Gideon's Imperial remnant

**Gideon's Imperial remnant** was a remnant of the fallen Galactic Empire led by Moff Gideon that was active in the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories during the time of the New Republic. Around the year 9 ABY, the Imperial holdout came into contact with Din Djarin, a Mandalorian bounty hunter whom "the Client" hired on Nevarro to locate and retrieve an asset named Grogu.

Although the Mandalorian delivered Grogu to the Client, he later had a change of heart and rescued Grogu. The Imperial remnant subsequently occupied the local town but was driven off when Djarin returned and joined forces with Greef Karga, Carasynthia Dune, Kuiil, and IG-11, defeating Moff Gideon in the process. Gideon survived his defeat, however, and regrouped with his fleet in space, from where he continued to seek Grogu, still in the care of the Mandalorian, to use him as part of an ongoing series of experiments being conducted by his remnant.

## Military

Gideon had attained the rank of moff and led a remnant of Imperial forces as warlord, Moff Gideon was an imposing and ruthless leader, and also a patriot of the Galactic Empire who was known to kill fellow Imperials should they endanger his cause. Gideon forces inherited assets from the Imperial Military and used them as a well-established military force to achieve its objectives. They had the capability to occupy and maintain order on Nevarro and maintained at least one battalion. The remnant's frontline infantry were comprised of stormtroopers, scout troopers, at least one incinerator trooper, and one artillery stormtrooper. Imperial armored commandos served within the remnant.

Local stormtroopers on Nevarro were of lower class and quality, merely serving as bodyguards for important high ranking Imperial officials or to maintain the occupation of Nevarro City. Additionally, the remnant led by Moff Gideon utilized elite death troopers, which formed a guard unit protecting Gideon, as well as a platoon of Dark Troopers. Imperial officers also served within the remnant, serving in various capacities including captaining a starship, acting as security officers, deck officers, pilots, communications officers and gunnery officers.

The unit of snowtroopers stationed at a camp on Carlac were by Commander Sharky, seeing themselves as a hardened group of nomadic outlaws who were devoted to the Old Empire. They used the old Junk Droids of Carlac as target practice to refine their skills at using their weapons, not having access to the standard training equipment used by the old Empire.

Weapons used by the remnant included the typical E-11 medium blaster rifle, SE-14r light repeating blaster, E-22 reciprocating double-barreled blaster rifle, or the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle. Scout troopers used the EC-17 hold-out blaster, and death troopers used the E-11D blaster carbine. They also used E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannons. At least one snowtrooper on Carlac was armed with a RPS-6 rocket launcher, and others were armed with T-7 ion disruptor rifles. Furthermore, Imperial forces were bolstered by armored units including a K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport, at least three 74-Z speeder bikes in the skirmish on Nevarro, a Trexler 906 Armored Marauder, multiple speeder bikes, armored transports, and other vehicles. Their leader, Moff Gideon, also used a personal Outland TIE fighter, a model of the Sienar Fleet Systems' TIE line, with wings that folded when landing on a leveled surface, allowing for ease of access to the cockpit. They also owned at least two RA-7 protocol droids, one of whom served the Nevarro cantina as the bartender after the remnant's occupation of the planet, while another served on Gideon's cruiser. The snowtroopers of Carlac used at least four 74-Z speeder bikes along with an RGC-16 airspeeder and a X-34 landspeeder.

A fleet also served under Moff Gideon's command, as part of his Imperial remnant. The fleet included a modified *Gozanti*-class Assault Carrier, a Class 546 light cruiser, several Outland TIE fighters, TIE/ln space superiority starfighters, TIE/IN interceptors and TIE/sa bombers, several Imperial transports and at least three *Lambda*-class T-4a shuttles.

## History

At one point in 9 ABY, Gideon received a hologram message from Dr. Pershing, who was apologizing to him for failing an experiment involving the Child and Strand-Casts. He also reported that he had exhausted their supply of Grogu's blood samples, and that he required more genetic material from the donor in order to continue his work.

Three days later, Djarin went back to Nevarro in need of repairs and was recruited by Karga, Dune, and a Mythrol to join them on their own mission to destroy the Imperial base. As the four undertook the mission, a Mimbanesse worker and placed a tracking device on Djarin's ship. At the base, Djarin and the others viewed the hologram of Pershing and realized that the Imperials were performing experiments, hence their pursuit of Grogu. The worker later contacted a comms officer on Gideon's light cruiser informing her that the tracking device had been planted. The officer subsequently informed Gideon, who smiled to himself and continued to supervise the work of his scientists on his dark troopers.

Gideon's forces tracked Djarin's ship to Tython. From high atmosphere, two Imperial transports carrying stormtroopers launched from Gideon's light cruiser. As the stormtroopers did battle with Djarin and his allies, Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, four dark troopers were readied and launched from the cruiser and landed near the seeing stone where Grogu had been meditating. There, one of the dark troopers seized Grogu and flew upwards back to the cruiser with the other three dark troopers while Fett pursued them from his ship. Upon seeing the cruiser, Fett remarked in disbelief that the Empire was back. Once the dark troopers returned to the cruiser with the captured child, Gideon's cruiser jumped to hyperspace, though not before blasting Djarin's grounded ship, the *Razor Crest*, destroying it. While still in hyperspace, Gideon briefly talked to the child in his prison cell, walking in on the child attacking two stormtroopers. Letting Grogu tire himself out battling the two troopers, Gideon showed Grogu the Darksaber before having his stormtroopers stun him and place him in shackles. Gideon then ordered his comms officer to send an encrypted message to Doctor Pershing informing him that they had their donor for his experiments once they exited hyperspace.

