Recaps

Darth Malthael and the Protoss fought through the Taris underground city as Zerakas followed psionic clues toward Celeste Morne’s trail and the Muur Talisman. After discovering that the Rakghouls were intelligent, Malthael became interested in the plague, and the group reached a cave near a dried-up underground river and several spacecraft wrecks.

• Zerakas explained that Celeste Morne had entered the underground city through the mine shaft and that his tribe’s psionics had led them deeper.
• Talim found Lightsaber-scarred Rakghoul corpses beside a machine-dug passage, and the group entered a vast underground space where living Rakghouls attacked.
• Talim and the Protoss warriors fought through waves of Rakghouls while Darth Malthael noticed that they understood their weapons had failed and chose to attack at close range.
• Darth Malthael realized that the Rakghoul plague threatened ordinary people far more than Force-sensitive individuals and smiled at the power it represented.
• Zerakas led the group to a cave near their destination, where Lucien Draay connected Celeste Morne’s disappearance to a conflict with the Mandalorian Crusaders.
• Darth Malthael checked the terrain scan and spotted the wrecks of several spacecraft near a dried-up underground river.

Darth Malthael and his allies searched the Taris Death Dungeon for the Muur Talisman’s trail and discovered that the Mandalorian Crusaders had taken it to Jubal planet. After escaping the Rakghoul horde, they traveled toward Jubal, while Malthael confirmed he could destroy the virus infecting the wounded Protoss warriors.

• Zerakas detected traces of the Muur Talisman near a crashed spaceship, and Darth Malthael led the group through Rakghouls to investigate the wreckage.
• Darth Malthael found the lingering soul of a Jedi Master and learned from its memories that the Jedi Covenant had pursued the talisman to Jebble, while Zerakas discovered that the Mandalorians planned to take it to a secret base.
• Darth Malthael hurled a spaceship wreckage through the Rakghoul horde to open a path, and the group fought their way back to the mine shaft and escaped aboard their transport ship.
• Darth Malthael and Zerakas concluded that the Mandalorian Crusaders had taken the Muur Talisman to Jubal planet, and their ship set course there.
• Darth Malthael examined a wounded Protoss warrior, found the Rakghoul virus spreading through the warrior’s blood, and used the Force to destroy the virus.

Darth Malthael and his companions discovered that Jubal planet had been reduced to a world of black ice by Orbital Bombardment and the Rakghoul plague. They intercepted a cargo ship and boarded it, with Darth Malthael confronting its crew in the cockpit.

• Darth Malthael explained how the Mandalorian Wars had overrun the Jubal-Vago-Tarnit defensive line and left Jubal planet's fate unknown.
• Darth Malthael, Lucien Draay, and Zerakas found Jubal planet covered in smooth black ice and determined that Orbital Bombardment and the Rakghoul plague had devastated it.
• Zerakas explained that the plague had mixed with dust after the bombardment, turning the frozen seas black.
• Darth Malthael spotted a cargo ship on the radar and ordered the Protoss transport ship to ram it.
• The Protoss transport ship crippled the cargo ship, and Darth Malthael appeared in its cockpit and held a blood-red Lightsaber to the pilot's throat.

Darth Malthael learned that the Jabble box was on Aridus planet and traveled there to find it. He discovered that Kuruuru, the smuggler who had possessed the box, had died six months earlier.

• Darth Malthael interrogated the ice diggers on Jubal planet and learned the black ice contained remnants of the Rakghoul plague.
• An ice digger told Darth Malthael that the Jabble box had passed to Kuruuru, leader of a group of Kubbit smugglers on Aridus planet.
• Darth Malthael killed the ice diggers so no one would know he had been there, then learned Zerakas and the Protoss were excavating a buried structure on Jubal planet.
• Darth Malthael borrowed the Protoss transport ship and traveled to Aridus planet.
• Darth Malthael asked around in a Kubbit city and learned Kuruuru had been killed in a gang melee six months earlier.

Darth Malthael learned that Schurk-Heren had taken a sealed coffin called Jebble's Vault from Kuruuru's ruins aboard the Uhumele. After killing the mercenary who led him there, he arranged to buy the vault from Schurk-Heren, who feared the buyer might be dangerous.

• Darth Malthael paid a mercenary to learn that Separatist droids had wiped out Kuruuru's gang and that Schurk-Heren had carried away a sealed coffin from the ruins.
• The mercenary said Schurk-Heren had taken the coffin, believed to be a legendary treasure, aboard the Uhumele and returned to New Plympto.
• Darth Malthael had the mercenary take him to the ruins, then killed him and drove away.
• Schurk-Heren learned that someone had offered five hundred thousand credits for Jebble's Vault and questioned how the buyer knew he had it.
• The intermediary urged Schurk-Heren to make the deal, warning that refusing might cost him both the money and his life.

Darth Malthael bought Jabble box’s coordinates from Shulk Heron, then killed and resurrected him to force him to reveal the true location. Malthael found the black coffin-like vault in the XH88T1L92 System and recognized that the Muur Talisman was inside.

• Darth Malthael met Shulk Heron on Mimban and offered credits for Jabble box, but Heron demanded a face-to-face transaction and questioned Malthael’s identity.
• Heron revealed that Jabble box was linked to the destruction of Jubal and threatened to withhold its coordinates, so Malthael raised his offer to one and a half million credits.
• Heron gave Malthael false coordinates and tried to leave, but Malthael killed him and his bodyguards, then killed the broker through the communicator.
• Malthael resurrected Heron and forced him to disclose the true coordinates in the XH88T1L92 System.
• Malthael reached the system’s asteroid belt and found a large black box resembling an iron coffin, which he recognized as containing the Muur Talisman.

Darth Malthael recovered Lord Dreypa’s Stasis Pod and brought it to Jubal, where Zerakas recommended decoding the laboratory records before opening it. As the excavation continued, Malthael reviewed the Fourth Civilization’s worsening conflicts on several fronts and asked Volgograd Kanidi whether the Kuna Cluster needed reinforcements.

• Darth Malthael identified the ancient inscription as Lord Dreypa’s Stasis Pod and sensed that it was still functioning, so he carried it to Jubal without opening it.
• Darth Malthael arrived at Zerakas’s camp, where Zerakas identified the recovered facility as a high-security laboratory that had researched the Muur Talisman and advised decoding its records first.
• Darth Malthael reviewed the Fourth Civilization’s military situation as Eriadu’s defenses weakened and the Republic stirred attacks and rebellions across Yago-Dor, the Kuna Cluster, and Cerea.
• Darth Malthael asked Volgograd Kanidi whether the Kuna Cluster needed reinforcements, and Kanidi said he would not request them because that would fulfill the Republic’s strategy.

Darth Malthael refused to prioritize reinforcements for the Kuna Cluster, prompting Shulk-Herun and the resurrected bodyguards to submit to him. Meanwhile, Zerakas’s team recovered records revealing the Mandalorian Crusaders’ history with the Stasis Pod on Taris, and Darth Malthael prepared to open it.

• Darth Malthael redirected Dawn Star Planet’s production toward the Eriadu and Yago-Dul campaigns, and Shulk-Herun begged to serve him in exchange for his life.
• Zerakas and the others recovered and deciphered records about the Mandalorian Crusaders’ expedition to Taris 4,000 years earlier.
• The records explained how Percival found Lord Dreypa’s Stasis Pod amid intelligent Rakghouls, escaped with it after the Mandalorian army was overwhelmed, and planned to take it to Jubal planet.
• Darth Malthael concluded that the site had been an experimental ship, and Zerakas proposed using Percival’s recorded methods to open the Stasis Pod.

Darth Malthael investigated the Muur Talisman’s history and opened the stasis pod containing it. He awakened Celeste Morne, who learned that nearly four thousand years had passed and the Mandalorian Wars were over.

• Darth Malthael deduced that Percival had taken the Muur Talisman from Karness Muur’s corpse after the Rakghoul plague had begun spreading.
• Darth Malthael found records showing that Karness Fett had assembled 8.13 million troops on Jubal to invade Alderaan, but the invasion never began.
• Darth Malthael used ancient Sith words to open the stasis pod and ordered Talim to prepare for a fight while Zerakas returned to the ship.
• Darth Malthael stopped Shulk Heren and the bodyguards from leaving, and Talim blocked their path as the pod opened.
• Celeste Morne awakened with the Muur Talisman around her neck and asked who the people around her were.
• Darth Malthael told Celeste Morne that she had slept for nearly four thousand years and that the Mandalorian Wars had ended two years after she entered the pod.

On frozen Jubal, Celeste Morne awoke from stasis and attacked Darth Malthael after learning the planet had been devastated and the Muur Talisman remained a threat. Malthael and Talim defeated her, and Karness Muur emerged from her body, recognized Malthael as a Sith, and proposed an alliance.

• Darth Malthael told Celeste Morne that four thousand years had passed and a Mandalorian orbital bombardment had destroyed Jubal.
• Celeste Morne realized the Muur Talisman was still around her neck and attacked Darth Malthael with her Lightsaber.
• Temple Guardian Talim blocked Celeste's attack and steadily overwhelmed her in a duel.
• Darth Malthael struck Celeste with the Force, and Talim kicked her down and disarmed her.
• Karness Muur's phantom emerged from Celeste, identified Darth Malthael as a Sith, and offered to join forces with him.

Celeste Morne unleashed immense Dark Side power, transforming a group of Weequay into Rakghouls and overwhelming the people around her. As Darth Malthael fought the Rakghouls, Celeste attacked Talim with Force lightning.

• Darth Malthael moved toward Celeste Morne to take the talisman, while Karness Muur urged her to accept her death.
• Celeste Morne erupted with powerful Dark Side Force and refused to let Darth Malthael and Karness Muur have their way.
• A group of Weequay led by Dross arrived, mistook the gathering for a threat, and tried to leave after realizing their mistake.
• Celeste Morne swept out with the Force, transforming the Weequay into Rakghouls while Shulk Herun and his men remained unchanged.
• The Rakghouls fired at Darth Malthael, who deflected their blaster bolts, but they kept attacking without being hurt.
• Celeste Morne charged at Talim and struck him with Force lightning, sending him flying despite his attempt to block it with his Lightsaber.

Darth Malthael tried to seize Karness Muur while Celeste Moen and Talim fought, but Celeste and Karness joined forces against him. The Celeste/Karness fusion emerged with overwhelming power and prepared to begin the real fight.

• Celeste Moen overwhelmed Talim with Dark Side lightning and hurled chunks of black ice as Darth Malthael joined the battle.
• Darth Malthael seized Karness Muur with Death Force and revealed that he had targeted Karness to take the amulet.
• Talim struck Celeste Moen, but Karness Muur began breaking free and urged Celeste to join him against Darth Malthael.
• Darth Malthael used Kresh's Gauntlet to isolate Karness Muur from Celeste Moen while warning her that Darth Sidious was secretly leading the Galactic Republic toward civil war.
• Celeste Moen unleashed a storm of lightning that blasted Darth Malthael away, allowing Karness Muur to merge with her.
• The Celeste/Karness fusion reclaimed Celeste's Lightsaber, turned its blade red, and advanced to begin the real fight.

Darth Malthael and Temple Guardian Talim fought Karness Muur, who controlled Celeste Morne’s body, on Jubal planet. Malthael recognized Celeste’s unwavering light as Muur’s weakness and summoned the planet’s wronged souls, whose arms began reaching through the ice.

• Darth Malthael prepared to fight Karness Muur and asked Lucien Draay for insight into Celeste Morne and Muur.
• Karness/Celeste overwhelmed Malthael with lightsaber attacks and Force lightning, while Kresh’s Gauntlet shielded him.
• Talim joined the battle, and Malthael protected him with the gauntlet’s Force barrier so they could fight together.
• Darth Malthael realized Celeste Morne’s steadfast light and his own Death Force could counter Karness Muur, whose possession of her body only temporarily protected him.
• Darth Malthael stabbed his Lightsaber into the black ice and called on Jubal planet’s wronged souls, bringing countless black arms up through the ground.

Darth Malthael used the Death Force to turn Jubal’s glaciers into a realm of the dead and weaken Karness Muur’s hold on Celeste Morn. As Karness Muur’s power faded, Malthael revealed that Darth Sidious was controlling the Republic’s civil war to bring down the Republic and the Jedi Order.

• Darth Malthael awakened Jubal’s vengeful dead, spreading a ghostly realm beneath the glaciers.
• Karness Muur, controlling Celeste Morn, dismissed the spirits as illusions and unleashed lightning to destroy the emerging arms.
• Karness Muur gathered a massive lightning strike, but then realized his strength was draining away.
• Darth Malthael revealed that the realm of death was eroding Celeste Morn’s body and tearing Karness Muur’s soul from it.
• Darth Malthael told Celeste that Darth Sidious had engineered the civil war to exhaust the Jedi Order and bring down the Galactic Republic.

Darth Malthael persuaded Celeste Morne to resist Karness Muur by revealing Lucien Draay’s spirit and warning her about Darth Sidious. After Lucien appeared and Celeste broke down, Muur hid inside her body to evade capture, and Malthael used Death Force against her abdomen.

• Darth Malthael appealed to Celeste Morne to fight Karness Muur, citing Darth Sidious’s threat and showing her Kresh's Gauntlet.
• Celeste recognized Lucien Draay’s spirit and collapsed, confessing her guilt over killing the attackers on Jubal planet to protect Alderaan Planet.
• Lucien Draay comforted Celeste and told her that the Republic had survived and Alderaan had been spared from the Mandalorian Crusaders.
• Karness Muur re-entered Celeste’s body to escape Darth Malthael, who knocked her down and tore away her breastplate.
• Talim pinned Celeste’s hands as Darth Malthael pressed Death Force against her lower abdomen.

Darth Malthael sealed Karness Muur inside Celeste Morne and left Jubal, while Volgograd Kanidi discussed Annaj’s fragile place in the Fourth Civilization. Kanidi chose to avoid immediate action and focus on buying time.

• Darth Malthael sealed Karness Muur within Celeste Morne and ordered Talim to place her in a stasis pod.
• Darth Malthael told Lucien Draay he would gradually wear Karness Muur down to claim his knowledge and amulet, but not his power.
• The Protoss transport ship left Jubal as the Geth began building a factory on the devastated planet.
• Volgograd Kanidi’s adjutant reported that the Ayrou on Annaj Planet had become devoted to the Galactic Republic while the human population concealed its forces.
• Kanidi rejected an immediate move on Annaj and said his only objective was to gain time.

Volgograd-Kanidi prepared to defend the Kuna Cluster against the Galactic Republic, believing that refusing reinforcements would buy Tang Xiao valuable time. The chapter described the cluster’s systems and the growth of its immigrant population, while Kuna’s Tooth faced an approaching Republic fleet commanded by Master Yoda.

• Volgograd-Kanidi told his adjutant that the battle for the Eriadu system would end in their victory and left Kuna’s Tooth’s surrender negotiations to her.
• Volgograd-Kanidi refused reinforcements from Dawn Star Planet, telling his adjutant that buying Tang Xiao time was his greatest contribution.
• Volgograd-Kanidi departed with a squad of soldiers as his adjutant promised to safeguard his cigar and vodka.
• The chapter detailed the five closely linked systems of the Kuna Cluster and their unusual origins, resources, and hazards.
• Claire Underwood helped Volgograd-Kanidi recruit war refugees, and Kuna’s Tooth grew to more than 500 million residents.

Volgograd-Kanidi built the Modell Sector into a productive and loyal home for its residents, but Master Yoda’s Republic fleet invaded and exposed the sector’s military weakness. As the Republic advanced, Kanidi’s forces avoided decisive battle and resistance disrupted the invaders’ supplies, leaving the Republic fleet searching the Kuna Cluster without finding his main fleet.

• Volgograd-Kanidi developed Kuna’s Tooth Planet through mass immigration, agriculture, mining, and gradual industrial expansion, while organizing the Modell Sector’s own defense forces.
• Master Yoda led thirty Hunter Class Battlecruisers into the Modell Sector, and the Ayrou declared their return to the Galactic Republic as fighting erupted between Ayrou and human populations on Annaj and Maya-Covell.
• Admiral Siost sent 8,000 Clone Troopers to Annaj, but Master Yoda soon redirected the fleet to attack the Vaxian and Orville systems as unrest threatened to spiral out of control.
• The Vaxian, Orville III, and Thonner surrendered, but workers refused to support the Republic fleet and hidden defense units sabotaged its spaceports, supplies, and transport ships.
• Admiral Siost sent ten Hunter Class Battlecruisers back to suppress resistance while the remaining twenty pursued Kanidi’s fleet into the Kuna Cluster.
• The Republic fleet attacked the Kuna’s Tooth System but found its planet protected by Gauss defense platforms and Kanidi’s main fleet nowhere in sight.

The Republic fleet attacked Kuna's Tooth Planet, clearing its Gauss defenses and landing Clone Troopers against fierce resistance from the Modell Sector legion. The clones secured a beachhead near Black Horn City and routed the enemy, just as Volgograd-Kanidi's main fleet arrived from hyperspace.

• Twenty Republic Hunter Class Battlecruisers destroyed the Gauss defense platforms around Kuna's Tooth Planet and began landing operations.
• The Fourth Civilization's Modell Sector legion sent Vulture fighters and ground fire against the Republic, while Hunter Class ships destroyed the planet's orbital defense cannon.
• Master Yoda deployed ARC-170 squadrons to bomb the planet's airfields and spaceports, cutting off the legion's ability to rapidly reinforce Black Horn City.
• Republic Clone Troopers defeated a Modell Sector rapid-response force after ARC-170 fighters destroyed its transport ships.
• Twenty thousand Clone Troopers held off nearly fifty thousand Modell Sector troops, then routed them in two hours, leaving over fifteen thousand dead or wounded and nearly all survivors surrendered.
• Volgograd-Kanidi's main fleet emerged from hyperspace outside Kuna's Tooth Planet.

The Republic fleet fought the Modell Sector fleet, but the Separatists used the clash to help Governor Volgograd-Kanidi escape and then fled themselves. Kuna's Tooth Planet surrendered, but its temporary governor, He Yuan, refused to provide military supplies, leaving Xiost furious and the Republic fleet short of resources as Master Yoda rejected attacks on civilians.

• The Modell Sector fleet attacked the Republic ships, then escaped into hyperspace while spacecraft carrying Volgograd-Kanidi fled Kuna's Tooth Planet.
• Master Yoda and Xiost realized the Separatists had staged the battle to cover Volgograd-Kanidi's escape and demonstrate that their fleet remained intact.
• Temporary Governor He Yuan announced Kuna's Tooth Planet's unconditional surrender and said Volgograd-Kanidi had destroyed the planet's military supplies.
• Xiost demanded supplies and threatened to destroy cities and infrastructure, but Master Yoda refused to harm civilians and ordered He Yuan to prevent famine and restore order.
• Xiost warned that the Republic fleet was nearly out of supplies and urged Master Yoda to punish the planet, but Yoda insisted the fleet must not cross its moral limits.

After the Republic took heavy losses in the Modell Sector, Master Yoda and Xiost chose to move against the Separatist fleet’s last refuge in the Kuna's Eye System. Volgograd Kanidi prepared his outnumbered forces to defend the system as Republic battlecruisers arrived.

• Master Yoda told Xiost that the Republic could not sacrifice civilians for victory, and Xiost ordered the fleet to leave ten thousand troops behind and head for the Kuna's Eye System.
• Volgograd Kanidi arrived aboard the central Luukri-Hok-class battleship and reviewed the severe losses his forces had suffered on Kuna's Tooth Planet.
• Kanidi warned his officers that the Republic would attack their hiding place and urged them to defend the Modell Sector, while Jin Chen pledged to fight to the end.
• Kanidi ordered his forces to deploy according to plan and reminded them that time was on their side.
• Twenty Hunter Class Battlecruisers emerged from hyperspace on the outskirts of the Kuna's Eye System.

Master Yoda led the Republic fleet into the Kuna's Eye System and avoided a Separatist trap, but the ensuing battle left the Republic facing hidden defenses and a retreating Modell Sector fleet. Xiost pursued the enemy as it drained the Republic's supplies, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Xiost reported a Cachalot-class industrial flagship, and Master Yoda sensed traps around it before guiding the Republic fleet toward the Separatist fleet.
• Volgograd-Kanidi learned that the Republic had ignored the bait and prepared to fight at the battlefield he had chosen near Kuna's Eye Planet.
• The Modell Sector legion attacked the advancing Republic fleet with mines, missile frigates, fighters, and Gauss weapon platforms among the asteroids.
• After four hours, the capital ships exchanged fire, while Modell Sector forces fought as they retreated through the asteroid field.
• Xiost split the Republic fleet into groups to pursue, but the Modell Sector fleet kept circling and exhausting its ammunition and fuel.
• Damaged Modell Sector ships repaired and resupplied near the Cachalot-class flagship, while Xiost hoped its defenses would not conceal them for long.

As the Ayrou and humans fought for control of Annaj Planet, the Republic fleet struggled to maintain order and gather supplies. The Beast Legion emerged from hiding and began attacking Ayrou population centers, carrying out Volgograd-Kanidi’s plan to crush the rebellion.

• The Ayrou and human governments both surrendered to the Galactic Republic, and fighting between the two races spread across Annaj Planet.
• With the main fleet away, the Republic split its remaining Hunter Class Battlecruisers between restoring order, fighting pirates, and collecting strategic supplies.
• The Ayrou on Maya-Coville Planet gathered blaster gas, warship fuel, and hyperspace core elements to send to Annaj Planet.
• More than a hundred spacecraft launched from a hidden gate in Annaj Planet’s southern hemisphere and attacked the Ayrou capital, economic center, and transportation hub.
• The blood-red-clad Beast Legion emerged from the spacecraft, using Kill Counters to record its kills as it launched a massacre against the Ayrou.

The Beast Legion and hidden Fourth Civilization sabotage plunged Annaj Planet into slaughter and chaos as the Ayrou rebellion was crushed. In orbit, a Republic sub-fleet detected hundreds of small craft jumping toward the planet.

• Beast Legion soldiers massacred Ayrou civilians across three major cities, while Republic Clone Troopers entered the cities to intervene.
• The Republic sub-fleet commander sent 300 fighters to support the Clone Troopers.
• Bombs destroyed Central Excrement Collectors in dozens of cities, unleashing floods of waste that overwhelmed civilians and swept away Clone Trooper squads.
• Beast Legion soldiers took high ground, sealed their combat suits, and fired on Ayrou trapped in the flood.
• A Republic battlecruiser sensor operator reported hundreds of small craft making hyperspace jumps toward Annaj Planet.

Master Yoda led the Republic fleet into a trap around the Modell Sector’s Cachalot-class industrial flagship as both sides committed to a desperate battle. At Annaj, a fleet of more than 500 civilian and independent ships attacked the Republic to protect the Modell Sector, opening a second fierce fight.

• Master Yoda ordered the Republic fleet to attack the Cachalot-class industrial flagship, while Volgograd-Kanidi and Fleet Commander Jin Chen activated the Modell Sector fleet’s hidden traps and defenses.
• The Republic and Modell Sector fleets exchanged full-force barrages, with mines and other traps repeatedly threatening the Republic ships.
• More than 500 mercenary, smuggler, bounty hunter, and civilian ships emerged from hyperspace near Annaj and attacked the Republic fleet to defend their home.
• The Republic sub-fleet commander ordered his ships and fighters to engage, and both sides’ varied fighters and warships plunged into a brutal battle.