Recaps

Darth Malthael entered the Dark Reaper chamber and nearly reversed the device to draw in life force, but Master Yoda ambushed him. Their battle revealed Yoda’s knowledge of the Dark Side and ended with Darth Malthael demanding to know where Luke Skywalker was as he gathered Crimson Lightning.

• Darth Malthael resisted the cave’s Dark Side influence and reached the Dark Reaper’s control console, intending to reverse its operating mode.
• Master Yoda attacked Darth Malthael with his green Lightsaber, forcing him away from the console.
• Darth Malthael and Yoda fought through the cavern as Malthael’s wounds healed with evolved Death Force.
• Yoda switched from Ataru to Form VII Juyo, severed Darth Malthael’s hand, and continued pressing his attack.
• Darth Malthael regenerated his hand and demanded that Yoda reveal Luke Skywalker’s location while gathering Crimson Lightning.

Darth Malthael killed Master Yoda, who died without revealing what he had seen on Mortis. Malthael then used the Dark Reaper to absorb more Dark Side Force, while Yoda’s spirit and Qui-Gon Jinn watched and discussed the possible destruction of the galaxy.

• Darth Malthael attacked Master Yoda with Crimson Lightning, but Yoda redirected it and told him he had seen his future on Mortis.
• Darth Malthael mortally wounded Yoda and demanded answers about Luke Skywalker and his conversation with Father.
• Master Yoda died and turned to ashes, while a faint azure glow rose from his remains.
• Darth Malthael raged at Father, then activated the Dark Reaper’s Absorption Mode and drew vast Dark Side Force into himself.
• Qui-Gon Jinn and Master Yoda watched as spirits, and Yoda told Qui-Gon that Malthael’s destruction of the galaxy was only one possible future.

Imperial Marshal Oswald Tessik rallied the First System Army as the Kingdom of Dawn’s Archangel Titan warship moved from the Northern Territory to the Eastern Territory. The Empire prepared for a renewed Northern offensive while its commanders debated the Archangel’s purpose, and Governor Seben pleaded unsuccessfully for help defending Lantilis Planet.

• Oswald Tessik awoke from his Bacta tank, learned that the Archangel had departed Bilbrin, and summoned the First System Army’s highest-level military conference.
• Dunn Vesex and Gillard Perine feared the Archangel’s movements signaled an attack, but learned it had returned to Makito and taken half the main fleet through a Stargate.
• Oswald ordered Dunn to probe Ord Mantell while the First System Army threatened Bilbrin, but Dunn refused and Oswald assembled forces near Palanci instead.
• The Archangel appeared at Lothal with a large fleet, prompting Governor Seben to plead with the Emperor for reinforcements to save the Twelfth Army.
• Imperial commanders debated the Archangel’s Eastern Territory objectives, with Miltin Taker arguing that it intended to break through the Fourth Army’s blockade and threaten Denon Planet.

General Grievous took command of the Eastern Territory fleet while the Empire prepared the Scavenger Plan to seize Bilbrin and nearby worlds. After a second Archangel-class Titan Warship appeared at Dawn Star, Oswald-Tessik launched the assault anyway, walking into the defense General Trench and Luo Huacheng expected to become a meat grinder.

• General Grievous assumed command of the Archangel and sent the Eastern Territory fleet to guard Boonta's stargate while the newly reinforced fleet rested before advancing toward Roche.
• Marshal Oswald-Tessik killed two officers who questioned his order to prepare the Scavenger Plan within five days.
• Imperial intelligence discovered a second Archangel-class Titan Warship nearing completion at Dawn Star, prompting Oswald-Tessik to order an immediate attack on Bilbrin.
• Oswald-Tessik committed the First System Army's first wave, led by the Reaper and its largest warships, to assault Bilbrin's asteroid defenses.
• General Trench and Lieutenant General Luo Huacheng prepared to defend Bilbrin, confident the Empire's advance into the Northern Territory would become a meat grinder.

Dunn Vesex struggled to carry out the Empire’s Scavenger Plan while Geth T-34-1 warships crippled his forces across the Northern Territory. Wilhuff Tarkin also faced a worsening dilemma: he could spare only limited forces to defend Umbara while protecting the Death Star project.

• Dunn Vesex and Admiral Gillard Perine reviewed urgent Imperial orders demanding an assault despite their warnings about the Northern Territory’s weakened mobile forces.
• Dunn Vesex feared the Geth’s hundreds of cheap, fast T-34-1 battlecruisers, which had overwhelmed Imperial patrol fleets and forced him to commit most of his mobile forces to defense.
• Wilhuff Tarkin concluded that the Kingdom of Dawn could break through Umbara and threaten the Inner Rim, making the planet’s defense essential to the Empire.
• Wilhuff Tarkin recognized that Umbara’s darkness, radiation, and questionable local loyalty made it difficult to defend, but losing it would trigger a political and military crisis.
• Wilhuff Tarkin could spare at most five hundred capital ships for Umbara because the Fourth Army was committed to protecting the Death Star’s Scarif supply route, and Seben had already taken another 150 ships.

Wilhuff Tarkin watched the Kingdom of Dawn build a stargate on Boonta while his forces remained tied down by Kashyyyk and threats to their supply lines. Meanwhile, Oswald Tessik’s forces launched a brutal assault on Bilbrin Planet, and Dunn Vesex attacked near Ord Mantell as the fighting intensified.

• Wilhuff Tarkin held back from attacking Boonta because his forces were insufficient and Kashyyyk’s defenses and Rebel Alliance raids threatened his fleet’s rear.
• General Grievous advanced toward Rohe Planet while Mojo’s nine Purifier aircraft carriers disappeared to harass supply lines behind Lantilis Planet.
• Oswald Tessik led the Reaper and five Bellator-class Dreadnoughts in a bombardment of Bilbrin Planet’s armed asteroid defenses.
• Luo Huacheng and General Trench positioned the Kingdom of Dawn fleet behind the asteroids and concentrated fire on Imperial formations while avoiding the Reaper’s firepower.
• Dunn Vesex attacked near Ord Mantell with a smaller force, but both sides held their positions as the fighting continued.
• By the third day, Oswald Tessik’s First System Army had fully entered the Bilbrin Planet theater, and the battle grew more brutal.

On Makito’s hidden moon, Vasari General Kelslak prepared a million genetically engineered soldiers for war alongside Ander Viking of the Kingdom of Dawn. The army boarded thirty giant warships and departed, leaving the Vasari forces ready to join Tang Xiao’s cause.

• Vasari forces gathered more than a million cloned soldiers on Satellite 1, where ten thousand human slaves were sacrificed to consecrate a vast altar.
• Kelslak led Ander Viking through the army and proclaimed victory for the Vasari, the Kingdom of Dawn, and Tang Xiao.
• The Vasari clone troopers boarded transport ships, leaving bloody tracks across the plaza.
• Kelslak and Ander boarded the final lavish transport ship and left Satellite 1’s atmosphere.
• Thirty Vasari warships, including twenty Keltu Destroyers and ten Waknos Destroyers, took in the transports carrying the army.

Ander Viking led a Vasari fleet through a hidden route to launch a surprise attack on Scipio while the Galactic Empire’s main forces were distracted at Bilbrin. Rear Admiral Kallic realized an invasion was underway, but Scipio’s Interdictors would not be disabled across the route for another nine hours.

• Ander Viking explained how the Kingdom of Dawn had drawn the First System Army’s attention toward Palanci and Bilbrin, leaving Scipio vulnerable.
• The Vasari fleet entered the secret Makito–Scipio route, using Stargates to accelerate its hyperspace journey to one day.
• Rear Admiral Kallic dismissed reports of abnormal hyperspace fluctuations and ordered engineers to deploy more Interdictors the next day.
• Kallic learned that Interdictors were going offline as an approaching force smashed through them toward Scipio.
• Kallic ordered every warship on Scipio to battle stations and learned that the outages were estimated to reach the planet in nine hours and twelve minutes.

Rear Admiral Kallic awaited reinforcements at Scipio, but the Kingdom of Dawn fleet arrived before Imperial Marshal Ruffan Digorinus could reach the system. Kallic's Guardian engaged the unfamiliar Keltu Destroyers, whose shields and Phase missiles devastated the Imperial flagship's defenses.

• Marshal Oswald Tessik told Kallic to hold Scipio until the Battle of Bilbrin ended, while Supreme Strategic Command organized reinforcements and Ruffan Digorinus headed for the system.
• Nine hours later, the Kingdom of Dawn fleet broke through the Interdictor blockade and appeared near Scipio before Ruffan Digorinus arrived.
• Kallic saw thirty enormous, unfamiliar warships and one hundred transports, then ordered the Guardian to advance and open fire.
• The Keltu Destroyers absorbed the Guardian's Turbolaser barrage with their shields and retaliated with laser beams, Wave cannons, and Phase missiles.
• The Phase missiles passed through the Guardian's shields and destroyed armor and main turret batteries, while the Keltu Destroyers' laser strikes triggered alarms in the ship's Energy Department.

