Recaps

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan agreed to help the Fourth Civilization defend its mining station from pirates, then joined the battle in a civilian Z-10 Explorer-class ship. After destroying the bounty hunter ships, they jumped to hyperspace, leaving the Fourth Civilization to face its future without them.

• Daphne Clement asked Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to help the Fourth Civilization fight the pirates, and Qui-Gon agreed while warning that the Jedi would not always be there.
• Qui-Gon sent Obi-Wan to pilot the Z-10 toward the battle near the Endor gas giant mining station.
• Qi Jian coordinated his Blade-class fighters around the Z-10 as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon joined the fight.
• Obi-Wan used the Force to evade the bounty hunters' fire and destroy their ships.
• Obi-Wan celebrated the victory, and Qui-Gon activated the hyperspace engine as they departed.

Tang Xiao and Cun Te lured the Falin woman’s mercenaries into a trap after they tried to seize the storage device on Roon. The docking bay filled with sterilizing mist, and speeder wreckage crashed down on the mercenaries as the attack began.

• Tang Xiao demonstrated that he had regained some powers, while Cun Te suspected the Falin woman’s offer was a trap.
• Two modified freighters approached, and Cun Te and Tang Xiao concluded the Falin woman intended to kill them after taking the storage device.
• Kunto warned that their ship lacked fuel, ammunition, and upgrades, but Tang Xiao and Cun Te pretended to surrender and prepared to fight.
• Tang Xiao gave Kunto a solid-ammunition rifle, and the YT-1000 docked with the Auro freighter after Cun Te lowered its shields and powered down its weapons.
• The Falin woman positioned armed mercenaries outside the hatch and ordered them to kill the crew and take the device.
• Sterilizing mist obscured the docking passage, and speeder wreckage crashed down on the mercenaries as the hatch opened.

Tang Xiao and his companions fought their way through the mercenaries aboard the freighter, but a Banking Clan frigate arrived and destroyed the fleeing ship. They boarded the frigate to deliver the storage device, while Tang Xiao sensed a hidden darkness aboard it.

• T-850 led Tang Xiao, Cun Te, Kunto, and Spade in a gunfight that overwhelmed the mercenaries.
• Tang Xiao killed the Falin woman after she tried to flee, then ordered Cun Te to stop the other freighter from escaping.
• A Munificent-class frigate bearing the InterGalactic Banking Clan emblem appeared and destroyed the fleeing freighter with one shot.
• Tang Xiao sensed a deep darkness aboard the frigate and ordered his crew to prepare to make the delivery.
• Tang Xiao and his companions landed the Lancer and the Auro class freighter in the frigate's hangar, where B-1 battle droids surrounded them.

Hego Damask II rewarded Cun Te’s crew for retrieving the data device, then took an unexpected interest in Tang Xiao. After escaping the frigate, Tang Xiao offered Kunto his freedom, but Kunto chose to stay with him and return to Dawn Star Planet.

• Hego Damask II accepted the data device and gave Cun Te one hundred thousand Republic credits as a reward.
• Hego noticed Tang Xiao, locked eyes with him, and left laughing after calling the crew interesting.
• Tang Xiao and the others left the Generous-class frigate, and Tang Xiao realized Hego had taken an interest in him.
• Cun Te found Jamide still hidden in carbonite in the cargo hold.
• Tang Xiao offered Kunto his freedom, but Kunto chose to join his crew and follow him back to Dawn Star Planet.

Mars Feraci and Kenneth plotted to help a contact seize the Fourth Group’s mothership, while Tang Xiao returned from Tatooine with Cun Te and learned the cost of the bounty hunters’ attack. The chapter ended with Tang Xiao ordering the battle footage shown to him.