Din Djarin and his crew infiltrated Gideon's cruiser, and they split, Bo-Katan searching for Gideon, and Djarin searching for the child. Gideon was prepared, and tried to trick the Mandalorian to lower his guard with promises of returning the Child, claiming to no longer need him, having already taken his blood. He attempted to strike at Djarin from behind, and proceeded to battle the Mandalorian, who fought back with his Beskar spear. Gideon was defeated, and Djarin brought him to Bo-Katan, and tried to return the Darksaber to her. Gideon laughed, knowing that she could not take the saber without winning it through combat. Then the dark troopers, which Djarin had ejected into space, returned via their rocket boosters. Confident that everyone besides himself will be killed by the dark troopers, he did not anticipate the arrival of Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. After watching the Jedi destroy the dark troopers, Gideon tried to eliminate the child, and then kill himself. He failed to do both and was knocked unconscious so that Marshal Dune could use his invaluable ISB information for the New Republic and properly bring him to justice. Djarin believed that was very likely that the Moff would be executed for his crimes by the New Republic Tribunal.

That same year, a nomadic group of cold weather assault stormtroopers of Gideon's remnant was stationed at a camp on Carlac that was once used by the Death Watch during the Clone Wars. The hardened snowtroopers there had refurbished the camp, making it their base of operations on the plane. Two Lambada-class shuttles were parked at the camp. After landing on Carlac, Indiana Jones and his partner K-7R3 were captured by the snowtroopers and brought to the camp. While Jones was taken to meet Commander Sharky, the leader of the unit, K-7R3 was ordered to repair the droids that the troopers had been using for target practice. Right as Jones was in a scuffle with Sharky and his men in one of the camp's tents, K-7R3 rallied the droids to rebel against their Imperial masters, creating a distraction for himself and Jones to escape. As K-7R3 and Jones escaped on a stolen X-34 landspeeder, Sharky ordered two snowtroopers on speeder bikes to stop them. During the tenacious pursuit, Jones managed to fend off the troopers, and he and K-7R3 got back to their ship, the *Bravo Adventurer*, taking off and escaping Carlac.

Following the rescue of Grogu from Gideon's light cruiser, Gideon's communication officer, Lt. Elia Kane became part of the New Republic's amnesty program. In truth, she acted as a spy for the Remnant and kept the New Republic officials off Nevaro during the Pirate Nation's invasion there. Gideon was able to escape from the New Republic's custody when his *Lambda*-class shuttle came under attack by his Beskar-plated Imperial armored commandos. Upon his return to his base on Mandalore, Gideon was informed that both Djarin's Tribe, covert and Kryze's unit had joined together in defeating the pirates on Nevaro despite their animosity towards each other.

Gideon later spoke with the Shadow Council about Grand Admiral Thrawn's return, possible new leadership and the Mandalorians' return to Mandalore. Despite opposition from Captain Gilad Pellaeon and General Brendol Hux, the council granted Gideon's request of three Praetorian Guards, TIE/IN interceptors and TIE/sa bombers to deal with the Mandalorians.

When the Mandalorians under Kryze and Djarin returned and made their way to the Great Forge, he sent in his beskar-plated troops to lead them into a trap. As Kryze, Djarin and their forces pursued the Imperials, they found themselves in Gideon's base. Djarin was then separate from the main group and taken prisoner by the troopers and Gideon in his beskar armor. As Djarin was taken away, Gideon thanked him for bringing all the Mandalorians back to one place and sent the his aerial forces deal with their fleet. Gideon demanded the Darksaber from Kryze, remembering how she gave to him when he offered a cease-fire before the Great Purge. Kryze, knowing to well, refused. Kryze was able to cut through the blast doors and help her unit escape. Paz Vizsla, despite Kryze's plea, stayed behind to cover their retreat back to the forge.

Djarin managed to escape Imperial custody with help from Grogu. Together they infiltrated the base along with Grogu hoping to locate the command center and take Moff Gideon out once and for all. With assistance from R5-D4they managed to locate the command center. As they approached the command center they discovered Moff Gideon's force-sensitive clones and destroyed them, thus ruining Gideon's plans to conquer the Galaxy.

This prompted an enraged Gideon to attack Djarin on a platform near the command center when the two arrived there. While fighting with Gideon, the Praetorian Guards emerged and attacked Djarin, however Grogu stopped them causing the guards to charge at him who retreated back into the command center.

After the Mandalorians regrouped, they launched an attack on Gideon's base with reinforcements from the fleet. Woves decided to remain on the light cruiser to act as a distraction for Gideon's interceptors and bombers.

The Mandalorians used their *Kom'rk*-class fighter transports to deploy an attack force. Using their jetpacks, the Mandalorians flew into the skytop opening, engaging Gideon's commandos, especially Kryze who used the Darksaber to eliminate several of them. After spotting Djarin fighting Gideon, Kryze then landed and fought with Gideon, allowing Djarin to leave and save Grogu. Using Grogu's force powers and Djarin's weapons, the pair managed to defeat all three Praetorian Guards. Gideon crushed the Darksaber with his suit's augmented strength, breaking Kryze's hand in the process and taunting her that without their toys, Mandalorians were weak. As Djarin and Grogu arrived, Kryze declared Mandalorians were stronger together, and the three quickly overpowered him.

With the light cruiser severely damaged, Woves steered it into the base and escaped at the last minute, before the cruiser crashed into the base destroying it. Gideon perished in the resulting destruction. The death of Moff Gideon and the destruction of the Mandalore Imperial base marked the end of Gideon's Imperial remnant.

## Appearances

* *Boba and Fennec* (First appearance)
* "Alliances"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones*