Chapter Summaries

Judgment left Seth behind and went alone to the Unifar Temple to confront King Sola Gerrera. She fought through the palace defenses and continued advancing toward the temple.

• Judgment told Seth to stay with Stila and take care of himself, then left him behind.
• Ramses-Dundrup warned Seth that Judgment was from a different world and had killed several million people.
• Judgment approached the Unifar Temple and killed the guards who tried to stop her.
• Judgment triggered the alarm, used the Force to crash a spacecraft into Yolarn Plaza, and deflected the soldiers’ blaster fire with her yellow Lightsaber.
• Judgment cut through the Onderon soldiers and kept advancing toward the Unifar Temple.

Stila Gerrera and the Rebel Alliance warriors witnessed the masked woman’s overwhelming assault on Sola Gerrera’s forces, while Sola fled and begged Anakin Skywalker for protection. Anakin agreed to defend Sola to keep Onderon stable, then prepared to face the woman himself.

• Stila Gerrera, Seth, and the Rebel Alliance warriors watched the masked woman devastate the forces defending Yolarn Plaza and realized she had been truthful about her power.
• Sola Gerrera saw drone footage of the attack and fled toward the underground command center while ordering every unit, including the armored forces, to reinforce him.
• Sola encountered Anakin Skywalker, Luna Illusion, and Luna Dream, then urged Anakin to kill the attacking Jedi Knight.
• Anakin reflected on how Sola had changed from a brave Rebel Alliance leader into a selfish tyrant and concluded that Sola had to remain king to prevent Onderon from falling into chaos.
• Anakin promised to protect Sola, and Luna Illusion urged him to face the masked woman while she and Luna Dream guarded the king.

Anakin Skywalker confronted Judgment at Yolarn Plaza, where their battle showed her overwhelming command of the Force but his advantage in lightsaber technique. He crushed her beneath a tank wreckage, but she remained alive and began compressing it with immense power.

• Anakin left Sola Gerrera with Luna Dream and Luna Phantom and hurried toward Yolarn Plaza to confront the masked woman.
• Luna Phantom reassured Sola Gerrera, while the sisters accepted his offer to host a banquet and mocked his intentions.
• Anakin and Judgment began fighting at full speed, forcing the Onderon soldiers to retreat from the battle.
• Anakin recognized that Judgment’s Force power nearly matched his, but her ancient, crude swordsmanship left openings he exploited.
• Anakin struck Judgment with burning tank wreckage and pinned her beneath it, but sensed she was still alive.
• Judgment used an immense force to crush the tank wreckage into a ball.

Anakin Skywalker fought Judgment, who revealed her ties to the Twilight Covenant and the Archangel of Death. After unleashing her full Dark Side power and the strange force of her scorpion ornament, she overwhelmed Anakin and left him unable to fight back.

• Judgment crushed tank wreckage and attacked Anakin with metal and Force lightning, then revealed her Dark Side power.
• Judgment identified herself as a former member of the Jedi Covenant, now called the Twilight Covenant, and said she acted under the Archangel of Death's orders.
• Anakin defended the Jedi Order's service to the Galactic Republic, while Judgment accused it of abandoning its purpose and said its day of judgment had come.
• Judgment vanished and reappeared to attack Anakin, overpowering him with Dark Side Force despite the openings in her swordsmanship.
• The scorpion-shaped ornament around Judgment's neck released a strange force that caused Anakin agonizing pain, forcing him to use his strength to resist it.

Anakin Skywalker fought Onderon soldiers who transformed into monsters while Judgment raced toward the Unifar Temple. Inside, Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion trapped Stila Gerrera and her Rebel Alliance warriors in a horrifying illusion, and Judgment arrived to find the temple replaced by a castle filled with blaster fire.

• Anakin Skywalker fought transformed Onderon soldiers that continued attacking even after he cut one in half.
• Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion waited in the banquet hall while Sola Gerrera spoke to empty air and Luna-Illusion drank wine.
• Stila Gerrera led more than a hundred Rebel Alliance warriors into the banquet hall, where they discovered the guests were dead and the room was transformed into a blood-soaked scene.
• Stila ordered her warriors to capture the sisters, but the corpses rose, the entrance vanished, and the girls' laughter echoed through the hall.
• Judgment reached the Unifar Temple and found a sinister castle in its place, with blaster fire coming from inside.

Judgment broke Luna-Illusion’s castle illusion and entered the Unifar Temple, where Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion used a Force domain to expose her deepest fear. The sisters trapped Judgment in a dream of Jubal planet, where Rakghouls wearing Mandalorian Crusader armor attacked her.

• Judgment climbed the stairs, shattered the castle illusion, and led thousands of Rakghouls toward the Unifar Temple.
• Luna-Illusion staggered as Judgment’s Force disrupted her illusion, while Luna-Dream dismissed the false image as no obstacle.
• The Rakghouls became trapped in the temple’s illusions, but Judgment entered alone and sensed an extreme, indifferent Light Side Force surrounding her.
• Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion peered into Judgment’s heart and identified her fear of Jubal planet and the Mandalorian Crusaders.
• Judgment found herself on a frozen military base as decayed Rakghouls in Crusader armor emerged from the ice and lunged at her.

Judgment fought through Luna-Illusion’s dream and deduced how the sisters’ powers worked, but Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion trapped her in another illusion. The chapter ended with Judgment facing Rakghouls in the underground city of Taris while the Rebel Alliance squad remained trapped somewhere within it.

• Judgment destroyed Luna-Illusion’s giant Rakghoul monster and attacked the Dream Sisters, then realized Luna-Dream had influenced her judgment.
• Judgment shattered the illusion of Jubal and explained that Luna-Dream could magnify fears through dreams but could not read minds.
• Luna-Dream introduced herself and Luna-Illusion as former students of Master Depa Barris, while Judgment asked where Stila Gerrera and the others were.
• Luna-Illusion and Luna-Dream revealed that Stila Gerrera’s Rebel Alliance squad was trapped in their illusion and challenged Judgment to free them without harming them.
• Luna-Illusion transported Judgment into an illusion of Taris’s underground city, where Rakghouls emerged as Luna-Dream called it Judgment’s deepest fear.

Judgment fought through Luna-Illusion and Luna-Dream’s nightmare of Taris, then accidentally struck Seth with Force lightning when Luna-Illusion used him as a decoy. Enraged, Judgment unleashed the Dark Side and summoned the deepest nightmare in her heart: the ancient Sith Lord Karness Muur.

• Judgment evaded the Rakghouls in the Taris underground-city illusion and revealed that many were Rebel Alliance warriors transformed by the nightmare.
• Luna-Illusion intensified the attack with more Rakghouls and a dark copy of Celeste Morne, but Judgment defeated the copy and shattered the illusion.
• Judgment struck at Luna-Dream with Force lightning, only to discover she had hit Seth, who lay charred and motionless.
• Luna-Dream tried to flee with Luna-Illusion as Judgment’s Dark Side power surged and engulfed the illusion in darkness.
• Judgment summoned the nightmare of Karness Muur, who began emerging from the darkness.

Judgment and Anakin Skywalker ended Karness Muur’s illusion in the Unifar Temple, then clashed over Onderon’s future. Ramses Dundup reclaimed the throne and rejoined the Galactic Republic while stripping Republic troops of their privileges, leaving Onderon’s conflict unresolved.

• Karness Muur crushed the Dream Sisters’ illusions and nearly killed them, but Anakin Skywalker intervened, and Judgment dispelled the vision.
• Anakin and Judgment argued over whether Onderon should join the Republic, while Stila Gerrera questioned whether the planet had ever had a choice.
• Anakin backed out of the throne room and departed by starship, leaving Judgment, the Dream Sisters, and Stila behind.
• Ramses Dundup returned to the Unifar Temple, reclaimed the throne, and declared the previous governments illegitimate.
• Dundup rejoined the Galactic Republic but ordered the Royal Guard to arrest Republic soldiers who broke the law, sparking repeated firefights.
• Sheev Palpatine endorsed Dundup’s restoration, while Stila Gerrera and her comrades departed and Onderon continued resisting Wilhuff Tarkin’s forces.

Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion returned gravely injured as the Republic offensive on Dexen Satellite broke through Steel City's shield and entered street fighting. A fatal clash between Republic soldiers and Onderon natives escalated into an armed standoff, and Anakin Skywalker agreed with Tarkin's order to use force before leading a strike team into the city.

• Anakin Skywalker protected Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion as they were sent for emergency treatment and transported to Coruscant.
• General Kalani withdrew the Separatist forces deeper into Steel City after the city-scale shield overheated and collapsed.
• Republic aircraft and artillery battered Steel City's defenses, opening the way for the army to enter and begin street fighting.
• An officer reported that a clash over a requisitioned home had killed three Onderon natives and one Republic soldier, leaving the Royal Guard and Republic troops in an armed standoff.
• Wilhuff Tarkin ordered an enforcement squad to seize the soldiers by force, and Anakin accepted his reasoning.
• Anakin told Ahsoka Tano he would lead a strike team into the city to destroy the Separatists' J-1 Proton Cannon.

Stila Gerrera left Onderon to pursue a third path beyond the Republic and the Separatists, while General Kalani launched the Fourth Legion’s attack on Izzy City’s spaceport. The Republic’s supply hub descended into chaos as the Legion struck under cover of explosions.

• Stila Gerrera scattered Sola Gerrera’s ashes and declined to return to King Dundrup, choosing to seek a more equal and peaceful future.
• Judgment rejected Stila’s invitation to join her but respected her choice, then left by racing across the sea toward an offshore factory.
• General Kalani ordered the Fourth Legion to act after Liu Zhichao reported that Republic troop deployments had reached their peak.
• A stolen spacecraft drew Republic fighters away from Onderon’s largest spaceport as a cargo ship carrying blaster gas crashed into the hangar platform and exploded.
• The Fourth Legion emerged from disguises, formed combat teams, and attacked Republic troops, supplies, and spacecraft throughout the spaceport.

The Fourth Legion sabotaged Onderon's spaceports while General Kalani launched a devastating counterattack against the Republic forces on Dexen Satellite, inflicting heavy losses before the Republic restored its supply routes. As Governor Wilhuff Tarkin ordered reinforcements and transport ships to Dexen Satellite, Doctor Zhang Jiarui prepared to deploy a modified Thor Mech as the Fourth Civilization's final card.

• Fourth Legion warriors attacked more than a dozen Onderon spaceports, destroying supplies and transport ships and briefly cutting off deliveries to Dexen Satellite.
• General Kalani ordered the Fourth Civilization Army to counterattack the Republic's assembly points and landing sites, and the Scorpion tanks destroyed two landing sites.
• The Republic forces suffered more than 400,000 casualties in two hours before their commanders rallied troops and airstrikes halted the advance; the Fourth Civilization Army withdrew into Steel City's buildings and factories.
• Republic forces retook the spaceports, and Wilhuff Tarkin ordered transport ships and three Acclamator-class assault ships to reinforce Dexen Satellite.
• Doctor Zhang Jiarui approached a heavily modified Thor Mech as General Kalani warned him to escape amid the chaos after using it; Zhang promised to strike the Republic hard.

Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano searched Steel City for the Separatists’ Proton Cannon and unexpectedly reunited with Captain Rex, who had located it. Meanwhile, General Kalani arranged for Doctor Zhang Jiarui to escape Dexen Satellite after completing his counterattack, while Judgment returned to Onderon to prepare a ship.

• Anakin Skywalker recognized that General Kalani had patiently lured the Republic forces into a counterattack and led Torrent Company 2 away from the main fighting.
• Anakin followed a suspicious retreat route through an unfinished Behemoth-class battlecruiser and discovered that its interior had been stripped out.
• Captain Rex contacted Anakin and reported that Torrent Company had found the Separatists’ J-1 Proton Cannon moving into an underground bunker.
• General Kalani told Judgment that Doctor Zhang Jiarui would finish the counterattack before escaping in a pod, despite Judgment’s concerns about the risk.
• Judgment agreed to return to Onderon for a ship and evaded pursuing Republic fighters with the Force.

Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano destroyed Dexen Satellite’s two J-1 proton cannons, allowing the Republic to send Acclamator-class ships and transport fleets into the battle. As the Republic committed its forces to the supply operation, Zhang Jiarui activated the Thor Mech to deliver the strike that the Separatists had been preparing.

• Anakin Skywalker reunited with Rex, Echo, and the other clone troopers after their raid destroyed both J-1 proton cannons.
• Wilhuff Tarkin ordered Acclamator-class assault ships into Dexen Satellite’s atmosphere to support the Republic’s position and protect its transport fleet.
• Zhang Jiarui piloted the Thor Mech out of its underground hangar as General Kalani warned him to complete the operation quickly.
• The Republic reorganized after suffering heavy casualties, while Onderon’s reopened spaceports sent supplies and transport ships toward Dexen Satellite.
• General Kalani told Zhang Jiarui that the Fourth Legion’s sabotage and the Dawn Star Planet Army’s counterattack had created an opening for his strike.
• As a large Republic warship entered the atmosphere, Zhang Jiarui charged the Thor Mech’s spherical device and fired a powerful beam into the sky.

Doctor Zhang Jiarui used the Thor Mech’s Extractor cannon to destroy a Republic Acclamator-class assault ship and attack the crowded transports descending toward Dexen Satellite. The Republic’s bombardment met fierce resistance as the Thor Mech continued firing.

• The Extractor cannon blasted through an Acclamator-class assault ship, which crashed in Steel City’s outer industrial district.
• Anakin Skywalker and Rex watched the crash as Republic forces began bombarding the Thor Mech’s position.
• Zhang Jiarui activated the Thor Mech’s anti-air defenses and adjusted the Extractor cannon to fire more rapidly.
• The Thor Mech targeted the more than five hundred transports descending through Dexen Satellite’s atmosphere, piercing them with its beams.
• The chapter explained how Sefrans Tann captured the Extractor prototypes and research, which the Fourth Civilization later developed into weapons including Zhang Jiarui’s mech-mounted cannon.

Doctor Zhang Jiarui’s Thor Mech devastated Galactic Republic transports over Dexen Satellite, while Wilhuff Tarkin ordered a ground assault to destroy it. With the Decimator cannon burned out and Republic armor breaching the defenses, Zhang turned to fight the incoming tanks.

• Thor Mech’s Decimator cannons shot down transports carrying Republic reinforcements and wounded soldiers as the Fourth Civilization Army launched its counterattack from within the city.
• Zhang Jiarui continued firing, driven by fear that the Republic’s abuses on Onderon could one day reach his family on Dawn Star Planet.
• Wilhuff Tarkin ordered every nearby army unit to attack Thor Mech and learned that an AT-TE walker, seven TX-130 Saber hover tanks, and scattered infantry were closing in.
• After General Kalani told him to withdraw, Zhang fired until the Decimator cannon overheated and caught fire.
• An AT-TE walker and TX-130 Saber hover tanks breached the defenses, and Zhang aimed Thor Mech’s arm-mounted particle beam cannons at them.

Zhang Jiarui and General Kalani tried to escape the Republic assault on Dexen Satellite, but Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano pursued them through the base. After Kalani gave Zhang Jiarui his central processing chip, the group reached the hidden Mass Driver and found the Jedi waiting there.

• Zhang Jiarui escaped the Thor Mech before its self-destruction and hurried toward the evacuation route with two IG-100 MagnaGuards.
• Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano broke through the ceiling, and Anakin recognized Zhang Jiarui as the pilot responsible for earlier massacres and attacked him.
• IG-100 MagnaGuards and battle droids held off the Jedi while Zhang Jiarui reached General Kalani and warned him they were coming.
• After losing contact with the MagnaGuards, General Kalani gave Zhang Jiarui his central processing chip and froze after removing it from his head.
• Zhang Jiarui and the others reached the hidden Mass Driver, where Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano were already waiting.

Anakin Skywalker captured Zhang Jiarui but struggled to keep his anger from driving him to kill a surrendered prisoner. Tarkin ordered Zhang brought back for treatment because the Republic wanted his technological knowledge, leaving Ahsoka Tano questioning whether he would ever face justice.

• Zhang Jiarui and his commanders surrendered, but Anakin nearly killed Zhang before Ahsoka stopped him.
• Anakin punched Zhang and promised he would spend his life in prison, while Zhang taunted him that the Republic would protect him to obtain his knowledge.
• Anakin ordered the Clone Troopers to cuff the prisoners, and Ahsoka lashed out by cutting off Zhang's right arm and stabbing a staff officer before Anakin restrained her.
• Rex, Echo, and the other Clone Troopers subdued Liu Zhichao and the remaining officers.
• Tarkin ordered Anakin to bring Zhang back for treatment, explaining that the Republic needed his knowledge to answer for its soldiers killed by Dawn Star Planet's technological advantage.

Wilhuff Tarkin watched the ruined Tarkin's Will crash into Onderon and prepared to impose Republic sanctions after the campaign. Judgment learned that the person she hoped to save had not escaped, then left Onderon disguised as a Republic Army Medic after promising to help Stila Gerrera personally.

• Tarkin watched Tarkin's Will fall into Onderon's jungle after an explosion, while its trapped engineering teams crashed with it.
• Tarkin considered the campaign a victory, planned to rebuild the exhausted Fourth Army, and prepared harsh sanctions against Onderon in retaliation against King Ramses Dundup.
• Anakin Skywalker accepted that Tarkin's ruthless decisions had been necessary, despite the Republic and Onderon suffering devastating losses.
• King Ramses Dundup told Judgment the Mass Driver had not been activated and ordered her to leave Onderon without interfering in its affairs.
• Judgment promised to help Stila Gerrera in her personal capacity, then boarded a Republic shuttle and left Onderon disguised as a Republic Army Medic.

Jango Fett arrived at the Glory mothership and met Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, who explained Project Spartan and offered him enhanced strength to help defend Mandalore. Halsey argued that the Republic chose Jango as its clone template not simply for his prowess, but for the unusual genetic heritage of Mandalorians.

• Jango Fett entered the Endor system, received authorization to approach the Glory mothership, and said Governor Tang Xiao had invited him.
• Jango saw the mothership’s vast shipyards and industrial facilities before landing at a research spaceport.
• Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey introduced Project Spartan as a super-soldier program developed by Halo Weapons Group, Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group, Titan Security, and the Dawn Star Planet Military.
• Jango refused to remove his armor for an examination, and Halsey offered him enhanced strength and wings to help him protect Mandalore.
• Halsey challenged Jango’s claim that he had been chosen as the Republic’s clone template because he was the galaxy’s strongest warrior and pointed to Mandalorians’ mixed ancestry and recessive genes from at least five races.