lightsaber aside. He declares himself to be a Jedi Knight like his father Anakin had been before he turned over to the dark side into Darth Vader.
	+ Han, Leia, and Chewbacca escape from the bunker just in time for its destruction, thus bringing down the shield. The Alliance is now free to attack the half-completed Death Star.
	+ On the Death Star, the enraged Emperor declares that if Luke will not turn to the dark side, he will be destroyed, and uses Force lightning against the young Jedi. He revels in torturing Luke by slowly increasing the intensity of the lightning. Luke then cries out to his father to help him. As the Emperor prepares to deliver the killing bolts, Vader prepares to make a choice; he looks at Luke and then the Emperor, conflicted whether to save his son or to continue serving his master.
	+ Moved by his son's cries for help and unwilling to see him die, Vader turns back into the light side as Anakin and lifts the Emperor into the air, carries him over and throws him into the Death Star's reactor shaft, killing him. However, in the process, Anakin is struck by the Emperor's force lightning, which enters his organic remains, striking his life support system and his respirator, mortally wounding him.
	+ The Millennium Falcon and its remaining Rebel fighters enter the bowels of the Death Star, and some fighters engage in a point-blank attack on the Super Star Destroyer, causing the Imperial flagship's destruction.
	+ Admiral Garrick Versio watches from his Star Destroyer Eviscerator as Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer Executor is brought down and crashes on the surface of the Death Star II, to which the Admiral calls Admiral Firmus Piett a fool. He tells an Imperial officer to put him in contact with Inferno Squad, which is on Endor's surface scouting the Death Star's shield generator. Commander Iden Versio informs her father, the Admiral, that the planetary shield generator has been destroyed beyond repair. The Admiral commands her to wipe out the Rebel troopers there and return to the Corvus to prevent the Emperor's plan from failing. Agent Meeko covers Commander Versio and Agent Hask as they take on the Rebel troopers, though they are too late to capture the saboteurs.
	+ Green Squadron escorts Gold Leader during the attack on the DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station's main reactor.
	+ On the Death Star, in the middle of the evacuation, Luke carries his father's ravaged body to the foot of an Imperial shuttle's ramp. Anakin stops Luke and asks him to remove his mask so that he can look upon the face of his son, just for once, with his "own eyes". Luke removes the mask and sees the face of his father for the first time. Anakin's face is revealed to have turned pale white and scaly, his head retaining some vicious scars after 23 years from his duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar. Anakin tells Luke that his son was right—he did have good left in him, and asks him to tell his sister the same. With that, Anakin Skywalker, the redeemed Jedi Knight, smiles at his son and dies peacefully. Luke bows his head in sadness.
	+ The Millennium Falcon and its strike force reach the Death Star's main reactor and fire concussion missiles and proton torpedoes at it, causing it to collapse. Luke escapes the Death Star with his father's body and flies out through the flames, as do Wedge Antilles and the Millennium Falcon before the Death Star explodes.
* After the Rebels are wiped out, Inferno discusses where they can find nearby TIE fighters when suddenly, the second Death Star explodes. They are overwhelmed with shock and grief, but Iden quickly takes control of the situation and tells her agents that they can grieve later and need to move. Admiral Versio informs Iden that Vice Admiral Rae Sloane, as the highest-ranking living commanding officer, has ordered a full retreat, and stresses to Iden that Inferno needs to survive and get off the forest moon. Inferno reinforces a squad of stormtroopers pinned down by Rebel forces and moves towards Platform 4 with them. Rebel forces are deployed across the forest moon to prevent Imperial troops from escaping and to secure their positions on the moon. Nevertheless, Inferno escape aboard three TIE fighters before the Rebels can sabotage them.
* Green Four (Shara Bey) intercepts a Lambda-class shuttle escaping from the Death Star, nearly shooting down Luke Skywalker before confirming his identity.
* Hask makes it to the Corvus while Iden and Del fly through the wreckage of the second Death Star, remembering that Inferno was created by Iden's father, Admiral Versio, after the destruction of the first Death Star to prevent something like this from happening again. The Corvus comes under attack from Rebel starfighters and bombers, but Iden and Del fend them off. Iden is privately contacted by her father, who tells her to meet with him on the Eviscerator for her next orders while Del and Hask stay behind on the Corvus. With the Corvus repaired, they jump to hyperspace, fleeing the aggressive Rebel fleet.
* Debris from the Death Star lands on Kef Bir.
* Seeing the destruction from above, Han senses Leia's love for Luke. He offers to step aside when Luke arrives, but she tells Han that Luke is her brother. After a moment of speechless surprise, Han and Leia engage in a passionate kiss.
* That evening in Endor, Luke sets a funeral pyre ablaze to cremate the body of his father, still encased in Darth Vader's outfit, as per the Jedi funeral rite. His father's organic body becomes one with the Force. Through the midst of the rising flames and fireworks, Rebel fighters streak across the sky in celebration of one of the greatest Rebel victories in the Galactic Civil War.
* The planets Bespin, Tatooine, Naboo, and Coruscant also celebrate. Citizens on the Imperial capital world of Imperial Center carry out a riot in Monument Plaza to celebrate the fall of the Emperor. The citizens gather in the plaza and topple a statue of the Emperor before Imperial forces descend the area to break up the riot and restore order.
* Luke is reunited with his companions Han, Lando, the droids, Chewbacca, the surviving Rebel fleet, the Ewoks, and his sister Leia. Luke then catches sight of the Force ghosts of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker. Luke is pleased: not only is he now a Jedi, but his father is once again on the light side of the Force. Leia takes Luke by the hand, and they rejoin their friends and colleagues as the Force ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin look on with pride.
* Bey reunites with her husband, Kes Dameron, and they spend the night together in a hut.
* Mos Pelgo residents cheer the Battle of Endor and the withdrawal of Imperial forces from Tatooine, but their celebration is short-lived due to the Mining Collective taking advantage of the power vacuum to invade Mos Pelgo and turn it into a slave camp overnight. The sheriff of the town, Cobb Vanth manages to escape with a camtono carrying silicax crystals.
* Boba Fett awakens at his post. Seated nearby is a captive Rodian with red skin. The two watch a nearby fire, where a massiff rests. Fett struggles with his ropes, which draws the attention of the massiff. The massiff lunges at Fett and a fight breaks out. He knocks out the beast and uses its sharp teeth to cut his bonds.
* Fett asks the Rodian if he wants him to cut his bonds. A Tusken sentry intervenes but Fett overpowers him, knocking the gaderffii stick from his hands. The Rodian cries, alerting the rest of the Tusken clan. Fett flees into the desert with the massiff in hot pursuit. The creature catches up with him and he fights it with his stolen gaderffii stick. The Tuskens catch up with him and watch. The beast returns to its Tusken masters.
* A showdown between the Tuskens and Fett ensues. One of the Tuskens approaches him with a gaderffii stick. After sizing each other, the two break into a duel. The Tusken knocks Fett to the ground but Fett rises to his feet and fights back. The Tusken knocks him down a second time but Fett is still determined to continue the fight. The Tusken beats him repeatedly. The other Tuskens surround him with one kicking him to the ground. Fett slips into unconsciousness.

#### 28th

* Mas Amedda becomes Emperor in all but name and politics, while holding little real influence beyond Coruscant.
* The Alliance to Restore the Republic is reorganized into the New Republic.
* Mon Mothma is elected the first Chancellor of the New Republic.
* The Galactic Senate is restored on Chandrila.
* Following his unsucccessful escape attempt, Fett is woken up by a young Tusken and led away by his bound hands, with his feet chained to the captive Rodian who follows. Together with a domesticated massif, they trek across the desert and make a slight detour after seeing smoke.
* They peer over a sand dune to see a homestead, with several Kajain'sa'Niktos beating a man, painting a symbol on the walls of their homestead before getting on speeder bikes and riding off.
* Moving on, the trio come to a stop, where the Tusken gestures for the two captives to dig, searching for a gourd filled with liquid; a source of water. The Rodian finds one before Fett, who takes a drink. Fett soon finds one for himself. Before he can drink, the Tusken child takes the gourd from Fett, pouring it out for the massiff to drink with some spilling onto the dry sands of Tatooine.
* Continuing to dig for the gourds, Fett tells the Rodian that they could have both escaped had he kept his snout closed. Fett says that if he can get to Anchorhead, he can get them offworld. Fett grumbles about strangling the Rodian and feeding him to the watchdog. The Rodian returns an insult in Rodian, which Fett can understand.
* While continuing their dig, the Rodian discovers a large scaly mass under the sands. Excavating the mass, it stirs to live to reveal a large three-clawed hand, grabbing the Rodian's arm. More arms come out of the sand before the entire beast reveals itself as a sand beast capable of standing on its hind legs. Grabbing the captives, the creature starts attacking, with the massiff counterattacking before being thrown away by the creature, which then kills the Rodian. Fett is held up and the Tusken stabs the creature's foot, resulting in the creature throwing Fett and hitting the Tusken, causing him to hurtle onto the sands.
* The creature turns from Fett and goes after the Tusken adolescent. However, Fett runs up the creature's back and wraps the chains around its neck and asphyxiates the creature. Fett's actions earns him the respect of the adolescent Tusken. The Tusken, Fett and the massiff return to the Tusken camp with the creature's head as a trophy. Their return sparks a celebration among the Tusken clan, with the adolescent Tusken regaling his people with stories of the battle with the reptilian creature. The leader of the camp wordlessly hands Fett a gourd out of gratitude, which he drinks.
* Kes Dameron is called out to another mission to destroy an Imperial holdout on the far side of the moon.
* Bey volunteers as the mission's pilot, and as Dameron and the Pathfinders unit start their attack, he mentions that he was thinking they should find a nice planet and build a house. Bey questions his timing of such a proposal in the midst of a battle, and worries as the strike team is inside the base for a long time.
* As they emerge, Han Solo announces that the computers in the outpost contain a lot of data and communications, including details of many Imperial plans, and that "It's not over yet."
* The Eviscerator and Corvus regroup above Vardos in the Jinata system, the homeworld of the Versio family. On the bridge of the Eviscerator, Garrick informs his daughter that the Emperor is dead. He shares with his daughter a Messenger droid he has received, which projects a hologram of the dead Emperor's final command: to begin Operation: Cinder at once. When Iden attempts to ask what their target is, the Messenger launches itself at her, telling her she is not verified. Garrick escorts his daughter away from it and hands Inferno's next assignments to her, warning her that her orders are unusual but that they are now living in unusual times.
* The Corvus travels to an Imperial shipyard in orbit of Fondor, where they are to provide security for Moff Raythe, who is procuring satellites essential for Operation: Cinder in his docked Star Destroyer Dauntless. However, the shipyard comes under surprise attack from a Rebel fleet. While Del remains on the Corvus, Iden and Hask make their way to their TIE fighters and defend the Dauntless from CR90 corvettes and Rebel U-wing transports. Iden protects Hask from Rebel starfighters before boarding the Rebel Mon Calamari star cruiser to disable its ion cannons that are firing on the Dauntless. Iden and Hask disable them, though the last explosion nearly sends Iden hurling into space, who is narrowly saved by the cruiser's closing gates. They return to their TIE fighters and take to the stars, though are ordered by Moff Raythe to attack the Imperial facility itself in order to free the Dauntless from the shipyard's jammed clamps. When Iden asks what their target is, Moff Raythe tells her that, now more than ever, power is the only path to peace, and Admiral Versio will take part in cleansing the galaxy clean to remind the people of the galaxy that the Empire is still in control. The Dauntless is ultimately freed and opens fire on the Rebel cruiser with its turbolasers, destroying it. Moff Raythe tells Iden that her father will be proud.
* On board the Star Destroyer Torment, Lieutenant Gulin informs Captain Lerr Duvat that the "messenger" has arrived. The captain orders the bridge cleared, and the messenger—a red-robed figure with a faceless black helmet—enters, verifying Duvat's identity with a blood test. A hologram of the face of Emperor Palpatine appears in the messenger's helmet, telling Duvat he and a handful of select Imperial officers have been given the honor of destroying the Rebel Alliance by commencing Operation: Cinder. Duvat informs his lieutenant that he has received a message from the Emperor himself. When Gulin responds that the Emperor is dead, Duvat warns him that repeating Rebel propaganda is treason, and orders him to set a new course.
* After the defense of Fondor, Inferno is granted access to the Emperor's Observatory on Pillio, one of many Observatories established by the Emperor across the galaxy for various classified purposes. Agent Del Meeko is sent alone to shut down the Mantle defense system and destroy the Observatory as its contents could be used by the Rebel Alliance against the Empire. Meeko travels to Pillio aboard a single Lambda shuttle with stormtrooper forces, unaware that the new age Jedi Knight and Rebel Commander Luke Skywalker is already there with his astromech R2-D2 on his own mission to the Observatory. Luke is forced to defend himself when the stormtroopers open fire on him, but encounters Meeko trapped in amber by Pillio's native Scritters. Meeko initially doesn't recognize Skywalker until the Jedi uses his lightsaber to free him. He doesn't understand why an enemy of the Empire would help him, to which Skywalker replies it's simply because he asked. Facing a common enemy and mission, Meeko is forced to work with Skywalker to defend themselves against Pillio's bugs and locate the Observatory. Despite Skywalker's shouts, Meeko hurls a thermal detonator at the bugs, ripping open the cave's grounds beneath them. Nevertheless, they reach the Observatory, where Skywalker defends Meeko from the bugs as he shuts down its security systems.
* After the Mantle defense system is shut down, they are nearly overwhelmed as they run towards the Observatory, but the bugs strangely fly away from it and thus Skywalker and Meeko. Skywalker uses the Force to open the Observatory's doors, leaving Meeko as to wonder why the Emperor would create a facility that could only be opened using the Force. Skywalker tells Meeko that he already knows, to which Meeko asks in disbelief if Skywalker is telling him that the man who destroyed the Jedi Order was secretly one of them. Skywalker tells Meeko, however, that, as a boy growing up on Coruscant, he feared the wrong thing. Meeko remarks that the Emperor was only protecting junk, but Skywalker takes interest in a particular compass and asks Meeko if he can keep it. Meeko asks Skywalker why he would let him do that since his orders are to destroy the Observatory and Skywalker is an enemy, to which Skywalker replies simply because he asked. Meeko decides to let Skywalker keep the compass. Skywalker then asks Meeko to reconsider his mission, saying that the Empire has already done enough damage to many innocent worlds.
* As they depart from the Observatory, Meeko asks Skywalker how they can just walk away and pretend like this never happened. Meeko confesses his growing doubts in the Empire to Skywalker, who tells Meeko that he has a choice. Meeko misinterprets this as a choice between the Empire and the Rebellion, but Skywalker corrects him in that it's simply a choice to be better. Skywalker wishes Meeko "may the Force be with you" as he leaves, walking off into the sunset with Meeko watching from behind.
* Meeko returns to the Corvus with Hask and Iden, who informs them that their next assignment is to extract Protectorate Gleb from Vardos. Gleb serves as headmaster of the Future Imperial Leaders Military Preparatory School, raised both Hask and Iden, and also serves as an officer in Jinata Security. Iden is unsure how this relates to Operation: Cinder but states that they must trust the Admiral. However, when they arrive to Vardos, they find the satellites, which are climate disruption arrays, being deployed by the Dauntless, pointed out by Meeko, in orbit of Vardos. Inferno is shocked to see this, and Hask recalls that they were never informed of their target. An angered Iden confronts her father aboard the Eviscerator, pleading with her father that Vardos and its people are loyal to the Empire. Her father rationalizes that Operation: Cinder will spread fear throughout the galaxy that will allow the Empire to continue its rule by fear in order to control the galaxy and maintain order. Iden continues to try and appeal to her father that Vardos is their home, to which he responds, raising his voice, that the Empire is their home and that they will do as the Emperor commands. Iden says that she will not take orders from dead men, causing her father to assert his authority over her, shouting that she takes orders from him before reminding her that her orders are to extract Protectorate Gleb alone. He dismisses her, though Iden walks off with a bitter face. The Admiral tells an Imperial officer to patch him in with Agent Hask.

#### 29th

* Cobb Vanth, having wandered for days with no food and water, encounters a Jawa sandcrawler. The Jawas save his life in return for the camtono of silicate crystals. In addition to the full waterskin, Vanth uses the crystals to obtain a suit of Mandalorian armor. Armed with the armor and ammunition, he expells the Mining Collective from Mos Pelgo, using the rocket in his jetpack to destroy the fleeing thugs and their landspeeder.
* Bib Fortuna assumes Jabba's mantle and takes over the throne. Mos Espa is divided among three families. The Trandoshans take the city center while the Aqualish take the Worker's District and the Klatooinians take over the starport and the upper sprawl. Since Fortuna does not have Jabba's power, he starts to rely on uneasy alliances to preserve his tribute and title and linens the pockets of Mayor Mok Shaiz.
* The Corvus lands in an Imperial facility on Vardos, where hurricanes and superstorms are forming from the beams being shot down by the satellites. Iden says that they will find Gleb in the Archive in Kestro. During their walk there, they encounter disgruntled protesting civilians and learn that any aircraft attempting to leave the planet will be shot down. Iden, Del, and Hask debate this turn of events; Iden notes that the people on Vardos are their people, and that their own troopers are in harm's way, while Hask retorts that their fearlessness in the face of the storms shows true discipline, and that Operation: Cinder is a test to prove that they are worthy of what is to come. They eventually make it to the Archive, where they find Gleb and a Rodian agent among a group of civilians. As Hask escorts Gleb and the agent away, orange lightning hits one of the buildings, causing part of its structure to fall, the resulting debris nearly crushing a civilian. With Iden's approval, Del tells the civilians to run to the Corvus. Hask tries to stop it, but Iden commands him to stand down. Hask reminds Iden and Del that their orders are to extract the Protectorate Gleb alone. Del says he doesn't recognize the Empire anymore, and Iden defends him, pointing out that it is the Empire's duty to protect civilians from things like Operation: Cinder. When Hask asserts that this is the "new Empire," Del finally says that he wants no part in this new Empire and will follow his commanding officer. Hask asks Iden if these are her orders, which are treason, and Iden says they are. Hask refuses to lower his weapon and warns that defiance will be the death of them before pointing it at Iden, but she shoots Hask first in his leg, buying time for Iden and Del to escape. Hask contacts Admiral Versio and informs him that Commander Versio and Agent Meeko have abandoned the mission and committed treason.
* Iden and Del sneak their way through the city, reluctantly shooting Imperial troops who notice them and learning that the Admiral has ordered their deaths. They manage to steal an AT-AT and use it to take out the anti-air batteries across the city, eventually destroying a satellite array that disables all anti-air batteries across the sector. Del pilots the AT-AT to the Corvus while Iden shoots at Imperial forces firing at them, including AT-STs, demolition troopers, turbolasers and another AT-AT. She blows up the barricade at the Imperial facility where the Corvus is docked, but a bolt of lightning disables the AT-AT. Iden and Del regroup with their crew, who are under fire from Imperial troops and cover them as the Imperial raider's ramp is lowered and the refugees get on board. The lightning storm protects them from an advancing AT-AT walker, and they escape as scout walkers arrive at the facility. They evade the Eviscerator and the Dauntless and jump to hyperspace.
* Meanwhile, Agent Hask returns to the Eviscerator with Protectorate Gleb and her agent, reporting to Admiral Versio, who congratulates Hask on the "success" of his mission and promotes him to Commander.

#### 30th

* In the Vorpal Nebula in the Outer Rim Territories, Iden and Del discuss the situation, not knowing where to go next. Iden notes that some of their crew stayed loyal with them and is helping protect the refugees, who are frightened and confused but safe, while Del makes repairs to her droid. Del tells Iden to leave with the Corvus and let him stay alone in a TIE fighter, sending a general distress call to the Rebellion, but Iden refuses to abandon him. Ultimately, they decide to surrender to the Rebel Alliance, sending a general distress transmission which is intercepted by Danger Leader Shriv Suurgav. After the Restoration captures the Corvus and her crew, General Lando Calrissian arrives and confronts Iden and Del. He thanks them for the intel they provided on Operation: Cinder and offers them two T-65B X-wing starfighters to start a new life. Calrissian learns that Operation: Cinder is targeting Naboo, the homeworld of the Emperor himself. Iden and Del warn that the Empire is changing and so are its tactics. Calrissian gives them a choice of fighting with them against Operation: Cinder or running away. Though not wanting to join the Rebellion, Iden and Del reluctantly agree to help combat Operation: Cinder.
* On the planet Sterdic IV, Shara Bey and her A-Wing squadron clear the skies over Cawa City of TIE fighters to allow the Y-wings of Feral Group to release magnetic cluster bombs over an AT-AT, destroying it. After the mission, Bey talks to the squadron's acting commander L'ulo L'ampar about her family—she has spoken to her father and her son Poe, but her husband, Kes, is on a secret mission and out of contact. L'ampar offers to try and have her assigned to light duties for the next few days.
* Bey arrives at the Alliance Fleet at Muster Point: Vergance, with her light duties involving serving as a pilot for Princess Leia Organa. In the docking bay, she sees Leia in conversation with Mon Mothma. Leia is reluctant to be leaving the fleet at such a critical stage, but Mothma tells her that her skill and reputation are necessary for the upcoming mission. On board their shuttle, a GX1 short hauler, Leia tells Bey that they will have no escort so as not to draw attention to their mission, and that the navi-computer has been pre-programmed for security reasons. In hyperspace, Bey prepares a drink for Leia, and finds her writing a condolence letter to the family of a Rodian nurse, Able Nereno, who was killed aboard the medical frigate Redemption during the Battle of Endor. Leia mentions that Crix Madine uses a protocol droid to write his letters, but she prefers the personal touch.
* Bey and Leia arrive at their destination: Theed, the capital city of Naboo. Bey is surprised that the city is so intact, particularly as Palpatine was from there. Leia responds that the Emperor thrived on Naboo's fear—that he could destroy his home planet and its people in an instant, as he had with Alderaan. They are greeted by Governor Donta Gesset, who welcomes them on behalf of Queen Soruna. Leia meets with Soruna at the Theed Royal Palace, and requests her aid in establishing a new system of government and restoring the senate. As Soruna agrees to help, a guard enters and reports that something is jamming Naboo's orbital sensors and communications. A sudden electrical storm begins.
* Above the planet, Captain Duvat has begun his phase of Operation: Cinder. The Torment is jamming Naboo's sensors and signals, and has deployed a climate disruption array to generate hurricanes on the surface. Duvat informs Gulin of their mission: "By order of the Emperor, Naboo is to be scoured."
* Kes Dameron and Sakas are conducting reconnaissance on an Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) black site on the Wretch of Tayron. As Han Solo gives the go-ahead, they fire a rocket into the base, breaching the southeast wall. Dameron is nearly shot by a scout trooper, but is saved just in time by Chewbacca. The Pathfinders strike team regroups before entering the base, and Solo tells Chewbacca to locate C-3PO to break the Imperial encryption. C-3PO protests that he is not programmed for combat operations.
* Captain Korro reports to Queen Soruna that the planet is under some kind of attack from orbit, and that the Gungans have confirmed typhoon-strength storms all over the planet. Shara Bey suggests to Leia Organa that it must be an Imperial remnant, using an orbital array to alter the weather. Leia says they need ships and pilots to attack the array and the Star Destroyer, but Korro says Naboo has no starfighters or combat-trained pilots after the Empire demilitarized Naboo years ago. Soruna responds that this is not entirely true—the starfighter-bay wing of the Theed Royal Palace was sealed off by Queen Neeyutnee after the invasion of Naboo, but the N-1 starfighters it contained were still there. She uses her royal authority to override the seal. As Leia enters the bay, she feels a cold chill, and has a vision of Darth Maul. Bey finds three operational fighters, but is not sure she can tackle the Imperial task force alone—Leia and Soruna also volunteer to pilot ships in the attack.
* The commander of the ISB base orders the stormtroopers to hold off the Rebels long enough for him to initiate a data purge, but surrenders when his troops are defeated. C-3PO begins to slice the ISB computer system, and is alarmed to discover that an Imperial program called Operation: Cinder is in progress, running across multiple targets specified by the Emperor, including Naboo.
* Captain Korro strongly objects to Queen Soruna's participation in the mission and suggests one of her handmaidens take her place, but she refuses and orders him to continue the evacuation of Theed city. As Bey and her two royal co-pilots take off, Governor Gesset advises that the advisory council estimates one to two hours before the planet becomes inhospitable. In Naboo's orbit, the three pilots see the satellite array causing the storms, and the Star Destroyer Torment. Bey takes on the Torment's TIE fighter squadron, while Leia and Soruna destroy the satellites. Bey tells Leia that she has a husband and son, and that she doesn't want them to receive one of Leia's condolence letters. As another TIE squadron launches from the Star Destroyer, Bey realizes the overwhelming odds against them. As she states it has been an honor flying with them, the Alliance cruiser Restoration drops out of hyperspace, with Lando Calrissian in the Mellcrawler II and a squadron of starfighters, relieving the Naboo fighters.
* Danger Squadron makes its way towards Theed, where Iden, Del, and Shriv help reinforce the Rebel troops there fighting in battle against the Imperial forces. They split up to reactivate power relays that can be used to activate Theed's defense system: an ion pulse that spreads across the city from the royal palace, which was installed after the Invasion of Naboo by the Trade Federation. Leia and her troops cover Del as they make their way across the city with Del wiring the power relays back online. With the power relays online, they make their way to the central street where Rebel forces battle against stormtroopers and an advancing AT-AT walker. Leia and her troops cover Del as he reactivates the defense system in the palace, falling back as the stormtroopers push against their line. Del gets the system online, and the Rebel forces fall back inside the palace as the ion pulse is detonated, disabling the Imperial forces' blasters, walkers, and starfighters. Rebel troops rush out, and the Imperial forces surrender.
* Princess Leia confronts Iden and Del after the battle in the royal palace, having learned that they are Inferno Squad from General Calrissian. Leia notes that watching them in battle, this fight against the Empire means something more to them than just trying to run away. Iden says that there is no excuse for the damage they've done against the Rebel Alliance, and would like to continue fighting with them if she would allow them to, having realized they have been fighting for the wrong side this whole time. Leia says that people like Iden and Del give the galaxy hope, and that hope is the reason they will triumph over the Empire. She then welcomes them to the New Republic.
* At Rebel Fleet Command, Leia asks Bey why she didn't want her writing a letter to her family, and she replies that she didn't want to add to Leia's burdens of command. Bey is reunited with Dameron, and they embrace.

#### 31st

* The Alliance Fleet is gathered at Muster Point: Stalwart, and Admiral Gial Ackbar briefs the pilots on the planets targeted by Operation: Cinder. General Crix Madine tells them that while they wish the end was at hand, there appears to be no respite from hostilities from the Imperial remnants.
* In the hangar bay, Shara Bey talks to her commander, Captain L'ulo L'ampar. L'ampar remarks that Bey's husband, Kes Dameron, has submitted his paperwork to be mustered out, and that he has taken the liberty of submitting her papers as well. Bey says he should not have done that, but he says she has done more than her fair share for the Rebellion, and it is time for her to settle down with her family.
* Bey is approached by R2-D2, who leads her to Luke Skywalker. Skywalker asks her to accompany him as his co-pilot on a trip to Vetine, to retrieve something he needs to get. He introduces himself and asks if they have met before—Bey responds that she was the pilot who nearly shot down his shuttle during the Battle of Endor, and he remarks on the coincidence that the pilot Artoo fetched happened to be her.
* In hyperspace, Bey asks why she is wearing an Imperial Security Bureau uniform, and Luke tells her she will be impersonating an ISB officer, Commander Alecia Beck, to infiltrate an Imperial base on Vetine to retrieve something the Emperor stole long ago. Using security clearances obtained from the raid at the Wretch of Tayron, Bey and Skywalker are cleared to land on Vetine and are greeted by base commandant Hurron. Bey introduces Luke as her bodyguard, and announces that she is conducting a surprise inspection of the base's laboratories. Hurron escorts them to the inner lab, which he assures them was accessible to only himself and the Emperor. He confesses that he never saw the need for such high security until now, and reveals that he has known of their deception since their arrival—Commander Beck is missing her left eye.
* Hurron asks Luke what is so special about the contents of the lab—two small trees. Luke answers that they are all that remains of the tree which grew at the heart of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and that the Force is with them. Hurron responds that the Force is meaningless, and Luke says he couldn't be more wrong. He uses the Force to push Hurron and his stormtroopers away, then catches his lightsaber ejected by Artoo. As Bey shuts down the field holding the trees, she catches them, and the two of them escape.
* In the hangar bay, Hurron orders his troopers to stop shooting and blow the intruders up. The troopers throw several thermal detonators, which Luke hurls back using the Force, killing the commandant and the troopers. Skywalker and Bey board the shuttle and take off into hyperspace.
* Luke says that Artoo overheard Bey's conversation with L'ampar about mustering out, and she says she is trying to decide if that's what she wants. Luke replies that if the cost of their struggle is the lives they fought to protect, then what are they fighting for. He says that he didn't know there would be two trees on Vetine, one is spoken for, but he suggests a good home could be found for the other one. In the jungles of Yavin 4, Shara Bey and Kes Dameron plant the second tree in the ground. Dameron takes her hand and says, "Let's go home, Shara Bey."

## 1982

* Gallius Rax becomes Emperor in effect but rejects the title and — in keeping with his intention to rule the Galactic Empire as the power behind the throne —proclaims himself Counselor to the Empire.
* Ben Solo is born to Han Solo and Leia Organa on Chandrila.

### May

#### 13th

* Leia Organa, now a Senator in the Galactic Senate on Chandrila, reaches out to Iden Versio, who leads Inferno Squad in the New Republic Defense Force. Leia tells Iden that she has tracked down a missing general of theirs to Takodana, and asks that she find Han Solo.
* In Takodana Castle, Han tells Maz Kanata that he has learned of an Imperial defector, Ralsius Paldora, who has valuable information for the Republic and how to liberate the Wookiees back on Kashyyyk, who were held hostage by Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck and his faction. Solo eventually finds Paldora, a statistician, who has hidden away his intel in data cubes in Takodana's forests. Paldora tells Solo that he gathered his information from a man named Rax, an Imperial officer consolidating much of the fractured Empire. As they leave, they spot Imperial forces arriving on the planet, forcing Solo and Paldora to fight their way through the forests. They make their way to the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca, Solo's Wookiee copilot, and fight in the skies against an Imperial light cruiser and TIE fighters with the aid of Inferno Squad. Solo successfully destroys it, sinking it to the bottom of Nymeve Lake, and extracts Paldora off the planet. On the Corvus, Solo contacts Leia and thanks Inferno for the help.
* Iden learns from Paldora's intel that her father has been running operations on Bespin and Sullust in the Anoat sector, which is under heavy lockdown by Governor Ubrik Adelhard and his faction. She and Del contact Senator Organa and ask for authorization to sabotage her father's operations and potentially capture him. Leia notes that she is not their commanding officer, but Del fears that Fleet Command will not approve of a mission that could be deemed too personal. Understanding, Leia shares her approval with Iden and Del to pursue their mission. The two fly alone to Chinook Station in the clouds of Bespin, which is being used for refueling Admiral Versio's Imperial fleet, hoping to sabotage it and capture Gideon Hask, who they've learned is there as well. They infiltrate the station, wearing stormtrooper armor as disguise. However, when they reach the top of the platform, they learn that Hask has set them in a trap. They try to go after him, but his Star Destroyer escapes, and alarms are triggered across Chinook Station, forcing them to fight their way out.
* Unable to reach their X-wings, Iden reluctantly agrees to hijack a cloud car with Del. They use the cloud car to ignite the fueling sites at Chinook Station; the explosion causes a chain reaction that brings down three Star Destroyers still docked there. Though Chinook Station is destroyed, thus crippling Admiral Versio's fleet's fueling source, Hask and the admiral escape.

#### 17th

* Sometime later, Lando and Shriv, the latter now a member of Inferno Squad, undertake the mission to an abandoned Imperial weapons depot on Sullust hoping to capture the weapons for the New Republic. However, when they arrive, they find that, despite Sullust being liberated, which Shriv had been part of, Imperial forces have recaptured the weapons depot and are using it for arms manufacturing. Lando decides that their best course of action is to destroy the weapons depot instead. Lando reaches the control center while he sends Shriv to look for a means of transport in order to escape. Lando causes the lava in the weapons depot to overflow and escapes with Shriv aboard an AT-ST, but they are unable to make it to a nearby Imperial shuttle in time for escape. As the lava rises, Shriv sarcastically remarks to Lando that if he dies today, he's glad Lando will too. However, just in the nick of time, Iden arrives with the Corvus and saves them from the overflowing lava.

#### 18th

* The New Republic and the Galactic Empire engage in one final battle on and over the desert planet of Jakku.
* **Battle of Jakku**:
	+ Admiral Ackbar orders all Republic forces to Jakku in the Western Reaches, where the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy have been reconvened, consolidated from Imperial fleets by Rax. The expected showdown is believed to possibly mean the end of the Galactic Civil War. The Republic Navy arrives, initiating the Battle of Jakku, while soldiers of the New Republic army are landed on the desert surface of Jakku. In the skies of Jakku, the Corvus receives a large number of distress calls from their sector. Iden and Shriv make their way to two X-wing starfighters while Del holds the Corvus and directs them towards the sources of the distress calls. They first land at a crashed Star Destroyer, where TIE bombers are deploying from and being used to harass Republic troops in the sector. Iden and Shriv fight against the stormtroopers defending the Star Destroyer and take it out before taking off to the skies again. They reinforce Captain Lindsey and his troops on the ground, who is on the march to Carbon Ridge to take out a mysterious Imperial research facility but has been intercepted by two AT-AT walkers and Imperial forces. Iden uses binoculars to indicate to the Starhawk Unity the coordinates of the AT-AT walkers so that it can launch orbital bombardments on them. The AT-AT walkers are taken out, and Inferno helps Lindsey and his troops take out the Imperial troops attacking them, allowing them to continue their advance to Carbon Ridge.
	+ den and Shriv return to their X-wings and make it back to the Corvus, but they fall under attack from Imperial forces led by Hask, who pilots a modified TIE interceptor. After a hefty dogfight, Iden shoots him down, seemingly killing him, and decides to go after her father after spotting the Eviscerator, disabling communications with Del and the Corvus. She crash lands on top of the Eviscerator and fights her way through Imperial stormtroopers, making her way through a hole punched in the Eviscerator. As she makes her way to an elevator to the Star Destroyer's bridge, she hears an Imperial officer give a command to retreat to Counselor Rax and Admiral Versio order for evacuation before being cut off, learning that her father is still here. On the bridge, Admiral Versio gives the go for his right hand Imperial officer to leave while Iden confronts her father, telling him that he doesn't have to go down with the Empire. Garrick declines his daughter's rescue attempt. He tells her that Rax expects him to leave to, but he has also refused him. Garrick explains how he's given his life to the Empire and can scarcely believe that all that's left of it is being destroyed here. A Republic escort frigate crashes near the bridge of the Eviscerator, and Garrick falls into his daughter's hand but ultimately lets go. He tells his daughter that she is strong and urges her to find peace in her life as he resolves to go down with his ship. Realizing she cannot convince her father and seeking to get back to Del, Iden runs off as the Eviscerator begins to plummet to Jakku's sandy plains, the Star Destroyer exploding around her. She makes her way to an escape pod and launches towards Jakku.
* Iden regains consciousness as Del finds her escape pod and lifts it open. He tells Iden that the battle is over, and that they have won. The two embrace and kiss as Shriv arrives with Dio. He then directs Iden and Del over a sandy hill, where they watch over the wreckage of the Imperial fleet.

#### 19th

* The Galactic Empire signs the Galactic Concordance on Chandrila, following its defeat by the New Republic, marking the end of the Galactic Civil War.
* The New Republic is officially founded.

#### 20th

* Kashyyyk is liberated by the New Republic.
* The Ryloth Insurgency comes to an end.

### June

#### 3rd

* Stormtrooper helmets are hung on spikes in Mos Eisley.

#### 14th

* Leia Organa discontinues her Jedi training with Luke Skywalker on Ajan Kloss.

#### 19th

* While a bantha plows the desert, Boba Fett learns how to wield a gaderffii stick from a Tusken. The older Tusken teaches him to hold the stick properly before parrying. She knocks the staff out of Fett's hand before telling him to practice again. He asks the Tusken to show him. Other Tuskens search the desert sands for gourds.
* While the two are practicing, a massiff finds a worrt in the desert. The worrt scurries into the desert with the Tuskens' massiff hounds in pursuit. A Tusken kills the worrt with a rifle. The massiffs feast on the creature. An animal's roar is heard in the background. The Tuskens take up position as an armored hovertrain approaches. Blaster bolts from the armored train take out a bantha and several Tusken Raiders. The train then rides away into the desert. Several Tuskens are killed and wounded by the gunners. Fett watches the Tuskens attending to their wounded and dead.
* Later that night, the Tuskens cremate their fallen. Fett himself carries the remains of a young Tusken youth. His parents fling his remains over a fire. Fett is visibly troubled by the plight of the Tusken Raiders. He drinks from a black melon and watches several speeder bikes passing their encampment. Fett speaks to the tribal Elders, vowing to stop the train with a rifle and stick. He promises to be back by morning. The chief is skeptical Fett will succeed but lets him leave on his quest.
* Fett travels to Tosche Station, which is frequented by the Nikto speed biker gang known as the Kintan Striders Gang. Among the patrons are Camie Marstrap and Laze Loneozner. One of the Kintan Striders snatches food from their table and drinks one of their drinks. Laze says "This is not right", prompting the Nikto to ask if he said something. Laze stands and repeats himself louder to Camie's dismay. The Kintan Striders grab and restrain Laze and Camie. One of the Niktos beats him with a stun baton. However, they are interrupted by Fett.
* Fett walks into the cantina armed with a gaderffii stick and rifle. The Kintan Striders fetch melee weapons and attack Fett. Fett disarms one of his attackers. A second miner shoots at him but Fett shoots him first. Laze and Camie take the opportunity to leave. Fett fights the remaining gang members, wounding and killing some with his gaderffii stick. He hurls one more through a window before stopping to drink. Fett then exits the cantina and inspects their speeder bikes.

#### 6th

* Fett leaves Tosche Station with several speeder bikes in tow. He returns to the Tusken Raiders' camp. His arrival initially unnerves the Tuskens, who grab their rifles and go into defensive position. The chief realizes that it is Fett and tells them to stand down. The chief welcomes Fett, who tells them that the bikes are a gift for them. The Tuskens attempt to dismantle the bikes but Fett tells them that he will teach them to ride so that they can stop the train.
* Later, Fett teaches the Tusken Raiders how to operate the accelerators and brakes, likening the bikes to a bantha. A young Tusken tries out the speeder bike but reverses. Fett then leads the Tuskens on their first ride. The Tuskens initially struggle but learn how to operate the bikes. He also trains them how to leap from bikes and to signal using a mirror. Fett also teaches them how to accelerate their speeder bikes through the desert. The Tuskens get better with handling the bikes and leaping from their vehicles. Fett also continues practicing with the gaderffii stick and learns how to knock the weapon out of his opponents' hands.
* A Tusken sentry spots the approaching hovertrain. The Tuskens grab their weapons and jump on the speeder bikes. Others take up position in the desert. As the Tuskens in the trenches exchange fire with the Pyke gunners, Fett and other Tuskens riding speeder bikes pursue the train. A Tusken signals to other Tuskens lying in the hills. Hidden Tusken snipers shoot several of the gunners. Some of Tuskens on bikes manage to board the train but face resistance from the gunners. Some are killed.
* Fett rescues one and uses a grappling hook to latch onto the hovertrain. He also kills one of the Pyke gunners. They jump across carriages and fight several of the emerging sentries. As they approach the train engine, the Pyke guards take up position and fire on the advancing Tuskens, taking down some. A Tusken rams her bike into one of the carriages, damaging one of the connectors. However, she fails to split the train's carriages. The driver droid accelerates the engine, causing the hovertrain to accelerate rapidly.
* Still, she manages to board the train and proceeds to fight the Pyke gunners onboard, killing and throwing out several. She takes out the lead Pyke gunner and his companions. Realizing that the Tuskens are winning, the driver droid fires up the engine, causing a blast to knock off one of Fett's Tusken allies. Fett fights with more Pyke guards near the train engine. In the process, one of the Pykes is blasted by the engines and thrown to the ground, crushed to death by the carriages.
* Fett forces his way into the train engine where he orders the driver droid to stop the vehicle. The spidery droid instead jumps out into the desert. Fett struggles to stop the train but finds the brakes. He uses his gaderffii stick to disable the ship's engines, causing it to brake in the desert. The Tuskens shout in victory before proceeding to loot the train of weapons and merchandise.
* Several Tuskens guard the surviving captive Pyke gunners and guards. Fett demands to know who is the leader. The leading Pyke stands up and removes his mask. He asks Fett if he is going to kill them. Fett replies that it depends on how he answers his question. When Fett asks if he is carrying spice, the Pyke leader asks what he means by spice. Fett asks if he is carrying sansanna spice from the slave mines of Kessel. The Pyke leader asks what does spice look like. Just then, two Tuskens discover a crate of spice.
* Fett replies this is not looking good for him. The Pyke leader says that they assumed that Tuskens were uncivilized raiders and says that they were just trying to protect their route. Fett replies that the Dune Sea is no longer free for the Pykes to pass since the Tuskens claim the territory as ancestral ground. He says that if they want to pass, a toll has to be paid to the Tuskens. He warns that any death dealt by traveling trains will be returned ten-fold. Fett orders the Pyke leader to return to the Pyke Syndicate with these new terms and adds that their lives are a gesture of their civility. He tells the Pykes to walk single file in the direction of the high sun, explaining that it will lead them to Anchorhead by sunset.
* When the leader protests that they will be killed, Fett reassures him that he will be traveling under the protection of the Tuskens and that no harm will come to them. When the Pyke leader protests that they will die of thirst without the water car, Fett promises that they will each be given a black melon, stating that they will survive on its milk as these people do. The Pykes leave while the Tuskens plunder the water cart.
* Later that night, the Tusken chief explains that since the oceans of Tatooine have dried up, they have stayed hidden. He says that the other tribes have survived by killing. Fett replies that they shouldn't have to hide since they are warriors. The Tusken chief replies that the offworlders have machines. Fett reassures him that they now have machines and that they know every grain of sand in the Dune Sea.
* The Tusken chief gives Fett a gift, stating that he is a good guide. The gift turns out to be a gekko in a basket. The lizard climbs into Fett's nostrils. The chief explains that the lizard will guide him from inside his head. Fett's vision becomes blurry and his body convulses. He finds himself walking through the deserts of Tatooine and sees a vision of trees and oceans. There are creatures with red eyes. Fett also experiences flashbacks of climbing out through the maw of the sarlacc as well as his childhood on Kamino, watching his father leave on the Slave I. The vision ends with him emerging while the ocean roars.

#### 7th

* Fett returns to the Tusken camp, where he is greeted by the young Tusken youth he befriended and his massiff. Fett is greeted by the Tusken chief and his followers. The lizard emerges from his nostrils. Fett remarks that he thought it was part of the dream. The Tusken chief asks him to show him a branch. Fett presents the branch from his night journey to the Tuskens. They lead him inside a tent where Tuskens clothe him with Tusken robes, scarves, and bandages.
* The cloaked Fett emerges from the tent and faces his Tusken friends. The young Tusken walks beside him and the two head into the desert towards a wrecked site. One of the Tusken forges the branch into a new gaderffii stick. Fett helps him to carve the weapon, which is also heated in an oven. Pieces of metal are added to the gaderffii stick, giving it an armored plating. The metal is dipped into an oven.
* Later that night, Fett presents his new gaderffii stick to the rest of the clan. He parries with the other Tuskens, who gather before a camp fire. They dance around the fire.

## 1986

### October

#### 5th

* A tusken raider tribe raids Mos Pelgo, killing six of their miners. Cobb Vanth then kills three of the tuskens.

### November

#### 3rd

* Boba Fett rides a bantha among his Tusken Raider tribe. The Tuskens watch him with a sense of respect. Fett rides into the desert into Mos Eisley. He asks two Jawas where the Pykes do their business in Mos Eisley. As the Jawas jabber in their language, Fett rides on his bantha through the town, past spikes of stormtrooper helmets. Peli Motto leads three DUM-series pit droids.
* Fett tethers his bantha outside a building guarded by two Pykes. Fett states that he has business with the Pyke Syndicate. The Pykes admit him into the building. Fett walks down the stairs and meets with the Pyke leader, who has received his message. The Pyke leader explains that protection arrangements are all part of doing business in the Outer Rim Territories. Fett says that he will take payment and be on his way.
* The Pyke replies that he has spoken with his superiors on Oba Diah, who are unwilling to pay protection to more than one party. Fett replies that he is collecting on behalf of the Tuskens of the Dune Sea. The Pyke leader responds that the Kintan Striders have already collected protection money for the same territory that he lays claim to. Fett replies that they don't need to pay protection to that speeder bike gang since the Sandpeople far outnumber them. Fett says that the sands have belonged to the Tuskens since the oceans of Tatooine have dried.
* The Pyke leader says that they are willing to do business with either party but that they do not want to be taken advantage of by paying money to both. The Pyke tells Fett that he hopes he understands. Fett vows to resolve this and says that he will not hear from the Nikto sand flyers again. The Pyke says that he looks forward to their partnership.
* The pykes, having lied to Fett, massacare the tusken tribe.
* Fett rides across the Dune Sea on his bantha to return to his Tusken camp. As he approaches the encampment, he notices flames in the distance. Fett walks on foot to the Tusken village only to find that the clan has been slaughtered. He discovers burnt tents and several fallen banthas. While surveying the destruction, he finds the remains of Tuskens lying on the ground. Fett also recognizes the marking of a gang that he had encountered earlier on Tatooine. Fett cremates the remains of his Tusken friends before recovering his Gaderffii stick. After paying his respects to the dead, Fett rides away on his bantha.

#### 12th

* A mandalorian bounty hunter named Din Djarin uses a tracking fob on an icy planet called Pagodon. Inside a public house, a bearded human trawler and a Quarren trawler are manhandling a blue-skinned Mythrol man, who pleads for his life in Galactic Basic Standard, offering credits in exchange for his life. His pleas are ignored; the bearded trawler wants to kill him for his valuable musk. Before the two trawlers can do any more harm, the armored and masked Mandalorian steps into the bar.
* Speaking in Huttese, the bearded trawler tells Djarin that he spilled his drink. Djarin ignores him and silently walks up to the counter. The bearded trawler reiterates his threat to Djarin. The human bartender tells Djarin that he says that he spilled his drink, translating into Basic. The Mythrol tries to break free but the Quarren holds him down.
* The two trawlers accost Djarin, taking a sudden interest in his beskar armor. The bartender tries to defuse the situation by serving a drink but Djarin gets into a fight with the two trawlers. He knocks the bearded man to the ground, causing the Quarren to attempt to flee through the cantina doors, but Djarin trips him with a grappling line. The Quarren shoots Djarin with his blaster, but the bolt hits the Mandalorian's pauldron, leaving him unscathed. Djarin fires his blaster at the door controls, causing the door panels to shut and slice the Quarren in half, killing him.
* The Mythrol thanks the Mandalorian and offers to buy him a drink. However, Djarin instead shows him a hologram which confirms that the Mythrol is a wanted fugitive. The Mythrol claims this is a misunderstanding and tries to bribe his way out of the mess. Djarin is unmoved and says he can bring him in either "warm" or "cold."
* Djarin leads the chained Mythrol back to his ship. On the way, they encounter a Kubaz ferryman dressed in a parka. Djarin says that he needs passage back to the ice. The Kubaz summons a landspeeder that is piloted by an astromech droid with a flute. Djarin does not want to deal with droids but the Kubaz says the speeder is brand new. Keeping his stance, Djarin insists on an organic pilot, so the droid-piloted speeder leaves and the Kubaz summons a rundown landspeeder piloted by a bearded human pilot, who asks him "where to".
* Djarin and his Mythrol quarry travel with the human pilot on the landspeeder. The driver scans the horizon with his macrobinoculars, with the Mythrol explaining that he is looking for ravinaks, large predators which live under the ice. The pilot explains that it is clear right now but warns Djarin that the ravinak tend to cluster around the spaceport because they think that the entire planet is their stink pit.
* The speeder pilot delivers them to the Mandalorian's starship Razor Crest, which the Mythrol describes as junk and offers to hire a better ship. Djarin forces him out of the landspeeder. The driver says that it is time to go and warns Djarin to stay off the ice. The Mythrol asks if there is going to be something to worry about. While Djarin climbs aboard the Razor Crest, the Mythrol sees the speeder being devoured by a ravinak, which is lurking beneath the ice.
* The Mythrol begs Djarin to open the hatch as the creature approaches him. Djarin pulls him to safety just in the nick of time. The ravinak throws itself against the starship's hull, so Djarin quickly leads his captive into the cockpit. The Mythrol remarks that it was a lucky escape and that staying off the ice was the "understatement of the millennium." The Razor Crest tries to take off but the ravinak latches onto to its landing strut.
* Djarin exits the cockpit with a rifle and climbs out the docking ramp to confront the ravinak. He stings the creature in the head, causing it to let go of the landing strut. The Razor Crest flies off into the skies as Djarin returns to the cockpit. The Mythrol mumbles "let's go, let's go" as the ship ascends into space.
* During the journey, the Mythrol tells Djarin that he likes the Razor Crest because "she's a classic." He asks whether the ship is pre-Galactic Empire and tells Djarin that he is wealthy and could afford to hail a cruiser. Enduring the Mythrol, Djarin remains silent and does not interact with his prisoner. The Mythrol asks how much they are paying him and if it is true that Mandalorians do not take off their helmet. Djarin continues to remain silent.
* The Mythrol claims that he has to use the vacc tube, warning that he would not want to see a Mythrol "evacuate its thorax." Djarin allows him to leave the cockpit to find the vacc tube. The Mythrol finds the vacc tube and says that it will take a while because he is molting. He takes advantage of the toilet break to find a way off the ship and enters the ship's cargo hold only to find several other bounties frozen in carbonite. He realizes that he won't be able to celebrate Life Day, and Djarin agrees, yanking the startled Mythrol into a carbon freezing chamber and freezing him.
* The Razor Crest travels to Nevarro and lands at a spaceport. Din Djarin walks through the streets into a cantina, which is frequented by various humanoids and other aliens. He meets with a dark skinned man named Greef Karga, an agent for the Bounty Hunters' Guild. Karga remarks that the job was done fast and pays Djarin in Imperial credits. Djarin refuses to accept payment, noting that the Empire does not exist anymore. Karga offers to pay him in Calamari Flan but adds that he can only pay half. Djarin reluctantly accepts his payment and begins off loading his cargo of bounties frozen in carbonite.
* At the cantina, Karga tells Djarin that he has several bail jumps and a wanted smuggler. Djarin wants to take them all but Greef warns that are other bounty hunters. Greef also explains that many hunters don't want to be paid guild rates and don't mind if things get sloppy. Djarin asks what his highest bounty is, and Karga says it is 5,000 Calamari Flan. Upon hearing this, Djarin counters that it won't cover the fuel cost. The guild agent tells Djarin that there is an "off the books" job with no chain code.
* Djarin accepts this offer and travels through the backstreets of the town. He arrives at a house with a green door and is greeted by a gatekeeper droid. Djarin displays a transponder and is admitted inside the building. A GNK power droid leads him down a corridor to a room where he is greeted by four Remnant Stormtroopers in dusty armor. Djarin finds that his client is an elderly man with white hair.
* The client says that Greef Karga told him that Djarin is the best in the guild. Just then, a door swings open abruptly and Djarin reaches for his blaster. A panicked human with glasses comes out. The stormtroopers order Djarin to drop his weapons, and the bespectacled man apologizes for alarming Djarin. The client introduces Doctor Penn Pershing, apologizing for his lack of decorum and saying that his enthusiasm outweighs his discretion. He tells Djarin to lower his blaster.
* Djarin insists that the stormtroopers lower their blasters first but one of the stormtroopers says that they outnumber him. Djarin defiantly replies that he likes those odds. The client adds that Greef warned him that Djarin is expensive and tells him to sit. They are joined by Dr. Pershing. The Client unwraps a red cloth with beskar and tells him that it is a down payment. He promises him a treasure trove of beskar if he delivers the asset. Dr. Pershing insists that it be delivered alive. The client obliges but warns that "bounty hunting can be a difficult profession." He adds that proof of termination can by provided for a lower fee. Dr. Pershing disagrees and tries to counter the client but the client overrules him.
* Due to the sensitive nature of the job, the Client can only offer him a tracking fob. When Djarin asks about the chain code, the Client replies that he can only provide the last four digits. He mentions that the asset is 50 years old, but that they can give the last recorded position of the data. Flattering Djarin, he tells him that a man of his skill can make short work of it. The Client says that the beskar rightfully belongs to Djarin and that it is good to restore the "natural order" after a period of chaos, ominously asking the Mandalorian if he agrees, hinting at Mandalore's past.
* Djarin walks through the streets, passing a Kowakian monkey-lizard being roasted over a spit while a despondent monkey-lizard watches from inside a cage. He continues on through the marketplace down a flight of stairs into an underground hall full of Mandalorians, including helmeted children. Djarin approaches the armorer and presents her with the Calamari Flan and beskar bar.
* The female armorer says that the beskar bar was melted down during the Great Purge of Mandalore and that it is good that it is back with The Tribe. She says that a pauldron is in order and asks if his signet has been revealed. He says that it has not been yet, and she responds that it will be ready soon. The armorer gets to work melting the beskar while Djarin watches. While working, the armorer says that beskar alloy is generous and will sponsor many Foundlings. Djarin says that he was once a Foundling and experiences a flashback of his parents being gunned down in the streets. Finally, the smith presents him with a metal pauldron.
* Djarin flies the Razor Crest to the desert world of Arvala-7. He flies over several mountains before landing in a valley. He follows his tracking fob and scans the horizon. Djarin aims his rifle at a blurrg but is ambushed by one of the creatures, who grabs his right arm and hurls him to the ground. Djarin attempts to fight back using his flamethrower, but it is located on his right arm and Djarin's attempt fails. Djarin then punches the blurrg, who lets go of him, for a moment, but while Djarin is stablizing himself, the blurrg chages again, biting onto Djarin's arm. The blurrg is then hit by a tranquilizer dart. A second blurrg charges and Djarin brings his arm up to attempt to protect himself from the beast, but is also hit by a tranquilizer dart and drops before doing any harm.
* A mounted Ugnaught named Kuiil approaches the Mandalorian on a blurrg and Djarin thanks the blurrg-rider for helping him rid of the blurrgs. Kuiill recognizes the Mandalorian as a bounty hunter and announces that he will help him. He says that he has spoken and leads him to his moisture farm. Later, he tells Djarin that many have come seeking the same asset but that they have all perished. Djarin is reluctant to accept his help but Kuiil says he can show him the way to the encampment.
* When Djarin asks what Kuiill's "cut" is, the Ugnaught responds, saying that he wants half of the blurrgs that he captured. Djarin wants to give him both of the blurrgs but Kuiil insists that he will need one because he claims the way is impossible without a blurrg mount. Djarin is reluctant to ride a blurrg but Kuiil says he has spoken, indicating he will not change his mind.
* Djarin struggles to ride the blurrg. The Ugnaught Kuiil suggests that he take off his helmet but the Mandalorian refuses out of reverence to the Mandalorian code. Kuiil explains that the male is in heat during mating, and he watches as Djarin tries to ride the blurrg to no avail. Growing impatient, he asks if the Ugnaught has a speeder bike or landspeeder but Kuiil reminds him that he is a Mandalorian whose ancestors rode the great mythosaurs. He convinces Djarin to give it a second try.
* This time, Djarin approaches the creature gently and strokes its head. He manages to tame the creature and together, he and Kuiil ride their blurrgs over the rocky terrain, littered with crevices and gorges. Kuiil tells Djarin that the encampment lies ahead. Djarin wants to pay him but Kuiil says that Djarin will be doing him a service by ridding the areas of mercenaries and crooks. Kuiil explains that the locals want peace from these offworlders. When Djarin asks why he wants his help, Kuiill replies that he has never met a Mandalorian but has only read the stories. If what the stories say is true, Kuiil says, he believes that there will be peace.
* Continuing the journey, Djarin approaches the encampment which lies in a valley. He scans the site with a telescope and spots several armed figures and an IG-series droid. The IG droid, who is called IG-11, approaches the Nikto sentries and demands that they hand over the "asset" under Paragraph 16 of the Bondsman Guild Protocol. The Nikto reach for their blasters but IG-11 guns them down. Other gunmen join the fight but are gunned down by the droid.
* The remaining gunmen retreat behind a blast door. IG-11 repeats his demands. Djarin approaches IG-11 and tells him to get down. IG-11 initially shoots at him but Djarin manages to convince him that he is a fellow Guild member. IG-11 claims that the bounty is his but Djarin convinces him to split the bounty so that the two join forces to eliminate the hostiles.
* Armed gunmen appear on the roofs and the duo shoot them down. An assailant attacks Djarin from behind but he shoots him down as well. Djarin locates the asset inside the building. They shoot down more mercenaries and hostiles. As reinforcements approach, IG-11 wants to activate his self-destruct mechanism due to their situation, but Djarin convinces him to instead cover him while he finds a way to unlock the blast door. The two are pinned down by enemy fire.
* Some of the Nikto mercenaries bring a laser cannon. IG-11, again, wants to self-destruct, but Djarin convinces the droid that they should shoot their way out. A Nikto manning the laser cannon peppers them with fire. Djarin convinces IG-11 to draw their fire while he uses the grappling cable to grab the laser cannon. He shoots the Nikto gunner and uses the cannon to take out the remaining hostiles on the roof, eliminating the opposition. IG-11 disengages his self-destruct mechanism.
* Despite his antipathy towards droids, Djarin respects IG-11's fighting skills and expresses concern for the droid's blaster damage. IG-11 says he is okay and does a diagnostic, finding that the blaster bolt missed his central chassis. Djarin and IG-11 use the laser cannon to blast down the door. Djarin shoots the last remaining sentry.
* IG-11 says that his tracking fob is still active and that his sensors indicate a lifeform is present. Djarin approaches a silver pram and finds that the asset is an infant belonging to the same species as Jedi Masters Yoda and Yaddle. IG-11 points out that different species age differently when Djarin expresses confusion about its age, and the droid informs Djarin that he received specific instructions to terminate the asset. Djarin disagrees and insists on bringing "the Child" back alive. When IG-11 raises his weapon to attempt to terminate the infant, Djarin shoots and destroys the droid before taking the infant.
* A lizard scurries in the sand. The Mandalorian walks by with the Child in a floating cradle. Several lizards scurry past the rocks and on the ground. The Mandalorian looks around and draws the blaster in his hilt.
* Just then, he is ambushed by several armed Trandoshans, who wield vibro-axes. The Mandalorian fights back with his trident and subdues them. One of the assailants tries to kill the Child and the Mandalorian shoots him down. The Mandalorian sees a tracking fob on the ground.
* Later at dusk, the Child watches as the Mandalorian tries to sear a wound on his left arm. Taking pity on his protector, the Child tries to touch it with his paw but the Mandalorian rebuffs his offer. The Mandalorian tries to repair a machine. Taking pity on the Child, he wraps him with a blanket.

#### 13th

* The Mandalorian and the Child reach the Razor Crest only to discover that a clan of Jawas are salvaging and looting the starship. After studying them with a telescope, the Mandalorian shoots one of the Jawas with his blaster, causing them to scatter. The Mandalorian fires a few more rounds. One of the Jawas fires back and the Mandalorian takes him down. The Jawas retreat aboard their sandcrawler and the Mandalorian shoots at the rear.
* Continuing his pursuit, the Mandalorian climbs up a service ladder onto the chassis of the sandcrawler. One of the Jawas spots him and informs the drivers, who maneuver the sandcrawler along a rockface in an attempt to crush him. The Mandalorian manages to avoid death and clings onto the hull of the sandcrawler. Jawas fling debris and objects at him. The Child follows the Mandalorian and the Jawas in his floating cradle.
* Dodging debris, the Mandalorian uses a grappling cable to reach the top of the sandcrawler. Jawas hurl debris at him and he dodges them. As he reaches the top, the Jawas dislodge the platform that he had tied the grappling cable around. However, the Mandalorian manages to cling onto the sandcrawler and throws a Jawa off the vehicle. When he reaches the top, he is confronted by several armed Jawas who shoot him with an ion blaster, causing him to fall to the ground.
* Later, the Mandalorian wakes up to find the Child in his cradle nearby. The Mandalorian and Child return to the Razor Crest, which has been stripped of cables and parts. He tries to power the ship but the Jawas have stripped it bare, stranding the two of them on Arvala-7.
* The Mandalorian and Child travel over the desert, walking over a plateau. They reach Kuiil's moisture farm where the Ugnaught moisture farmer is repairing a moisture vaporator. Kuiil thought that the Mandalorian had perished and is surprised to see him alive. The Ugnaught studies the Child and is surprised that this was causing all the fuss. The Mandalorian confirms that the asset was a Child and Kuiil now understands why the Client wanted it to be delivered alive.
* The Mandalorian tells Kuiil that his ship has been destroyed and that he is stranded here. Kuiil points out that the Jawas steal and do not destroy. The Mandalorian says this makes no difference to him and that the Jawas are protected by the "crawling fortress" and he has no way to recover the parts. Meanwhile, the Child takes an interest in a frog. Kuiil proposes that he trade with the Jawas. The Mandalorian thinks that he is out of his mind but Kuiil responds that he has spoken. The two watch as the Child swallows the frog whole.

#### 14th

* The two travel through the night with Kuiil riding a blurrg that draws a hoversled carrying the Mandalorian and the Child. The three approach the Jawa clan the following morning. The Jawas welcome Kuiil, who speaks their language, but takes affront to the Mandalorian's presence. When Kuiil notices the Jawas' hostility towards the Mandalorian, the latter admits to disintegrating several of them.
* Translating for the Mandalorian, Kuiil tells him that he needs to drop his weapons. The Mandalorian refuses since he claims that weapons are part of his religion. Kuiil responds that if he doesn't he won't be getting his parts back. The Mandalorian reluctantly complies. Kuiil also convinces the Mandalorian to leave his blaster behind. The Child watches from the sled.
* The Jawas offer to trade the Mandalorian's starship parts for his beskar armor. The Mandalorian refuses and trade barbs with the Jawas in their language. One of the Jawas tells that he sounds like a Wookiee. The Mandalorian loses his temper and tries to intimidate the Jawas with a flamethrower. However, Kuiil restrains him and takes over the negotiations. Since the Mandalorian is unwilling to trade his beskar armor, he asks what else can the Mandalorian trade.
* The leading Jawa proposes the Child but the Mandalorian tells them to get away from it. The Jawas deliberate and an interpreter tells Kuiil and the Mandalorian that they will return the Mandalorian's parts if he obtains the "Egg" for them. The Jawas chant for the "Egg" in their language.
* The Jawas allow the Mandalorian, Kuiil and the Child to ride with them inside the sandcrawler. The sandcrawler stops near a series of rocky formations. The Mandalorian and Child dismount and walk through the rocky formations towards a cave. He stands outside the cave and draws his weapon. The Child waits in his floating cradle while the Mandalorian ventures inside the cave. He brings a torchlight and sees several bones. The Mandalorian encounters a large horned creature known as the mudhorn, which drives him out of its den.
* Outside, the Mandalorian stands his ground and rushes to reload his blaster. The mudhorn charges forward and throws the Mandalorian against the mud. The mudhorn spots the Child's floating cradle and lunges forward but the Child dodges her. The mudhorn turns its attention back to the Mandalorian, who unleashes his flamethrower on the creature. This wounds the mudhorn but not enough to knock it out of combat.
* The mudhorn retreats back to its den but the Mandalorian latches onto it with a grappling line. The creature tosses him aside and attacks him with its horn and hooves, throwing him to the ground. The mudhorn charges at the Mandalorian, who unsheathes a blade. The Child helps the Mandalorian by using the Force to suspend the creature in mid-air. This gives the Mandalorian enough time to drive the blade through its head, killing it. The Mandalorian drives the knife deeper into the creature's skull.
* The Mandalorian approaches the Child, who is overwhelmed by his Force exertion and falls asleep in his cradle. The Mandalorian returns to the mudhorn's cave and retrieves an egg from the mud and straw. He realizes that the egg belongs to the mudhorn which he slew.
* At the sandcrawler, Kuiil tells the impatient Jawas to wait a little longer. The Jawas ignore him and retract their sandcrawler, preparing to depart. Just then, the Mandalorian and the Child return with the mudhorn's egg, Kuiil is pleased that his friends survived. The Jawas are excited and rush to receive the Egg from the Mandalorian. The Jawa chieftain slices the top off the egg with his knife. The Jawas feast on the egg yolk while the Mandalorian looks away.
* The Mandalorian speaks to Kuiil, telling him that he is surprised he waited. Kuiil responds that he is surprised that it took him so long. Kuill, the Mandalorian, and the Child return to the Razor Crest with their blurgg dragging the sled which is now laden with the recovered parts of the Mandalorian's ship. Then Kuiil asks the Mandalorian if the Child is still sleeping or is injured. The Mandalorian doesn't think the Child was wounded physically. Kuiil says he still doesn't understand what happened during the Mandalorian's fight with the mudhorn. The Mandalorian admits neither does he. They approach the wrecked Razor Crest.
* The Mandalorian thinks that it would take him days to fix the Razor Crest without a proper maintenance facility. Kuiil helps the Mandalorian to repair the ship, saying there is much work to do. Working together, they manage to repair and restore the ship's systems and parts.
* Later, the Mandalorian tells Kuiil that he cannot thank him enough and offers to share part of the reward. Kuiil says that he cannot accept it because the Mandalorian is his guest and that he is therefore in the Mandalorian's service. The Mandalorian tells Kuiil that he could use a crew member of his ability and offers to pay him handsomely. Kuiil says that he would be honored but that he has spent a lifetime working to be free of servitude.
* The Mandalorian understands and thanks the Ugnaught. Kuiil in return thanks the Mandalorian for bringing peace to his valley before mounting his blurrg. Before leaving, he wishes a blessing on the Child, hoping that it would bring a handsome reward for the Mandalorian. He says he has spoken as the Mandalorian watches.
* The Mandalorian heads to the cockpit with the Child. He fires up the Razor Crest's engines. Watching from outside, Kuiil waves goodbye as the Mandalorian's ship flies off into the sky above and then space. The Mandalorian watches over the sleeping Child in silence during the flight. The Child begins to stir in its cradle and cries.
* Kuiil heads to the Nikto encampment where Grogu had been kept and where Djarin had shot the assassin droid turned bounty hunter IG-11. Finding IG-11's remains, Kuiil brings them back to his farm, where he rebuids and reprograms the droid, despite little remaining of the neural harness, and staks it as his own in accordance with the Charter of the New Republic. Kuiil patiently trains the droid to perform domestic and manual tasks around the farm such as cooking, cleaning, and feeding the blurrgs.

