Recaps

Yuri Orlov and Vitaly Orlov escaped a firefight after Scarface delivered payment for their weapons, while Cun Te sabotaged Iron Fang Kuken's cruiser ahead of its planned attack on the Fourth Civilization's mothership.

• Yuri Orlov spotted Scarface's hover trucks fleeing pursuers on speeder bikes and prepared to escape with Vitaly Orlov and their T-850s.
• Scarface dropped off two large crates as payment, and the pursuers fired at Yuri Orlov, mistaking him for an accomplice.
• Vitaly Orlov drove away with the crates as the T-850s used machine guns to scatter the pursuing speeder bikes.
• Cun Te used the cruiser's specifications to identify its vulnerabilities and secretly severed the wiring of six point-defense turrets.

Cun Te sabotaged the pirates’ cruiser, but Boss Kuken arrived earlier than expected and prepared to attack a civilian ship in the Endor system. Kuken killed Suya and ordered Taya to sing as he rallied the pirates for the raid.

• Cun Te disabled the cruiser’s point-defense turrets and put yellow sand into its engine oil tanks.
• Kuken arrived with Kunto and Feraci bound, announced that the pirates would leave that afternoon, and rejected Kunto’s warning about attacking the giant ship.
• Kuken grabbed Suya and questioned her about the job; Suya revealed that a Muun from the InterGalactic Banking Clan wanted to do business.
• Kuken ripped off Suya’s head-tendril and shot her dead, then ordered Taya to sing.
• Kuken told the pirates their target was an unarmed civilian ship over forty thousand meters long in the Endor system, and they celebrated.

Kuken captured Cun Te and the other outsiders and prepared to attack the mothership, while Cun Te secretly contacted Yuri and Vitaly. Yuri and Vitaly learned that Cun Te was trapped aboard Kuken's cruiser and that the attack would begin that afternoon, as searchers closed in on them.

• Kuken ordered his pirates to capture the outsiders and load weapons and ammunition for an afternoon attack on the mothership.
• Cun Te freed himself in the cargo hold and used coded taps on his communicator to contact Yuri and Vitaly.
• Yuri and Vitaly discovered that the Bosas had given them two Proton Torpedoes, which Yuri believed could make them rich.
• The T-850 decoded Cun Te's message and helped Yuri and Vitaly send a reply using taps.
• Cun Te told them he was trapped aboard Kuken's cruiser, and Vitaly warned that people were searching nearby.

Yuri raced to escape Mos Eisley with Vitaly, Truda, and the sabotaged YT-1000 before mercenaries could capture them. After a costly accidental Proton Torpedo launch, Vitaly activated the hyperdrive without setting a route, and the ship vanished into hyperspace.

• Yuri learned that Cun Te had sabotaged the cruiser and sent its specifications, while Kunto and Feraci had been captured.
• Yuri forced Truda to install two Proton Torpedoes on the YT-1000 and ordered a T-850 to hold off the searching mercenaries.
• Yuri made Vitaly study the ship’s manual and learn to fly while Truda and engineering robots worked on the torpedo mounts.
• The T-850 fought the mercenaries at the spaceport and self-destructed as the YT-1000 took off.
• Vitaly accidentally fired a Proton Torpedo, destroying a passing ship, then activated the hyperdrive before Truda could set the route coordinates.

Tang Xiao prepared the colony to fight Iron Tooth after learning that Kuken’s cruiser was coming to attack and that Cun Te had sabotaged its defenses. As Iron Tooth arrived in the Endor system, Kuken and his pirates saw the enormous Kushan Mothership.

• Qi Jian told Tang Xiao that Iron Tooth would arrive in three standard hours, while Cun Te, Kunto, and others were trapped aboard it and had sent its specifications after sabotaging it.
• Qi Jian reported that Yuri Orlov had obtained one Proton Torpedo for the Lancer, but the colony had lost contact with the ship.
• Carl Walton described the colony’s fighter and ship forces, assessed Iron Tooth’s weakened defenses and slow speed, and submitted a battle plan to Qi Jian.
• Tang Xiao said he intended to fight personally and demonstrated his telekinesis and strong simulated flight record to reassure Walton.
• Iron Tooth arrived in the Endor system, and Kuken and his pirate leaders stared in shock at the enormous Kushan Mothership.

Pirate captain Kuken attacked the Kushan Mothership with the Ironfang, believing its size hid weak defenses. The mothership’s shields repelled the assault as Kuken escalated the attack and launched his fighters.