• Kenneth told Feraci that three bounty hunters had overwhelmed the Fourth Group’s fighters and proposed sending a message to his Black Sun-connected contact, who owned a powerful old Hammerhead-class cruiser.
• Feraci questioned Kenneth’s plan to take over the mothership, but her gaze turned cold as he urged her to join the conspiracy.
• Tang Xiao and Cun Te returned to the mothership with a YVX-865 Auro class freighter, giving the Fourth Civilization a second ship capable of hyperspace travel.
• Qi Jian reported that the bounty hunters had destroyed thirty-one Blade-class fighters, three Arrow-class Scouts, and four transport ships, killing forty-two pilots.
• Tang Xiao ordered the mainframe to show him the battle footage.

After the bounty hunters devastated the Fourth Civilization’s fighters and transports, Tang Xiao ordered the colony to strengthen its weapons, ships, and crews while consoling Qi Jian. He awakened Glory Judith to pilot the captured freighter as the colony prepared for the challenges ahead.

• Clement showed Tang Xiao footage of the bounty hunters destroying thirty-four Blade fighters and four transports before Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi shot down the attackers.
• Tang Xiao asked Feng Yongwang and Guan Yan about development progress, then ordered them to finish the Wraith fighter, improve Blade fighters, and prepare a light frigate for production.
• Feng Yongwang and Guan Yan described plans to equip Blade fighters with Gemini missiles, energy shields, and stronger engines, while Guan Yan warned that the teams lacked staff and facilities.
• Tang Xiao chose the Hammer-class frigate for analysis, and Qi Jian arranged for a crew to train on the captured YV-865 Auro class freighter and proposed refitting a transport with recovered turbolasers.
• Tang Xiao reassured the guilt-stricken Qi Jian that the losses were their first lesson, then awakened Glory Judith to pilot the freighter.

Tang Xiao assigned Cun Te to assess Kunto and search Tatooine’s black market while Judith began training to defend the mothership. Meanwhile, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan reported the Fourth Group Company’s suspicious military capabilities to the Jedi Council, which decided to leave further investigation to the Republic Commerce Guild and Senate.

• Tang Xiao ordered psychological counseling for everyone involved in the battle and discussed whether Kunto and the smugglers could be trusted with Cun Te.
• Tang Xiao assigned Cun Te to oversee Kunto and gave him one hundred thousand credits to seek useful equipment on Tatooine’s black market.
• Tang Xiao said Judith would train with the Auro class freighter and defend the mothership, while Cun Te remained on standby.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi told Qui-Gon Jinn that the Fourth Group Company’s well-trained pilots suggested it operated a regular military force.
• Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan reported to the Jedi High Council that the Fourth Group had an enormous, lightly armed civilian spacecraft and weak defenses.
• Master Windu recommended investigating the Fourth Group through the Republic Commerce Guild and leaving the matter to the Senate.

Qui-Gon Jinn decided to investigate Endor himself while Master Dooku and Senator Palpatine discussed the Republic’s future. Palpatine secretly arranged a mineral hijacking and a payment to Chancellor Phineas Valorum, while Tang Xiao honored the Fourth Civilization’s first dead soldiers above Dawn Star Planet.

• Qui-Gon Jinn told Obi-Wan Kenobi that they would investigate Endor themselves, despite the High Council’s decision.
• Master Dooku warned Senator Palpatine that the Republic’s decaying state put reformers like him in danger, and Palpatine vowed to keep working toward a stronger Republic.
• Palpatine secretly contacted a tattooed woman in the Nebula Front and ordered her to hijack a Trade Federation convoy’s minerals and arrange a payment to Phineas Valorum.
• Tang Xiao and the Fourth Civilization’s officials and Marines held a memorial for forty-two crew members and pilots killed in the bounty hunter attack.
• Tang Xiao praised the fallen soldiers for defending the Fourth Civilization despite their outdated fighters and the enemy’s superior weapons.

Tang Xiao honored the forty-two martyrs and vowed that the Fourth Civilization would never yield to fate. As Dawn City continued to grow on Dawn Star Planet, he resolved to climb to the pinnacle of the Milky Way Galaxy.