#### 15th

* Piloted by the Mandalorian, the Razor Crest exits hyperspace over Nevarro. The Mandalorian flies the starship with Grogu in his cradle. The Mandalorian is contacted via Holographic projector by Greef Karga who has received his transmission. He orders him to deliver his quarry directly to the Client. Karga does not care about what the Client wants to do with it, but says the Client is very anxious. He reminds the Mandalorian about their prearranged venue. The Child picks up a ball but the Mandalorian takes it away, telling him it is not a toy. He puts the Child back in his cradle before taking the ship down to the planet below.
* He lands the ship in the settlement's spaceport and disembarks with the Child in a cradle as another ship lands nearby. The two move through the streets, walking past humanoids, droids and aliens. The Mandalorian takes the Child back to the Imperial Remnant safe house. They are greeted by the TT-8L/Y7 gatekeeper droid whom the Mandalorian shows a disc as proof of identity. The Child reacts in surprise as the droid retracts.
* Shortly later, a pair of Remnant Stormtroopers exit the house. The Child lowers its ears and head. Inside the corridor, one of the stormtroopers roughly yanks the Child's cradle. The Mandalorian tells him to take it easy, but the stormtrooper tells him to take it easy. The stormtroopers lead the Child and the Mandalorian to the Client and Doctor Penn Pershing, who are delighted to see him. Pershing scans the Child with a glowing red device while the Mandalorian watches.
* Pershing remarks that the Child is very healthy. The Client tells the Mandalorian that his reputation is not unwarranted. When the Mandalorian asked how many tracking fobs he gave out, the Client tells him that the Asset was of extreme importance to him. He had to insure its delivery. but promises the spoils to the winner: a container containing several bars of beskar. The Client remarks that the Asset is "such a large bounty, for such a small package."
* The Child cries as Pershing leads him into an adjacent room. When the Mandalorian asks the Client what are his plans for the Child, the Client say that it is uncharacteristic for one of his reputation and commission to ask such a question, since it is the code of the Bounty Hunters' Guild that such events are "forgotten" once they have been delivered. The Client says that the beskar is enough to make a handsome replacement for his armor, but that finding a Mandalorian able to forge it is more difficult than finding the steel.
* The Mandalorian walks through the marketplace and returns to the underground lair of the Tribe with his reward. The other Mandalorians look at him with silence and disdain. He brings the container with the beskar to the female Mandalorian armorer. She looks at the beskar while the other Mandalorians congregate.
* She explains that this beskar can be shaped many ways. The Mandalorian says that his armor, damaged during the mission to Arvala-7, had lost its integrity, and that it might need to be reforged. The armorer says she can forge a full pair, which would be in order for his station. He says that it would be a great honor, though she warns him that it will draw many eyes.
* A large Mandalorian male named Paz Vizsla examines one of the beskar bars and concludes it was forged in an Imperial smelter, based on the Imperial symbol. He says that this is one of the spoils of the Great Purge of Mandalore, and the reason that they live in hiding, "like sand rats." The female Mandalorian armorer responds that their secrecy is their survival, and that their survival is their strength. Vizsla responds that their strength was once in their numbers and laments that they now sneak above ground one at a time. He says that their world was shattered by the Empire with whom this "coward" shares tables.
* A small altercation erupts between the Mandalorian and Vizsla; the latter attempts to rip the Mandalorian's helmet off, but the Mandalorian fights back with his knife. Vizsla also draws his knife. The female armorer responds that the beskar has returned, as the Empire has fallen. She reminds them that when one chooses to walk the way of the Mandalorian, they are both "hunter and prey." She asks how can one be a coward if one chooses this way of life. She asks the Mandalorian if he has ever removed his helmet, and if it has been removed by others, and he says no. The Mandalorians, including Vizsla, chant "this is the way."
* The female armorer then asks the Mandalorian what caused the damage to his armor. He replies that it was a mudhorn, and the female armorer replies that he has earned the mudhorn as his signet, and that she will craft the new armor. The Mandalorian declines to do so, because it was not a noble kill, since he was helped by an enemy. When she asks why an enemy would help him in battle, he explains that it did not know it was his enemy.
* Since the Mandalorian has forgone a signet, the armorer decides to use the beskar to forge whistling birds. The Mandalorian agrees to this and says they should reserve some for the foundlings. The armorer agrees and says as it should always be. She adds that the foundlings are the future, for "this is the way." The other Mandalorians also chant "for this is the way" as well. She places the beskar bars inside the smelter, where they are melted.
* The female armorer explains that whistling birds are a powerful defense against multiple enemies. She tells the Mandalorian to use them sparingly, for they are rare. As she forges a replacement chest piece, the Mandalorian experiences a flashback of Separatist forces including a HMP droid gunship and battle droids bombarding his hometown as a child. The flashback ends as the chest piece is forged.
* At the Nevarro cantina, Karga berates a bounty hunter, who had presumably failed his mission, and tells him to leave. Shortly later, the Mandalorian enters the cantina, which silences its patrons as everyone gazes at him. Karga greets him and tells the Mandalorian that everyone hates him, because he is a legend.
* When the Mandalorian asks how many of them have tracking fobs, Karga says all of them, but that none of them closed the deal. Karga congratulates him for winning the richest reward in this parsec and invites him to sit down. The Mandalorian takes off his blaster and sits down. Karga tells him that the others are weighing the beskar but that he celebrates the Mandalorian's success because it is his success as well. He boasts that he is rich and asks how he can show his gratitude to his most valuable partner.
* The Mandalorian requests his next job. This surprises Karga, who suggests that the Mandalorian taking some time off to enjoy himself and offers to taking him to the Twi'lek healing baths. However, the Mandalorian insists on his next job. Karga grants his request, since Mandalorian hunters "like to keep busy." Karga tells him that the targets are all far away, and tells him he can choose, since he has earned his pick. The Mandalorian opts for a faraway job, which turns out to be an unidentified Mon Calamari nobleman's son who skipped bail. Karga remarks that the Mandalorian is headed to the ocean dunes of Karnac.
* Before leaving, the Mandalorian asks what they are going to do with the Child. Karga says he did not ask because it is against the Guild code. The Mandalorian tells him that the men worked for the Empire and asks what are they doing at Nevarro. Karga says that the Empire is gone, and that all that are left are mercenaries and warlords; should it bother him, Karga tells the Mandalorian to go back to the Core Worlds and report the matter to the New Republic. However, the Mandalorian shrugs it off, saying that is a "joke." Karga tells the Mandalorian to enjoy his rewards, and buy a camtono of spice. He quips that he would have forgotten all about it by the time he has come out of hyperspace.
* The Mandalorian boards the Razor's Crest and prepares the ship for takeoff. However, he sees the ball that the Child was playing with and screws it back to the lever. This causes him to reconsider his decision to hand the Child to the Imperial remnant and switch off the ship's engines. He walks back to the Imperial outpost and approaches the green gate.
* The Mandalorian walks to a nearby alley where he sees the Child's floating cradle dumped into a skip bin. The Mandalorian takes up position on a nearby roof. Using his trident to listen to his targets, he hears the Client telling Pershing that he does not care and to extract the necessary material hastily. Pershing protests that he was ordered to bring the asset back alive. The Client tells him to hurry up, for he can no longer guarantee his safety.
* The Mandalorian bangs on the green door and is greeted by the gatekeeper droid. However, the Mandalorian violently rips off the droid's head, causing a short circuit. Two stormtroopers come out to investigate. One of them tells the other to check out the perimeter. The Mandalorian plants a grav charge on a nearby wall, which blows a hole in the Imperial compound.
* Two stormtroopers come out to investigate, but the Mandalorian shoots them from behind. Another stormtrooper enters the corridor and finds his fallen comrades, one of whom has a smoking hole in his chest. The Mandalorian knocks him down with his blaster and shoots him as well. He ventures deeper into the compound where he traps a fourth stormtrooper with his grappling cable and stabs him.
* He shoots a door open and shoots the two stormtroopers inside the laboratory. He also finds Dr Pershing. The Mandalorian is about to shoot him but Dr Pershing pleads for his life. The Mandalorian shoots an IT-O Interrogation Unit instead. The Child is being scanned in a machine. Pershing pleads for the Mandalorian not to hurt the Child. The Mandalorian instead throws him to the ground. The Mandalorian asks what he did to the Child. Pershing responds that if it wasn't for him, the Child would be dead. Pershing pleads for his life, only to find that the Mandalorian has left the laboratory with the Child.
* The Mandalorian takes the Child into a storeroom. Several stormtroopers enter the storeroom with flashlights attached to their armor, intending to flush him out. The Mandalorian hides behind the crates and knocks out a stormtrooper, who had told him to give up, because there is nowhere to hide. He knocks down a second stormtrooper before stunning a third.
* The Mandalorian and Child exit the storeroom only to run into a stormtrooper. The Mandalorian and the stormtrooper exchange gunfire. The Mandalorian shoots him down and then unleashes his flamethrower on a second stormtrooper, scorching him. The Child looks away as this happens. The charred stormtrooper falls to the ground.
* The Mandalorian enters the meeting room with the Child, but is cornered by four more stormtroopers, who order him to surrender. The Mandalorian tells them that what he is holding is very valuable, and gently lowers his gun and the Child. They order the Mandalorian to kneel, but he unleashes whistling birds which take out all of the stormtroopers. He walks out of the Imperial remnant compound.
* Later at the cantina, several tracking fobs are activated, including Greef Karga's. The Mandalorian walks through the streets with the Child. He is soon surrounded by several armed bounty hunters. Karga welcomes the Mandalorian back and orders him to put the "package" down. The Mandalorian tells him to step aside, because he is going back to his ship. Karga reiterates his order to put the bounty down, and perhaps he will let him walk.
* The Mandalorian says the Child is coming with him. Karga says that if he truly cares about the Child, he would put in on the speeder, and will discuss terms. An R6 astromech droid, on the speeder, turns its head. When the Mandalorian asks how he knows if he can trust him, Karga replies that he is his "only hope."
* The Mandalorian looks at the sleeping Child, then shoots at the other bounty hunters, jumping onto a repulsorlift vehicle carrying luggage. A gunfight breaks out, and the Mandalorian forces the astromech droid to drive the repulsorlift vehicle. The Mandalorian exchanges fire with his fellow Guild members and takes down several. The droid is soon hit and the speeder comes to a grinding halt.
* The bounty hunters converge on the Mandalorian, but he uses his trident to incinerate two hunters, including a Rodian. Karga remarks that the Mandalorian has an "impressive weapon." The Mandalorian issues Karga an ultimatum: he is going to let him walk with the Child, back to his ship. Karga issues a counter-ultimatum: the Guild takes the Child, and if he tries to stop them, they kill him and strip his body for parts. The Mandalorian refuses, and take out several hostiles with his trident and blaster. The Mandalorian manages to drive back the bounty hunters for a while with his flamethrower but it soon runs out. The Mandalorian looks at the Child before preparing for his last stand.
* Fortunately, several fellow members of the Tribe, donning jetpacks, come to his aid, taking out several bounty hunters. Karga realizes that the battle has turned against him, and flees. Paz Vizsla tells him to escape while they provide covering fire. The Mandalorian says that they will have to relocate the community, but Vizsla says that "this is the way." The Mandalorians echo in unison.
* The Mandalorian boards the Razor Crest, but is soon cornered by Greef Karga, who tells him that he broke the Bounty Hunter's Code. The Mandalorian unleashes some tibanna gas in an attempt to blind him. The Mandalorian shoots Karga with his blaster and removes him from his ship before taking off. As the Razor Crest takes off, the other Mandalorians provide covering fire.
* Karga survives the blaster wound, since a beskar bar caught the blaster bolt. The Mandalorian flies his ship into the skies of Nevarro. Paz Vizsla flies beside his ship and salutes him before flying off. The Mandalorian remarks that he has to get a jetpack. The Child is seated beside his lap. The Mandalorian gives him a ball to play with - the ball he had unscrewed earlier - before taking the Razor Crest into space.

#### 16th

* On the planet Sorgan, several krill swim in a body of water. They are harvested by several human villagers with baskets. A woman named Omera watches over her daughter Winta, who is chasing a frog. The frog slips away. Birds flutter overhead. Just then, they hear some movement and roars.
* Blaster shots are unleashed on the villagers. Under the hail of blaster fire, Omera rushes for Winta and carries her into a lone. Several Klatooinian raiders charge into the village, looting their supplies and harvest. One even strikes an astromech droid in the head. Omera and her daughter hide under a wooden cage while the raiders march away. Omera hugs Winta as she surveys the carnage left behind.
* Meanwhile, the Mandalorian travels through space aboard the Razor Crest. The Child sits near the console and gazes up at space. He fiddles with the control, causing the ship to jerk. The Mandalorian scoops the Child up onto his lap. Studying a holomap, he decides to hide and stay low on Sorgan, a backwater world with no industry, large settlements, or spaceports. He thinks it will be a good place for them to lay low for the next two months like womp rats. He reassures the Child that nobody will find them here.
* The Mandalorian brings the Razor Crest down into Sorgan's atmosphere, flying over the village. Several villagers including Omera watch as the ship descends. After landing, he tells the Child that he will go out and have a look, promising not to take too long. He places the Child on his seat and warns him not to touch anything. He promises to find lodging and come back for him. He tells him to stay here and not to move.
* The Mandalorian descends down the gangplank only to find the Child, who can walk, standing beside him. The Mandalorian relents and allows him to come along. They walk along a path.
* They visit a common house where food is grilled over a large grill. The patrons are mostly human and a loth-cat growls at the Child, startling him. The Mandalorian seats the child on a toddler's chair. They are served by the proprietor, who asks the travelers if she can interest them in anything. The Mandalorian orders a bone broth for the little one. The proprietor asks if he wants some but the Mandalorian says only the little one needs it.
* The Mandalorian then asks when a woman dressed in green in the corner arrived. The proprietor says she has been patronizing the common house for a week. When the Mandalorian asks about the woman's business here, she is reluctant to say until the Mandalorian pays her some credits. The proprietor then tells the Mandalorian that the woman doesn't look like a log runner. She promises to get the broth for him as soon as possible and to bring some spotchka as well. The Mandalorian soon finds that the woman in green has left. He pays the proprietor to keep an eye on the kid before leaving to follow the lady.
* The Mandalorian uses infrared sensors in his helmet to track her footprints. She ambushes him and the two engage in hand to hand combat. The woman knocks him to the ground. The Mandalorian uses his flamethrower but she steps on his arm. After throwing each other to the ground, the two hold each other at gunpoint, resulting in a stalemate. The Child soon follows them, slurping on his bone broth. The Mandalorian asks the woman if she wants some soup.
* The two return to the common house. The woman, Carasynthia Dune, who is a former Rebel Alliance Shock trooper, talks about her exploits after Endor mopping up ex-Imperial warlords. The New Republic wanted it quiet so they sent in dropships with no support. Then when the ex-Imperials were gone, the politics started. She says that her work became protecting delegates and suppressing riots, not what she had signed up for.
* When the Mandalorian asks how she ended up here, she explains that she received an early retirement. She explains that she came at him so hard because she knew he would figure out that there was a bounty on her. After finishing her soup, she warns him that one of them would have to move on first unless they want another round of the fight. She adds she was here first. The Mandalorian tells the Child that it looks like this planet has been taken.
* Some moths fly over a lamp at night. The lamp is attached to a repulsorlift speeder. Two men move on the repulsorlift speeder towards the Razor Crest. They find the Mandalorian repairing his ship. They speak to the Mandalorian and seek his services as a mercenary. The two of them want to hire him to protect their village against raiders. They explain that their krill harvest was stolen by raiders.
* The Mandalorian is unwilling to get into another conflict and tries to shrug off the job. The two men promise to give him more but the Mandalorian is unmoved. They are about to return to their village when the Mandalorian asks where they live. They tell him that they live on a farm. The Mandalorian asks if it is in the middle of nowhere and if they have lodging. The farmers say yes. This pleases the Mandalorian who accepts their petition for help. He also convinces them to give him their credits.
* The Mandalorian finds Cara and asks if she is interested in a "round two", dropping her the bag of coins. While traveling with the human peasants on their speeder, Cara remarks that their job is hunting some raiders for lunch money. The Mandalorian responds that she is caught up in this in the middle of nowhere and that it is a pretty reasonable deal for somebody in her position. Worst case scenario is that they turn up with their blasters. The best case scenario is that they deter them. He says that he can't imagine anything living in these trees that a shock trooper could not handle.
* The Mandalorian stretches his arm while the Child watches.

#### 17th

* The following morning, they arrive in the village where they are greeted by several children, who run up to them. The children take an interest in the Child while the Mandalorian and Dune agree that the kids are happy to see them. The children also help to unload boxes.
* The Mandalorian is billeted by Omera, who offers her humble lodging. Omera also introduces the Mandalorian to her daughter Winta, explaining that she is startled by strangers. Omera tells Winta that this "nice man" is going to protect them from the "bad ones." She hugs her daughter who thanks the Mandalorian. They then leave to give their guest some privacy.
* While the Mandalorian is settling the Child in a cradle, they are visited by Omera and Winta, who bring them some food. Winta takes an interest in the Child and asks if she can feed him. The Mandalorian allows her to feed him. She also gets his permission to play with the Child. Omera also tells the Mandalorian that she has brought him some food since he hasn't eaten outside.
* In private, Omera asks the Mandalorian when was the last time he removed his helmet. He says yesterday. When she asks when he last did it in front of someone else, he replies that it was when he wasn't much older than the children. Omera is surprised that he hasn't shown his face to anyone since he was a kid. The Mandalorian replies that he was grateful that the Mandalorians took him in because his parents were killed. Omera feels sorry for the Mandalorian. She tells him to let her know if there is anything he needs before leaving.
* That evening, Cara and the Mandalorian use infrared vision to study the trail left by the raiders, and the Mandalorian estimates that there were about twenty raiders in the group. Cara and the Mandalorian notice some sheared branches. Continuing their investigation, Cara finds a huge print in the ground that she recognizes as one belonging to an AT-ST Raider, and she remarks that this was "more than she signed up for."
* The Mandalorian and Cara then return to the village. The Mandalorian begins by telling the villagers that they "can't live here anymore." Cara then takes over, apologizing that it was not the news they wanted to hear, but that there were no other options. When two of the farmers remind them of their job, Cara responds by saying that it was "before they knew about the Imperial walker."
* Cara then says that Sorgan is a big planet and suggests moving somewhere else. One of the farmers responds by saying that his grandfather seeded the ponds, and his companion adds that it took them generations to build this village. The Mandalorian points out that the farmers are not fighters, but the farmers beg for a chance.
* Dune responds that she has seen AT-ST walkers take out entire companies of soldiers within minutes. When Omera restates that they are not leaving, Cara says that they cannot fight "that thing," but the Mandalorian says that they will be able to if he and Dune "show them how."
* Addressing the village fighters, the Mandalorian explains that they have got two problems: the bandits and the mech. The Mandalorian says that he and Dune will handle the AT-ST but tells the villagers to protect them when they come out of the wood. He warns them about the danger posed by the bandits and explains that Cara was a veteran and a drop soldier for the Rebellion. He explains that Cara is going to lay out a plan and tells them to listen carefully.
* Cara says that they will build a trap for the AT-ST since nothing on this planet can take it out. She explains that they have to dig a pit deep enough for the walker to fall inside. Cara's plan is to draw the raiders out of their camp. She and the Mandalorian plan to provoke them and lure them into a trap. The Mandalorian also tasks the villagers with building barricades to deter the raiders. The Mandalorian asks the villagers who can shoot and Omera raises her hand. He teaches the villagers how to shoot, using pots and pans as target practice. Meanwhile Cara trains the villagers to fight with sticks.
* Later that evening, the Mandalorian chats with Omera, telling her that it is dusk and that they will be leaving soon. She promises to be ready when they return. That night, the Mandalorian and Cara infiltrate the Klatooinian wikiup. Cara takes out a sentry. The two venture deeper into the outpost, passing several Klatooinians sitting by a campfire. They head inside a tent and find several circular tanks. The Mandalorian plants a grav charge.
* Several Klatooinians enter the tent and engage in a fist fight with the infiltrators. More Klatooinians enter and the fist fight continues. Cara shoves one of them into a blue tank as the charge flashes. More enter with blasters. The Mandalorian covers Cara while she flees out an exit. The two escape before the tent explodes into flames.
* Cara says that she hoped the plan works as the AT-ST Raider comes to life, glowing red shining through its viewports. The two flee through the woods as the Imperial walker rains down laser fire upon them, burning several shrubs. The villagers take up position at the barricades with guns while the children hide with the Child in a barn.
* The Mandalorian and Cara soon return and tell the villagers that once that thing goes in the pond, it is going down. The AT-ST Raider advances on the village. However, the walker stops short of the pit trap and deploys a powerful beam light, scanning the barricades. The walker bombs a house but Cara orders the villagers to hold their positions.
* Klatooinian raiders charge through the fields and the villagers open fire on them. The Mandalorian and Cara realize that they can't get the walker to step forward. Cara decides to lure the AT-ST walker into the trap and wades through a pond with the Mandalorian's Amban Rifle. She fires potshots at the walker to provoke the drivers.
* Omera says that it is now or never and the villagers surge forth, attacking the raiders. Cara exchanges fire with the AT-ST, firing blaster bolts through its viewports. The Mandalorian hopes the walker takes the bait. Provoked by Cara, the walker charges into the pit only to sink into the pond. The Mandalorian charges with a grav charge and plunges it through the walker's chassis, blowing it up. Deprived of their mech support, the surviving Klatooinian raiders flee into the wood. Omera smiles while the villagers cheer. Inside the pond, the Mandalorian asks Cara if this was the plan and she says "something like that."

#### 27th

* Peace has returned to the village. The Child swallows a Sorgan frog whole while the children watch but spits it out. Meanwhile, Omera brings Cara a drink and invites the Mandalorian into the house. The Mandalorian declines her invitation. Omera observes that the Child is very happy here since the children have taken a liking to him. The Mandalorian agrees.
* When Cara asks if the Mandalorians would kill him for taking off his helmet, he explains that he can never put it on again if he takes it off in public. Cara suggests that the Mandalorian take off his helmet, marry the beautiful young widow and raise his kids sipping spotchka. The Mandalorian says that they raised some hell a few weeks back and that it is too much action for a backwater world. He warns that word travels fast and that it would be a better idea to move on. Cara says that she wouldn't want to be the one to tell him.
* The Mandalorian suggests leaving the Child here because traveling rough is no life for a kid. He believes he did his job and given the kid a better chance at life. Cara thinks that leaving would break the Child's heart. The Mandalorian responds that Child will get over it because they all do.
* Meanwhile, a Kubaz bounty hunter with a tracking fob walks through the forest towards the village. The Mandalorian goes to Omera and asks if he can have a word with her. He tells her that it is very nice and that the Child is clearly happy here. Omera asks if he is happy here and adds that they want the Mandalorian to stay. She says that the community is grateful and that he can pack his armor away if there is any trouble. She suggests that he and his boy could have a good life and that the Child could have a childhood for a while.
* The Mandalorian says that he would and lets Omera hold his armor. The Kubaz bounty hunter aims his blaster trigger at the back of the Mandalorian's helmet. The Mandalorian gently pulls down her hands and says that he doesn't belong here but adds that the Child does. Omera says she understands and promises to look after the Child as if he were her own.
* The Kubaz bounty hunter trains his blaster on the Child. A blaster bolt rings and the Mandalorian tells Omera to go get the kids. Children scream in fear and alarm. It is revealed that Cara Dune had gunned down the Kubaz before he could shoot the Child. She stands over his his smoking remains. The Mandalorian comes and checks his tracking fob. He realizes that the bounty hunter was tracking the Child. Cara and the Mandalorian realize that they know the Child is here and that they will keep coming.
* The villagers and Cara help the Mandalorian to load his supplies onto a repulsorlift sled. Cara offers to escort him back to the Razor Crest but the Mandalorian declines. He explains that his plan is to bypass the town and get to the Razor Crest. Cara bids him farewell till their paths cross and the two shake hands. A tearful Winta hugs the Child, telling him that she will miss him so much. Omera thanks the Mandalorian before hugging him. The Mandalorian fetches his Amban Rifle and loads it onto the repulsorlift sled. He sets off as the children wave goodbye. The Child watches as the sled departs.

#### 28th

* The Razor Crest is pursued by a starfighter piloted by another bounty hunter, who demands over the comlink that the Mandalorian hand over the Child to him. The Razor Crest's left engine takes some damage. The rival bounty hunter warns that he can either bring him in warm or cold. He tries to ram the Razor Crest but fails to knock out the ship. As he drifts into the forward view of the Razor Crest, the Mandalorian destroys the enemy starfighter with a single laser cannon shot, saying that is his line. The Razor Crest floats in space with a damaged engine.
* With the Razor Crest's engines reporting that the starship is losing fuel, the Mandalorian switches off power. The Child sits in his cradle while the Mandalorian starts up the emergency power. The Razor Crest approaches the desert world of Tatooine. The ship is contacted by Mos Eisley control tower, who tells him that he is cleared for hangar 3-5.
* The Mandalorian flies the Razor Crest down into the deserts of Mos Eisley and lands at bay three-five. He places the sleeping Child in a safe room. Upon landing, three DUM-series pit droids rush out to service the Razor Crest. The droid hating Mandalorian fires a warning shot, causing the pit droids to retract. His shots anger a curly-haired human woman named Peli Motto, who warns him that if he damages one of her droids, he'll pay for it.
* The Mandalorian tells her to just keep her droids away from his ship. She retorts by asking if he thinks it is a good idea. She has a look at his ship and says that it has a lot of carbon scoring on the top. She realizes the ship has been in a shootout and also finds a fuel leak. She says that the ship is in a mess and asks how he landed it. The Mandalorian say that all he has got is 500 Imperial credits.
* Peli asks the pit droids what they think and they shake their heads. She thinks that the credits should just cover the hangar. He promises he will get her his money but she says that she has heard that before. Peli is annoyed by his presence and regards him as a womp rat. The Mandalorian exits the hangar bay and walks into the sandy streets of Mos Eisley. He walks past several pikes bearing old stormtrooper helmets.
* Later, Peli plays a game of sabacc with her pit droids, betting three bolts and a motivator. They are disturbed by a cry from the ship's cargo bay. Peli raises her blaster but discovers that the passenger is the Child, who is donning a brown coat. Peli approaches the Child and lifts him in her arms, saying that she will take a good look at him. she asks the Child if that bounty hunter left him alone in that "big, nasty ship." The pit droids ask in Binary what the Child is and Peli says that she doesn't know what it is and asks them to give her a second.
* She asks the Child if he would like some food and gets the pit droids to fetch him something to eat, preferably something with bones. She tells the Child that she will look after him until the Mandalorian gets back and then she is going to charge him extra for watching him. She playfully teases him, referring to him as "bright eyes."
* Meanwhile, the Mandalorian enters Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina, which is being serviced by an EV-series supervisor droid bartendress. The bar is frequented by several aliens and even droids including R5-D4. The Mandalorian tells the bartendress droid that he is looking for some work. The bartendress droid says that the Bounty Hunters' Guild is no longer operating on Tatooine. The Mandalorian replies that he is not looking for Guild work. The droid responds that she is afraid that won't improve his prospects by any calculation.
* The Mandalorian is being watched by a human man, who calls the bartendress droid a "tin can" and tells her to think again. This catches the Mandalorian's attention. He realizes the Mandalorian is looking for work and invites him for a seat. He introduces himself to the Mandalorian as Toro Calican, telling the Mandalorian to relax. Calican displays a holoprojector image of a female human bounty, telling her that he picked up this bounty before he left the Mid Rim. The bounty is Fennec Shand, an assassin who has been on the run ever since the New Republic put all her employers in lock down.
* The Mandalorian is familiar with Shand. Calican says that provisional data suggests Shand is heading out towards the Dune Sea and thinks it should be an easy job. The Mandalorian says good luck with that and turns to leave. Calican tells him to wait. The Mandalorian asks how long he has been with the Guild and he replies long enough. The Mandalorian disagrees and tells him that Fennec Shand is an elite mercenary and made her name killing for the top crime syndicates including the Hutts. He warns that if he goes after her, he won't make it past sunrise before turning to leave.
* Calican tells the Mandalorian that this is his first job and offers to let him keep the money. He says that he only wants to get into the Guild and that he can't do it alone. The Mandalorian tells him to meet him at Hangar three-five in half an hour and to bring two speeder bikes and to give him the tracking fob. Calican hits the tracking fob against the wall and tells the Mandalorian not to worry because he has gotten it all memorized. The Mandalorian reminds him to meet him in half an hour. Calican cockily remarks that the Mandalorian is now stuck with him.
* The Mandalorian returns to bay three-five and climbs aboard the Razor Crest. He finds that the Child is missing from his bed. Panicking, he shouts but Peli tells him to wait. The Mandalorian questions a pit droid but it folds up in fear. Peli comes carrying the Child and chides him for awakening the infant since she had trouble getting him to sleep. The Mandalorian demands that Peli give him the Child, but she scolds him for leaving the Child alone. She adds that he has an awful lot to learn about raising a young one. The Child warms to Peli.
* She tells him that she started the repairs on the fuel leak but encountered setbacks. Since she did not use any droids, it took her a lot longer than she expected. She bangs on the controls to get it to work. Peli tells him that she figured that he was good for the money since he has an extra mouth to feed. The Mandalorian thanks her. Peli assumes that he has gotten a job and tells him that it costs her a lot of money to keep these droids powered up.
* She exits the hangar bay with the Mandalorian to find Calican with the two speeder bikes as he had promised. The speeder bikes are old and rusty but Calican claims they are not too shabby. When the Mandalorian inspects his speeder with a look of scorn, Calican says "What do you expect? This ain't Corellia." He also eyes Peli and the Child. The two men mount their speeders and ride into the Dune Sea.
* They race across the Dune Sea, riding over sand and desert mounds. The two come to a stop. When Calican asks what is going on, the Mandalorian tells him to look up ahead. Calican dismounts and takes out his macrobinoculars. He sees a pair of banthas with two Tusken Raiders and says he has heard the locals talking about them a lot. The Mandalorian points out that Tuskens think they are the locals and that everyone else is trespassing. Calican thinks that the Tuskens should keep their distance. The Mandalorian dares Calican to tell them themselves.
* Just then, two Tusken Raiders appear out of nowhere from the desert. The Mandalorian tells Calican to relax and communicates with the Tuskens by sign language, telling Calican that he is negotiating passage across their land. The Mandalorian gets Calican to hand him the binoculars. Despite Calican's protests, the Mandalorian hands the binoculars to the Tuskens as a trade. Calican protests they are brand new but the Mandalorian counters that they were brand new. The two continue their journey by speeder bikes through the Dune Sea, crossing vast expanses of sand.
* When they reach a mound, the Mandalorian dismounts and tells Calican to also get down. Calican tells the seasoned bounty hunter that he sees a dewback and that the rod is still attached to an unconscious figure. When Calican asks if it belongs to their target, the Mandalorian says that he doesn't know and will go. He orders Calican to cover him and to stay down. The Mandalorian rushes to the dewback to investigate. He finds a deceased figure, who turns out to be a masked man.
* Calican asks if she is dead, and the Mandalorian responds that it is another bounty hunter. Calican asks if he has any plans of keeping it all to himself and asks if he can have their blaster. He finds a tracking fob and warns the Calican to get down. Just then, an unidentified figure fires on the Mandalorian. The Mandalorian runs back and narrowly dodges a sniper bolt. He tells Calican that only an MK sniper rifle could have fired that bolt. The Mandalorian reassures Calican that he is all right because his beskar armor deflected the blast.
* Calican says he doesn't have beskar and asks what they should do. The Mandalorian asks Calican if he saw where the shot came from. Calican confirms that it came from that ridge. The Mandalorian tells him to wait until dark. When Calican asks what if she escapes, the Mandalorian explains that she has the high ground and will wait for them to make the first move. He says he is going to rest and assigns Calican the first watch, reminding him to stay low. Their opponent watches and briefly lowers her visor.
* Boba Fett rides to the late Jabba Desilijic Tiure the Hutt's palace to investigate the last place he left his ship, the Slave I. Peering through the scope of a cycler rifle, he sees a few Nikto guards and couple of Gamorreans passively patrolling the perimeter. Heading back to the bantha, he sighs and informs her that there are still too many guards, and he heads back out into the dunes.
* That night, Calican awakes the napping Mandalorian and mocks him from being asleep on the job. He toys with his blaster but the Mandalorian asks if he is done. The Mandalorian tells him to get on his bike and ride towards the rocks as fast as he can. When Calican points out that Shand would snipe them off the bikes, the Mandalorian hands him a flash charger and explains that they will alternate shots, blinding any scope temporarily. He plans to strike Shand using speed and the cover of night.
* The two ride their speeder bikes towards the rocks. Shand aims her blaster and the Mandalorian fires a flash shot, temporarily blinding Shand and forcing her to take off her helmet. She shoots at them but misses. Calican fires the second flash charger shot, blinding Shand.
* Fett sits at a campfire under the stars and shares his dinner with his steed until he notices the flash shots in the distance.
* The Mandalorian and Calican take turns as they approach Shand. Shand manages to shoot the Mandalorian's bike, causing him to fall off. He fires a second shot.
* Shand shoots at the Mandalorian, knocking him to the ground. Before she can finish him off, Calican surprises her from behind. Shand throws a knife at him and fights him in hand to hand combat. The Mandalorian stirs while Calican and Shand fight in the sand. Calican manages to distract her long enough for the Mandalorian to arrive and force her surrender. Shand raises her hand while the bruised Calican tends to his wounds. Mando tells Calican to go and find his blaster, and makes Shand put on a pair of stuncuffs.
* Shand turns to face the Mandalorian and says that it is a long time since she has seen one of his kind. She asks if he has been to Nevarro. Shand says she hears that things didn't go so well. Calican recovers his blaster and tells Shand that she doesn't have to worry about Nevarro because they are going to turn her in. He thanks Shand for being his ticket to the Guild and she says that he is welcome.
* The two bounty hunters lead their captive to the remaining bike. Shand taunts her captors by telling them that one of them has to walk. The Mandalorian suggests dragging her. Calican asks what is the plan. The Mandalorian tells him to go and find that dewback they encountered. Calican is unwilling to leave the Mandalorian here with his bounty and his ride. The Mandalorian uses his helmet to locate the dewback and says he will fetch it. He warns Calican not to let her get to the bike because she is no good to them dead. Calican guards Shand while sitting on the bike. She makes eye contact with him.
* At dawn, Shand says that it has been a while and that the suns are up. Calican tells her to shut up. She responds that she still has time to make her rounds in Mos Espa. She asks him to take him to it and promises to pay him double the price on her head. Calican says he doesn't care about the money. She then asks him about the Mandalorian keeping all the money for himself. He says that only because he let him. Seeking to drive a wedge between the two hunters, Shand says that it seems he is calling all the shots. Calican disagrees and says that he hired the Mandalorian to do his job and that bringing her in would make him a full member of the Guild.
* Shand points out that he has something more valuable than her but that he doesn't see it. When he asks what, Shand responds that his armor alone is worth more than her bounty. Calican reiterates that he doesn't care for the money. Shand asks him to consider what it will do for his reputation. She explains that the Mandalorian shot up the Guild on Nevarro and took some high value target and went rogue. When he asks if it is that Mandalorian, Shand tells him that if he brings the Mandalorian back to the Guild, they will welcome him back with open arms. She tells him that his name will be legendary.
* He dismounts from the speeder bike and asks how they can be sure if he is the one. Shand responds that the word is that he still has the target with him; "some say that it is a child." She tells him that she can help him take on the Mandalorian. Shand tells him to take some advice by taking the best deal for himself and surviving. He looks at the horizon and puts his gun back in his holster. He walks towards Shand and she raises her restraints. However, he betrays her by shooting her in the abdomen. As a severely wounded Shand kneels, Calican says that is some good advice and says that if he took those binders off her, he would be a dead man. If the Mandalorian is worth more than Shand, he asks who wouldn't want to be a legend and thanks her for the tip.
* Calican then mounts his speeder bike. Meanwhile, the Mandalorian returns to the rocks and spots Shand on the ground, apparently deceased. He finds no sign of Calican and rides back to Mos Eisley, reaching it by nightfall. He returns to hangar three-five where Calican's speeder bike is parked outside. The hangar bay is eerily silent. The Mandalorian sees the pit droids cowering in the office and realizes something is not right.
* Calican taunts the Mandalorian that it took him long enough. He appears, holding Peli hostage. Calican boasts he is calling the shots now and demands that the Mandalorian drop his blaster and raise his hands. Calican is also carrying the Child in his left hand. He forces Peli to bind him. The Mandalorian is still holding something in his left hand. Calican mocks the Mandalorian as a Guild traitor and bets that the Child is the target that he helped to escape.
* Peli whispers that the Mandalorian is smarter than he looks. Calican says that Fennec was right in that bringing the Mandalorian in would not just make him a member of the Guild but will make him legendary. Before Calican can shoot him, the Mandalorian blinds him with a flash charger. A gun battle breaks out and the Mandalorian shoots Calican, killing him. Calican falls to the ground.
* The Mandalorian tells Peli to stay back but she asks where the Child is. She soon finds the Child safe and hiding behind a basket. She lifts him and comforts him, telling him that the shot was really loud for his big ears. Peli hands the Child back to the Mandalorian and tells him to be careful with him.
* Peli asks if he didn't get paid and sighs. The Mandalorian instead pays Peli, using Calican's credits. Pleased with the Mandalorian, she tells the pit droids to drag Calican's body to Beggar's Canyon. The droids get to work while the Mandalorian departs with the Child aboard the repaired Razor Crest into space.
* Boba Fett arrives at the site on his bantha and finds an unconscious and dying Fennec Shand.
* Fett rides with Shand hitched over the bantha's rump to a mod parlor on the outskirts of Mos Eisley, where he sees a group of cyborg youths hanging around outside the entrance. He carries Shand into the building where the mod artist of the shop is at work on another youth. The Mod Artist turns to Fett and snarks that he is too old to be in such a place, to which Fett tells him that Shand requires modification. Rebuffed for not having an appointment, Fett then drops a plump bag of coins onto a table and stresses that Shand is about to die.
* The mod artist agrees and replaces the area damaged by a gut shot on Shand's body with complicated cybernetics. Fett watches the surgery procedure. Near the end of the operation, Fett asks if he plans to close the operated area, but out of pride for his handiwork, the mod artist leaves it open and the technology viewable.

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* Shand awakens painfully, after being taken back out into the desert and left to come-to near a campfire. As her vision sharpens, she notices Fett tending to the fire and the bantha sitting comfortably nearby. With difficulty, she props herself up onto an elbow as Fett cracks a black melon open. He places it near her and tells her to drink, but she first asks him what happened to her. Fett informs her that she was dying, but that he had also saved her life. She looks around suspiciously and then down to her own torso, only to notice the writhing cybernetics in the place that used to be her gut area.
* Demanding to know what Fett has done to her, he tells her about the mod parlor at Mos Eisley, which was the best he could do for her considering the circumstances. He then reminds her to drink from the black melon, mentioning that it will aid her recovery. Raising it to her lips, Shand recoils in disgust at the smell, but after Fett reassures her that although it takes some getting used to and that one can also crave it after a time, she manages to drink from it.
* Fett recognizes her as the Master Assassin, Fennec Shand of the Mid Rim, to which Shand assumes that her bounty is higher with her alive. Fett confirms this, and although Shand immediately offers him more than double the price on her head, he tells her that he is not after money. She asks him who he is, and although he answers honestly, she dismisses this and reminds him that Boba Fett is dead. Fett agrees with her that he indeed was left for dead on the sands of Tatooine, just as she was. He tells her of how the Tuskens had rescued him and accepted him into their tribe. He says that he tried to help them only for them to wind up dead after he attracted the attention of a gang of Nikto speed bikers.
* Shand expresses her disbelief that mere speed bikers could have defeated the Sand People, but Fett changes the conversation and tells her that he wants her help to recover his Firespray-class gunship. Shand sighs, buffing some sand from her clothes and asks after its location. When Fett tells her that the ship is in Jabba's palace, she informs him that Bib Fortuna has taken over the place. She asks him why he does not simply ask for the ship's return, since it is his property, and Fett reveals that he may not like the response since he is less persuasive without his armor. Shand has Fett assure her that if she helps him, her debt to him would be considered repaid.
* The Razor Crest lands in a space station hangar bay. The Mandalorian is greeted by a bearded man named Ranzar Malk, known as "Ran," who didn't expect to see him and is surprised that he reached out to him. Ran is aware of the trouble between the Mandalorian and the Bounty Hunters' Guild. Ran tells the Mandalorian that he is welcome here any time.
* Ran tells the Mandalorian that one of their associates ran afoul of some competitors and that he is putting together a crew to spring him. He explains that he needs the Mandalorian for a five person job. Ran says that he needs the Mandalorian's ship. The Mandalorian disagrees but Ran says that the Razor Crest is the only reason he let him back in here.
* With little choice, Ran introduces him to a bald human male associate named Migs Mayfeld, telling him that the Mandalorian is an old associate who brought them some reputation. When he asks what the "Mando" got out of it, Ran says that he got target practice out of it. The Mandalorian replies that it was a long time ago.
* Ran tells the Mandalorian that Mayfeld is in charge of the mission. He says that Mayfeld was an Imperial sharpshooter, which Din says isnt' saying much, in response Mayfeld who is offended says that he wasn't a Stormtrooper. Mayfeld is disdainful of the Razor Crest, likening it to a "Canto Bight slot machine." Mayfeld introduces the Mandalorian to his other associates including the Devaronian Burg, the droid Zero, and a female Twi'lek named Xi'an.
* Xi'an asks the Mandalorian why she shouldn't kill him where he stands. She waves a dagger before trying to flirt with the Mandalorian, whom she had a relationship with in the past. Ran tells the lovebirds to break it up before leaving with the others. Burg sizes up the Mandalorian and derides him, calling him "tiny."
* While checking the Razor Crest's systems, Zero encounters a garbled hologram transmission from Greef Karga. Briefing the team, Mayfeld tells the group that the package is being moved in a fortified transport ship. They have a limited window to infiltrate the ship and recover the prisoner before it jumps into hyperspace. The Mandalorian points out that this is a New Republic Correctional Transport they are raiding, meaning that their friend was arrested by the authorities. Ran says a job is a job, but the Mandalorian is reluctant to get into trouble with the New Republic. Xi'an tells the Mandalorian that the ship is crewed by droids, appealing to his anti-droid sentiment.
* Zero reports that the ship is a mess despite recent qualifications; citing leaking hyperlinks, intermittent navigation, and that the hyperdrive is operating at 67.3% efficiency. He asks why they are not using newer ships. Ran responds that the Razor Crest is off both Imperial and New Republic grids, making it a ghost. Mayfeld adds that they need a ship that can jam New Republic codes. His plan is to board the ship through their blind spot.
* The Mandalorian thinks this is not possible, but Mayfeld replies that is why Zero will be the pilot. Ran says that the team needs him on the trigger, rather than the wheel. Zero says that he is quicker and smarter than organics. Ran reassures the Mandalorian is the best. When the Mandalorian asks how he can trust the droid, Ran replies he doesn't trust anybody. The Mandalorian departs the space station with Ran's crew aboard the Razor Crest.
* In the cargo hold, Xi'an tells Burg to sit down, but he knocks the dagger out of her hand; in retaliation, she hisses at him. In the cockpit, Zero takes the ship into hyperspace and tells the Mandalorian that he will pilot the ship. The Mandalorian obliges and joins the passengers. Meanwhile, Burg manages to open the Mandalorian's gun cabinet. The Mandalorian confronts Burg for opening his gun cabinet, but Mayfeld calms them down, promising he will never see them again once the job is done.
* Burg asks why the team needs a Mandalorian, and Mayfeld says they are the greatest warriors in the galaxy. Burg asks why they are dead and everyone laughs. Mayfeld says Xi'an flew with Mandalorians, and Xi'an asks the Mandalorian to tell them about the job on Alzoc III. The Mandalorian is uncomfortable, and says that he did what he had to do. Xi'an replies that he "liked it."
* Mayfeld is curious what the Mandalorian looks like without his helmet and quips that he is a Gungan. Mayfeld dares the Mandalorian to take off his helmet. Burg tries to force his helmet off, but the Mandalorian fights back and the two accidentally open a compartment, exposing the Child. Mayfeld is curious about the Child and asks if it is the offspring of the Mandalorian and Xi'an. The Mandalorian claims it is a pet. Xi'an is surprised and asks if the Bounty Hunter Code has made him soft. Mayfeld jokes about making the Child his pet as Zero announces that the Razor Crest is exiting hyperspace.
* The Razor Crest exits hyperspace directly above the New Republic prison ship and does a hard turn before landing on top of the ship's hull. The sharp jerk causes the passengers to trip; the Child falls to the ground and cries. The Mandalorian calms the Child and puts him back in his cot. Xi'an grumbles that Zero did not give them a countdown. Zero announces that the Razor Crest is scrambling the prison ship's signal and is amazed that the ship survived the Empire without being impounded. The Mandalorian opens a hatch beneath the Razor Crest which allows them to enter the New Republic prison ship.
* Mayfeld is the first to go down and avoids several R1 Security Droids. He tells Xi'an and Burg that it is safe to come down. He tells Zero to hack into the control room and disable the ship's surveillance system. The Mandalorian joins Mayfeld's boarding team. Mayfeld tells them to avoid any contact with security droids. Zero tells them that he has hacked into the surveillance system and will serve as their eyes.
* The boarders travel through the corridors of the prison ship, passing several humanoid and alien prisoners. Zero tells them they are approaching the control room and to turn left at the junction. The group encounter a MSE-6 series repair droid, which tries to flee, but Burg shoots it with his blaster, much to Mayfeld's dismay. The group are attacked by four N5 sentry droids.
* The boarders take shelter from the blaster bolts at the edges of the corridor. Mayfeld reveals he has several blaster arms attached to his harness. Mayfeld thinks that the Mandalorian has abandoned them. However, the Mandalorian ambushes the security droids from behind and topples one by slicing its foot. He shoots at another. One of the droids grabs him and hurls him against a cell door. He engages in a fist fight with the droid before breaking free.
* The Mandalorian then uses his grappling cable to pull down another droid before ripping off its head. He burns one of the two remaining droids with his flamethrower before shooting off the head of the fourth droid. Mayfeld and his associates watch while the prisoners cheer and shout in alien languages. However, Mayfeld does not thank the Mandalorian and tells him to "clean up his mess." Zero helps them by redirecting the security alert away from their position.
* Approaching the control room, Mayfeld tells Zero to open the door to the room. They are confronted by a blue uniformed New Republic soldier who points his blaster at them and demands that they put down theirs. Mayfeld finds that the prisoner they are rescuing is in Cell 221. The Mandalorian and Mayfeld try to reason with the New Republic soldier, but he pulls out a tracking beacon, which will alert New Republic reinforcements.
* He demands that the Mandalorian remove the blaster from his face. The Mandalorian refuses and Burg points his blaster at him. Before a standoff can ensue between them, Xi'an lethally strikes Davan with her dagger. However, they realize that the dying OCAS activated the tracking beacon prior to her OCAS. OCAS warns that they have twenty minutes before the New Republic arrives.
* Xi'an replies they only need five minutes. On the way, they run into a black hover security droid, but Burg hurls the droid to the floor with brute force, knocking it out. A second hover security droid appears, but Burg hurls the fallen first droid at it, knocking it out. The two droids explode into flames.
* They eventually manage to reach the prison cell which Zero unlocks, after warning them they have fifteen minutes remaining. Inside the cell, they find the prisoner, Qin, whom the Mandalorian recognizes. Qin chides the Mandalorian for leaving him behind the last time he saved him. Burg throws the Mandalorian into the cell while Xi'an and Qin embrace, revealing they are siblings. Xi'an tells the imprisoned Mandalorian that he "deserved it."
* Meanwhile, Zero goes through the Razor Crest's transmissions and learns about the Mandalorian's troubles with Greef Karga. He tells Mayfeld and his team that they have ten minutes remaining. The Mandalorian traps a humanoid New Republic security droid walking past his cell with his grappling cable. The droid struggles, showering his cell with blaster bolts. He manages to disable the droid and recover one of its arms, using it to unlock the cell.
* The Mandalorian returns to the control room while Zero informs Mayfeld and his team that he has escaped. Xi'an is enraged and tells Mayfeld they should have killed him. However, the Mandalorian locks them behind blast doors, separating Mayfeld and Qin from Burg and Xi'an. Zero tells Mayfeld and his team that the comms are not working, and that they are on their own.
* Zero hears the Child's voice and sees the Child outside the cockpit; the droid is curious. Qin convinces Mayfeld and and the others to split up into order to kill the Mandalorian and find a way back to the ship. Xi'an demands that Zero give them a path. The droid fetches a blaster to hunt down the Child but he has slipped away. Qin demands that Mayfeld get him off the ship. When Mayfeld asks about leaving his sister behind, Qin ominously responds, "What about her?" before taking a blaster from Mayfeld. The Mandalorian watches Xi'an and Burg from the surveillance cameras. He grabs the tracking beacon.
* Qin convinces Mayfeld to hunt down the Mandalorian in return for getting triple what Ran is promising him. Mayfeld agrees, but tells Qin to keep his promises. While Xi'an and Burg hunt for the Mandalorian, Zero searches for the Child in the Razor Crest's cargo bay. The Child hides among the stored goods.
* Meanwhile, Burg enters the control room but is ambushed by the Mandalorian who chokes him with his grappling cable. Burg pulls him down the ceiling and the two fight in hand to hand combat. The Mandalorian unleashes his flamethrower on Burg, but is unable to slow down the Devaronian, whose skin is seemingly flame resistant. Burg hurls him against a console, and Xi'an hears the commotion in the control room. The Mandalorian hurls a knife at the blast door controls, causing the vertically closing blast door to crash down on him. However, he is able to hold the closing blast door up using his raw strength. The Mandalorian unleashes a second set of horizontally closing blast doors, which incapacitates Burg.
* Xi'an seeks vengeance against the Mandalorian and asks Zero where is he. Zero is preoccupied with hunting down the Child, who is hiding from him. Mayfeld shoots three humanoid security droids. Xi'an fights the Mandalorian with several knives but he manages to grab and subdue her. Mayfeld approaches a blast door and spots a mouse droid which spooks him. The Mandalorian ambushes Mayfeld from behind. Meanwhile, Zero hears a door opening from behind.
* Qin reaches the ladder leading back to the Razor Crest, but the Mandalorian catches up with him. Qin assumes that the Mandalorian killed the others, though the Mandalorian replies they got what they deserved. Qin convinces the Mandalorian not to kill him by offering him to pay him more than they were offering, reminding him that he was hired to do a job. Zero finds the Child hiding in his room. The Child raises his right hand. Just then, the Mandalorian appears and shoots the droid from behind. The Child looks at his right hand in surprise before turning around, seeing the Mandalorian holding his blaster.
* The Mandalorian leaves with Qin and the Child aboard the Razor Crest. He travels through hyperspace back to Ran's space station. The Razor Crest lands in the hangar and the Mandalorian returns with Qin. Qin embraces Ran. When Ran asks where the others are, the Mandalorian reminds him of the bounty hunting policy of asking no questions about the job. Ran pays the Mandalorian in cash, and the two reminisce about the "good old days." The Razor Crest then departs the space station.
* After the Mandalorian leaves, Ran activates a lift that brings up a gunship and tasks Qin with killing him. However, Qin finds that the Mandalorian has left the tracking beacon on him, allowing the New Republic to track them down. Three New Republic X-wing starfighters exit hyperspace, narrowly avoiding the Razor Crest. The three pilots, Trapper Wolf, Jib Dodger, and Sash Ketter pick up on the homing beacon and see a gunship being launched. After destroying the gunship, they strafe the space station.
* The Mandalorian takes the Razor Crest into hyperspace. The Child sits in the co-pilot seat. The Mandalorian gives him a ball from one of the levers to play with and says he told him it was a bad idea. Meanwhile, a bruised Xi'an, Mayfeld and Burg wake up to find themselves locked inside a prison cell aboard the New Republic prison ship.
* Fett and Shand travel through the Dune Sea on Fett's bantha. As night falls, Shand uses her gunsight to scout the grounds of Jabba's palace. She confirms that Fett's starship is there and asks how many guards are there. Fett is unsure and says that the guards rotate whenever the gates open. Shand sends one of her drones to take a closer look. The drone travels into Jabba's palace through a vent and flies through the hallway, avoiding a Gamorrean and Nikto guard.
* Continuing its search, the droid floats through the corridors. Two alien guards travel down a stairwell while the drone flies out. Meanwhile, Fett bids his bantha farewell, telling the creature that it served him well. He tells the female bantha that he is going to miss her as she licks him. He tells her to go, find other banthas and make baby banthas. He tells her that she is free to roam the Dune Sea.
* Shand questions Fett's decision to free his bantha until he has retrieved his ship. Fett replies that he is determined to reclaim his ship or die trying. He promises Shand that she will be free soon. When Shand asks what are his next plans, Fett replies that he will find his armor and kill that "bloated pig" who double-crossed him and take his throne. Shand asks if Fett wants to head a Gotra, which he is keen on doing.
* Shand notes that Fett is a bounty hunter. Fett says that he is tired of working for idiots who are going to get him killed. Fett says that Tuskens took him in and made him part of their tribe. He says that he decided to leave hunting behind. Shand replies that people like them don't get a choice about when they are done. Just then, the drone returns and provides them with a holographic map of the Slave I's location as well as the layout of Jabba's Palace. Studying the display, Fett observes that there are too many guards, who are represented by the red figures. Shand suggests timing their patrol and going in quiet.
* The two breach Jabba's palace through the sewers under the cover of night. In the kitchen, a chef droid and sous-chef droid are at work preparing food including a hot bubbling cauldron with a creature inside. As Fett and Shand come up through the drain, the chef notices the noise and asks what was that. The sous-chef droid assumes that the noise was caused by rats. The chef droid sends the sous-chef droid to find it while he contacts the rat catcher.
* The sous-chef droid approaches the drain but Fett knocks him down using the gutter cover. The chef droid brandishes six knives with his six arms. However, Shand slices his head off from behind with a knife. Fett says that nobody sounded the alarm. Shand replies they should get to the hangar. They hear footsteps approaching, which turns out to be an LEP-series rat catcher. Fett and Shand attempt to sneak away but the droid notices them and flees.
* Fett pursues the droid through the kitchen while Shand watches the door. As the droid scurries, he overturns several pots. He flees under a shaft beneath the oven but is cornered by Fett and Shand. Fett grabs the LEP droid and asks if he knows whom he is, prompting the droid to sob. Fett tells the droid that he is Boba Fett, prompting the droid to press a button deactivating itself in fear. Fett drops the droid in a rubbish bin and moves on, with Shand following.
* The two reach the hangar where the Slave I is stored, passing a PLNK-series power droid. Two Gamorrean guards enter the hangar but Fett and Shand subdue them in a brief fight, knocking them out. The two complement each other but klaxons ring. Several armed guards storm the hangar and Fett and Shand are forced to hide among the drums and machinery. A gun battle breaks out. Shand tells Fett to make sure the ship can still fly while she holds off the other guards. Shand takes out two of the guards while Fett climbs into Slave I's cockpit and powers up the ship.
* As more guards converge on the hangar, Shand blows up the PLNK-series power droid, causing an explosion that scatters several guards. She shoots four more guards while Fett powers up the ship. As reinforcements arrive, the Slave I's engines to come to life, scattering the guards. Shand climbs aboard the Slave I's gangplank. As a Gamorrean guard charges at the Slave I, Fett tries to lift up the ship into flight mode, scattering machinery and unnerving Shand who demands to know what he is doing. Fett replies that they need to get the gate open but that he can't see anything.
* Shand fights the Gamorrean guard on the hull of the Slave I. He hits her but she kicks him back and throws him off. As the Slave I ploughs through concrete structures, Shand fights a Nikto guard, who had climbed onto the ship's hull. Fett finds that the ship's guns are jammed. As Shand fights the Nikto, she tells Fett that she has an idea and tells him to close the ramp. Fett reluctantly complies and says he hopes that she knows what she is doing. Shand throws the Nikto guard off the ramp and enters the ship.
* She then fires her blaster at one of the controls for the gate, causing it the door to crash and giving an opening large enough for the Slave I to escape. As dawn approaches, the Slave I flies into the skies of Tatooine. Aboard the cockpit, Shand tells Fett that they should stick to the plan next time, to which Fett is confused about Fennec planning to stick around for a "next time". As she settles down in the co-pilot seat, Shand asks about the ship's condition. Fett replies that the Slave I is in good shape but a little rusty. Shand suggests seeking the services of mechanics on Mos Eisley. Fett prefers to do the repairs himself, believing that it is advantageous that people believe he is dead.
* Fett reminds Shand that her debt has been paid and asks where she would like to be dropped. Shand asks where he is headed, prompting Fett to reply he has a few scores to settle. Shand decides to go for the ride. The Slave I blasts off into the skies.

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* The Kintan Striders ride their speeder through the desert wastes of Tatooine. Just then, Fett and Shand catch up with them aboard the Slave I, blasting them from the air with laser cannons. Several bikes are destroyed and their riders killed or scattered. Fett uses a rocket to take out the lead bike. He then flies the Slave I away. He and Shand make eye contact before heading to the Great Pit of Carkoon, where the charred wreckage of the sail barge Khetanna and a cargo skiff lies.
* Fett tells Shand to hang on as he slowly brings the Slave I above the sarlacc pit. He tells Shand that this was where he had been locked away several years ago. Shand initially responds with disbelief, believing that the armor has dissolved inside the sarlacc's digestive system. The sarlacc is still alive, with several sharp horns lining its maw. As the Slave I descends into the sarlacc's maw, Fett says he can't see a thing. Shand warns him to be careful.
* He shines a searchlight into the creature's mouth, but finds no sign of the armor. Just then, the sarlacc awakens and latches onto the Slave I with its tentacles. Shand tells him to shoot it. Fett uses the ship's laser cannons to blast at the creature, but the sarlacc is too strong and attempts to drag the Slave I down. Shand unbuckles herself to flip a switch that's just out of her reach, releasing a seismic charge. The charge is lodged in the engine housing, but is jostled into the maw of the sarlacc, which swallows it. As Shand yells "fire in the hole," the seismic charge devastates the sarlacc, forcing the creature to release the Slave I. The Slave I is able to break free. Fett is grateful but warns her not touch his ship's buttons in the future.
* Later, Fett climbs back out of the sarlacc pit after having rappelled down on a rope in one last attempt to locate his armor, while Shand pulls on the rope. After returning from the dead sarlacc, he tells her that he found nothing but junk. Shand warns that Fett is burning and that he is not safe inside the creature. As she pours water on his head to cool his body down, Fett tells her that his armor is not in there. Shand opines that the armor has served its purpose by saving him from the acid. She recommends that he use a bacta tank. Fett pours the remaining water from the bottle on his head.
* Aboard the Razor Crest, the Mandalorian receives a hologram message from Greef Karga, the head of the Bounty Hunters' Guild. He tells the Mandalorian that the Client has imposed "despotic" rule over his city, which has impeded the Guild's business. The Guild considers the Client a mutual enemy but cannot get close enough to him to take him out. He offers the Mandalorian a proposition: to bring the Child back to Nevarro as bait to eliminate the Client. If he succeeds, the Mandalorian gets to keep the Child and Greef will clear his name with the Guild. He says that a "man of honor" should not live in exile and awaits the Mandalorian's response.
* The Mandalorian looks at the sleeping Child and reflects on Greef's offer before taking the Razor Crest to hyperspace. Arriving on Sorgan, the Mandalorian returns to the common house where his acquaintance Carasynthia Dune is engaged in a boxing match with a male Zabrak fighter. The two box while attached to a laser tether. The Zabrak is stronger but Cara manages to gain the advantage and defeat him. Several patrons as well as the bested Zabrak pay her.
* The Mandalorian soon enters with the Child, asking her if she's looking for some work. He tells her about Greef's proposition, adding that they are providing the plan and the firepower. Cara says she was advised to lay low since there is a bounty on her head. However, she changes her mind when the Mandalorian tells her that they are fighting against an ex-Imperial warlord.
* Aboard the Razor Crest, Cara asks if his contact knows she is coming. When the Mandalorian says Greef doesn't, Cara replies that this could be a problem but says that it is the contact's problem. The Mandalorian and Cara go to the armory to fetch weapons. Cara asks the Mandalorian if he trusts their contact. The Mandalorian confides he doesn't but says that they can't keep running from hunters and that the Guild won't stop hunting until the Child is dead. He says that he needs her help.
* Just then, the Child toys with the starship's controls, causing it to veer sharply. The Mandalorian and Cara regain control of the Razor Crest. Cara says that they need someone who can watch over the Child and asks the Mandalorian if he knows someone they can trust.
* They travel to Kuiil's moisture farm on the planet Arvala-7. Kuiil remarks that the Child hasn't grown much and thinks that he wasn't genetically engineered because he looks too evolved. The Ugnaught quips that Cara Dune was farmed in the Cytocaves of Nora. The Mandalorian introduces Cara and explains that she served as a rebel shock trooper. Kuiil says that he served on the "other side" as an indentured worker but paid his debts before freeing himself.
* A reprogrammed IG-11 enters, offering to serve some tea. Cara and the Mandalorian raise their blasters but Kuiil tells them to lower their blasters. Kuiil explains that he found IG-11 in the encampment and brought the disintegrated droid home; staking the flotsam as his own in accordance with the Charter of the New Republic. He repaired IG-11 despite little remaining of its neural harness. He explains that the droid had to relearn everything from scratch. While the droid had difficulty performing tasks, Kuiil spent time reinforcing its development with "patience and affirmation." He says that IG-11 came to develop a personality based on its experiences, becoming more skilled at its tasks. The Mandalorian still distrusts IG-11 but Kuiil insists that the droid will still protect. IG-11 offers tea.
* He later tells Kuill that he wants to hire his services. Kuiil is unwilling to put himself into another being's services since he freed himself from indentured service. The Mandalorian wants to hire Kuiil to look after the Child. Kuiil offers to reprogram IG-11 to serve as a nanny but the Mandalorian doesn't want that droid near the Child as it had tried to kill it. Kuiil says that IG-11 had been programmed to do so. He opines that droids are not good or bad but are neutral reflections of those who imprint them.
* The Mandalorian disagrees but Kuiil tells him to trust him. He insists that IG-11 will come along. Kuiil won't accept money but says he is doing it to protect the Child from Imperial slavery. He vows to make sure that the "old ways" are gone forever. The Mandalorian agrees and Kuiil convinces him to let the blurrgs come along as well.
* The blurrgs are penned aboard the Razor Crest's cargo hold. Cara Dune and the Mandalorian engage in a game of arm wrestling. Thinking the Mandalorian is in danger, the Child Force chokes her until the Mandalorian tells him that Cara is their friend. Kuill says that the Child is curious but Cara is frightened. Kuiil now understands the Mandalorian's encounter with the mudhorn but is unable to name the phenomenon. Cara questions how Kuiil walked free of Imperial indentured servitude. Kuiil says he bought his freedom with the skills of his hands and the labor of three human lifetimes; telling her not to doubt him.
* The Mandalorian enlists Kuiil's help in padding the Child's pram. Kuiil says this is a way to prove how he freed himself from servitude through his craftsmanship. While Kuiil works on the pram, the Mandalorian asks Cara if she had been to Nevarro. Cara hasn't been to Nevarro but says that the New Republic lost a lot of forces there. She explains that the city is dug in pretty deep and that there is no cover. Cara says that it stayed Imperial until the end of the Galactic Civil War.
* The Mandalorian says that the Client was a former Imperial officer and that he took out an Imperial safe house. He thinks there are more ex-Imperial forces there. The Mandalorian distrusts IG-11 and refuses to allow him to look after the Child.
* The Razor Crest lands in a remote part of Nevarro. They are met by Greef Karga and three other bounty hunters including a human, Nikto, and a Trandoshan. Greef explains that he had arranged for a rendezvous in a remote location because the town is now run by ex-Empire forces. The Mandalorian, Kuiil, and Cara ride blurrgs while IG-11 stays behind on the ship.
* Greef suggests that the former rebel shock trooper stay behind to guard the ship from Jawas in the lava fields. The Mandalorian insists that Cara is coming. Greef relents but advises Cara to cover her rebel tattoo. Greef also gets permission from the Mandalorian to look and hold the Child, whom he finds cute. Greef advises them to travel across the lava fields and find a place to camp for the night since it is approaching dusk.
* That night, they set up a camp fire and grill a four-legged beast. Greef remarks that the Child is a carnivore based on his eating habits. Greef and the Mandalorian go over the plan which involves entering the common house, show the Client the bait, and then kill him at the table. When the Mandalorian asks about his reinforcements, Greef claims that they are mercenaries but the Mandalorian is skeptical. Greef says that there are only four bodyguards and that nothing can go wrong.
* Just then, a native reptavian descends and bites Greef's arm. The traveling party is attacked by several winged beasts. The Mandalorian seals the Child in his pram. He and his companions fires at the winged creatures. The winged creatures capture a blurrg and the Trandoshan bounty hunter. One of the winged creatures tries to catch another blurrg but is shot dead. The blurrg is hit by friendly fire. The Mandalorian manages to drive the creatures away with his flamethrower.
* Greef's right arm is badly wounded by the winged creature, whose bite contains venom. Greef thinks that his end is near. Cara tells him not to be so dramatic and asks if anyone has medpacs. None of them do but the Child manages to heal Greef's arm with the Force. Greef, Kuill, Cara, the Mandalorian and the other bounty hunters are amazed by the Child's powers.
* On Tatooine, Fett captures a scurrier for him and Shand to share. The two hunters sit around a fire. When Shand questions his ambition to form his own house, Fett asks how many times she has been hired to do a job that was avoidable. He says that if only the crime syndicates took the time to think, they could saved many lives. Shand responds that their kind would then be out of work. Fett replies that he is tired of "their kind" dying because of the idiocy of others. He says that they are smarter than them and that it is time they took their shot.
* Fett says that if he is going to start a house, he needs both brains and muscles, which Shand has. Shand says it is tempting but replies that she is an independent contractor. She does jobs for him but values her freedom. Fett claims he can offer her something that no client has ever offered: loyalty. He offers to give her a cut of the success and pledge his life to protect hers. Shand replies that living with the Tuskens has made him soft. Fett disagrees and says that living with them has made him strong. He reasons that you can only get so far without a tribe.