• Kuken ordered the Ironfang to attack the Kushan Mothership with Proton Torpedoes, which exploded harmlessly against its shields.
• The mothership moved out of Dawn Star Planet’s synchronous orbit and advanced on the Ironfang, while its Mass Driver shots missed the nimble cruiser.
• Kuken maneuvered around the mothership and fired the Ironfang’s turbolasers, but the mothership’s shields blocked every strike.
• Kuken threatened the mothership over the public channel, then ordered every fighter and Proton Torpedo launched when it did not respond.
• The Ironfang fired its full arsenal and launched twelve Orec-class fighters toward the mothership.

Tang Xiao led the Mothership’s first fighter squadron against Kuken’s Hammerhead-class cruiser, then lured the Aurek fighters into the Mothership’s point-defense fire. As the second squadron launched, the battle shifted toward the Blade fighters’ next move.

• Tang Xiao ordered the first fighter wave launched and took command of a Blade fighter as the First Squadron prepared for takeoff.
• Tang Xiao led twelve Blade fighters toward the Hammerhead-class cruiser and fired a missile salvo, but its shields blocked the attack.
• Tang Xiao withdrew toward the Mothership’s flank, drawing Kuken’s twelve Aurek fighters after him.
• Qi Jian activated the Mothership’s point-defense guns and launched the Second Squadron, scattering the pursuing Aurek fighters with a barrage.

Tang Xiao’s fighters destroyed the Kuken Pirates’ Aurek-class fighters, then attacked the Ironfang-class cruiser as Kuken’s extra point-defense turrets were sabotaged. With the cruiser in chaos, Cun Te prepared to free the imprisoned civilians and find escape pods.

• Tang Xiao led three squadrons of Blade-class fighters against the pirates’ twelve Aurek-class fighters under the mothership’s point-defense cover, and the Fourth Civilization lost three fighters while destroying all twelve enemies.
• Tang Xiao used the Force to evade fire and destroy an Aurek fighter before the Fourth Civilization launched its remaining seventy Blade fighters and three Hammer-class frigates toward the cruiser.
• Kuken ordered the pirates to fire every Proton Torpedo and man the cruiser’s point-defense cannons, boasting that he had installed extra turrets to counter fighters.
• The Fourth Civilization’s fighters struck the Ironfang-class cruiser with Gemini missiles and laser fire, but the pirates discovered that their point-defense turrets could not turn because their wiring had been cut.
• Cun Te told the imprisoned civilians to stay quiet while he went to create a diversion and search for escape pods.

Cun Te set off an explosion aboard Kuken’s cruiser and used the chaos to evacuate Taya and the civilians while the battle outside intensified. Kuken tried to retreat, but the Kushan Mothership’s gravity well prevented the cruiser from making a hyperspace jump.

• Cun Te learned the armory was nearby, detonated its stored blaster gas, and drew the pirates away from the lifeboats.
• Cun Te sent Taya, Kunto, Feraci, and the other civilians away in lifeboats, then stayed behind to see whether he could capture the cruiser.
• Tang Xiao ordered the lifeboats recovered as the Blade fighters and three Hammer-class frigates attacked the Ironfang-class cruiser.
• Kuken ordered a retreat after the cruiser’s shields weakened, but his crew discovered the Mothership’s gravity well blocked their hyperspace jump.

Kuken's Ironfang-class cruiser was trapped by the Kushan Mothership's gravity and electronic interference, but he rejected surrender and tried to flee while attacking the Hammer-class frigates. Tang Xiao ordered a boarding assault and more missiles, but new ships began emerging from hyperspace before the battle was settled.

• Kuken realized the mothership's mass was preventing a hyperspace jump and suspected the earlier strange transmission had exposed his plans.
• Kuken failed to send intelligence to Black Sun, shot the communications officer, and threatened his crew before rejecting the first mate's call to surrender.
• Kuken ordered the Ironfang to flee toward the Endor system's outskirts and concentrate its fire on the Hammer-class frigates, destroying one of them.
• Tang Xiao learned the Ironfang's shields were below ten percent and ordered the Marines to prepare a boarding assault, with a nuclear bomb as a fallback.
• Tang Xiao ordered First Squadron to reload every remaining Gemini missile, but the radar operator reported that more ships were arriving through hyperspace.

Yuri Orlov returned to Dawn Star Planet aboard the Lancer with a Proton Torpedo, and Tang Xiao took the ship to attack the Ironfang-class cruiser. Tang Xiao began preparing a precise torpedo strike while the mothership’s crew faced an eight-minute deadline before they had to force the Auro freighter to dock.

