Chapter Summaries

Leon’s Investigation Department team approached Holy City on Jedha to investigate the Star Wars universe, while Sui Yang identified the setting as the era of Rogue One and planned to contact Saw Gerrera’s resistance. Leon entered the crowded city and was greeted by a blind man in a black robe.

• Leon and six other Investigation Department agents traveled toward Holy City aboard a stealth-enabled Black Falcon Assault Craft as other teams approached their targets.
• Sui Yang reviewed reconnaissance reports, identified Universe 17 as the Star Wars universe during the Rogue One period, and planned to establish contact with Saw Gerrera’s Resistance Organization.
• Leon walked through Holy City, observing its diverse inhabitants and considering how the Main Universe Empire governed aliens.
• A blind man in a black robe greeted Leon at the entrance to a crowded alley, saying, “Young man, welcome to our world.”

Leon encountered the blind man and Baze, who offered to lead him to the Rebel Alliance in exchange for payment. As a battle erupted between rebels and Imperial forces, Leon stayed undercover and followed them through the city before receiving an evacuation alert warning of an imminent devastating strike on Holy City.

• Leon confronted the blind man and Baze at gunpoint, then lowered his weapon after the blind man identified his mission and offered information for a price.
• Gunfire and explosions broke out, and the blind man invited Leon to follow him to make contact with the Rebel Alliance.
• Leon and his companions reached a battle where rebels fought Stormtroopers; an AT-ST walker arrived and helped the Imperials overwhelm the rebels.
• Leon ordered his agents to remain undercover and watched two outsiders escape as the blind man and Baze led him toward an alley.
• Leon received an emergency alert ordering all agents and Joint Reconnaissance Force personnel to evacuate Holy City ahead of a devastating strike.

Leon recognized the Death Star’s threat to Jedha and ordered his agents to evacuate, but stayed in the Holy City to pursue important leads. After Chirrut Imwe defeated a group of Stormtroopers, he said he and Baze would leave with Leon at the right moment, just before Rebel soldiers surrounded them.

• Leon identified the Death Star above Jedha as a weapon capable of destroying the planet and ordered his agents to return to the Frontline Base without him.
• Leon, Baze, and the blind man reached a plaza where Stormtroopers were searching civilians and questioning two outsiders and their robot.
• Chirrut Imwe intervened when Stormtroopers threatened the outsiders, then disarmed and evaded the soldiers as he fought them with his staff.
• Leon and Baze opened fire when Stormtrooper reinforcements entered the plaza, eliminating them while Chirrut rested on a Stormtrooper corpse.
• Chirrut told Leon that he and Baze would leave with him at the right moment, but Rebel soldiers appeared and surrounded them.

Leon was imprisoned with Cassian Andor, Chirrut Imwe, and Baze Malbus while he pieced together the danger facing Galen Erso and Jyn Erso. When the Death Star destroyed the Holy City, Leon escaped with Cassian and Jyn aboard K-2SO’s U-wing, carrying a storage module and heading toward Scarif.

• Leon deduced that Galen Erso was at risk of execution by the Galactic Empire and assassination by the Rebel Alliance, and that Cassian’s mission involved Jyn.
• A blast shook the Rebel Army’s hideout, allowing Cassian to unlock the cell; Leon recovered his equipment, and Baze rescued Bodhi Rook.
• Leon restored communications with the Frontline Base, learned they had five minutes to evacuate, and saw the Death Star’s attack devastate the Holy City.
• Cassian and Leon found Jyn Erso with Saw Gerrera, and Leon took the storage module from a holographic projector while Cassian led Jyn away.
• Leon, Cassian, and Jyn escaped aboard K-2SO’s U-wing and entered hyperspace to evade the shockwave from the destruction of the Holy City.

Aboard the U-wing, Leon revealed that he came from a different universe and convinced Cassian that his Main Universe Empire opposed the Galactic Empire. The group arrived at Eadu after Cassian sent the Rebel Alliance evidence that Galen Erso was resisting the Empire.

• Cassian received orders from Yavin 4 to set a course for Eadu.
• Leon introduced himself to Cassian and explained that his Empire was unrelated to the Galactic Empire and opposed its tyranny.
• Chirrut said Leon had no connection to the Force or Midi-chlorians, while K-2SO cited a 76.3% probability that parallel universes were real.
• Cassian accepted Leon’s explanation and shook his hand, then asked for his advice.
• Leon gave Cassian Galen Erso’s recorded information as proof that Galen opposed the Empire, and Cassian sent it to the Rebel base to urge them to abandon their assassination plan.
• The U-wing completed its Hyperspace journey and arrived at Eadu.

Leon and the Rebel team crashed on Eadu while trying to reach an Imperial research facility, leaving most of the group injured but alive. Leon scouted the facility alone, then received a call from an administrative officer.

