Arc 35The Mid Rim Offensive

The Confederacy launched its Mid Rim campaign as Tang Xiao strengthened alliances and prepared for the conflict, while battles on Haruun Kal drew Depa Barris and the Dream Sisters into a fight against the Separatists’ new weapon. The Dream Sisters trapped Quinlan Vos, Karoc, and Vinoc in illusions, killing Karoc and Vinoc while Quinlan watched.

  • Tang Xiao recruited Doctor Otto Gunther Octavius, then Count Dooku won support for a Mid Rim offensive despite General Grievous’s warnings about the Confederacy’s strained resources.
  • Tang Xiao and other leaders formed the Cooperative Alliance, which received the Endless-class Super Carrier blueprints as Darth Malthael gained their allegiance.
  • Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano destroyed Plague at Trogan, prompting Count Dooku to announce a replacement Titan warship named Tenebrous.
  • The Givin joined the Confederacy, and Republic forces under Sha Koon attacked Yag'Dhul as the Confederacy opened its five-pronged Mid Rim offensive.
  • Tang Xiao negotiated with Bangjila-Ulan for parts and credits, while Rendili StarDrive delayed its Dreadnought components and faced growing pressure from Kuat Drive Yards.
  • On Haruun Kal, Depa Barris found evidence of Balawai atrocities, killed a captured Balawai, and joined Carl Vasto in organizing Korunnai resistance as she searched for the Dream Sisters.
  • Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion discovered the Separatists’ Organic Resonator plot and blew up Pelek-Baw City's spaceport, while Quinlan Vos helped Colonel Loz Gepden set a trap for the Jedi infiltrators.
  • The Dream Sisters turned the warehouse ambush against Quinlan Vos, Karoc, and Vinoc with illusions, then killed Vinoc and Karoc while Quinlan watched.
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Ch. 858Two Legends

Tang Xiao recruited Force-sensitive General Ling Liang into the Fourth Civilization’s military leadership and arranged for her to train in the Force. He also summoned Doctor Otto Gunther Octavius, whose hunger for wartime scientific work led him to accept Tang Xiao’s offer.

  • Tang Xiao told Ling Liang that her Force sensitivity could help her grow stronger and named her a future core commander.
  • Ling Liang agreed to prove herself, and Tang Xiao assigned her as General Xian Hui’s adjutant and arranged Force lessons with Green Beatty.
  • Tang Xiao sent Justin Levis and Fourth Legion soldiers to bring Doctor Otto back to his office.
  • Doctor Otto explained that he wanted to restore his mechanical arms and pursue inventions through war.
  • Tang Xiao revealed the Dark Side Force and recruited Doctor Otto Gunther Octavius to use his knowledge in the coming conflict.

Ch. 859The Next Stage

Tang Xiao gave the newly awakened Doctor Octopus a research base and funding, then joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems’ leaders to discuss expanding the war into the Mid Rim. Count Dooku’s proposal gained corporate and political support, but General Grievous warned that the offensive could become an unsustainable gamble.

  • Tang Xiao learned that Doctor Octopus had awakened because the Fourth Civilization met his research requirements and Tang Xiao’s leadership met his extremist tendency requirement.
  • Tang Xiao assigned Doctor Octopus an experimental base, more than a dozen researchers, and one billion credits, leaving him free to pursue his own work.
  • Tang Xiao attended Count Dooku’s victory banquet on Laxus Sub-planet as the Confederacy of Independent Systems continued to dominate the Outer Rim and connect its southern and eastern theaters.
  • Count Dooku proposed consolidating occupied territory and launching a full-scale offensive into the Mid Rim, winning support from Shu Mai, Wat Tambor, Miraj Scintel, and Nute Gunray.
  • General Grievous cautiously opposed the offensive, warning that Mid Rim worlds were harder to conquer and that the Confederacy’s debt-heavy proxy-war structure could collapse if the fighting became a quagmire.

Ch. 860A Giant Net

Count Dooku pushed the Confederacy of Independent Systems toward a full-scale Mid Rim offensive despite General Grievous's concerns about supplies and transport. Tang Xiao recognized Darth Sidious's plan to draw the corporations and Republic oligarchs into a larger trap, then declined to commit Dawn Star Planet to the campaign.