### December

#### 1st

* On Nevarro, the group continues their journey. Greef's two remaining hunters attempt to ambush and kill the Mandalorian and Cara. However, Greef shoots his associates dead. Greef admits that their initial plan was to kill them and take the "kid." Greef says that he couldn't go through with it after the Child healed him. Greef convinces the Mandalorian and Cara to spare his life, saying that the Child won't be safe if he is killed. He tells them the Client is obsessed about the Child.
* Cara doesn't believe him but Kuiil convinces her and the Mandalorian to hear Greef out. Greef says they share a mutual interest in eliminating the Client. He proposes using the Child as bait to get to the Client. The Mandalorian comes up with a plan to turn himself in so that he can kill the Client. Cara thinks this is insane but the Mandalorian says that is the only way.
* The four come up with a plan to bring the Child's pram as a decoy but to send Kuiil and the Child back to the Razor Crest. Cara will come along with the decoy pram. The Mandalorian tells Kuiil to engage ground security protocols once he gets inside the ship. The Ugnaught vows to keep the Child safe and tells Cara to cover her stripes.
* Kuill rides back to the ship with the Child on the remaining blurrg while Greef and Cara bring the restrained Mandalorian and the pram to the town. They encounter two scout troopers on 74-Z speeder bikes at the gate. The scout troopers demand a chain code from Greef, who complies. The three find that the town is full of stormtroopers. Greef explains that the Imperials increased their presence after the Mandalorian busted their safe house.
* The three enter a cantina where they meet the Client and four stormtrooper bodyguards. Greef tells the Client that he and Cara have brought the Mandalorian and the Child. Greef takes an interest in the Mandalorian's beskar armor. The Client gets an RA-7 protocol droid to serve Greef a drink as a reward for closing their deal. The Client talks about the folly of Mandalore resisting Imperial expansion and claims that the Empire improves every system it touches; bringing safety, prosperity, trade and peace. He compares Imperial rule favorably to the state of the galaxy following the revolution, which he claims has only brought chaos and death.
* The Client asks to see the Child. Greef claims that it is asleep but the Client says they will be quiet. One of the stormtroopers informs Greef that he has received an urgent call. A stormtrooper sets up a holoprojector while the Mandalorian gets Greef to unbind his restraints and pass him a blaster. Cara thinks their odds are bad.
* The Client speaks with Moff Gideon who asks if they have brought the Child. The Client says that it is sleeping. Gideon tells him to check again. Death Troopers open fire on the cantina from outside, killing the Client and his stormtroopers while the Mandalorian, Cara, and Greef take cover behind a table. The RA-7 protocol droid is hit in the crossfire.
* The Mandalorian, Cara and Greef soon find the cantina surrounded by a row of Death troopers. An Imperial Troop Transport arrives carrying a contingent of stormtroopers. Cara realizes they are outnumbered. The Mandalorian contacts Kuiil by comlink and tells him to flee. However, their conversation is intercepted by the scout troopers, who race after Kuiil on their speeder bikes.
* Shortly later, Moff Gideon arrives on an Outland TIE fighter with retractable solar collectors. He exits the TIE fighter and tells the Mandalorian and his companions that they have something he wants. He claims that they have no idea what they have. As the Mandalorian contacts Kuiil, the scout troopers close in on their speeder bikes.
* Gideon says that the Child will be his in a few moments, as Kuiil approaches the Razor Crest and lowers the ramp. Gideon adds that the Child means more to him than they will ever know. The Mandalorian contacts Kuiil, but he does not respond. He and his blurrg steed had been shot dead by the scout troopers. A scout trooper scoops up the Child.
* The two scout troopers who have killed Kuiil and captured the Child travel to a rendezvous point near the Nevarro settlement. The first scout trooper contacts his commander via comlink and say they have brought the "Asset" and are awaiting further orders. The Child is kept in a knapsack and tries to peep out but the scout trooper slams him down. A voice on the comlink tells them to double check because Moff Gideon has already landed and taken out a squad of troopers.
* The second scout trooper asks if Gideon killed his own men. The first scout trooper doesn't seem to care and smacks the Child down again. The second trooper is curious about their asset but the first trooper is only concerned with following orders. The second trooper asks if he can see it but the first trooper reminds him that Moff Gideon killed several of his own troopers to make a point.
* The troopers bide their time by shooting (unsuccessfully) a nearby transmitter for target practice. The second trooper asks if they should offer the "thing" some water as a pretext for looking at it. The first trooper says he is not taking it out of the bag till they deliver the asset. He asks the commander for an update only to learn that Moff Gideon has killed an officer for interrupting him and that it could take a while.
* The second trooper convinces the first trooper to let him look at the Child. The second trooper thinks the Child is a pet but he bites his finger. The second trooper smacks the knapsack containing the Child while the first trooper says it serves him right.
* Just then, IG-11 appears, identifying himself as the Child's nurse droid and requests that they hand him over. The second scout trooper recognizes IG-11 as a hunter droid but the first trooper underestimates IG-11, dismissing him as a nurse droid. He tries to drive the droid away by firing his blaster pistol.
* However, IG-11 twists the first trooper's arm and throws him to the ground. He grabs the second trooper by his helmet and then slams him against the steering vanes of the speeder bike. After retrieving the Child, he mounts a bike and apologizes to the Child for the violence he had to witness.
* at the Nevarro cantina, the "Mandalorian", Cara Dune, and Greef Karga are trapped by Moff Gideon and his stormtroopers. The Mandalorian convinces his companions that they should flee to the sewers where his clan has a covert. While he searches for an access point, Cara and Greef watch Gideon's stormtroopers assemble an E-web heavy repeating blaster. The Mandalorian and Cara find the sewer vent underneath a seat.
* Cara tries to use her blaster to break the sewer vent. Hearing blaster fire, Moff Gideon warns the group that his troops have assembled a newer model E-web heavy repeating blaster. Gideon knows that Cara is an Alderaanian survivor who became a rebel shock trooper. He also knows the Mandalorian's name is Din Djarin, who lived through the Siege of Mandalore and the Night of a Thousand Tears where many Mandalorian recruits were mown down by the E-web blasters. Gideon also appeals to Magistrate Greef Karga, urging him and his companions to lay down their arms and surrender. Gideon threatens to raze their structure in short order.
* When Greef asks what he is proposing, Gideon offers reasonable negotiations. When Greef asks what assurances he is offering, Gideon warns that they cannot trust him since they have proven untrustworthy. Gideon says the only assurance that they have is that he will only act in his self-interest, which this time involves their own cooperation and benefit. He gives them until nightfall to consider his offer.
* Greef doesn't trust Moff Gideon to keep his promises. He proposes making a last stand in the cantina but Cara says they don't stand a chance against the E-web heavy repeating blaster. Cara wants to shoot her way out. Din Djarin recognizes their adversary as Moff Gideon. Cara is surprised that Moff Gideon is still alive since he was supposedly executed for war crimes. Din says that Moff Gideon knows his name, which hasn't been spoken since he was a child.
* When Greef asks if he grew up on Mandalore, Din says that he was not born on Mandalore. When Greef asks isn't he a Mandalorian, Cara explains that Mandalorians are not a race with Din clarifying that it is a creed.
* Din explains that he was a foundling who was raised and adopted as a Mandalorian. When he came of age, he was sworn to their creed. The only record of his name were in the registers of Mandalore. Din explains that Moff Gideon was an Imperial Security Bureau officer during the Great Purge of Mandalore. Din and his companions ascertain that Moff Gideon has not killed them yet because he is still waiting for the Child.
* Djarin contacts Kuiil on his comlink only to be greeted by IG-11, who has the Child. IG-11 tells the Mandalorian that Kuiil has been terminated but clarifies that he is fulfilling his base structure to nurse and protect.
* IG-11 rides his speeder bike into the Nevarro settlement, gunning down the stormtrooper and scout trooper sentries stationed at the gate. He then rides through the streets of the settlement, gunning down stormtroopers with his twin blasters including two who were haggling with a local Jawa. IG-11 fights his way through Gideon's troops outside the cantina.
* Cara comes to his aid by gunning down more stormtroopers with her repeating blaster. Din Djarin and Greef Karga join the fight, taking down several Death troopers. Despite taking a hit to his leg, IG-11 manages to protect the Child and bring it to safety. Din also guns down several stormtroopers using the E-web heavy repeater blaster cannon.
* A death trooper manages to blow open the cantina's door with a detonator. Death troopers storm the cantina but Cara guns them down. Moff Gideon corners the Mandalorian and shoots a box of ammunition, which explodes and wounds Din Djarin. Cara manages to evacuate the wounded Mandalorian while Greef, IG-11 and the Child retreat inside the cantina.
* Moff Gideon orders his forces to "burn them out." Inside the cantina, Cara tends to the wounded Mandalorian, who has suffered concussion injuries. Greef convinces IG-11 to help by unsealing the grate. Din tells Cara to leave him and rebuffs her attempts to remove his helmet. He tells her to protect the Child and to show his tribe his mythosaur necklace and explain that the Child is under his protection. Cara thinks they can make it.
* Just then, a red-striped incinerator trooper, who is equipped with a flamethrower, approaches the cantina. After setting the furniture ablaze, he enters the cantina. The Mandalorian wants to hold off the Imperials so the others can escape; Cara refuses to leave him.
* The incinerator trooper enters the cantina but the Child uses the Force to deflect the flames back at the trooper, driving him out. The Child falls asleep from the exertion just as IG-11 kicks the grate open. Cara, the Child, and Karga retreat inside the grate. Cara makes IG-11 promise to bring Din.
* The Mandalorian asks IG-11 to kill him but the reprogrammed droid points out that he is now a nurse droid rather than a killer. He convinces a reluctant Din to let him remove his helmet on the grounds that he is not a living being, a loophole in the Mandalorian creed. IG-11 removes Din's helmet and applies a bacta spray to treat his brain injuries.
* IG-11 and the Mandalorian soon rejoin Cara, Karga, and the Child in the underground tunnels. Greef proposes taking the lava river to the surface but Din Djarin warns that the Empire will be waiting for them and that they need Mandalorian escorts.
* Due to the bacta infusion, Djarin is able to lead them to the covert, where he finds the helmets and armor of numerous fallen Mandalorians. The Mandalorian kneels down beside his fallen comrades. When Din asks Greef if the Bounty Hunters' Guild had a role in this massacre, Karga says that his mercenaries melted away.
* The female Mandalorian armorer vouches for Greef and tells them that the Imperials arrived following Djarin's escape with the Child and slaughtered those that remained. The Mandalorian armorer thinks that some have escaped offworld. Djarin asks her to come with them but she refused to abandon this place until she has salvaged what remains.
* In the smelter, the armorer melts some metal to forge armor. When she asks about the Asset who has caused them so much trouble, Djarin shows her the Child, explaining that he also saved him from the mudhorn. The armorer remarks that it looks helpless. Djarin explains that it looks helpless but is not injured, explaining that its species can move objects with its mind.
* The armorer is familiar with Mandalorian legends about battles between Mandalore the Great and the Jedi, which she regards as an ancient order of sorcerers. When Djarin asks if the Child is an enemy, she replies that its kind were enemies but that this individual is not. She says that it is a foundling and that by creed it is his to raise. Djarin incredulously asks if the Armorer is really telling him to search the galaxy for a force of enemy sorcerers, and the Armorer replies simply: "This is the way."
* The armorer tells Cara and her group to take a tunnel which leads them to the lava river, which leads to the surface. The armorer tells them they must leave in order to protect the foundling until it comes of age, saying it is the way. She tells Djarin that he has earned his signet before applying a mudhorn signet on his right pauldron. She tells the Mandalorian that he is now a clan. Djarin vows to wear it with honor. Before Djarin and his group leader, she gives him a jetpack, telling him it would make him complete. She tells him to train with it.
* As stormtroopers storm the enclave, IG-11 guns down the advance party. The armorer stays behind and tasks IG-11 with taking care of the jetpack till Djarin is well enough to use it. She wishes them safety and waits for the stormtroopers insider the armory.
* When a stormtrooper demands to know where are the fugitives, she fights back with her tools, knocking them down. She shoves one into the smelter where he is incinerated. She also smashes a stormtrooper's helmet and knocks down several with her axe.
* Meanwhile, Djarin and his companions reach the underground lava river where they find a boat crewed by a seemingly fried ferry droid. After some attempts, Cara manages to use her blaster to separate the lava boat from the fiery lava river. The ferry droid comes to life. Translating for the droid, IG-11 says that he is asking them where they want to go. Greef tells the droid to take them downriver towards the lava flats.
* The droid rows their hover boat through the lava river. Several mammals scurry along the banks. As they approach the entrance, the Mandalorian spots a platoon of stormtroopers flanking the sides of the tunnel through his helmet scanner. Cara tells the droid to stop the boat. It ignores her, and she shoots off its head.
* Unable to stop the boat, IG-11 proposes that he would eliminate the enemy while they escape. Djarin says they are outgunned but IG-11 proposes self-destructing as per his protocol. The Mandalorian proposes that the droid help them shoot their way out but IG-11 thinks that they don't have a chance of success.
* IG-11 convinces Djarin to look after the Child so that he can default to his secondary command, which would allow the Mandalorian and the others to live and him to serve his purpose. Djarin says they need him but IG-11 points out that he has never been alive. The Mandalorian denies he is sad but allows IG-11 to walk through the lava river to face the stormtroopers and scout troopers.
* Reaching the mouth of the lava river, IG-11 states that his manufacturer's protocol says that he cannot allow himself to be captured before blowing himself up. The resulting explosion neutralises the platoon, allowing Djarin and the others to reach the plains safely.
* Moff Gideon circles them in his Outland TIE fighter and strafes them. Before he returns for a second round, Greef tries to get the Child to use his Force powers. With the Child unable to do so, the Mandalorian ignites his jetpack and pursues the TIE fighter. He uses his grappling cable to latch onto the TIE fighter.
* Unable to force his way into the cockpit, he tries to plant a detonator but Moff Gideon shakes it off. He plants a second detonator on its left joint, causing the ship to spiral out of control and crash.
* Djarin rejoins his comrades. Greef Karga is impressed with the Mandalorian's combat prowess and says that his bounty rates have just gone up. When the Mandalorian asks if there are more stormtroopers, Cara thinks they have cleaned up the town. She and Greef say they will stay around to make sure. Greef says that Nevarro is a nice planet with the "scum and villainy" washed away.
* Greef wants to recruit Cara into his Guild but she has clerical concerns. Greef says that the Mandalorian will be welcome back to the Guild with open arms. He tells him to go and enjoy himself. When he is ready to return, he will have the pick of all quarries. Djarin declines his offer, saying that he has more pressing matters at hand as he lifts the Child. Cara touches the Child's left ear and tells the Mandalorian to take care of this little one. Greef teases that it may take care of him.
* The Mandalorian returns with the Child to his ship Razor Crest. He buries his fallen friend Kuiil. In the cockpit, the Mandalorian allows the Child to keep his mythosaur necklace. The Razor Crest departs into space while Greef and Cara walk past.
* Meanwhile, several Jawas attempt to salvage Moff Gideon's wrecked TIE Outlander fighter. However, they are startled by a laser cutting a hole through the wrecked ship. Moff Gideon cuts his way out of the fighter with the Darksaber, a symbol of Mandalorian power and authority.

## 1987

### October

#### 5th

* Din Djarin and Grogu walk down a road in an industrial city towards a smaller house. Grogu sits in his repulsorlift cradle. Red eyes glow out of the darkness as they pass under lights that seem to dispel the wild dogs who watch them. Djarin knocks at the door and is greeted by a dark–skinned Twi'lek doorman, whom he asks to speak to Gor Koresh. The Twi'lek tells him to enjoy the fight before leading him into a makeshift arena where two Gamorreans fight with vibro-axes amidst the cheers of the crowd.
* Djarin sits beside the Abyssin, who remarks that this no place for a child. The Mandalorian replies that Grogu goes wherever he goes and that he has been "quested" to bring him to his kind. Djarin seeks Koresh' help in finding other Mandalorians who might help in his mission bestowed to him by "The Armorer." Koresh replies that it is uncouth to talk business and tells him to enjoy the entertainment. Grogu squirms as one of the Gamorreans knocks his opponent to the ground. Koresh urges the Gamorrean to kill his opponent, but the latter dodges out of harm's way.
* When Koresh asks if the Mandalorian likes to gamble, Djarin says he prefers to avoid gambling. Koresh replies that he bets on the information that he seeks that one of the Gamorreans is going to die in the next minute and a half. In return for the information, Koresh suggests that Djarin trade his beskar armor. Din responds that he is willing to pay, but that he is not leaving his fate up to choice. Koresh replies neither is he before shooting one Gamorrean, causing the spectators to flee as Koresh's associates come out with blasters aimed at Din.
* Koresh mocks Djarin for saving him the task of hunting Mandalorians to harvest their beskar armor. He says that beskar's value continues to rise and that he has profited from it. At gunpoint, Koresh demands that the Mandalorian surrender his armor or die. Giving Koresh one more chance to avoid hostilities, Djarin offers to spare his life if he tells him where he can find other Manalorians. When Koresh retorts that Djarin had earlier said he wasn't a gambler, the Mandalorian replies that he is not before activating his whistling bird, which temporarily blinds Koresh's thugs.
* After Djarin pushes Grogu away, he begins to fight with Koresh's thugs. The surviving Gamorrean fighter lunges at the Mandalorian, but misses and crashes on a wooden bench. The dark Twi'lek and a Zabrak man grab Djarin but he manages to break free of them. An alien with black curly hair and another Zabrak join the fight but the Mandalorian kills them with a blade. With his associates incapacitated or killed, Koresh attempts to flee Djarin.
* However, his attempt is short-lived as Din shoots a wire from his wrist to catch him in a snare. Djarin throws the wire over a pole, forcing Koresh to be hung by his feet. While hanging, Koresh pleads for mercy, offering to sell him the whereabouts of another Mandalorian in return for his life. Djarin responds that Koresh will not die by his hand before getting to business. Koresh tells Din about another Mandalorian that is rumored to live on Mos Pelgo on the planet Tatooine. Satisfied with the information, Din leaves Koresh hanging and begins to walk away with Grogu. After getting away from the light pole, Mando shoots out the light as the red-eyed creatures begin to swarm towards Koresh. Koresh screams as the animals descend upon him, and Djarin and Grogu leave.

#### 6th

* Din Djarin travels on the Razor Crest to Tatooine. As the ship descends into Tatooine's atmosphere, it flies over several hills and a Tusken Raider riding on his bantha steed. Din lands the Razor Crest at Peli Motto's hangar bay in Mos Eisley. Unlike his previous trip, Djarin allows the three DUM-series pit droids to service his ship, adding that the Crest needs a good "one-over." Peli remarks that he likes droids now before allowing them to work on the Razor Crest. She remarks that a lot has changed since Din was last in Mos Eisley.
* Peli is also delighted to see Grogu, saying that she had been worrying about him, and quips that she wishes she could have more of Grogu's kind. As the pit droids tangle with a coil, Peli warns her droids to be careful since the Mandalorian distrusts droids and warns them not to give their kind a "bad name." Djarin explains that he is here on business and needs her help. Peli offers to look after Grogu while he goes adventuring. Din responds that he is on a quest to bring Grogu back to his kind.
* Peli replies that she cannot help because she has never before encountered Grogu's kind. Din explains that the Mandalorian "Armorer" has sent him to seek one of his own kind. If he can locate one of his he can chart a path through the network of coverts. Peli says that he is the only Mandalorian that she has seen in years. While the droids work on the Razor Crest, Djarin asks Motto about Mos Pelgo, a city lost to time and from all maps. Motto explains how after the Empire's fall, the planet became a free-for-all in the power vacuum and the city was destroyed by bandits. After calling over her R5-series astromech droid R5-D4 to project a hologram of Tatooine, Motto shows where on the map it should be before the war; explaining that Mos Pelgo used to be an old mining settlement.
* Djarin begins his journey towards the forgotten settlement of Mos Pelgo on a Zephyr-J speeder bike after Motto informs him that anyone would spot his ship from far away. Along the journey, he encounters Tusken Raiders and sits around a fire with them.
* Continuing his journey, Djarin travels through the rocky passes into a flat desert plain. Eventually, Djarin finds the city and slowly rides along the main drag of shacks until he spots the small town's cantina. Djarin dismounts his speeder and leaves Grogu in his side pack, heading into the small establishment. Looking around at the empty interior Djarin inquires with Taanti, the Weequay bartender, as Grogu sneaks in the bar behind him. The bartender asks about a description for who he is looking for, and Djarin simply states that they would look like him. Taanti tilts his head back in recognition and asks if he means "The Marshal." Djarin turns to see The Marshal in the doorway, casting his shadow along the floor.
* The man wears a set of Mandalorian armor, previously worn by bounty hunter Boba Fett, does so callously, with chest plate and arm gauntlets standing out from normal undergarments. Djarin informs who he believes to be a Mandalorian that he's been searching for him for many parsecs and is excited to talk to him. Ordering two snorts of spotchka, the Marshal proceeds to grab the drinks from the Weequay and sit down at a table, inviting Djarin to a drink. Djarin begins to move towards the table when the other removes his helmet. He then states that he's never met a real Mandalorian, citing stories about their notorious ability to kill. He admits that he expects Djarin to be upset about him wearing the traditional armor of Mandalorians and announces that he believed a duel would ensue until he saw Grogu. He then reveals his name to be Cobb Vanth, the protector and marshal of Mos Pelgo, upon Djarin's request.
* When Djarin asks how he got the armor, Vanth tells him that he bought it off some Jawas. Din demands that he hand over the armor. Vanth replies that he understands that Din calls the shots where he comes from but that he is the one who tells folks what to do around here. When Djarin demands that he take it off, Vanth asks if he is going to do it in front of the "kid." Djarin replies that Grogu has seen worse. The two men agree to settle their dispute within the cantina. Before the two men can fight, they hear rumbling outside.
* Walking outside, they hear klaxons ringing. A pair of scurriers scurry away while a Bantha grunts. Several Mos Pelgo residents flee into their houses as a large monstrous shape swims under the sand, stirring up the ground beneath. The creature, a krayt dragon devours a Bantha that had been drinking water from a trough nearby. Vanth suggests that they can work something out. Meanwhile, Grogu emerges from a pot. Following the departure of the monster, the residents begin repairing the damage. Vanth explains that the creature had been terrorizing the area long before Mos Pelgo was established.
* Vanth explains that he has used this set of Mandalorian armor to protect the town from bandits and Sand People but that the krayt dragon is too much for him to take on alone. He offers to give the armor to Din in return for helping him kill the monster. Djarin accepts and proposes using the Razor Crest to blow the Krayt dragon out of the sky using the bantha as bait. Vanth warns this plan won't work because the krayt dragon senses the vibrations created by starships and can hide underground. Vanth offers to lead Djarin to where the Krayt dragon lives, which he says is not far.
* The two travel to the krayt dragon's lair, with Din riding his Zephyr-J speeder bike and Vanth riding a contraption made from a modified podracer engine. While riding through the dunes, Vanth explains that Mos Pelgo was on its "last legs" shortly after they got news about the second Death Star's destruction. While residents had cheered the Battle of Endor and the withdrawal of Imperial forces from Tatooine, their celebration was short-lived because the Mining Collective took advantage of the power vacuum to invade Mos Pelgo and turn it into a slave camp overnight. That night, Vanth had managed to escape with a camtono carrying silicax crystals.
* Vanth explains that he had wandered for days with no food and water when he encountered a Jawa sandcrawler. The Jawas saved his life in return for the camtono of silicate crystals. In addition to the full waterskin, Vanth used the crystals to obtain a suit of Mandalorian armor. Armed with the armor and ammunition, he expelled the Mining Collective from Mos Pelgo, using the rocket in his jetpack to destroy the fleeing thugs and their landspeeder.
* Din and Vanth travel through a canyon where they encounter a pack of massiffs. Din speaks to the beasts in Tusken, causing the beasts to act friendly towards them. As Din strokes a massiff, a group of Tusken Raiders approach. Using Tusken, Djarin communicates with the Tuskens. When Vanth asks what is going on, Din explains that they also want to kill the krayt dragon.
* Later that night, Din and Vanth sit by a campfire with the Tuskens. Din speaks with the Tuskens while Grogu nervously watches a massiff. The Tusken chieftain offers Vanth a drink from a black melon. Vanth is reluctant but Din explains that it is wise not to offend their hosts since the Tuskens are upset with the settlers for stealing their water and not drinking it. The Tusken chieftain is aware that Vanth had killed several members of his clan during a raid on Mos Pelgo. Vanth and the Tusken chieftain argue but Din silences the argument by firing a flamethrower. He tells the Tusken chieftain and Vanth that if they fight among themselves, the monster will kill them. Din turns his attention to the attention of killing the krayt dragon.

#### 7th

* Djarin, Grogu, and Vanth accompany the Tusken Raiders on banthas to confront the krayt dragon. While Din, Vanth, Grogu and the Tuskens watch from a cliff, a lone Tusken and his steed ride into a large cave, which one of the Tuskens explains is the home of the krayt dragon. Translating, Djarin explains that the krayt dragon lives in an abandoned sarlacc pit. Vanth says that he has lived on Tatooine his whole life and that there is no such thing as an abandoned sarlacc pit. Din disagrees, suggesting that the krayt dragon ate the sarlacc.
* Peering below with his macrobinoculars, Djarin explains that the Tuskens are laying out a bantha to protect a settlement. Having studied its digestive cycle for generations, Din explains that the Tuskens feed the dragon to make it sleep longer. After tying the bantha to a stake, the Tusken Raider calls out to the krayt dragon before running away. The krayt dragon emerges and soon devours the Tusken Raider but leaving the bantha. As Grogu scurries away in fear, the Tuskens react in horror. Djarin opines that the Tuskens may be open to some fresh ideas.
* Later, the Tuskens discuss a plan using bones and rocks to show the krayt dragon and them. Studying the model, Vanth and Djarin realize the sheer enormity of the krayt dragon. The plan involves Vanth's village. Later the two ride back on their speeders to Mos Pelgo. Vanth is unhappy about working with the Tusken clan, since they killed six of their miners less than a year ago. Vanth explains that he took down twice as many Tuskens. Din says that the town respects Vanth and will listen to reason. Vanth disagrees.
* At Mos Pelgo, Cobb Vanth convenes a townhall meeting, introducing the Mandalorian Din Djarin to them. When the Weequay bartender remarks that he has heard the stories, Vanth adds "then you would know how good they are at killing". Vanth explains that Djarin wants to claim his armor before talking about the krayt dragon's raids on their farm animals and theft of their mining equipment. Vanth warns that the krayt dragon might turn its attention to sentient beings and the school. Vanth says that the Mandalorian is willing to help them slay the leviathan in exchange for returning the armor to its ancestral owners.
* Vanth then explains that they can't take on the krayt dragon alone but that the Sand People are willing to help. A villager denounces the Sand People as monsters who raid their mines. Vanth responds that the krayt dragon could devour their town. Djarin speaks up for the Tusken Raiders, saying that they are brutal but that they have survived for thousands of years in the Dune Sea. While they are raiders, Din says that the Tusken Raiders will keep their word. He explains that they have struck a deal with the Sand People. In return for leaving them the krayt dragon's carcass and its ichor, the Sand People will stand by their side in battle and not attack this town unless one of the townsfolk breaks the peace.
* The townsfolk agree and begin assembling explosives and munitions. Later, the Sand People arrive on bantha steeds and begin loading explosives onto their banthas. One of the villagers argues with a Tusken Raider after he drops a shell. Vanth calms the situation down, explaining that it was an accident. After loading weapons, Din and Vanth travel with the Tusken Raiders and townsfolk towards the cave of the krayt dragon.
* A lone Tusken approaches the cave while Grogu watches from his cradle. The Tusken scout says that the krayt dragon is sleeping. After Vanth drinks a drink offered by the Tuskens, the townsfolk and the Tuskens get to work planting charges at the opening of the cave. The next stage of the plan involves provoking the krayt dragon into charging outside the cave. Once it has exited far enough, their plan is to set the detonators to explode. A girl named Jo hands Vanth the master detonator. He thanks her and tells her to stay safe.
* The Tuskens and townsfolk form a horseshoe-shaped array of ballistae outside the cave. Three Tuskens then approach the cave and make war cries, which awaken the krayt dragon. They then flee the cave as the krayt dragon emerges, causing the ground to shake. The Tuskens fire their ballistae, which pierce the krayt dragon's hide. However the beasts begins to withdraw into the cave. The townsfolk and Tuskens fire and hurl objects at the krayt dragon in an effort to lure it out. Using their ropes and ballistae, the Tuskens and settlers try to drag out the beast.
* As it advances, the krayt dragon vomits on them. When the krayt dragon is over the explosives, Din instructs Vanth to ignite them, causing the krayt dragon to fall into the sand. As the settlers and Tusken approach the blast site, Din and Vanth agree that it is not yet dead. The krayt dragon re-emerges from the top of a hill, spewing vomit on the Tuskens and settlers. Din and Vanth ignite their jetpacks and fly up to confront the krayt dragon while Grogu watches from his cradle.
* Jetting to the top of the hill, the two men fire at the krayt dragon, causing it to retreat underground. The krayt dragon soon returns and emerges behind the attacking force. At the instigation of Din, Cobb Vanth distracts the krayt dragon by firing rockets at it. Djarin tells Vanth to look after Grogu before hitting Vanth's jetpack, causing him to fly away to the flanks. After activating the detonators on a bantha steed, Din holds on to the bantha's reins as the krayt dragon swallows them both before disappearing underground.
* Meanwhile, Vanth lands at the edge of the battle. While Grogu, the settlers and Tuskens watch, the krayt dragon re-emerges. Din flies out of its mouth with his jetpack and detonates the explosives, killing the krayt dragon. The townsfolk and Tuskens cheer over the defeat of the krayt dragon.
* Later, the Tuskens harvest the flesh of the krayt dragon. Grogu eyes the meat while Din loads a block of meat onto his speeder bike. Djarin apologized to Vanth for not explaining his plan, but the Marshal understands. Honoring their agreement, Vanth hands the Mandalorian armor and jetpack to Djarin before telling him to tell his people that he did not damage the jetpack. A Tusken finds the krayt dragon pearl as the Tuskens cheer. Djarin rides away with Grogu and the Mandalorian armor and jetpack. As he rides into the sunset, Boba Fett watches him in the distance, before walking away.

#### 8th

* Doctor Pershing records a message for Moff Gideon, telling him that they need to stop their expirements as the prevous attempts have led to falliure.
* The Mandalorian Din Djarin and The Child race across the sands of Tatooine on a Zephyr-J speeder bike, returning to Mos Eisley following the successful hunt for the krayt dragon. In a gully ahead, a trio of raiders led by a Kajain'sa'Nikto set a trap by concealing a rope across the gully. As the bike passes, the raiders raise the rope, knocking Djarin off the bike, sending its cargo and The Child flying. Djarin uses his jetpack to steady his fall, and begins to fight off the raiders. An alien points a rifle at him, but Djarin uses his fibercord whip to pull the rifle away, knocking his two assailants out. The alien grabs the Child, holding a knife to his throat. Djarin threatens him at first, saying if he hurts the Child, there is nowhere he can hide, but then suggests a bargain, offering to trade the valuable cargo in the wreckage, including Boba Fett's armor and a hunk of krayt dragon meat. The alien considers the offer, then demands Djarin's jetpack. He agrees, removing the jetpack and placing on the sand. The alien places the Child on the ground, then grabs the jetpack and runs away. Djarin picks up the Child, then activates the jetpack with his wrist gauntlet controls, sending the diminutive alien high into the air and dropping him to his death.
* With his speeder bike destroyed, Djarin heads to Mos Eisley on foot, arriving at nightfall and heading to Chalmun's Cantina. At the Cantina, he finds Peli Motto playing a game of sabacc with Doctor Mandible. Motto sees Fett's helmet among Djarin's cargo, and asks why he found a Mandalorian and killed him. Djarin replies that he wasn't Mandalorian and that he bought the armor from him by killing the krayt dragon. Djarin laments that Cobb Vanth was his last lead on finding other Mandalorians, but Mandible says he may be able to help if Djarin covers his wager for the sabacc round to the tune of five hundred credits. Djarin reluctantly agrees after Motto tells him the insectoid is "on a hot streak," but when he places the bet, Motto reveals she is holding an Idiot's Array, and wins the round. Mandible agrees to send his contact to the hangar, who can reveal the location of other Mandalorians.
* At Motto's hangar, her Treadwell droid is roasting the krayt dragon meat using the heat of an engine blast. Motto enters the bay after speaking to Mandible's contact, telling the droid not to overcook the meat, which she prefers medium rare. She tells Djarin that there is a Mandalorian covert in the next system. She tells him the information is free—apart from her finder's fee—but that the contact wants passage to the system. Djarin agrees to the arrangement, but she also stipulates they must travel there without using the hyperdrive. Djarin says the deal is off, as sub-light travel is too dangerous. Motto insists there are mitigating circumstances, and introduces the contact: a female of a frog-like anthropoid carrying a canister containing several eggs floating in liquid. Motto explains that the cargo is the Frog Lady's spawn, which must be fertilized before the equinox to continue her family line—hyperspace travel will kill the eggs. Frog Lady's husband has settled on the estuary moon of Trask in the Kol Iben system, where Frog Lady confirms her husband has seen Mandalorians. Djarin agrees to take the job, and they board the Razor Crest.
* Djarin warns Frog Lady to stay strapped in, as sub-light travel can be "dicey," but he doesn't understand her language and she doesn't know Basic or Huttese. In the cargo hold, the Child gazes at the eggs, then approaches the canister, using the Force to pull the eggs toward him. Djarin enters the hold, and finding the bunk empty, turns to see the Child reaching into the egg canister and eating one. Djarin grabs him, saying that isn't food and not to do that again. He places the Child in his hammock, and settles into the bunk to get some sleep.
* Djarin is woken by an alert sound, and returns to the cabin. Two New Republic X-wings flank the Razor Crest, and Captain Carson Teva asks why the ship's transponder is not emitting. Djarin responds that his ship is pre-Empire surplus and isn't required to run a beacon, but Carson replies that the sector is now under New Republic jurisdiction, and beacons are required for all ships. Djarin promises to get right on it, and the pilot wishes him a safe journey. Just before they leave, they ask him to send them a ping. Djarin bluffs that the system isn't working, but the pilot is insistent, saying they can wait, but if they can't confirm he's not Imperial, they will have to escort him to the Adelphi outpost. Djarin sends the ping, and the pilots switch channels to speak to each other privately. Both starfighters set their S-foils to attack position, and ask if his ship has been in the vicinity of New Republic Correctional Transport Bothan-5. Djarin says nothing, but suddenly banks his ship toward the nearby planet of Maldo Kreis. Trapper Wolf remarks they've got a runner, and the X-wings pursue the Razor Crest into the planet's atmosphere.
* The Razor Crest sustains heavy damage pulling rapid manoeuvers in the planet's clouds and canyons to evade the X-wings. The ship eventually crash lands, sliding to a halt under a rock shelf, hiding it from the New Republic pilots, who split up to continue searching. As Djarin prepares to take off again, the ice beneath the ship gives way, dropping them into a subterranean cave. Djarin recovers, and wakes Frog Lady, who is worried about her eggs. Djarin descends into the cargo hold, picking through the wreckage until he finds the Child under some debris, eating another egg from the canister.
* Concerned about the dropping temperature, Djarin fetches blankets and ration packs for Frog Lady and the Child. The Frog Lady croaks insistently, gesturing towards the eggs, but Djarin cannot understand her, and recommends she get some sleep. He and the Child settle in a corner and rest. Frog Lady whimpers and groans, then covers her eggs with the blanket and looks around the hold, spotting some droid wreckage on a shelf.

#### 9th

* Djarin wakes suddenly to the voice of mercenary protocol droid Zero intoning "Wake up, Mandalorian!" He draws his blaster, but realizes that Frog Lady has bypassed the droid's security protocols to access its vocabulator in an attempt to communicate. Through the droid, she tells Djarin that the egg batch she carries is the last brood of her life cycle, and if they fail to get it to her husband on Trask, it will mean the extinction of her family line. Djarin says that the deal is off, and they'll be lucky to survive the night. Frog Lady replies that she thought honoring one's promise was part of the Mandalorian code, but perhaps that was just a story for children. Djarin sighs, and grumbling that this was not part of the deal, heads outside to begin repairs.
* The Child calls Djarin away from his repairs, and he realizes that Frog Lady has left the ship and walked away. They follow her footprints, eventually finding her sitting with her eggs in the pool of a hot springs in a cave. They begin to gather her eggs up to leave, while the Child notices clusters of a different kind of eggs scattered around the cave. He wanders over, cracking one of the eggs open and eating the baby spider inside. There is a rumbling sound, as all over the cave, the other eggs begin to stir and hatch. Infant knobby white ice spiders emerge, and begin to swarm around as Djarin scoops up the Child and the canister, and Frog Lady retrieves her clothes. A huge spider emerges, and they flee back to the ship, pursued by the swarm. Djarin throws grav charges at the cave walls and roof, collapsing it and trapping the large spider. They reach the ship, but the hull damage allows the spiders to swarm in. In the cabin, Djarin uses his flamethrower to burn the spiders swarming through the door, and Frog Lady uses a blaster to kill some that got through.
* Djarin starts the engines, but as the ship begins to ascend, the giant spider drops onto the ship, forcing it down. As the spider's legs smash through the glass of the canopy, it is hit by blaster fire from outside. The firing continues, killing many of the smaller spiders on the hull. Djarin heads outside, to find the two X-wing pilots shooting the spiders with their blaster rifles.
* When the spiders are gone, Carson tells him they ran the tabs on the Razor Crest, and that there is an arrest warrant on Djarin for the abduction of prisoner X-Six-Nine-Eleven. However, he then notes that security records show that Djarin had apprehended three wanted culprits, and risked his own life in an attempt to protect New Republic lieutenant Lant Davan. Carson tells him he should be arrested, but is willing to let him go in these "trying times." Djarin offers to forego the bounty on Burg, Migs Mayfeld, and Xi'an in exchange for help with repairs, but the pilots tell him to fix his transponder so they don't have to vaporize his ship next time, and depart.
* Djarin patches the canopy, and the three of them get into the cabin as it is now the only pressurized part of the ship. As the damaged ship heads off into space, The Child eats another of Frog Lady's eggs.
* The damaged Razor Crest flies over the gas giant Kol Iben towards the moon Trask. The Child and the Frog Lady are snuggled in the cockpit while the Mandalorian Din Djarin mans the controls. With the landing array not responding and the guidance system not working, Din is forced to a manual re-entry. He warns his passengers that it will be a choppy landing and hopes that once they enter the atmosphere, there will be enough fuel for them to land.
* As the Razor Crest descends into Trask's atmosphere, the ship begins to burn on re-entry. Djarin gets the Frog Lady's help in holding up the lever to slow the landing. On the surface, a Mon Calamari dock worker watches the ship landing. Trask flight control tells the Razor Crest to slow down its speed. Djarin engages the ship's rear thrusters in an attempt to slow down the descent. Din attempts to land the ship on a waiting landing bay. However, the landing struts break down and the Razor Crest tilts over into the sea below.
* The Mon Calmari watches with his hands on his torso as the Razor Crest is lifted out of the water by a Trask walker. After disembarking, Din speaks with the Mon Calamari dock worker, who offers to make it fly and to fuel it up. Amidst a crowd of Quarren and other aliens, the Frog Lady spots and calls out to her husband. The two embrace and celebrate the safe passage of the Frog Lady's spawn. Noticing the Child eye the eggs, Djarin promises to get him something to eat.
* After shaking hands, Din asks the Frog Man about finding other Mandalorians. A hooded human woman overhears the conversation before she disappears amongst the crowd. The Frogs lead Djarin and the Child to an inn which is frequented by Mon Calamari and Quarren. A Mon Calamari server directs Djarin and the Child to a table. Djarin orders a bowl of Trask Chowder for the Child. When the Mon Calamari server insist that he order something, Djarin offers to trade for information about other Mandalorians. The Mon Calamari server serves the child and says that others with beskar have been through here.
* The Mon Calamari speaks with a Quarren boatman while the Child tries his soup. A cephalopod creature surfaces from the soup and latches onto the Child's face. The Mandalorian pries the creature off the Child's face. The Quarren boatman speaks with Din, saying that he can bring him to others of his kind. He says that the Mandalorians are only a few hours sailing away but warns that it will cost him.
* The Mandalorian and the Child travel aboard a seafaring fishing vessel with several Quarren boatsmen. A Quarren asks Djarin if he has seen a mamacore eat, saying that it is quite a sight and that the Child might be interested. The Quarren lowers a net full of fish down an opening below the ship's deck. The mamacore quickly devours the fish. While conversing, the Quarren then uses his spear to whack the Child's repulsorlift cradle below the opening. A horrified Djarin shouts as the mamacore surfaces and swallows the cradle with the Child.
* The Mandalorian jumps after the Child and the Quarrens seal a metal grill trapdoor over the opening, trapping the Mandalorian. They intend to steal Djarin's armor and use pikes to force him underwater, hoping to drown him. Before the Quarren can finish him, several Mandalorians with jetpacks descend on the deck and fight the Quarren, killing them with at least one falling into the sea. A female Mandalorian opens the trapdoor and pulls Djarin to safety. He tells her that the mamacore has taken the Child. She jumps into the water while her two comrades help Djarin.
* The female leader reassures Djarin they had gotten this under control. She and her companion watch the underwater explosions beneath the trapdoor. Shortly later, the Mandalorian who helped Djarin resurfaces with her jetpack and the Child's cradle. The cradle is damaged but the Child is alive. The three Mandalorians stand while Din thanks them. As Din explains his quest to reunite the Child with his kind, the three Mandalorians remove their helmets, revealing themselves as Bo-Katan Kryze, Axe Woves, and Koska Reeves.
* When Djarin asks the Mandalorians where they got their armor, Kryze replies that the armor has been in her family for three generations. Djarin is suprised that they don't cover their faces and says they are not Mandalorian. Woves remarks that Din is one of them while Kryze remarks dank farrik. When Djarin asks what Woves means, Kryze introduces herself as Bo-Katan of Clan Kryze and says that she was born on Mandalore and fought in the Great Purge of Mandalore. She says that she is the last of her line and that Djarin is a Child of the Watch.
* When Djarin inquires about the Watch, Kryze explains that the Children of the Watch are a cult of religious zealots that broke away from Mandalorian society. Their goal is to re-establish the ancient way. The Child coos while Djarin responds that there is only one way, which he describes as the Way of the Mandalore. Djarin turns his back and rockets away from the ship as Kryze and her followers watch. At dusk, the three Mandalorians depart on their jetpacks but not before destroying the fishing vessel in an explosion. The Mandalorian and the Child watch from the shore.
* Later that night, Djarin is walking through the streets of the Trask port when he is accosted by the Quarren boatsman's brother. He and several Quarren converge on Djarin, who demands that they let him pass. The Quarren brother responds that he is going to kill the Child, whom he mistakes for a pet. Before the Quarrens can attack, Kryze and her comrades arrive. Kryze responds that she killed his brother before the Mandalorians eliminate the hostiles. Kryze offers to buy Djarin a drink, which he obliges.
* At the bar, Kryze explains that Trask is a black market port and that they are staging weapons that have been bought and sold with the plunders of Mandalore. She explains that they are seizing those weapons and using them to retake their homeworld. She plans to seat a new Mand'alor on the throne. Djarin replies that Mandalore is cursed and that everyone who goes there dies. Once the Empire knew they could not control it, they made sure no else could either. Bo-Katan tells him not to believe everything he hears because their enemies want to separate them. She says that Mandalorians are stronger together.
* Djarin says this is not part of his plan because he has been quested with returning the Child to the Jedi. When Kryze asks what he knows about the Jedi, Djarin admits he knows nothing about them and says he was hoping that they would help him by Creed. Reeves slurps on a tentacle while the Child coos. As the other Mandalorians watch, Kryze offers to lead Djarin to a Jedi but asks him to help on a mission.
* Later that night, Kryze shows Djarin an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser, which is being loaded with weapons. According to the port's manifest, it is scheduled to depart at first light. Djarin asks if their plan is to stow away. Reeves says that their faction has been hitting them pretty hard and that the Imperials scan for lifeforms as a precaution before pushing back. Djarin remarks that if there are four of them, they have to have the element of surprise.
* Kryze says exactly and explains that the freighter will travel at trawler speed inside the shipping lanes and then ascend into orbit. She says that they will jet up when the freighter is cruising at low speed in Trask's atmosphere. Kryze explains that the tower won't allow them to climb until they have left the port's airspace. When Djarin asks if there will be stormtroopers aboard, Kryze believes that there will be at least one squad. Woves quips that the Imperials could not hit the side of a bantha.
* Before embarking on the mission, Din visits the Frog Lady and Frog Man. He convinces them to babysit the Child. Before leaving, he warns the Child to behave himself and show his hosts respect. The Frog Lady allows the Child to watch the casket of eggs as the first spawn emerge.
* At dawn, the Gozanti-class cruiser departs Trask, flying at low speed. The Mandalorians fly behind the freighter and take out the stormtroopers guarding it, throwing them overboard. One of the stormtroopers manages to warn the rest of the crew about the presence of "pirates." At the bridge, the Imperial captain informs the bridge crew that they are dealing with pirates as one of the stormtroopers is thrown against the cockpit window. The captain orders his stormtroopers to guard the hall and the bridge crew to seal the hatch.
* The Nite Owls and Din Djarin force their way inside the ship and fight more stormtroopers. More stormtroopers arrive and the Mandalorians fight their way through the hallway of the ship towards the cockpit. In the cockpit, the Captain asks what is going on and how many are there. The stormtrooper says it is hard to say and believes that there are at least ten intruders. The deck officer says that the live readings only pick four foreign lifeforms. The stormtrooper warns that they are Mandalorians before being taken out in combat.
* The deck officer reports that the Mandalorians are heading to the cargo bay. When the Captain asks how long until they clear the atmosphere and make the jump into hyperspace, the freighter pilot reports that they can't climb until they have left the harbor. The captain orders the pilot to climb immediately. As the freighter ascends, the Mandalorians encounter another squad, whom they disorientate with smoke grenades before shooting them down. In the cargo bay, more stormtroopers arm themselves with blasters while one of the bridge crew informs the security officer down there that the intruders are heading his way.
* The Captain orders him to hold them off until they can make the jump into hyperspace and rendezvous with the Imperial fleet. The security officer orders his men to hold them off until they can make the jump into hyperspace. The stormtroopers wait outside the turbolift. The Mandalorians soon arrive and fight their way through the Imperials. The security officer orders his men to close all of the blast doors, seemingly trapping the intruders. The security officer informs the Captain he has trapped the Mandalorians inside the cargo control area to the dismay of the Captain. The security officer and his remaining stormtroopers are sucked out of the cargo bay as proximity alarms ring.
* The deck officer asks the security officer if he copies. Kryze replies and thanks the Imperials for packing up the weapons nicely, saying that the weapons will be useful for a division of Mandalorians. The Captain threatens to hunt them down in retaliation if they jettison everything. Kryze responds that she and her Mandalorians plan to take the entire ship, telling him to put some tea on while waiting. Djarin is surprised and tells Kryze that this is more than he signed up for. Kryze replies that there is something that she needs in order to rule Mandalore and says that the Imperials know where it is and that she will find out soon.
* She plans to use the freighter for the battles ahead. Djarin responds that he got her the weapons and says that he has to return to his ship with the foundling. Kryze tells him that if he wants to find the Jedi, he will help her take the Imperial freighter. Din protests that she is changing the terms of the deal. Kryze responds that this is the way before walking away. Din decides he has no choice.
* The Captain contacts Moff Gideon via hologram and informs him about the pirate hijacking. The Captain requests reinforcements. When Moff asks if these are the same "pirates" that attacked their other vessels, the Captain confirms this is the case. The Captain tells Gideon that the pirates have breached the cargo hold and take everything but the bridge and requests for backup. Gideon responds that sending reinforcements is no longer feasible and tells him that he knows what to do before saying "Long live the Empire".
* The Captain replies "Long live the Empire" before shooting the deck officer and pilot dead. Taking control of the freighter, he attempts to crash the freighter. Realizing the Captain's intentions, Kryze and her Mandalorians fight their way to the bridge, clashing with a squad of stormtroopers who are armed with heavy repeating blasters. With the Imperial freighter rapidly descending, Djarin convinces the other Mandalorians to provide covering fire as he charges into the path of the remaining stormtroopers. He manages to throw two grav charges, which incinerate the opposition.
* The Mandalorians force their way into the cockpit and disarm the captain. Bo-Katan threatens the Captain with a knife and demands to know the location of the Darksaber. The Captain responds that she already knows while Djarin and Reeves stop the ship's descent, narrowing missing a buoy at sea. They bring the ship back into normal flying altitude. Bo-Katan offers to spare the Captain's life but the Captain responds that his master won't be so merciful and bites a suicide shocker, which kills him.
* Reeves says they have to go because the Imperial has already sent a distress signal. Bo-Katan tells Reeves and Woves to prepare to jump into hyperspace. Kryze asks Djarin if he won't be joining them. Djarin responds that he still has his task to do. Bo-Katan replies that the offer stands if he changes his mind. Djarin asks where he can find the Jedi. Removing her helmet, Kryze tells the Mandalorian to take the foundling to the city of Calodan on the forest planet of Corvus, where he will find Ahsoka Tano. She tells him to tell Tano that he was sent by Bo-Katan and thanks him, saying that his bravery won't be forgotten. She says that this is the Way. Djarin answers in unison before departing through one of the airlocks.
* Back at the Frog couple's home, the Child is playing with a tadpole under the parents' supervision. Djarin returns and thanks the couple for looking after his foundling. He congratulates the couple for their children and declines their offer for more pets. At the port, the Mandalorian is not impressed with the Mon Calamari dock worker's job, having paid 1,000 credits to repair the ship.
* Din enters the cockpit of the Razor Crest and places the Child in the co-pilot's seat. Djarin grumbles about Mon Calamari before preparing the partially repaired ship for departure. As the ship rumbles during takeoff, a tentacled creature surfaces and climbs several cables. It descends on the Child, but the Mandalorian catches it right before making contact. Djarin tells the Child that he finally knows where he is taking him but warns that it will be a bumpy ride, as the Child slurps up the last tentacle of the creature. The Razor Crest departs Trask before jumping into hyperspace, and a small piece of the ship falls off in the process.

#### 10th

* The partially repaired Razor Crest travels through space. The Mandalorian Din Djarin and the Child work together to repair the ship but the Child is unable to understand Din's instructions with the red and blue wires. Djarin tells the Child to keep them apart but he almost electrocutes himself. While the Child has some soup, Djarin realizes that they are unable to travel directly to Corvus due to the state of the ship. He decides to visit some friends on Nevarro for repairs.
* Meanwhile, the former Armorer's workshop is now a hideout for Aqualish robbers, with its furnace serving as their kitchen fireplace. The robbers are debating over their loot and preparing to kill and eat a lava meerkat for a meal. Before they can butcher the creature, one of the Aqualish hears some movement and realizes someone is around. The Aqualish sport their blasters but are ambushed by Carasynthia Dune, now the Marshal of Nevarro, who engages them in physical combat. She quickly bests them in combat and uses one of them as a shield. After eliminating the hostiles, she goes through their stolen goods and befriends the lava meerkat, telling the creature that no one is eating it today and that it is free. She gives the lava meerkat some food before returning their stolen property to their rightful owners.
* Meanwhile, Djarin lands the ramshackle Razor Crest on the outskirts of Nevarro City. He and the Child are met by Greef Karga, now the Magistrate of Nevarro, and Cara Dune. Seeing the damaged state of the ship, Greef offers to repair Djarin's ship. Din asks how much his credits are worth around here. While stroking the Child's face, Cara says that they can work something out. Greef instructs some workers to fix Din's ship before carrying the Child, teasing him playfully. One of the workers is a Mimbanese who takes an interest in Djarin and the Child.
* While walking through the streets of Nevarro city, Djarin notices that the town is bustling with traders. Karga says that he is busy with clerical work and credits Marshal Dune with enforcing law and order in the town. Cara notices that the Razor Crest is not looking so good. Din mentions his run-in with the New Republic, whom Karga believes should leave the Outer Rim Territories alone. If the Old Empire couldn't settle it, Karga reasons that the Republic won't do better.
* Karga and Dune lead Djarin and the Child inside a school (the former local cantina) where a protocol droid is teaching a class. She asks her students who can name the five major trade routes in the galaxy. She suggests the Corellian Run while a boy names the Hydian Way. Dune explains that things have changed around here. Karga suggests leaving the Child behind but Djarin insists that the Child follow him wherever he goes. Karga tells Din that where they are going, he wouldn't want to take the Child. Dune backs Karga up, saying that he will be fine here. As the protocol droid talks about trade routes and galactic geography, the other children take an interest in the Child.
* While the protocol droid talks about the former galactic capital Coruscant and the New Republic's current capital of Chandrila, the Child makes eye contact with a boy with a blue bandanna. The protocol droid drones on about the Akkadese Maelstrom which surrounds the planet Kessel and its three moons. The Child asks the boy for something he is chewing but the boy refuses to share. While the droid talks about Kessel, the Child uses the Force to levitate the boy's snack and proceeds to eat the cookies.
* Meanwhile, Djarin enters Karga's office with Karga and Dune. "The Mythrol," whom Djarin captured earlier, is talking about ship records when he sees the armored Mandalorian enter. The Mythrol and Djarin are mutually surprised by their encounter. Karga explains that the Mythrol has been taking care of his books since he was a pollywog but had disappeared one day after some "creative accounting." The Mythrol says that Magistrate Karga was generous enough to allow him to work off his debt, which Karga says would take 350 years to pay off. Djarin offers to track him down if he runs away again. The Mythrol promises not to misbehave, saying that he does not want to spend any more time in carbonite. He says that he still can't see through his left eye.
* Dune then talks about business. Djarin says that he is only here for repairs but Karga points out that the repairs would take a while, meaning that he has some free time on his hands. Karga adds that they could use his help. Dune shows Djarin a holographic map of their landmass on Nevarro, which is mainly safe. Karga and Dune brief Din about an old Imperial base, which has been here since the Imperial expansion. Dune says it has a skeleton crew but has not been abandoned for some reason.
* Karga hopes to benefit from the sale of Imperial weaponry on the black market. When Djarin asks if he wants him to mop them up before the black market gets to them, Karga explains that he just wants the Empire off his planet. If they can take out the last Imperial outpost on Nevarro, they can be completely safe as a trade anchor for the entire sector. Dune adds that the planet will finally be free. Djarin asks what they are looking at.
* Later, Djarin travels with Karga, Dune, and the Mythrol on a silver landspeeder through the lava flats of Nevarro. Karga explains that the base is powered by a reactor. Dune's plan is to infiltrate the base, overload the reactor, and escape the base. Din warns them to be fast and to keep the speeder running. The Mythrol asks how close they want him to drop them off and expresses fear. Karga offers him two choices: taking them in and having 100 years knocked off his debt or letting him walk home alone on the lava flats with his humidity vest. The Mythrol decides to comply for his own safety and benefit.
* While the Mythrol waits outside, Djarin, Dune, and Karga try to enter the base but find that the controls have melted due to the heat. The Mythrol wants to head back in the landspeeder but Karga orders him to stay put until he says otherwise. The Mythrol starts to complain about the danger to his gills. Karga offers to knock another 30 years off his debt if he gets the flange cutter and helps them out. The Mythrol obliges and gets to work on the door while the Mandalorian spots a platform above and rockets up in his jetpack. Dune grumbles about the Mythrol's slow progress with the latter countering that his tool is designed for light plumbing.
* Shortly later, a stormtrooper is thrown to the ground by Djarin. The Mythrol wants to wait outside but Dune warns that the lava tide will be coming in soon. The Mythrol decides to follow them inside. Reaching the top of the platform, the group find that Djarin has taken out several stormtrooper sentries, proving that the base is not empty. Karga says that reactor should be set in the heat shaft and that if they drain the cooling lines, the whole base will go up in a matter of minutes.
* The Mythrol spots a mint Trexler 906 Armored Marauder, which is valuable on the black market. Din adds that it is going to get vaporized like the rest of the base, causing the Mythrol to grumble. The four enter a hangar full of speeder bikes. In the command center, an Imperial security officer contacts shuttle bay after noticing that their security feed has gone down. He asks if they can check their relay hub but is ambushed by Dune, who chokes him to death.
* Din switches off the camera feeds while Karga and the Mythrol rob the dead officer with the former taking his code cylinder, which he believes will come into handy. Venturing deeper into the base, they head towards the access corridor and pass two stormtroopers. The Mythrol uses the code cylinder to slice through the door, leading them into the base's reactor which is fueled by a lava seam below. They task the Mythrol with getting onto the controls and tampering the coolant lines while they guard the door. The Mythrol is afraid of heights and lava but Din threatens to put him back into carbonite. The Mythrol accesses the control console and gets to work, shutting down the coolant lines.
* The four of them then flee the reactor core and head back to the corridors. They overhear a stormtrooper ordering his comrades including 5387 and 5389 to follow him while he calls reinforcements. The four stumble across a pair of Imperial scientists purging the drives. Seeing the intruders, one of the scientists orders his colleague to destroy it while he exchanges fire with them. Both scientists are shot during the gunfight.
* Djarin, Dune, Karga and the Mythrol find several tanks containing several deformed beings. Dune and Karga realize that the Imperial facility is not a forward operating base but is a laboratory. She decides that they need to hack into the system in order to figure out what is going on. The Mythrol reminds them about the reactor but Dune orders him to slice the systems. Djarin says he doesn't like what is going on.
* The Mythrol uncovers a transmission from Doctor Penn Pershing who talks about replicating the results of the subsequent trials, which also resulted in "catastrophic failure." Despite promising effects, the body rejected the blood. Pershing doubts that they would find another donor with as high of an M-count, referring to midi-chlorians. He recommends suspending all further experiments and fears that the volunteer will meet the same "regrettable fate" if they proceed with the transfusion. Pershing says they have exhausted their initial supply of blood from the Child. He warns that if the experiments are to continue, they would need access to the "donor." Pershing vows not to disappoint Moff Gideon. Djarin thinks Moff Gideon is dead and that the transmission is old. The Mythrol reveals that the transmission is only three days old. Djarin realizes that if Gideon is alive, the Child is in danger.
* The group are attacked by stormtroopers and a gun battle ensues. Mythrol helps Din, Dune, and Karga take down the advancing stormtrooper patrol. Djarin realizes that he has to retrieve the Child. Dune advises him to head back first on his jetpack. The other three flee through the corridors but are pursued by more stormtroopers. Cara, Karga and the Mythrol eliminate these stormtroopers and fight their way through the base. Meanwhile, Djarin fights through more stormtroopers, taking them down. He flees into the reactor chamber and rockets his way out. Reaching the surface, he takes out three more including one who plunges into the lava flow.
* With the Mythrol's help, Dune and Karga reach the shuttle bay but are cornered by more stormtroopers, who have exited a turbolift. Dune gets the others to cover her while she commandeers a Trexler Marauder. She evacuates Karga and the Mythrol. After finding one exit blocked, Dune drives the cruiser over the shuttle bay and lands on top of the Mythrol's silver landspeeder, crushing it in the process. As the three escape, they are pursued by a squad of scout troopers riding 74-Z speeder bikes. Some of the riders crash their bikes on the rocky lava fields below but three of the riders manage to track down the Repulsorlift vehicle.
* Karga uses the Marauder's laser turret to exchange fire with the scout troopers, taking one of them down. However, the remaining two scout troopers ride their bikes beside the Marauder and fired into the cockpit. Dune manages to crush one of the scout troopers and his bike using the Marauder, eliminating him. However, a second scout trooper manages to climb onto the armored vehicle and attempts to plant a grenade. However, Karga spots him and uses the laser turret to blast him to shreds.
* Four Outland TIE fighters escape the Imperial base before it is consumed by the lava explosion. The Mythrol cheers and Dune says they are headed home. The TIEs fly above the canyon, homing in on the Trexler Marauder. Karga vows to take care of the TIEs and fires at them and the rocks. The TIEs strafe the Marauder with Karga missing. Karga asks Dune to drive faster. Karga manages to shoot down one of the TIEs but it crashes nearby and the resulting debris damages the turret cannon, leaving the vehicle defenseless.
* Exiting the canyon, trio race the Marauder across the lava fields with the TIEs in hot pursuit. As they approach the city, the Razor Crest appears and takes out a second Outland TIE fighter. With the Child in the co-pilot seat, Djarin tells him to hang in there as he pursues the remaining TIEs into space. In the upper atmosphere, the Mandalorian takes out a third TIE fighter before descending into the skies and taking the fourth fighter out in a frontal assault. Dune, Karga and the Mythrol watch the battle from below. Djarin compliments the Child who vomits on his tunic.
* Back on the ground, Karga asks the Mandalorian what he owes him. Djarin replies with the repairs, wanting to make it even. Karga offers to buy Djarin a drink but the Mandalorian responds that he has some onboard maintenance to take care off. He tells Karga, Dune, and the Mythrol that they have to catch the road before Gideon comes back after them. The three watch as the Razor Crest lifts off into space.
* Later, New Republic starfighter pilot Captain Carson Teva questions Karga about the destruction of the Imperial base on Nevarro. Karga claims he can remember nothing before the base exploded and denies sighting the Razor Crest. Teva reiterates his question about the Razor Crest but Karga insists that he never said anything about that ship. Teva reminds him about his control log but Karga claims that the control droid can't tell apart anything pre-Imperial and reminds the Captain that this is not Coruscant. When Teva asks if he has anything else to add, Karga says that he has nothing else to add but promises to send more information in a gram if something pops up. As the Mythrol watches, Karga says that is if he ever comes back.
* Teva speaks with Dune, who is feeding the lava meerkat. He compliments her work in cleaning up Nevarro. Teva wants to recruit the former soldier but Dune says that she is not a joiner. Teva says that there is something going on out here. He says that the people of the Core Worlds do not believe it but insists it is true. Teva says these are not isolated incidents and that they cannot be dealt with effectively without local support. Teva recalls that the records say that Dune was from Alderaan.
* Seeking to build a rapport with her, Teva tells her that he served on Alderaan. Dune remains silent until Teva asks if she lost anyone. Dune replies that she lost everyone. Teva apologizes for her loss before leaving behind a badge bearing the insignia of the New Republic. Dune watches as he walks away.
* Aboard a light cruiser, an Imperial comms officer talks with the Mimbanese worker who tells her that the homing beacon has been planted as she requested. The officer thanks her, saying that she will be rewarded in the new era. The comms officer then enters a chamber where Moff Gideon is watching as several Imperial scientists work in a laboratory.
* The comms officer tells Gideon that their spy has planted a tracking beacon on the Razor Crest. She also confirms that the Mandalorian still has their "asset." Gideon vows to be ready as he turns to gaze at rows of dark troopers who remain in stasis.
* Mercenaries sound the alarm at the gate of Calodan on the planet Corvus. The former Jedi Ahsoka Tano battles Scout Guards wielding her dual white lightsabers outside the city, uses the Force to snap a twig, distracting them as she emerges and fades into the mist, taking multiple hostiles down while they retreat. She confronts Morgan Elsbeth, also known as The Magistrate, and demands that she give up the information she possesses about Grand Admiral Thrawn.
* The Magistrate refuses and offers to spare the lives of the city's inhabitants in exchange for peace. Tano counters that the people already suffer under her rule and issues her own ultimatum: that the Magistrate surrender or face the consequences. She gives the Magistrate one day to decide before leaving. The gunslinger Lang tells the Magistrate that he and his troops will be ready when Tano returns. The Magistrate orders her guards to cage a male prisoner whom they had brought to the battlements during the parley with Tano.