• Cassian, Bodhi, and K-2SO struggled to pilot the damaged U-wing through Eadu’s storm toward the Imperial facility.
• The U-wing lost both engines and crashed on a canyon ledge, leaving Cassian, Chirrut, Baze, Jyn, and Bodhi unconscious or injured.
• Leon scanned the survivors and treated their wounds with Biofoam while K-2SO stayed behind to watch them and repair communications.
• Leon climbed to a vantage point and surveyed the heavily guarded shuttle landing station as he considered how to reach Galen Erso.
• A female administrative officer contacted Leon over the communicator, saying, “Director Kennedy, come in.”

Leon coordinated the Special Operations Group’s orbital drop on Eadu and joined its assault on the Empire’s Death Star research facility. The team captured the scientists and gathered research, but multiple Hyperspace signatures appeared in low orbit as they prepared to withdraw.

• Leon learned that the Special Operations Group had arrived at Eadu and prepared to storm the research facility after its drop.
• The group used decoy drones to draw antiaircraft fire, landed Drop Pods across the facility, and overwhelmed the Stormtroopers while missiles destroyed the launching TIE Fighters.
• Leon met Rebecca and led his team into the facility, ordering them to locate Galen Erso before Imperial reinforcements arrived.
• Squad 014 reported capturing the key targets, and Leon ordered their evacuation along with a transport mission to retrieve Cassian Andor and the others from the U-wing crash site.
• Rebecca and the others collected storage modules as they withdrew, and the administrative officer warned Leon that multiple Hyperspace signatures had appeared near Eadu.

Leon Kennedy's forces evacuated Galen Erso and the Rebel team from Eadu, then destroyed the research facility to conceal the rescue. Rather than head to Yavin 4 for talks, Leon followed orders to take the cloaked Diana V-type to Scarif, where the coming battle would demonstrate the Main Universe Empire's power to the Rebels.

• Leon ordered the Rebel Alliance team to board a Stealth-class ship and directed the transports to evacuate before fighting broke out near Eadu.
• The transports extracted the team, prisoners, and Galen Erso, while the Special Operations Group detonated Plasma Bombs that destroyed the research facility and erased evidence of the rescue.
• Aboard the Diana V-type, Cassian reassured Melshi, and Jyn reunited tearfully with her father as Leon introduced himself to Galen.
• Leon requested permission to travel to Yavin 4 for negotiations, but received new orders to rendezvous with the Thousand Wounds Sons 1st Company at Scarif.
• Leon accepted the orders and sent the Diana V-type into Slipspace, with Cassian and the other Rebels aboard as witnesses.

Gabriel Angelos led a stealth Fleet toward Scarif and ordered an assault on its Space Station and defenses. The attack began as Scarif's control room detected unidentified ships and watched Drop Pods and Transport Craft rush through the gateway.

• Gabriel Angelos ordered an Orbital Drop, a coordinated strike against one Star Destroyer, and a boarding assault to capture the other.
• Gabriel prepared more than four hundred Thousand Wounds Sons, Helljumpers, elite veterans, and Investigation Department operatives for the assault.
• Scarif's control room guided Director Krennic's shuttle through the gateway and watched it proceed to the planet.
• A security alarm sounded, and the radar operator reported unidentified ships above the Space Station.
• The control room staff watched Drop Pods streak through the gateway toward Scarif as Transport Craft followed.

Imperial forces on Scarif scrambled to respond as an unknown fleet destroyed one Star Destroyer and attacked another. The Thousand Wounds Sons breached the second ship’s hull with a Thunderhawk Assault Craft, beginning a boarding operation as Stormtroopers rushed toward the breach.

• The Space Station supervisor ordered an alarm and sent pilots and gunners to defend Scarif, but the incoming craft had already passed beyond their firing range.
• Two Paris-class Frigates and a Diana Stealth-class ship destroyed a Star Destroyer with electromagnetic projectiles and missiles.
• A Thunderhawk Assault Craft, a Pied Falconet Type VI, and six unmanned attack craft advanced on a second Star Destroyer while the fleet’s guns shattered the TIE Fighter interception force.
• The unmanned craft weakened the Star Destroyer’s starboard shield with plasma bombs, and the Thunderhawk fired its Meltagun to open a breach.
• A Thousand Wounds Sons pilot drove the Thunderhawk through the breach, while the Pied Falconet and drones turned to fight nearby Imperial forces.
• Alarms sounded inside the Star Destroyer as Stormtroopers hurried toward the breach without knowing what awaited them.

Thousand Wounds Sons 1st Company's 2nd Assault Platoon overwhelmed the Star Destroyer's Stormtroopers and continued its boarding operation to seize the ship. Meanwhile, fighting intensified in orbit over Scarif and at the Imperial base on the surface.

• More than two hundred Stormtroopers advanced into the maintenance bay, where they found a wrecked AT-AT and green-eyed Giants emerging through toxic fog.
• The Giants opened fire with Bolt Guns, killing or wounding nearly the entire first wave of Stormtroopers before the survivors surrendered.
• A Thousand Wounds Sons member stunned the surrendering Stormtroopers with a lightning attack from his Power Sword.
• The eighteen Thousand Wounds Sons split into three squads and advanced through the Star Destroyer, shooting anyone who tried to stop them as they worked to seize control of the ship.
• The orbital battle over Scarif reached its fiercest stage, while Thousand Wounds Sons 1st Company's surface force attacked the Imperial base.

The Main Universe Empire overwhelmed the Galactic Empire’s forces in orbit and launched assaults on Scarif’s shield-control station and Security Complex. Gabriel Angelos and his Company Guards broke into the main building as Orson Krennic desperately called for reinforcements.

• The Paris-class and Stealth-class ships, aided by their fighter squadrons and boarding Thousand Wounds Sons, seized control of orbit and disabled or captured surviving TIE Bombers and pilots.
• An assault team aboard a Pelican slipped through the Space Station’s defenses and entered its hangar while electronic jamming delayed Imperial warnings.
• Clone Soldiers overwhelmed the Stormtroopers in the hangar as the Elite veterans and Helljumpers advanced toward the station’s control room.
• On Scarif, Imperial defenses around the Security Complex fell under fire from the Thousand Wounds Sons, their armored vehicles, and supporting forces.
• Gabriel Angelos charged into the Security Complex’s main building with twenty Company Guards, leaving Orson Krennic stunned and shouting for reinforcements.

Orson Krennic abandoned Scarif’s command center as the Imperial defenses collapsed, while the Thousand Wounds Sons seized control and began extracting Imperial files. Krennic tried to escape by shuttle, but an unknown attacker destroyed it and shielded itself from the Death Troopers’ blaster fire.

• Krennic failed to restore communications, condemned the command staff, and left the control room with his Death Guard.
• Senior commanders followed Krennic’s example and fled, while the lower-ranking officials remained at their posts until the Thousand Wounds Sons arrived and accepted their surrender.
• A Thousand Wounds Son used a copy of the 1st Company’s Wise AI to hack Scarif’s systems, silence the alarms, and extract files.
• Krennic hurried toward a Randam-class Shuttle with his Death Troopers, intending to reach the Death Trooper Training Camp and escape Scarif.
• An unknown attacker smashed the shuttle apart, and the Death Troopers’ blaster bolts failed against its Psychic Power shield.

Gabriel Angelos overwhelmed Orson Krennic and the Death Troopers at Scarif, taking them prisoner while assessing the battle’s progress. With the Imperial defenses collapsing, Gabriel prepared for the Galactic Empire’s counterattack and requested reinforcements and aid from the Primarch.

• Gabriel emerged from the burning shuttle wreckage and deflected the Death Troopers’ blaster fire with his Psychic Shield.
• Krennic panicked and begged Gabriel to spare him, then ordered the Death Troopers to surrender; they lowered their weapons.
• Gabriel decided to keep Krennic alive for interrogation and requested a Silver Gull to retrieve the prisoners.
• Gabriel checked the battlefield and saw that his forces had captured the shield station, seized a Star Destroyer, and nearly defeated Scarif’s garrison.
• Gabriel anticipated the Empire’s retaliation, including the Death Star and Darth Vader, and had ordered the 1st Company’s main force to Scarif and requested aid from the Primarch.

Magnus traveled with the Blood Ravens fleet toward Scarif, studying how the Force compared with Psychic Power. The fleet learned that the Galactic Empire’s Death Star and main fleet had arrived in the sector as Magnus, Lorgar, and Curze prepared to face the coming conflict.

• The Blood Ravens fleet left Jedha ahead of schedule and entered Slipspace for Scarif under Gabriel Angelos’s command.
• Magnus sensed the Force and compared its Light and Dark Sides with Psychic Power, concluding that power itself was not bound by moral labels.
• Magnus stood aboard the flagship with Lorgar and Curze, who had joined the mission as observers to gain experience leading their Legions.
• A Blood Ravens communications officer reported that the Death Star and a Galactic Empire main fleet had arrived in the Scarif sector.

Magnus ordered the Blood Ravens to avoid a direct fight and planned a cautious attempt to seize the Death Star, assigning Curze to infiltrate it and Lorgar to capture Darth Vader. As the Death Star and a much larger Imperial fleet reached Scarif, Gabriel withdrew his forces while the Rebels watched anxiously and Chirrut Imwe sensed a darkness aboard a Star Destroyer.

• Magnus agreed with Lorgar that capturing the Death Star could help the Empire’s coming Unification Wars, but warned that its defenses and the enemy’s likely counterattack made caution essential.
• Magnus assigned Curze and the Night Lords’ Honor Guard to infiltrate and raid the Death Star, while Lorgar and the Word Bearers’ Honor Guard were ordered to capture Darth Vader.
• The Death Star and an Imperial fleet of five Star Destroyers and more than twenty other warships arrived at Scarif, greatly outmatching the Blood Ravens’ fleet.
• Gabriel Angelos evacuated his surface forces and prisoners, then ordered the Blood Ravens fleet to withdraw from Scarif rather than engage the enemy directly.
• Cassian, Baze Marbius, the Ersos, and the other Rebels reacted with shock and anxiety as they watched the Blood Ravens retreat from the Death Star and Imperial fleet.
• Chirrut Imwe remained calm in the hangar and seemed to gaze toward the darkness inside a Star Destroyer.

As Darth Vader's dark power loomed over Scarif, Gabriel Angelos planned a preliminary infiltration of the Death Star despite orders not to engage the enemy. Chirrut Imwe and Baze Marbius agreed to join the mission, and Cassian Andor proposed that K-2SO assist the team.

• Chirrut Imwe sensed Darth Vader's immense presence and considered the Main Universe Empire's strength and hostility toward non-human civilizations.
• Gabriel Angelos approached Chirrut and sought his help with an infiltration led by Leon S. Kennedy.
• Gabriel planned a brief clash to draw the Galactic Empire's attention, then send the stealth-capable Silver Gull and an infiltration team into the Death Star.
• Gabriel asked Chirrut to assist the mission, and Chirrut agreed.
• Baze Marbius volunteered to join, and Gabriel accepted his participation.
• Cassian Andor, unable to join because of his injuries, suggested that K-2SO provide cover for the infiltration team.

The Blood Ravens Fleet returned to Scarif and launched a surprise assault on the Imperial Fleet, aiming to board and seize its ships. Gabriel Angelos and his squad breached the Ravager as Darth Vader halted on his way to the Death Star.

• After the shield station was destroyed, the Empire reoccupied Scarif and sealed its orbital routes under the Ravager's command.
• Darth Vader learned the Blood Ravens had escaped and ordered the Fleet to prepare for battle, especially the Death Star.
• The Blood Ravens Fleet suddenly arrived in Scarif's dayside sector and opened fire on the Ravager and other Imperial vessels.
• The Imperial Fleet scrambled TIE Fighters and fired its ship cannons as Blood Ravens aircraft and Thunderhawk Assault Craft pressed their attack.
• Gabriel Angelos and his squad reached the Ravager, whose port-side shield failed briefly, and their Thunderhawk drilled into the ship.
• Darth Vader stopped as he headed toward the hangar to take a shuttle to the Death Star.

The Blood Ravens launched a feint attack on the Ravager to draw Imperial forces away from the Silver Gull formation’s infiltration of the Death Star. After Gabriel Angelos confronted the approaching darkness, Darth Vader seized him with the Force and hurled him into a bulkhead.

• The Thunderhawk Assault Craft breached the Ravager’s hangar, causing a pressure loss before sealing the breach with expanding foam.
• Gabriel Angelos used psychic lightning to incapacitate a Stormtrooper captain and nearby soldiers, then ordered his squad to proceed according to plan.
• Five Company Guards headed for the Ravager’s engine core to sabotage its weapons and propulsion, while Apollo Diomedes stayed behind to protect the Thunderhawk and retreat route.
• Gabriel left the hangar and advanced toward the bridge as the feint drew attention away from the Silver Gull formation carrying Leon, Chirrut, and the others toward the Death Star.
• Gabriel sensed Darth Vader approaching through spreading darkness and prepared to fight him in a transfer area.
• Darth Vader used an invisible grip to choke Gabriel and hurled him into the bulkhead.

Darth Vader restrained Gabriel Angelos and questioned what kind of being he was, while his ambition to exploit the existence of a new world was revealed. Gabriel broke free with psychic lightning and attacked Vader with Godsplitter, but an invisible barrier stopped the hammer and the transfer area began to buckle.

• Darth Vader pinned Gabriel Angelos against a bulkhead with the Force, then eased his grip and asked who—or what—Gabriel was.
• Gabriel sensed Vader’s curiosity and unease as Vader considered using the unfamiliar new world to gain power beyond Emperor Palpatine’s control.
• Gabriel declared himself a warrior of the Emperor and the nemesis of darkness, then struck Vader with psychic lightning.
• Gabriel broke free of the restraints and swung Godsplitter at Vader while the lightning left Vader’s armor systems failing.
• Darth Vader blocked Godsplitter with an invisible barrier, and the force of the clash twisted and fractured the transfer area.