• Tang Xiao delivered a speech at the martyrs' cremation, declaring that the Fourth Civilization would fight on and rise again.
• Tang Xiao lifted an urn of ashes as the soldiers saluted the forty-two martyrs with rifle fire.
• Tang Xiao visited the graves on a hillside and accepted that he was one of the people of this world, not merely an observer.
• Tang Xiao surveyed Dawn City's expanding industries, farms, public services, and population of more than five thousand.
• Tang Xiao entered the city, greeted its working residents, and decided to climb to the pinnacle of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Tang Xiao visited Graham to find out why the luxurious residence required to awaken a Master Class aerospace scientist was still unfinished. He devised a nature-themed mansion using local plants, wood, and animal pelts, leaving the city staff to complete it.

• Tang Xiao learned that the testing site and equipment were underway, but Graham's team could not find furnishings and decorations for the scientist's mansion.
• Tang Xiao inspected an empty villa by a lake and farm on the outskirts of Dawn City.
• Tang Xiao ordered the staff to surround the villa with wildflowers and vines and to decorate its pool with water plants and colorful fish.
• Tang Xiao instructed the staff to make furniture from local trees and rugs from Ewok fur.
• Tang Xiao proposed grass and wheat-stalk bedding covered with whole animal pelts, then declined the offer to prepare a similar mansion for him.

Tang Xiao focused on controlling his growing connection to the Force before learning that another Legendary figure was ready to awaken. He discovered the candidate was a morally conflicted man whose transactions had caused mass deaths, and the chapter ended with Tang Xiao recognizing the danger of bringing him into the Fourth Civilization.

• Tang Xiao instructed Graham to turn the old masters’ mansions into lush, nature-filled luxury residences and asked about the city’s planned firearms factory.
• Graham explained that the Fourth Civilization could mass-produce assault rifles but lacked the technology and ammunition supply needed to produce laser guns and blasters.
• Tang Xiao meditated in nature for four hours, felt his Force recover, and used it to pull a stone into his hand.
• The Mainframe informed Tang Xiao that another Legendary figure could be awakened, and Tang Xiao hurried back to the mothership.
• Tang Xiao opened the awakening list and recognized the candidate as a morally gray figure whose transactions had caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Tang Xiao met Yuri Orlov and agreed to work with him to arm the Fourth Civilization. After Yuri left, Tang Xiao saw that Vitaly Orlov had appeared among the Legendary figures and inferred that the rank was based on characters’ origins, not their abilities.

• Tang Xiao welcomed Yuri Orlov, the Lord of War, and discussed the galaxy’s demand for weapons.
• Yuri examined a Type 21 assault rifle, then offered to help Tang Xiao arm an army.
• Tang Xiao asked Yuri to supply everything in the galaxy that could kill, so he could establish a living space for the Fourth Civilization.
• Yuri asked Tang Xiao to awaken his brother, Vitaly Orlov, and Tang Xiao agreed to enroll both brothers in an accelerated Galactic Standard course.
• After Yuri left, Tang Xiao found Vitaly Orlov on the awakening list and concluded that Legendary figures were characters from film, television, and games.

Tang Xiao received reports on the Fourth Civilization’s growing industrial bottlenecks and welcomed the Master Class aerospace scientist Professor Chi Jianjun to Dawn Star. Chi’s arrival left Tang Xiao hopeful that he could help advance the Wraith fighter and the colony’s future aircraft.

• Tang Xiao learned that Cun Te had taken Yuri Orlov, Vitaly Orlov, Feraci, and Kunto to Tatooine, with T-850 bodyguards accompanying them.
• Dr. Guan Yan reported progress on fighter upgrades and the Hammer-class light frigate, while warning that limited shipyard capacity and construction equipment were slowing development.
• Tang Xiao recognized that the Fourth Civilization needed an independent industrial system as the mothership’s factories and supplies struggled to meet demand.
• Graham reported that Dawn Star’s aviation testing base was complete and that Feng Yongwang’s team needed a Master Class expert to overcome Wraith fighter development bottlenecks.
• Tang Xiao and Dawn City officials welcomed Professor Chi Jianjun as he stepped off the transport ship.