Rear Admiral Kallic’s fleet was crippled by the Keltu Destroyers’ energy-disrupting beams while the Waknos Destroyers deployed Star Destroyer beam platforms over Scipio. The chapter ended with one hundred beams striking the planet’s shield in a synchronized bombardment.

• The Engine Department reported that strange quantum resonance was disrupting the Guardian’s reactor and reducing its energy supply efficiency by 20%.
• Kallic ordered the Guardian to retreat, but the reduced power left it unable to spare energy for its engines, and its heavy Turbolasers fired at half their normal rate.
• The Keltu Destroyers weakened the Imperial ships and engaged them one-on-one, leaving fifteen Imperial-class Star Destroyers in danger of destruction.
• Ten Waknos Destroyers approached Scipio and deployed one hundred beam platforms above the planet’s major cities.
• Kallic ordered the fleet to destroy the platforms and activate Scipio’s Planetary Shield, but the platforms charged and fired one hundred beams at the shield, then began charging a second barrage.

Rear Admiral Kallic's fleet could not withstand the Kingdom of Dawn's Keltu and Waknos Destroyers, forcing him to order a retreat from Scipio. Marshal Oswald Tessik received Kallic's report and began weighing whether to abandon the offensive at Bilbrin Planet to reinforce Scipio.

• Keltu Destroyers weakened the Guardian Super Star Destroyer while Star Destroyer Beam Platforms bombarded Scipio's planetary shield, leaving Kallic with no effective way to defend the planet.
• Kallic ordered his fleet to retreat toward the edge of the star system and wait for Marshal Ruffan Digorinus's reinforcements, but the Keltu and Waknos Destroyers pursued them.
• Phase missiles struck the Guardian's deck and targeted its main battery arrays as Kallic's Imperial-class Star Destroyers came under devastating fire.
• Kallic sacrificed six hundred small and medium warships to cover the retreat and ordered the Guardian to prepare for hyperspace, then reported the situation to Marshal Oswald Tessik.
• Ruffan led forty Imperial-class Star Destroyers through hyperspace, unaware that Kallic was retreating and still expecting to take command of the Guardian.
• Oswald received Kallic's report and considered whether to abandon the nearly fallen Bilbrin Planet to reinforce Scipio.

Marshal Oswald Tessik ordered a staged retreat from Bilbrin as unfamiliar Kingdom of Dawn warships overwhelmed Imperial forces at Scipio. A day later, he regrouped at Pantolomin and learned that Scipio had fallen to a Vasari invasion, leaving him convinced the Galactic Empire was nearing defeat.

• Oswald Tessik ordered part of his fleet to withdraw from Bilbrin while the remaining ships continued bombarding the planet.
• Rear Admiral Kallic fled Scipio in the Guardian, leaving Imperial ships exposed to the Keltu Destroyers.
• Ruffan Digorinus arrived with reinforcements, found Kallic gone, and was captured by the Kingdom of Dawn fleet.
• Oswald Tessik regrouped at Pantolomin with six hundred Star Destroyers and ten thousand frigates and destroyers, then learned Kallic had been arrested and Scipio was under attack.
• One million Vasari seized Scipio’s major cities, cut communications, disabled the Planetary Shield, and began attacking the vaults.

The Vasari army overran Scipio, breached the InterGalactic Banking Clan vaults, and devastated the Empire’s financial heart before Imperial forces could retake the planet. The Empire responded by sealing Coruscant and launching mass arrests and blockades to contain the crisis.

• The Vasari routed Scipio’s defenders, captured its major cities, and used a phase torpedo to blast open the vault entrance.
• Marshal Oswald-Tessik arrived to find the Imperial fleet destroyed and ordered his forces to land and retake Scipio.
• Vasari troops ambushed Imperial soldiers inside the vaults while destroying financial records, data, and stored resources.
• The Vasari fleet departed, but its ground army continued fighting across Scipio, leaving the vault mountain range under enemy control.
• The Empire raised Coruscant’s two-way Planetary Shield and sealed the planet as it blockaded worlds tied to the InterGalactic Banking Clan.
• The Empire arrested every InterGalactic Banking Clan employee, shut down the HoloNet, and deployed Gray Uniforms to occupy Coruscant’s media companies.