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* Din Djarin prepares for landing as the Razor Crest exits hyperspace and arrives at Corvus. Half of the planet appears to be green and forested while the other half appears to covered in darkness with red scars. He asks the Child to settle back into his seat as he is starting the landing sequence. After Djarin reiterates his instruction, the Child reluctantly listens and reaches into the Force to unscrew the joystick ball, summoning it into his hands. The Razor Crest cruises over the city and lands in the nearby woods. Djarin retrieves the joystick ball and slips it under his armor.
* After the Razor Crest lands, the Child follows Djarin down the gangplank. Djarin tells the Child to remain aboard the ship, warning that he has never dealt with a Jedi before. Due to the Child's persistence, Djarin changes his mind and decides to bring him along, reasoning that he can help them find a lead.
* Djarin arrives at the city gate with the Child hidden under his cloak. The gunslinger Lang recognizes him as a Mandalorian hunter and allows him to enter the city after Djarin confirms that he is associated with the Bounty Hunters' Guild. While walking through the streets of Corvus, Djarin notices that the citizens are impoverished and dejected. An 8D-series smelter droid walks past him.
* Djarin speaks to a vendor named Wing, seeking information about the Jedi. Wing sends his two children away and pleads with the Mandalorian not to speak to any of them. Two armored mercenaries approach Djarin and summon him to meet with the Magistrate. The mercenaries escort Djarin along the main street where multiple inhabitants are being tortured in electrocution cages.
* A guard admits Djarin and the Child through a second set of gates which leads them into a villa with a bridge and moat. The Magistrate tells Djarin to come forward, asking if he is a Mandalorian. After confirming he is one, the Magistrate tells him that she wants him to kill a Jedi who is plaguing them. When Djarin responds that this is a difficult task, the Magistrate attempts to exploit the historical animosity between the Mandalorians and the Jedi. Djarin replies that his price is high.
* A droid servant passes the Magistrate a beskar spear, which she shows Djarin. After Djarin confirms that the staff is pure beskar by ringing it against his armor, the Magistrate offers him the weapon in return for finding the Jedi. Djarin asks where he will find the Jedi.
* Lang leads Djarin and the Child out of the city gate. Noticing the Child huddled in the Mandalorian's pouch, he asks about the creature. Djarin responds that he keeps it for luck. Lang quips that the Mandalorian is going to need plenty of luck where he is headed.
* Djarin journeys deep into the woods in search for Tano, using the coordinates provided by the Magistrate. While examining the trails through his helmet visor, he tells the Child to keep his eyes open. He places the Child on a rock and looks around with his rifle scope upon hearing a snapping sound, then deciding that it was a false alarm after seeing the indigenous beasts afar.
* Just then, Djarin is ambushed from behind by a lightsaber–wielding Tano. Djarin blocks the lightsaber strikes with his Mandalorian vambraces and forces Ahsoka to fall back by unleashing his wrist-mounted flamethrower, burning her cloak. Djarin manages to trap her with his whipcord. However, Tano escapes by utilizing a force jump, flinging Djarin midair using a branch as a pulley and forces him to detach the whipcord, freeing herself. Djarin lands onto the ground and draws his blaster. Before the fight can begin in earnest however, he informs Tano that he was sent by Bo-Katan Kryze, effectively ending the brief duel. Seeing the Child, Tano says she hopes that it is about the Child. She appears to be both surprised and delighted.
* Later that evening, Tano and the Child sit in a clearing by a lantern. She communicates with the Child telepathically through the Force, making important discoveries about his past. After carrying the Child to another clearing, she reveals to Djarin that the name of the Child is Grogu, who was raised in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant before the Clone Wars, and trained by many Jedi Masters on the ways of the Force. He was taken from the Temple and hidden from the Galactic Empire for many years, and his memories during these times are dark and filled with fear. Tano also laments that she had only met one such being of this species, Jedi Grand Master Yoda.
* When Tano asks if Grogu can still wield the Force, Djarin asks if she means his powers. Tano explains that the Child draws his power from the Force, which she describes as an energy field created by all living things. To wield it takes a good deal of training and discipline. Djarin says he has seen Grogu do things that he can't explain, adding that his task was to bring him to a Jedi. Tano explains that the Jedi Order fell a long time ago. Din says that the Empire also fell but that it still hunts Grogu. Djarin tells Tano that Grogu needs her help. Tano communes with the Child via telepathy and says that she will test him in the morning.
* In the morning, Tano leads Din and Grogu to a green forest clearing and gets Djarin to put the Child down. Tano picks up a small stone and lifts it into air with the Force, passing it to Grogu. However, Grogu refuses to pass it back as Tano asked. Djarin is concerned that Grogu doesn't understand her discussions but Tano reassures him that he does before reiterating her command. Grogu makes eye contact with Tano but willfully drops the stone.
* Holding Grogu's hand, Tano senses much fear in the Child. She tells Djarin that Grogu has hidden his abilities in order to survive over the years. Knowing that Grogu responds to Djarin, she convinces him to ask the Child to bring the stone to him. At Tano's prompting, Djarin asks the Child to pass the stone but Grogu is stubborn. Tano tells Djarin to connect with the Child. Breathing deeply, Djarin fetches the joystick ball which the Child had been playing with earlier. Djarin convinces the Child to take the joystick with the Force, telling him that he wants it. Grogu reaches into the Force to retrieve the joystick ball from Djarin after he calls him by his name.Tano observes that Grogu has formed a strong attachment with Djarin, making it hard for her to train him. Feeling out of his depth, Djarin insists that Tano train him. Tano disagrees, saying that she has seen what fear and anger can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight, indirectly referring to her former master Anakin Skywalker, who as Darth Vader, fell under the seduction of Emperor Palpatine through the manipulation of his attachments. Unwilling to lead the Child down this path, she decides it is better to let Grogu's abilities fade away.
* Tano says that she has delayed for too long and must return to the walled village of Calodan. Djarin reveals that the Magistrate sent him to kill her, but he did not agree to it. He promises to help her eliminate the Magistrate if she ensures that Grogu is properly trained. Djarin also briefs Tano about the magistrate, explaining that she has a small army of guards armed with A350 blaster rifles, two HK-87 assassin droids, and a hired gunfighter. Djarin thinks the gunfighter is ex-military and believes that Tano is outmatched even with her Force powers. Tano agrees and warns Djarin not to underestimate the Magistrate.
* Djarin asks Tano about the Magistrate's identity and explains that she offered him a staff of pure beskar to kill Tano. Tano tells him that the Magistrate is named Morgan Elsbeth, and her people were massacred during the Clone Wars. Elsbeth survived and let her anger fuel an industry that built the Imperial Navy. Tano explains that Elsbeth had plundered worlds, destroying them in the process. Djarin says that Elsbeth is still in business. When Tano asks if he saw any prisoners, Djarin recalls seeing three prisoners strung up outside the inner gate. Tano says that they must find a way to free them. Djarin agrees that their opponents will never expect a Mandalorian and a Jedi fighting together.
* Later that evening, Elsbeth's mercenaries man the gate and fortifications of Corvus. Tano emerges outside the city gates from the mist, igniting her lightsabers. The mercenaries sounded the alarm and attempted to take her down with their blaster rifles. Armed with her Force powers, she charges up the battlements, dodging blaster fire and cutting down several mercenaries. She also cuts the bell in half and lands on the other end of the gate. The citizens and mercenaries gather to watch the fight.
* Striding towards the Magistrate and her private army, Tano tosses Djarin's pauldron with his signet onto the ground, claiming that she defeated the bounty hunter. Once again, Tano demanded to know the location of the Magistrate's master. Elsbeth refuses, ordering her men to kill Tano. She leaps onto the roof while the mercenaries opened fire, deflecting the blaster bolts with ease before disappearing into the alleys. The Magistrate commands Lang to hunt her down with her two HK-87 assassin droids, and tells her men to execute the prisoners before retreating into her mansion.
* Before the mercenaries can perform the execution, Djarin lands with his jetpack and swiftly defeats the executioners, signaling Wing to free them and take them to safety. Tano quickly eliminates the mercenaries in the alleys, and destroys one of the assassin droids. Lang orders the remaining HK-87 droid to climb up onto the roofs before he came to face Djarin and Tano in a standoff. After destroying Lang's blaster, Tano leaves Lang to Djarin as she climbs over the wall into the walled compound to engage in fierce duel with the Magistrate.
* The Magistrate proves to be a worthy opponent against the former Jedi, wielding her Beskar staff against Tano's dual lightsabers. The two exchange blows while the standoff between Djarin and Lang continues, with Lang attempting to convince Djarin to change sides. The Magistrate gains a brief upper hand by knocking Tano's single-bladed lightsaber into the water. However, Tano gains the upper hand when she switches to her signature reverse-grip, allowing her to disarm Elsbeth.
* Outside, Lang realises his master's defeat and feigns surrender, attempting to kill Djarin with his blaster pistol. However, Djarin anticipates his move and guns him down with his IB-94 blaster. Then, the surviving assassin droid appears on the roof, but is destroyed by Djarin before it can attack, thanks to Wing's warning. Inside the compound, Tano holds the Magistrate against the blade of her shoto lightsaber. Once again, Tano demands that she give up the information on the whereabouts of her master: Grand Admiral Thrawn. Elsbeth reveals that Tano could find the map to Thrawn's location hidden in a Nightsister stronghold on the planet Arcana.
* Following the defeat of the Magistrate's army, the citizens of Calodan hold a celebration to mark the liberation of their city. Tano and Djarin engage in a brief conversation outside the gate, where Tano offers him the Beskar spear as a reward. Djarin initially refuses, but accepts it on behalf of the Mandalorians who rightfully possess this weapon. When Tano asks where is his little friend, Djarin replies that Grogu is back at the ship. Tano then walks with Wing, the newly cloaked governor of Calodan.
* He returns back to the Razor Crest to fetch and bid farewell to Grogu, intending to bring him under the wing of Tano. He embraces the sleeping infant in his arms just as Tano arrives at the bay door. Tano tells Djarin that he is like a father to Grogu. While Tano refuses to train Grogu, she tells Djarin to take him to the seeing stone on the planet Tython, a place with a strong connection with the Force where Grogu can decide his own fate. She also suggests that other Jedi may come searching for Grogu if they sense him though the Force. Tano warns Djarin that there are not many Jedi left. Djarin thanks Tano and she wishes that the Force be with him. She smiles as Djarin walks aboard the Razor Crest's gangplank. The ship takes off and departs Corvus.

#### 12th

* As the Razor Crest approaches the planet Tython, Din Djarin speaks to Grogu, addressing him by his name. He trains the Child to use the Force to summon the joystick ball. Djarin tells Grogu that he is impressed with his Force powers, promising to help him find a Jedi who can train him. He tells Grogu that he would have to go to any Jedi who would answer the call, saying that Grogu is too powerful to train. Djarin explains that he promised to take Grogu back to his own kind.
* The Razor Crest descends into Tython's atmosphere, flying over several hills. Using the ship's navigation systems, Djarin closes in on the seeing stone that Ahsoka Tano had told him about earlier. Since the "magic rock" lacks a suitable area for the Razor Crest to land, Djarin decides that they will have to "travel the last stretch with the windows down." Djarin travels on a jetpack with the Child in his arms to the seeing stone.
* They find that the stone is a rocky dome that lies at the center of several stony structures surrounding a circle. He places Grogu on top of the stone and wonders if there is a way to activate the structure. Djarin uses his helmet scanner to scan for any controls. Grogu plays with a butterfly. While Djarin wonders how to get Grogu to activate the structure, he sights a starship circling them which turns out to be Slave I, Boba Fett's starship. As Slave I lands in a nearby clearing, Djarin tells Grogu that they have to get out of here.
* Just then, Grogu summons a force field around the stone. Djarin is unable to reach Grogu. Through his helmet scanner, Djarin sees a figure exiting Slave I and decides to buy Grogu time by standing guard. Djarin walks down the hill and takes position behind a rock, narrowly avoiding blaster fire. A hooded man approaches Djarin, telling him that he has been tracking him. Djarin asks if he is a Jedi or if he is after the Child.
* The hooded man removes his hood, revealing himself as Boba Fett. Fett tells Djarin that he is here for his armor. Thinking that Fett is referring to his armor, Din tells him that he will have to peel it off his dead body. Fett clarifies that he is not after Djarin's armor but his own armor, which Din had received from Cobb Vanth back on Tatooine. Fett says it belongs to him. Djarin asks if he is Mandalorian.
* Fett replies that he is just a simple man making his way through the galaxy just like his father before him. When Djarin asks if he took the Mandalorian Creed, Fett replies that he gives his allegiance to no one. Djarin replies that the beskar belongs to the Mandalorians and that it was looted from them before the Great Purge of Mandalore. Fett counters that the armor belonged to his father and that it now belongs to him.
* When Djarin asks what is to stop him from shooting him down, Fett replies that he has a sharpshooter on the ridge with a locked scope that will unload by the time his body hits the ground. Djarin counters that he is wearing beskar and threatens to kill Fett and his companion. Fett clarifies that his friend has locked onto Grogu, who is on the henge. Fennec Shand identifies herself as the sniper, reminding Djarin that she does not miss.
* Djarin demands that Shand stand down or he will shoot them down with his whistling birds. Fett asks Djarin and Shand to put down their weapons so that they can have a chat. Djarin tells Fett to tell Shand to drop the gun. Fett replies after he drops his jetpack. Djarin and Shand lower their weapons with the former putting down his jetpack. Shand remarks that Djarin looks like he has seen a ghost. When Djarin says he thought that she was dead, Fett says that she was left for dead on the sands of Tatooine as was he. He adds that fate sometimes steps in to rescue the wretched. Peeling back a section of her clothing to reveal cybernetics in her lower abdomen, Shand remarks that Boba Fett was her fate and that she is now in his service.
* Fett reiterates his demand for the return of his armor. When Djarin objects on the grounds that it goes against the Mandalorian Creed, Fett replies that the armor was given to his father Jango Fett by his forebears. In exchange for the return of his armor, Fett promises to guarantee the safety of the Child as well as his own. Shand adds that the bounty on the Child has risen significantly to the equivalent of ten suits. Fett says that they are offering a fair deal given the circumstances.
* Just then, a third starship circles nearby and the three scatter. Djarin runs back to Grogu, who is immersed in the force field which rises up. Djarin tries to force his way inside the force field but is thrown back by the bubble. Meanwhile, Fett and Shand take up position in a rock near the shuttle. Several stormtroopers emerge from the shuttle and come under fire from Fett and Shand, who manage to shoot a few down. As the Stormtrooper Commander orders his men to disperse, Fett signals for Shand to split up.
* Hiding behind the rocks, she attacks a flank of the troopers. The stormtrooper commander orders his remaining men to approach from a different directions. However, Fett is waiting and attacks a stormtrooper with his gaderffii stick. Fett runs circles around the troops, ambushing them with his gaderffii stick and knocking several to the ground. As a wounded soldier kneels in pain, Fett whacks him across the head, damaging his helmet. More stormtroopers exit the shuttle but Shand takes them out.
* Several of the stormtroopers set up a mortar device manned by an Imperial artillery stormtrooper and an E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon. One of the stormtroopers strafes the ridge that Shand is on with blaster fire, forcing her to dodge their blasts and to take cover behind the rocks. Using her strength, Shand kicks down a boulder which smashes through the ranks of the stormtroopers and takes out the heavy repeating blaster, whose user tries to shoot the boulder instead of getting out of the way and gets flattened by it. Fett himself ambushes the commander with his Gaderffii stick, knocking him to the ground and fighting his men. He stabs the commander through his chest armor with the sharp end of the stick. Fett then sees his armor in the nearby Razor Crest.
* Meanwhile, Shand flees from several pursuing stormtroopers by navigating through the rocks, taking down several of her pursuers. Shortly later, a second Imperial shuttle lands in the clearing between the Razor Crest and the first shuttle. While Shand fights the stormtroopers, Djarin gets to his feet and watches as Grogu meditates through the Force. Djarin decides to protect Grogu and heads down to face the stormtroopers.
* Just after Djarin leaves, the Child stops summoning the Force field and collapses out of exhaustion. Several stormtroopers close in on Shand but she takes them out with her blaster. However, she is outnumbered and soon surrounded by more reinforcements. The stormtroopers tell her that they are not after her but the Child. Just then, Djarin arrives and uses his whistling birds to take out several stormtroopers. He and Shand join forces to fight the stormtroopers. Djarin offers Shand to make amends for the last time if they get out of here alive. Shand accepts his offer and the two fight against the advancing stormtroopers.
* As the skirmish rages, Boba Fett arrives in his reclaimed armor and jetpack and uses a grav charge to take out and disorientate more stormtroopers. He takes several down with his blaster and in hand to hand combat. The remaining stormtroopers charge him, but quickly decide to retreat when he kills two with rocket darts concealed in his kneepads. They flee aboard their ships, which depart. After scanning the ships with his helmet scanner, Fett uses his jetpack's missile to take out the engines of one of the shuttles, causing it to collide with the other ship. Both ships explode in flames and crash.
* Djarin compliments Fett for his marksmanship but Fett says he was aiming for the other one. Just then a turbolaser blast is fired from orbit, aimed at the parked Razor Crest, which is blown to smithereens. Shand tells Fett that he better get to his ship and Fett rockets off. Djarin watches the burning wreckage of his ship in sadness before scanning the skies and spotting a light cruiser. Djarin realizes that the Imperials are here for the Child.
* Aboard the cruiser, the gunnery officer informs Moff Gideon that it was a direct hit. A pleased Gideon asks if the Dark troopers have been engaged. The Imperial comms officer replies momentarily. The light cruiser dispatches four armored Dark Troopers, who descend onto the magic rock and its rocky surroundings. Djarin, Fett, and Shand run up but the droids beat them to it. One of them snatches the screaming Grogu and flees into orbit.
* Shand tells Fett, who is flying Slave I, that the Imperials have gotten the "baby" and not to let them get away. Unwilling to harm the Child, Djarin convinces Shand and Fett to call off the attack. Fett instead decides to do a "loose follow" to see where they are headed. He follows the Dark troopers into the upper atmosphere of Tython. Sighting the orbiting light cruiser, Fett says that the Empire is back.
* Shand is shocked, believing that the Outer Rim is under the jurisdiction of the New Republic. Fett responds that this is not a "spice dream" because he is seeing the Imperial cruiser with his own eyes. Fett decides to head back while the Imperial cruiser jumps into hyperspace.
* Djarin surveys the pit left by the wreckages of his ship. While digging through the charred soil, he finds the joystick ball that the Child was playing with and places it in his pocket. Shand stands silently while Djarin retrieves the beskar spear that Tano had presented him with. He approaches Fett and Shand, telling him that this is all that survived. Fett shows Djarin a hologram of his chain code, which has been encoded in his armor for 25 years. Written in Mando'a script, the chain code contains his family lineage, revealing "foundling," "mentor Jaste," "father Fett" and "Boba Fett" along with "Concord Dawn" and other words.
* Djarin realizes that Fett's father was a foundling. Fett confirms this is the case and adds that Jango Fett even fought in the Mandalorian Civil Wars. Recognizing Fett and his father as Mandalorians, Djarin allows Fett to keep his armor. Fett is pleased with the return. Djarin thinks their deal is complete but Fett says not quite because he and Shand promised to guarantee the safety of the Child in exchange for the armors return. Since the Child has been kidnapped, Fett says that he and Shand are in Djarin's debt until the safe return of Grogu.
* The trio travel on Slave I to Nevarro City. There, Djarin learns that Carasynthia Dune has become a Marshal of the New Republic, saying that he has heard rumors that she has gone legit. He tells her that he needs her help to locate someone on the New Republic prison registry. While Dune consults her computer, Djarin explains that he is looking for a former Imperial sharpshooter named Migs Mayfeld, who was apprehended near the Dilestri system on a derelict prison ship. Dune finds that Mayfeld is serving a 50 year sentence in the Karthon Chop Fields for springing a prisoner himself and being an accessory to the death of a New Republic officer.
* Dune surmises that Mayfeld is a piece of work and asks what Djarin needs him for. Djarin explains that he needs his help in locating Moff Gideon's light cruiser. Dune is sympathetic to Djarin's plight but says that she needs to follow rules as a Marshal of the New Republic. Djarin tells Dune that the Imperials have the "kid."
* Meanwhile, Gideon's light cruiser travels through hyperspace. Moff Gideon exits the bridge and walks down a corridor flanked by a pair of stormtroopers. He enters a cell where he finds Grogu using his Force powers to throw two stormtroopers to the ground and to hurl them against the wall. Grogu even Force chokes them in fear and rage. One of the escort stormtroopers issues the order to set for stun but Gideon motions him to wait. Gideon watches with interest as Grogu girls two stormtroopers against the walls of the cell before collapsing in exhaustion.
* As the wounded stormtroopers crawl out of the door, a pleased Gideon compliments Grogu for his display of Force powers but says it makes him so sleepy. He then shows Grogu the Darksaber, tauntingly asking if he has seen anything like it in the past, before deactivating it, saying that Grogu is not yet ready to wield this type of weapon. He then tells Grogu that he could do with a nice, long sleep before a stormtrooper stuns him. The female Imperial comms officer watches from behind. Gideon then orders the two other stormtroopers to put Grogu into shackles.
* He then tells the comms officer that as soon as they exit hyperspace to send an encrypted message to Dr. Pershing, telling him that they have gotten their donor. As the Imperials leave the cell, a stormtrooper applies a pair of electric shackles around Grogu's body.
* A New Republic Correctional Transport flies over the Karthon Chop Fields. Several crane walkers tower over the field while prisoners work on disassembling starships. A New Republic security droid walks up to Migs Mayfeld (designated as inmate 34667) who is working on dismantling a TIE line starfighter. The droid tells him he has been given new instructions, at which point Marshal of the New Republic Carasynthia Dune rounds the corner, remanding the prisoner into her custody. When Mayfeld asks what is going on, Dune removes his leg shackle and tells him that she has a job for him. The inmate complies after the security droid threatens him with its stun baton.
* A confused Mayfeld follows Dune, asking where she is taking him. She leads him to the parked Slave I where he is greeted by Boba Fett and Fennec Shand. Mayfeld is relieved, having initially mistaken Fett for the Mandalorian Din Djarin. However, his elation is short-lived as Djarin descends down the ramp shortly after Fett. Mayfeld asks Djarin if he has come to kill him. Dune replies for him, stating that all he needs to know is that she bent a lot of rules to bring him along. When Mayfeld asks why he is so lucky, Dune says that it is because he is ex-Imperial. Mayfeld becomes defensive, assuming they are angry with him for having served the enemy. Djarin ignores his remarks and asks to confirm he still knows his Imperial clearances and protocols. Djarin and his crew turn around and reboard Fett's ship. Seeing Dune and her companions as his only ticket offworld, the prisoner decides to accompany them.
* Once seated in the passenger compartment of the Slave I, Djarin tells Mayfeld that they need coordinates for Moff Gideon's light cruiser. Mayfeld thinks that is too difficult and asks to be taken back to the scrapyard. Dune explains that the Moff has his "kid." Mayfeld asks if she means the "little green guy" and Dune confirms this. Mayfeld asks if helping them will get him released. Dune, unamused, shoots the idea down and says he only gets a better view. Mayfeld reluctantly agrees to help but says he cannot get the coordinates without access to an internal Imperial terminal, saying he thinks there is one on the planet Morak. Djarin does not believe anything is on the planet; Mayfeld explains there is a secret Imperial mining hub. Mayfeld promises to get the coordinates if they can get him inside. Djarin tells his fellow Mandalorian to set course for Morak, at which point Fett pilots the ship into space.
* Later, an unmasked Fett meets with the others and explains that he did an initial scan of the planet and found a structure, which Mayfeld identifies as a refinery. Going off this, Fett postulates they are refining rhydonium, which he describes as highly volatile and explosive. He continues his debrief, revealing the facility is armed with anti-aircraft cannons, to which Shand adds it is protected by a platoon of security forces as well. Djarin decides it is best to go in quietly before assessing the situation any further.
* The Slave I descends into the atmosphere of Morak, flying over forests. After landing, the group sight a passing Imperial HCVw A9.2 juggernaut transport rolling along a dirt road. Mayfeld says it should be a quick job once inside, adding we will need to escape the base as soon as he gets the coordinates. Fett tells Mayfeld he can perform an aerial extraction from the roof. Dune assumes she and Mayfeld can easily infiltrate the refinery by hijacking a transport and swapping places with the drivers in a nearby tunnel. Mayfeld points out a major flaw in her plan: Remnant bases like this are set up and run by ex-Imperial Security Bureau agents, meaning whoever goes in might get scanned. The system flags anyone who shows up on a New Republic register. If that were to happen the mission would instantly be compromised, the remnant would learn of their presence, and they would be killed. Mayfeld's extensive knowledge about Imperial remnants makes raises Dune suspicions, leading her to openly question him, hinting he might still be loyal to the fallen Empire. Mayfeld insists he is hiding nothing. Djarin reminds them they do not have time for arguments and proposes Shand goes in Dune's place. Shand reveals she cannot as she is wanted by the ISB. Djarin asks Fett who simply says they "might recognize" his face.
* Mayfeld proposes that he go alone but Dune does not trust him, believing that he will betray them. Seeing no other options, Dune decides to give up on the plan and return her prisoner to the Chop Fields. Meanwhile, Djarin scans the juggernaut with his helmet and observes the two drivers are fully armored, helmets and all. He announces he will go in Dune's place. Mayfeld dismisses the idea, saying it would be too hard to explain away a guy in Mandalorian armor to the Imperial guards. He goes on, telling Djarin his only options are to take off his helmet, trust him to complete the mission alone, or say goodbye to his "little green friend." Djarin responds that he will be joining Mayfeld, but his face will still remain hidden.
* On the road, the first pilot of Juggernaut Five tells the Morak refinery that they are entering tunnel T-12. A female voice over the comm gives them the all clear since Juggernaut Four has exited the tunnel. As the juggernaut enters the tunnel, Djarin, Dune and Mayfeld land on top of the vehicle. Dune enters the cockpit and fights the two pilots, knocking them out. After stopping the juggernaut, Mayfeld and Djarin change into the guard's uniforms. Mayfeld doesn't wear the helmet but Djarin still covers his face. Dune quips that she wished she could say that the Imperial helmet and armor looked good on him but that she will be lying.
* Djarin asks Dune to take out the rooftop turrets to ensure that they can get out of here. Dune promises to do so. Djarin also gets her to look after his armor. As Mayfeld climbs back into the juggernaut, he quips that he wishes that Dune was coming with them due to her sunny disposition. Mayfeld and Djarin fiddle with the controls and manage to get the juggernaut rolling. Mayfeld asks Djarin how it feels wearing the Imperial helmet.
* Unable to see properly with helmet, Mayfeld decides to take it off and wonders how Djarin's people see inside those helmets. Djarin chooses not to talk. As Juggernaut Five exits the tunnel, Shand watches from a hill above and informs Fett that they have completed phase one. Fett says he is standing by. Inside the juggernaut, Mayfeld says he feels better when it is off. While traveling through the jungle, they pass several wrecked juggernauts.
* Over the comm systems, they hear a male voice telling the pilot of Juggernaut Four to watch the temperature of their rhydonium cargo and speed. The pilot says they hit a couple of bumps and thanks the controlling officer that he will be careful. Djarin reassures Mayfeld that as long as he drives steady, they will reach the refinery safely. As the juggernaut drives through a village, they see several local people including children, who gaze at the vehicle. Mayfeld remarks that the locals see both the Empire and New Republic as invaders.
* Mayfeld remarks that someone somewhere is ruling the galaxy before asking whether those people who died in wars fought by Mandalorians had a choice. Mayfeld asks how the Mandalorians are different from the Empire, reasoning that people born and raised on Mandalore and Alderaan believe in different things. Mayfeld says that neither one of them exists anymore. Djarin remains silent. Mayfeld says that he is just a realist and survivor just like him.
* Djarin responds that the two of them are nothing alike. Mayfeld remarks that Djarin's rules start to change when he gets desperate. Mayfeld asks Djarin about his rule of not showing his face, whether it is because he cannot take off his Mandalorian helmet or because he cannot show his face. Djarin is silent. Mayfeld then adds that everyone is the same because they have lines that they don't cross until things get messy. Mayfeld says that as far as he is concerned, as long as people can make it through their day and sleep at night they are fine.
* The pilot of Juggernaut Four reports that they are encountering some route interference over the comlink. Shortly later, they hear blaster fire before the juggernaut explodes in a fireball. The female control officer confirms that Juggernaut Four has been destroyed. She then tells Juggernaut Five to maintain their speed and course. As Mayfeld panics, they receive news on the comlink that Juggernaut Three has encountered trouble and exploded.
* Passing the burning Juggernaut Three, Djarin and Mayfeld's juggernaut is boarded by a group of waiting pirates riding a repulsorlift craft. Watching through the camera, Djarin and Mayfeld realize that they are under attack. Djarin tells Mayfeld to drive while he climbs out and exchanges fire with the pirates. He shoots one and another falls off the vehicle. Mayfeld is incredulous that Djarin is shooting when they are carrying rhydonium.
* One of the pirates attempt to plant detonators among some explosives but Djarin exits the top hatch and shoots him, causing him to trip over with the explosives into the path of the pirate repulsorlift, which is destroyed. Narrowly escaping a rhydonium explosion, Mayfeld says that he should have left him in prison. More alien pirates on a second repulsorlift jump on the juggernaut. Djarin manages to shoot one but soon runs out of blaster bolts.
* As the remaining pirates charge, Djarin hurls the blaster at one of them and fights them with a staff. He throws one overboard and the pirate is crushed to death beneath the heavy wheels of the juggernaut. A second pirate damages Djarin's armor but he also throws him between the wheels of the juggernaut and the pirate is crushed to death. Djarin dispatches the last pirate with a spear. As more pirates approach in the second repulsorcraft, Djarin tells Mayfeld to drive faster. However, Mayfeld is unwilling to risk igniting more rhydonium, which the sensor shows is heating up and slows the juggernaut down, allowing the pirates to catch up.
* Djarin fights several pirates with a spear, knocking them off the juggernaut. Two of the pirates manages to pin Djarin down, allowing his companion to plant a detonator on the rhydonium before retreating. The juggernaut is pursued by two repulsorcraft. Djarin manages to break free, throwing one of them off the juggernaut and kicking the other off the vehicle. He grabs the detonator and throws it into the path of the pursuing repulsorcraft, causing one of them to explode.
* While Mayfeld struggles to slow the brakes down as they approach a bridge, more pirates on five repulsorcraft prepare to hurl grenades at them. As Djarin stands his ground, two TIE fighters arrive and strafe the pirate craft, incinerating them in a firestorm. As the juggernaut crosses the bridge, stormtroopers and shoretroopers advance on the surviving pirates, gunning them down.
* As Mayfeld drives the juggernaut into the refinery, several stormtroopers and shoretroopers salute them. Mayfeld salutes them back, saying he never imagined that he would be so happy to see stormtroopers. Dune and Shand watch from above. Inside the refinery, Mayfeld and Djarin are welcomed back as heroes by cheering miners and stormtroopers. Leading the way, Mayfeld believes that the network terminal is inside the officer's mess.
* Mayfeld walks inside the Imperial officers' mess while Djarin waits outside. However, Mayfeld walks out after recognizing an officer named Valin Hess. Mayfeld fears that Hess might recognize him even though he was a field operative. Mayfeld wants to back out and abort but Djarin insists that they proceed since he wants to get back Grogu. Djarin suggests that Mayfeld give him the datastick but Mayfeld is skeptical of success. Mayfeld explains that in order to access the network, the terminal has to scan his face. Djarin convinces Mayfeld to give it to him.
* Djarin walks inside the officer's mess and logs into the network terminal. However, the computer doesn't recognize him because of his helmet. Djarin removes his helmet, allowing the scanner to scan his face. While searching for information about Gideon's light cruiser, Valin Hess removes the datastick and demands to know Djarin's designation. Djarin says he is a transport co-pilot but the officer demands to know his TK number.
* Mayfeld comes to the rescue, claiming that Djarin is his commanding officer "TK-593." Mayfeld claims he is Imperial Combat Assault Transport Lieutenant TK-111. Mayfeld claims that Djarin sustained ear damage when his vessel lost pressure in Taanab. Hess asks for Djarin's name, raising his voice mockingly. Djarin hesitates and Mayfeld quickly claims that he is called "Brown Eyes" before ushering Djarin away under the pretext of filling out TPS reports and recharging power coils. Hess reminds them that they have not been dismissed.
* After "confirming" they were the tank troopers who delivered the rhydonium, he commends them for successfully delivering the shipment and invites them for a drink. Above the refinery, Dune tells Shand that they will have to take out the anti-air cannons in order to allow Fett to conduct an aerial extraction. Shand says this will not be a problem and tells Dune to concentrate on the troopers while she takes out the weapons. Dune wonders what is taking Djarin and Mayfeld so long.
* Hess serves Mayfeld and "Brown Eyes" drinks, asking them what they should toast to. Mayfeld suggests drinking a toast to Operation: Cinder. The Imperial officer compliments Mayfeld for knowing his history but Mayfeld says that he lived through it on Burnin Konn. Hess recalls that was a "hard day" and that he had to make many "unpleasant" decisions. Mayfeld recalls that an entire city along with its inhabitants was destroyed during Operation Cinder, along with his entire division being wiped out, five to ten thousand people.
* Hess describes the lost division as heroes to the Empire. Mayfeld responds that they are all dead. Hess claims it was a small sacrifice for the greater good. Mayfeld disagrees, saying it depends on who you ask. When Hess asks what he is getting at, Mayfeld asks whether it was good for those who perished as well as their families and his comrades. Mayfeld points out that civilians died defending their homes and fighting for freedom. He asks Hess if it was good for them.
* Hess says that his side outlasted and quips that the survivors of Burnin Konn are "still eating themselves alive." Hess remarks that the New Republic is in complete disarray while the Empire is growing stronger. Hess claims that the rhydonium they delivered is going to create havoc that will make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. He hopes that this crisis will cause people to turn to the Empire once again. Hess thinks that everyone wants order more than freedom and that people will welcome them back with open arms. Hess toasts the Empire but Mayfeld shoots him in the chest with a blaster pistol.
* Mayfeld then proceeds to gun down a shoretrooper and several Imperial officers in the mess hall. Mayfeld then tells Djarin that he did what he had to do before handing him his helmet. He tells Djarin that he never saw his face. After Djarin dons his helmet, the two engage in a gun battle with Imperial officers and stormtroopers. The two escape out of the window, which overlooks a massive dam. A shoretrooper follows but Shand shoots him and a second one. While Mayfeld shoots another shoretrooper, Shand contacts Fett and tells him they are ready for the pick up.
* As Djarin and Mayfeld climb a ladder, Shand and Dune shoot Imperial troops trying to pursue them as well as the gunners manning the anti-air guns. Djarin and Mayfeld reach the top, eluding shoretroopers and stormtroopers. Fett hovers the Slave I adjacent to the top of the refinery, allowing Djarin and Mayfeld to jump aboard.
* As they fly away from the facility, Mayfeld fires a cycler rifle at a parked juggernaut, igniting the rhydonium and causing a massive explosion that engulfs the refinery. Dune and Shand are impressed by Mayfeld's marksmanship. Mayfeld tells Djarin that "we all have to sleep at night." Two TIE fighters pursue the Slave I, prompting Fett to take evasive action. He releases a seismic charge which destroys the two TIE fighters. Dune and Shand watch from below.
* The team reunite at a forest clearing. Mayfeld thinks that he is heading back to the scrap heap to serve his sentence. Shand walks past him. Having gained a new-found respect for his former foe, Djarin thanks Mayfeld for helping, and Mayfeld wishes Djarin good luck in "getting the kid back."
* Mayfeld then tells Dune that he is ready to return to continue serving his sentence. However, Dune is impressed by his marksmanship. Mayfeld admits that was not part of the plan and that he was trying to unload stuff from his chest. Gaining a new sense of respect for Mayfeld, she and Djarin concoct the story that he perished during the refinery explosion on Morak, so Mayfeld is allowed to leave as a free man. Dune asks Djarin if he managed to get the coordinates to Moff Gideon to which he replies that he did. Dune asks what their next move is, and Mayfeld watches as the Slave I departs the jungle-covered planet.
* Meanwhile, the comms officer informs Moff Gideon that they have received a transmission from Djarin. Repeating what Gideon said during the skirmish at Nevarro City, Djarin says, "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 watches grimly as the transmission ends.

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* A Lambda-class shuttle weaves through space, evading heavy laser fire from *Slave I*. On board the shuttle, Doctor Penn Pershing asks the pilots about what was happening and who they were being pursued by, but the shuttle co-pilot tells him to shut his mouth as this is not his laboratory. On board *Slave I*, Boba Fett targets the shuttle's engines and fires an ion cannon, disabling its avionics and communications. Fett orders the shuttle to deactivate its shields and transponders, and prepare for boarding. Dr. Pershing suggests they fight the pirates, but the co-pilot refuses, saying he doesn't have a death wish.
* *Slave I* docks with the shuttle, and the Mandalorian Din Djarin enters the cockpit. The co-pilot stands, and tells Djarin that before he makes a mistake, he should know that the passenger is Dr. Pershing. Djarin says they have met, then addressing Pershing asks if Grogu is still alive. Pershing confirms he is, and is on board Gideon's light cruiser. The co-pilot grabs Pershing, holding a blaster to his head. Cara Dune enters the cockpit, blaster also raised. The pilot tries to bargain for his freedom, saying he's not with the co-pilot and they can work something out.
* The co-pilot shoots him dead, then explains to Dune and Djarin that Pershing is a top-tier New Republic target, a clone engineer, and if he dies because of them, Dune will wish she never left Alderaan. He says he recognized her tear tattoo, then goads her, saying he saw the destruction of her planet aboard the Death Star. Dune mockingly asks which one, and he angrily tells her that millions died on those bases, and that the destruction of Alderaan was "a small price to pay to rid the galaxy of terrorism." Having had enough, Dune shoots the co-pilot in the face, narrowly missing Pershing, who screams and clutches his ear, part of which has been singed off by the shot. Djarin watches as Dune turns and walks out.
* *Slave I* arrives at a planet dotted with large refineries, and lands among a number of parked starships, including a Gauntlet fighter. In a nearby diner, a hush falls as Djarin and Boba Fett enter and cross the room to approach Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves. Djarin tells Kryze he needs their help, and she replies that not all Mandalorians are bounty hunters, and that some of them serve a higher purpose. Djarin tells her that Moff Gideon has taken the Child, and she says they will never find him. Fett tells Djarin they do not need these two, and that they should leave. Kryze says to Fett that he is not a Mandalorian, to which he responds he never said he was. Fett and Reeves begin to argue, but Kryze tells them to "save it for the Imps."
* Djarin tells them they have Gideon's coordinates, and that he has a light cruiser which could help her regain Mandalore. Fett scoffs, saying the Empire had reduced Mandalore to glass, and Bo-Katan retorts that he is a disgrace to the armor. Fett says the armor belonged to his father, but Kryze mocks him, saying "Don't you mean your donor?" She says he is a clone and she has heard his voice thousands of times before. Fett says it may be the last voice she hears, and Reeves leaps up, swinging at him, and the pair fight before Bo-Katan orders them to stop. She agrees to help them take Gideon's ship and the Darksaber, which she will then use to retake Mandalore, and asks Djarin to reconsider joining their efforts.
* On *Slave I*, Bo-Katan briefs the others on Gideon's cruiser, saying that at the height of the Empire, such a ship would have carried hundreds of troopers, but now only holds a small fraction of that. Pershing then informs them that Gideon also has a platoon of dark troopers aboard his vessel. Djarin believes that they are still human, but Pershing corrects him and states that they're a third generation all-droid model. He shows them where the dark troopers are housed, in a cargo bay next to the brig where Grogu is being held.
* Bo-Katan outlines her plan: they will send a distress call from the shuttle and emergency land into the cruiser's launch tube, blocking any potential interceptors. Kryze, Reeves, and Fennec Shand will then attack the bridge, misdirecting Gideon's forces from Djarin who will head for the brig to rescue Grogu. As both ships jump to hyperspace, Bo-Katan says that Gideon is hers, but Dune says she needs him alive as his ISB knowledge will be invaluable to the New Republic. Kryze says she doesn't care as long as Gideon surrenders to her.
* Both starships drop out of hyperspace near Gideon's cruiser, and *Slave I* begins firing on the shuttle. Bo-Katan issues a distress call, requesting emergency docking. The comms officer ackowledges the request, and tells them to stay clear of the cruiser's launch tube while she launches a TIE fighter squadron. Two TIEs launch from the cruiser, but the shuttle continues towards the bay, saying they are under attack and must dock immediately. The hangar control officer aborts the launch procedure as the incoming shuttle enters the launch tube and crashes in the bay. Fett destroys the two TIEs pursuing him and jumps into hyperspace.
* On the bridge, Gideon listens to the screams of the troopers and officers on the docking bay as they are shot down by the attackers, and orders the dark troopers to be powered up. With the bay clear, Djarin exits the shuttle and makes his way towards the brig, avoiding stormtroopers along the way. Dune, Shand, Kryze, and Reeves fight their way through a cargo bay, but Dune's gun jams, forcing her to use it as a club. They enter a turbolift to the bridge.
* As Djarin reaches the dark troopers' cargo bay, the door opens as the droids complete their power-up sequence. He dashes forward, using Pershing's code cylinder to close the door, but one of the droids holds the door open and manages to get through. Djarin tries fighting the droid despite its superior strength and size, but his flamethrower has no effect, and his whistling birds do nothing more than stagger the droid. Eventually, he is able to destroy it with his beskar spear and depressurizes the cargo bay, sending the troopers out into space.
* In the turbolift, Dune fixes her gun and she and the others enter the bridge, mowing down all the stormtroopers there. Bo-Katan realizes Gideon is not there.
* Djarin reaches the cell, dispatching the two troopers guarding it with his staff. He enters to find Grogu in shackles and Gideon holding the Darksaber over him. Gideon orders him to drop his blaster, and tells him the Darksaber gives whoever holds it the right to the Mandalorian throne. Djarin says he can keep the sword, as he just wants Grogu. Gideon agrees, saying he has gotten all he wanted from him, to study his blood which has the potential to bring order back to the galaxy. As Djarin reaches for Grogu, Gideon activates the Darksaber and attacks him, and the two duel in the corridor. Djarin eventually subdues Gideon and keeps him alive per Dune's request.
* Djarin enters the bridge, holding the Darksaber and Grogu, and pushing Gideon who is now in shackles. Bo-Katan turns and looks at him in surprise, asking what happened. Dune says that he has brought Gideon in alive, and that the New Republic will have to double the payment. Gideon laughs and says that was not what she meant: Bo-Katan wants the Darksaber, but it can only be taken by defeating the wielder in battle. As Djarin defeated Gideon, the Darksaber now belongs to him, and he can neither give her the Darksaber or yield to her, as the power of the Darksaber lies not in the weapon itself, but the story around it.
* An alarm sounds, and Shand reports that the ship's ray shields have been breached by the dark troopers. Gideon then questions Djarin's ability to fight the platoon, since he had trouble with one droid. As the droids march towards the bridge, Gideon covers a dropped blaster with his cape. Djarin and his allies prepare to fight, as the dark troopers begin to pound through the blast doors.
* Another alarm sounds, and a lone X-wing fighter flies past the cruiser. As the ship lands in the docking bay, Bo-Katan asks them to identify themselves, but Grogu looks up, sensing something. At the same time, the droids stop attacking, much to everyone's confusion. The group then watches the monitor as a hooded figure disembarks and walks through the ship, destroying the dark troopers with a green bladed lightsaber. Gideon is only able to see part of the monitor, but realizes that he has lost his only advantage. He takes his blaster and fires at Bo-Katan, knocking her to the ground. He then tries to shoot Grogu, but Djarin jumps in the way to take the shots. As Dune, Shand and Reeves order him to drop the blaster, Gideon stands up and points the blaster towards his chin in an attempt to kill himself, but Dune knocks the blaster out of his hand and then smacks him with the butt of her rifle, knocking him unconscious.
* Grogu reaches for the monitor, watching as the Jedi destroys the last of the dark troopers. Djarin tells them to open the blast doors, but Shand thinks he is crazy so he does it himself. The Jedi enters, and pulls back his hood to reveal he is Luke Skywalker. Djarin asks if he is a Jedi, which Skywalker confirms. He then holds out his hand to Grogu, who hesitates and turns to Djarin. Djarin says Grogu does not want to go with him, but Skywalker says he just wants Djarin's permission. Skywalker pledges to give his life to protect Grogu, telling the group that despite Grogu's powers, he has yet to master them, and until he does, he will always be in danger.
* Djarin picks up Grogu, telling him to go with Luke and that they will meet again. Grogu reaches for his helmet, which Djarin removes, showing his face to his young charge for the first time. He tells Grogu not to be afraid and places him on the ground. Luke Skywalker's astromech droid, R2-D2 enters, and Grogu walks towards the droid. Skywalker nods and picks him up, then turns and walks away, as Djarin watches them go with tears in his eyes.

#### 14th

* At Jabba's Palace on Tatooine, Jabba's former majordomo Bib Fortuna speaks to his henchmen in Huttese, when shouting and blaster fire is heard in the halls above. Shand enters, killing two Gamorrean guards, firing at the other fleeing gangsters and freeing a Twi'lek slave girl. Boba Fett walks in behind Fennec, and Fortuna laughs, saying he thought Boba was dead and he is pleased to see him. Fett shoots Fortuna dead, and throws his body to the floor, taking the throne as Shand swigs from a bottle of spotchka and takes her place at his side.
* Luke Skywalker begins to train Grogu in the ways of the Force.
* Cara Dune is promoted to special forces, leaving her position as Marshall of Nevarro.

### November

#### 5th

* Boba Fett is submerged inside a bacta tank. He experiences flashbacks of watery Kamino and Tipoca City, followed by a grieving Boba cradling the helmet of his fallen father Jango Fett at the Petranaki Arena on Geonosis and his escape from the Sarlacc Pit.
* Fett is woken up by Fennec Shand. Fett wakes up and suspends his "healing session." The bacta pod's doors open and he climbs out of the machine. As a droid fetches him a towel, Fett tells Shand that the dreams are coming back. Shand reminds him that they are expecting guests who have come to pay their respect. Droids dress Fett in his Mandalorian armor and Fett dons the helmet himself.
* In Jabba's former throneroom, an Aqualish delegate speaks in the Aqualish language and presents a box of credit chips. The droid 8D8 retrieves the chips. When Fett asks what the Aqualish said, Shand explains that he said something about friendship. Fett says that they really need a protocol droid. 8D8 presents Dokk Strassi, the leader of the Tatooine Trandoshan family and the protectors of Mos Espa's city center and its business territories. Fett recalls that he used to work for Dokk.
* Dokk addresses Fett as the new Daimyo. Fett says that it is a pleasure to be welcomed to Mos Espa by Dokk, who presents 8D8 with a Wookiee pelt. Dokk wishes that Fett may never leave Mos Espa before walking away. Fett confides with Shand that the Trandoshan's compliment sounds like a threat.
* The next guest is introduced as Mok Shaiz, the mayor of Mos Espa and its surrounding plateaus. The guest corrects that he is Shaiz's majordomo. Shand recalls that Shaiz was coming to pay tribute. The majordomo apologizes for the "understandable" misunderstanding in Shaiz's correspondence. Fett extends his greetings and appreciation for Shaiz's tribute. The majordomo clarifies that this was another "understandable" misunderstanding and says that the only tribute that he bears is Shaiz's heartfelt welcome, which he expresses in his stead. When Shand asks if he brings no tribute, the majordomo reiterates Shaiz's heartfelt welcome and claims that he has been drawn away by pressing matters.
* Shand warns the majordomo that if he had showed the same insolence to the late Jabba, the Hutt would have fed him to his menagerie. The majordomo apologizes. Fett tells the majordomo to inform Shaiz that he is here now. The majordomo replies that he knows and raises the matter of tribute. Shand explains to Fett that the Mayor wants Fett to pay him. Fett replies that he is the crime lord and that the Mayor of Mos Espa is supposed to pay him. Shand wants to kill him but Fett disagrees, saying that the majordomo works for the Mayor.
* Shand tells the majordomo that Lord Fett allows him to leave unharmed. The majordomo apologizes and says that he will convey Fett's sentiment to Shaiz. The majordomo warns Fett and Shand that they will receive another delegation in the future. Fett tells Shand to keep an eye on Mok.
* 8D8 then has UK2-B bring in two Gamorrean prisoners, who had served Jabba and then transferred their allegiance to the late Bib Fortuna. They did not surrender even after their patron was killed. 8D8 says that they were captured alive as a tribute to Fett and says that their tortured squeals will send a message to potential challengers to his throne. Fett says he does not torture. 8D8 counsels his master to show strength in order to win acceptance as a Daimyo. Complimenting their loyalty to their previous bosses, Fett offers to spare the lives of the Gamorreans if they were to serve him. The Gamorreans bend the knee and submit to Fett. Shand warns him that this is a "bad idea."
* Fett and Shand later travel with their two new Gamorrean bodyguards to Mos Espa. Shand chides Fett for not letting them carry him on a litter. Fett says that he does not want to be carried around like a "useless" noble. Shand explains that is is a sign of power and that people in Mos Espa are used to seeing the Hutts being paraded around the streets. Shand says that things would have gone a lot smoother if he had accepted their ways.
* At a cantina, Max Rebo and a Bith musician perform. Fett and Shand enter the bar with their Gamorrean bodyguards. An astromech droid asks if they are here for drinks. Shand replies that they are here for business with Madam Garsa Fwip. Two Twi'leks ask if they would like their helmets cleaned while they wait for Garsa. Shand declines but Fett allows them to take both their helmets in order to accept their ways.
* Madam Garsa Fwip welcomes them to the Sanctuary and asks if they would like any of their sundry offerings. Fett says maybe another time and gets down to business. Garsa asks if he would like his Gamorrean guards to be given refreshments while they are sequestered. Fett replies that it won't take long and offers to do it here. Fett introduces his Master Assassin Fennec Shand and explains that he has replaced Bib Fortuna.
* Garsa apologizes that she did not see his litter, prompting Fett to say that he prefers to walk on his own two feet. Fett explains that he is here to introduce himself and reassures her that her business will continue under his watchful eye. Garsa thanks him for traveling to The Sanctuary and says that he is always welcome, granting Fett ownership. The Twi'lek attendants return their helmets, with Shand remarking that Fett's helmet looks "shinier" than hers, being full of credits.
* While departing The Sanctuary, Fett tells Shand that Jabba had many vassals and that they have a lot of ground to cover to keep his empire intact. Shand offers to cover the rounds on her own, saying that Jabba rarely left his chambers. Fett replies that Jabba ruled by fear while he intends to rule by respect. Shand counters that in difficult times, fear is a surer bet.
* The two are then ambushed by six crimson-clad figures armed with plasma pikes and projected energy shields, who surround them. Fett instinctively fires a rocket, whose blast is deflected back by an energy shield, knocking both helmets loose—the credits in Fett's helmet fly everywhere to be picked up by bystanders. A fight ensues, with Fett and Shand barely holding their own before the Gamorreans come to their aid, breaking the circle created by the ambushers and providing the respite Fett and Shand needed to regain their balance and the upper hand.
* Together they dispatch three of the attackers, leading the other three to attempt to escape. Fett fires a wrist rocket at one, disintegrating and partially blowing up a rooftop. The other two who had climbed to the rooftops ahead of their disintegrated compatriot are chased by Shand, who retrieves her helmet on the way to the wall. As she reaches the rooftop, Fett tells her to capture them alive, before telling the Gamorreans to get him back to the bacta pod.
* Shand chases the two survivors across the rooftops, all performing feats of acrobatics and athleticism. She finally reaches them but is forced to dive off a rooftop to escape a counterattack, allowing the two to continue their escape. As they round a corner, they come face to face with Shand, who has gained the lead. She disarms the two, before knocking one off the rooftop to his death and capturing the other.
* Following the assassination attempt, Fett is put into the bacta pod by one of the Gamorreans, where he experiences another flashback into his past following the rescue of Han Solo.

#### 6th

* An armed Fennec Shand leads the captured assassin into the vacenous castle. The two walk though the giant blast gates into the throne room where Boba Fett holds court. Fett demands to know who sent him and what were his orders. The two Gamorrean guards and 8D8 stand in the background.
* When the assassin refuses to speak, Fett orders one of the Gamorreans to behead him. Before the Gamorrean can slit his throat, the prisoner curses him in Huttese. Fett chastises the prisoner for being ungrateful that they spared his life. 8D8 explains that the prisoner is from the Order of the Night Wind, an assassin for hire. 8D8 says that there is no way the prisoner will talk, adding that he fears no man. Fett and Shand express disagreement.
* Shand suggests that the prisoner will fear the rancor and presses a button that activates the trapdoor to the rancor's den. As the gates below open, the assassin panics and tells Fett and Shand that he was sent by the mayor of Mos Espa. He begs for his life. However, Shand reveals that the rancor's den is empty and decries the assassin. The only creature in the rancor's den is a small rat. Shand suggests to Fett that they visit the mayor.
* Fett and Shand lead the captured assassin through the streets of Mos Espa, accompanied by the two Gamorreans. Their presence is noticed by several Trandoshans, who eye them. The group walk inside the town hall where Fett tells the City Hall clerk that he is here to see the mayor. When the receptionist asks if he has an appointment, Fett responds that he found one of his "stray pets" and that he is here to return it to his master. The receptionist tells him to wait but is overruled by the Twi'lek majordomo, who apologizes for the lack of pomp.
* The majordomo claims that the mayor is indisposed for the rest of the week but Fett forces his way into the mayor's throneroom. The Ithorian mayor Mok Shaiz demands an explanation for Fett's unscheduled visit. The majordomo reminds Shaiz that Fett is the new Daimyo. Fett demands to know why the mayor sent the assassin to kill him. Shaiz explains that the assassin is a member of the Order of the Night Wind. When Fett asks the mayor if this is an admission, one of the mayor's guards shoots the assassin.
* With the majordomo translating, Shaiz says that the Order of the Night Wind are not allowed to operate outside Hutt Space and thanks Fett for turning him in. He orders his guards to bring him his reward. Fett replies that he is not a bounty hunter but Shaiz says he heard otherwise. Shaiz remarks that Fett sits on the throne of his former employer, prompting Fett to respond that Bib Fortuna was not his employer. Shaiz clarifies that he was referring to Jabba.
* Fett replies that he will take his payment as belated tribute. He adds that the mayor should remember that he serves as long as the Daimyo of Tatooine decides. Shaiz asks Fett to consider who really sent the Night Wind asssassins and claims that he has no motive for killing Fett. Shaiz tells Fett that he serves at his pleasure. Fett warns him that he is not a fool and those who have crossed him no longer breathe. As advice, Shaiz warns Fett that running a family is more complicated than bounty hunting. Shaiz tells him to go to Garsa Fwip's Sanctuary to get an idea of what he means.
* Fett and his entourage visit Garsa's Sanctuary, which is full of droids and patrons. Taking off his helmet, Fett meets with Garsa, who offers him a table. Fett explains that Mayor Mok Shaiz sent him here on the pretext that there is something that he should know. When Garsa gives a nervous look, Fett remarks that she is sweating like a gumpta on Mustafar. Garsa explains that "the Twins" have laid claim to their late cousin Jabba's bequest. Fett replies that he heard the Twins were too preoccupied with Nal Hutta to bother with Tatooine.
* The cantina grows silent as they hear drums beating in the background. Fett, Shand, and the Gamorreans walk outside to see a procession carrying two Hutts on a litter. As the litter approaches Fett's entourage, the Hutt brother tells Fett that they have business to discuss. Fett replies that this is his territory, prompting the Hutt brother to reiterate that this is Jabba's territory and now theirs. One of the drummers presents a tablet stating the Hutts' claim to Tatooine.
* Fett rejects their claim, stating that he is the Daimyo of Mos Espa. The Hutts laugh, with the brother asking if this is so. An armed black Wookiee known as Krrsantan, who is armed with a heavy blaster, approaches Fett and his entourage. Fett is not intimidated, stating that these are not the death pits of Duur, and that he is not a sleeping Trandoshan guard. Fett replies that Mos Espa is his territory and tells them to go back to Nal Hutta. The Hutt sister speaks in Huttese. Her brother replies that Fett has upset his sister and that he is more patient than her, who wants to kill him.
* As Shand and Krrsantan load their weapons, Fett explains that Jabba is gone and that his former majordomo Bib Fortuna usurped his territory. Since Fett killed him, all that belonged to Fortuna now belongs to him. Fett says that they will have to kill him for it. The two Hutt siblings speak. The Hutt brother says that bloodshed is bad for business and that this matter can be dealt with later, though he warns Fett to sleep lightly.
* As the drummers beat their drums, the two Hutts withdraw. Krrsantan growls at Fett before walking away as well. Shand tells Fett that they will have to get permission to kill them since they are Hutts. Fett suggests that the matter is settled but accepts that it is not yet over.
* While Fett is resting inside his bacta tank, he experiences a flashback of his time with the Tusken Raiders.

#### 7th

* A B'omarr Order Brain walker skitters across the rocky desert outside Boba Fett's Palace on Tatooine. 8D8 briefs Boba Fett and Fennec Shand about the businesses that were under the protection of the "name that should not be spoken of". Fett tells him that he can name Jabba the Hutt, which the droid obliges. Fett reassures the droid that the Hutt is dead and that he cannot hurt him. 8D8 explains that he was concerned that his new master would feel insulted.
* Fett is surprised and asks why. When 8D8 replies that Fett felt threatened, Fett expresses annoyance. 8D8 apologizes but Shand tells him to get back to business. 8D8 explains that following the "sail barge disaster," there was a power vacuum. Bib Fortuna assumed Jabba's mantle. Under Master Bib's watchful eye, Mos Espa was divided among three families. The Trandoshans took the city center while the Aqualish took the Worker's District and the Klatooinians took over the starport and the upper sprawl. Since Master Bib did not have Jabba's power, he relied on uneasy alliances to preserve his tribute and title.
* 8D8 also reveals that Bib has been lining the pockets of Mayor Mok Shaiz. When Fett asks where does that leave them, 8D8 explains that everyone is waiting to see what kind of leader he is. When Fett asks about the assassins, Shand explains that the Mayor has no power and believes that someone else is behind that play. Fett asks if it is the Hutts. Shand asks Fett if he wants her to ask around. Fett thinks that they should wait.
* Shortly later, one of the Gamorrean guards informs Fett and Shand that one of his vassals seeks an audience with him. Despite the lack of appointment, Fett allows the visitor to enter the throne room in order to find out what is going on. The visitor turns out to be Lortha Peel, a water-monger in the Worker's District. When 8D8 asks what is his petition to Lord Fett, Peel explains that nobody respects him. 8D8 takes offense but Fett allows Peel to speak.
* Peel explains that ever since Lord Fortuna's death, the streets of Mos Espa has turned into chaos. Fett replies that this is new to him. Peel vouches that this is true and says that he is insulted on Fett's behalf at the disrespect that these "urchins" are showing him following the assassination attempt. Shand says that they will look into it and waves for the Gamorreans to escort Peel out.
* Peel then talks about his petition. He explains that a street gang of youths has been stealing his inventory, something that has not happened under the previous Daimyos. Fett asks if his inventory is water. Peel agrees and explains that he broker sales on behalf of the vapor farmers. Fett says that he grew up surrounded by water, prompting Peel to say that Tatooine was once covered entirely in water.
* When Fett asks about the gang, Peel explains that they are half man and half machine, stating that they modify their bodies with droid parts to make themselves even more deadly. Peel petitions Fett to purge the streets of Mos Espa of this "scourge" in return for doubling his tribute.
* Later that night, Fett, Shand, and their Gamorrean bodyguards walk through the streets of Mos Espa. They walk pass two Jawa merchants. They approach a group of cybernetic human youths chatting by a fire. Fett demands to know where they got their water. A female human named Drash replies that they stole it. Fett replies that theft is a crime. A male named Skad replies that Peel charges exorbitant prices. Fett tells them to farm the water themselves.
* Drash tells Fett to return to his palace. Fett warns her to watch her tongue, reminding her that he is the Daimyo of this district and vows to bring order. The girl dismisses him as a crime boss. Skad asks Fett why he allowed the water-monger to charge them a month's wage for one week's worth of water. The girl adds that they don't have any wage. Fett replies that they live in the worker's district and that they should be working. The girl replies that there is no work and tells Fett to look around. Fett approaches the gang and removes his helmet. He tells the youths that they will instead work for him. He warns that they better fight as good as they talk.
* Lortha Peel is upset that Fett has not punished the youths, claiming that they stole from him and that he is letting them off. When Fett asks how much they owe him, Peel replies that they owe 1,300 credits for water. Fett tells Shand to give him back 500 credits. Peel protests but Fett tells him to take the money and consider the matter resolved if he wants to continue to do business in his territory. Fett suggests that he can move to Mos Eisley if he doesn't like it. Fett also warns him to cut his prices.
* Fett tells the youths to gather up their gear and follow him. Shand backs him up and the youths depart on their customized grav scoots. Peel walks away.