Tang Xiao awakened Professor Chi Jianjun, who wanted a comfortable place to retire rather than immediate work. On Tatooine, Cun Te’s group arrived with Yuri and Vitaly Orlov, and Yuri learned that Broderick Shale’s Bosa had attacked a Quarren repair yard as the brothers considered selling cigarettes amid a looming galactic war.

• Tang Xiao met Chi Jianjun, who complained that he had been awakened too early and asked where his retirement mansion was.
• Tang Xiao sent Graham to take Chi Jianjun to his residence and told his staff that Chi was a Master Class expert.
• Yuri Orlov vomited after the Lancer landed on Tatooine, triggering a messy collision between service robots and an oil spill.
• Cun Te welcomed Kunto and Feraci, teased them, and secretly attached a listening device beneath Kunto’s collar.
• Yuri gave Truda cigarettes and learned that Broderick Shale’s Bosa had recently wrecked a Quarren-run starship repair yard in Mos Eisley.
• Vitaly suggested selling cigarettes to aliens, but Yuri warned that an impending galaxy-wide war would make cigarettes insignificant.

Cun Te learned that Feraci had alerted Kuken’s men, then secretly sent Tang Xiao a recording about the dangerous crime lord. Tang Xiao’s night on Dawn Star Planet was interrupted when Professor Chi Jianjun fled from a monster.

• Cun Te left Kunto and Feraci at a Mos Eisley bar while he went off with a Twi’lek woman.
• Kunto confronted Feraci after learning she had contacted Kuken’s men, and a group of armed men surrounded them as Cun Te disappeared.
• Cun Te questioned the Twi’lek woman about Iron Tooth—Kuken and secretly sent Tang Xiao a recording.
• Tang Xiao went to sleep on Dawn Star Planet after receiving Professor Chi Jianjun, but he rushed outside when he heard a scream.
• Chi Jianjun ran toward Tang Xiao in his underwear, shouting that a monster was after him.

Tang Xiao tried to reassure Professor Chi Jianjun after dangerous creatures frightened him out of his new villa, but Chi moved into Tang’s room and refused to leave. The next day, Chi watched footage of a brutal aerial battle and angrily condemned Tang before locking himself in his room.

• Chi Jianjun mistook the monster hide Tang had put on his bed for a living creature, and Tang explained it was a hide before arranging a cotton quilt.
• Chi Jianjun was frightened by a large bird outside his window and insisted on sleeping in Tang Xiao’s dormitory.
• Chi Jianjun slept on Tang’s sofa, and Tang stayed awake through the night because of his loud snoring.
• Chi Jianjun announced that he would live in Tang’s room and dismissed Tang’s concerns about the civilization’s dangers.
• Tang Xiao showed Chi footage of a battle with three bounty hunters, and Chi called Tang a murderer before locking himself in his room.

Tang Xiao returned to the mothership and found the Research Department struggling to adapt advanced technologies without Professor Chi Jianjun’s guidance. Chi agreed to work for five years and began teaching the researchers a new way to analyze the Wraith fighter’s technology, but a message from the Mainframe abruptly turned Tang Xiao’s expression cold.

• Tang Xiao told Guan Yan, Feng Yongwang, Qu Xuewen, and the other experts that Professor Chi could not help them and urged them to solve their research problems themselves.
• Tang Xiao accompanied the researchers to see the Gemini missile test preparations and unexpectedly found Professor Chi Jianjun studying their research logs.
• Professor Chi agreed to work for five years, then revealed that his wife was dead and criticized the researchers for applying Fourth Civilization methods to the Wraith fighter’s different technological system.
• Professor Chi showed Feng Yongwang how to transform the Wraith’s equations into rules the researchers could use, and the group eagerly began taking notes.
• The Mainframe sent Tang Xiao a message through his brain chip, and his expression turned ice-cold.