After the Scipio vault’s destruction paralyzed the InterGalactic Banking Clan, the Galactic Empire’s financial system collapsed, leaving businesses, workers, and soldiers unpaid. On Scipio, Marshal Oswald Tessik’s forces kept assaulting the Vasari-held vault at enormous cost while destroying valuable evidence and struggling to hold their demoralized troops together.

• The Empire concealed the Scipio disaster, suspended financial settlements, and announced that account balances would be reassessed under the Emergency Fiscal Integration Act.
• Kuat Drive Yards, Sith Fleet Systems, Corellia Engineering Company, and other bond issuers refused to honor war bonds, while businesses rushed to withdraw deposits from banks.
• The collapse of banking and currency left the Empire unable to pay workers or soldiers, halted military-industrial production, and drove the Finance Department to mint counterfeit credit ingots.
• Marshal Oswald Tessik sent 1-H super-heavy hover tanks into the vault, where they blasted Vasari targets and destroyed surviving financial data as Imperial soldiers advanced behind them.
• The Imperial Army suffered massive casualties, used K-X security droids to block deserters, and issued IOUs and Scipio's Star Medals of Honor instead of proper pay and benefits.
• Imperial researchers dissected captured Vasari soldiers but found no weaknesses, while the Kaminoan specialists could not develop a gene-targeting weapon without the original clone template.

The Vasari turned the Vault Mountains into a deadly maze while the Imperial assault continued, and Oswald Tessik realized the Empire could not survive the war. As the Empire’s financial system collapsed and its territory began to fragment, the Kingdom of Dawn launched a currency operation to replace Imperial credit with Currency Number Four.

• Imperial forces captured the Vault Mountains’ main passages with 1-H super-heavy tanks, but Vasari fighters used the dark corridors to kill soldiers and Banking Clan employees sent to search for fragments.
• Oswald Tessik watched the battle and concluded that the Kingdom of Dawn had forged the Vasari into a terrifying war machine while the Galactic Empire had reached its end.
• The Imperial Seventh Legion declared independence and accepted Currency Number Four, while the Sixteenth Legion and Seventeenth Army secretly used it to pay troops amid mutinies and financial collapse.
• The Galactic Empire froze its bonds under the Emergency Fiscal Integration Act, sparking widespread anger, riots, and a shift toward state-controlled lending through the Imperial Credit Bureau.
• Ras Clovis mocked the Imperial Credit Bureau from prison, comparing the Empire’s money to scrap metal backed by threats.
• Hari Seldon, advised by San Hill and Semid Tang, directed secret trading points to buy Imperial currency and bonds with Currency Number Four in an effort to replace Imperial credit.

After the Battle of Scipio, Core World aristocrats and corporate leaders debated whether to keep supporting the financially collapsing Galactic Empire or back the Kingdom of Dawn. They rejected both centralized regimes and rallied around restoring the Republic, leaving Queen Borha Organa denouncing their hypocritical claims of freedom.

• Core World nobles discussed how the Kingdom of Dawn had breached Scipio’s defenses and seized its vaults, while the Empire concealed what had happened aboard the Guardian.
• The aristocrats condemned the Empire’s financial measures and argued over whether to resist it, negotiate with Tang Xiao, or join the Kingdom of Dawn.
• The gathering rejected the Kingdom of Dawn as foreign and feared its nationalization policies, while several speakers also doubted the Empire could defeat it.
• The nobles proposed using the Republic Restoration Alliance, also known as the Rebel Alliance, as their political alternative and offered it money, shipping lanes, shipyards, and media support.
• Queen Borha Organa denounced the aristocrats’ version of freedom as a cover for enslavement and discrimination, but the others laughed and toasted the Republic.

Orman-Tagge tried to persuade Imperial nobles to preserve their forces and rely on the Death Star, while the Tagge family’s decline and his lost influence became increasingly clear. Sanya-Tagge and an unknown young girl haunted and undermined him, and he headed to a family meeting determined to save his rule by issuing Tagge currency before the elevator stopped.