  • General Grievous opposed an attack on the Mid Rim because the Confederacy lacked the supplies, transport capacity, and warships needed to sustain it.
  • Count Dooku argued that the Confederacy had to threaten the Republic's Core Worlds before the Republic fully mobilized its industrial strength.
  • Tang Xiao suspected Sidious intended the offensive to make Republic oligarchs rally behind Sheev Palpatine while exhausting the Mega-corporations that Sidious planned to claim as spoils.
  • Count Dooku won support for his plan, and General Grievous changed his position to argue that the Mid Rim attack was feasible.
  • Count Dooku asked Tang Xiao what he thought, and Tang Xiao said Dawn Star Planet would focus on Eriadu and lacked the strength for a Mid Rim campaign.
  • Count Dooku praised Dawn Star Planet's 178 captured warships, but Tang Xiao replied that most could not yet enter combat.

Ch. 861Conspiracy

The Confederacy of Independent Systems agreed to attack the Mid Rim, while Tang Xiao secretly reassured Nute Gunray and held talks with other corporate leaders. Count Dooku reported his capture of Jedi Master Ith Koth to Darth Sidious, who asked where the Plague was.

  • The Confederacy of Independent Systems reached a consensus on a five-pronged offensive into the Mid Rim, and Tang Xiao secured support for Yag'Dhul and a role for Selurite agents on Mon Calamari.
  • Count Dooku appointed Riff Tamson to guide the Mon Calamari operation after the Quarren Isolation League called for intervention.
  • Tang Xiao told Nute Gunray that the Mid Rim campaign was a trap to weaken the Mega-corporations, then reassured him that he had made arrangements.
  • Tang Xiao held private discussions with San Hill, Toonbuck Toora, the Givin representative, and Glosse Shelbia.
  • Count Dooku visited the imprisoned Ith Koth, then contacted Darth Sidious, who praised the capture and asked about the Plague.

Ch. 862Frustrated Dooku

Darth Sidious ordered Count Dooku to destroy the Plague, while Dooku struggled to hide his frustration and anger. After San Hill reported that the Separatists had begun producing Behemoth-class battlecruisers, he revealed that the InterGalactic Banking Clan might delay its 39-billion-credit investment in the DS-1 project, shocking Dooku.

  • Darth Sidious berated Count Dooku for failing to destroy the Plague and ordered him to arrange its destruction at Trogan, suggesting that leaked news would draw Jedi Knights to do it.
  • Darth Sidious taunted the captive Eeth Koth about eventually falling to the Dark Side, while Dooku reflected on the Archangel of Death’s influence over the Plague’s glowing media coverage.
  • Eeth Koth mocked Dooku as Sidious’s servant, and Dooku used the Force to injure him before ordering the interrogation droid to keep him alive.
  • Count Dooku met San Hill, who reported that production lines for the Behemoth-class battlecruiser were ready and mass production would begin soon.
  • San Hill told Count Dooku that the InterGalactic Banking Clan might delay the DS-1 project’s second-phase funding of 39 billion credits, and Dooku exclaimed that it was impossible.

Ch. 863Equal Judgment (Part 1)

San Hill told Count Dooku that the InterGalactic Banking Clan had ended its investment in the DS-1 project and would instead fund heavy industry in the Outer Rim Territories. At a secret Cooperative Alliance meeting, Darth Malthael celebrated the alliance’s growing influence and revealed that its investment would produce an Endless Class supercarrier.

  • San Hill told Count Dooku that The Core Five had canceled funding for the DS-1 project and approved a 500-billion-credit investment in Outer Rim heavy industry.
  • San Hill reported the decision to Darth Malthael and the Cooperative Alliance leaders, saying Count Dooku had reacted angrily.
  • Darth Malthael declared that the alliance would steer the Confederacy of Independent Systems toward its own victory, and the members chanted “Equal Judgment.”
  • Darth Malthael presented Nute Gunray with the design for an Endless Class supercarrier, funded by the new investment.