On Tatooine, Yuri Orlov and Vitaly Orlov sought to sell heavy weapons to Broderick Shatterstone’s ostracized Bosa allies. Vitaly led the armed Bosa to Yuri’s weapons cache, where Scar threatened Yuri and left the deal hanging in danger.

• Yuri Orlov explained that he planned to sell weapons to both sides, and he persuaded Vitaly Orlov to approach the Bosa on his own.
• Vitaly found the Bosa drinking in a shantytown and convinced Scar that he had heavy guns for sale.
• Scar forced Vitaly to lead the Bosa to Yuri’s hidden weapons cache, while Yuri deployed T-850s to cover the meeting.
• Yuri offered to negotiate over the guns and asked Scar to release Vitaly.
• Scar threatened to kill Yuri, putting the arms deal in immediate jeopardy.

Yuri Orlov used a demonstration of the Type 21 assault rifle and a threat from hidden snipers to negotiate a weapons sale with Scar’s gang. After the gang left with guns, ammunition, and grenades on credit, Yuri and Vitaly celebrated their return to the dangerous life of business and their ambition to make the Milky Way Galaxy their domain.

• Yuri offered Scar a Type 21 assault rifle and demonstrated its rapid fire, convincing Scar that it outmatched the gang’s DL-18 blaster pistols.
• Scar aimed the rifle at Yuri, but Yuri warned him that snipers had him covered, and Scar agreed to buy ten guns and ammunition.
• When Scar lacked enough credits and proposed paying after a spaceport robbery, Yuri offered grenades and extended credit in exchange for eight thousand credits if Scar returned alive.
• Scar handed Yuri a bag of credit ingots and ordered his gang to move the weapons and supplies.
• After Scar’s gang departed, Yuri collapsed, and Vitaly helped him up as the brothers reminisced and Yuri declared that the galaxy would one day be theirs.

Tang Xiao learned that Black Sun was linked to a coming Hammerhead-class cruiser attack and prepared the Kushan Mothership’s defenses. He questioned Semir, who revealed that the information he obtained concerned the Tonneth family’s accounts and the struggle for leadership of the InterGalactic Banking Clan.

• Cun Te told Tang Xiao that Kunto and the others had sold information about the mothership to Iron Tooth Kuken, who was connected to Black Sun, and Tang Xiao ordered him to return from Tatooine.
• Tang Xiao identified the approaching Hammerhead as an ancient but dangerous cruiser and told Qi Jian to prepare an attack plan while the Blade fighters continued development.
• Tang Xiao declined to pressure the Research Department to accelerate the Wraith fighter and agreed that Gemini air-to-air missiles were the Blade’s minimum necessary armament.
• After learning Semir had awakened, Tang Xiao met him privately in a guarded reception room and asked what he had obtained on Makito.
• Semir said he had obtained the Tonneth family’s import and export accounts and explained the rivalry between Ford Tonneth and San Hill for the InterGalactic Banking Clan’s co-chairmanship.

Tang Xiao recruited Semir, a former senior actuary and sector financial director of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, as the Fourth Group’s financial advisor. Semir warned that the unregistered organization lacked Republic protection and explained the permits and funding needed to establish a colony, leaving him to recover before preparing a business plan.

• Semir revealed that his accounts contained evidence of Ford Tonneth misusing InterGalactic Banking Clan funds to support Black Sun and Bando Gora and to meddle in Hutt conflicts.
• Tang Xiao learned Semir had been a senior actuary and sector financial director, then appointed him financial advisor to the Fourth Group and decided to keep his evidence as leverage in the Banking Clan’s leadership struggle.
• Semir pointed out that the Fourth Group was unregistered and that its illegal status would prevent Republic protection, recognition, and colonial subsidies.
• Semir explained that the group needed a colonization permit and several agreements, and offered to develop a business plan after learning more about its resources.
• Semir requested a droid attendant, so Tang Xiao assigned a T-850 to assist him, and Semir left to recuperate before formally beginning work.