• At a conference with Core Worlds nobles, Orman-Tagge argued that the Empire should preserve its fleet and contain the Kingdom of Dawn, insisting the Death Star would soon change the battlefield.
• Orman-Tagge went to the top of headquarters, where his supposedly dead mother, Sanya-Tagge, appeared to taunt him and declare that she meant to reclaim what was hers and strike at the Emperor.
• Orman-Tagge mistook a security guard for Sanya-Tagge and punched the guard, then learned that a Tagge family meeting had been called without his knowledge.
• Orman-Tagge rushed to the family conference center and planned to use the Death Star project and a new Tagge currency to restore his authority.
• As Orman-Tagge rode the elevator toward the meeting platform, it stopped halfway.

Sanya Tagge took control of the Tagge family conference and exposed how Orman Tagge and the other leaders had been deceived into approving the Kingdom of Dawn’s currency. Orman survived his fall but was captured for treatment and interrogation, while Sanya declared that she had traded the family’s allegiance for her own survival.

• Orman Tagge found the elevator stuck as Sanya Tagge began presiding over the meeting and announced that the family must change course.
• Sanya sealed the conference center, declared the attendees guilty of murdering the patriarch and stealing family assets, and revealed that their successors had already taken over their roles.
• Sanya and the Luna sisters explained that Master Dream’s Force had made the Tagge family’s recent meetings, documents, and resistance part of an illusion.
• Orman climbed to the platform, attacked Sanya, and fell a hundred meters after she immobilized him with the Force.
• Sanya revealed that Orman’s supposed Tagge Coin documents had actually authorized Currency Number Four of the Kingdom of Dawn, bearing Tang Xiao’s portrait.
• Sanya told Orman she had offered the family to the Kingdom of Dawn in exchange for her life, then ordered the medical robots to keep him alive for the information in his head.

Sanya Tagge seized control of the Tagge family and company, then moved to align them with the Kingdom of Dawn and secure the family’s future through Tang Xiao. Meanwhile, the Rebel Alliance’s new currency gained ground in the Outer Rim, creating a challenge for the Kingdom of Dawn’s economic expansion.

• Sanya Tagge and Adelaide Tagge’s illusion ended after the Guardians escorted Orman Tagge’s allies from the headquarters, revealing that the executives had unknowingly surrendered their authority over several months.
• The Galactic Empire announced Orman Tagge’s severe illness and Domina Tagge’s succession as family patriarch, while Currency Number Four continued spreading through Imperial territory.
• Sanya Tagge failed to reach Tang Xiao and instead told Daphne Clement she wanted Domina Tagge to marry him; Clement warned that Adele Ulan would oppose the plan.
• Sanya Tagge began secretly integrating Tagge Company with the Kingdom of Dawn, forming militias, bringing in Dawn forces, starting Stargate construction on Tepasi, and importing 12 million tons of Currency Number Four.
• The Rebel Alliance introduced Alliance currency, which could buy goods and services as well as Rebel support, and it became popular across the Outer Rim.
• Kingdom of Dawn officials struggled with whether to ban Alliance currency, since it reached markets that Currency Number Four could not replace.

Darth Sidious reappeared as the Galactic Empire teetered under factional control, economic collapse, and military fragmentation. He launched a loyalty campaign that placed Imperial New Order Maintenance Committee members across the government and armed forces, leaving the Empire under intensified ideological scrutiny.

• The Empire’s five factions pursued their own interests as its economy collapsed and its central command lost control of regional fleets.
• The Northern Territory and Delon Defense District remained the Empire’s main defensive concentrations, while sector governors built independent forces and maintained only superficial loyalty.
• On March 20, 8 BBY, Darth Sidious delivered a public speech declaring that traitors would be crushed and pledging to fight for the Empire.
• Palpatine promoted members of the Imperial New Order Maintenance Committee into senior government and military posts.
• Palpatine established the Imperial Loyalty Inspection Committee, whose inspectors could arrest or execute those judged disloyal.
• The Empire made loyalty ratings and ideological purity checks decisive for promotions and supplies.

Darth Sidious appointed Thrawn as the Galactic Empire’s thirteenth Imperial Marshal and revealed that he expected Tang Xiao to use The Nexus Route to attack Coruscant. As Thrawn left to take command of a fleet at Quat Planet, he studied the Empire’s preparations and wondered whether Tang Xiao would come.