• Yuri Orlov arrived near Dawn Star Planet in the Lancer, and Tang Xiao ordered fighters to escort it to the mothership.
• The fighter squadrons shielded the Lancer from the Ironfang’s fire, losing four fighters as Truda piloted the damaged ship into the hangar.
• Tang Xiao welcomed Yuri, then boarded the Lancer with Glory Judith and took the pilot’s seat while a T-850 operated the turret.
• Tang Xiao told Judith that Cun Te was still aboard the cruiser and began sensing the Force as he prepared to fire the Proton Torpedo.
• Qi Jian warned Tang Xiao that he had eight minutes to attack before the crew proceeded with the plan to force the YV-865 Auro class freighter to dock.
• Tang Xiao asked the Mainframe to calculate where the Proton Torpedo should strike the Hammerhead-class cruiser to cripple it without causing a secondary explosion.

Tang Xiao risked his damaged ship to break the Ironfang-class cruiser's shields and fire a Proton Torpedo at its engine, while the cruiser neared escape range. He later woke in the medical bay, where Cun Te revealed Tang Xiao had been unconsciously holding the room's floating objects in place with the Force.

• Tang Xiao struggled to line up a Proton Torpedo shot while the Ironfang-class cruiser's shields held and its secondary batteries attacked his Lancer.
• A Hammer-class frigate pilot declared the Fourth Civilization would not retreat, and the two frigates charged the cruiser, breaking its shields at the cost of one frigate.
• Tang Xiao evaded the cruiser's fire through the Force and fired at the cruiser after an explosion damaged its engines; an Auro class freighter carrying T-850s and Marines launched toward it.
• Tang Xiao woke in the medical bay and used the Force to keep floating objects, including a pothos above Cun Te, from falling.

Tang Xiao and Cun Te recovered after their daring operation crippled Kuken’s cruiser, and Tang Xiao returned to the mothership as the crew honored his leadership. Clement began reporting the battle’s spoils, led by the captured cruiser, which the Engineering Department planned to repair.

• Cun Te told Tang Xiao how he sabotaged Kuken’s crew, launched a Proton Torpedo aboard the cruiser, and helped trigger a mutiny that allowed the Fourth Civilization to capture it.
• Tang Xiao reprimanded Cun Te for risking his life, then admitted he feared the galaxy’s future war; Cun Te pledged to face that danger alongside him as his friend.
• Tang Xiao recovered from overusing the Force, while Cun Te healed in a Bacta tank salvaged from the cruiser.
• Tang Xiao returned to the bridge, where Clement and the Staff Department members saluted him for standing with the Fourth Civilization during the battle.
• Clement reported that the captured 315-meter Hammerhead-class cruiser needed a replacement propulsion system, which the Engineering Department expected to install in three months.

Tang Xiao reviewed the spoils from Kuken’s cruiser, arranged for the colony’s departments and resources to expand, and learned how Yuri and Vitaly had encountered a gigantic creature in hyperspace. He left the Mothership stationed between Dawn Star Planet and Dor and promised Yuri new opportunities as the Fourth Civilization prepared for further growth.

• Tang Xiao agreed to redistribute personnel, awaken an Elite Class talent to lead the Engineering Department, and establish a Logistics Department.
• Clement reported the captured shuttles, damaged fighter, prisoners, and money; Tang Xiao ordered a public trial and directed the Mothership to dock between Dawn Star Planet and Dor.
• Tang Xiao considered the Endor system’s abundant resources and its potential for secret development by the Fourth Civilization.
• On a Ministry-class shuttle, Yuri told Tang Xiao that he and Vitaly had seen a gigantic octopus-like creature inside a hyperspace rift during their unguided jumps.
• Yuri said he did not belong in battle, and Tang Xiao told him he would find him another opportunity if his plans to develop a weapons market on Tatooine failed.

Tang Xiao staged a public execution for the pirates who invaded Dawn City and sentenced Kenneth to death for his betrayal. He spared Kunto, Feraci, and the other conspirators from execution but fitted them with linked bomb collars, while sending Feraci and the captured pirates to work in the mines.

• Tang Xiao announced the Fourth Civilization's victory and hanged Kuken and six pirate leaders before the cheering crowd.
• Tang Xiao condemned Kenneth, who blamed Kunto and Feraci and begged for his life, then had him hanged.
• Tang Xiao sentenced the remaining pirates to mine ore as slave labor instead of executing them.
• Kunto confessed that he had informed Kuken and begged Tang Xiao to spare Feraci and the others.
• Tang Xiao fitted Kunto, Feraci, and the other conspirators with linked bomb collars and sentenced Feraci to three years of mining alongside the pirates.

Tang Xiao renamed the Kushan Mothership the Glory after the Fourth Civilization’s victory and left the battle’s cleanup to others. In Dawn City, he saw the colony’s residents and Ewoks working and trading together as a primitive economy took shape.

• Tang Xiao announced that the Kushan Mothership would be renamed the Glory, and the rescued civilians were assigned temporary homes in Dawn City.
• Old Truda chose to stay on Dawn Star Planet and open a machinery repair shop, becoming the Fourth Civilization’s first nonhuman member.
• Tang Xiao visited Dawn City, where Ewoks such as Moko helped human workers build new structures and joked with them on the job.
• Tang Xiao saw Ewoks selling gathered goods at street stalls and accepting Work Tickets for supplies as the city’s economy developed.

Tang Xiao learned that the Ewoks regarded him as their Great Spirit, and he joined their Moonlight Festival on Dawn Star Planet. The chapter left the celebration underway, with Ewoks singing and dancing around a bonfire as Dawn City residents joined them.

• Tang Xiao saw Cryo-embryo children in Dawn City and learned they would have shortened lifespans but could help expand the Fourth Civilization’s population.
• Ewoks bowed to Tang Xiao and called him the Great Spirit, so he helped them up and touched their head ornaments as a blessing.
• An official explained that the Ewoks regarded the Endor gas giant as the Great Spirit and Tang Xiao as its incarnation, and Tang Xiao agreed to attend their Moonlight Festival.
• At the festival, Ewoks and Dawn City residents gathered around a bonfire to sing, dance, and feast on an Endorian Marsh Beast.
• Tang Xiao sat with Ewok tribal chiefs and blessed visitors while the gathering continued and residents shared beer from the mothership.

Tang Xiao watched the Ewoks prove their fighting skill at a banquet, then planned to integrate them into the Fourth Civilization. Three days later, Yuri Orlov and Cun Te arrived on Tatooine to sell weapons for a purpose tied to Tang Xiao’s plans.

• Humans and Ewoks drank and fought at Dawn City, until a red-furred Ewok wearing a white feather headdress defeated the Marines and received Tang Xiao’s tribute of beer.
• Tang Xiao assessed the Ewoks’ strength and adaptability, estimated their population, and decided to integrate the tribes around Dawn City into the Fourth Civilization.
• Tang Xiao considered using the Ewoks as soldiers and planned to spread his Great Spirit worship to more tribes.
• Three days later, Yuri Orlov and Cun Te arrived near Tatooine aboard a YV-865 Auro class freighter.
• Yuri told Cun Te that Tang Xiao had hinted at their weapons sale because he wanted to break certain balances.

Yuri brought a cargo hold full of weapons to Tatooine to supply Broderick Shale’s gang, who were preparing to attack Jabba’s businesses. When Shale offered to steal whatever Yuri wanted instead of paying, Yuri agreed to discuss a deal.

• Yuri explained to Cun Te that the Administrator had traced the Bosa’s earlier trouble to the conflict between Jabba and Gaddula, then revealed a freighter loaded with weapons to sell to Gaddula’s people.
• Yuri made Cun Te pilot the hovering freighter to a desert rendezvous while Yuri called Scar and jokingly introduced himself as Santa Claus.
• Yuri met Scar, Broderick Shale, and their armed gang, and Shale confirmed they planned to rob Jabba’s businesses.
• Shale said he had no money but could steal anything Yuri wanted from Jabba’s territory, so Yuri agreed to sit down and talk.

Yuri Orlov used his knowledge of Hutt Gaddula’s weakened position to sell heavy weapons to Broderick Shale and the Bosa bandits. Shale eagerly considered expanding his forces, while Yuri named a steep price for a mortar that could threaten Mos Eisley.

• Yuri Orlov approached Broderick Shale without fear, knowing Hutt Jabba’s influence constrained the Bosa bandits and that Hego Damask II had stopped backing Hutt Gaddula.
• Yuri offered the bandits M-427 machine guns, and Broderick Shale inspected one and approved of it.
• Yuri demonstrated an M-341 rocket launcher, which excited Shale and Magtan Scar because such heavy weapons were scarce in the Galactic Republic.
• Shale asked Yuri to show him everything, saying the weapons would let him recruit more people and attempt something big.
• Yuri presented an M-752 mortar and demanded 10,000 credits for the single unit, rejecting Scar’s complaint that mortars cost less elsewhere.

Yuri Orlov supplied Broderick Shale and Magtan Scar with weapons and sold them a T-850, enabling their plan to rob the Bonta Night Speeder Race. Meanwhile, Tang Xiao formally organized the Fourth Civilization’s military and assigned leaders to its new branches and departments.

• Yuri Orlov agreed to supply Broderick Shale and Magtan Scar with goods, then sold them one T-850 after removing its learning restriction device.
• Broderick Shale armed his crew and planned to rob the upcoming Bonta Night Speeder Race, hoping to enrich Lord Gaddula and undermine Jabba.
• Tang Xiao established the Supreme Operations Command, with himself as commander-in-chief and Karls-Walton as deputy commander.
• Tang Xiao created the Army and Navy, appointing Xiao Guanghua and Igor Zavarov as their commanders.
• Tang Xiao placed the Space Engineering Corps under Bruce Tovan’s Logistics Department as it worked on two new space shipyards.

Tang Xiao organized the Fourth Civilization’s administration and met with financial advisor Semir to plan the Fourth Group’s launch. He assigned Rosana Goodes to work with the business-savvy T-850 on raising funds and obtaining an exploration permit.

• Tang Xiao explained that Normal Class personnel could perform important roles and that he reserved Elite and Master Class personnel for critical work.
• Semir proposed raising one million Galactic credits by selling rare metals and showed Tang Xiao contacts, false identities, and procedures for obtaining an exploration permit.
• Tang Xiao told the T-850 to record Semir’s plans and arranged for an agent to apply for the permit on Coruscant, with the robot relaying messages to Semir.
• Tang Xiao introduced Rosana Goodes to the T-850 and left her to handle the Fourth Group’s business arrangements with it.
• After hearing the robot recite Semir’s plan, Rosana said it might understand the business better than she did, and Tang Xiao encouraged her to learn from it.

Rosana and three officers traveled to Coruscant to file paperwork for the Fourth Group Company and its colonial development permit while Tang Xiao stayed behind to test the Wraith fighter. At the engineering station, he became captivated by a newly developed engineering mech and asked whether it was an SCV.

• Rosana formed a business team with three administrative officers and took the Lancer to Coruscant to file for the Fourth Group Company and a colonial development permit.
• Tang Xiao claimed the maiden test flight of the CF/A-17 Wraith prototype, confident that his Force-granted danger sense and piloting record made him the best test pilot.
• Tang Xiao worried that Jedi Knights would threaten the Fourth Civilization if it aligned with the future Confederacy of Independent Systems.
• Tang Xiao traveled by shuttle to the engineering research space station, where Qu Xuewen guided him toward Professor Chi Jianjun's laboratory.
• Tang Xiao spotted a heavily armored engineering mech through a laboratory window, ignored Qu Xuewen, and exclaimed that it looked like an SCV.

Tang Xiao inspected the SCV and construction vessel projects before piloting the newly completed Wraith fighter on its maiden flight. After its weapons and handling tests succeeded, he ordered production shifted from Blade-class fighters to Wraith fighters.

• Qu Xuewen told Tang Xiao that SCVs could enter service within two weeks, while the Trader Emergency Coalition construction vessel remained in early development.
• Professor Chi Jianjun led Tang Xiao to the hangar, where Tang Xiao saw the completed CF/A-17 Wraith fighter.
• Tang Xiao took off in the Wraith fighter and tested its laser cannons and Gemini missiles, destroying target drones with both weapons.
• Tang Xiao confirmed the Wraith fighter outperformed the Blade fighter in speed and agility, then ordered Blade-class fighters moved to reserve and mothership production lines devoted to Wraith fighters.

Tang Xiao oversaw upgrades to the Wraith fighter and the refit of a captured Hammerhead-class cruiser as the Fourth Civilization expanded its forces. On Tatooine, a bombing struck the Bonta Night Speeder Race track, where a young slave boy watched with dreams of racing.

• Chi Jianjun proposed pulse laser cannons, hyperspace engines, and stealth systems for future Wraith fighters before collapsing from exhaustion, and Tang Xiao ordered him to Dawn Star Planet to recover.
• Twenty Wraith fighters rolled off the production line, while engineers refitted the captured Hammerhead-class cruiser to carry eighteen Wraith fighters and two shuttles.
• Broderick Shale arrived on Tatooine and began a violent wave of robberies and destruction.
• At the Bonta Night Speeder Race track, a young slave boy told his mother he wanted to race when he grew up, but she reminded him that racing was beyond their means.
• An explosion hit a speeder racer in the starting plaza, hurling its driver and nearby technicians into the air.