Tang Xiao inspected the Fourth Civilization’s expanding space facilities and learned that research on the Hammer-class frigate had finished and production had begun. He visited the Engineering Research Institute to see the frigate and its weapons work, then continued on with Qu Xuewen toward Professor Chi.

• Tang Xiao observed the growing mining, research, and shipbuilding facilities around the mothership and reviewed the Fourth Civilization’s warship size classifications.
• Tang Xiao contacted Qu Xuewen, who told him the Hammer-class frigate research had been completed and production had started.
• Qu Xuewen explained that the first Hammer-class frigate had been fitted with salvaged Turbolaser Turrets under Professor Chi’s direction.
• Tang Xiao visited the Engineering Research Institute and watched a Blue-UV Laser prototype test fail when its equipment overheated.
• Qu Xuewen ordered the prototype’s feedback sent to Dr. Guan Yan with instructions to lower the energy conversion relay parameters, then escorted Tang Xiao toward Professor Chi.

Tang Xiao inspected the Hammer-class frigate as Chi Jianjun explained its design and limitations. Chi recommended developing technology from the Emergency Traders Alliance, and Tang Xiao recognized its tech tree as belonging to Sins of a Solar Empire.

• Qu Xuewen led Tang Xiao to the frigate refitting area, where Chi Jianjun and the experts were modifying the Hammer-class frigate's turbolaser turrets.
• Chi Jianjun described how the frigate's turrets had been upgraded from electromagnetic cannons to infrared lasers, improving its combat efficiency by around thirty percent.
• Chi Jianjun explained that the frigate still lacked effective avionics, fire control, and flight control, and that Kushan Civilization ships were generally inefficient.
• Chi Jianjun recommended technology from the Emergency Traders Alliance, and Tang Xiao recognized the faction as the Trader Emergency Coalition from Sins of a Solar Empire.

Tang Xiao reviewed Professor Chi Jianjun’s plans to advance Fourth Civilization’s military technology and remove its construction bottleneck. Meanwhile, a battle began at a spaceport in Mos Eisley on Tatooine.

• Chi Jianjun explained that the Trader Emergency Coalition’s technology was especially compatible with their research and outlined plans for upgraded Blade fighters, modified Hammer-class frigates, and plasma bombs.
• Chi Jianjun proposed developing SCVs and Trader Emergency Coalition engineering ships to speed up colony construction, and using Kushan stealth-fighter technology to improve the Wraith fighter.
• Tang Xiao considered how construction capacity limited the colony’s growth and praised Chi Jianjun’s research priorities before Chi Jianjun and the other researchers returned to work.
• An explosion struck a Mos Eisley spaceport concealing a smuggling elevator, and Bosa gang members stormed inside as Nikto mercenaries rushed to defend it.

Scar’s Bosa raiders attacked Jabba’s spaceport, killed its guards, and stole valuable goods, including two long cylindrical containers. In Mos Eisley, Cun Te tricked Suya into helping him access Kuken’s cruiser so he could obtain its specifications for a supposed Muun business deal.

• Scar led the Bosa in overrunning the Nikto guards at Jabba’s spaceport and ordered his men to loot the warehouses.
• Scar revealed that the raid targeted Jabba’s property, killed a wounded mercenary with a grenade, and led his men underground past the blast doors.
• Scar told his accomplices to take two long cylindrical containers to settle a debt.
• Cun Te learned from Suya that her former lover was connected to Boss Kuken and his Hammerhead-class cruiser.
• Cun Te claimed a Muun would pay fifty thousand credits for large starship specifications and persuaded Suya to help him board Kuken’s cruiser.