Ch. 864Equal Judgment (Part 2)

Darth Malthael revealed the complete blueprints for the Endless-class Super Carrier to Nute Gunray and the gathered Separatist leaders, turning their awe into fervent faith. He left them with a weapon suited to the Confederacy’s needs and the confidence to fight the Galactic Republic and Darth Sidious.

  • Darth Malthael gave Nute Gunray the Endless-class Super Carrier blueprints and urged him to use the Eye of God to defeat the Republic, Darth Sidious, and his fear.
  • The assembled leaders studied the carrier’s specifications and recognized that its size and capacity made it a warship capable of transporting a fleet and mechanized army.
  • Darth Malthael’s gift inspired worship and fanaticism among the influential figures, gaining him faith rather than payment for the technology.
  • Darth Malthael chose the carrier because the wealthy Trade Federation could build it and the Confederacy needed a powerful way to deploy ground forces through orbital defenses.
  • Darth Malthael expected the carrier’s intimidating power to give the timid Toonbuck Toora, Nute Gunray, and San Hill the courage to resist the Republic and Darth Sidious.

Ch. 865Equal Judgment (Part 2)

Darth Malthael recruited Ziro Tiure Desilijic into the Cooperative Alliance by promising support for her bid to become patriarch of the Desilijic kajidic, while planning to use its internal conflict against Jabba and Darth Sidious. Meanwhile, the Jedi Council investigated the Geth attacks and sent Sass Tiin to Ord Mantell to address the threat amid growing military pressure on the Republic.

  • Darth Malthael welcomed Ziro into the Cooperative Alliance and offered 10 billion credits if she secured Zorba's will and took control of the Desilijic kajidic.
  • Ziro pledged to obtain Zorba's will and kill him, while Darth Malthael made her access to funding conditional on her gaining control of the kajidic's smuggling network.
  • Darth Malthael explained that Aruk Besadi had consolidated control over the Besadi kajidic and that he intended to exploit Desilijic's internal divisions to eliminate Jabba, who had pledged allegiance to Darth Sidious.
  • Mace Windu and the Jedi Council reviewed reports of the Geth, whose attacks created half-human, half-machine Corpse Puppets, and Shaak Ti suggested comparing their insect-shaped ships with known species.
  • The Jedi discussed the Republic's strained position as the Blade Fleet, Dawn Star Planet, and Separatist forces threatened its fronts, and Sass Tiin agreed to travel to Ord Mantell to deal with the Geth.

Ch. 866The Apocalypse and Serenity

Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano led an assault that destroyed the Confederacy of Independent Systems’ Titan warship Plague on Trogan, sparking political unrest. The Confederacy named its replacement Tenebrous as the galaxy entered a brief lull before a larger storm.

  • Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano led the 501st Legion in an attack on Plague near Trogan, where Obi-Wan crashed into the warship and captured Quarren general Vessus Ando.
  • Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano helped seize Plague’s control center, locked its steering, and sent the Titan warship crashing onto uninhabited Trogan before the Jedi escaped.
  • The destruction of Plague provoked protests and calls for neutrality across the Confederacy, and Count Dooku suppressed opposition while promising victories in the coming Mid Rim offensive.
  • Count Dooku commissioned a monument to Plague and announced a second Ragnarok-class Titan warship, but Francis Underwood and other senators fought over its name.
  • Count Dooku and Francis Underwood settled on the name Tenebrous, with General Sefrans Tann promised command of the new warship.
  • From late January into February of 21 BBY, the main fleets of the Confederacy and the Galactic Republic entered a rare period of calm.

Ch. 867The Givens Join the Battle

After the Republic forced its way into Yag'Dhul, the Givin left the Republic and joined the Confederacy, bringing the Fourth Civilization to the brink of a new front. As both sides prepared for war, Tang Xiao received a call from Bangjila Urlan, the powerful patriarch of the Urlan family and head of Rendili StarDrive.

  • The Senate approved an investigation of Yag'Dhul, but the Givin blocked Bail Organa's delegation and refused to open their borders.
  • After the Republic attacked the Interdictors, the Givin withdrew from the Republic, joined the Confederacy, and mobilized for war.
  • Octavian Grant's fleet entered Yag'Dhul, spotted a massive Agonev-class star base, and withdrew before preparing a larger assault.
  • Tang Xiao assigned Ling Liang to advise the defense of Yag'Dhul and appointed Lin Nanyi as his adjutant.
  • Tang Xiao accepted a long-awaited call from Bangjila Urlan, who introduced himself as the Urlan family patriarch and Chief Director of Rendili StarDrive.

Ch. 868The Fall of Rendili

Tang Xiao negotiated with Bangjila-Ulan over the Katana’s Navigation Log and uncovered Rendili StarDrive’s struggle against Kuat Drive Yards. Their conversation ended with an understanding that Rendili would delay arms deliveries to give Wilhuff Tarkin time to act and demonstrate Rendili’s warships’ strength.

  • Bangjila-Ulan offered free replacement parts for the Blade Fleet’s 178 remaining warships and one billion credits in exchange for the Katana’s Navigation Log and internal footage, and Tang Xiao agreed.
  • Bangjila-Ulan said the Katana’s log could not reverse the Blade Fleet disaster but was a necessary move, then recognized that Tang Xiao’s warship designs carried a heritage from elsewhere.
  • Bangjila-Ulan recounted Rendili StarDrive’s history and warned that Kuat Drive Yards saw Rendili as its next prey.
  • Tang Xiao argued that Rendili’s predicament was political, not a matter of warship performance, and said Rendili and the other major factions were all prey.
  • Bangjila-Ulan said Rendili could not join the Separatists or supply them with Victory-class Star Destroyers, and that delivery of Dreadnought-class parts would be delayed by a month.
  • Tang Xiao explained the delay would give Wilhuff Tarkin time to deploy and let Rendili demonstrate the Dreadnought-class’s strength; Bangjila-Ulan gave him a private communications frequency.

Ch. 869The Orphans of the Era

Tang Xiao reflected on Rendili StarDrive’s decline and explained why it had fallen behind Kuat Drive Yards, despite its long history and the Victory-class Star Destroyer. He left Bangjila Ulan with only a seed of doubt and considered how to obtain Rendili’s accumulated strength before its predicted destruction.

  • Tang Xiao reviewed how Rendili StarDrive rose to prominence but lost ground through political indecision, outdated designs, and its failure to compete with Kuat Drive Yards.
  • Rendili’s Blade Fleet vanished on its maiden voyage, and the Republic Judicial Fleet halted orders while Kuat secured growing military contracts and political favor.
  • Bangjila Ulan’s attempts to sell the Victory-class Star Destroyer failed, leaving Rendili with few orders as Kuat’s shipyards worked at full capacity.
  • Tang Xiao judged that Bangjila Ulan still believed Rendili could recover, so he chose to plant a doubt rather than press him further.
  • Tang Xiao expected Palpatine to drive Rendili into betraying the Republic and planned to acquire some of its strength before its eventual destruction.

Ch. 870The Flames of War Ignite Again

The Galactic Republic opened the Battle of Yag'Dhul, where Ling Liang and the Givin defended the system against Master Sha Koon's fleet. As the Confederacy launched a broad Mid Rim offensive, the Republic concentrated its strength at Eriadu in preparation for Sefrans Tann's approaching Blade Fleet, while fighting also stirred on Haruun Kal.

  • On February 33, Master Sha Koon led the Republic's 20th Army fleet into the Yag'Dhul system, and Octavian Grant went to Jizhou planet to oversee the command.
  • Ling Liang and Lin Nanyi arrived in Dodecapolis to advise the Givin, whose forces were bolstered by two Agonev-class star bases, Fourth Civilization ships, and Gran troops.
  • On February 34, Sha Koon's probing attack met heavy fire from the Agonev-class star bases, forcing her fleet to withdraw and begin a long-range artillery engagement.
  • On February 35, Grievous attacked Antar, Trench attacked Kalinda, and fighting broke out on Ryloth, Savara, and Yariel as the Confederacy began a full-scale Mid Rim offensive.
  • The Republic Supreme Strategic Command sent newly built ships to Eriadu instead of aiding attacked planets, while Sefrans Tann took command of all 178 Blade Fleet Dreadnoughts at Gerrenthum.
  • Rendili StarDrive postponed delivering Dreadnought components to Dawn Star Planet, and the chapter ended with brutal fighting underway on Haruun Kal.

Ch. 872Blood Feud

Depa Barris awoke from a recurring nightmare in which she believed she had massacred civilians while trying to protect a baby. In a Korunnai village on Haruun Kal, she learned that Balawai had destroyed a village and saw its sole survivor before Carl Vasto prepared to exact revenge on a captured Balawai.

  • Depa Barris woke from a nightmare of killing civilians and discovering a skeleton where the baby she meant to protect should have been.
  • Depa Barris went to the village square and found the Akk Guards and villagers gathered around Carl Vasto's house.
  • Carl Vasto told Depa Barris that the Balawai had destroyed a village of seventy people, and she found a mutilated survivor still barely alive.
  • Carl Vasto declared a blood feud and killed the survivor with his dagger.
  • Depa Barris confronted the captured Balawai, who pleaded for her help, as Carl Vasto approached him with his power shield and repeated, "Blood feud."

Ch. 873Fury and Fear

Depa Barris tracked the Balawai who had raided Korunnai villages and learned that their winter equipment enabled attacks beyond the usual summer fighting season. When she heard that captured women spies were being abused in Pelek Baw City, she feared for Luna Meng and Luna Huan and attacked the camp.

  • Carl Vasto maimed a captured Balawai, and Depa Barris ended his suffering by beheading him.
  • Depa Barris set off alone to find the Balawai raiders, despite Carl Vasto offering to accompany her.
  • Depa Barris found an armed Balawai camp and overheard its members boast that they had destroyed four Korunnai villages and planned to harvest Thyssel tree bark.
  • The Balawai discussed captured women spies in Pelek Baw City, and Depa Barris realized Luna Meng and Luna Huan might be among them.
  • Depa Barris lost control of her fury, charged the camp with her Lightsaber, and cut down two Balawai.

Ch. 874Dreamlike

The Dream Sisters continued their carefree infiltration of Pelek-Baw City while avoiding its administrative center, where a powerful Dark Side user was stationed. At the Spotted Wolf bar, Luna-Illusion used an illusion of Captain Simba to question a drunk soldier about Korunnai spies.

  • Pelek-Baw City prospered through organized harvesting and processing of Thyssel tree bark, drawing the Confederacy of Independent Systems' attention.
  • Luna-Illusion entertained mercenaries by appearing as Captain Simba while Luna-Dream and Rainbow's group watched.
  • Rainbow recalled how the Dream Sisters had entered and roamed the city freely using illusions, though they avoided the administrative center because of its powerful Dark Side user.
  • Captain Simba questioned a drunk soldier about female Korunnai spies captured by the Guardian unit.
  • The soldier said the Commander had slept with the Korunnai women before having them arrested, and Captain Simba asked whether the official in the administrative center had enjoyed them too.

Ch. 875The Three Lords

Luna-Meng and Luna-Huan learned that Colonel Lorz Geptun planned to exterminate the Korunnai before large-scale Thyssel tree bark harvesting began, then encountered the three Dark Jedi overseeing the operation. The sisters stayed undercover as Depa Barris watched from afar and prepared to act.

  • A drunken soldier told Luna-Meng and Luna-Huan that Colonel Lorz Geptun intended to wipe out the Korunnai within three months, and Captain Simba put him to sleep.
  • Luna-Meng, Luna-Huan, and the Clone Troopers discussed the likely use of a secret weapon, and Luna-Huan decided they should stir up trouble.
  • The sisters followed soldiers to a destroyed camp where they recognized Lightsaber wounds and saw Quinlan Vos arrive with Karoc and Vinoc.
  • Quinlan Vos concluded that Jedi had organized the Highland Liberation Front and ordered patrols strengthened, while the sisters concealed their Force presence.
  • Depa Barris sensed the Dream Sisters' situation from a distant treetop and resolved to act.

Ch. 876Secret Weapon

Depa Billaba resolved to act, while the Dream Sisters and their companions planned to exploit weakened city patrols to investigate the secret weapon. At the command center, Quinlan Vos learned the Organic Resonator could kill Korunnai and Grassers while leaving Diesel trees and equipment unharmed, and Colonel Loz Gepdon promised to join the Confederacy if it helped exterminate the Korunnai.

  • Depa Billaba recognized that the Dream Sisters could handle the danger in Pelek Baw City and decided to proceed with her plan.
  • Luna-Dream warned the group that the dreadlocked man had noticed something unusual, and they planned to study the Guardians’ movements before approaching the barracks.
  • Quinlan Vos, Karoc, and Vinoc met Colonel Loz Gepdon, who showed them the newly assembled Organic Resonator.
  • Loz Gepdon’s test reduced captured Korunnai spies and a Grasser to mangled flesh while leaving nearby Diesel trees, droids, and hover trucks unharmed.
  • Quinlan Vos praised the weapon, and Loz Gepdon said he would join the Confederacy of Independent Systems after the Korunnai were exterminated.

Ch. 877Fall into Darkness

Depa Barris organized the Korunnai into the Highland Liberation Front and prepared to strike Balawai outposts, while the Dream Sisters learned of a Separatist weapon intended to exterminate the Korunnai. They identified the weapon’s planned deployment and key enemy targets, then considered attacking Pelek Baw’s spaceport.

  • Depa Barris persuaded Carl Vasto to use the Highland Liberation Front name and armed Korunnai warriors with equipment seized from smugglers.
  • Depa Barris called on the Korunnai to destroy every Balawai outpost around Pelek Baw City without leaving survivors.
  • Luna-Dream and Luna-Illusion found a hidden Jedi Order contact code and followed its clues to a note delivered by a covert agent.
  • Luna-Dream deciphered that the Separatists planned to deploy a shockwave weapon from the DOKAW aerospace weapons platform to kill the Korunnai.
  • Luna-Dream identified Count Dooku’s Dark Followers and Colonel Loz Gopton as targets, while Luna-Illusion proposed blowing up the spaceport.

Ch. 878Spaceport Attack

The Dream Sisters destroyed Pelek-Baw City's only spaceport with compressed blaster gas, triggering a lockdown that threatens the Jedi plan to destroy the Separatists' secret weapon. Quinlan Vos identified the attackers as Jedi and resolved to use their strength to target the Dark Jedi twins, while Clone Trooper Rainbow confronted the sisters about the disastrous consequences.

  • An explosion destroyed Pelek-Baw City's spaceport, and Colonel Loz Geptun sealed the city while ordering a search for the culprit.
  • Investigators traced the missing compressed blaster gas to the armory, but surveillance showed no clear theft until later footage revealed the canisters vanishing.
  • Karoc and Vinoc detected a disturbance in the Force and concluded that Jedi Knights had infiltrated the city to target the Organic Resonator.
  • Quinlan Vos realized the spaceport's destruction was the other Jedi's answer to his contact and considered arranging an opportunity to kill the Dark Jedi twins.
  • Clone Trooper Rainbow angrily confronted the Dream Sisters, and Luna-Dream explained that the Separatists could still force a transport ship to land.

Ch. 879Confidence

After three days hiding under an illusion, the Dream Sisters received intelligence about a chance to ambush Karoc and Vinoc and decided to act. Meanwhile, Quinlan Vos proposed using false information about the Organic Resonator to lure the enemy out.

  • The Dream Sisters and Rainbow avoided repeated searches in Pelek-Baw City while dark Jedi Knights came dangerously close to their residence.
  • The Dream Sisters decoded a message saying an informant would lure Karoc and Vinoc to a northern warehouse the following day and divert the Guardian forces.
  • Ye Zi, Beard, and Rainbow warned that the message might be a trap, but Luna-Illusion and Luna-Dream chose to proceed and asked Rainbow to keep the Guardian forces away from the warehouse.
  • Colonel Loz-Gopton berated Karoc over the failed search and attacks on outposts, and Quinlan Vos suggested spreading false information that the Organic Resonator was being transferred.

Ch. 880Preparation

Quinlan Vos convinced Colonel Loz Gepden to dismantle the Organic Resonator’s casing and use it as bait to lure the Jedi Knight into a trap. As Quinlan entered the warehouse with the disguised weapon, he realized the casing’s weight was wrong.

  • Quinlan Vos persuaded Colonel Loz Gepden to expose the Organic Resonator’s core and stage a false deployment to draw out the Jedi Knight.
  • Colonel Loz Gepden agreed to lock down Pelek-Baw City, protect the core, and keep troops ready while splitting his forces among those duties.
  • Quinlan Vos secretly guided the plans toward a northern warehouse and arranged for rumors about the weapon’s location to spread among mercenaries.
  • Quinlan Vos, Karoc, and Vinoc escorted the disguised Organic Resonator casing and more than a hundred soldiers into the warehouse.
  • Quinlan Vos sensed something was wrong and realized the casing weighed differently than it should.

Ch. 881Dark Brothers vs. Dream Sisters (Part 1): Our Dream

Quinlan Vos discovered that the warehouse and its cargo had been unnaturally frozen in the exact state he had observed the day before. He and Karoc and Vinoc confronted the Luna sisters, whose illusions turned their soldiers against them, while the sisters revealed they could stand in midair.

  • Quinlan Vos noticed the counterfeit organic resonator was 50 kilograms lighter and realized nothing in the warehouse had changed since his previous visit.
  • Karoc and Vinoc sensed something was wrong, and Quinlan Vos prepared for a battle he believed had been anticipated by a Jedi Knight.
  • Luna Illusion and Luna Dream emerged and introduced themselves as the two Jedi apprentices who had come to confront the Dark Jedi Knights.
  • Karoc ordered his soldiers to attack the sisters, but the soldiers instead aimed their blasters at Karoc, Vinoc, and Quinlan Vos.
  • Karoc and Vinoc discovered their Lightsabers passed through the soldiers, while Quinlan Vos realized the illusions' blaster fire felt real to the Force.
  • The Luna sisters repelled Karoc's attack and stood in midair, astonishing Quinlan Vos, Karoc, and Vinoc.

Ch. 882Dark Brothers vs. Dream Sisters (Part 2): My World

The Dream Sisters trapped Karoc, Vinoc, and Quinlan Vos in illusions that fooled both the Force and electronic equipment. Karoc and Vinoc discovered that wrecking their surroundings exposed the illusions’ limits, but Luna-Illusion revealed that Quinlan Vos stood with the sisters beyond the brothers’ perception.

  • Vinoc tried to seize the airborne Dream Sisters with the Force, but Karoc recognized the scene as an illusion and deflected a real tiny Lightsaber aimed at Vinoc.
  • Luna-Illusion created hundreds of duplicates that attacked with tiny Lightsabers, while Quinlan Vos pretended to struggle and slipped into a shipping container.
  • Karoc and Vinoc concluded that the sisters’ illusions hid their lack of Lightsaber skill, and Karoc narrowly saved Vinoc from a real blade emerging from a cargo crate.
  • Karoc and Vinoc smashed crates and containers, noticed that the wreckage did not match reality, and inferred that the sisters’ illusions had limits.
  • Luna-Illusion spoke with Quinlan Vos in the warehouse while Karoc and Vinoc could neither see nor hear them, and Quinlan stared at the sisters in fear.

Ch. 883Dark Brothers vs. Dream Sisters (Part 2): Your Nightmare

The Dream Sisters trapped Quinlan Vos and the Dark Brothers in illusions, then summoned near-perfect copies of the three Jedi to fight for them. Quinlan stayed out of the battle as Karoc and Vinoc were defeated, leaving the sisters in control of the warehouse.

  • Luna Dream explained that the sisters could read Quinlan Vos’s thoughts because they were inside his dream, while Luna Illusion mocked him.
  • The sisters ended the surrounding illusions and revealed the wrecked warehouse, where the three Dark Jedi Knights had killed one hundred soldiers.
  • Luna Dream and Luna Illusion summoned illusions of Karoc, Vinoc, and Quinlan Vos, which wielded their lightsaber forms and attacked the Dark Brothers.
  • Quinlan Vos considered attacking the exhausted sisters, but Luna Dream’s glance made him lose his nerve, and he sat down to watch.
  • Karoc called Quinlan a traitor before Quinlan’s illusion stabbed him; the other illusions severed Vinoc’s arms, and Luna Illusion killed him with a tiny Lightsaber.
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