#### 8th

* Outside of Jabba's Palace, a Scurrier is captured by a winged creature, which is in turn swallowed by a Worrt. Inside Fett's bacta tank, he experiences a flashback watching his father Jango Fett depart on the *Slave I* in Tipoca City and losing his tusken tribe.
* Fett is woken up from his sleep by the Wookiee Krrsantan who drags him out of the bacta tank. Fett fights back but the Wookiee gains the upper hand and throws him around. Krrsantan also strikes him with his paws. Fett grabs his stick and fights back but the Wookiee throws him around. Krrsantan lifts him up. Fett attempts to poke his eye but Krrsantan bites him. Before the Wookiee can finish off Fett, the female youth he recruited stabs Krrsantan from behind.
* The youths surround the Wookiee. One of them hurls electric nunchuks around one of his arms but Krrsantan brushes it off. The youths shoot at him but their blasters bounce off his half hide. Fett hits the Wookiee but Krrsantan brushes off his attack. The two Gamorreans attempt to intervene but the Wookiee charges at them and jumps on top of them, pushing them down the stairs. They fight in the throne room. Krrsantan throws one of the Gamorreans to the ground and bites the other.
* Before he can finish them off, the youths converge on the Wookiee. Shand then appears and tells the youths to stay back as she activates the trapdoor, causing Krrsantan to slide in. The Wookiee tries to hold on with one his paws but Shand dislodges his paw with a knife, causing the Wookiee to fall down into the former rancor's pit. Shand tends to the wounded Gamorrean while Fett arrives. Fett tells Shand to get the wounded Gamorrean into his bacta tank. Fett and his forces watch Krrsantan growling from his cage.
* Later, an R5 series astromech droid serves Fett and Shand food for a lavish banquet. Fett dismisses the droid to aid with the patrol. Shand tells him that he is the head of the family and he should enjoy the trappings. Fett replies that he needs to respond because everyone is watching and waiting for him to make the next move. Shand advises him to have some food but Fett says he has to send a message.
* Shand replies that he already did. She explains that his enemies sent Krrsantan to kill him and that the Wookiee is now locked up in his dungeon. Shand advises Fett to let them show their hand. Fett replies that these are Hutts and that waiting will only give them the opportunity to strike again. 8D8 interrupts the banquet with news that "the Twins" have arrived with a gift. Shand smirks.
* Fett orders that the gates of Jabba's former palace be open. He and Shand walk out to meet the Twins, who are being carried on a litter by several servants dressed in white and red. The Hutt brother says they have come to apologize. The Hutt sister admits that they sent Krrsantan to kill Fett. The brother claims they are sorry and offers a gift as restitution. This gift turns out to be a bound rancor, which is being carried on a repulsorlift sled. The creature is accompanied by a human rancor keeper.
* Fett tells them to clear off Tatooine in return for considering a truce. The Hutt sister agrees but for a different reason. She tells him that there is something he should know. The Hutt brother explains that they had been lied to since Jabba's territory was promised to another criminal syndicate. When Fett asks who it was promised by, the Hutt sister explains that it was promised by Mayor Mok Shaiz. The Hutt brother says that the pair will be returning to Nal Hutta since the Hutts do not want war. The sister says that war is bad for business.
* A Gamorrean guard leads the bound Krrsantan. Fett offers to release the Wookiee if they renounce all claims to Jabba's legacy on Tatooine. The Hutt brother says that they are leaving Tatooine and advises Fett to do the same. The sister describes Tatooine as a worthless rock and proposes selling the Wookiee back to the gladiators. The Hutt brother describes the Wookiee as their tribute to Fett. The Hutts depart with their entourage.
* Fett orders the Gamorrean guard to release the Wookiee while Shand points a gun at him. Fett speaks to the Wookiee, telling him that he has no hard feelings and states that it is just business. Fett advises Krrsantan not to work for criminals in the future. Krrsantan growls in Shyriiwook before running away. Shand asks Fett to consider if releasing Krrsantan was a good idea. Fett replies that they had to choose between releasing or killing him. When Shand asks if he believes what the Hutts are saying, Fett responds that he has no reason to believe them. He reasons that they will benefit from their enemies fighting one another.
* Shand offers to arrange a meeting with the mayor. She describes the rancor as "quite" a gift. The creature is housed in the lair of Jabba's former rancor Pateesa. Fett asks why the creature just lies there. The rancor keeper explains that the rancor is depressed and explains that they emotionally complex creatures. When he asks why it wears blinders, the keeper explains that the creature is a calf bred for fighting. The keeper explains that he saved this creature for himself to train. He adds that it imprints itself on the first human that it sees. Now that Fett has arrived, he will begin its training.
* Fett asks for permission to approach the rancor. The keeper says that rancors are peaceful unless they are threatened. Fett strokes the creature, prompting the keeper to notice that he likes it. Fett decides to spend more time with the rancor. The rancor keeper encourages him, saying that rancors can become very loving. Fett had assumed that they were bred to fight. The keeper explains that they are powerful fighters and that is what most people know.
* He explains that the creatures form strong bonds with their owners. The Witches of Dathomir were said to have ridden them through the forests and fens. Fett says he wants to learn how to ride this rancor, saying that he has ridden beasts ten times its size. The rancor keeper warns that it will take a tremendous amount of discipline. He agrees to begin the lesson today.
* The rancor keeper tells Fett to stand before the creature while he removes the harness from its mouth. Fett makes eye contact with the creature, which also makes eye contact with him. Fett approaches the creature and strokes its chin while making eye contact with him. 8D8 interrupts with news that Mayor Mok Shaiz's office says that he will be unavailable for the next 20 days. Fett tasks the rancor keeper with feeding the rancor a whole ronto carcass from the larder. He senses that the creature is hungry. Fett tells 8D8 to inform Shand to suit up since they will not be waiting for an appointment. The rancor keeper reassures the rancor that Fett will be back.
* Fett, Shand, and the gang of youths ride to the Mayor of Mos Espa's office to confront Mok Shaiz. Fett and Shand walk inside the office and meet with the majordomo. The majordomo explains that the Mayor's schedule is quite complicated. Shand warns him to be careful with his next words if he wants to breathe. She fingers her blaster. The majordomo offers to rearrange his appointments and retreats into the mayor's office. The majordomo locks the door to the throneroom.
* Fett and Shand follow only to find it empty and deserted. The two rejoin their gang of youths. The majordomo flees in a landspeeder and Shand sends the youths after him on their speeder bikes. They chase the majordomo through the streets of Mos Espa. They avoid a protocol droid but knock over a repulsorlift cart being drawn by an astromech droid. As the pursuit continues, the majordomo's landspeeder whacks a pit droid and topples a stand full of fruits. He also topples more objects including a tank of water.
* Led by the female youth Drash, the youths outflank the majordomo. Two of them scrape his landspeeder. As the pursuit continues, a male youth rides his speeder bike through two pedestrians carrying a painting of Jabba before crashing into a picnic table. The majordomo slams into a droid rickshaw carrying two Bith passengers, terrifying them. Drash manages to ride her bike over a building before landing on the majordomo's landspeeder. He crashes into a stand full of meiloorun fruits. Fett and the youths converge on the majordomo.
* The majordomo reveals that the Mayor is working with the Pykes and that he has gone. Fett asks is he. Later, a starliner carrying several passengers include a large entourage of Pykes lands at Mos Espa's spaceport. Skad is watching the Pykes and rides his bike to a holobooth. He tells Fett and Shand that he saw a dozen at least. Fett thanks him for his good work and tells the youth to keep an eye on them. Fett quips that it is just an expression, noticing Skad's cybernetic right eye. Skad tells him that he does not have to be sorry since he paid a lot for his cybernetic eye. Shand tells him to let him know what he sees. Shand warns Fett that these are just the first wave and that they are going to war. Fett vows that they will be ready.

#### 9th

* Boba Fett is immersed inside his bacta tank, where he experiences flashbacks of when he found Fennec Shand and began to search for his armor.
* As Fett rests in his bacta tank, he experiences another flashback of when he killed Bib Fortuna and took over the throne. As Fett awakens, he presses a button draining away the clear bacta from the tank. A servant droid hands him a towel as Fett emerges. The droid congratulates Fett, telling him that he is completely healed.
* Shand then asks about the scars on the inside. Fett replies that they take longer before turning his attention to the Mayor's majordomo. Shand replies that the prisoner is singing like a Yuzzum but reports there is no sign of the Mayor. As Fett summons the droid to fetch his armor, Shand tells him that the "Mods" are combing the streets of Mos Espa for the fugitive mayor. Fett wants to show his face in town but Shand thinks he should rest. Fett replies that power hates a vacuum before walking away.
* At the Sanctuary cantina, a gambling droid serves several Trandoshan patrons, who celebrate their win. Krrsantan drinks by the corner, watching the Trandoshans menacingly. He growls at them as his modified knuckle dusters flash. Krrsantan picks a fight with the Trandoshans, hurling one to the ground and flinging one against a plant near the entrance. Fett walks into the cantina as the fight breaks out.
* Krrsantan hurls the other Trandoshans against the furniture. One Trandoshan hurls a glass mug at his head, prompting the Wookiee outcast to choke him. Garsa Fwip intervenes, telling Krrsantan that he has made his point. She tells him that she remembers his years in the Pit, remarking that she has never seen a more impressive display of martial prowess. She flatters the Wookiee, describing him as a legend who drew crowds of thousands. She says that his knuckle dusters were more feared than blasters and that he has met every challenge and won every trophy. Fwip opines that it would be dishonorable for him to dismember the unfortunate Trandoshan.
* She tells the Wookiee that those days have passed. What was once celebrated in the blood lust of the arena is now regarded with horror and cruelty. Fwip tells him that he does not need to prove he is a champion because everyone knows it. Since he has run up a significant bar tab, she convinces him to release the Trandoshans in return for wiping his debts off the book. Krrsantan considers before letting the Trandoshan go but not before ripping out one of his arms. This horrifies the patrons including the gambler droid.
* Krrsantan pays a horrified Fwip his tab before walking past Fett. Fett says that it was worth a shot. Fwip tells Max Rebo and his band to play calming music. Krrsantan leaves the Sanctuary but Fett approaches him with a job offer. The Wookiee looks at Fett menacingly.
* Later, Fett and Shand host several local crime bosses at a banquet in Boba's palace. Shand explains that Jabba once sat on that throne but that his reign ended in a ball of fire above the Dune Sea, with Bib Fortuna taking his place. Shand reminds them that they were once captains under Jabba but left his family when Fortuna claimed to be the heir. She describes Fortuna as a terrible leader with no right to the throne. Shand recalls that they each tried to take his place but were thwarted by his guile and treachery. Krrsantan, having now accepted Fett's job offer, is also present among the guards and looms over the captains.
* Shand credits Fett with removing Fortuna and promises that they can again accrue wealth and power if they listen to Fett. Fett says that he may sit on the throne but claims to have no designs on their territory. He says that he doesn't expect any tribute or quarter and won't give any in return. Fett says he is here to make a mutually beneficial proposal. He explains that Pyke Syndicate are mustering troops in Mos Espa and have slowly absorbed Tatooine as part of their spice trade. They have bribed the mayor and are draining the planet of its wealth.
* Dokk Strassi says that they make much money through the sale of spice in their territory. A Klatooinian captain asks Fett why he deserves to be the Daimyo and what prevents them from killing him and taking what they want. Just then, Fett's rancor roars and sticks its claws through the trapdoor's gaps, startling the guests and the LEP droid who runs away. Fett calms the rancor by sharing a piece of meat. He calms his guests and invite them to sit down.
* Fett proposes that the crime lords can benefit from cooperation instead of fighting. An Aqualish named Master Garfalaquox asks what is Fett proposing, with 8D8 translating. Fett replies that he is proposing that the crime families of Mos Espa join in a defensive alliance against the Pyke Syndicate. The Klatooinian captain counters that the Pykes have only threatened Fett's territory and questions why they should spill the blood of their ranks for a feud between Fett and the Pykes. Strassi concurs.
* Fett vows to fight these enemies alone and to vanquish those interlopers that threaten their planet. He vows to make the streets safe again so that all of them can prosper. Fett says that all he asks for them in return is that they remain neutral if the Pyke Syndicate reaches out to them to betray him. The crime lords discuss Fett's proposal. Strassi says that Fett's proposal acceptable. Garfalaquox concurs with the terms. The Klatooinian captain abides. The crime lords, Fett, and Shand drink a toast.
* Later that night, the crime lords depart Boba's palace. Fett and Shand watch from a balcony. When Shand asks if he trusts them, Fett replies that he trusts them to work for their own self-interest. Fett reasons that his deal is a lot better than what the Pyke Syndicate would offer. As the crime lords depart on their vehicles, Fett opines that they may be stubborn but are not foolish enough to realize that the Pykes want to take over Tatooine. Fett says that they must prepare for war.
* When Shand asks how much treasure they have left in reserve, Fett replies that they have plenty while admitting that they are short on muscle. Shand says that credits can buy muscle if you know where to look.

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* Several Klatooinian butchers working in an abattoir, where animal flesh hangs. The Mandalorian bounty hunter known as Din Djarin walks into the abattoir, walking past several Klatooinian workers. He enters into a makeshift office where he states that he is looking for Kaba Baiz. When one of the Klatooinians asks what makes him thinks he is here, Djarin presents a tracking fob.
* When the alien asks why he wants Kaba Baiz, Djarin replies that Baiz owes someone with a lot of money. The alien asks who but Djarin says that his only business is to bring in the target. The same Klatooinian says that if he sees him, he will let him know. However, Djarin replies that he sees him now before presenting a hologram image of Baiz. The Klatooinian denies that he is Kaba Baiz, despite the fact that the hologram is showing his image.
* Djarin tells the other Klatooinian butchers that he is going to give them the opportunity to walk out the door, adding that he has no quarrel with them. Baiz replies that the others are not going anywhere and believes that he has the upper hand. Baiz attempts to negotiate with Djarin. Djarin replies that he can either bring him in warm or cold. One of the Klatooinians bites Djarin's hand but the Mandalorian hunter fights him off.
* More Klatooinians converge on him but Djarin fights them off as well. The Klatooinians fire blaster bolts but Djarin unsheathes the Darksaber, which he uses to cut down several opponents. During the struggle, Djarin accidentally wounds himself in the leg while pulling the saber from an impaled thug. Two of the Klatooinians attempt to restrain him while Baiz prepares to shoot him. However, Djarin breaks free and uses the Darksaber to cut down his captors. Baiz charges at him while shooting, but Djarin stabs him with a vibro-knife and pins him down to the desk. He then slices Baiz in half with the Darksaber, slicing through the table as well.
* One of the Klatooinians runs out into the abattoir. Several Klatooinians gather outside the office as Djarin emerges with Baiz's head in a bag. Djarin tells them that their boss is dead and that he is here to collect on his bounty. He tells the Klatooinians that he has no trouble with any of them. Djarin explains that there is a pile of New Republic credits in there that he has no right to. He offers them the loot if they let him pass. The Klatooinians clear a path for Djarin before heading into the office to claim the credits for themselves. Djarin walks out of the abattoir with a limp.
* Djarin enters the turbolift with a Caskadag inside. The lift takes Djarin up a hallway, which leads to a meeting room. An Ishi Tib compliments Djarin for his fast work. Djarin demands his reward and the information that he promised. The Ishi Tib asks why he is rushing business but Djarin insists on getting straight to business.
* The Ishi Tib invites Djarin to dine with him and his associates. Djarin asks where is the closest shaft to the sub-strata. The Ishi Tib insists that Djarin sit and feast with them or he will reveal nothing. The Mandalorian replies that he can keep his reward, adding that there is a bounty on Baiz and that if he doesn't give him the information, someone else will. The Ishi Tib relents and tells Djarin to head down to Kolzoc Alley by the heat vent towers. Djarin sighs and prepares to leave.
* The Ishi Tib urges Djarin to sit because he has another job for him. Djarin turns down his offer, telling him to put it on ice. Djarin walks back to the hallway and takes a ride down the turbolift. While on the lift, he briefly examines the Darksaber-induced burn on his left upper thigh. Djarin walks out of the lift down a hallway. He walks under a railway bridge. Djarin activates his built-in scanner. Through the ultraviolet scanner in his helmet, he finds that the walls are lined with several hidden mythosaur markings.
* Following the trail, Djarin enters a hatch which leads down a stairwell beneath Glavis. Following the trail, he encounters the Armorer, who tells the other members of the tribe to tend to him. Paz Vizsla tends to Djarin's leg injury, saying that he did not know if he would see him again. Djarin thanks Vizsla for saving him on Nevarro, as he shudders in pain. Djarin apologizes for the Tribe's sacrifice. Vizsla responds that there are only three of them left. Vizsla applies bacta spray to Djarin's wound and remarks that they will put him back to work soon enough.
* The Armorer asks to see the weapon which had caused the wound. Djarin reveals to them the Darksaber. Per her command, Vizsla brings the weapon to the Armorer. Alluding to the ancientness of the blade, the Armorer mocks the Galactic Empire's measly thirty-year existence in comparison to the Mandalorians' ten thousand. The Armorer asks if Djarin knows of the Darksaber and its significance. He recalls its name and that whoever wields it can lead all of Mandalore. The Armorer clarifies that the Darksaber must be won by Creed in battle.
* The Armorer tells of a legend where one warrior is to defeat twenty, thereby bringing the multitudes to fall before it. However, she warns, if the saber is not won in combat, and/or falls into the hands of the "undeserving", the Darksaber will become a curse unto the nation.
* Djarin rises to his feet with difficulty and states that the hilt is of a quality of beskar that he has never seen before. The Armorer explains that the Darksaber was forged over a millennium ago by the Mand'alor Tarre Vizsla. She explains that Tarre was both Mandalorian and Jedi. When Djarin says that he has met a Jedi, the Armorer responds that he has then completed his quest. She invites him to join their covert in order to rebuild. They all state "this is the way." Djarin and Vizsla assemble the smelter. When Vizsla asks where did he come upon the Darksaber, Djarin replies that he defeated Moff Gideon. Vizsla asks if he killed him. Djarin says he didn't, but Gideon was sent off to the New Republic for interrogation where he will face justice for his crimes.
* Vizsla opines that death would have been a fitting punishment for his atrocities. The Armorer agrees, saying that the blood of millions of Mandalorians is on his hands. Djarin says that then Gideon will be executed for his crimes by the New Republic Tribunal. The Armorer replies that they will see. She then talks about the songs of the past prophesying of the rise of the mythosaur to herald a new age of Mandalore. She opens a cupboard which leads to a cabinet containing several beskar sticks.
* The Armorer asks Djarin how he obtained the beskar spear. Djarin explains that he obtained it from a Jedi and says that he used it to defeat Moff Gideon. The Armorer says that the beskar spear can pierce beskar armor and that its mere existence puts the Mandalorians at risk. She opines that Mandalorian steel is meant for armor rather than weapons. Djarin requests that she forge the spear into armor. The Armorer picks up the spear and opines that the Darksaber is a more noble weapon for Djarin to wield.
* The Armorer puts the beskar spear on top of the smelter. Djarin takes a seat and asks if she is familiar with Bo-Katan Kryze. The Armorer describes Kryze as a cautionary tale while pouring liquid from a tube into a container. Kryze wanted to rule Mandalore based purely on blood and the Darksaber. The Armorer points out that it was gifted to her and not won by Creed. Kryze was born of a mighty house but lost sight of the way. The Armorer says that her rule ended in tragedy, stating that Kryze lost her way while the Mandalorian people lost their homeworld.
* The beskar spear is melted down. The Armorer says had their sect not been cloistered on the moon of Concordia, they would not have survived the Great Purge. She says that only those who walked the "Way" escaped the "curse" prophesied in the Creed. Though their numbers were scattered to the winds, she opines that their adherence to the Way has preserve their legacy for generations until they can return to their homeworld. When the Armorer asks what she should forge, Djarin suggests something for a foundling. The Armorer replies this is the way. Djarin then adds that he wants the beskar forged into something for Grogu. The Armorer replies that Grogu is no longer in his care and is back with his kind.
* Djarin replies that he wants to see him and make sure he is safe. The Armorer says that Jedi must forgo all attachment in order to master the ways of the Force. Djarin replies that the Jedi code is the opposite of their creed, which emphasizes loyalty and solidarity. The Armorer asks what she should forge for Grogu. She melts and beats the beskar into links of chain.
* Later, the Armorer practises sword-fighting with Djarin, who wields the Darksaber. Djarin jumps of the platform, prompting the Armorer to warn that he is fighting a blade. Djarin resurfaces and says that the Darksaber is getting heavier each minute. The Armorer reasons that this is because he is fighting against the blade. She says that he should be fighting his opponent and tells Djarin to stand up. Djarin rises to his feet and continues parrying with the Armorer, who knocks his helmet. She fights back with her tools.
* Gaining the upper hand, the Armorer tells Djarin that he is too weak to fight against the Darksaber and cautions him not to fight against it. She tells him that he cannot control it with his strength. Djarin wants to try again but the Armorer warns that persistence without insight will lead to the same outcome. She warns Djarin that his body is strong but that his mind is distracted. Djarin claims the is focused but the Armorer says that the blade says otherwise. Djarin thinks that the blade belongs to someone else, a sentiment shared by Vizsla who says that the sword was forged by his ancestor, the founder of House Vizsla.
* Djarin says that it now belongs to him. Vizsla replies because Djarin won it in combat and vows to win the Darksaber from Djarin. The Armorer asks Djarin if he agrees to this duel. Djarin accepts Vizsla's challenge. The two men face each other and put aside their jetpacks. Djarin unsheathes the Darksaber while Vizsla wields a vibro-knife and a shield projector. Vizsla attacks Djarin first, bashing him with his weapons. Djarin fights back and destroys Vizsla's dagger.
* Despite losing his weapons, Vizsla is able to stand his ground and throws Djarin off the bridge. He then hurls Djarin against a wall. Vizsla grabs the weapon and states that fate has brought this blade back to his clan. Vizsla vows to end Djarin but the Mandalorian is able to dodge his bigger opponent. They fight around a tubular device. Djarin gains the upper hand and holds Vizsla's throat at knife point. The Armorer orders an end to the duel.
* She asks Vizsla if he has ever removed his helmet. Vizsla confirms that he has never removed his helmet. She asks if his helmet has ever been removed by others. When Vizsla says no, she says that this is the way. She then asks Djarin if he has ever removed his helmet. Djarin is silent, prompting the Armorer to state that by creed he must vow. Djarin releases Vizsla before confirming that he has removed his helmet. The Armorer responds that means that he is no longer a Mandalorian.
* Djarin begs for forgiveness and asks how he can atone. Vizsla tells him to leave, calling him an apostate. According to Creed, one can only be redeemed in the Living Waters beneath the mines of Mandalore. Djarin replies that all the mines have been destroyed. The Armorer replies that this is the way. Djarin departs with the Darksaber and Grogu's gift. He exits through the hatch he came in from earlier and walks alone through the streets of the ring city.
* Djarin heads to the spaceport where "Flight 1020" is departing for a non-stop flight to Tatooine at gate number one. An RX-Series pilot droid tells Djarin that no weapons are permitted aboard the flight. Djarin replies that he is a Mandalorian and that weapons are part of his religion. The droid responds that weapons are not allowed on commercial flights. He suggests that Djarin speak with his supervisor and offers to book him on tomorrow's flight. The Djarin places his blaster pistol, whistling birds, vibro-knife, whipcord, bandoliers, and the Darksaber into a check-in luggage crate. He warns the droid that he knows everything inside before climbing aboard the gangplank.
* The passenger liner departs into space. Din Djarin rests in the passenger lounge while looking out a window. An R4-series astromech droid with grey and white markings moves down the aisle. A Rodian child in the seat at front of him waves to him but the child's mother tells her son to leave him alone. Djarin looks at the cloth containing Grogu's chainmail.
* The passenger liner lands at Mos Eisley's spaceport on the planet Tatooine. Several passengers disembark. An RX-series bell droid welcomes him to Tatooine. Djarin retrieves his check-in luggage, which contains all his weapons intact. The droid wishes him a pleasant stay on Tatooine and hopes to see him again.
* At Peli Motto's Hangar 3-5, a womp rat grabs BD-72. Peli and her droids, including three DUM-series pit droids, a WED-15 Treadwell droid, and R5-D4 pursue the womp rat. She and Peli argue about democracy. Peli closes in on the womp rat within the storehouse. The womp rat grabs her and attempts to drag her away. However, Djarin shoots the creature dead. BD emerges from hiding while Peli introduces Mando to her droids.
* She asks Djarin if he is here to slay a dragon. Djarin replies that he received her message that she had found a replacement for the Razor Crest. Peli confirms that she has found the ship, stating that this is what she does. She asks if he has cash, which he confirms. She counts the money and tells the droids to make themselves useful. When Peli asks about Grogu, Djarin replies that he returned him to his "own kind." Peli grumbles, saying that she could have made money from "that thing" by opening a petting zoo.
* Peli leads Djarin into a hangar where a starship is covered under tarpaulin. She removes the tarpaulin to reveal a modified N-1 starfighter. Djarin asks where is the Razor Crest, prompting Peli to clarify that she never said she had a Razor Crest but rather a replacement for the ship. Djarin is disappointed with the condition of the ship and tries to walk away. Peli tells him that this is an N-1 starfighter, handmade for the Naboo Royal Guards and commissioned personally by the Queen of Naboo. Djarin thinks that the ship is a piece of junk.
* When Djarin asks for his money back, Peli says "no skin off my dip-swap." She tells the droids to bring Djarin his money. While waiting, Peli tells Djarin to hear her out over the Nabooian starfighter. She says that she was still working on the ship when Djarin arrived, adding that it has a story. She discovers a nest of scurriers. Peli tells Djarin about the difficult time she had in sourcing parts for a ship made during the time of the Galactic Republic. She offers to incorporate custom modifications that will make the starship faster than a fathier.
* Peli tells Djarin that since this ship was made before the Empire, she is off the grid. Peli adds that the N-1 cruiser can also jump into hyperspace without a docking ring. Peli convinces Djarin to let her put the ship together before he makes a decision to cancel the purchase.
* Later, Djarin works with the BD unit to restore the N-1 starfighter. The droids shines a light on the undercarriage of the ship. Peli returns with a turbonic venturi power assimilator, which she says will make his ship the fastest in the Outer Rim Territories. When Djarin asks where she got it from, Peli replies that she got the power assimilator from the Jawas. Djarin asks where they got the technology from. Peli replies that Tatooine is a "garden of many bounties" and that she gave them a list of parts. When Djarin inquires, Peli says that she practices a policy of "don't ask, don't tell." In return, she lets them pick parts from her dumpster.
* Peli introduces Djarin to her Jawa associates. Djarin asks that if he gets them a list of parts, will they help him. Peli converses with the Jawas in Jawaese. She tells Djarin to make a wish list and the Jawas will see what is available. Djarin replies that he is looking for mainly bolt-on aftermarket speed modifications. Since the starship is hand-built, he reasons that they will need a vintage hyperware that can fit into this antique ship. Peli advises him not to worry about the shape and size and tells him to get the parts that he needs. Peli reassures him that she has dated a Jawa and knows what she is doing. She sends the Jawas to find the parts.
* Peli and Djarin continue work on the ship while the pit droids help with the refurbishment. While working on the ship, she chats with Djarin, observing that he is always in a hurry. Peli admits that she has never left Tatooine, describing herself as a local "gal." Djarin observes that their vapor manifold is missing but she opines that Djarin does not need it. Peli replies that she has fabricated the intake charger to ensure that it doubles his output coefficient. Djarin replies that it will blow the shaft out of his motivator block. Peli replies she is reinforcing his compression housing, which she shows him how to access by pressing a red button.
* Peli uses her MPH power droid to help charge of the ship. Djarin thanks BD unit for his help. Peli asks if Djarin is interested in how she got the N-1 ship, prompting him to reply that he is interested in a ship similar to the Razor Crest. Peli grumbles that this ship is harder to come by than a Razor Quest. Working together, Djarin, Peli, and the droids begin covering the N-1's hull. The Jawas return with a cryogenic density combustion booster.
* Djarin asks where they got it from. The Jawas explained that they stole it from a Pyke spice runner that was refueling. Djarin thinks that this was a gutsy move given the fearsome reputation of the Pyke Syndicate. Peli tells Djarin that the Pykes control the spice trade and rule Tatooine through terror. Even law enforcement are afraid of them. Djarin thanks the Jawas and pays them. Peli thinks Djarin is spoiling them before installing the combustion booster.
* Djarin obtains a green Mandalorian inscription from one of the Jawas.
* The silver N-1 fighter leaves the hangar. The pit droids drive it out into the open. Peli is impressed with their workmanship. When Djarin asks what happened to the astromech socket, Peli replies that she removed it since she was aware of his earlier aversion for droids. While Peli reprimands R5-D4 for his foul language, Djarin inspects the N-1 fighter and opines that the ship is ready. Peli agrees and allows Djarin to start up the ship.
* He climbs into the cockpit and attempts to fire up the ship. The first attempt falters but Djarin pours in more juice at Peli's prompting. Djarin opines that the ship is overpowered for its size but Peli reassures him that it is safe. Djarin takes the N-1 fighter into the air. He engages the ship's forward drive and flies above Mos Eisley. While Djarin flies, Peli tells him that he is used to flying a gunship but to treat the new ship like a starfighter.
* He accelerates the ship's engine and flies through several rocky formations. Djarin tells Peli that the ship is fast. While he is testing the N-1 starfighter's maneuverability, Peli tells him to point his navigational disposition between Tatooine's twin suns, which will lead him to Beggar's Canyon. Djarin also tests the ship's handling, which he likens to a railspeeder. After traveling through Beggar's Canyon, Djarin takes the ship into space.
* Djarin flies beside the space liner. The Rodian child he encountered earlier notices the starship and stares out the window. Djarin flies circles around the space liner before descending back to Tatooine. He is soon intercepted by two New Republic X-wing starfighters. The pilot Reed asks Djarin to run his beacon for him. Djarin asks if he was doing anything wrong. Reed replies that he is not allowed to fly that fast near a commercial ship and that he is also operating without a beacon. He tells Djarin that he needs him to run one for them.
* Djarin apologizes and transmits his beacon. Reed observes that his engine model doesn't match his power drive. Djarin replies that he just built the ship and was taking her for a test flight. He says that he hasn't been able to update his registration. Reed requests that he transmit his title tabs. Djarin says that his transmitter is not working and offers to return to Mos Eisley to get it fixed. Reed tells him to relinquish his flight controls for remote-control access. The second New Republic pilot Carson Teva tells Reed to cancel that order since they can let Djarin go with a warning this time.
* Djarin thanks Teva and says he will take care of the matter. Teva notices his voice is familiar and asks if he used to fly a Razor Crest. Djarin replies that he has the wrong guy. Teva responds that the Razor Crest surfaced on a transponder log on Nevarro in an incident involving Imperial remnants. Teva says that he is "connecting some dots" and asks Djarin if he minds answering a few questions. Djarin instead powers away and hurtles towards Tatooine.
* Reed asks Teva how did Djarin jump without powering up his hyperdrives. Teva points out that Djarin was using his sublight thrusters. Since Reed can't detect Djarin on their sensors, Teva thinks they should let Djarin go to avoid filling reports all day.
* Djarin returns to Peli's hangar and tells her that he is impressed with the ship. Peli is pleased with the performance of the J-type pulse engines. She tells him that an "old friend" of his dropped by. Not trusting the person, Peli had locked her out and engaged the hangar security system. When Djarin asks what her name was, they hear Fennec Shand's voice on the intercom. Peli is surprised, believing that the hangar security system was activated.
* Shand manages to scale the hangar's walls and climbs down using several pieces of machinery. While Peli is scolding her droids, Shand asks Djarin if he is looking for work. Djarin is interested and Shand tosses a bag him of credits, saying that the pay is good. When Djarin asks what is the bounty, Shand explains that Boba Fett would appreciate some muscle. Djarin returns the bag, saying that it is "on the house." He agrees to the job offer but says that he will first have to visit a "little friend."
* A group of Pyke Syndicate couriers meet beneath several moisture vaporators. The Pyke courier says that it is all there. A Pyke guard replies that they will leave the spice and take the credits back to Mos Eisley and that the rest will follow. The Pykes are confronted by Cobb Vanth, who asks if they know where they are.
* One of the Pykes reaches for the blaster in his holster but Vanth urges him to think it through. Vanth offers to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they are lost. He warns that everything beyond them are the Mos Pelgo territories. He shows them his stripes, which indicates that he is the marshal of those territories. Vanth tells the Pykes that he is in charge of the folks in the Mos Pelgo area.
* Vanth states that he did not see what was in their chest, meaning no laws were broken as far as he was concerned. Vanth gives them the opportunity to load up their wares and to return where they came from. However, the Pykes reject his offer and reach for their blasters, with three then being gunned down by Vanth. He gives the fourth one the opportunity to surrender.
* Vanth tells the fourth Pyke enforcer to tell his superiors that he is aware of the Syndicate and tells him to take credits back with him. He warns that anyone getting lost running spice through Mos Pelgo again will be lost forever. He tells the the Pyke to unload his chest and leave, and to consider it a fine for trespassing. The Pyke says the contents of the chest is worth more than his town. Vanth replies that he will consider retiring. He watches as the Pyke mounts the landspeeder and leaves with a camtono of credits, leaving behind the chest and his fallen associates. Vanth inspects the chest and finds that it is full of spice. He tips it over, letting the desert winds ferry it away.
* Din Djarin's modified N-1 starfighter exits hyperspace above Ossus. He flies the ship into the planet's atmosphere, flying above lush mountains. The ship's console buzzes. On the ground, R2-D2 guides Djarin's ship to a flat area besides a river with brown water. The R2-series astromech droid beeps in binary while Djarin climbs out of his ship. Djarin greets R2 and tells him that he is looking for Luke Skywalker, and has come to see the child Grogu.
* R2 beeps before leading Djarin down a path into a forest of bamboo-like plants. An ant droid skitters past them. Exiting the forest, they find several ant droids assembling a stony structure. R2 converses with the droids. Djarin asks if this is where they are. R2 enters into hibernation, much to Djarin's frustration. He instead speaks to the ant droids, telling them he is looking for Skywalker. The droids instead assemble a makeshift bench while Djarin asks if anyone is here or alive. The ant droids continue their work.
* Elsewhere on the green forested world, Grogu meditates with Luke Skywalker in a meadow. Grogu notices a passing frog and uses the Force to levitate it into his mouth. Skywalker appears to be deep in meditation but awakes to find Grogu about to swallow the frog. He convinces Grogu to let the frog go. The frog dives into a stream. Skywalker returns to his meditation and stretches out of his right hand, causing the frogs to levitate out of the ponds. Grogu watches with awe before Skywalker lets the frogs go.
* He invites Grogu for a walk through the bamboo forest. Skywalker tells Grogu that he reminds him of Yoda, adding that Yoda was small like him but that he had a huge heart and that the Force was strong in him. Skywalker recounts that Yoda once said that "size matters not." He explains that Yoda spoke in riddles and asks if anyone spoke like that back at Grogu's home. He asks Grogu if he remembers his home. Grogu remains still with a sad expression.
* Skywalker asks if Grogu would like to remember and rests his palm on his head. Grogu experiences a vision of Jedi defending the Jedi Temple against the 501st Legion during the Jedi Purge. When Grogu emerges from the flashback, Skywalker warns him that the galaxy can be a dangerous place. He promises to teach Grogu to defend himself. The two reflect on the nearby hills.
* Meanwhile, Djarin is resting on his bench when he is startled by Ahsoka Tano. Tano explains that she is an old friend of the "family." When Djarin recalls that Tano said that she would not be training Grogu, Tano clarifies that Master Luke is training him. Djarin asks what she is doing here, prompting her to ask him the same question. Djarin tells her that he is here to see the kid. Tano explains that is why R2 led him to her. The astromech droid beeps in binary.
* When Djarin asks about the place, Tano replies that it is nothing now but that one day it will be a great school. She adds that Grogu will be its first student. When Djarin asks how Grogu is doing, Tano replies that he is doing fine. Djarin insists on seeing him, prompting R2-D2 to turn his head. Tano invites Djarin to accompany her on a walk through the bamboo forest.
* Tano recalls warning Djarin that his attachment to Grogu would be difficult to let go of. Djarin explains that Grogu was a Mandalorian foundling in his care and that he just wants to make sure he is safe. Tano responds that there is no place in the galaxy safer than being with Luke. Djarin questions Tano letting Skywalker train the Child when she wouldn't. Tano exhales sharply and explains that it was Luke's decision, adding that she does not control the wants or choices of others. Djarin responds that it is just as much his choice to go and see Grogu then.
* Tano agrees to respect Djarin's wishes and motions to a hill where Skywalker is seated with Grogu. Djarin says alright. Tano asks him to consider if he is doing it for Grogu or just for himself. Djarin replies that he just wants to give him beskar armor, which he explains that belongs to Grogu by right. Tano suggests that Grogu may be a Padawan now. Djarin reasons that this armor will protect him regardless of whether he chooses the Jedi or Mandalorian paths. Tano asks Djarin to consider letting her deliver it to him.
* Djarin replies that he came all this way to see Grogu. Tano understands that Grogu misses him but warns that seeing him will only make things more difficult for him. Djarin acquiesces to Tano's offer and hands him the beskar armor. He asks Tano to make sure that Grogu is protected.
* Meanwhile, Skywalker carries Grogu in a backpack and places him down in the middle of a clearing. Skywalker asks Grogu to jump but Grogu is shy. Skywalker encourages him to bend down and to feel the Force flow through him. Grogu tries again. Skywalker senses he is trying too hard and counsels him to do instead of try. Skywalker carries Grogu in a bagpack through the forest, leaping over rocks, a mud yak, and several stumps.
* Skywalker also climbs a bamboo tree and shows him the landscape ahead. He tells Grogu that there lies a wider world out there and to feel the Force all around him. The two meditate as the wind blows. Skywalker tells Grogu that he will find balance through the Force.
* Later, Skywalker takes Grogu to the riverside. While Grogu rests on a branch, he tells him to concentrate. Grogu struggles to levitate and slowly begins taking small steps. Later, Skywalker parries with his blade while Grogu meditates in the bamboo forest. He eyes Luke's green lightsaber with curiosity. Skywalker introduces him to a training remote, which he explains will test his reflexes. He places the training remote on the group beside Grogu.
* Grogu rolls it, thinking it is a ball. Skywalker demonstrates how the training remote works by activating it. The training remote fires a laser beam, causing Grogu to jump out of the way. Skywalker encourages to get back up. Grogu spends the day leaping from rocks to rocks in the river, dodging the training remote's lasers. Skywalker watches the training exercise while Tano joins him. She is impressed with Grogu's progress.
* Grogu later uses the Force to hold the training remote in suspended animation before causing it to short circuit and fall into the river. Grogu squeals while Skywalker praises him. Tano says that Skywalker taught him well. Skywalker replies that it is more like Grogu is remembering his previous lessons than he is actually teaching him. Tano observes that sometimes the student guides the master.
* Skywalker notes that the Mandalorian was here. Tano explains that Grogu and Djarin share a strong bond and that Djarin brought him a gift. She shows Skywalker the red cloth containing the beskar armor. Skywalker admits wondering whether Grogu is committed to being a Jedi. Tano says that Skywalker is just like his father. When Skywalker asks what he should do about Grogu. Tano counsels him to trust his instincts. Grogu rests on a rock.
* When Skywalker asks if he will see her again, Tano replies perhaps and bids that the Force be with him. Skywalker reflects on the beskar armor and Grogu resting on the rock.
* Djarin flies the N-1 starfighter back to Tatooine, into the hangar of Boba Fett's Palace. A Gamorrean guard greets him with an axe as he climbs out of the starfighter. Djarin explains that he is here at the request of Fennec Shand. The Gamorrean grunts their reply in Gamorrean.
* In the throne room, Shand briefs the Mods, Boba Fett, Krrsantan, and Mok Shaiz's majordomo about the mobilization of Pyke Syndicate forces. Mok Shaiz has fled offworld and Shand believes that the storm is about to break. The majordomo claims it was a scheduled vacation but a Gamorrean growls at him. Shand shows a holographic map of where the Pykes are gathering based on "whispers."
* The three crime families of Mos Espa are willing to lay low and let the Pykes stake a claim on their territory. She introduces the Mandalorian Din Djarin. Shand says that Djarin and Krrsantan will provide enough experienced muscle to serve as enforces. She compliments the Mods for surveying the streets. Shand recognizes that they lack the numbers to help out in a full-out war and says that they need reinforcements. Djarin offers to help recruit reinforcements.
* Djarin circles a sandcrawler carrying the skull of a krayt dragon in his N-1 starfighter. Several Jawas watch and chatter in Jawaese. He lands his starship in Mos Pelgo. Djarin is greeted by deputy sheriff Scott, who tells him to park is ship elsewhere. Djarin responds that he has business with Cobb Vanth, who agrees to meet with Djarin. Vanth explains that Scott is new and a bit jumpy. He takes an interest in Djarin's N-1 starfighter.
* Djarin remarks that he hasn't seen Vanth since he has given up his armor. Vanth says he is more careful and asks about Grogu. Djarin replies that Grogu is back with his own folk. Vanth observes that both of them have lost something they are fond off. Djarin offers to buy him a drink at the cantina. Inside the cantina, Djarin tells Vanth that he needs him to lead a garrison since his people are good fighters and that there is enough money to hire them.
* Vanth explains that his people do not want to fight ever since they have taken out the krayt dragon. Djarin replies that Mos Pelgo may be safe for now but that they are part of the same planet. Djarin says that they need good people to fight or the spice is bound to come through these parts. Vanth says that as long as he is here this is not a problem. He asks why his people should risk their lives for Boba Fett. Djarin reiterates that Mos Pelgo might be good for now. Taanti reminds Djarin that the town is now called Freetown, adding that it suits them better.
* Djarin reminds Vanth that he fought alongside the citizens of Freetown and that they are brave people. He explains that Boba Fett's forces are outnumbered by the Pyke Syndicate and that they need their help. The Weequay responds that the town wants no part of the city folk fight. Djarin asks Vanth if he agrees. Vanth replies that the two of them are even. Djarin asks if Vanth is still someone who won't back down in the face of bullies. Vanth remarks that he likes Djarin's big smile, which lets him get away with anything.
* Djarin says there is no easy way to ask for a favor. Vanth says that things are tough in Freetown but that he will see what he can do. Djarin later leaves in his N-1 starfighter. Vanth tells the Weequay to assemble all the men and women of fighting age for a meeting in the town hall. The Weequay thinks this dispute between Fett and the Pykes is not their problem but Vanth tells them that the people may change their minds after they hear what he has to say.
* Vanth sees a lone figure with a hat approaching Freetown from the desert. Sensing trouble, Vanth tells a woman named Jo to have the people evacuate inside. When Jo asks if something is wrong, Vanth says he hopes not but that is better to err on the side of safety. Vanth walks out to confront the stranger while the citizens evacuate. Deputy Scott asks what is going on but Vanth says he will handle it. He tells the Deputy to head inside while he faces down the stranger.
* The stranger addresses Vanth. Vanth asks who he is. The stranger replies that whatever Fett is paying him, they will match. He tells Vanth that all they have to do is to stay put and stay out. Deputy Scott says the marshal is not for sale. Vanth sighs and asks the stranger for his name. The stranger faces Vanth with his red eyes, revealing himself to be Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane. He warns him to be careful where he sticks his nose. Vanth asks if he is threatening him.
* Bane replies that that Boba Fett is a cold blooded killer who worked with the Galactic Empire. Vanth tells him to tell the Pykes that this planet is closed for business since it has seen enough violence. Bane remarks that Vanth should have never given up his armor. The two men face each other while the Deputy eyes the situation nervously and reaches for his blaster. A shootout breaks out with Bane shooting Vanth and gunning down Deputy Scott several times.
* As Vanth lies on the ground, Bane says that Tatooine belongs to the Pyke Syndicate and as long as the spice is running everyone will be left alone. He then walks into the wilderness while the townsfolk attend to the wounded Vanth. The Weequay watches with concern.
* Meanwhile, two Pyke enforcers visit Garsa Fwip's Sanctuary cantina. They sit at a table and are served by a protocol droid. A band plays while two Twi'lek staff offer to take their helmets for a clean. The Pykes brush them aside before leaving the cantina. The protocol droid warns them that they have forgotten their camtono. The camtono turns out to be a bomb and destroys the cantina, killng everyone inside.
* At Skywalker's newly built Jedi Temple, Skywalker presents Djarin's gift to Grogu. He unwraps the red cloth, revealing a beskar chain shirt. Skywalker explains that the Mandalorian wanted him to have the chain shirt, which he lays on the carpet. Before Grogu takes it, Skywalker tells him that he will give him a choice.
* He shows Grogu Yoda's lightsaber and offers it to him. Skywalker tells Grogu that he must choose only one. If he chooses the armor, he will return to Djarin. However, Skywalker warns that he will be giving into attachment for those that he loves and forsaking the way of the Jedi.
* If he chooses the lightsaber, Skywalker promises that he will be the first student in his academy and that he will train him to be a great Jedi. Skywalker says that it will take him many years to master the ways of the Force and that he may never see the Mandalorian again. He explains that a short time for Grogu may be a lifetime for someone else. Grogu coos while he considers choosing between the two objects and the paths they entail. Skywalker asks Grogu which does he choose.

#### 11th

* Boba Fett and Fennec Shand stand within the bombed-out remains of Garsa's Sanctuary. Fett says that they are at war while Shand replies that it was inevitable. Fett worries that nothing will be left of Mos Espa even if they win.
* The pair are soon joined by Din Djarin, Drash, and Skad. Din informs the group that he spoke to Marshal Cobb Vanth of Freetown, who is raising a garrison to assist in the fight against the Pyke Syndicate in exchange for the elimination of the spice trade. Shand protests that Vanth's demand is not free since spice was a large part of the late Jabba's business. Djarin replies that is what the town wants.
* Despite Shand's protest that they can make a lot of money from spice, Fett agrees to these terms. He believes that Mos Espa can become a prosperous city under their protection and says that spice is killing their people. Fett tells Djarin to convey that Freetown is under his protection. Fett suggests that he tells Cobb Vanth himself when he comes with reinforcements. When Fett asks if Vanth will come, Djarin vouches for him. Since they are outnumbered, Fett stresses that without Vanth's reinforcements they are doomed and says that they must buy time.
* Fett initially proposes waiting for reinforcements within the palace. However, Skad thinks this is a bad idea and proposes waiting for reinforcements in Mos Espa. Fett is initially dismissive of the idea of taking position in Mos Espa. However, Drash insists that they stay because the people of Mos Espa need their protection. Fett ultimately decides to stay in Mos Espa.
* Meanwhile, Cad Bane arrives in Mos Eisley, startling a group of Jawas who hide in fear of the bounty hunter. Bane visits the Pyke in charge of the Syndicate's operations on Tatooine, who is staying in the Desert Survey Office with the deposed mayor of Mos Espa Mok Shaiz. Bane interrupts Shaiz, who is discussing a response to Fett with the Pyke boss.
* When the Pyke boss asks Bane if his venture was successful, Bane assures his client and the mayor that they needn't worry about Freetown getting involved anytime soon. Mok Shaiz expresses his relief and asks if there is anyone else who may come to Boba Fett's aid, mentioning the Tusken Raider tribe that Fett used to be part of.
* The Pyke boss reassures him by affirming that they are all dead, as the Syndicate slaughtered them and pinned the deed on the Kintan Striders Gang, getting rid of both groups to whom they were paying protection. Bane remarks that he didn't realize the Pyke Syndicate was so ruthless. The Pyke boss justifies his duplicity on the grounds that they had to protect their margins. Bane agrees.
* When Shaiz asks when this trouble will be over, Bane responds that it depends on how much his two stomachs can bear. Shaiz requests that damages to Mos Espa be kept to a minimum, stating his objection to the destruction of Garsa Fwip's Sanctuary, and advocating surgical strikes in favor of open warfare. Shaiz does not want Mos Espa to be destroyed. In response, Pyke boss argues that extreme force is needed to remove Fett and his people from the Sanctuary. Bane responds by saying that he has an idea to draw Fett out.
* Peli Motto's DUM-series pit droids activate after the hangar's sensors pick up an approaching X-wing with red decals. While the pit droids guide the ship, Motto instructs her other droids including R5-D4 to hide various things around the pad, assuming the visitor is a New Republic officer. She tells the pilot that she filed for a New Republic certification seal while he was landing. She sees R2-D2 nestled in the ship's astromech socket.
* As Motto moves to greet whoever is within, the hatch opens and reveals Grogu. Motto is delighted to see her young friend and asks if they taught him how to fly an X-wing. R2 asks where Djarin is, to which Motto responds that he's not here, as he has a job in Mos Espa. Despite Artoo's protests, she pulls Grogu out to catch up and give him a snack, noticing that he's wearing chainmail beneath his robes. The droids bring Grogu some worms to eat.

#### 12th

* In the ruins of the Sanctuary, Shand briefs Fett and Djarin about her plan to send their that their people are patrolling Mos Espa to keep an eye on the Syndicate's next move and avoid surprises. Shand believes that the truce that Fett negotiated with the Mos Espa crime families will ensure that they remain neutral and allow them to gain the upper hand over the arriving soldiers. Shand explains that she has deployed the two Gamorrean guards at the Klatooinian territory in star port, Krrsantan in front of city hall (which is Trandoshan territory), and the Mods in the Worker's District and the Aqualish Quarter. Shand believes that their flanks are covered and that the arrival of the Freetown garrison will give them the forces required to pivot their strength to whatever region the Pykes choose to attack.
* Despite their measures, 8D8 reports that someone has arrived to meet with Fett. Fett is surprised that someone is sneaking up on their position. They take up position as Fett exits to meet with the visitor, Bane, who remarks that he thought he smelled something. Fett replies that if he is looking for a job, he is too late. Bane replies that he is working for the Pyke Syndicate, who has sent them to negotiate on their behalf. Fett refuses to negotiate with the Pykes, whom he regards as "gutless" killers.
* Bane accuses Fett of hypocrisy, stating "if that's not the Quacta calling the Stifling slimy". Fett tells Bane to clear out and to tell the Pykes that they are outnumbered. Bane responds that he has interfered with Marshal Vanth, adding that he should have never left him without his armor. As Shand and Djarin take up position, Bane warns that he also has backshooters. Two Pykes emerge on a balcony. Bane tells Fett to let the spice flow through Mos Espa and all this can be avoided.
* Fett rejects Bane's terms and responds that he will only negotiate directly with the Syndicate's head. Bane reveals it was the Syndicate who murdered the Tusken tribe, not the Nikto speed bikers. This nearly goads Fett into the first shot, but ultimately he is convinced by Shand to stand down and begin the battle on their own terms. Fett wants to fight Bane but listens to Shand's reasoning. Fett tells Bane to tell his client that negotiations are terminated. Before he leaves, Bane claims Fett has gone soft with age. Fett responds that everyone does.
* Shaiz' former majordomo tells Fett that the meeting with Bane was an impressive display of restraint. The majordomo wants to offer Fett additional counsel but Fett is not interested. The majordomo apologizes for interjecting.
* Shortly later, Drash calls Fett on the comms and reports that the locals have turned on them despite the treaty previously established. The Aqualish family ambushes the Mods, cornering them in an alley. Fett attempts to touch base with Krrsantan, who is attacked by the Trandoshan family in the city center. The Gamorreans try to contact Fett, but are pushed off a cliff by the members of the Klatoonian family.
* With few options remaining, Fett confirms with Shaiz' majordomo the location of the Syndicate's base in Mos Eisley, the Desert Survey Office, and sends Shand to confront the Pyke Syndicate's enforcer. Shand departs on a speeder bike while Krrsantan is overwhelmed by the sheer number of Trandoshan assailants. On the way, Shand manages to assist the Mods by sniping down the Aqualish family who had them pinned down, allowing them to retreat. Shand tells the Mods to get to the Sanctuary. When Drash thanks her, Shand compliments the younger woman for her manners.
* The Syndicate forces begin to move into position around the Sanctuary. Djarin refuses to leave despite the odds, as it would go against his creed; Fett does the same, on the basis of honor. Djarin says that they have two choices. The first option is waiting until they get into position and launching a siege on their terms. The second option is rushing out there and escaping on a ship in Boba's palace. Fett refuses to abandon Mos Espa since the people are counting on him. Djarin decides that they should die in the name of honor. When Fett asks if he wants to stay, Djarin replies that "this is the way."
* The Twi'lek majordomo volunteers to go out and try to speak to the Pykes and negotiate for their freedom and surrender on Fett's behalf, as he studied on Coruscant, where he attended finishing academy, and specialized in Civic Council Negotiations. Fett appears to agree and writes out his terms on the majordomo's pad.
* The majordomo emerges before the Pyke soldiers gathered in front of the Sanctuary and reads out the "terms of surrender" Fett wrote out to the Pyke commander, who represents the Oba Diah high council. Flattering the Pykes, the majordomo wishes to see the fabled Obsidian Cliffs of Oba Diah. When the Pyke commander tells him to get down to business, the majordomo stalls before revealing that Fett's message was a threat statement: "You will leave this planet and your spice trade. If you refuse these terms, the arid sands of Tatooine will once again flourish with flowered fields fertilized with the bodies of your dead." As the Pyke commander lifts his blaster, the majordomo reminds him that those were Fett's words.
* Before the majordomo can be executed, Fett and Djarin soar in on their jetpacks and begin to gun the Syndicate soldiers down. With the advantage afforded by their Mandalorian armor, weapons and surprise strike, Fett and Djarin take down many of the Syndicate on their own. Djarin also deploys his whistling birds, taking down several Pykes. However, the numbers prove to be too much even for them and numerous blaster shots slowly begin to take them down.
* Unexpected reinforcements arrive in the form of the people from Freetown in a large armored speeder. Djarin apologizes for what happened to Marshal Vanth. In response, the Weequay bartender Taanti explains that Bane gunned him down in cold blood. When Djarin says that they didn't need to come, Taanti replies that they did beause the planet deserves better. The surviving members of the Mods arrive and together they manage to drive the Pykes back. Drash and Skad take up position with Fett, Djarin and the people of Freetown. When Skad questions where the Freetown "sand scurriers" came from and Jo rebutts that they are here to save the tails of "city rats", Fett tells them to save it for the Pykes.
* They are soon joined by an injured Krrsantan, who subdues several Pykes even in his weakened state. Fett helps him to safety while Djarin provides covering fire. Fett is pleased to see Krrsantan and promises him a nice long soak in the bacta tank following the battle. Taanti tells the defenders that the Pykes are falling back. The fighters begin cheering but Djarin detects two approaching Scorpenek droids through his helmet's scanner. He warns them not to celebrate yet because they have got "real problems."
* The two Scorpenek droids advance on Fett's forces line, unable to be stopped by blasters and even Fett's missiles due to their powerful deflector shields. The armored vehicle they'd been using for cover is destroyed, forcing them, the Mods, and Krrsantan to flee. Fett and Djarin attempt to take the Scorpeneks on, to little avail due to their powerful shield generators. Even the Darksaber is incapable of piercing through their shields. Fett and Djarin discuss their options, ruling out both energy and kinetic weapons due to the large collateral effect on Mos Espa.
* With instructions for Djarin to protect the others, Fett leaves for further reinforcements. While Djarin is able to gain the attention of one droid, the other continues to pursue Fett's troops and allies. Black Krrsantan tries to pierce through one of the Scorpenek's powerful shields but the droids kicks him away with one of its legs. Drash and Skad help the wounded Wookiee to safety. Three Pykes attempt to kill them but the trio take down their attackers before retreating.
* While fleeing a Scorpenek, Djarin runs into Motto and one of her pit droids, who is riding a cart being driven by a rickshaw droid. Motto calls out to Djarin but is quick to turn around upon spotting the Scorpenek, allowing him to hitch a ride and forcing it to give chase. Motto tells the rickshaw droid to turn around and it obliges. Djarin and the pit droid cling onto the chassis of the rickshaw.
* Being pursued by a Scorpenek droid and several advancing Pykes, the Mods and Freetown garrison are forced to hole up in the ruins of a house. Drash convinces the Freetown garrison to take up position at the building while she and the Freetown resident Jo make their way to a nearby rooftop in order to snipe the Pyke Syndicate members and distract the Scorpenek.
* Motto reveals the reason for her arrival had been to deliver Grogu to Djarin, and the two reunite. Djarin is delighted to see his adopted son Grogu and hugs him. He tells Grogu to stay hidden until the fight is over before noticing Grogu's beskar shirt. When Djarin asks what Grogu is doing here, Motto replies that the Force works in mysterious ways. The Scorpenek droid manages to shoot off the head of the rickshaw droid, causing their cart to crash in the streets. As the others fly out of their cart, Djarin grabs Grogu and and protects him as they land. The pit droid and Motto land safely.
* Djarin and Motto prepare to stand their ground against the advancing Scorpenek droid but a terrifying roar distracts it. The roar is revealed to belong to a rancor, ridden by Fett from the Palace. The rancor jumps over several buildings, dodging fire from the Scorpenek. Despite fierce resistance, the rancor manages to damage its shielding, allowing Djarin to approach from behind and break inside with the Darksaber. He makes it to the top of the droid, slicing off one gun turret, but is knocked off. Before it can crush him, Grogu uses the Force to pull out an articulation pin from the droid's leg, causing it to collapse and giving Fett's rancor time to finish tearing it apart. Motto passes Grogu to Djarin, who cuddles him.
* Meanwhile, the remaining Scorpenek lays siege to the Mods and Freetown garrison at the house they are sheltering in. The Scorpenek is supported by several Pyke soldiers. Meanwhile, Drash and Jo take up positions on a nearby roof. Under Skad and Taanti's leadership, the defenders fire a volley of blaster bolts while Drash shoots at the Scorpenek. Jo takes out the Pyke soldiers on the ground. Working together, the two teams inflict casualties on the Pykes.
* Before the second Scorpenek can finish targeting Drash and Jo, Fett arrives on his rancor to rescue the others. The rancor slams the Scorpenek droid into a building, which crumbles under the weight of the war machine. The rancor converges on the ruins of the building. The Scorpenek droid emerges with its shields deactivated. The rancor pummels the weakened droid, which puts up a fierce fight and inflicts several scratches on the rancor. Fett helps by firing at the Scorpenek.
* The second Scorpenek fires a volley of laser bolts at the rancor. However, the rancor's tough hide absorbs most of the blasts and it resumes the fight. As the Mods and Freetown garrison watch, the rancor rips one of the gun turret arms off the Scorpenek. After piercing through its red central processing sensor, the rancor rips the droid apart by pulling off its limbs. Djarin and Motto arrive with Grogu and the Pit droid to drive off the remaining Pyke soldiers. The Mods and Freetowners join the battle. Motto also meets Mok Shaiz's majordomo and leads him to safety.
* While destroying the second Scorpenek, the rancor also fights several Pykes. Fett kills one while the rancor takes care of the second Pyke, swallowing it whole. Bane arrives and scares the rancor with fire from his vambraces, causing it to throw Fett and flee into the streets of Mos Espa. The two square off. Fett tells Bane to clear out and to take his "hoodlum gang" with him.
* Bane admits he doesn't understand Fett's motivations and asks what is his angle. Fett states that he won't abandon the city and his people. Bane tries to goad Fett by mentioning the Tuskens. Fett tells Bane that he won't let him toy with him since he is no longer a little boy. Bane points out that despite his age, he's still faster, armor or not. Fett stands his ground and says let's find out.
* With swift shots, Bane takes Fett down and pins him to the ground, calling him a killer just like his father was. Bane taunts Fett that this is not the first time he has beaten him on a job. He rips Fett's helmet off and prepares to kill Fett, telling him that this is his final lesson and that anything else is weakness. Before Bane can shoot, Fett knocks him away with his gaderffii stick. The tides now turned, Fett fells Bane and impales him, leaving the Duros mercenary dead on the street. Before he dies, Bane tells Fett that he knows that he is a killer.
* In the rest of the city, the rancor continues to rampage. The Mods and Freetowners shoot at the rancor, which tries to hurl a landspeeder at the them. However, Djarin calls them to stand down, as they're only riling it up further. The rancor flees up a tower, which it proceeds to damage. Handing Grogu to Motto for safety, Djarin tries to take control of the rancor by landing on its back and taking hold of the chains. It instead throws him off and, after being unable to eat him due to his beskar armor, throws him to the ground.
* Grogu escapes from Motto's grasp to stand before the rancor, placing himself between it and the fallen Djarin. Using the Force, he calms it down and puts it to sleep before curling up beside it and doing the same. The majordomo helps Djarin to his feet as the people cheer. Motto quips that there is not going to be much of a barbecue.
* In Mos Eisley's Desert Survey Office, the Syndicate enforcer announces that their retreating forces will arrive from Mos Espa shortly so they can leave. The various faction leaders object as they had a deal with the Syndicate, but the Pyke leader counters that their deal was that Tatooine was going to be a hospitable place to business. He points out that half his people have been gunned down or eaten by a rancor; conditions that are not "hospitable."
* Blaster fire interrupts before they can argue further, sending the group on high alert. Before anything can be done, the guards and faction leaders are shot down from above. The Mok Shaiz attempts to flee, only for the Ithorian to be caught by a noose and hung. The leader of the Syndicate fires blindly into the darkness and tries to approach a window before Shand appears and stabs him. With the opposition's leaders destroyed, she exits via the front door.
* Passengers arrive on a liner at the spaceport. Fett and Shand walk the streets, which the townsfolk are working together to clear and rebuild. Many stop to bow and greet him, all of which he returns. Fett laments having to move his right arm, but states his bacta tank is in use when Shand tells him to take a soak. When Fett grumbles about people bowing to him, Shand points out that he should be glad they bow to him, rather than shooting at him. A group of children offer them Meiloorun fruits, one of which Fett accepts. Krrsantan, the Mods and the LEP-series rat catcher meet up with the duo in the street.
* Din Djarin's N-1 starfighter departs from Tatooine, with Grogu seated in the small pod seat built into the ship. He taps the dome of the seat, which Djarin responds to with a negative. Grogu repeats this several times, until Djarin finally agrees for what he says is the last time. He pushes a button, causing the ship's sublight thrusters to accelerate rapidly as Grogu squeals.
* Cobb Vanth lies in Fett's bacta tank, still alive as the Modifier who saved Shand's life previously prepares to conduct an operation.

### December

#### 16th

* Hunters of the Outer Rim makes its official HoloNet debut. Aran Tal joins the competition.

## 1988

### March

#### 7th

* Rieve joins the Hunters of the Outer Rim.

### May

#### 19th

* On an unknown planet, the Armorer is making a blue Mandalorian helmet. She brings the helmet to a Mandalorian initiation ceremony by a riverbank. During the initiation ceremony, a youth named Ragnar swears the Creed before donning the helmet. Before they can complete the ceremony, a dinosaur turtle attacks their Mandalorian covert. The Armorer takes Ragnar to safety while Paz Vizsla leads the defense of the covert.
* The creature eats a few of the Mandalorians. The Mandalorians attempt to plant grav charges on the creature but are unable to pierce through its thick hide. They attempt to pull it down with whipcords but are no match for the creature's vast size and strength. Ragnar attempts to charge at the creature's maw but Vizsla pushes him aside and fires blaster bolts at the creature. Din Djarin arrives in his N-1 Starfighter with Grogu and fires torpedoes into the creature's side, killing it.
* After landing his ship, Djarin visits the Armorer in her cave and asks how he can redeem himself. The Armorer tells Djarin that he is no longer a Mandalorian since he willingly removed his helmet. Djarin reminds her that the Creed speaks about redemption. The Armorer believes that Djarin cannot be redeemed since she believes that the mines and Living Waters were destroyed during the Great Purge of Mandalore.
* Djarin shows her a green Mandalorian inscription which he obtained from a Jawa, who acquired it from someone who visited Mandalore. The Armorer responds that the inscription proves that Mandalore's entire surface has been crystalized by fusion rays. Djarin believes that the traveler managed to reach the mines of Mandalore. Djarin seeks to redeem himself by traveling to Mandalore and proving that the mines and Living Waters exist. The Armorer accepts his quest and says this is the way. Grogu coos and watches with interest.
* While traveling through hyperspace, Grogu watches the hyperspace tunnel with interest and observes several Purrgil traveling alongside them. Djarin flies the N-1 starfighter to Nevarro where he is greeted by air traffic control. He tells them that he has come to visit an "old friend." Djarin walks through the streets of Nevarro City while Grogu rides in his repulsorlift cradle. Djarin notices that the streets are cleaner and safer. Droids and beings of different species roam through the streets. Kowakian monkey-lizards watch from trees.
* As the two pass a statue of IG-11, Djarin reminds Grogu of his old droid friend. Djarin greets Greef Karga, who has become Nevarro's new High Magistrate. Inside his office, Karga tells Djarin that Nevarro has become an official trade spur of the Hydian Way. Karga also tells him that Nevarro has been undergoing a construction boom due to mining in the system's asteroid field. Karga offers Djarin and Grogu a parcel of land to settle in the outskirts of the city.
* Djarin replies that he is not ready to settle down since his quest is not over and he has become an apostate. Karga tries to reassure Djarin he will fit in as landed aristocracy. A protocol droid informs Karga that several pirates led by the Nikto Vane have arrived in the town courtyard. Vane invites Karga for a drink but Karga tells them that the pub has now become a school run by a protocol droid teacher.
* However, Vane insists on drinking at the school due to its history as a bar. Karga refuses to back down, prompting Vane to remind Karga that he paid them for murder and mayhem inside the former bar and accuses Karga of being soft. Karga challenges Vane to a gunfight. Before Vane can reach for his holster, Karga shoots the blaster out of his hand. Karga tells Vane to inform Captain Gorian Shard that Nevarro is no longer friendly to pirates. He warns Vane to leave. When Vane's fellow pirates reach for their weapons, Djarin shoots them down. Karga warns Vane to leave and the pirate flees. When Djarin questions his decision to spare Vane, Karga says that Vane will take home the message that Nevarro is a respectable place now.
* While service droids remove the fallen pirates, Karga tells Djarin that he needs a new marshal. He explains that Cara Dune was recruited by New Republic Special Forces after she captured Moff Gideon, who was sent to a New Republic War Tribunal. Djarin is reluctant to become Karga's new marshal and suggests asking the New Republic to send one. Karga responds that he is unwilling to bow down to another far-off bureaucracy. Karga dreams of making Nevarro the first truly independent trade anchor in the sector. Djarin declines the offer since he has a pressing matter to attend to.
* Karga asks what services he can provide. Djarin requests that he get back the late IG-11 since he needs a droid that he can trust to help him explore Mandalore. Karga responds that the statue is made out of the few parts of IG-11 that they salvaged following his self-destruction. Karga offers Djarin other droids but Djarin convinces Karga to let him try to rebuild IG-11.
* In a workshop, Djarin connects IG-11's mechanical body to power and manages to revive the droid. However, Djarin manages to restore IG-11's memories to the time when he wanted to terminate Grogu. The legless IG-11 lunges at Djarin and Grogu. Djarin grabs Grogu and passes him to Karga before shooting at IG-11. A bust of Karga falls on IG-11's head. Later, Karga invites Djarin to bring the deactivated IG-11 to several Anzellan droidsmiths, whom he describes as some of the best in the galaxy.
* However, the Anzellans are unable to repair IG-11's memory circuit due to its rarity. They recommend buying a new droid. Djarin offers to help the Anzellans find a new part, which they accept. Grogu hugs one of the diminutive Anzellan mechanics, promoting the Anzellan and Djarin to tell him not to squeeze him too hard. Djarin and Grogu prepare to leave on their N-1 starfighter to find a memory circuit for IG-11. Karga wishes them safe travels.
* While traveling through the space above Nevarro, Djarin tells Grogu that there is more to being a Mandalorian than fighting. He adds that navigating is useful since one never knows where one is heading next. Djarin shows Grogu a hyperspace map and tells him he can determine his range by looking at the fuel gauge. The ship's proximity alert rings, warning Djarin about the presence of the pirates' starfighters.
* Vane seeks to avenge the deaths of four of his brothers and reminds Djarin that they serve the Pirate King Gorian Shard. Djarin responds that Shard should stick to hijacking and ransoming before pulling the accelerator. Djarin leads the pirate starfighters on a chase through an asteroid field. One of the pirate ships crashes into an asteroid but the others continue their chase. Djarin gains the upper hand and runs circles around his pursuers, shooting several starfighters down. One of the pirate ships crashes into a mining platform on an asteroid.
* Despite these losses, Vane manages to drive Djarin's starfighter towards Captain Shard's warship. Pirate gunners aim their weapons at Djarin's N-1 starfighter. Shard warns Djarin that he has guns trained on him. Djarin responds that he has no quarrel with him but Shard reminds Djarin that he has just destroyed four of his starfighters. Shard demands that Djarin surrender in return for sparing his life. Djarin tells Grogu to never trust a pirate before pushing the accelerator, causing the N-1 starfighter to shoot past the bridge of Shard's warship. Shard growls in rage.
* Djarin takes Grogu to Kalevala, another planet within the Mandalore system. Djarin lands his N-1 starfighter at Kryze Castle. Upon disembarking, he and Grogu are greeted by a blue footman droid. The two walk through the castle hallway into a throne room where they are greeted by a forlorn Bo-Katan Kryze, who has abandoned her plans to retake Mandalore. Without the Darksaber, her forces melted away. Kryze mentions that her fleet have reverted to being mercenaries.
* Kryze asks Djarin if he has the Darksaber. When Djarin confirms this is the case, she tells him to use it to lead the people. Djarin asks Kryze if she has given up her plan to retake Mandalore. Kryze responds that Djarin's Children of the Watch cult gave up on Mandalore before the Purge. She asks Djarin where he was during the Purge. Kryze says that the Children of the Watch and other factions divided their people. She tells Djarin to go home because there is nothing left.
* Djarin tells Kryze that he intends to return to Mandalore in order to bathe in the Living Waters and be forgiven for his transgressions. Kryze thinks that Djarin is foolish and responds that there is nothing magical about the Mines of Mandalore. She says they supplied beskar ore to their ancestors and the rest is superstition. When Kryze says that Mandalore has been poisoned, plundered and polluted, Djarin reminds her that she said that curse was a lie and tells her to make up her mind. Kryze tells Djarin that the mines are located beneath the Civic Center in Sundari. Djarin vows to find out whether Mandalore has truly been poisoned. Kryze bids Djarin goodbye.