• Darth Sidious told Thrawn that Tang Xiao would attack Coruscant through The Nexus Route, whose navigation data had been split between the Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn.
• Thrawn argued that a direct assault on Coruscant would be strategically disastrous, but Darth Sidious expected the threat to unite the Empire’s scattered fleets and nobles.
• Darth Sidious appointed Thrawn the Empire’s thirteenth Imperial Marshal and ordered him to take command of a modified Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer and its fleet at Quat Planet.
• Thrawn departed Coruscant aboard a Lambda-class shuttlecraft and observed the planet’s military preparations, including the deployment of mindless Spaarti clone troopers.
• Thrawn listened to music from the Galactic Republic and raised his glass toward Dawn Star Planet, challenging Tang Xiao to prove himself.

The Kingdom of Dawn’s leaders celebrated the Galactic Empire’s economic collapse and agreed to wait while the Empire weakened further. Tang Xiao abruptly ended their plans when he arrived and ordered an immediate attack on Coruscant.

• Adele Ulan toasted the Kingdom of Dawn’s victory after Scipio fell and the Empire lost its ability to launch strategic offensives.
• Harry Seldon and Semid Tang reported that the Empire’s economy had collapsed, while Salatan Morse revealed the Rebel Alliance had ordered an unknown warship called Star Hawk.
• Qi Jian and Adele Ulan agreed that the Kingdom of Dawn should hold its position and continue its Currency War strategy as the Empire fought the Vasari Army on Scipio.
• Tang Xiao blasted open the conference room doors, entered carrying a black metal sword hilt, and ordered his forces to attack Coruscant immediately.

Darth Malthael’s overwhelming Dark Side power began destroying his body, and he traveled to Korriban seeking an answer in the spirits and tombs of the ancient Sith. After meditating at Marka Ragnos’s ruined tomb, he received the Soul Reaper Sword and declared his intention to attack Coruscant, while Olegar refused to join him.

• Darth Malthael destroyed the Dark Reaper in Dagobah’s Dark Cave, unleashed a burst of power, and began to wither under the strain.
• Darth Malthael traveled to Korriban’s Valley of Golg, where Lucien Draay warned that his lack of training had left him vulnerable to his power’s backlash.
• Darth Malthael told Lucien Draay he had come seeking an answer about the spirits, then flew to the ruined Valley of the Sleeping Kings.
• Darth Malthael meditated for three days before Marka Ragnos’s tomb, and the Soul Reaper Sword descended from the sky.
• Darth Malthael told Olegar he would attack Planet Coruscant, but Olegar refused to join him and departed.

Darth Malthael released the Sith spirits and sacrificed his body to seal forbidden Sith knowledge in the Dark Book, then was reborn in the Son’s body and recognized as Sith Emperor. He left the spirits to guard the Dark Book in the Sith Academy and understood that true Sith inheritance required death and renewal rather than the pursuit of immortality.

• Darth Malthael crossed the Valley of the Sleeping Kings and entered the ruined Sith Academy, where the Daughter said he was becoming the Son, but he insisted he had come to become himself.
• Darth Malthael released the Sith spirits from the Soul Reaper Sword and used a black Kyber Crystal to seal his accumulated Sith knowledge and dark taboos within it.
• Darth Malthael disintegrated as his knowledge entered the crystal, while the Daughter used the Dagger of Mortis on the Son’s corpse, allowing Darth Malthael to reform in the Son’s body.
• Darth Malthael named the pyramid-shaped artifact the Dark Book, and Marka Ragnos recognized him as Sith Emperor and renamed the Soul Reaper Sword the Sword of Kings.
• Darth Malthael empowered the Sith spirits to guard the Dark Book and realized that the Sith pursuit of immortality had severed the inheritance of darkness.

Darth Malthael’s commitment to passing on Sith knowledge earned him recognition from the Dark Side and formal acknowledgment as Sith Emperor by Marka Ragnos. Reborn with greater power, he left Planet Korriban to seize the Galactic Empire’s throne.

• Darth Malthael recognized that Darth Sidious had betrayed Sith inheritance by pursuing immortality and treating his apprentices as disposable tools.
• Darth Malthael contrasted Sidious’s secrecy and suppression of Force knowledge with his own work to preserve Sith teachings and spread Force education in the Kingdom of Dawn.
• The Sith spirits on Planet Korriban recognized Darth Malthael, and Marka Ragnos formally acknowledged him as Sith Emperor.
• With the spirits’ aid, Darth Malthael reconstructed his body and increased his power.
• Darth Malthael boarded a shuttle at the ruins of Planet Korriban to claim the Galactic Empire’s throne.