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* On the planet Tatooine, it is Boonta Eve, which residents are celebrating with fireworks. In Hangar 3-5, a Rodian customer argues with the mechanic Peli Motto about Motto fixing their speeder. Motto points out that there are many parts missing, and she would have to order them from the Mid Rim; she estimates the time to repair it at two months. When the Rodian complains, she says she will put a rush on it, on the condition that the Rodian pay half upfront. After the Rodian reluctantly hands her some money, she grumbles behind their retreating back that this will mean she has to work on Boonta Eve, and should have charged him more for making her work on the holiday.
* Motto gets her DUM-series pit droids to check that the Rodian is gone before she calls out to some Jawas, revealing that she has been running a scam with them: they strip speeders of parts, and when the owner comes to her for repairs, she charges them but uses their own parts, painted to look different, to do those repairs. The Jawas demand credits for the work of painting the parts and putting it back together, which Motto acquiesces to after a token protest.
* Din Djarin's N-1 starfighter arrives, and Motto tells the Jawas to leave, with instructions to strip another speeder. She crows about how good the N-1 starfighter's engine sounds, and despite Din Djarin saying he has no complaints about its performance, she promises to tune it up anyway. She asks where Grogu is, and when he pops out above the rim of the cockpit and uses the Force to leap into her arms, she is delighted. She suggests to Djarin that Grogu is saying his first word, Peli.
* Djarin, ignoring her claim, declares he is there for business. Motto asks what the business is, suggesting that he is going to take down Boba Fett or that the Hutts have returned and have to be dealt with. When Djarin responds that he is only looking for a droid part, she declares it boring, but calls to the pit droids to summon the Jawas back so they can deal with Djarin's request. At Djarin's specification that it is an IG-series memory circuit, she jokingly calls him a "grandpa," saying that IG memory circuits have been out of production for some time. When the Jawas return, she asks them in Jawaese if they have the memory circuit Djarin is looking for, but they inform her that they do not have the part.
* At Djarin's complaint that he needs his droid fixed immediately, Motto suggests he buy the dilapidated R5-series astromech droid she has in the hangar bay. Djarin says that he needs a droid able to spelunk, so he has no use for an astromech droid. When Motto asks for further details, Djarin explains that he is going to Mandalore, and requires an astromech that go ahead of him and test the atmosphere to make sure it is safe for him to breathe. The astromech, R5-D4, begins to shake and back away, but Motto tells it to get back, and claims it is just as good as when it was fighting for the Rebellion. She then offers to reinstall the N-1's astromech port so the astromech can copilot, and to sell him the droid at half price, with a free oil bath.
* Djarin accepts, and as night falls, Djarin, Grogu, and R5-D4 are in the N-1, almost ready to take off. Motto admonishes the droid, telling it to be braver, and then tells Djarin that R5's circuitry is fragile and that he should not rely on it. When Din protests, pointing out that she had claimed it was built for adventure, she shuts the cockpit and says she cannot hear him over the sound of the engines, and the starfighter rises into the sky.
* As Djarin and Grogu arrive in the vicinity of Mandalore, Djarin assures Grogu that while it may look scary, with its turbulent stormclouds, it was once beautiful and verdant, back in the days when the songs Djarin knows about Mandalore were written. He tells Grogu that it is the homeworld of their people, and that every Mandalorian can trace their roots back to this planet and its beskar mines. He confesses that he has never been to Mandalore either, and that instead, he grew up on Mandalore's moon, Concordia. He points to Concordia, which they can see from the cockpit, and then to Kalevala, reminding Grogu that it is where Bo-Katan Kryze lives. He then points to the scope, which shows the three astronomical bodies he has mentioned, explaining to Grogu that Mandalorians must be skilled at reading maps so they do not get lost.
* As the ship descends through the atmosphere of Mandalore, the clouds buffet R5-D4 and cause the ship's systems to flicker. When they have broken through the clouds, Djarin suggests that the fusion bombs from the Great Purge of Mandalore disrupted the magnetic field around the planet, preventing any communication out of atmosphere. The ship lands in a clearing surrounded by jagged pieces of green trinitite, and Djarin orders R5 to scout ahead and test the atmosphere in the mines. R5 reluctantly trundles off in the direction Djarin indicates. When Grogu shows concern about R5, Djarin says they can watch it on the scope, which shows a dot slowly travelling away from them before abruptly disappearing. As Djarin unsuccessfully tries to raise R5 on comms, the ship's systems flicker again. Djarin says it is probably just atmospheric interference, but acquiesces to Grogu's distress, leaving the ship to go find R5 after pressurizing his helmet.
* Djarin enters a gloomy green cave, walking slowly to a precipice, from which he can see the ruins of an underground city. He is suddenly attacked by three Alamites with clubs. Though Djarin manages to shoot an Alamite, the remaining two attack him with clubs, causing him drop his blaster. Unable to reach his blaster, Djarin pulls out the Darksaber, though his swings are clumsy as the blade remains heavy. After wounding the second Alamite in the leg, Djarin manages to his opponent over the edge into the ruins below. He stabs the third attacker with the Darksaber before throwing him over the edge. After defeating the Alamites, Djarin hears R5 beeping and finds the droid overturned in a pile of rock. Righting it, Djarin and the droid then return to the starfighter.
* When Djarin receives the atmospheric readings from R5-D4, he discovers that the air is breathable and declares that Kryze was right, and that Mandalore is not cursed. He takes Grogu into the cave, pausing at the precipice from before and telling Grogu that this was once the Civic Center, where Kryze told them to go. He uses his jetpack and Grogu uses his hovering pram to descend past the mangled metal skeletons of buildings, pausing on a girder to tell Grogu that the mines are further down, and that they were on their own from here. They continue descending down a well, past ancient water pipes, before landing at the bottom.
* They proceed through a large tunnel with more water pipes branching off it, and several reptavian creatures observe them, unnoticed by Djarin. Turning off into a smaller tunnel, Djarin discovers that the detritus beneath their feet includes an old Mandalorian helmet. While he is distracted looking at the helmet, a trap springs shut, and Djarin is captured by a Spider Tank with an organic eye. It takes Djarin, now tightly encased in a metal cage, and puts the cage on a rack akin to a rotisserie spit. The mechanical arachnid then lowers itself to the ground and a smaller mechanical being with six limbs and quills on its back comes out. Grogu watches all this from the shadows, having left his pram to get a better view. When the creature disarms Djarin and wanders off to get some cables, Grogu approaches Djarin and attempts to free him with the Force, but when a piece of the machinery holding the cage snaps off, the clang alerts the creature.
* Djarin tells Grogu to get to Kryze, his voice weak, as the creature attempts to electrocute Grogu with a staff. It misses, and Grogu makes it to the pram and speeds off towards the surface. He manages to dodge one of the reptavian creatures that lunges at him but is met at the mouth of the cave by an Alamite. He Force pushes the Alamite away from the cave mouth and races to the ship, closing the canopy behind him just in time before a reptavian creature smashes into it in an attempt to get to Grogu. Grogu points at the viewscreen as ship lifts off.
* Kryze's footman droid presents itself in front of the throne in Kryze's castle, announcing an unexpected visitor. As she sees the N-1 through the narrow windows of the throne room, she declares, "Let's get rid of him once and for all." Instead of Djarin, however, there is only Grogu in the cockpit. Upon seeing this, Kryze asks what happened to Djarin; when Grogu only babbles in reply, she orders her droid to download the data from the astromech to find out where they were.
* Her ship flies away from Kalevala and towards Mandalore, carrying R5, Grogu and herself. As they come in to land in the same clearing Djarin had done, she gazes upon the ruins of a city, the dome that once encased it suggested by the twisted steel rising from the ground. They land, and Kryze and Grogu enter the cave, coming to the precipice from which they can see the ruins of Sundari. Kryze tells Grogu that her family once ruled this beautiful civilization, though it has now become a tomb. She then descends towards the floor of the well, Grogu once again following in his pram.
* As they pick their way through the cavern, Kryze tells Grogu that she knew some Jedi, and that Jedi and Mandalorians once got along well. She asks Grogu how skilled he is with the Force, reasoning that he must be good if he found his way to her by himself. When they hear a noise, she gestures for Grogu to get back and slowly moves forward, watching a crystalline patch of ceiling. She fires at it with her blasters and three Alamites fall to the floor. They rush her, and there is a brief fight before Kryze emerges victorious. She asks the watching Grogu, "Did you think your dad was the only Mandalorian?" She then identifies the beings she fought as Alamites, saying they once lived on the surface, in the wastelands between their domed cities. She wonders what else survived, given the Alamites were able to endure the Purge.
* Meanwhile, the creature that has captured Djarin hooks him up to a small droid with clear tubing, through which Djarin's blood begins flowing. He makes pained groans, but before too much blood can be siphoned out of him, Kryze shoots the pump droid. The creature stuns her multiple times with its staff, but Kryze manages to grab the fallen Darksaber from where the creature threw it on the ground when disarming Djarin, and she uses it to absorb the next bolt of electricity before readying herself to fight the creature with the saber and her shield projector. She wields the saber far more easily than Djarin had in his fight against the Alamites, and skewers the creature through the chest.
* As the creature falls, she turns to focus on Djarin in his rotisserie cage and attempts to rouse him. While she says she's going to free him, he manages to croak out a warning that the creature is behind her. It had managed to crawl away from its metal body to return to the mech suit, and Kryze has to fight it with the Darksaber and her shield. She chops off several of its limbs and finally destroys it, hacking it into pieces.
* Kryze frees Djarin and sets up a fire, over which she heats up a powdered soup. He eventually stirs, groaning, and sits up from where she had propped him against a rock. Kryze points out that she saved his life. He responds by asking how she found him, to which Kryze tells him that Grogu found her, and praises his navigational skills. Kryze was right, Djarin points out—Mandalore is not cursed. Kryze, however, questions that, saying that there is nothing left of the great society that Mandalore once was. She ruled here once, she says, but there is nothing still here for her to cling to.
* She brings a cup of soup over to Djarin, who asks what it is. She finds it ironic that he has never had pog soup, which she claims is something all Mandalorians grow up drinking. Once he has finished the soup, Djarin gets up. He ignores Kryze's protests that he should rest, and when she says she will get him back to her ship, he refuses. He must continue on to the Mines of Mandalore, where he can immerse in the Living Waters to redeem himself. When Kryze points out that there is nothing magical about the waters themselves, he responds by asking what they are without the Creed—what do they stand for? He credits the Creed with ensuring the survival of the Mandalorian people in the diaspora. He acknowledges that he will always be in her debt because she saved his life, but he cannot go with her until he has immersed himself.
* After this speech, Kryze offers to take him to the Waters, as he would never find them on his own among the devastation of the ruined city. As they walk through the ruins together, Djarin says he finds it difficult to imagine the city being filled with Mandalorians, as it looks like it has been centuries since its destruction. Kryze responds that it was not very long ago, but that the Empire sought to wipe away their memory as a punishment.
* Djarin tells Kryze that it must be painful to see the city in ruins like this, when she had once witnessed it in all its beauty. Kryze says that the thing that truly pains her is the Mandalorian in-fighting before the Purge; that Mandalorians were killing each other for reasons too complicated to articulate, and so they could not resist the Empire's wrath when it came.
* Before Djarin responds, they reach a gate and enter a much older part of the city: the mines proper. Kryze reveals that she has been to the Living Waters before, as a child. She spoke of how, as a member of the royal family, she had taken the Mandalorian tenets publicly, but that it was merely theater for their subjects: a spectacle of a princess reciting the tenets while her father looked on with pride. Djarin suggests that her father was proud, and that he would like to have known him. Kryze responds that he was proud of her, and that he was a great man who died defending Mandalore. In response, Djarin stops, and when she turns to face him, he solemnly proclaims, "This is the Way."
* They reach the Living Waters, a vast pool of water accessible by a wide stone staircase. Before he enters the water, Kryze insists on reading him the commemorative plaque near the steps. It records that the mines date back to Mandalore the Great, and there is a tradition that they were once the lair of mythosaurs. The plaque also notes that the mythosaur skull was adopted as the symbol of their planet because Mandalore the Great tamed the great beast. When she sees that Djarin has not reacted to any of her words, she asks if he is alright, but he does not respond. Instead, he removes his jetpack and weapons and wades into the pool, reciting the ritual words: "I swear on my name and the names of the Ancestors that I shall walk the way of the Mand'alor, and the words of the Creed shall be forever forged in my heart."
* As he finishes, he abruptly disappears underwater, having walked off the shallow shelf and fallen down the deep trench beyond. Kryze dives in after him, using her jetpack to propel her to the bottom. She finds Djarin's seemingly lifeless body and carries him towards the surface, once again assisted by her jetpack. On the way up, they pass a giant reptilian creature with white horns, whose eye opens as Kryze's helmet light illuminates it: a mythosaur. They speed away, making it to the surface, where they lie on the steps, Djarin wheezing and coughing as he revives. Kryze takes great, heaving breaths as she stares out into the waters.
* Djarin wakes up from his unexpected fall to the depths of the pool. Once he gets his bearings, he says he has been redeemed. Kryze, despite the scorn she held for his quest earlier, affirms his statement, proclaiming that he is once again Mandalorian, and that she witnessed his submersion. Before they leave, Djarin fills a small flask with Living Waters, and as he puts the flask in his belt and picks up his foundling Grogu, Kryze hesitates. She asks if he saw anything in the water. He responds that he saw the chasm as he fell, surprised that it was so deep, and Kryze replies that it was not always that way, and it must have been changed by seismic activity from the Great Purge of Mandalore. She asks again if he saw anything, this time specifying if he saw anything alive, but when Djarin asks what she means, she backtracks, refusing to answer. As Djarin exits the cavern, she hesitates, looking back again at the water, but it remains undisturbed.
* Kryze, Djarin, Grogu and the astromech droid R5-D4 depart the planet in Kryze's ship. Djarin asks to be taken to his ship, after which they would part ways. Kryze says that she would offer to hold him a feast, but doubts his helmet will be removed again. "This is the Way," he intones, and she repeats his words. Grogu babbles something unintelligible, and Djarin and Kryze are distracted, looking back at him and then at each other, heedless of the many TIE interceptors pursuing them. When one of the TIEs scores a hit on the Gauntlet, they realize they are being attacked, and make plans to have Djarin join the fight in his ship once they reach it, as Kryze's shields will be unable to hold against so many TIE interceptors. As Djarin mans the Gauntlet's guns, he asks who is coming after them; in response, Kryze points out that she has angered a lot of Imperial warlords. Djarin says that he could provide support on his N-1 starfighter, to which Kryze says it will be risky but agrees nonetheless.
* As Kryze's ship nears her castle, Djarin drops out of the ship from the back and activates his jetpack right before he hits the ground. Sprinting to his starfighter, he enters the hatch and starts up the engine, flying away just in time as a dual laser shot from a nearby TIE interceptor hits the launch pad. He ascends vertically before plummeting back towards the water on a collision trajectory with the TIE interceptor trying to shoot him. He shoots a proton torpedo which destroys the TIE interceptor and pulls up just in time to escape the explosion.
* Meanwhile, Kryze flies between the seaside cliffs with multiple TIE interceptors on her tail. She claims to the anxious R5-D4 that she grew up flying these cliffs, although she immediately undermines this statement by accidentally scraping a wing against one, admitting that it has been a long time. Although one TIE interceptor flies into a cliff and explodes, she fails to shake the others until Djarin's N1 comes to the rescue, shooting one out of the air. Kryze instructs Djarin to go right as she flies out over the water, where she cuts her engines and turns one of her wings, using the wind shear to spin her ship around and shoot the last TIE interceptor. She destroys it and turns her engines back on just before she would have hit the water. Now clear of enemies, Djarin and Kryze exchange damage reports (Djarin has none and Kryze only has damage to her shields) and Kryze compliments Djarin's shooting before Djarin picks something up on his scope as an alarm goes off in his cockpit.
* They look over the verdant landscape to see explosions in the distance, plumes of smoke rising from Kryze Castle as TIE/sa bombers destroy it. Kryze gasps as she surveys the ruins of her home, shock turning to fury as she pursues the bombers. She blows one up with a heat-seeking missile. Djarin sees over a dozen enemies appear on his scope, and tells Kryze that they have to leave, as there are far too many of them to fight. A swarm of TIE interceptors emerge from the clouds, and Kryze remarks that the sheer number of ships make it less likely the enemy is the forces of an Imperial warlord. Kryze reluctantly turns away, following Djarin in jumping to the coordinates he sends her. They disappear, leaving the TIE interceptors behind them.
* Kryze's Gauntlet starfighter and Djarin's N-1 starfighter exit hyperspace above the planet where the Children of the Watch's covert is based. Djarin explains that this is how his people survived in exile. Kryze remarks that they still live by the "old ways." Djarin advises her to keep her helmet on for the meeting, which she obliges. They land on the banks of the lake near the covert. Grogu exits in his cradle.
* After disembarking, they are greeted by Paz Vizsla, who bars Djarin entry on the grounds that he is an apostate. Djarin responds that he is no longer an apostate because he managed to reach the Mines of Mandalore. Vizsla does not believe him but Djarin explains that it is a lie that Mandalore is uninhabitable and cursed. When Vizsla asks how they can ascertain if Djarin is not lying, Kryze speaks up for him.
* This prompts Vizsla to asks Kryze who she is, addressing her as a Nite Owl. Kryze introduces herself as Bo-Katan of House Kryze. Vizsla regards Kryze as an apostate. Djarin submits a cylinder proving that they have been to the Living Waters. Vizsla replies that they will see before taking the cylinder. The trio are permitted entry into a cave leading to the covert under armed guard.
* Inside, they find the Armorer at work in her smelter. Vizsla reports that Djarin and Kryze claim to have bathed in the Living Waters. When the Armorer asks if this is true, Djarin submits the cylinder as proof. Kryze testifies that she was present and that she pulled Djarin out when he fell into the depths of the Living Waters. Grogu watches from inside his cradle while the Armorer empties the cylinder's contents into a water container, releasing a turquoise liquid. The Armorer ascertains that Djarin is telling the truth and declares him to be redeemed, adding that "this is the Way."
* She also rules that Kryze is redeemed by Creed. When Kryze responds that she is not a believer, the Armorer asks if she has bathed in the waters and has not removed her helmet since then. Kryze confirms this is true. The Armorer permits Kryze to join their covert and live as her ancestors once did. She gives Kryze permission to leave but states that until then she is one of the Children of the Watch. The Armorer leads her followers in chanting "this is the Way" as the other Mandalorians praise Djarin and Kryze.
* On the planet Coruscant, patrons fill the Galaxies Opera House to hear Penn Pershing, a former Imperial scientist who once worked for Moff Gideon, speak on his experience in the Amnesty Program. He claims it saved his life, as he had no choice in working for the Empire, and he now wished to use his expertise to help the New Republic. One of the people in the audience is the Communications Officer who also formerly worked for Moff Gideon. Pershing recounts how his mother died of heart failure, and it was that incident that inspired him to work towards organ cloning technology, to prevent a similar incident happening to others. When he finishes his speech, he is surrounded by socialites fawning over him, which he endures with an awkward smile.
* Pershing takes a taxi to his new home, Amnesty Housing. The taxi droid gives him recommendations for sightseeing opportunities on Coruscant, as he is relatively new to the planet, including the Skydome Botanical Gardens and Holographic Museum of Extinct Animals. He exits the cab and walks into the courtyard of Amnesty Housing, where four residents, all wearing Amnesty uniforms, are chatting over drinks. One calls him over, introducing himself himself as Amnesty Officer M34. Pershing shakes his hand, offering his designation in turn: Amnesty Scientist L52. Pershing's pins indicate that he is new to Amnesty Housing; he explains to Amnesty Officer M34 that he has just arrived from the Re-Integration Institute. M34 introduces the rest of the group: Amnesty Officer M40, Amnesty Officer G27 and Amnesty Officer G68, who Pershing recognizes as the Communications Officer who worked for Moff Gideon. When he remarks on this, the group exchanges the rumors they have heard about what happened to Gideon: one heard he had escaped on the way to a war tribunal, and another claims that is merely a cover story to hide the fact that the New Republic had used a Mind Flayer on him. When they turn to G68, she admits that she tries not to think about him, as she focuses instead on how she can contribute to the New Republic.
* The group reflects on their time under the Empire, naming things they miss about the old regime: one names the lights of hyperspace and another, the fit of the uniforms. When he is asked, Pershing is quick to insist that he is happy the Empire has fallen, which G27 reassures him is a sentiment they all share; instead, they are reminiscing about small, inconsequential things. After some hesitation, Pershing offers the yellow travel biscuits from the ration packs as something he misses. Later, as he is lying in bed in his apartment listening to a recording about Coruscant, Pershing's doorbell rings and he opens it to find a small crate of the yellow travel biscuits he had mentioned earlier, with no indication of who had brought them.

#### 21st

* At the Tribe's covert, several warriors are training with their weapons and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Judges are refereeing fights, declaring when each is over and indicating the winner. Away from this, on the beach, Grogu sits surrounded by what look like stones. He watches curiously as several of them move, and picks one up to discover that it is not a stone at all, but a stone crab. As he gazes curiously at it, Din Djarin arrives and picks him up, telling him that playtime is over and he must now learn with the other foundlings. He brings Grogu to the training area and says that Grogu is the next challenger. Bo-Katan Kryze walks over and asks Djarin whether Grogu engaging in combat is a good idea, to which Djarin says that if he is ever to become an apprentice, he has to learn these things. The judge, however, agrees with Kryze, and says that Grogu is too small to fight; Djarin overrules him by saying that he is his ward. After a pause, the judge asks Djarin what weapon the fight should be with, and Djarin gives the choice to Ragnar, Grogu's opponent, who chooses darts. As one of the adults fetches the darts, Ragnar asks why Grogu does not wear a helmet, to which Djarin replies that Grogu is too young to speak the Mandalorian Creed, and thus too young to wear a helmet. Ragnar says that if he is too young to wear a helmet, he is too young to fight. Djarin quotes the Creed, saying, "One does not speak unless one knows," to which Ragnar declares that he does know. Djarin says that perhaps the lesson is for him.
* Each child is given a dart launcher with three training darts loaded into it, each of which do nothing more than leave a splodge of paint where it hits, rather than injuring. As Kryze buckles one onto Grogu, she reassures him, saying that her father was the same way, and that Djarin is just proud of him. She pats him on the shoulder and instructs Grogu to go easy on Ragnar. The judge sets out the rules: each has three darts, which they may fire in any order. A direct hit, from which the mark must be visible, scores one point. There is only one round, and the highest score wins. Djarin crouches down and tells Grogu that he should squeeze his fist to fire a dart, to which Kryze says, "He doesn't know how to fire darts?" incredulously. Djarin, unbothered, confidently tells Kryze to trust him.
* The first two darts hit Grogu in the chest, whereas Grogu fires none of his. Grogu looks back at Djarin, who gives him a pep talk: he has seen what Grogu is capable of, and he should show everyone what he can do. This time, when the judge tells them to begin, Grogu uses the Force to flip over Ragnar's head and fires all three darts, hitting Ragnar in the chest. The judge declares Grogu the winner. As Ragnar walks away, he is snatched up by a giant flying reptavian creature. Djarin aims his blaster pistol at the creature, but Paz Vizsla stops him, saying he might hit the child, and instead they should follow it to its lair. Vizsla, Djarin, and two other Mandalorians fly after the creature with their jetpacks.
* The group follows the creature over a mostly-barren rocky landscape until their jetpacks begin to fail as they run out of fuel. As Vizsla watches the reptavian retreat into the distance and laments that it always gets away, Kryze's ship appears, pursuing with ease. Later, they reunite with Kryze back at the beach, and she shows everyone the location of the lair on a map. Vizsla points out that if they use jetpacks, the beast will hear them and kill the child, so Kryze suggests scaling the mountain on foot, which everyone agrees to. Djarin, Kryze, Vizsla, and the Shriek-hawk Training team set off in Kryze's ship as Grogu watches from the beach.
* The Armorer leads Grogu into her Forge, where she heats a ladle in the cryo-furnace. She shapes some metal into a circle, cooling it before placing it in the forge's press. She says that the Forge can reveal weaknesses, and presses controls that make the press slam repeatedly onto the plate as Grogu looks on with a distressed expression. Grogu experiences a flashback of the Siege of the Jedi Temple.
* The Armorer continues to shape the circle of metal, eventually moving from hammering it to inlaying complex circuitry on the underside. She tells Grogu that it is customary for everyone to donate a small amount towards the care of the Tribe's foundlings, and it is with this that she has forged his next piece of armor: a rondel with the mudhorn signet of Clan Mudhorn on the front. She affixes it to his chainmail, and it is so large on him that it covers his entire chest.
* Meanwhile, Kryze's ship lands in a canyon and the expedition team disembarks. Kryze tells them they will walk from here, as any closer and the beast will hear them. They take a long trek to the rock formation whose peak is where the nest is, and make camp for the night. Kryze asks Djarin how the Tribe eats if they can't take off their helmets in the presence of others, to which Djarin explains that they have to go find a place isolated enough that no one can see them while they eat. Vizsla informs Kryze that as the leader of the war party, she has the privilege of being the one who stays by the fire to eat.
* On Benduday, Pershing sits in a cubicle surrounded by other identical cubicles, peering at his viewscreen. A colleague brings him a tray of datacards for him to archive. His new job has nothing to do with his expertise, but he tells his coworker that he is happy to do whatever he can for the Republic. Later, he and G68 go sightseeing on Level 5127, each eating a glowing treat on a stick. Pershing admits he is overwhelmed by the crowds and remarks that the sheer number of people on Coruscant makes him feel insignificant, but G68 says she feels special because she knows just how much it took for her to return here. She grew up on Coruscant, and remarks that while not much materially has changed, it feels different. She says they thought they were doing something good under the Empire, and Pershing says that he thinks about his unfinished research sometimes, and how it could help a lot of people. At G68's suggestion he continue it, he points out that because of the ethical complications of cloning, the New Republic was not interested in his work. G68 responds that merely following orders is what got them into the mess of the Empire in the first place—the New Republic was struggling as a fledgling state, and his work would help, even if it would be against orders. The pair reach a large rock jutting up from a hole in the flooring and G68 tells Pershing that it is Umate, the only part of the surface of Coruscant that can be seen on the upper levels. G68 encourages him to touch it, laughing when a droid hurries to prevent him from doing so. She offers to buy him a photon fizzle in apology for tricking him, still laughing.

#### 22nd

* The Mandalorians scale the rockface as silently as possible using their whipcords. They reach the nest to discover it is empty of the large raptor. Djarin's heat vision shows a cluster of warmth hidden by the brush that makes up the nest. Vizsla immediately climbs into the nest, and at Kryze's admonishment that he should wait until they've cleared all of it, Vizsla explains his urgency by revealing that Ragnar is his son. Calling out for his son, Vizsla accidentally wakes three raptor chicks who begin to attack him. Even as babies, they are far bigger than he is. The adult raptor arrives and regurgitates Ragnar to feed to the chicks, who calls out for help. When Vizsla scrambles to help him, the raptor picks Vizsla up in his mouth and Ragnar in his claws and flies off. Kryze uses her jetpack to go after them, but is buffeted away by the raptor's wings, and as her jetpack temporarily malfunctions, she loses a pauldron. Just before she hits the water, she recovers, and she and Djarin are able to fire cables into the raptor's body. Kryze uses her cable to get to the raptor's head, where she is able to stab it repeatedly in the eye. As the creature roars in pain, it drops Vizsla, who lands on one of the cliffs.
* The other Mandalorians manage to get their lariats around the creature, and Djarin is able to get his lariat around one of its wings, sending it off balance. He rescues Ragnar from its claws, and the raptor plunges into the lake. As it struggles to take off again, a dinosaur turtle rises from beneath it and snaps it up in its jaws, pulling it down into the water. Djarin and Ragnar land next to Vizsla, where Vizsla urgently asks if Ragnar is alright and hugs him. Ragnar assures him that he's okay, and Vizsla thanks Djarin, to which Djarin replies, "This is the Way." Vizsla echoes it.
* Kryze's ship transports them all back to the covert, where Vizsla and Ragnar energe to cheers and clapping. The Armorer approaches Kryze and tells her that she has done the highest honour of the Creed: saving a foundling. Bo-Katan replies with, "This is the Way," and the Armorer repeats it in response. Kryze tells her that they have brought back three other foundlings in need of care and training. The three raptor chicks emerge from her ship, led out by a Mandalorian with a hunk of raw meat on a stick.
* The Armorer notices that Kryze is missing a pauldron, and takes her to the Forge so she can replace it. As she forges the metal, she asks whether she should put the nite owl on it, and Kryze hesitates, looking at the metal crafted into the shape of a mythosaur skull on the wall. She asks if it would be acceptable to wear one pauldron with the nite owl and one with the mythosaur, which the Armorer declares acceptable, as the mythosaur belongs to all Mandalorians. Watching the Armorer continue to create her new pauldron, Kryze asks hesitantly what the Armorer would say if she said she saw a mythosaur. The Armorer says Kryze would be lucky, as it is a noble vision. Kryze tries to clarify that it was real, but the Armorer just says, "This is the Way." When she leaves the Forge, Kryze stays behind, staring at the skull on the wall.
* On Coruscant, Pershing is interviewed by a parole droid, who asks him about his feelings towards the New Republic and his general emotional state. At the end of the interview, he asks the droid whether he is allowed to continue his prior research in his own time. The droid responds that cloning is forbidden by the Coruscant Accords, so that would not be possible. Pershing returns to Amnesty Housing, where he finds G68 sitting in the courtyard. He tells her that he has been thinking about what she said, and that he wants to prove to the New Republic that his research can be used for good. In order to do so, he would need a mobile lab station, which G68 claims they could acquire if Pershing is willing to go outside the boundaries set by their parole conditions, the punishment for which is being returned to the Re-integration Institute. G68 responds that she regrets her past actions in the service of the Empire but says that she is willing to help if his research means a lot to him. When he refuses, saying it is too dangerous, G68 tells him to sleep on it before leaving him alone in the courtyard.
* At his cubicle, Pershing is confused that all the equipment he is tasked with archiving is set to be destroyed, despite being in working order. When he asks a colleague, the colleague refuses to entertain Pershing's claims that the equipment could be put to use instead, confessing that the department is extremely behind on everything, between clearing Imperial disposal yards and decommissioning the Alliance Fleet. At Pershing's continued insistence that he could do something, the colleague admits it may be possible through a C-1023 request, although he is unsure whether it's possible for someone from the Amnesty Program to make one. Pershing drops his line of questioning, defeated, and his colleague leaves after assuring him that he is "is truly helping the New Republic."
* Pershing is once again interviewed in the parole office, answering the rote questions about his feelings the same way he had earlier. However, when he is asked whether he feels any anger or resentment towards the New Republic government or its employees, he hesitates, rubbing at his ear. When the droid repeats the question, he hurriedly answers no. He then interrupts the droid who had started on the end of its spiel, asking it, "Our main objective is to help the Republic, right?" When the droid answers in the affirmative, he asks whether it supersedes everything else, which the droid confirms as well. Pershing leaves, deep in thought.
* Pershing meets G68 in her apartment and seeks her help in accessing the mobile lab station. G68 pauses before consenting to the plan and suggests the following night. Later, Pershing removes his Amnesty uniform and dresses in a brown coat and matching trousers. Before leaving, he tells himself that he is helping the New Republic. He and G68 walk through the streets of Coruscant. G68 tells him to relax and follow her lead, reassuring him that he will be fine. They walk past several New Republic soldiers and sneak through a checkpoint. The two board a board a Coruscant train where G68 briefly greets a Bufopel, asking him if it is Taungsday. The Bufopel nods in return. G68 gazes out of the window at Coruscant's crowded skyline.
* G68 tells Pershing that they are heading to Gideon's light cruiser in the disposal yards. She reasons that Imperial ships will have mobile labs. Pershing is uneasy due to the ship's connection with the "Old Empire." G68 reassures him that the ship is mobile junk and suggests that he sneak in and get what he needs before returning to Amnesty housing. When Pershing asks if she has done it before, G68 hints that she snuck out to steal the biscuits. The hovertrain enters a tunnel which takes them from the inner city into the disposal yards. A pair of ticket droids come to collect tickets, which G68 takes as their cue to leave. The two access the rear door of their carriage and climb into another carriage. The two brush through the passengers.
* A ticket droid follows them through the rear carriages. G68 and Pershing reach the rear carriage. With the train approaching the Shipyard Depot, G68 tells Pershing that they have to jump. Pershing is afraid but she tells him to trust her. At G68's signal, the two jump of the train and land near several crates. Pershing chuckles, prompting G68 to chuckle as well. The two approach Gideon's former light cruiser, which has been hollowed out. Pershing admits that he has not done anything as risky as their adventure before. The two walk through the light cruiser's connecting bridge, which leads into a darkened corridor that is littered by wires and cables.
* G68 tells Pershing that she must have passed him on Gideon's ship's a hundred times. Having gained Pershing's trust, G68 identifies herself as a former communications officer named Elia Kane. Pershing introduces himself as a scientist. Kane leads G68 into the mobile lab before asking him if everything he needs is inside. Pershing is pleased with the condition of the laboratory but says that he will only take what he needs. Kane reminds him that everything inside is going to the scrap heap. Pershing regales Kane with a story about his childhood dream of being inside a laboratory; mentioning that his mother grew in a small town and never lived to see that dream. Pershing asks Kane what she aspired to be as a child. She replies that she did not have time to think.
* The two hear movement but Kane claims that it is just the ship rattling and volunteers to keep watch while he continues packing. Pershing retrieves a box and the two exit the laboratory. When Pershing asks how they will get back, they hear movement approaching through a sliding door and run through a corridor that leads out of the light cruiser and into the disposal yards. While running, they are spotted by an airspeeder, which shines a light on them. The two are surrounded by New Republic soldiers who arrest Pershing. Pershing is shocked when the soldiers allow Kane to depart with the recovered box. Soldiers reiterate their order for Pershing to raise his hands. Pershing surrenders and is handcuffed by the soldiers.
* Pershing is restrained on an operating table by a Mon Calamari technician. Pershing tries to explain his actions but the technician responds that Amnesty Officer G68 has already submitted a report. When Pershing asks what she told him, the Mon Calamari replies that he understands that "adjustment" can be difficult. Pershing protests but the technician says that Imperial indoctrination can be difficult to overcome. When Pershing realizes that he will be subjected to a mind flayer, the Mon Calamari reassures him that it is Six-O-Two Mitigator, which he claims is a non-invasive experimental treatment recently approved for rehabilitation. The technician explains that at low voltages, it can be used to treat traumatic memories. As the technician briefs Pershing about the procedure, Pershing protests that it would purge him of his memories. The Mon Calamari disagrees, saying that he has been through the treatment himself and found it refreshing. The technician and his colleagues ignores Pershing's account that Kane set him up.
* Kane watches the procedure impassively. The Twi'lek Commissioner expresses disappointment in Pershing's apparent deviancy and thanks Kane for alerting him. Kane replies that it will help him while the Commissioner commends her for being a successful candidate. The Commissioner begins initiating the sequence. Kane asks if she can stay, claiming that Pershing is a relapsed friend whom she cares for. The Commissioner relents and exits the room. In secret, she raises the Mind Flayer's setting, which causes Pershing pain.

#### 23rd

* On Nevarro, High Magistrate Greef Karga and two civic engineers discuss designs of the city. Suddenly screams emanate from outside, and Karga's protocol droid comes in and reports that a pirate Corsair is violating the airspace of the population zone. The protocol droid asks if they should negotiation with Shard but Karga refuses since it will set a bad precedent. He tasks the protocol droid with evacuating the civilians to safety and adjourns the meeting with the civic engineers.
* Pirate King Gorian Shard hails Karga. Shard mocks Karga's choice of attire, prompting Karga to warn him not to mistake his hospitality for weakness. Shard then raises the matter of the deaths of several of his crew at the hands of Karga and Din Djarin. When Karga responds that his helmsman shot first, Shard responds that he shoots first. When Karga counters that Nevarro is under the protection of the New Republic, Shard counters that the planet is an independent world no longer under the protection of Moff Gideon. Karga responds that the Spinward patrol regularly passes through Nevarro.
* Shard tells Karga that this is not a game of sabacc that he can bluff his way out. Shard warns him not to hail him again unless it is too surrender. While Karga speaks to an orange R4 astromech droid, Shard's starship commences an aerial bombardment of the settlement, destroying and damaging numerous buildings. The civilians run in panic. Karga's protocol droid tells the High Magistrate that he has prepared his escape pod but Karga is unwilling to abandon his people and sends out a directive immediately. A white protocol droid orders the people of Nevarro to evacuate to the lava flats. Karga sends a distress message to Captain Carson Teva, requesting help from the New Republic.
* At the Adelphi New Republic outpost, several New Republic starfighter pilots socialize with drinks and games at a bar. The bartender informs Captain Carson Teva that a message has come through, and hands him a data disc. Teva plays the message, and watches Karga's request for help. Karga tells him that Nevarro has been attacked by the Pirate Nation led by Pirate King Gorian Shard. Reminding Teva of his earlier offer of assistance, Karga requests New Republic help in clearing out the raiders. Karga fears that the planet will fall and that Shard will turn Nevarro into a pirate base.
* Fellow pilot Garazeb Orrelios overhears the messages and sits down beside Teva, telling him the situation sounds bad and that he was rooting for Nevarro. Teva intends to forward Karga's distress message to Coruscant to request permission to intercede. Orrelios responds that the New Republic is swamped with requests for assistance and will take weeks to respond. Teva decides to go to Coruscant and intercede on behalf of Karga himself. Orrelios wishes Teva luck, telling him that he is going to need it.
* Captain Teva travels to Coruscant. He enters a skyscraper that serves as a New Republic military facility. Teva is noticed by the former Imperial officer Elia Kane. Despite the objections of a Rodian staff member, Teva barges into Colonel Tuttle's office, where the Colonel is being served by a yellow astromech droid. After sending the droid out, Tuttle asks Teva why he is visiting.
* Teva reports that he is from the far-flung Adelphi Base and has come on behalf of High Magistrate Karga, who is seeking New Republic assistance following an attack on the Outer Rim world of Nevarro. Tuttle replays Karga's distress message before switching it off. Kane enters the room, prompting Tuttle to seek her advice on Nevarro. Kane responds that Nevarro have yet to sign the Charter and have not yet joined the New Republic. When Teva protests that they can't leave planets defenseless, Tuttle counters that member worlds have priority and laments that the New Republic lacks the resources to assist Nevarro.
* Teva opines that the recent pirate attack on Nevarro is not an isolated incident, citing reports of Imperial military activity on the planet, Moff Gideon, and the Pirate King Shard. He thinks these events are connected and mentions rumors that Gideon never made it to trial. Tuttle responds that the New Republic isn't a rebellion anymore but has a government structure. He tells Teva that he works in Requisitions and asks Teva about his matter of business.
* Teva responds that he is requesting authorizing and backup for dealing with pirates on Nevarro. Kane smiles and suggests that the pirate attack could serve as a reminder to Nevarro's leaders about the importance of joining the New Republic. Teva remarks that her views are very imperial in nature. When Tuttle chides Teva for being out of line, Kane brushes off Teva's remarks and suggests that it takes a new perspective for one to "see the light." Teva questions her conversion story and reminds her that she was captured. Kane counters that she was "liberated."
* Ultimately, Tuttle denies sending help to Nevarro because it is not a member planet but promises to explore allocating resources. In response, Teva warns that something "big and dangerous" is happening "out there" and that ignoring it would allow it to fester into a bigger problem that would be too late for the New Republic to act. Angry and disappointed, the captain storms out of the colonel's office.
* Meanwhile on Nevarro, Karga leads the displaced inhabitants of Nevarro City as they take shelter near a cave. After surveying Shard's orbiting warship, Karga addresses his people, promising that help will arrive soon. When several citizens question when help will arrive, Karga tells them that he has appealed to the New Republic and that help is on the way.
* Captain Teva travels on his X-wing starfighter with his R7 astromech droid to the planet hosting the Mandalorian covert. He lands his starfighter and walks up to the entrance of the hideout, but the Mandalorians are not happy with his arrival and tell him he is not welcome. When Din Djarin asks Teva how he learnt about their location, Teva responds that a veteran of the Rebellion is among their ranks: R5-D4. Teva thanks R5.
* When Djarin remarks that the entire covert will have to relocate, Paz Vizsla proposes killing him. Djarin responds that Teva once "cut him a break" and he will return the favor. Teva informs them that Din Djarin's friend, Greef Karga, is under attack by pirates and is asking for help. When Djarin asks why Teva is here and suggests that the New Republic intervene, Teva responds that Coruscant doesn't care. He reminds Djarin that Karga is his friend. When Djarin asks about his motives, Teva warns that the New Republic has to know the Empire is growing back. Djarin asks if the Pirate King is connected to these Imperial elements. Teva says he doesn't know but reminds Djarin that his friend is in danger.
* As Bo-Katan Kryze approaches Teva, the pilot climbs back into his X-wing. He promises not reveal the location of the covert before apologizing for intruding. After Teva leaves, Kryze asks Djarin about his thoughts. Djarin agrees that Teva is right and that he has to help Karga. Kryze reminds him that he can't do it alone.
* Inside the covert's cave, Djarin gives a speech to the assembled members of his clan while holding the hammer of The Armorer. He reminds them that Karga was a former enemy who experienced a change of heart and risked his own life to save his, as well as the life of his foundling Grogu. Grogu watches. Djarin petitions his clan for an intervention to rescue Nevarro before it is too late. Djarin says he is no position to ask them for help. As the Mandalorians murmur, Djarin reminds them that it was the Empire who decimated their covert rather than Karga's bounty hunters. Djarin explains that Karga is now the High Magistrate of Nevarro and has offered him a tract of land on the planet. He proposes that they relocate there so that they can live freely under the sunlight.
* After Djarin's speech, the Armorer asks if anyone else wishes to speak. Paz Vizsla stands up and takes the hammer. He talks about seeing other Mandalorians fall at the hands of the Imperials on Nevarro, and asks why they should lay their lives down yet again. Vizsla says it is because they are Mandalorians, and that he will fight by Djarin and Kryze's side after they helped save his son Ragnar. Despite his disagreements with them, he vows to support them because they are leading the way to a brighter future. Vizsla leads the clan in chanting "This is the Way."
* Outside, Kryze briefs the Mandalorians about her Kom'rk-class fighter, which she intends to use to drop them into Nevarro City. She tells them that they needed to operate as a tight military unit. Kryze and Djarin will reinforce them from above. She hopes to use the element of surprise to defeat an enemy that outnumbers them. Continuing the briefing in hyperspace, she tells the warriors that King Shard is captaining a Cumulus Class Corsair, which carries a complement of snubfighters and has aerial strike capabilities. While Din Djarin's N-1 starfighter will distract the Corsair and her snubfighters, the rest of the Mandalorians will drop into the city. She emphasizes that Nevarro is an independent planet where they can live as heroes.

#### 24th

* In Nevarro City, the pirates are pillaging the city and terrorising a bartender and the local Kowakian monkey-lizards. Several of them see Djarin's N-1 starfighter flying overhead. Djarin attacks Gorian Shard's corsair, damaging parts of the starship including the gun turrets. In response, Shard sends several Pirate Snub Fighters led by the Nikto Vane to pursue him. Watching from the ground, Karga thanks Djarin for his help. Djarin responds that he decided to accept his offer for a tract of land. Karga warns Djarin to be careful since the pirates have him outnumbered ten to one. Grogu sits on Djarin's lap throughout the dogfight.
* After tricking two snub-fighters into colliding with each other, Djarin remarks that he likes these odds, which Karga agrees. With the Corsair distracted, Kryze flies her Gauntlet fighter over the city, allowing the Mandalorians to drop down to the surface. The first team descends into the city with their jetpacks. Several Anzellan mechanics watch as the Mandalorian clan members ambush several, kill and capture several pirates. Team Two moves towards the courtyard while Djarin leads the snubfighters over the Nevarro flats.
* With the Corsair distracted, Kryze takes out one of the Corsair's engines, and Shard orders the snub-fighters to regroup for a counter-attack. Vane and the surviving snub-fighters abandon the attack. On the ground, Kowakian monkey-lizards warn the Mandalorians about a pirate ambush. The Mandalorians engage in a gun battle but are boxed in by pirates. Paz Vizsla arrives and with reinforcements and takes out several pirates with his heavy repeating blaster. A Trandoshan pirate mans a laser cannon emplacement and strafes the Mandalorians on the ground.
* Vane and his snub-fighters pursue Kryze's starfighter. However, she runs circles around her pursuers and also inflicts damage on the Corsair, taking out a second engine and its deflector shields. Meanwhile, the Armorer ambushes several pirates who have holed themselves in Karga's office and takes them out with her hammer. She strikes the Trandoshan gunner last, causing him to fall off the balcony. With the sniper taken out, Vizsla leads the ground forces against the remaining pirates on the ground and drive them out of the city, where Karga and the Nevarro citizens trap them and force their surrender.
* Following the loss of the second snub-fighter, Vane, piloting the only remaining snub-fighter, abandons the pirate crew. Shard yells at Vane, calling him a coward. Shard refuses to retreat and attempts to shoot at the citizens. Working together, Djarin and Kryze bring down his ship by targeting the Corsair's last engine. The Corsair explodes and the flaming wreckage crashes into the outskirts of Nevarro City in a large explosion.
* After the battle, Karga and the townspeople celebrate while the surviving pirates are rounded up. Karga thanks the Mandalorians for liberating his city. Despite being on opposite sides in the past, Karga says that this is behind them. As High Magistrate, Karga cedes all land stretching from the western lava flats to Bulloch Canyon to the Mandalorians. While they no longer have a home planet, he tells them that they now have a home on Nevarro, to which the townsfolk cheer and celebrate.
* Following Karga's speech, Paz Vizsla tells Kryze that the Armorer wants to talk with her. Vizsla walks Kryze through the Nevarro sewer and into the Armorer's workshop. The Armorer compares the workshop forge to the Great Forge on Mandalore, commenting on how the two forges served the same purpose despite their difference in size. The Armorer then asks Kryze to remove her helmet. Kryze hesitates, as removing one's helmet goes against the Way of the Mandalore. The Armorer asks if Kryze respects her station, and again requests that she remove her helmet, and Kryze obliges.
* The Armorer says that it is not enough for only a few to walk the Way, and that all Mandalorians must walk it together. Kryze expresses agreement. She notes Kryze's claim of seeing a Mythosaur and states it to be a sign of a new age for Mandalore. The Armorer tells Kryze that Mandalore must come together and that Kryze is the one who can unite the Mandalorians.
* The two return to the surface, Kryze still with her helmet off. Djarin, Grogu, and the other Mandalorians watch. The Armorer announces to the Tribe that Kryze will find other Mandalorians and bring them back with her. Vizsla questions Kryze showing her face but the Armorer defends her, saying that Kryze walks both worlds and that she can bring both tribes together. The Armorer announces that it is time to retake Mandalore.
* As Captain Teva patrols through deep space, he comes across the remains of a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle. Teva contacts Lieutenant Reed to report the discovery. Reed confirms that there had been a report of a missing craft in the area, but that the details were classified. Teva asks his astromech droid R7 to send out a probe to inspect the damaged shuttle.
* Reed checks the flight times of the craft and finds that they match those of the ship that was to transport Moff Gideon to his New Republic trial. Teva's probe discovers the bodies of several New Republic officers. Teva realizes that Gideon is missing and that he never made it to trial. While the probe goes deeper into the ship, it discovers a fragment of Beskar alloy embedded in the wall. This causes the pilots to question if Gideon could have been taken by Mandalorians.

#### 25th

* Somewhere in space, a Quarren crew member serves a fish to Captain Shuggoth, who is submerged inside a cylindrical tank. After eating the fish, one of the Quarren navigator tells Shuggoth that they have found a way to bypass Trask. Another crew member spots an approaching Imperial starship. Lacking the firepower to repel them, Shuggoth orders her crew to hail their leader before emerging out of the water tank, which slides down the command bridge. She tells the Imperial light cruiser that they are a peaceful Quarren freighter heading to the Mid Rim Territories to do business and were unaware of local warlords who required payment.
* The respondent responds that they are not criminals. Shuggoth apologizes for any unintended disrespect, saying that Galactic Basic Standard is not her first language. She says that they were not aware of the majestic Imperial presence in the region. On the bridge of the Imperial light cruiser, Axe Woves replies that they are Mandalorian and that it is too late to hire them. He is accompanied by other Mandalorians, including Koska Reeves. Woves explains that they have been sent to track her down. When Shuggoth protests this is an act of war, Woves responds that they are mercenaries for hire who are very good at what they do. He declines her offer and explains that they have been hired by a Mon Calamari viceroy who believes Shuggoth has absconded with his son. Shuggoth claims it is a lie and says that she is unwilling to jeopardize peace with the Mon Calamari.
* Woves says that he understands that Shuggoth is in love with the viceroy's son but that he has a job to complete. The viceroy's son enters the bridge and tells Woves that he won't be going home. Woves apologizes that he has been tasked with bringing the son back to his family. Woves tells Reeves and her team to make it quick since they have a contract waiting for them on Plazir-15. When the viceroy's son reiterates his defiance, Woves tells Shuggoth to reason with him because he does not want to damage Shuggoth's ship.
* Shuggoth tells the viceroy's son that he has to go because she cannot risk the peace between the two species for a childhood "fling." The viceroy's son is hurt but Shuggoth reaffirms her love for him while telling him that he needs to leave. Reeves enters the bridge and leads the viceroy's son away. Shuggoth tells him that he can do it while Reeves leads him away. When the viceroy's son says that he thought the Mandalorians were honorable, Reeves replies that they can trade honor for a few credits.
* Bo-Katan Kryze, Din Djarin, and Grogu travel on Kryze's Gauntlet starfighter to the idyllic planet Plazir-15, which is covered in Mandalorian-style domes. Djarin and Kryze notice a fleet of former Imperial warships, which belongs to Kryze's former army led by Woves, who have set themselves up as mercenaries. Kryze thinks that Woves set up base on the planet because it is not listed on the New Republic Registry. When Djarin asks what Woves and his followers are doing on Plazir-15, Kryze thinks that Plazir-15 has hired the Mandalorians for protection. Due to their earlier falling-out, Kryze decides it is best to land away from Woves' fleet.
* The Mandalorians and Grogu are greeted by an announcer who assigns them a docking slip before remotely taking control of their ship. Kryze says they are going for a ride. After the ship lands at their designated hangar, the Mandalorians and Grogu disembark onto the landing platform where they are greeted by a black RA-7 protocol droid and a black astromech droid, who tell them to proceed to a hyperloop pod. When Djarin asks why they would have former Imperial droids on an Outer Rim world, Kryze says that his guess is as good as hers.
* When Kryze asks the automated pod to take them to the Mandalorian fleets' docking rig, the automated system responds that they need to get permission from the High Senate to get access to self-defense forces in the peacekeeping zone under the terms of the Coruscant Accords. The automated system asks the Mandalorians for permission to scan their chain codes. The automated system informs them that they have been summoned for a meeting with the local planetary government before the pod speeds away for the meeting. The Mandalorians discuss their next moves while traveling through the opulent and shining city.
* The hyperloop pod brings them to a banquet hosted by Plazir-15's rulers, Captain Bombardier and the Duchess, who are joined by several aliens including Biths, Rodians, Sullustans, and an Ithorian. He invites the Mandalorians to sit down before serving them secretions. Bombardier tells his guests that he was a former Imperial facilities planning officer who through the New Republic's Amnesty Program was able to help rebuild Plazir-15. The Duchess vouches for her husband, describing him as a rehabilitated former Imperial whom she fell in love with. The Duchess finds Grogu cute and asks if she can cuddle the baby.
* Djarin replies that Grogu does not take kindly to strangers. However, Grogu uses the Force to jump into the air and allows the Duchess to cuddle and fed him. The Duchess explains that Plazir-15 decided to move into a new age and held direct democratic elections for the first time in their history. Bombardier responds that they are both nobility and democratically-elected leaders. When Djarin asks about the Mandalorian ships docked in their fields, the Duchess explains that they hired them for protection since the Charter of the New Republic prevents them from having a standing military due to her husband's Imperial past. Bombardier claims that all of their resources go to the people.
* When Kryze requests a meeting with the Mandalorian "privateers," he invites the Mandalorians to see the "view." While the other guests stay behind, Bombardier and the Duchess have private talks with Djarin and Kryze. They explain that they have a problem with malfunctioning reprogrammed Imperial droids, who have caused traffic accidents, heavy equipment failures, and assaults. When Kryze asks what this has to do with them, the nobles explain that Plazir-15's constables are ill-equipped to deal with former battle droids. Bombardier tries to defend his droid reprogramming program.
* When Kryze suggests sending the Mandalorian privateers to deal with the problem, the Duchess explains that the Charter prevents any standing army from entering their city and forbids constables from carrying firearms. Djarin points out that they allowed him and Kryze to carry weapons. Bombardier explains that weapons are intrinsic to Mandalorian society while Plazir-15 is a pacifistic society. Kryze is reluctant to get involved in the droid "problem" and says she is not a mercenary. Bombardier offers to extend formal diplomatic recognition to Mandalore in exchange for Kryze's help. He offers to lobby the New Republic to extend diplomatic recognition to Mandalore.
* The Duchess says that she is aware of the split between Woves and Kryze over ruling Mandalore. Kryze replies that she has abandoned her plans to retake Mandalore. The Duchess says that the offer still stands. When Kryze asks Djarin what he thinks, he says he is willing to deal with the droid problem.
* Inside the command centre, Commissioner Helgait briefs Kryze and Djarin about the situation. Using security camera footage, he explains that the rogue Imperial droids were reprogrammed former Imperial stock destined to be scrapped at Karthon. Though the droids programming was a success, a rogue rubbish disposal droid malfunctioned and began tossing rubbish in the streets. He shows more footage of malfunctioning and rogue droids including a former B1 battle droid hurling shopping goods, a driver droid causing a landspeeder crash, and a cook droid attacking patrons with knives. When Kryze suggests turning off the droids, Helgait explains that there is a failsafe cutoff switch built into the system but that the citizens voted against any interruptions to droid services. When Djarin inquires into the matter, Helgait explains that droids do all the work on Plazir 15, leaving citizens free for recreation, the arts, and participating in direct democracy. If they shut down the droids, Helgait says their citizens will not survive because they have become dependent on droids.
* Helgait tasks the Mandalorians with hunting and eliminating the rogue droids until they can fix the problem. Kryze tells him to give them the list of the rogue droids. Helgait responds that they will have to go into the lower levels of Plazir-15 and speak to the Ugnaughts.
* While descending into the lower levels on a turbolift, Djarin tells Kryze that he warned about societies becoming too dependent on droids. The two descend into a workshop where Ugnaughts are busy working on various droids including B2-series super battle droid. Kryze tells the Ugnaughts that she has been sent by their Duchess to deal with the droid problem but is ignored by the Ugnaughts. Djarin introduces himself to the Ugnaughts, telling them that he is a friend of the Ugnaught Kuiil. He tells them to assist with their questions and task. This has the effect of stirring the Ugnaughts, who serve their guests refreshments.
* Djarin explains that he and Kryze were sent to hunt down and eliminate the malfunctioning droids. An Ugnaught denies that there is problem with the droids. When Kryze mentions that the droids are wrecking havoc on the surface level, the Ugnaught responds that these halls are the city's central processing unit and reiterates that the droids are not malfunctioning. Djarin replies that they are not suggesting that the Ugnaughts' workmanship is to blame and vouches for the Ugnaughts' skill with smithing droids. He flatters his Ugnaught hosts by telling them that they are the most hardworking species in the galaxy before reiterating their assistance in investigating the malfunctioning droids. The chief Ugnaught speaks with another Ugnaught, who passes a disc to the chief. The chief tells Djarin that this is a list of the droids that they seek. Djarin thanks his hosts, telling them that he is indebted to them.
* While traveling through the hyperloop pod, Djarin explains to Kryze that there is a customary way for communicating with Ugnaughts. Accusing their work of malfunctioning is considered an insult. Djarin tells Kryze that the Ugnaughts think that the next droid malfunctioning event will occur at the loading docks. Kryze is unsure but agrees to investigate this lead. The two travel to the loading docks where repurposed B2 battle droids are loading boxes of cargo. Djarin alludes to his past encounter with droids.
* The two are greeted by a B1 battle droid foreman who tells them that they are in a restricted area and requests their identification. Kryze explains that they have been sent by The Duchess to investigate the droid malfunctions. The B1 foreman is aware the reports and tells Kryze that he has had the entire fleet of B2 loading droids undergo maintenance protocols as a safety measure. To test the foreman's theory, Djarin tangles with several B2 loading droids. Most ignore him until Djarin knocks the crate out of the hands of one. The B2 battle droid pushes Djarin aside and runs away with the Mandalorians in pursuit.
* The droid runs through a crowded street and hurls a crate at Djarin and Kryze, frightening the crowd. The two Mandalorians continue their pursuit. The B2 droid jumps onto the front of a landspeeder before hurling a power unit at his pursuers. The Mandalorians dodge the object and continue their pursuit through a bar. Djarin corners the droid by jumping out of a window and landing on it. Kryze shoots the droid with her blaster pistols. Constable droids arrive and order civilians to move away from the crime scene. While inspecting the droid, Kryze finds a spark pad for a droid bar called "The Resistor." The two decide to investigate the address while constable droids deal with the wrecked droid.
* While walking to "The Resistor," Kryze tells Djarin to let her do the talking, disagreeing with his methods of exposing the rogue B2 loading droid. They visit "The Resistor" where droids help themselves to various droid beverages. The droid patrons respond with silence when the Mandalorians enter, leading Djarin to reason that they do not expect many organic beings. Kryze speaks to the droid bartender, who confirms that this is "The Resistor." She shows the bartender the spark pad belonging to the rogue B2 battle droid. She explains that there has been a series of droid malfunctions linked to the bar.
* When the bartender professes his innocence, Djarin raises a tool and threatens to remove his memory circuit unless he cooperates. The other droids watch in shock. A blue protocol droid starts to walk away but Djarin orders it and the other droids not to move. Kryze tries to reason with Djarin, saying that their behavior is programmed and that all they do is reason. Djarin responds that all droids are supposed not to harm organics but many do not follow the rule. Kryze tells Djarin not to assume that the droid bar is the problem.
* The bartender offers to help but Djarin is suspicious of the droid. The droid tells his Mandalorian visitors that the droids are anxious about being replaced by humans, stating that most of them have been refurbished and reprogrammed. He explains that several droids date back to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. While the New Republic would scrap most of those droids, Plazir-15 gives them a second chance. Djarin says that the recent string of catastrophes do not help the droids' case. The bartender explains that is why they want to help. He reiterates that they do not want to be replaced since they have a lot to contribute. The droid says that human life is so short and that they can return the favor to their organic creators. The various droids beep in unison.
* Kryze asks the droid bartender a selection of the beverages the malfunctioning units ordered. The bartender explains that all droids on Plazir-15 are served Nepenthé, a lubricant that protects against mechanical wear while delivering program refreshing sub-particles. When Djarin asks if Nepenthé reprograms the local droids, the bartender explains that it patches the programming as the commands of the mainframe change. He shows them a box full of spark pads and observes that all the malfunctioning droids imbibed from the same batch of Nepenthé. Kryze and Djarin look at each other.
* Later, a female lab tech shows the Mandalorians the remains of the malfunctioning B2 battle droid they tangled with. Kryze tells the tech she is looking for programming sub-particles. Following a test, the tech confirms that the particles are still active. The white spherical lab droid suddenly goes amuck and attacks the humans with its laser blasters. Djarin destroys the droid with the Darksaber. Kryze agrees the particles are still active.
* Using a microscope, the lab tech discovers that the sub-particles are actually nano-droids. Kryze asks how the nano-droids got into the Nepenthé. When Djarin notices the striations, the lab tech thinks they are aberrations in the metal. Kryze realizes they are writings and gets the lab tech to rotate the microscope. Kryze realizes the writings are a chain code. The lab tech studies the chain code and deduces that they were manufactured by the Techno Union and have been in storage for ages. The lab tech says it is peculiar that the chain title says that the nano-droids did not arrive by Droid Acquisitions.
* When Djarin asks how they arrived, the tech says that they were purchased by the Security Office, which is illegal under local law. The tech determines that these chain codes were ordered by an individual, Commissioner Helgait, the head of Security. The Mandalorians leave to confront Helgait, who is overseeing the security cameras.
* Kryze tells Helgait they have questions for him. He tries to brush them away but Djarin tells him they are aware of the Nepenthé and the nano droids. Kryze adds that he programmed them to attack and disrupt. Kryze demands that he surrender to their custody but Helgait threatens to trigger a failsafe that would cause the droid workforce to attack the civilian population of Plazir-15. Kryze tells Helgait there is no way out and to give up.
* Helgait counters that he never surrendered to the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire. When Kryze remarks that he is a Separatist, Helgait counters that is a pejorative term and claims to support democracy. As Helgait moves to touch the failsafe button, he praises Count Dooku as a visionary who was murdered by the Chancellor's Jedi enforcer. However, Kryze stuns Helgait with an electroshock dart before he can touch the button. The office staff watch in shock.
* Elsewhere, Grogu helps the Duchess and Bombardier play a game that involves bouncing pill bugs through hoops with the Force. The nobles and their guests are impressed with Grogu's abilities. Djarin and Kryze bring Helgait to the Duchess and Bombardier. When Bombardier condemns his actions as despicable, Helgait remarks about the Quacta calling the Stifling slimy. He blames Bombardier for making the planet unrecognizable. The Duchess is shocked and upset by his betrayal. The Duchess affirms for Bombardier, calling for acceptance and forgiveness for former Imperials. Helgait seeks the Duchess' forgiveness. The Duchess says she may consider forgiving him but sentences him to be exiled to the moon of Paraqaat. Constable droids escort Helgait away.
* As a reward for their services, the Duchess grants Kryze and Djarin an audience with the Mandalorian privateers and their highest honor, the Key to Plazir. She tells Kryze that she will always be welcome in their domed paradise. The Duchess also knights Grogu as a knight of the Ancient Order of Independent Regencies. She bids the travelers farewell. Djarin carries Grogu who waves goodbye to his hosts.
* While traveling on the hyperloop pod, Djarin reassures Kryze that she is their leader and that her people will follow her. Kryze responds that Woves is now their leader and that she will figure out her playbook when she gets there. After arriving at the Mandalorian encampment, the two receive a frosty reception from Woves, who asks Kryze if she has come to join them as mercenaries. Grogu watches from his cradle. Kryze responds that she has come to reclaim her fleet. Woves counters that he is the commander of the fleet. Kryze challenges Woves to single combat for leadership, which he accepts.
* Woves fires a rocket at Kryze but she activates her jetpack and charges at Woves, knocking him to the ground. The two fight with vibroblades but Kryze knocks him to the ground. Reeves and the others watch with concern. Unwilling to give in, Woves charges at Kryze with his jetpack and rams her into a starship. The two fight with their fists and he hurls her aside. Kryze charges at him with her jetpack before grabbing him in a headlock. She demands that he yield but he rockets them on top of a starship. After tussling, Kryze drags Woves down to the group with her whipcord.
* Woves attacks her with a flamethrower but she blocks the blast with her shield projector. Kryze manages to knock Woves to the ground and demands that he yield at knife point. Woves refuses to recognize her as the true leader of their people because she will not take the Darksaber from Djarin, whom he regards as the rightful contender. Kryze responds that enough Mandalorian blood has been spilled by Woves and spares him.
* Kryze tells Woves' followers that Mandalorians are stronger together. Woves counters that Djarin is a misguided zealot who is not of Mandalorian blood. Kryze counters that Djarin took the Mandalorian Creed and chose to walk the Way of the Mandalore just like their ancestors. Kryze adds that Djarin is every bit as Mandalorian as they are. Woves responds that the ruler of Mandalore should possess the Darksaber.
* Djarin offers to hand Kryze the Darksaber but she says it is not a gift. To help her ascendance, Djarin admits that he was captured by the cyborg in the Mines of Mandalore and that the Darksaber was taken from him. He explains that Kryze rescued him and killed his captor. Djarin asks the Mandalorians to consider whether the Darksaber rightfully belongs to Kryze. Woves agrees that it belongs to Kryze. Djarin hands the blade to Kryze, who accepts it. She activates the Darksaber in the presence of the Mandalorians.
* Elia Kane walks through the rainy backstreets of Coruscant. She meets with a Viper probe droid, which scans her face. Kane says her designated number TK-2755. The droid displays a holoprojector of Moff Gideon, who asks for her report. Kane reports that the pirates on Nevarro have run into trouble. When Gideon reminds her that she had reported that the New Republic had not provided support, Kane explains that High Magistrate Greef Karga was aided by Mandalorians consisting of Bo-Katan Kryze's squadron and Din Djarin's covert. Gideon is shocked since those two Mandalorian factions are sworn enemies. Kane explains this is why she contacted him hastily. Gideon tells her to continue with her mission while he deals with the Mandalorians.
* Gideon walks down a hallway flanked by several soldiers wearing white armor and red sensors. Gideon walks into a laboratory full of tanks before entering a conference chamber. Several Imperial officers are meeting via holograms. One of the officers reports that the New Republic is vulnerable but that they must be cautious about revealing their true strength. A bald male commander disagrees and suggests that plundering the hyperspace lanes can be profitable. Captain Gilad Pellaeon warns the Commander that his hit and run operations are gaining too much notice. He warns that if they are perceived as anything more than a group of disorganized remnant warlords, the New Republic will step up their efforts to hunt them down.
* A female officer adds that there are citizens loyal to the former Galactic Empire on every planet in the galaxy. She adds that they are growing sick of the New Republic and its rules and regulations. When another bearded officer suggests using a show of strength to get these loyalists to rally around them, Pelleaon advises that this strength must not be wasted and adds that Grand Admiral Thrawn's return will herald the reemergence of the Imperial Military. He adds that it might give General Brendol Hux enough time to deliver on Project Necromancer. Hux smiles and motions.
* Gideon remarks that Pellaeon speaks with much authority but notices that Thrawn is missing from his delegation. When he asks when Thrawn will be able to participate in the Shadow Council, Pellaeon replies that the hope for their success depends on the secrecy of his return. Gideon expresses his skepticism, saying that he has heard few rumors about the return of Thrawn. Doubting Thrawn's return, Gideon suggests that they look to new leadership, which is supported by Hux and the female warlord.
* Hux says that Project Necromancer is in place for that and asks Gideon about Doctor Penn Pershing and the research that he promised the Shadow Council. Gideon reports that Pershing was captured by the New Republic and that his research was lost. Hux confronts Gideon about rumors that he held Pershing captive and was attempting his own experiments on Nevarro. Gideon responds that the creation of clones is Hux's obsession and that he can account for what goes on in his sector. He adds that the same can go for every member of the Shadow Council.
* Gideon observes that the warlords scrape for resources while Pellaeon and Hux amass resources and equipment that should be shared. Hux is aware of Gideon's request for three Imperial Praetorian Guards and thinks that Gideon is concerned about an assassination attempt. Pelleaon remarks that Gideon thinks he is being the flashy one. Hux also talks about Gideon's request for reinforcements for his TIE/IN interceptor squadron.
* Gideon requests bombers to deal with the Mandalorians, explaining that he believes they are preparing to retake their homeworld of Mandalore. When Pelleaon remarks that a resurgent Mandalore would harm their efforts, Gideon argues that they need to stamp out the Mandalorians now. The warlords agree with Pellaeon promising him his reinforcements and guards. Gideon says that they will be rid of the Mandalorians once and for all before leading the Shadow Council in saying "long live the Empire."

#### 26th

* On Nevarro, the locals are startled by the arrival of a fleet of former Imperial warships including Gideon's former light cruiser. Karga's protocol droid is startled by the arrival of Imperial ships but Karga points out that the ships are now under Mandalorian control, making them welcome guests.
* The Armorer emerges from her tent with members of the Tribe to gaze at the approaching Mandalorian fleet. Kryze flies her Gauntlet starfighter with Grogu sitting on her lap. She tells Djarin that she hopes the Tribe and her followers are able to get along despite their last enmity. As Kryze emerges with her followers, Paz Vizsla tells his son, Ragnar to take the children inside. Kryze and her followers remove their helmets.
* The Armorer welcomes the newcomers and issues orders for a feast to be prepared. Karga and his protocol droid visit Djarin. Karga marvels at the Mandalorian fleet and offers Djarin a bottle of wine from Coruscant to celebrate. Later, Karga introduces Djarin and Grogu to IG-12, a refurbished droid built on IG-11's chassis piloted by an Anzellan droidsmith. The droid has been stripped of his memory circuits. Karga describes the refurbished droid as a vehicle. After the Anzellan walks away, Karga convinces Djarin to fit Grogu into the control cockpit in IG-12's chest.
* Djarin thinks Grogu is too young to operate heavy machinery but Grogu uses the droid's Vocabulators to tell the adults that he wants to ride IG-12 in the office. Djarin disagrees but Grogu is stubborn and walks IG-12 around while babbling yes through the vocabularies. While walking through the streets of Nevarro City, Grogu uses IG-12 to help himself to snacks from a Tarsunt's hawker stall. Djarin tells Grogu to stop and pays the Tarsunt merchant. Undeterred, Grogu snatches a meiloorun fruit. Djarin tries to stop Grogu but he ends up squashing the fruit, much to the annoyance of the Tarsunt and Djarin.
* Later that night, the two Mandalorian factions gather for a feast. Kryze tells them that it is time to retake their homeworld. Even though the planet is not cursed, she warns that there are still dangers such as the dormant Alamites. The remaining magnetic interference has made it impossible to scan the surface from above. She proposes that they leave Nevarro and move the fleet into orbit above Mandalore. Kryze intends to send down a small recon party to scout the surface including the Great Forge. Once it is safe, they will bring down the others. Kryze seeks volunteers from both tribes. Djarin volunteers himself and Grogu. Koska Reeves, Axe Woves, Vizsla, the Armorer, and several others from both tribes also volunteer.

#### 27th

* The Mandalorian fleet departs Nevarro and travels via hyperspace to Mandalore. After arriving in orbit, Kryze leads a scouting party down to Mandalore's surface aboard her Gauntlet fighter. Having entered the planet's atmosphere, the ship opens its belly doors to drop several Mandalorian scouts equipped with jetpacks. The scouts land on Mandalore's rocky surface. Woves informs the Gauntlet that the landing zone is secure. Djarin, Grogu, R5-D4, the Armorer, and Kryze disembark.
* Kryze tells the Mandalorians that below lies their ancient capital of Sundari. She says that they will survey the surface until they find the Forge and establish a perimeter. Kryze adds that they will only bring the settlers once it is safe. After walking a distance, they spot a langskib approaching them. The people aboard ask if they have food. Kryze confirms that they do.
* One of the people aboard notices that several of them wear the sigil of the Nite Owls. Kryze replies that they would hope so. The Armorer recognizes the strangers as Mandalorians. The person asks if he is addressing Lady Bo-Katan, who confirms her identity. The Mandalorians on the langskib activate their jetpacks and meet the scouting party. The men introduce themselves as followers of Lady Kryze who reaffirm their loyalty to her despite their failure.
* The Mandalorians explain that the Empire destroyed every ship leaving Mandalore and twice bombed Mandalore's surface as punishment for their refusal to surrender. Kryze explains that she did surrender to the Empire after their forces were annihilated during the Night of a Thousand Tears. She explains that she had met with Moff Gideon after the Imperial Security Bureau reached out to her to negotiate a ceasefire. In exchange for submitting to the Empire and disarming, all remaining Mandalorian cities and lives were to be spared. Moff Gideon took the Darksaber but betrayed her, leaving them helpless during the Great Purge of Mandalore.
* When the leader of the Mandalorian survivors asks how the Tribe survived, the Armorer explains that they hid on the moon of Concordia. This prompts the leader to ask if they are members of the Mandalorian terrorist group Death Watch, to which the Armorer replies that it splintered into numerous warring factions. Kryze adds that their people have always been divided into factions. While Mandalore has been too powerful for any enemy to defeat, it is their division which destroys them.
* In private, Djarin says he had no idea and had been taught by his Tribe that everyone but them had forsaken the Way of the Mandalore. He admits that he believed that Kryze was selfish and uncaring. Djarin says that he now understands. Kryze replies that she regrets that her selfishness led to this destruction. Djarin reassures her that they have survived millennia of destruction. Kryze admits that she does not know if she can keep their people united and says that the Darksaber is the only thing that can unify their people. Djarin replies that the Darksaber, station and bloodline means nothing compared with honor, loyalty, and character. He says these are the reasons he serves her. He vows to serve her until her song is written. Djarin's words encourage Kryze.
* Later, Kryze proposes that they continue exploring the following day. The Armorer responds that the Mandalorian survivors are too weak to continue and says she will ferry them back to the fleet in the morning. Kryze agrees and speaks to the Captain of the survivors. Those of them who are well enough can continue the search for the Great Forge. The Captain offers to bring her to the Forge.

#### 28th

* The able crew continue their search for the Forge. The Armorer takes the wounded back on the Gauntlet to the fleet, flying through a rainstorm. During the journey to the Forge, Vizsla and Woves play a tabletop game. Woves remarks that only the Wing Guard can flank a jump. Vizsla replies that the Enforcer moves like a Wing Guard when it is flanking. When Woves accuses him of cheating, Vizsla draws out his vibro-knife and demands that he submits or fight.
* The two fight on the deck of the land ship. Djarin offers to intervene but Kryze opines that the fight was bound to happen sooner or later. Following a tussle, Vizsla throws Woves against a chest. The two continue fighting but Grogu uses IG-12 to break up the fight while using the droid's vocabulator to say "no" repeatedly. The two men walk away. When Kryze says that Djarin taught his apprentice well, Djarin replies that Grogu did not learn that from him.
* Meanwhile, the Armorer takes the Gauntlet to the surface and informs the Fleet Commander to prepare to receive survivors in need of medical treatment. She flies to the light cruiser. On Mandalore, one of the survivors spots something emerging on the starboard side. This turns out to be a large trinitaur, which uses its tail to smash their langskib. The Mandalorians activate their jetpacks and abandon ship while the dragon devours their ship. The survivors retreat into an underground cave.
* The cave leads to a tunnel which eventually takes them to the remains of the Great Forge. When Djarin asks where they are, Woves explains that they are in the presence of the Great Forge, which has long been extinguished by the bombings. When Vizsla asks if they lived here, Reeves replies that it used to be their home. The survivors' captain says his group never left Mandalore but survived by migrating across the surface till the war ended. Some tried to explore the underground levels but never emerged.
* The Mandalorians are ambushed by Imperial armored commandos donning jetpacks and beskar armor. The Imperials pin them down, leading to a gun battle. Djarin says they need back up. Woves volunteers to return to the fleet to bring reinforcements. Kryze thinks it is too far but Vizsla spots an opening in the ceiling. He provides covering fire for Woves to flee to the surface. The other Mandalorians continue fighting the Imperials with blasters and melee weapons. Both sides experience casualties.
* In the face of Mandalorian resistance, the Imperials retreat. The Mandalorians pursue the Imperials. Djarin tells Grogu he has to keep up. They chase the commandos inside an Imperial starfighter base but are trapped behind a blast door. Djarin and two other Mandalorians are on the other side of the blast door and make a fiery stand. While the two others are killed, Djarin is subdued and restrained with whipcords.
* Moff Gideon arrives, donning his advanced Dark Trooper suit. He tells his Mandalorian prisoners that their time has passed but that their culture and spirit will live on in him. He explains that he has exploited their planet's resources to build the next generation of Dark Troopers. Gideon says he hopes to use elements of the Jedi, Mandalorians, and clones to create a new army that will restore order to the galaxy. He orders that Djarin be brought into a room for debriefing.
* Seeking to complete the Mandalorian Purge, Gideon orders that TIE/sa bombers and TIE interceptors be prepared for a strike on the unwary Mandalorian fleet. Kryze says she regrets not killing Gideon when she had the chance. Gideon demands that she surrender the Darksaber and tell her people to submit. Vizsla defiantly fires his blaster at the blast door while Kryze attempts to use the Darksaber to cut a hole through the back blast door.
* Gideon orders his troops to open the front blast doors and kill them. Kryze manages to cut a hole through the rear that allows the Mandalorians, Grogu, and IG-12 to escape one at a time. Kryze pleads for Vizsla to join in the escape, but Viszla refuses, stating, "This is the Way." To buy time for the escapees, Vizsla makes a last stand and seals the front blast door. Kryze reluctantly retreats while Vizsla's blaster cannon overheats to the point of melting down. He fights the commandos in hand to hand combat and even throws two down a chasm.
* Vizsla is faced by three Imperial Praetorian Guards. He draws out his vibro-knife and activates his shield projector. Despite a defiant last stand, Vizsla is impaled and stabbed numerous times by the Praetorian Guards, who leave him to die on the floor.
* As Bo-Katan Kryze leads the surviving Mandalorians to safety, she tells Axe Woves that Moff Gideon has set up base on Mandalore and is sending his starfighters to attack their Mandalorian fleet. She tells him via comlink to evacuate the capital ship and use it as a decoy. Since they cannot beat them in space, she says that they will have to fight on the ground. Woves says he is entering the upper atmosphere and will carry out her orders. Due to stormy conditions, communication was patchy. After retreating into the tunnels of Sundari, Kryze and her warriors exchange fire with Gideon's Imperial armored commandos. They use grav charges to slow down their pursuers.
* While Din Djarin is being escorted by commandos through the corridors of Gideon's base, he breaks free of his captors and fights them. A third commando attacks him with a flamethrower but he manages to subdue him and trap him in a neckhold. One of the commandos manages to wrap his whipcord around Djarin's neck but Grogu, who is riding IG-12, shoots the commandos down. After spraying Djarin with a healing foam, IG-12 frees Djarin off his restraints. Djarin thanks Grogu before telling him that they must take out Moff Gideon or it will never end.
* Meanwhile, Kryze has led her surviving warriors into the cave which they entered earlier. Djarin contacts her and tells him that he has found Grogu and plans to take on Gideon. Kryze tells them to be safe. At the urging of the Survivor Captain, the Mandalorians flee to the surface. Meanwhile, Gideon's TIE/IN interceptors and TIE/sa bombers depart for their mission to destroy the Mandalorian fleet.
* At his command center, Gideon receives news from a commando that the TIE interceptors and bombers have launched and believes that the capital ship will soon be destroyed. Gideon however has learnt from the graphic diagram that Djarin has escaped. When the commando asks if he should engage, Gideon dons his Dark Trooper helmet and vows to deal with Djarin himself. Elsewhere in the base, Djarin contacts R5-D4, telling him that he needs to infiltrate the base and find the location of Gideon's command center.
* R5 descends into Gideon's underground base using his rocket boosters. He avoids an MSE-6 series repair droid and accesses a network terminal. R5 transmits a schematic of Gideon's base and the command center to Djarin, who explains his plan to take out Gideon. He tells Grogu and IG-12 to stay close.
* Meanwhile, Woves tells the Mandalorian capital ship captain that the scouting party has been ambushed by Imperial remnants. He tells the captain to send the Gauntlet starfighter and any available troops as reinforcements. He relays Kryze's orders to leave the capital ship behind as a decoy. Woves takes the helm while the other Mandalorians evacuate onto drop ships and the Gauntlet. They complete their evacuation just as the Imperial TIE fighters and bombers launch their attack on the former Imperial light cruiser.
* Woves uses the ship's laser cannons and gun emplacements to defend the warship. Despite taking out some of the enemy starfighters and bombers, the capital ship sustains considerable damage. Djarin, Grogu, and IG-12 reach Gideon's command centre, which is guarded by more armored commandos and red barrier shields. Djarin tells R5 via comlink to deactivate the shields one at a time on his command.
* After R5 deactivates the first shield, Djarin fights two Imperial commandos and takes one down with his own knife. He throws the other down a tunnel. At Djarin's command, R5 activates the second shield. He fights the two guards, who are armed with electro riot batons and shields. He defeats them and steal their weapons. Djarin fights his way through the third row of guards. Meanwhile, a mouse droid discovers R5, but the astromech droid fires an electric shot at the smaller droid. Despite the delay, R5 manages to unlock the fourth row of shields and Djarin shoots the remaining guards with stolen blaster.
* The mouse droid summons three more mouse droids who flash their alarms. R5 manages to escape with his rocket thrusters and sends one of the mouse droids over the edge. Djarin, along with Grogu and IG-12 walk into Gideon's laboratory which is full of tanks containing clones of Gideon. When one of the clones awakes, Djarin tampers with the control, causing the tanks to explode and spill out water.
* The Survivor Captain leads Kryze and her followers into a lush surface cave full of plants. When Koska Reeves asks if they live here, the Captain explains that they survive using hideouts and food caches scattered throughout Mandalore. The Captain states that they have predators above and underground. When Kryze asks if they found underground gardens, the Captain answers that they planted farms. He explains that these are the old indigenous species on Mandalore, who have been dormant in the centuries before the Mandalorian Civil Wars. Once the planet was abandoned, they began thriving again.
* Kryze says that she has only seen gardens in the domed cities and is amazed that the surface can still grow plant life. The captain says that the plants only need room to grow. The Armorer informs Kryze via comlink that reinforcements have arrived.
* At Kryze's command, her followers don their helmets and activate their jetpacks. Together, the Mandalorians fly to the chasm above the Imperial base and battle the armored commandos, who also don jetpacks. Kryze wields the Darksaber in combat and uses it to cut down several enemy soldiers. The Armorer also shoots several enemy soldiers.
* Meanwhile, Djarin, Grogu, and IG-12 enter Gideon's command room. Gideon enters through a second door and is furious that Djarin killed his Force-sensitive clones before they could draw their first breath. Djarin fires at Gideon but his blaster bolts bounce off his beskar armor. Djarin charges at Gideon with his jetpack but Gideon hurls him aside. The two fight in hand to hand combat in a hangar.
* The Imperial Praetorian Guards join the fight and attack Djarin. Before they can subdue him, Grogu arrives with IG-12 and distracts them. Djarin rushes to protect Grogu but Gideon uses a whipcord to drag him back. During the battle, Reeves shoots down several armored commandos while the Armorer eliminates more with her gravity hammer and magnetic tongs.
* The Praetorian Guards hack off IG-12's arms but Grogu jumps to safety onto a pair of overhead platforms. Gideon burns Djarin with his flamethrower but is unable to scorch his armor. Gideon gains the upper hand due to his Dark Trooper armor. Meanwhile, Kryze takes down armored commandos in aerial combat and rams into Gideon before he can finish off Djarin. She tells Djarin to save Grogu.
* Gideon asks Kryze if she is going to surrender or fight. Kryze draws the Darksaber in return, promoting Gideon to draw a purple electrostaff. Meanwhile, Grogu Force jumps but one of the Praetorian Guards cuts off part of the platform that he lands on, causing Grogu to fall. Grogu cries out in fright. Djarin arrives and shoots one of the Praetorians in the back. One of the Praetorians manages to ensnare Djarin with a electro-chain whip but Grogu uses the Force to hurl one of the Praetorians aside.
* Back at the hangar, Gideon and Kryze parry with their weapons. He manages to throw Kryze against a wall. Meanwhile, Reeves fights with an Imperial armored commando in mid-air before throwing him down a chasm. While Djarin fights with the three Praetorians, Grogu uses his Force powers to prevent one of the Praetorians from striking Djarin with his electro-bisento. This allows Djarin to kick his attacker and shoot one of the Praetorians in the chest. Following a struggle, Djarin shoots the remaining two guards, with Grogu helping by using the Force to pull one of their weapons out of reach. Djarin compliments Grogu.
* Meanwhile, Woves contacts Kryze and Reeves, telling them that he plans to ram the flaming Mandalorian capital ship into Gideon's base. He tells them to evacuate their forces. Back at the hangar, Gideon gains the upper hand over Kryze and pushes her towards the edge overlooking a chasm. He demands that she hand over the Darksaber but she launches a renewed attack. However, Gideon is indomitable and uses his gauntlet to damage the hilt of the Darksaber. He removes her helmet and kicks her to the ground.
* Gideon taunts Kryze that Mandalorians are weak without their trinkets. She retorts that Mandalorians are stronger together. Djarin shoots Gideon from behind and forces him to the edge. Above, Woves escapes the stricken Mandalorian capital ship as it plunges like a dagger into Gideon's underground base. While the Mandalorians flee the doomed base, Gideon exchanges fire with Kryze and Djarin. Grogu uses the Force to hurl Gideon's electrostaff down the edge as debris rains down. Gideon is consumed by the inferno but Grogu uses the Force to create a Force bubble around both Djarin and Kryze.
* Following the defeat of Gideon, the Armorer holds a ceremony at the Living Waters in the Mines of Mandalore. Ragnar swears that he will walk the Way of the Mandalore and to follow the words of the Mandalorian Creed. She baptises his helmet with water, stating that this is the Way. Djarin arrives with Grogu and places him at the edge of the Living Waters. Djarin tells the Armorer that Grogu is no longer a foundling but an apprentice. He asks her to add him to the Song. Since Grogu is too young to speak, she thinks that he is too young to take the Creed. She says that he must remain a foundling.
* When Djarin asks if his parents can give him permission, the Armorer counters that Grogu's parents are far from here even if they are alive. Grogu babbles sadly. Djarin replies that he will adopt Grogu as his own. The Armorer accepts the adoption and says that this is the Way. Djarin agrees and says this is the Way. The Armorer decrees that it be written in Song that Djarin is accepting this foundling as his son. Grogu smiles as the Armorer names him Din Grogu, an apprentice. The other Mandalorians chant this is the Way.
* The Armorer tells Djarin that he must now leave Mandalore and go on his journey, just as his teacher did for him. Djarin says this is the Way in agreement. Grogu babbles cheerfully. Beneath the depths of the Living Waters, the mythosaur stirs. Later, the Armorer hands Kryze a flame to light the Great Forge. Mandalorians from both factions chant "for Mandalore" as the Forge is rekindled.

#### 29th

* Djarin flies his N-1 starfighter to Adelphi Base. There, he and Grogu meet up with Carson Teva, who offers to buy him a drink. Djarin replies that he is on business. While Teva serves him a drink, he thanks him for eliminating Moff Gideon. Grogu jumps up on a nearby high chair and gazes at several Imperial helmets including the head of an IG-series droid. Djarin tells Grogu that it is not IG-11 and explains that the droid's head reminds Grogu of someone he knew.
* Since Grogu is his apprentice, Djarin offers a business proposition to work for the New Republic as an independent contractor. Since the New Republic lacks the resources to hunt down Imperial remnants in the Outer Rim Territories, Djarin offers to work as a hunter on a case by case basis hunting Imperials. Teva says that this is against regulation and will not get approved. Djarin tells him not to tell the Republic. Teva wants to think about it but Djarin says that it is a good deal. As an advance payment, Djarin asks for the IG assassin droid's head, claiming he needs it for parts.
* At Nevarro City, High Magistrate Greef Karga tells Djarin that the people of Nevarro appreciate what he has done in repelling the pirates. He gives him the deed to a new cabin on the outskirts of town. Karga says that Djarin can use it between adventures. The two shake hands and Karga also thanks Grogu. As a gift, Djarin gifts the town a rebuilt and reprogrammed IG-11, who will serve as the new Marshal of Nevarro. Several Anzellan Droidsmiths are also present. He is greeted by a clapping crowd. IG-11 says he is here to protect and serve the citizenry. At his new cabin, Djarin watches over Grogu levitating a frog.

### June

#### 3rd

* The crew of the bounty hunter T'onga capture the former Black Sun member Stolak Vandello aboard the Star Cruiser Halcyon after he borrowed a number of credits from his former employers so that his lover R'Tess could have a better life away from the pollution of their homeworld of Balosar. The crew were hired by the Black Sun to either capture or kill Vandello, though after he successfully escapes the clutches of Bossk and 4-LOM, Vandello is punched in the face by Wooro, and ultimately surrenders. After the crew allow Vandello and R'Tess witness a sungrazer-comet collide with the star Daca, they return Vandello to the Black Sun.

#### 22nd

* A New Republic cruiser travels through space. Inside the bridge, a navigator droid informs Captain Hayle that their ship is entering Sector G-38. She reports that an unidentified starship is approaching their cruiser. The captain requests that the ship identify themselves and transmit their clearance codes. The comma officer reports that the ship's crew are claiming to be Jedi here to see the prisoner, and that they are transmitting an old Jedi signal. The captain decides to call their bluff and dispatches security personnel to the hangar to meet the so-called Jedi. He gives a female officer command of the bridge in his absence.
* As the shuttle approaches the hangar, the captain leads a detachment of blue New Republic soldiers including a Mon Calamari named Jakris to confront the "Jedi." Two cloaked figures exit the shuttle. The bearded man, Baylan Skoll thanks Hayle for allowing them to board the ship. Hayle says he is surprised to meet Jedi out here. When Skoll remarks that their existence remains a mystery to most people, Hayle says he doesn't buy their act and dismisses them as Imperial trash who have pushed their luck too far. Skoll warns that Hayle is making mistake. Hayle says that the Imperials should have surrendered when they had the chance and orders Jakris to get RD-3 to scan them for identification.
* Skoll offers to show their identification before motioning for his female apprentice Shin Hati to attack the New Republic soldiers and crew with her orange lightsaber. Hayle attempts to shoot the bearded man but he uses the Force to suspend his blaster. Skoll agrees that he is no Jedi before stabbing the man through his torso with his orange lightsaber.
* On the bridge, First Officer Jensen Corbyt receives news that the two intruders have killed Captain Hayle and are heading to the detention block. Hati forces her way into the bridge and cuts down Corbyt. Skoll cuts down several New Republic soldiers with his lightsaber and Force chokes one. He opens a cell and finds a bound Morgan Elsbeth in a yellow jumpsuit. The bearded man uses the Force to remove her restraints. Elsbeth thanks Skoll for his word, prompting Skoll to say he is well paid for it. Elsbeth reveals that the Jedi Ahsoka Tano, who captured her, is seeking a map to find Grand Admiral Thrawn.
* Meanwhile, Tano is searching some ruins on Arcana. She approaches a runic circle in the middle of a stony courtyard and uses her twin lightsabers to cut a hole below. Tano finds herself inside a stony chamber and gazes at a cloaked figure carved onto the wall. She touches a cylindrical structure and turns it a few times, which causes an object in the heart of the carving to glow. She repeats the process for the other four figures, chasing an altar with a rectangular stony object to rise from the floor.
* Tano touches the stony box, which crumbles and reveals a golden orb. She informs Professor Huyang that she has found the object via comlink but his transmissions are being jammed. Tano returns to the surface where she is confronted by a red HK assassin droid, who demands the map. Tano finds herself surrounded by five assassin droids wielding electrostaffs. Tano draws her twin lightsabers in defense. Tano jumps back into the hole she created and uses her lightsaber to cut holes between three of the droids.
* Returning to the surface, she fights the other two and cuts across the torso with her lightsaber. She beheads the fifth droid. As two droids emerge from their holes, the lead droid issues orders to initiate their self-destruct protocols. The other two droids comply and Tano is forced to flee. While running, she contacts Huyang, who tells her that their T-6 Jedi shuttle is above her position. She tells him to drop his ramp at a distance outside the ruins. The two escape before the assassin droids unleash a fiery inferno that sweeps through the ruins.
* Inside the cockpit, Tano converses with Huyang about their communication difficulty, who tells her that he kept her ship at a safe distance in accordance with Jedi mission protocol. She replies that the Jedi Order doesn't exist anymore. When Huyang says he has his programming, she advises him to stick close and watch her back. Huyang replies that is the job of a Jedi Padawan learner, which he is not. Tano tells Huyang that he found the map based on Elsbeth's information. When Huyang asks how she got Elsbeth to tell the truth, Tano replies that she wasn't following Jedi protocol.
* Shortly later, they receive an incoming transmission from New Republic Fleet Command, who then tells Tano and Huyang about the recent attack via comms. Tano and Huyang then travel to Home One via hyperspace. Tano identifies their ship is T-6 1974 and Fleet Command clears them to land at hangar 2-9. Inside the hangar, General Hera Syndulla greets them and informs them about the loss of Elsbeth.
* Syndulla has prepared a briefing for Tano to catch up. In the briefing, Syndulla tells Tano and Huyang about the damage the two mercenaries have done, taking out an entire security detail and scuttling a new starship. Tano is unfamiliar with the attackers, who demonstrated Force powers similar to the Jedi. Huyang suggests that one of these intruders was once a Jedi. Tano tells Huyang to scan Skoll's and Shin’s lightsabers.
* When Syndulla asks about the mercenaries' connection to Elsbeth, Tano says that she hires them for plausible deniability. Tano also shows Syndulla the golden orb, explaining that Elsbeth was interested in this map since she believed that would lead to the location of Thrawn, the last Imperial Grand Admiral. Syndulla is surprised that Thrawn survived the Battle of Lothal but Tano explains that she heard whispers of his survival. Syndulla asks if this means that Ezra Bridger is alive. Tano is uncertain but warns that their enemies are also searching.
* Syndulla wants to look at the map, but the key required to activate the map eludes Huyang. Syndulla remarks that it is never straight with the Jedi. A Mon Calamari officer informs Syndulla that the Defense Council is requesting an update from her. Syndulla says she will attend to the matter and tells Tano she knows who can help her. Tano is uncertain that this friend will help but Syndulla reassures that she will do it for Bridger.
* There is a celebration happening in Lothal's Capital City. It is the seventh anniversary of the Empire's defeat at the hands of Bridger, and Governor Ryder Azadi is giving a speech. Azadi credits Bridger for helping to liberate their homeworld and dedicates several monuments including a mural to his memory and that of several rebel leaders. He says one of the heroes, Commander Sabine Wren, would like to say a few words. When she doesn't turn up, Azadi tells security to do a full parameter sweep and find Commander Wren via comlink. In the meantime, Senator Jai Kell speaks to the gathered crowd.
* Meanwhile, Wren rides a speeder bike heading toward the old communications tower, Bridger's old home. Two New Republic E-wings close in and pace her on either side, Captain Porter and Lieutenant Callahan. Captain Porter tells her she is missing the anniversary celebration. He tells Wren to stand down, but she doesn't listen. She instead accelerates and dives under the other E-Wing, which Lieutenant Callahan parks ahead on the highway as a roadblock. Wren outflies Callahan and heads to the communications tower.
* At the communications tower, Wren feeds her pet Loth-cat, Murley. She then watches the recording Bridger had made before he disappeared at the Battle of Lothal. Bridger apologises for disappearing without telling her. He says that as a Jedi he has to make the decision that no one else can. Bridger regards Wren as a sister and says that he trusts her to continue the fight. He wishes that the Force will be with her.
* On Arcana, Skoll, a former Inquisitor named Marrok, Hati, and Elsbeth inspect the recently destroyed ruins. When Hati asks what is this place, Elsbeth explains that it was an ancient temple built by her ancestors, the Nightsisters of Dathomir. When Hati asks, Elsbeth admits she is a witch and adds that she is survivor. Skoll believes that Tano either stole the map or was vaporized by the assassin droids. Elsbeth knows that Tano survived the blast. When Skoll says Tano was lucky, Elsbeth says that fate has everything to do about it. She then sends Hati to Lothal to retrieve the map. Hati seeks her master's counsel. Skoll tells her to go to Lothal to seek Sabine Wren.
* That night, Wren has a nightmare about Bridger. When she wakes up, she hears a perimeter alert. She goes outside the tower and sees two X-Wings accompanying Tano's T-6 into Capital City. In the capital, Tano parks her T-6 shuttle near a ledge on a high tower. Wren arrives while Tano was talking to Governor Azadi. When Azadi says that Wren missed the ceremony yesterday, Wren replies that it slipped her mind. Azadi says everyone missed her but Wren replies not everyone was there. Huyang also greets Sabine, who recognizes him. Huyang says he still has 75 percent original parts before returning to the ship.
* Azadi tells Wren to listen to what Tano has to say before leaving. Tano then tells Wren that she knows a way to find Bridger while showing her the orb. They both go inside Ahsoka's T-6 Jedi shuttle and discuss some things. Wren gazes at a bunk with several wall drawings including a loth-cat. When Wren asks if she is certain Bridger is still out there, Tano says nothing is certain but that their enemy is seeking Thrawn, which is what led her to the map.
* Tano explains she found the map on the planet Arcana, a Nightsister stronghold thousands of years ago. Due to her skills as an artist, Tano seeks Wren's help in deciphering the map. Wren believes there is a code. Tano shares a scan of the Nightsister temple chamber where they found it. When questioned about where home is, Tano describes her soul as a home. Both women blame each other for not making it easy for each other. Tano replies that the Jedi way is hard.
* Just then, Huyang has an update. Wren asks for permission to take the map and study it. Tano refuses since she believes the map is not just about finding Bridger but preventing another war. She warns Wren that the Map stays aboard the ship before entering the lab to chat with Huyang. Huyang had scanned Skoll's and Hati's lightsabers. The droid says that he recognises one of the two hilts, which was built in the Jedi style. The one he knew belongs to Baylan Skoll, who disappeared at the end of the Clone Wars. Huyang tells Ahsoka that Skoll was Jedi trained. Tano surmises that Hati was Skoll's apprentice. He warns Tano that Skoll won't be alone for long.
* When Tano returns to the briefing room, Wren had already left with the map despite Tano's instructions. In the meantime, Wren rides her speeder bike back to the old communications tower. A probe droid appers from behind a signal crossing and reports back to Hati and two HK assassin droids, who are standing miles away on a hilltop.
* Once Sabine arrives at the communications tower, she gathers some documents and activates a holoprojector. Sabine then starts to study the star map. She warns Murley not to touch the map and begins studying the map for a key. Back on Ahsoka's T-6, Tano and Huyang talk to General Syndulla about Wren via holoprojector. Tano is worried about Wren but Syndulla tells her to give her some space. Syndulla believes that Wren is their best chance of reading the map. Tano admits she has a difficult relationship with Wren, describing the Mandalorian as stubborn and bullish. Syndulla attributes these traits to her Mandalorian background and says that mentoring can be a challenge, recalling that Anakin Skywalker found her difficult sometimes. Tano says that she walked away from her Jedi training and admits walking away from Wren.
* Meanwhile, Wren is still trying to solve the puzzle of the star map back in her home. She looks at a holographic map of the Arcana temple ruins, which has three figures and faces and suddenly realizes how to unlock it. Sabine rotates the sides of the round star map, and the map projects a star map of another galaxy. She goes out the door and onto a balcony. Sabine then uses a pair of binoculars and looks at the sky. Wren says she will be going on a trip.
* Suddenly, Murley snarls and a HK assassin droid attacks the Mandalorian warrior. Wren defeats it, but another droid grabs her from behind. She manages to grab a blaster stored on the droid's back and shoot the foot of the HK. Wren manages to break free, but the other droid goes inside her home and grabs the unlocked star map. The HK assassin droid then destroys Wren's datapads and blasts the consoles. Sabine informs Huyang that she needs help via a comlink. Wren then goes inside and takes her lightsaber. She rushes downstairs, finding Hati and the HK droid.
* Wren ignites her green lightsaber. Hati gives the star map to the HK droid and ignites her reddish-orange lightsaber. The two then begin to duel.Wren tries to retrieve the map, but Hati proves to be a better lightsaber duelist. Wren raises her lightsaber above her head to counterstrike, but Hati skewers her through the abdomen. Hati preoares to finish Wren, but she notices T-6 and escapes the HK droid as Wren collapses onto the ground.

#### 23rd

* While recovering from a lightsaber wound, Sabine Wren experiences a flashback of her earlier conversation with Ahsoka Tano about Ezra Bridger. Later, Wren tells Tano she unlocked the map and saw two galaxies and a pathway which opened between them. When Tano asks where the path in their galaxy is located, Wren tells her assassin droids destroyed the datapad she had recorded her findings on and took the map before she could decipher it. When Tano asks how many droids were there, Wren recalls there were two but that she destroyed one. Wren offers to help but Tano counsels her to rest because she has done enough. Tano then leaves the hospital room and heads for Wren's old communications tower.
* Meanwhile, Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati travel to a sacred ruin site on the planet Seatos. Skoll places the star map on a pedestal in the centre of the site and instructs Hati to contact Morgan Elsbeth and tell her that he believes the reflex point is on Seatos.
* Traveling to Wren's home, Tano uses Force Echo to inspect Sabine's home. She also encounters Murley outside the door, which purrs anxiously. Tano enters Wren's study where she activates a holoprojector recording of Ezra Bridger. Watching outside the window, the loth-cat snarls and Tano senses movement from behind. A HK-87 assassin droid, which had accompanied Hati, attacks Tano from behind but she decapitates it with one of her white lightsabers. Tano says that she was hoping the assassin droid was still around. Murley smiles and purrs calmly.
* Tano returns with the head of the assassin droid to Wren's hospital room in Lothal's Capital City. Wren inspects the decapitated droid's head and says that she should be able to extract information if Tano did not damage its capacitators when slicing it up. Huyang and General Hera Syndulla are also present, with the latter via holoprojector. Wren says HK assassin droids are incredibly resilient much like herself, which meant it has several built-in backup systems. Huyang remarks that the droid's memory core stays partially active even after termination. Sabine said if the power levels were correct, you could recover the droid's memory and find out where it came from.
* Syndulla asks what would happen if the power levels were wrong, prompting Wren to warn that the head would explode. Huyang is nervous the head would explode and suggests the operation should happen elsewhere. However, Syndulla and Wren belive they should do it immediately, and Tano agrees. Tano plugged a device into the droid's head and turned it on. An indicator lights up with one yellow bar on a connector between the head and the machine. More bars quickly light up until every bar turns red. Huyang says it's overheating and pulls the plug but Wren is able to decipher where the droid came from.
* Wren says the assassin droid came from the planet Corellia. When Syndulla asks if the droid was connected to the New Republic shipyard on Corellia, Tano recalls that Morgan Elsebeth also had factories on Corellia, which should have been dismantled after the Rebellion. When Tano asks if the factory was dismantled, Syndulla says she would meet Tano there. Wren wants to go with Tano to Corellia but Tano says she needs to recover.
* After Tano leaves, Syndulla compliments her on a job well done. Wren says she hasn't seen Tano in years and remarks that their reunion went sideways. Syndulla observes that both Wren and Tano are difficult and says she thought that would make it work. Wren replies that this arrangement broke down. When Syndulla says that Tano needs her, Wren replies that Tano says she did not need her help. Syndulla tells Wren that Tano does need her help but to get some rest before their next mission.
* On Seatos, Elsbeth arrives on a shuttle with a pair of guards. Skoll remarks that the ruins were not built by the Jedi and asks Elsbeth who builds them. Elsbeth explains that an ancient people from a distant galaxy built them and asks if the two would like to see it. She then walks to the central pedestal and manipulates the sphere containing the map without touching it. A green flame elevates the sphere, and it projects an image of their galaxy. A holographic round dome emerges from the perimeter of the dais and surrounds the site.
* The star map then projects a golden beam of light between a crescent shape carved into the top of one of the stone slabs. Pointing to another galaxy at the top of the sphere, Elsbeth says that is where Grand Admiral Thrawn was banished during the events of the Liberation of Lothal. When Skoll asks if this beam of light is the pathway to Peridea, Elsbeth says that some would call it that. Skoll recalls that children at the Jedi Temple talked about Peridea in fairy tales. Elsbeth replies that these fairy tales are based on elements of truth. Skoll thinks the path is clouded.
* The group then hear strange voices. Elsbeth tells Skoll and Hati that Thrawn calls to her across time and space. Skoll says that Elsbeth speaks of dreams and scattered hopes. Elsbeth replies that the threads of fate do not lie before deactivating the map. She tells Skoll and Hati that the Eye of Sion is on its way there, and to make sure everything is ready for its arrival. After Elsbeth leaves, Hati asks her master what will happen when they find Thrawn. Skoll replies that it will mean war for some and a new beginning for others. When Hati asks about them, Skoll replies that it will be power as she has never dreamed. Skoll tells his apprentice to go to Corellia and assist Marrok with the final transport.
* Tano travels to the shipyards of Corellia on her T-6 shuttle T-6 One-Nine-Seven-Four. She lands her shuttle besides Syndulla's modified Sheathipede-class transport shuttle Phantom II. Syndulla introduces Tano to the regional supervisor Myn Weaver, who is accompanied by an RA-7 protocol droid. Weaver tells General Syndulla that when the Galactic Empire fell, all Imperial assets are dissolved and redistributed, including those held by Elsbeth. Tano asks to inspect her former facilities and operations.
* Weaver claims he is quite busy but Syndulla warns that she could make it a more formal arrangement. Weaver gives Tano and Syndulla a tour of Elsbeth's former facilities. Chopper waits behind in the Phantom II's astromech socket. With Weaver serving as a guide, Tano and Syndulla take a tour of Elsbeth's former facilities on an astromech droid-driven hovering personnel carrier. During the tour, Weaver explains that Elsbeth supplied raw materials for the hyperdrive generators of Imperial-class Star Destroyers. Weaver says that his workers are taking them apart and refitting them for the New Republic Defense Fleet.
* When Tano asks if the facilities still employ any of her former staff, Weaver acknowledges that they retain them for operational purposes. He says that the Empire did not become the New Republic overnight and that there are many former Imperials at every level of the New Republic government. When Syndulla asks if Weaver worries about their loyalty, he replies that the average worker doesn't care for the nuances of galactic politic but are loyal to their employers. When Syndulla asks Weaver about his allegiance, he claims that he is a businessman who is faithful to his investors and that he leaves the politics to her.
* Syndulla opines that Tano reconnecting with Wren paid off. Tano grumbles that Wren lost it but Syndulla points out that at least she unlocked it. Tano responds that they don't have the map. When Syndulla replies that Wren's clues led them to Corellia, Tano asks what she is trying to do. Syndulla suggests that Tano consider taking Wren back as her apprentice. Tano thinks Wren is not ready. Syndulla thinks that having Wren as an apprentice could provide the latter with some structure. When Syndulla asks Tano what makes someone ready, the former Jedi replies that it is a gut instinct.
* On Lothal, the medical droid removes the bandages around Wren's stomach, revealing that Hati's lightsaber wound has healed into scab. Huyang enters the room and comments on her recovery. He notices that Wren has inherited and modified Ezra Bridger's lightsaber, making it her lightsaber. He asks Wren if she has kept up with her lightsaber training. Wren admits she has not kept up with her training. When Huyang suggests that she resume her training regime, Wren replies that Tano thinks she is not ready. Huyang disagrees and says that it is a poor excuse for not training.
* Wren says that Tano quit on her. Huyang advises her to move forward. Wren asks if Tano would have come to Lothal had Huyang been able to unlock the map himself. Huyang says this is irrelevant but Wren disagrees and asks if this was part of Tano and Syndulla's plan to bring her back. Huyang explains that General Syndulla thought that Wren's insights would be invaluable and Lady Tano agreed. Wren thinks that Tano did not want her back. Huyang replies that Wren has never indicated that she wanted to come back. Tano replies that Huyang is annoying but the droid says he is logical.
* Wren says she never had the talents or Force abilities that Bridger had. Huyang agrees, remarking that Wren's aptitude for the Force would fall short of the numerous Padawans he has met over the centuries. Wren replies that she won't waste more of Tano's time. Huyang disagrees, saying that she is wasting only her own time and gives her lightsaber to her. Wren reluctantly picks up her lightsaber.
* On Corellia, Weaver brings Syndulla and Tano into his command center where his staff keep track of ships being created from the dismantled Imperial Navy. He claims that they are able to repurpose Star Destroyer parts for many sectors, which they use to fund various New Republic reconstruction programs. When Tano asks about "other things," Weaver says that their boards and primary investors have first look at all unique hardware including their price point and distribution.
* Gazing out the viewport, Syndulla notices a hyperdrive core being assembled. Weaver explains that it was refurbished from a Super Star Destroyer and is ready for a new life serving the Republic. Weaver says that the shipyard has produced nine of these models. General Syndulla replies that the New Republic's Defense Fleet is not building anything that big and asks what kind of starship that is for. Weaver consults a datapad and claims that it is classified and that he cannot unseal it without authorization. Syndulla asks to authorize its declassification.
* Weaver summons the protocol droid C1-D1 to help with the protocol. When Tano asks what other droids Weaver has in operation, he mentions that they have standard protocol types, CCLs, IW-37 pincer loader droids, HV-7s and other load lifters. Tano asks if he has any HK-types but Weaver denies this. Tano asks if he has any reprogrammed HK models but Weaver denies. C1-D1 recalls seeing HK droids, recalling that a HK droid prevented her from completing her inventory duties recently. When Tano asks when was this, C1 says that this was five rotations ago.
* Weaver asks C1 why she did not report it. C1-D1 replies that the droid carried a high-level security clearance. Tano asks where is the droid and C1-D1 points out that it is departing on a ship right now. Syndulla orders that the ship be stopped but the command crew claim that it has been cleared for depature. A male crew shouts "For the Empire!", which gives the signal for the command crew to attack the two New Republic visitors. Syndulla shoots several with her blaster in self-defense while Tano deflects a blaster bolt with one of her white lightsabers.
* Tano tells Syndulla to get the Phantom II while she jumps out the window. Weaver hides behind C1-D1. Tano runs after the modified ship but is blocked by the Inquisitor Marrok and a HK droid. Meanwhile, Syndulla tells Chopper to fire up the Phantom's engines. Syndulla fires up the shuttle. Back at the shipyard, Tano draws both her lightsabers and engages in a lightsaber duel with the HK droid and Marrok, who unlocks his cloak. Tano manages to separate Marrok and the HK droid, and focuses on the former.
* Meanwhile, Syndulla contacts the runaway Transport CT-O5, ordering the ship to stand down and return to port. The starship's rear cannons instead fire at the Phantom II, which aggravates Chopper. Syndulla tells Chopper to keep his lid on. Elsewhere, Tano impales the HK droid with one of her lightsabers and uses it as shield while attacking Marrok. Marrok slices the HK droid to pieces and the two face down. Marrok switches his double-bladed spinning lightsaber into twin lightsaber mode.
* Above the Corellian shipyard, the Phantom II dodges fire from Transport CT-O5. Chopper in Binary suggests shooting down the ship but Syndulla warns that would cause it to crash into the port city. She tells Chopper to prepare a homing beacon and not to miss this time. Tano fights Marrok, who proves to be a formidable adversary. Chopper struggles to find the tracking device. After arguing with Syndulla, he locates it under the back-up battery. Syndulla tells him to hurry up before the ship jumps into hyperspace.
* Tano uses her Force powers to push Marrok back. Just then, Marrok's vambrace begins pinging and he hurls his lightsaber like a boomerang at Tano. He then sprints towards an Eta-class shuttle, which strafes Tano. Tano survives the blaster fire and watches Marrok on the gangplank with Hati. Marrok also summons back his lightsaber with the Force. In the space above Corellia, Chopper manages to attach the homing beacon to the runaway transport just before it jumps into hyperspace. Syndulla updates Tano about the "good news."
* On Lothal, Wren returns to her weather station home where she is greeted by Murley. Wren retrieves a bag from a cupboard and takes out the components of her armor. Finally, she retrieves her Mandalorian helmet. Wren mediates before a helmet on a makeshift altar and fidgets with a knife. She then uses the blade to cut her hair.
* On Corellia, Tano and Syndulla watch as New Republic law enforcement authorities arrest Weaver and several Imperial loyalists among the shipyard workers. When Syndulla asks why people would remain loyal to the Old Empire, Tano replies that they are motivated by loyalty rather than greed. Syndulla then asks Chopper for progress on the tracking device. The droid says he is working on it. Syndulla promises to update Tano when they have more information.
* Aboard her ship, Tano is contacted by Wren via holoprojector. Wren has cut her hair into a bob haircut and donned Mandalorian armor. She tells Tano that she is ready. Tano departs on her ship while Syndulla is chatting with New Republic police.
* Later, Wren visits the memorial in Capital City where she gazes at a mural of her Spectres comrades including Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, Syndulla, and Chopper. She is joined by Tano, who has arrived in her ship. Tano compliments Wren for her haircut. They are joined by Huyang, who relays news from Syndulla that the runaway transport was traced to the Denab system. Huyang reports that the transport is remaining in orbit around Seatos. The group depart Lothal in Tano's shuttle. Tano allows Wren to take her ship into hyperspace.
* Meanwhile, the runaway transport docks with a large circular starship above Seatos. Inside the command bridge, Elsbeth talks with Hati, Skoll and Marrok via holoprojectors. She informs her confederates that the installation of the final hyperdrive has begun. She tells them that the Eye of Sion will be complete and that they will be able to deliver Grand Admiral Thrawn from his exile in the far galaxy. Several HK droids man the bridge. Skoll says the sooner the better. Elsbeth asks if Tano's presence on Corellia troubles him. Hati thinks that they have made a clean escape and that Tano would not be able to track them here; unaware of Chopper's tracking device. Elsbeth asks Skoll about what he sees. Skoll meditates in the Force and says that Tano's presence in the Force is elusive but that she is coming. Elsbeth says nothing can prevent their journey. Skoll confides that he is unwilling to kill a fellow Jedi like Tano. Elsbeth describes this as sentimental but Skolls says he is being truthful. The holograms disappear.

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* On Ahsoka Tano's T-6 shuttle, Huyang and Sabine Wren are training. Huyang holds four hologram blades while Wren parries with a wooden blade. Huyang assesses that Wren's lightsaber skills are mediocre. Wren thinks it is enough to get by but Huyang disagrees. When Tano suggests that Wren try Zatochi, Huyang thinks that Wren is not ready for that technique. Huyang leaves the training room.
* When they are alone, Tano observes that Wren derives her skills from her Mandalorian equipment but warns that they will not be enough to defeat the enemy. Tano tells Wren that she must not only train her body but also open her mind, adding that learning to wield the Force takes a deeper commitment. When Wren asks how Tano replies that is something she must discover. Wren tells Tano that Huyang thinks she is the worst Jedi candidate that he has encountered. This rankles Tano but Wren doesn't care.
* After the session, Tano gives Wren a blast helmet and a wooden bokken sabre. When Wren says she can't see through the blast helmet, Tano replies that she wants her to see with more than just her eyes. She tells Tano to be still and to use her voice to find her. During the first try, Wren guesses that Tano is beside Huyang but Tano points out she is actually in front of her. When Tano warns that she would be dead in a real fight, Wren retorts not if she could see the enemy.
* Tano tells Wren to lower her visor and concentrate. While Wren poses with her wooden blade, Tano counsels her to sense her presence and to follow her voice. She also tells Wren to sense her intention. Tano taps Wren with her bokken many times, and Wren fails to counterstrike. Wren then fiercely attacks Tano, but she blocks her attacks easily. Tano then sweeps a foot out of Wren. Following the lesson, Tano warns that anger and frustration are quick to give power, but that they also unbalance you. Huyang watches the proceedings. Tano invites Wren for a second round.
* Aboard Home One, General Hera Syndulla walks through a corridor to attend a meeting with Chancellor Mon Mothma and several senators to request backup to investigate the cargo transport that escaped to the Denab system. Before entering the conference room, First officer Vic Hawkins warns her that Hamato Xiono is one of the senators present. Chancellor Mothma and the senators attend the meeting via holoprojectors.
* When Mothma asks how Syndulla's son Jacen Syndulla is doing, Syndulla suggests her son is playing Chopper. After exchanging pleasantries, Senator Xiono insists that they proceed with business. Syndulla explains that her investigation into the attack on the Vesper led her to the Santhe Shipyards on Corellia where she was attacked by Imperial loyalists working for Morgan Elsbeth. Senator Rodrigo vouches for the loyalty of most former Imperials working at various levels and sectors in the New Republic government. Syndulla replies that those saying "long live the Empire" is not the kind of loyalty they are looking for.
* Mothma says that it was her understanding that the loyalists were arrested and that the facility was shut down pending further investigation. Syndulla confirms this is the case but believes that this is part of a larger operation involving Grand Admiral Thrawn. Xiono suggests that Syndulla is trying to make a big deal of the incident while Mothma expresses shock that Thrawn is still alive. Syndulla believes that Thrawn is alive and seeks permission to lead a task force to the Denab system to investigate the matter.
* Xiono objects to her rejects and suggests that Syndulla is conveniently using the New Republic's forces for her quest to find Ezra Bridger. Syndulla responds that Bridger disappeared while fighting Thrawn. Xiono accuses her of using the convenience of Thrawn's return to acquire resources that could be used for a more practical purpose such as helping the people of the Republic. In response, Syndulla asks Xiono if he served in the Galactic Civil War, prompting Xiono to reply that he did not. Syndulla asks if Xiono was waiting by the fence to see who came out on top.
* Senator Mawood reassures Syndulla that he and his colleagues are grateful to her for her service and role in restoring the Republic. Mawood says that he and his fellow senators serve the people of the New Republic, who want no part in any further conflict. Syndulla responds that Mawood acts like he has a choice, prompting Rodrigo to argue that the Imperial remnants and their scattered fleet no longer pose a threat to the New Republic. Syndulla warns that Thrawn's return would change that situation. Xiono asks her to state her case.
* Syndulla warns the senators that Thrawn is not their typical Imperial officer, stating that he killed friends including people who were like family to her. Syndulla says that she spent most of her life fighting a war and that she wants to convince them to help her prevent a new one. Xiono opines that Thrawn and Bridger died during the Liberation of Lothal. Syndulla starts to get angry, but Mothma tells Syndulla to give her a moment to speak with the other senators.
* Syndulla, Hawkins and a Mon Calamari officer exit the conference room and are joined by Jacen and Chopper. Jacen asks his mother if it is true that "Aunt" Sabine is going to be a Jedi. When Syndulla asks where he heard that, Jacen says that Chopper told him. Chopper grunts in Binary while Jacen tells his mother that wants to be a Jedi. Syndulla touches his shoulder and reassures him that she knows that.
* Meanwhile, Tano compliments Wren for being a fast learner in the sparring class. Wren says she can handle weapons but that she struggles with the rest of it. Wren asks if Tano could expedite her training due to the situation. Tano replies that it does not work like this. Wren admits that she cannot feel the Force in the same way as Tano. Tano responds that the Force resides in all living things including Wren. When Wren asks why not all people can use it, Tano replies that talent is a factor, and that training and focus are what define success. Tano says not everyone has the discipline needed to master the Force. Tano places her cup on the table and advises Wren to start small. Wren promises to do her best.
* Huyang tells Tano that he has not heard from Syndulla about reinforcements from the New Republic. When Huyang asks about Wren's progress, Tano says that Wren is frustrated and still finds it challenging. Huyang points out that both of them knew it wouldn't be easy. When Tano raises the matter of Huyang saying that Wren had little potential, the droid counters that he only spoke the truth. He says that the Jedi Order would not have accepted her and defends the Jedi standards.
* When Huyang points out that few Mandalorians have become Jedi, Tano counters that she does not need Wren to be a Jedi. She needs her to be herself. Huyang remarks that Tano comes from a long line of non-traditional Jedi, and that she would fit right in. Meanwhile in the lounge, Wren reflects on Tano's word that the Force is all living things and attempts to use the Force to summon a cup. Tano speaks over the intercom and tells Wren that she has received word from Syndulla.
* Wren enters the cockpit and joins the holo-conference with General Syndulla. Syndulla regrets that neither she nor the New Republic Defense Fleet will be able to join them at Seatos. Syndulla explains that the Senate Committee refused to approve the mission. Before Syndulla can finish, the transmission is cut off. Huyang informs the others that they have entered the Denab system, where all comm transmissions are being jammed. At Tano's prompting, Huyang takes the ship out of hyperspace at a significant distance from the planet, per Jedi mission protocol for approaching an unknown situation. When Wren asks, Tano explains this is part of Huyang's programming.
* Huyang reports that his last scan indicates that the runaway transport was orbiting the far side of Seatos. However, he also reports a second object with an unknown signature. Just then, the proximity alarm rings. Six starfighters including Shin Hati and Marrok converge on Tano's T-6 shuttle. While Huyang identifies the "hostiles," Syndulla sends Wren to man the ship's tail gun. Hati sends starfighters "two" and "three" to shadow Tano's ship. As the starfighters harry the T-6 shuttle, Wren tells Tano over the intercom to hold the ship steady. Tano tells Wren to learn how to anticipate.
* Wren fires back but the enemy starfighters prove too nimble for her. Tano asks Huyang about the object but he offers some theories. Tano replies now is not the time. Hati pursues Tano's shuttle. Tano asks Wren what she needs. Wren tells her to move on her signal and the two coordinate their next move. Working together, Tano takes the ship on a dive and drives a wedge between the two enemy squadrons. Wren manages to shoot one of the enemy starfighters.
* In response, Hati tells Two-Six to fly with her. The remaining enemy fighters enter into formation. Working together, Wren manages to shoot down two more starfighters. Huyang manages to gain sight of the unidentified object, which he believes to be a Hyperdrive ring. Tano says she would like to investigate and flies towards the ring. Hati informs Morgan Elsbeth that the intruders are approaching the Eye of Sion. Elsbeth is disappointed with Hati for letting the intruders get so far but vows to deal with them. She tells Hati and her starfighters to steer clear and orders the pilot droids to prepare the turbolasers.
* Meanwhile, Hati tells Marrok to form up on her wing and wait for her signal. As the fighters break off, Huyang tells Tano to keep the ship steady while he attempts to run his scan of the Eye of Sion. When the navigator droid informs Elsbeth the turbolasers are ready, she orders them to shoot Tano's ship. Tano's ship dodges the fire. Wren enters the cockpit and Tano mans the deflector shields while Huyang conducts his scan of the hyperspace ring. Despite the intense enemy bombardment, Huyang tells Tano to fly the ship closer. Wren warns deflectors are at ten percent.
* Huyang completes his scan just as Tano's ship is hit. The ship and Huyang lose power. Wren is worried about Huyang but Tano tells her to focus on the ship. Meanwhile, Hati confirms that Tano's ship has lost power and tells Elsbeth that she and her remaining starfighters will talk over the situation. Wren informs Tano that their back-up systems are working but that their hyperdrive and cannons are inoperable. Wren also warns Tano about the incoming enemy starfighters. While Wren works on restoring the systems, Tano exits the starship in a spacesuit with her white lightsabers.
* Marrok and Hati spot her on the wing of her shuttle and shoot at her. Tano dodges enemy fire during the first round while Wren works on restoring the ship's systems. Hati and her squadron mates return for a second run. Tano uses one of her lightsabers to slice through a fourth starfighter, causing it to explode in space. Tano is swept into space and asks Wren if she has finished. Wren manages to restore the ship's systems and uses the shuttle's wings to pick up Tano. Tano flees inside the ship before Hati can shoot her. Wren then takes Tano's ship into the planet's atmosphere with Hati and Marrok in pursuit.
* Wren and Tano lead their pursuers through the stormy clouds of Seatos. They encounter a pod of purrgil and fly around the massive space whales. Hati and Marrok continue their pursuit of Tano's ship. Tano and Wren use the massive beasts' hulk and tentacles to make it harder for their pursuers to catch them. After losing their pursuers, Tano and Wren take their ship below the clouds towards the sea. Huyang reboots due to his back-up system and asks what they missed. Tano and Wren tell him that they almost died several times.
* Tano and Wren fly the ship over the red forests and land in a clearing. Per Jedi protocol, Wren shuts down the ship and Huyang despite the latter's protest. They then wait for the enemy starfighters to fly over them. Hati asks if there is any sign of the enemy. Marrok says he doesn't see them. Hati thinks that their enemies are hiding in the forests and decides they should regroup. When the enemy passes, Tano switches Huyang back on. Tano asks Wren if she is alright. Wren explains that she hasn't seen purrgil since the day that Bridger disappeared.
* Huyang tells Tano and Wren that the enemy structure is still under construction. He explains that there are six hyperdrives in place with the final one being installed. Wren concludes that the structure is a hyperspace ring. Huyang remarks that he has never seen a ring being built on this scale before. Based on the ship's engines and configuration, he estimates that it would be capable of a hyperspace jump of astonishing speed and distance. When Tano asks if a hyperdrive ring like that could travel to another galaxy, Huyang says that this could work theoretically if one knew the coordinates and navigation. He recalls that the Jedi Archives spoke of intergalactic hyperspace lanes between galaxies which used to follow the migration paths of purrgil.
* Meanwhile, Baylan Skoll assembles a task force of HK-87 assassin droids and Scout guards. He orders them to hunt down the Jedi who have taken refuge in the forest.
* On Ahsoka Tano's T-6 shuttle Sabine Wren tries to contact Home One and Hera Syndulla via comlink, but it is still broken. Huyang says he will try and cannibalize some wiring from the secondary motivator to see if he can rewire the transmitter. She then goes outside to see Tano looking at the forest around them. She tells Tano that comms and the primary power converter are still offline, preventing them from leaving or sending a transmission.
* Tano informs Sabine that the enemy base is nearby and warns that the enemy has the map and the means to get to where they want to go. Tano believes that they face a difficult choice. If they can't make the journey to find Ezra Bridger, she concludes that no one should. Wren doesn't want to give up but Tano says this is better than allowing Thrawn's return as heir to the Empire. Tano advises Wren not to allow her emotions to hinder her progress, and Wren grudgingly nods. Wren then goes inside the T-6 to prepare to find the enemy ground base.
* Huyang exits the ship and asks if everything is alright. Tano warns the architect droid to be careful outside the ship. In the forest, an HK assassin droid watches him. At the Seatos reflex point, Shin Hati and Marrok inform Baylan Skoll and Nightsister Morgan Elsbeth that their forces have located the enemy's ship about 12 klicks away. Elsbeth says her guards won't delay them. Skoll says she will and that they should get underway. Elsbeth senses Skoll is nervous but he responds that it is experience.
* Inside the T-6, Wren puts on her armor and loads her twin pistols. Wren and Tano talk about the former's feelings for Bridger. Tano tells her that they must sometimes put aside their personal feelings and do what is right. When Wren asks if she really believes that, Tano says that she must do that when the stakes are high. Meanwhile, Huyang fixes the lighting, but an HK-87 assassin droid attacks him. Huyang calls out for help as he defends himself. When the assassin droid attempts to muffle him, Huyang breaks free and severs a wire to alert the others, causing the T-6's interior to go dark again.
* Tano and Wren notice the change and rush outside. Tano and Wren battle the guards while Huyang struggles with the assassin droid. Tano uses her Force powers and lightsaber skills to defeat and kill the intruders while Wren does the same with her combat and marksman skills. Huyang manages to defeat the assassin droid but tells the women that the attack will set him back. Tano instructs him to prioritize repairs to the transmitter and to contact General Syndulla urgently. Huyang counsels Wren and Tano to stay together, saying that they did better that way.
* Aboard the Home One, First officer Vic Hawkins catches up with General Syndulla as she is walking with her son Jacen Syndulla and her astromech droid Chopper. Syndulla tells Hawkins that she is unwilling to wait for orders and tells Hawkins to think of something. Hawkins reluctantly agrees to help.
* Aboard the Ghost, Jacen asks his mother why he has to listen while she can disobey orders. Syndulla responds that generals can sometimes disobey orders and tells him to buckle up. Chopper watches. The Ghost is accompanied by five T-65B X-wing starfighters flown by Captain Carson Teva and Lieutenants Baysee, Mowaat, Jensu, and Lander. Teva tells her about the risks but Syndulla says that she has always been a rebel. Teva addresses her as Phoenix Leader and the squadron jump into hyperspace at Syndulla's command. Jacen pulls the hyperdrive lever.
* Back at the Seatos reflex point, Elsbeth tells Skoll that once the guideline has been established, they will be able to calculate the hyperspace coordinates. Skoll warns that if her calculations are slightly off, they will be lost in the intergalactic void. Elsbeth tells him to have faith but Skoll is skeptical. Elsbeth touches the map, which projects a holographic projection of the Pathway to Peridea. He mutters that this is "witchcraft." Aboard the Eye of Sion, a navigator droid begins calculating the hyperspace coordinates to Peridea.
* Meanwhile, Wren and Tano encounter Hati and Marrok inside the forest. Wren shoots at Hati with her twin blasters but the acolyte is able to deflect her blasts with her lightsaber. Tano faces Marrok and draws one of her white lightsabers. Marrok activates his double-bladed spinning lightsaber and the two engage in a lightsaber duel. Seeking revenge for their earlier duel, Wren chases Hati through the forest. Wren corners Hati among a cluster of trees but the dark sider uses her Force powers to hurl Wren against a tree, knocking off her helmet. Hati attempts to strike down Wren but the Mandalorian dodges her blade, which instead strikes a tree trunk. The two fight with lightsabers, with Wren drawing her green lightsaber.
* While Elsbeth and Skoll oversee the calculation of the hyperspace coordinates, the Force users continue their fights in the forest. Marrok spins his lightsaber before charging at Tano. However. Tano dodges him and slices him across the chest with her lightsaber. The fallen Marrok kneels and a green mist is released through the cut in his armor. The death of Marrok interrupts Wren's duel with Hati. Wren tells Tano to get the map while she deals with Hati. After Tano leaves, Hati warns Wren that she will regret this decision before resuming the fight.
* Elsewhere, Elsbeth continues her calculations and tasks Skoll with protecting the map until she calls for him. Tano reaches the Seatos reflex point and sees the Eye of Sion hovering above. Tano enters the henge where she encounters Skoll, who tells her that Anakin Skywalker spoke highly of Tano. When Tano says that she doesn't know Skoll, Skoll explains that everyone in the Jedi Order knew who Skywalker was but that few saw whom he became. She asks if Skywalker's fall to the Dark side of the Force motivated her to leave the Jedi Order.
* Tano refuses to discuss her past and throws aside her cloak. Skoll responds that he is here to secure the future for something far greater. Tano asks him to consider the ethics of starting another war. Skoll replies that he is not starting another war but says that Thrawn will. Skoll talks about the necessary evil of destroying in order to create. As Tano reaches for her lightsaber, Skoll admits this is inevitable and ignites his own lightsaber. The two circle into position around the holographic display of the galaxy before parrying.
* The two Force users return for a second round and Tano manages to strike Skoll but he fights back. The two briefly cross blades before Skoll maneuvers Tano against a rock. Aboard the bridge of the Eye of Sion, het navigator droid informs Elsbeth that Tano has engaged Skoll at the henge. When she asks how long it will take for the coordinates to be ready, the navigator droid reassures her that the calculations are almost complete. Back on the ground, Skoll hurls a rock against Tano but she slices through it with her lightsaber. While the navigation computer reaches its third quarter, the two former Jedi continue their fight.
* Elsewhere, Wren and Hati continue their lightsaber duel. Hati hits Wren and manages to kick her to the ground. Wren reaches out her hand in an attempt to use the Force but Hati points out that Wren has no Force powers. She attempts to strike Wren down but Wren knocks the blade out of her hand with a dart. As Skoll corners Tano, he taunts her that her legacy is one of death and destruction, just like her late master. This enrages Tano and she knocks Skoll to the ground.
* Tano manages to grab the map's orb and interrupts the projection but the orb burns her hand. Elsewhere, Hati manages to temporarily blind Wren with a smoke bomb, and flees. The navigator droid informs Elsbeth that the hyperspace calculation is incomplete. Tano's interruption of the hyperspace coordinates calculation angers Skoll, who resumes his lightsaber attack. Shortly later, Hati arrives and Skoll tells her to grab the map. Tano uses the Force to hurl Hati against a rock. An enraged Skoll advances on Tano and drives her to the edge off the cliff, which overlooks a sea.
* Skoll says he regrets that their meeting has ended in conflict but blames Tano. Wren arrives and tells Skoll to stop. Tano tells her Mandalorian friend to destroy the map but she instead warns Skoll to stay away from her master. Skoll instead strikes Tano with his lightsaber, causing her to fall off the cliff. Horrified at the presumed loss of her friend, Wren attacks Skoll with her blaster but the former Jedi deflects her blasts. Wren then holds the map against her blaster.
* Skoll gives Wren the option of following her master's orders or seizing the opportunity to find Ezra Bridger, the only family that she has left. Wren claims he doesn't know what he is talking about but Skoll tells her that he knows that Bridger is holding her back. Sensing her thoughts, Skoll tells her that she knows her family died on Mandalore because her master Tano did not trust her. Skoll tells Wren that the two share a common goal and appeals to her desire to be reunited with her friend Bridger. Skoll claims that he is serving a greater good and invites her to come with him to Peridea. He promises that no harm will come to her and that she will be reunited with Bridger. Skoll says this is the only way and tells her to do it for Ezra. After considering Skoll's words, she hands him the map to Peridea.
* Hati begins Force choking Wren but Skoll orders her to stop, stating that he gave the Mandalorian his word. He claims he will keep his word, unlike Wren's former master. Skoll plays the map back on the mapping mechanism, allowing the navigator droid to complete the hyperspace calculations and establish a hyperspace route to Peridea. Pleased, Elsbeth orders that a shuttle be sent to retrieve Lord Baylan.
* Meanwhile, Huyang is contacted by General Syndulla. Huyang tells her that they are downed on Seatos and requests help. The Ghost and its fighter escorts enter the Denab system. Huyang tells her that Elsbeth's forces has built a massive hyperspace ring and warns them not to let them escape. When Syndulla asks about Tano and Wren, Huyang says that they are on the surface trying to stop the enemy.
* After Carson confirms the Eye of Sion's location, Syndulla proposes cutting across the axis and blocking its path. Elsbeth informs Skoll that the calculations are complete and to return immediately. Per Elsbeth's instructions, Skoll destroys the map with his lightsaber, telling Wren and Hati that no one will be following them. Hati marches Wren aboard their shuttle. As the Eye of Sion rises into the upper atmosphere, the navigation droid tells Elsbeth they are tracking the trajectory, and that they have a clear guideline.
* As the New Republic ships converge on the Eye of Sion, Teva orders the X-wings to lock their S foils into attack position. Mowaat notices that the enemy ship is not launching starfighters while Baysee realizes that the enemy is escaping. Skoll, Hati and Wren enter the bridge of the Eye of Sion where they are greeted by Elsbeth. A navigator droid informs Elsbeth that New Republic ships are in their path. Wren realizes Syndulla has arrived but Elsbeth orders her droids to ignore them and to engage the ship's hyperdrive.
* Syndulla and Carson detect the hyperdrive surge but it is too late. Mowaat's X-wing is knocked into Baysee's X-wing by the blast unleashed by the hyperspace jump, killing them. The Ghost and the other fighters manage to survive the surge. Syndulla and Jacen watch in horror with the latter saying he has gotten a "bad feeling" about this. Chopper mumbles in Binary. Meanwhile, Huyang attempts to contact Tano and Wren but receives no reply.
* Elsewhere, Tano awakens in the World Between Worlds and a distant voice greets her by saying "Hello, Snips." Tano calls out to her master. The voice says it did not expect to see her back so soon. She turns around and finds herself staring at the Force spirit of Anakin Skywalker.
* The charred fragments of the star map leading to Peridea lay on the ground at the Seatos reflex point. After the Ghost lands beside henge, General Hera Syndulla walks out of the forward ramp with her blaster. After determining it is safe, Syndulla tells her son Jacen that he can exit the Ghost and warns him to keep close as Seatos is an unfamiliar planet. When the general hears something, she gestures at her son to hide behind Chopper. Hera investigates the noise and discovers Huyang standing behind a pillar of rock, overlooking the ocean and holding the helmet of Sabine Wren. Huyang somberly recalled that he told Wren and Tano to stay together, but that they never listen.
* In the World Between Worlds, Ahsoka Tano greets the spirit of Anakin Skywalker, remarking that he still looks the same. Skywalker responds that she has grown old. When Tano asks why she has come to the World Between Worlds, Skywalker reminds Tano that she has lost her fight with Baylan Skoll, and tells her that he's there to finish her training. While Tano states her belief that it is too late for Skywalker to teach her, he asserts that one is never too old to learn.
* When Tano asks what her lesson will be, Skywalker ignites his lightsaber and attacks Tano, telling her that it is time to live or die. When Tano tells her old master that she will not fight him, Skywalker says that he has heard that before; as Skywalker continues his assault, Tano ignites her lightsaber and defends herself.
* Back at the henge, General Syndulla searches for signs of Tano and Wren while Huyang inspects the two fragments of the star map. Huyang states that the map is beyond repair, and that they cannot know where the enemy is heading. Syndulla asserts that they will get answers when they find Tano and Wren, but Huyang believes that they are on the Eye of Sion with Morgan Elsbeth and her forces. Carson Teva joins them and asks what to tells command as Senator Leia Organa can't keep covering for them and adds that people will ask questions if they stay there any longer. Syndulla, however, maintains that they won't leave until she knows what happened to Tano and Wren.
* During the conversation, Jacen tries to tell his mother that there is something unusual about the water. She doesn't notice anything initially, but her son claims to hear the sounds of a battle involving lightsabers; slowly, as Syndulla closes her eyes, she comes to hear them. Hera tells Teva to get his squadron airborne, and that she needs a full sweep of the ocean at a low altitude. General Syndulla tells Huyang to come with her inside the Ghost while Jacen and Chopper stay at the henge. When Teva asks what is going on, Huyang informs Teva that Jacen has abilities because his father Kanan Jarrus was a Jedi.
* As Tano and Skywalker continue their duel in the World Between Worlds, Tano holds her own and suggests that perhaps her master doesn't have anything left to offer her. Skywalker, smiling, says that he hasn't taught her everything, before slicing the platform beneath Tano, sending her falling into the depths below.Tano awakens as a younger version of herself in a location obscured by fog. As clone troopers in Phase I armor, many of the 501st legion, run by her, she is greeted by Skywalker, now wearing armor and appearing as he did when she first met him; he confirms that they are witnessing the Battle of Teth from the Clone Wars. Tano doesn't understand why they would be experiencing one of her first missions, which Skywalker says is the problem; as her master heads into battle, Tano ignites her original green lightsaber and follows him for answers.
* During a lull in the fighting of the Battle of Ryloth, Tano finds herself standing in an encampment of many injured clones. Finding a clone on a stretcher with a bandaged head, Tano rests her hand on the trooper, who reaches with his own hand. Skywalker finds her and warns that more Separatist battle droids are approaching. Tano, however, still somber amidst the carnage, contemplates how they had lost so many under her orders. Skywalker offers masterly insight; he reminds Tano that they are in a war and that it is a Jedi's job to lead, but affirms that the mistakes and losses weigh heavy on him.
* Skywalker explains how he must teach his padawan to be a soldier despite his upbringing as a keeper of the peace. Tano wonders if fighting is the only thing she will have to teach her own padawan one day, but Skywalker pushes that fighting is how one survives. As explosions appear in the distance, Tano muses that she may want to stop fighting, which Skywalker says will mean that she will die. As Skywalker advances once more into battle, his appearance flashes between his Jedi self and his Sith identity of Darth Vader.
* As Jacen Syndulla and Chopper stay at the henge, Teva's X-Wing squad along with General Syndulla and Huyang aboard the Ghost continue their search for Tano and Wren. Despite Teva's suggestion that it may deplete his squadron's fuel reserves, Syndulla orders an extension of the sweep.
* As Hera reveals the unauthorized nature of the mission to Huyang, she ponders if she truly is chasing ghosts, but Huyang assures her that her caring and steadfast nature is why people like her. Huyang also asserts that there is still a chance they will find them given Tano's tenacious nature. When Huyang mentions Tano's master, Syndulla asks what he was like, with Huyang responding that he was intense. Suddenly, Jacen calls the Ghost, saying that Chopper has picked up something on his scanners, and that the Ghost will need to fly very low the water to find it.
* As Tano continues to relive her past, she battles Mandalorian super commandos at the Siege of Mandalore alongside clone troopers of the 332nd company. Clone Commander Rex spots Tano, complementing her on her work before charging forward. Tano pauses, surveying the battle as Skywalker approaches her, saying that he did not recognize the battle currently unfolding. Tano informs him that it is the Siege of Mandalore, which occurred after the two had parted ways.
* Skywalker proudly affirms that Tano did well. Though Skywalker explains that Tano is the culmination of Skywalker's knowledge and the legacy of masters before him, Tano believes that her part of that legacy is one of death and war. Skywalker asserts that both he and Tano are more than that, but Tano recalls how Anakin was more powerful and dangerous than anyone could have realized. At the mention of his fall, Skywalker says that Tano has learned nothing, and reminds her of the choice he gave her: to live or to die. Skywalker ignites his lightsaber again, revealing a red blade and yellow eyes. Tano once again attempts to refuse a fight, but Skywalker presses on, and the two duel viciously.
* Skywalker kicks Tano back into the inky darkness of the World Between Worlds as his form shifts back and forth to his helmeted Sith persona. Enraged by Tano's lack of conviction, Skywalker batters down Tano with strike after strike, claiming that it is time for her to die. Tano outmaneuvers Skywalker and takes his lightsaber, holding it to his neck; however, she drops the lightsaber into the void, saying that she chooses to live. Satisfied, Skywalker smiles, bowing his head as his eyes return to their normal state, and says that there is hope for her yet. As the World Between Worlds rumbles, Skywalker disappears, and the mysterious plane slowly fills with water, enveloping Tano as she closes her eyes.
* At night, Tano is pulled from the waters by New Republic Lieutenant Jensu and pulled aboard the Ghost as she whispers her master's name.

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* When Tano reawakens aboard the ship one rotation later, she reunites with Huyang. The droid catches her up to speed, telling her that she may have been lost for good if not for the efforts of Jacen Syndulla and that Sabine is not with them. Tano emerges from the Ghost to thank Jacen, who is whisked away by Huyang to explore Tano's T-6 shuttle so she and Hera can talk in private. Syndulla inquires where Wren is, leading Tano to attempt to read the broken map for impressions of what happened. After experiencing echoes of Wren and Skoll's conversation, Tano discovers that Wren is alive but joined Elsbeth's forces aboard the Eye of Sion willingly.
* Teva arrives to inform Syndulla that the New Republic Fleet is en route to Seatos; as Syndulla and Tano part ways, Tano gazes up at the sky to view a pod of purrgil passing overhead. Aboard the Ghost, Syndulla and Teva meet with Chancellor Mon Mothma via hologram, who informs them that without evidence of Imperial Remnant activity or Grand Admiral Thrawn's return, there is little she can do to help them. Furthermore, Mothma reveals that Syndulla and Tano are ordered to return to Coruscant for a hearing by the Senate oversight committee that will determine if Syndulla's command will be permanently disbanded. Despite the bleak situation, Tano rejoins them, claiming that she knows how to find Wren.
* With a new plan in place, Tano's ship, the Ghost and Teva's squad ascend into the Seatos sky. Syndulla asks Tano if the purrgil know the hyperspace coordinates that will lead them to Wren, with Tano replying that there was only one way to find out. A larger purrgil is spotted amongst the pod, and Tano, now dressed in white robes, walks out onto the hull of the shuttle to commune with the giant creature. Teva informs Syndulla that the New Republic fleet has arrived to the planet and Syndulla warns them not to approach, as they will frighten the purrgil. Outside of Seatos' atmosphere, Teva converses with New Republic Captain Girard, doing his best to stall her from approaching the planet. Before Girard's forces can activate their tractor beam, Teva informs her of Tano's plan.
* Back on Seatos, Jacen Syndulla asks his mother if Tano is trying to talk to the purrgil. He reminisces about the stories Hera told him about how the purrgil took Ezra Bridger and the Imperial forces far, far away and saved the rebels, then asking if the purrgil will take Tano where Birdger was; Hera tells him that that was the hope. Tano reaches her hand out to the purrgil, communicating with it through the Force. The enormous purrgil opens its mouth and Tano orders Huyang to move the ship inside.
* Once inside the purrgil, Huyang asks Tano if she was certain that the purrgil would take them to Wren, to which Tano wistfully responds that she had no idea, happily acknowledging that the purrgil could take them anywhere but that it was better than going nowhere. The purrgil, emerging from Seatos' atmosphere, fly between Girard's ships, preparing to jump to hyperspace. Tano apologizes to Syndulla that she couldn't make the trip, but Syndulla assures her that it was alright, as her son is too young to travel between galaxies. With a newfound sense of purpose and a promise that she will find Wren and Bridger, Tano, along with Huyang and the purrgil, jump to hyperspace.

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* As Ahsoka Tano and Huyang travel through hyperspace within the mouth of a purrgil, the two reminisce about stories of the space whales Huyang would tell Tano and the other Jedi younglings at the Jedi Temple. When Tano declines to hear one of the stories, Huyang asks Tano for one. In response, Tano tells Huyang that Sabine Wren went with the enemy willingly, which Huyang regarded as troubling. Tano agrees, but Huyang suggests that the Force provided Wren with some insight in her decision, and that for her, saving Ezra Bridger may have been the only choice. Tano then decides to hear one of Huyang's stories after all. Huyang begins his tale: "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."
* Sabine Wren awakens aboard the Eye of Sion inside a prison cell. As Baylan Skoll passes by the cell, Wren jabs that she had hoped for a room with a view. Skoll suggests that her imprisonment would be an opportunity for reflection, something that Wren claimed to avoid. Wren reminds Skoll of their deal regarding finding Bridger; Skoll departs silently as Wren angrily calls out to him.
* Skoll returns to the bridge of the Eye, remarking to Morgan Elsbeth about Wren's impatience. When Elsbeth asks Skoll if he intends to follow through on his promise to her, he simply responds that her pursuit of Bridger blinds her and that she may still be of use to them. At that moment, the Eye emerged from hyperspace at Peridea. Elsbeth states how the planet was the ancient homeworld of her people, the Dathomiri, and Skoll recalls the Jedi Archives' stories of the planet and how it was used as the end of the purrgils' migration route from one galaxy to another. Elsbeth tells of how her ancestors were the first to ride the creatures; Skoll remarks on the planet's nature as a purrgil graveyard as the Eye passes through the planet's rings, which are made of purrgil bones.
* Shin Hati collects Wren from her cell, and the two along with Elsbeth and Skoll travel to Peridea's surface. The group meets three Nightsisters known as the Great Mothers at a henge similar to the reflex point on Seatos. One of them welcomes Elsbeth as a child of Dathomir, praising her by saying she did their ancestors credit. Elsbeth confirms that the Nighsisters' visions guided them across the stars to Peridea. When the witches mention Grand Admiral Thrawn, Elsbeth asks where he is, to which the Nightsisters announce that he is coming. One witch remarks that Wren "stinks of Jedi" and marks her as dangerous, restricting and sending her away using three floating spheres; as Wren is whisked away, she reminds Skoll again about their deal, asking for Bridger.
* Skoll and Hati linger at the stone pillars. Skoll states that Peridea is a place of dreams and madness, children's stories come to life. Hati voices that she does not know such stories, as she was not raised at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Skoll continues, regarding the tales of Peridea as ancient folktales long forgotten. Hati muses that sometimes stories are just stories. Skoll recollects that at slightly older than Hati's age, he watched the Jedi Temple burn and couldn't make sense of it at the time. However, Skoll states that as one ages and learns history, such things reveal themselves as inevitable, such as the fall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire, repeating in a cycle. Hati asks if it is their turn and if Thrawn's return will finally bring them to power. Skoll regards such power as fleeting, instead claiming to seek a new beginning to bring the cycle to an end. When Hati asks if that beginning is there at Peridea, her master smiles, believing that it is if the stories are true.
* Wren, once again in confinement, paces in her cell. She closes her eyes and reaches out with her hand, attempting to open the cell door using the Force. Though the cell begins to rumble, she looks out the window to see the arrival of an Imperial Star Destroyer, the Chimaera. The ship slowly descends at the hedge to meet Elsbeth's entourage and the Nightsisters. As the ship's hangar meets the pillar, rows of Night Troopers stand guard as Thrawn marches between them. As Thrawn greets his new allies alongside his Captain of the Guard, Enoch, he muses that what was once a dream was now a frightening reality for those who now opposed them, and salutes the Nightsisters. Thrawn notes Elsbeth's efforts in their ability to finally escape exile; he introduces Enoch and announces that he will begin a cargo transfer as per an agreement with the Great Mothers.
* Elsbeth tells Thrawn that she has seen the catacombs and that it will take at least three rotations. Thrawn says this is an acceptable timeframe. The witches bring up the prisoner, Wren, whom Skoll reveals he had brought as he believed she would be of use. After being introduced to Thrawn alongside his apprentice as mercenaries, Thrawn remembers him as General Baylan Skoll of the Jedi Order; Skoll assures him that he parted ways with the Jedi long ago. As Elsbeth mentions Wren's name, Thrawn remembers her annd agrees that Wren would be of great use to them.
* Two Night Troopers bring Wren to Thrawn, who recognizes her and thanks her for his escape from exile. When Wren asks for the whereabouts of Bridger, Thrawn simply states that her desire to reunite with an old friend will reshape their galaxy. When Wren reiterates her question, Thrawn reassures her that he intends to honor their agreement with Skoll. As Enoch removes her restraints, Thrawn promises to outfit her with a mount, provisions and their latest intelligence on Bridger's whereabouts. When Wren asks if Thrawn is going to let her walk out of here, Thrawn says that he is helping her cause to thank her for helping his cause. However, he warns that when his ship leaves, she will be stranded on Peridea forever, adding that Bridger may already be dead. Wren asserts that Bridger is still alive, prompting Thrawn to say that she gambled the fate of her galaxy on that belief. Wren replies that Thrawn wouldn't understand and changes topic to the question of her mount. Enoch and the Night Troopers introduce Wren to her mount, a howler. Enoch says "tota," which prompts the creature to kneel so that Wren can mount its saddle. Enoch warns that the wasteland is inhabited by nomads who prey on each other for survival; the captain returns to Wren her blasters and her lightsaber before telling her to die well. Wren rides out from the gates into a grassy frontier.
* Skoll, Hati, Elsbeth, and Thrawn watch Wren's departure from a balcony. Hati states that Wren is embarking on a fool's errand and Thrawn tells Skoll and Hati that they can follow Wren at their own pace. Perplexed, Hati says that she thought Skoll was to honor his agreement not to harm Wren; Thrawn explains that he allowed Wren to leave to find Bridger only so that she and her master can destroy them both.
* As Wren traverses the Peridean steppes atop her howler, the mount eventually comes to a stop and Wren begins to scan for signs of Bridger. Suddenly, a bandit appears and shoots Wren; though the blast hits her beskar armor, leaving her unharmed, her mount is startled and runs off. The assault continues as multiple bandits surround Wren. Despite attacking her with blasters and melee weapons, Wren kills or disarms them all with the aid of her lightsaber. Though the bandits are defeated, her scanner is broken beyond repair, and she continues without it.
* At the Nightsister fortress, Skoll and Hati mount their own howlers and chase after Wren. At the Chimaera, the Night Troopers load floating storage containers onto the ship. Enoch announces Skoll and Hati's departure to Thrawn, who allows two squads to support the mercenaries. Elsbeth suggests sending more troops, but Thrawn refuses, citing his force's dwindling numbers in the past years. As Enoch leaves, Thrawn tells Elsbeth that it did not ultimately matter whether Wren and Bridger were left stranded on Peridea or died, and that the same was true for Skoll and Hati.
* On the Peridean steppes, Wren, followed by her remorseful howler, berates the beast for abandoning her during the fight with the bandits, dismissing it as a coward. As it continues to follow her, Wren decides to give the creature another chance. After continuing their journey further, the howler leads Wren into a valley, where they discover a puddle and various rocks. As the howler inspects one of the rocks, it jumps up in fear, revealing itself as a Noti. Wren lays down her weapon, attempting to communicate that she means no harm. Once the Noti approaches Wren, it notices the Rebel Alliance starbird symbol on her pauldron and reveals a necklace bearing a symbol that resembles Wren's original starbird design. Wren deduces that this could mean that the alien knows Bridger and asks it if it could lead her to him. The Noti summons others of its kind, forming a huddle and conversing in the Noti language. When Wren asks again for her friend, the Noti beckon for Wren to follow as they continue into the valley.
* As Skoll and Hati track down Wren, they discover the remains of the battle between Wren and the bandits, deducing that Wren was still alive. Hati asks her master if he knows the one Wren seeks so desperately; Skoll answers that he does not, as Bridger was trained as a Bokken Jedi in the wild after the fall of the Jedi Temple. Hati likens herself to Bridger in that way, but Skoll asserts that he trained his apprentice to be something more. Hati asks if Skoll missed the Order; Skoll states that he missed the idea of the Order, but not the truth or weakness of it, claiming there was no future there. When Hati wonders if her master saw a future on Peridea, which she regarded as a wasteland, Skoll states that the planet once held the Witch Kingdom of the Dathmiri, as confirmed by the presence of the Great Mothers. Hati fears that there may be a good reason the Nightsisters wanted to leave Peridea, but Skoll reveals that he felt something stirring there, calling to him. At that moment, bandits approach the two, but Skoll discourages violence, stating that the enemy of one's enemy is one's friend.
* Still following the Noti, Wren arrives at a Noti settlement beside a lake, telling her howler to wait by the outskirts. As Wren solemnly looks around, she is met by Bridger, who says that he knew he could count on her. As Wren looks upon her friend with joy, Bridger smiles and says that it took her long enough. When Wren responds by saying that nobody knew where he was going, Bridger says the he didn't know either. Wren remarks that Bridger always had a plan, but never a good one. Bridger asks if his plan worked, when Wren confirms; the two warmly embrace, the search for Bridger finally concluded. Bridger tells the Noti to be ready to move, explaining that they are nomadic. Bridger wonders how Wren found Peridea and himself, but Wren deflects the question, asking if she can just be happy that she found him. Bridger complies, and thanks Wren for coming, saying that he couldn't wait to go home.
* On Coruscant, General Hera Syndulla stands in the middle of a courtroom. Chancellor Mon Mothma, Senator Hamato Xiono, Fleet Admiral Gial Ackbar, Chopper, Captain Carson Teva, and other senators and military personnel are there. Xiono says that they cannot simply allow a New Republic Security Force General to go around acting as if this is still the Rebellion. He emphasises that the New Republic is a government with rules and laws, which Syndulla has no problem bending to fit her personal agenda.
* Syndulla responds that she was defending the people of the New Republic in the best way she knows how. When Xiono reiterates that she disobeyed direct orders, she responds that she protected the New Republic by disobeying him. This causes murmuring among the senators and officials. Mothma asks Xiono if they can agree that there was an incident on Seatos. Xiono dismisses Syndulla's report as a fairy tale, expressing disbelief at the notions of Jedi, "false Jedi," star maps, purrgil, and distant galaxies.
* When Syndulla explains that Morgan Elsbeth was leading a coordinated effort by the Imperial Remnant, Xiono laughed this off and denies that there is any coordination between the scattered Imperial forces and dwindling number of Imperial forces. When Teva asks about the recent events on Mandalore, Xiono dismisses the late Moff Gideon as a warlord acting on his own and denies that there is a conspiracy against the New Republic. Syndulla warns this will change if Thrawn returns and questions Xiono's indifference. Xiono dismisses Syndulla as a general who abuses her position for personal gain and recommends that she be court martialed for disobeying a direct order.
* While the senators argue about Hera disobeying orders, C-3P0 enters on behalf of Senator Leia Organa. C-3P0 brings a data transcript that Senator Organa hopes will resolve the matter. Mothma motions for a staff to prepare the transcript despite Xiono's objections. C-3PO says that the transcript proves that Senator Organa personally sanctioned General Syndulla's reconnaissance mission to Seatos and was unaware that Senator Xiono had voted against her mission.
* When Xiono protests that the court cannot admit evidence from a mere droid, Chopper whistles in protest but Teva motions for him to calm down. C-3PO asks the other senators to direct their concerns to Organa in her role as leader of the Defense Council. Chancellor Mothma thinks that the data transcript satisfies the matter. Xiono reluctantly drops the proposed court martial and Mothma dismisses the hearing. Syndulla thanks C-3PO, which the protocol droid reciprocates.
* In private, Mothma tells Syndulla that she knows that Organa did not authorise her mission. Syndulla responds that Organa did eventually. Mothma then asks how real is the threat of Thrawn's return. Syndulla tells the Chancellor they have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
* While traveling through the Intergalactic Void with the Purrgil Ultra, Ahsoka Tano practices with her lightsabers aboard her T-6 shuttle's training room with a hologram of her late master Anakin Skywalker. In the recording, Skywalker warns that she will face formidable adversaries like General Grievous, Asajj Ventress, and Count Dooku. He reminds her to practice her lightsaber forms and tells her to remember what he taught her and to trust her own instincts.
* Huyang watches while Tano explains he made about twenty such recordings. Huyang remarks that Skywalker was thoughtful while Tano says that Skywalker was a good master. The droid tells her that the purrgil are reaching the end of their journey, citing their decreasing speed. At the cockpit, Tano resolves to find Sabine Wren. When Huyang points out that their star charts would be useless in another galaxy, Tano says that she came with the enemy, and if they find the enemy, they find Sabine. Huyang agrees this is a logical plan but fears that the purrgil may have taken them to yet another galaxy or a different world and system. Tano thinks the odds are good despite Huyang's pessimism.
* At the Nightsister fortress, the Great Mothers announce to Thrawn that a Jedi is coming to Peridea. Thrawn asks Elsbeth if the Jedi could be Tano, who was regarded as deceased after her duel with Skoll. Though Elsbeth regards this as impossible as Skoll assured her of Tano's death, Thrawn maintains that Elsbeth should not have underestimated a Jedi and that death was a common deception among both them and Nightsisters. Thrawn asserts that they should regard Skoll's judgement as flawed, as he was once a Jedi, and that they would consider Tano alive until they knew otherwise. The Grand Admiral requests to know everything about Tano, including her history, homeworld and master, adding that if a purrgil approaches Peridea to destroy it with prejudice. Thrawn turns to the Great Mothers, requesting to once again make use of their dark magick.
* The two watch as the purrgil exit hyperspace. Huyang activates the scanner and Tano senses something is wrong. As their T-6 shuttle exits the purrgil's mouth, they discover that the pod of purrgil have flown into an Imperial minefield deployed around the arrival point. Huyang advises Tano to steer their ship towards the planet Peridea where the minefield ends. Though Huyang thinks the space whales will provide them with cover, the purrgil respond by jumping into hyperspace. Tano manages to dodge the space mines and the two sight Elsbeth's Hyperspace transport ring Eye of Sion. When the Eye of Sion deploys several starfighters, Tano flies the ship through the debris field. During the pursuit, one of the enemy starfighters crashes into debris, destroying his ship.
* In the tower on Peridea, Thrawn walks into the rotunda, and Captain Enoch's hologram appears in front of Thrawn. Enoch reports that a pod of arriving purrgils triggered the minefield as Thrawn had anticipated. Enoch says among the star whales is a T-6 class Jedi shuttle. Thrawn says it seems that Tano is alive after all. Elsbeth then hands Thrawn a datapad containing all the information the Inquisitorial database has on Tano. Thrawn reads it and is is surprised to learn that Tano's master was General Anakin Skywalker.
* Thrawn then asks Enoch whether he is sure there is only one starship. Enoch says there is only one, and that their fighters have engaged the target and pursued it into the debris field. Thrawn tells Enoch to withdraw the starfighters and have them stand by. Thrawn says that will be all. Enoch's hologram then dissipates. Elsbeth questions why not allow the fighters to follow. Thrawn says there is no need to waste their resources. However, Elsbeth says they will lose them in the debris field without pursuit. Thrawn says she is right, and Jedi are very good at hiding, for they have been practicing for years. Thrawn tells Elsbeth they are getting to know their adversary, and Tano will be unpredictable and dangerous if she resembles her master. Thrawn says they will be one step ahead of Tano no matter which direction she takes.
* The mercenary starfighters give up the pursuit. Tano and Huyang then land on a decomposing purrgil rib cage. Tano then turns off all power. Huyang wonders how the enemy anticipated their arrival, and Tano says Thrawn is behind the attack. Huyang says the enemy has already found Thrawn, and Tano agrees. Huyang says he will run a scan and see if he can find Wren.
* A caravan of the pod-shaped homes of the Noti moves slowly across a plain. Bridger and a Noti pilot the largest one. The Noti climbs down, and Wren comes up and takes his place. A Noti child waves at Wren. Bridger tells Wren that he is still processing everything she has told him. Bridger talks about the defeat of the Empire at the Battle of Endor and asks if the Emperor died. Wren replies that is what people "said."
* Bridger also learns about the New Republic, Garazeb Orrelios training recruits, and Syndulla commanding a fleet. When Bridger says he missed everything, Wren says it has been a while and that she had was beginning to think that they would never find him. Bridger asks how Wren found him because she never said. Wren says it is complicated. Bridger says they can talk about something else.
* Wren tells Bridger that Tano took her on as her apprentice. Bridger asks why and congratulates her. He says it makes sense because Wren had trained before. Bridger asks whether Tano is coming. Wren doesn't answer, so Bridger asks if it is complicated. Wren nods. Meanwhile, Skoll, Hati, and a gang of red armored bandits watch the caravan on a hilltop, all sitting astride howlers.
* The three red witches enter the rotunda. Thrawn tells the Great Mothers that he needs their assistance. He says Tano is hiding in the purrgil graveyard. Thrawn wants the three witches to find Tano. The Great Mothers unclasp their hands, and three floating orbs hover towards the holographic tactical display. The orbs project red beams of light that connect them, forming a triangle over the hologram. Elsbeth chants an incantation.
* On Tano's T-6, Huyang says he can't find Wren. Tano says they don't need a scan, and there's another way. Huyang asks Tano whether she thinks her bond with Wren is that strong. Tano ignores Huyang and calls out to Wren through the Force. Wren is chatting with Bridger, who talks about his relationship with the Noti. Suddenly, Wren's focus drifts off. A sense of realization crosses Wren's face, and a faint smile brushes the corners of her mouth. Wren then quietly says Tano's name.
* Elsewhere, Great Mother Klothow smirks and says she has found Tano in the rotunda. The red beams from the golden orbs then converge into a T-shape. The crossing point lowers to a specific location within the projection of the debris field. Thrawn then calls Captain Enoch. Enoch's hologram appears, and Thrawn says Enoch has the coordinates. Thrawn tells his captain to open fire. Back with the caravan, Bridger asks Wren what's happened. Wren answers that she doesn't know exactly, but it's a familiar feeling.
* On the T-6, Tano remains lost in her distant stare. Suddenly, turbolasers rain down at them. Huyang is worried, but Tano calms him and says she knows where they're going. Tano then pilots the T-6 out of the ring of purrgil remains. They race towards Peridea. Thrawn compliments Enoch on a job well done. Enoch asks whether they should prepare their defenses. Thrawn answers that they don't need to because they're not the focus of the Jedi's attention. Thrawn says Tano will pursue Wren, which they've wisely sent far away from there. Thrawn tells Enoch to contact the fighter group and have them re-engage the opponent. Enoch's hologram nods.
* On the rolling plains of Peridea, a Noti spots two mounted figures in the distance. Bridger asks Wren if the two figures are friends of hers, which she confirms they are not. In the distance, Baylan Skoll tells his apprentice Shin Hati to contact Thrawn, and orders her to kills Wren and Bridger. He tells her to take her place in the coming Empire. When Hati asks if he is not helping, Skoll tells her that her ambition drives her in one direction while he has a different path. Hati transmits Wren and Bridger's location via comlink to Thrawn. Before they separate, Skoll gives her a final lesson: that impatience will lead to defeat. The red-clad bandits ride their howlers past the two hunters to meet the Noti caravan. After staring at her master momentarily, Hati rides after the bandits.
* Enoch informs Thrawn and Elsbeth about Wren and Bridger's location. The Grand Admiral dispatches two gunships to assist the mercenaries. Unaware of Skoll's true intentions, Thrawn tells Elsbeth that if Lord Baylan proves capable, they may yet win the day. In the hangar of the Chimaera, two squads of Nightroopers board two LAAT/le patrol gunships, which fly towards the coordinates.
* The red bandits pursue the Noti caravan. Wren exchanges fire with the bandits, who scatter to avoid getting hit. A Noti fires a stone with his slingshot but the stone bounces off the bandit's armor. When Wren asks if the Noti have any weapons, Bridger replies they are a peaceful people. Wren surmises they are defenceless. She exchanges fire with the pursuing bandits and manages to take down several. One of the bandits attempts to fling a spear at a Noti driver but two caravans smash into him. Another bandit attempts to damage the repulsorlifts of a caravan but the driver drives him away with stones.
* Wren shoots another pursuer. One of the bandits manages to use his spear to damage a Noti caravan's repulsorlifts, causing it to crash. Unwilling to leave the stranded Noti, Bridger decides to circle the stranded caravan. At Bridger's command, the caravans encircle the stranded vehicle and stop, forming a ring. He tells the Noti to take shelter while he handles the bandits.
* In the skies above, Tano's T-6 shuttle is pursued by three of Elsbeth's starfighters. While Skoll watches from a distance, Bridger sights Hati approaching with the bandit leader on howlers. The remaining bandits and their howlers circle the convoy. When Bridger asks who is the human woman, Wren explains that she is another Force-user and lightsaber duellist but without his sense of humour. Wren and Bridger exit their caravan and tell the Noti to stay inside.
* Meanwhile, Tano resolves to land but Huyang reminds her of Jedi protocol preventing landing while under attack. When Tano exits the cockpit to join the skirmish below, Huyang tries to argue but she overrules him. As Tano approaches the gangplank, she tells him to disengage the stairs, causing her to slide down. Tano lands safely on the plains of Peridea while Huyang leads the starfighters on a chase. Tano is met by Skoll, who says he did not expect to see her again.
* When Tano asks if he is disappointed, Skolls says no but tells her that he cannot allow her to interfere. He draws his lightsaber. Tano replies she doesn't have time for this and draws her lightsabers in response. After a wait, Skoll's charges at Tano and the duel begins.
* Meanwhile, two bandits approach Bridger and Wren. When Wren hands him his former lightsaber, Bridger tells her that he doesn't need it and that he gave it to her. When Wren suggests he use blasters, Bridger replies that he doesn't need them either because the Force is his ally. Wren disagrees and the two tussle with the bandits. While Bridger engages in physical combat, Wren fights with both her blaster and her combat skills. Tano fights Skoll with both her lightsabers. Both are evenly matched.
* A Noti knocks out one of the bandits with a rock. After tussling with a bandit, Bridger uses the Force to hurl one of the bandits against a caravan. Hati attacks him from behind with her lightsaber. Bridger dodges her strike but she manages to singe a lock of his hair. Bridger tells her it was close before engaging her in physical combat. Wren fights with a bandit before impaling him with her lightsaber. She then joins Bridger's fight with Hati, who is now outnumbered.
* However, Thrawn's gunships soon arrive. Wren tells Bridger to take her down. Hati however manages to use the Force to hurl Bridger against a caravan. While Wren engages Hati in a lightsaber duel, Tano and Skoll continue their fight. Skoll manages to gain the advantage and knocks Tano to the ground. Before he can strike her down, she deflects his blade with one of her lightsabers. After parrying, Skoll tells her that she can't beat him. Tano replies that she doesn't have to win.
* Huyang flies the T-6 shuttle down and strafes the ground, causing Tano and Skoll to scatter. Huyang leads the fighters away while Tano takes advantage of the smoke to escape. Skoll reflects in silence before continuing with his own quest. Elsewhere, Bridger reassures a Noti he is fine and tells them to take shelter. The two gunships land near the convoy and dispatch several armed Night troopers. A Imperial drone circles above.
* At the fortress, Thrawn orders the two teams to use counter-encirclement tandem. Though Elsbeth is confident of victory, Thrawn notices that Skoll is missing. Elsewhere, Wren and Bridger fight with Hati. Wren uses her flamethrower to drive off Hati. Night troopers encircle Bridger and Wren while the Noti watch with fear and panic. Hati orders the Imperials to destroy the fugitives. Bridger offers diplomacy but Hati orders the Night troopers to shoot. Before they can, Tano rides into the convoy on Skoll's howler.
* A skirmish ensues and Hati attacks Tano with her lightsaber. Tano throws her to the ground with the Force. Watching from above, Huyang remarks that his friends are back together and hope they can survive the skirmish. Wren fights several Night troopers, taking down several with both physical combat and her blaster. Bridger also battles with the Imperials, using both his Force powers and a stolen blaster. Wren hurls a grenade at three Night troopers, scattering them.
* Watching the battle grid, Thrawn speaks favorably for the combat skills of his Jedi opponents. He orders that the gunships be recalled and terminates the aerial pursuit. Elsbeth is surprised but Thrawn explains that these are unfortunate but acceptable losses in the absence of Lord Baylan. Thrawn thinks that in the grand scheme of things, this fight with Tano was a success. Elsbeth disagrees, saying that she only sees their enemies reunited. Thrawn reveals that the skirmish was a distraction from his plan to transfer the cargo from the Nightsister catacombs aboard the Chimaera. Thrawn says that they will soon be able to leave the forsaken world once the cargo transfer is completed. He surmises that Tano has lost time and that time is on their side now and that he will keep it that way.
* As the Imperial drone circles away, the surviving Imperials retreat the skirmish. Wren shoots a retreating Night Trooper but the others board their gunships. Tano appeals to Hati, asking her to surrender and offering to help her. Hati gives a tense and pained look before fleeing away on her howler. Wren wants to pursue her but Tano motions for her not to.
* Tano is relieved to see Wren has survived and embraces Bridger. The two laugh with joy. When Bridger asks Wren if she thought that Tano was dead, Wren quips she was wrong. Huyang arrives in the T-6 shuttle while Bridger introduces Tano.
* The Noti leader tells his people it is safe to come out. Bridger speaks with Wren and Tano, telling them that he gets the feeling that he will be coming home after all. The friends and Noti watch Tano's T-6 shuttle circling above.
* At the Great Mothers' Fortress on Peridea, Morgan Elsbeth reports to Grand Admiral Thrawn that the cargo transfer is complete. Thrawn then tells Enoch, the captain of Thrawn's guards, to bring the Eye of Sion out of high orbit so they may begin the interlocking procedure. Captain Enoch tells Thrawn that com-scan believes they have a fix on Ahsoka Tano's Jedi shuttle's location. Thrawn orders Enoch to dispatch two TIE fighters. Thrawn says the fighters can engage if they find their mark.
* Enoch bows and marches off. Elsbeth says there is little the Jedi can do to stop them then. Thrawn tells her not to underestimate the Jedi, explaining he has seen many Imperial officers make the same mistake with the Rebellion. Thrawn admits falling victim to the heroics of a single Jedi and vows not to let it happen again.
* Thrawn thanks the Great Mothers for their beneficial alliance. The Mothers thank Thrawn and Elsbeth. They then ask Elsbeth to come forward and reward her with the "gift of shadows." When Elsbeth says yes, they ask her to pledge herself to the sisterhood, the magicks, and the "old ways." When Elsbeth agrees, they ask if she is willing to abandon her old life. Elsbeth pledges her life and loyalty. One of the Great Mothers lays her hands on Elsbeth's forehead, causing her eyes to glow. The three Mothers then use their powers to forge a sword called the Blade of Talzin. They gift the sword to Elsbeth, who clutches it, causing it to burn green. Thrawn watches as the klaxons ring and two TIEs exit the Chimaera's hangar.
* Meanwhile, the Jedi shuttle hovers over the Noti caravan convoy. Aboard Tano's shuttle, Ezra Bridger assembles his new lightsaber with the help of Huyang. Bridger thinks the blade emitter is too narrow but Huyang says he is more experienced. Bridger says they don't have time for lessons since Tano needs them to go after Thrawn. Huyang opines this cannot be rushed. Bridger rummages through Huyang's workshop, annoying the droid who says he has a system. When Bridger replies he has a system, Huyang voices disagreement.
* When Huyang asks who taught Bridger to build his lightsaber, Sabine Wren mentions Kanan Jarrus. Bridger explains that Jarrus was his master and taught him everything he knows about being a Jedi. Huyang replies that he taught Jarrus how to build a lightsaber. Huyang remarks that it now makes sense and explains that he taught every Jedi youngling in the Jedi Temple including his late master Jarrus. Huyang recalls that Caleb Dume was clever, curious and shy due to the troubled times. When Bridger asks how old is Huyang, the droid replies that he is old enough to know it can be both challenging and meaningful.
* Huyang hands Bridger a lightsaber blade emitter, explaining it was a spare that he had kept for Jarrus. Huyang thinks that Bridger should have it since he is Jarrus' Padawan. Bridger ignites the blue bladed lightsaber, earning Huyang's praise. Before Bridger can practise with Wren, he finds that she has left the room. When Bridger queries about Wren's relationship with Tano, Huyang explains that the older Jedi became concerned that Wren was training for the wrong reasons after the Great Purge of Mandalore, which occurred at the end of the Galactic Civil War. The Purge killed hundreds of thousands including Wren's family. At the time, Tano feared that if Wren unlocked her full potential, she would become dangerous.
* Wren exits the Jedi shuttle's docking rig and finds Tano meditating on top of the hull. When Tano asks if she is pleased, Wren replies that she is relieved. Tano says that Wren's gamble paid off and Wren realizes that she knows about her deal with Baylan Skoll. When Wren says that she managed to find Bridger, Tano says that it might not have happened if she had chosen differently. Wren apologizes for not destroying the star map but Tano understands why she did what she did.
* Wren notices that Tano is not mad. Tano explains that she has made her share of difficult choices over the years. Most people, except her late master Anakin Skywalker, did not understand her reasons. Tano says that Skywalker stood by her when no one else did. Tano promises to be with Wren no matter what happens next. Tano then asks Wren if she has kept up with her training. Wren reluctantly says that she has gained better control over her lightsaber. Tano tells Wren that being a Jedi is not solely about wielding a lightsaber. She advises the Mandalorian to also train her mind and body, and to trust in the Force.
* Shortly later, Bridger exits the docking rig with his new lightsaber. Just then, the two Imperial TIE fighters approach the Jedi shuttle and strafe the ship's hull, causing damage to the ship's stabilizers. While Bridger and Tano jump onto the grassy plains, Wren joins Huyang inside the cockpit.
* Bridger and Tano use their Force powers to hold back the ship so that the Noti underneath can evacuate. The TIE fighters return for a second round and blast a Noti caravan. Wren manages to convince Huyang to fire up the engines for a frontal attack on the TIEs. The Jedi shuttle rams into them, causing the starfighters to crash onto the grassy prairies. A Noti cheers but the Jedi shuttle does a belly landing nearby. Huyang and Wren evacuate the ship. While the Noti attend to their wounded and dead, Bridger remarks that this is going to slow them down. Tano replies only if they let it.
* Enoch informs Thrawn that the TIEs attacked the Jedi shuttle before losing contact. Despite the loss of the TIEs, Thrawn considers this an acceptable outcome and marks their captain for a citation. Enoch complies before presenting Thrawn with the coordinates of the skirmish on the holoprojector. Thrawn says that the TIE attack has hampered their enemy's ability to attack them or leave Peridea. Thrawn then orders Enoch to prepare for a ground assault immediately.
* While Huyang and the Noti repair the damaged Jedi shuttle, Tano along with Wren and Bridger ride on howlers to face Thrawn and his allies. Huyang wishes that the Force be with them. At the Chimaera, Elsbeth and the Great Mothers bless several Night Troopers before the impending ground assault. When Thrawn asks if the volunteers were made aware about the Nightsisters' blessing, Elsbeth confirms that this is the case and that they were all prepared to sacrifice themselves for him. Thrawn says that this is for the Galactic Empire and the security of their galaxy.
* The Jedi and Sabine reach the outskirts of the Nightsister fortress just as the Chimaera begins docking with the Eye of Sion hyperspace transport ring. Bridger realizes that Thrawn plans to take his Star Destroyer with him. When Tano asks Huyang for progress on the repairs, Huyang replies that he and the Noti are doing their best but can't guarantee anything. When Tano asks Bridger what they are up against, he explains that Thrawn woke the Great Mothers and rebuilt his warship, making it unsafe for him to come alone. Tano reassures him that he is not alone.
* Tano proposes trying the front door while Wren dons her helmet. A navigator droid informs Thrawn, Elsbeth, and Enoch that com-scan is tracking two targets coming from the north. Thrawn orders his forces to bombard the Jedi and Wren, saying that there is no reasoning with Skywalker's apprentice. As the trio approach the hyperspace ring, the Chimaera's turbolasers rain down laser fire on them. Despite the bombardment, the three managed to use their Force powers to open the round stony gate, breaching the fortress.
* In the command center, Thrawn orders that the Night Troopers be deployed while he informs the Great Mothers. The Night Troopers descend down the stairs and converge on the intruders. Sabine and Bridger deflect their blasts with their lightsabers while Wren switches from her lightsaber to her blaster. Working together, they draw out the Night Troopers and cut them down. Meanwhile, the Great Mothers chant in an unknown tongue and use their Magick to reanimate the fallen Night Troopers. Thrawn watches the ritual.
* Tano, Wren and Bridger battle the undead Night Troopers while advancing upstairs. Despite shooting the Night Troopers, they are not able to stop the undead Imperials. Bridger tells Tano that this is the first time he has encountered this Magick. A Night Trooper grabs Bridger and Wren frees Bridger by impaling the undead Imperial with her lightsaber. The trio manage to escape the undead Imperials by sealing the blast doors. Tano tells Bridger that Wren has been training.
* Outside, the Eye of Sion extends clamps onto the Chimaera. Since the Jedi are advancing quickly, Thrawn tells Elsbeth that they require a little more time. Elsbeth says she understands and bows silently. Thrawn says for the Empire. After Thrawn, his soldiers, and the Great Mothers depart, Elsbeth swears she is doing it for Dathomir and exits the Star Destroyer's hangar. Meanwhile, the undead Night Troopers, who were becoming more intelligent, break through the blast doors and rush upstairs. Bridger closes a second blast door with his lightsaber.
* The Jedi and Wren encounter Elsbeth inside a large chamber. Tano tells Wren and Bridger to go after Thrawn while she deals with the Nightsister, who is wielding Talzin's sword. After Wren and Bridger circumnavigate Elsbeth, she and Tano engage in a duel. Tano fights with both her lightsabers while Elsbeth fights with her magical sword. Elsbeth puts up a fierce fight. Meanwhile, Bridger and Wren encounter two Death Troopers at the top of the fortress, who gain the upper hand.
* Thrawn and the Great Mothers reach the bridge of the Eye of Sion where a navigator droid informs them that their course is locked in. Thrawn gives the orders to depart. While Elsbeth advances on Tano, Wren struggles with the undead Death Trooper, who, despite blasting off part of its helmet and revealing its rotting jaw, removes her helmet and forces her against a pillar with runes. The second Death Trooper, after being stabbed in the chest by Bridger to no effect, throws Him against the floor. While Bridger fights back with his fists, Wren struggles to use the Force to levitate her lightsaber. She uses her lightsaber to skewer the Death Trooper's head, incapacitating it. She then distracts the second Death Trooper long enough for Bridger to behead it with his lightsaber.
* Bridger and Wren are unable to reach the Chimaera's hangar in time. Meanwhile, the undead Night Troopers join Elsbeth in her battle against Tano. While two Night Troopers aim their blasters at Bridger and Wren, Wren proposes that she push Bridger and he then pull her onto the Star Destroyer. Bridger thinks this is too far but Wren convinces him to give it a try. Bridger does a Force jump and gets Wren to push him with her latent Force powers. Bridger appears to fall but manages to grab onto a ladder and drags one of the Imperial sentries down. Wren shoots the second sentry.
* Before Wren can join Bridger, she is distracted by the sight of her master Tano under attack from the undead Night Troopers. Tano fights with Elsbeth at the peak of the fortress. Elsbeth manages to damage one of her white lightsabers while the Night Troopers converge around them. Elsbeth gains the upper hand and taunts Tano that her friends are dead and that she will die on Peridea alone. Wren disagrees and attacks the Night Troopers with her lightsaber. A reinvigorated Tano resumes the duel. After parrying, she manages to slice Elsbeth across the waist with her remaining lightsaber, killing her. The Great Mothers sense the death of their sister and Thrawn replies that she did her duty.
* Meanwhile, Bridger impersonates the fallen Night Trooper LS-757 using his comlink. Tano asks Wren where Bridger is and Wren replies that he is aboard the Chimaera. Meanwhile, Thrawn orders the Star Destroyer's turbolaser batteries to bombard the fortress. The undead Night Troopers pursue Tano and Wren to the edge of a cliff but the two escape on Tano's Jedi shuttle, which Huyang is flying. They fly away as the mountain fortress crumbles.
* Tano and Wren join Huyang inside the cockpit and divert power to the engines. They rise into Peridea's upper atmosphere in pursuit of the Eye of Sion and Chimaera. The navigator droid informs Thrawn that the Jedi shuttle is closing in. Thrawn opens a channel to Tano and thanks her for being a worthy opponent. While they have never met face to face, Thrawn says he knows her because he knew her late Master. He concluded that their strategies were similar and wonders what she would have become had she stayed with the Jedi. He opines that a ronin like her belongs on Peridea and say that victory belongs to him. Thrawn says "Long live the Empire" before the Eye of Sion jumps with the Chimaera into the pathway back to their galaxy. The intergalactic hyperspace jump leaves behind a massive surge of energy. Tano and Wren are visibly disappointed at their failure to stop Thrawn from escaping Peridea.
* Tano and Wren return with their howler steeds, Huyang and their Jedi shuttle to the Noti convoy. The Noti are overjoyed to see their allies return and gather around Tano and Wren. Tano sees Morai in the distance.
* Shin Hati rides towards the camp of the Bandits of Peridea and ignites her lightsaber, drawing their attention. Elsewhere, Baylan Skoll reaches two statues of the Father and the Son. He stares at the mountains beyond towards the apparent source of the power calling to him; a flashing beacon of light off the farthest mountain.
* Back in the main galaxy, Thrawn along with Enoch and the Great Mothers watch from a balcony as the Eye of Sion and the Chimaera approach Dathomir.
* An Eta-class shuttle lands in the hangar of Home One. General Hera Syndulla, Chopper and several armed New Republic soldiers, officers and crew including First officer Vic Hawkins and Beyta converge on the shuttle. A lone Night Trooper emerges with his hands raised. Chopper speaks in Binary and approaches the figure, who reveals himself to be a disguised Ezra Bridger. Syndulla is surprised and pleased to see that her friend has come home.
* Wren and Tano spend time alone outside the Noti camp. Wren tells her master they are almost packed. Tano reassures her that she did well. Wren is upset that Thrawn escaped but Tano points out that they managed to send Bridger home. Wren says that she hope that Bridger succeeded. Tano responds that Bridger is where he needs to be and so are they. Tano tells Wren that it is time to move on as they watch the night sky. Wren senses something hopeful but does not elaborate. Tano stares into the night sky before rejoining Wren at the camp, as the Force spirit of Anakin Skywalker watches over them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore
5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 5.30 5.31 5.32 Chapter 23: The Spies
6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 Chapter 19: The Convert
7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 7.26 7.27 7.28 Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord
8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 8.23 8.24 8.25 8.26 8.27 8.28 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 11: The Heiress"
9. ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 9.16 9.17 9.18 9.19 9.20 Chapter 17: The Apostate
10. ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 10.17 10.18 10.19 10.20 10.21 10.22 10.23 10.24 10.25 10.26 10.27 10.28 10.29 10.30 10.31 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 3: The Sin"
11. ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 11.18 11.19 11.20 11.21 11.22 11.23 11.24 11.25 11.26 11.27 11.28 11.29 11.30 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian"
12. ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 12.14 12.15 12.16 12.17 12.18 12.19 12.20 12.21 12.22 12.23 12.24 12.25 12.26 12.27 12.28 12.29 12.30 12.31 12.32 12.33 12.34 12.35 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 13.23 13.24 13.25 13.26 13.27 13.28 The Book of Boba Fett – "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land"
14. ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 14.18 14.19 14.20 14.21 14.22 Star Wars Battlefront II
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 Shattered Empire 1
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
17. ↑ 17.00 17.01 17.02 17.03 17.04 17.05 17.06 17.07 17.08 17.09 17.10 17.11 17.12 17.13 17.14 17.15 17.16 17.17 17.18 17.19 17.20 17.21 17.22 17.23 17.24 17.25 17.26 17.27 17.28 17.29 17.30 17.31 17.32 17.33 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 9: The Marshal"
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3  Aftermath: Life Debt
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Aftermath
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 Shattered Empire 2
21. ↑ 21.00 21.01 21.02 21.03 21.04 21.05 21.06 21.07 21.08 21.09 21.10 21.11 21.12 21.13 21.14 21.15 21.16 21.17 21.18 21.19 21.20 21.21 21.22 21.23 21.24 21.25 21.26 21.27 21.28 21.29 21.30 21.31 21.32 21.33 21.34 The Book of Boba Fett – "Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa"
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Shattered Empire 3
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 23.6 Shattered Empire 4
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
25. ↑  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
26. ↑ 26.00 26.01 26.02 26.03 26.04 26.05 26.06 26.07 26.08 26.09 26.10 26.11 26.12 26.13 26.14 26.15 26.16 26.17 26.18 26.19 26.20 26.21 26.22 26.23 26.24 26.25 26.26 26.27 26.28 26.29 26.30 26.31 26.32 26.33 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger"
27. ↑ 27.00 27.01 27.02 27.03 27.04 27.05 27.06 27.07 27.08 27.09 27.10 27.11 27.12 27.13 27.14 27.15 27.16 27.17 27.18 27.19 27.20 27.21 27.22 27.23 27.24 27.25 27.26 27.27 27.28 27.29 27.30 27.31 The Book of Boba Fett – "Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine"
28. ↑ The Book of Boba Fett – "Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor"
29. ↑ 29.00 29.01 29.02 29.03 29.04 29.05 29.06 29.07 29.08 29.09 29.10 29.11 29.12 29.13 29.14 29.15 29.16 29.17 29.18 29.19 29.20 29.21 29.22 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 2: The Child"
30. ↑ 30.00 30.01 30.02 30.03 30.04 30.05 30.06 30.07 30.08 30.09 30.10 30.11 30.12 30.13 30.14 30.15 30.16 30.17 30.18 30.19 30.20 30.21 30.22 30.23 30.24 30.25 30.26 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 7: The Reckoning"
31. ↑ 31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 31.13 31.14 31.15 31.16 31.17 31.18 31.19 31.20 31.21 31.22 31.23 31.24 31.25 31.26 31.27 31.28 31.29 31.30 31.31 31.32 31.33 31.34 31.35 31.36 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 4: Sanctuary"
32. ↑ 32.00 32.01 32.02 32.03 32.04 32.05 32.06 32.07 32.08 32.09 32.10 32.11 32.12 32.13 32.14 32.15 32.16 32.17 32.18 32.19 32.20 32.21 32.22 32.23 32.24 32.25 32.26 32.27 32.28 32.29 32.30 32.31 32.32 32.33 32.34 32.35 32.36 32.37 32.38 32.39 32.40 32.41 The Book of Boba Fett – "Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm"
33. ↑ 33.00 33.01 33.02 33.03 33.04 33.05 33.06 33.07 33.08 33.09 33.10 33.11 33.12 33.13 33.14 33.15 33.16 33.17 33.18 33.19 33.20 33.21 33.22 33.23 33.24 33.25 33.26 33.27 33.28 33.29  The Mandalorian – "Chapter 6: The Prisoner"
34. ↑ 34.00 34.01 34.02 34.03 34.04 34.05 34.06 34.07 34.08 34.09 34.10 34.11 34.12 34.13 34.14 34.15 34.16 34.17 34.18 34.19 34.20 34.21 34.22 34.23 34.24 34.25 34.26 34.27 34.28 34.29 34.30 34.31 34.32 34.33 34.34 34.35 34.36 34.37 34.38 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 8: Redemption"
35. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
36. ↑ 36.00 36.01 36.02 36.03 36.04 36.05 36.06 36.07 36.08 36.09 36.10 36.11 36.12 36.13 36.14 36.15 36.16 36.17 36.18 36.19 36.20 36.21 36.22 36.23 36.24 36.25 36.26 36.27 36.28 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 12: The Siege"
37. ↑ 37.00 37.01 37.02 37.03 37.04 37.05 37.06 37.07 37.08 37.09 37.10 37.11 The Mandalorian – "Chapter 10: The Passenger"
38. ↑ 38.00 38.01 38.02 38.03 38.04 38.05 38.06 38.07 38.08 38.09 38.10 38.11 38.12 38.13 38.14 38.15 38.16 38.17 38.18 38.19 38.20 38.21 38.22 38.23 38.24 Chapter 13: The Jedi
39. ↑ 39.00 39.01 39.02 39.03 39.04 39.05 39.06 39.07 39.08 39.09 39.10 39.11 39.12 39.13 39.14 39.15 39.16 39.17 39.18 39.19 39.20 39.21 39.22 39.23 39.24 39.25 Part One: Master and Apprentice
40. ↑ 40.00 40.01 40.02 40.03 40.04 40.05 40.06 40.07 40.08 40.09 40.10 40.11 40.12 40.13 40.14 40.15 40.16 40.17 40.18 40.19 40.20 40.21 40.22 40.23 40.24 40.25 Chapter 14: The Tragedy
41. ↑ 41.00 41.01 41.02 41.03 41.04 41.05 41.06 41.07 41.08 41.09 41.10 41.11 41.12 41.13 41.14 41.15 41.16 41.17 41.18 41.19 41.20 41.21 41.22 41.23 41.24 41.25 41.26 41.27 41.28 41.29 41.30 41.31 Chapter 15: The Beliver
42. ↑ 42.00 42.01 42.02 42.03 42.04 42.05 42.06 42.07 42.08 42.09 42.10 42.11 42.12 42.13 42.14 42.15 42.16 42.17 Chapter 16: The Rescue
43. ↑ 43.00 43.01 43.02 43.03 43.04 43.05 43.06 43.07 43.08 43.09 43.10 43.11 43.12 43.13 43.14 43.15 43.16 43.17 43.18 43.19 43.20 43.21 43.22 43.23 43.24 43.25 43.26 43.27 43.28 43.29 43.30 43.31 43.32 43.33 43.34 43.35 43.36 43.37 Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger
44. ↑ 44.00 44.01 44.02 44.03 44.04 44.05 44.06 44.07 44.08 44.09 44.10 44.11 44.12 44.13 44.14 44.15 44.16 44.17 44.18 44.19 44.20 44.21 44.22 44.23 44.24 44.25 44.26 44.27 44.28 44.29 44.30 44.31 44.32 44.33 44.34 44.35 44.36 44.37 44.38 44.39 44.40 44.41 Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor
45. ↑ Star Wars: Hunters
46. ↑ Hunters: Battle for the Arena
47. ↑ 47.00 47.01 47.02 47.03 47.04 47.05 47.06 47.07 47.08 47.09 47.10 Chapter 20: The Foundling
48. ↑ 48.00 48.01 48.02 48.03 48.04 48.05 48.06 48.07 48.08 48.09 48.10 48.11 48.12 48.13 48.14 48.15 48.16 48.17 48.18 48.19 48.20 48.21 48.22 48.23 48.24 48.25 48.26 48.27 Chapter 21: The Pirate
49. ↑ 49.00 49.01 49.02 49.03 49.04 49.05 49.06 49.07 49.08 49.09 49.10 49.11 49.12 49.13 49.14 49.15 49.16 49.17 49.18 49.19 49.20 49.21 49.22 49.23 49.24 49.25 49.26 49.27 49.28 49.29 49.30 49.31 49.32 49.33 49.34 Chapter 22: Guns for Hire
50. ↑ 50.00 50.01 50.02 50.03 50.04 50.05 50.06 50.07 50.08 50.09 50.10 50.11 50.12 50.13 50.14 50.15 50.16 50.17 50.18 50.19 50.20 50.21 50.22 50.23 50.24 Chapter 24: The Return
51. ↑ Hayclon Legacy 5
52. ↑ 52.00 52.01 52.02 52.03 52.04 52.05 52.06 52.07 52.08 52.09 52.10 52.11 52.12 52.13 52.14 52.15 52.16 52.17 52.18 52.19 52.20 52.21 52.22 52.23 52.24 52.25 52.26 52.27 52.28 52.29 Part Two: Toil and Trouble‎
53. ↑ 53.00 53.01 53.02 53.03 53.04 53.05 53.06 53.07 53.08 53.09 53.10 53.11 53.12 53.13 53.14 53.15 53.16 53.17 53.18 53.19 53.20 53.21 53.22 53.23 Part Three: Time to Fly
54. ↑ 54.00 54.01 54.02 54.03 54.04 54.05 54.06 54.07 54.08 54.09 54.10 54.11 54.12 54.13 54.14 54.15 54.16 54.17 54.18 54.19 54.20 54.21 54.22 Part Four: Fallen Jedi
55. ↑ 55.00 55.01 55.02 55.03 55.04 55.05 55.06 55.07 55.08 55.09 55.10 55.11 55.12 55.13 55.14 55.15 55.16 55.17 55.18 Part Five: Shadow Warrior
56. ↑ 56.00 56.01 56.02 56.03 56.04 56.05 56.06 56.07 56.08 56.09 56.10 56.11 56.12 56.13 56.14 Part Six: Far, Far Away
57. ↑ 57.00 57.01 57.02 57.03 57.04 57.05 57.06 57.07 57.08 57.09 57.10 57.11 57.12 57.13 57.14 57.15 57.16 57.17 57.18 57.19 57.20 57.21 57.22 57.23 57.24 57.25 57.26 57.27 57.28 57.29 57.30 57.31 57.32 57.33 57.34 57.35 Part Seven: Dreams and Madness