Recaps

Mon Mothma met with Lexi Dio and secretly coordinated with the Rebel Alliance, while Imperial Intelligence seized on their apparent proposal for military occupation. The Alliance planned to suspend organized operations, support isolated uprisings, and build its own industrial capacity.

• Mon Mothma rejected covert prompting devices and dressed plainly before visiting Lexi Dio, who signaled that they were communicating secretly.
• Mon Mothma and Lexi Dio used their conversation about tea, the Arkania heist, and Imperial policy to exchange rebel intelligence, funding limits, and warnings about contacting their liaison.
• Mon Mothma proposed military occupation of suspected rebel worlds, and Lexi Dio agreed to draft the measure; Armand Isard ordered it forwarded to Lord Blackhole as an Imperial recommendation.
• At an antique shop, Mon Mothma told the disguised Leader that Lexi Dio would submit the occupation proposal and warned that it could cause more casualties.
• The Leader explained that provoking an excessive Imperial response was part of the Alliance's plan, ordered organized personnel underground, and directed Mon Mothma to seek help from Incom Corporation and the Zann Consortium.

More than a hundred thousand B-1 battle droids surrounded an anti-war protest on Sunset Boulevard and broke up the crowd after its leaders rejected repeated warnings. The demonstrators were trapped, shocked, arrested, and dragged away as the droid Legion secured the area.

• MTT armored troop transports blocked the roads around the administrative center as B-1 battle droids deployed across Sunset Boulevard.
• Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched against the war, the New Deal, and Tang Xiao, while the Police Chief urged them to calm down.
• The protest leader accused Tang Xiao of pursuing personal ambition, and the crowd overran the police line and surged toward the administrative center.
• A yellow-painted B-1 battle droid issued three warnings, then ordered the droids to begin suppression procedures.
• The battle droids used electrified shields to subdue and handcuff demonstrators, who fled into surrounding buildings and were dragged out for arrest.

William Burns staged a report depicting the Hoth Planet riots as destructive violence while presenting battle droids as protectors. As fighting engulfed Givin City on Lothal Planet, a Givin authorized the Beast Legion to crush an organized rebellion, and its armored soldiers began killing marked targets.

• William Burns and battle droids staged scenes of looting and a rescued medic for Dawn News footage that blamed the Hoth Planet riots on destructive mobs.
• A Givin watched the report from a spacecraft above burning Givin City and said the unrest there required strong measures.
• The Givin contacted the Beast Legion and ordered it to restore peace, citing authorization from High Command.
• Orbital drop pods delivered Beast Legion soldiers in CMC-300 powered armor to Givin City.
• The Beast Legion charged into the smoke and began slaughtering marked targets amid a rebellion that field intelligence described as organized and armed.

Hari Seldon presented the Kingdom of Dawn’s strategy for containing the Rebel Alliance and liberal thought while continuing its war against the Galactic Empire. The High Command approved most of his proposals, including a Southern Free Trade Zone to channel liberal opposition into a governable territory.

• Hari Seldon told the High Command that the Kingdom of Dawn had to fight a prolonged two-front struggle against the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance while gradually assimilating its liberal-minded population.
• Hari Seldon reaffirmed that taking Coruscant remained the Kingdom’s foremost objective and proposed eventually allowing the Rebel Alliance to establish the New Republic there.
• Hari Seldon argued that the Kingdom could confront the New Republic through political, economic, and social pressure, exploiting its lack of industry and research capacity.
• Hari Seldon proposed rapid-strike forces, more detailed sector defense zones, and local Defense Fleets to address recurring rebellions.
• Hari Seldon proposed granting limited autonomy to planets in a Southern Free Trade Zone, with Christophsis as its stable political and military center, to contain liberals and the Rebel Alliance.
• Hari Seldon presented further administrative policies, and the High Command approved most of his proposals.

Hari Seldon’s political rise was celebrated as the Kingdom of Dawn’s New Deal helped it withstand the Rebel Alliance. On Lothal, a planned uprising engulfed Givin City, and the Beast Legion’s Black Beast Squad advanced to confront a Jedi Knight.

• Daphne Clement watched Hari Seldon speak and regarded him as the future political core of the Fourth Civilization.
• Hari Seldon drafted much of the New Deal using Tang Xiao’s guidance on countering the Rebel Alliance.
• The Rebel Alliance launched a premeditated uprising across Givin City, attacking battle droids and seizing key facilities.
• Tang Xiao sent the Beast Legion to reinforce the Givin, and the Black Beast Squad marched through the city, killing rebels and earning points.
• Al-Sharad Heite destroyed three missiles fired at the squad and identified their attacker as a Jedi Knight.
• Commander ordered the Black Beast Squad to kill the Jedi Knight.

The Black Beast Squad attacked Givin City's communications center, where A'Sharad Heite confronted Jedi Knight Bultar Swann as she broadcast a call for Lothal Planet to resist. After killing Swann and finding information about a Sith artifact, Heite left the squad to pursue revenge elsewhere.

• The Black Beast Squad charged through Rebel Alliance defenses and stormed the communications center, with A'Sharad Heite sensing a Jedi Knight upstairs.
• Heite confronted Bultar Swann as she activated a broadcast urging the people of Lothal Planet to resist the Givin colonizers.
• Bultar Swann fought Heite with Teräs Käsi and a Lightsaber, but Heite shattered his powered armor and killed her after breaking free of its restraints.
• Heite found an encrypted storage device containing Shaak Ti's message about a Sith artifact held by the smuggler Resk, and kept it along with Swann's Lightsaber.
• The Commander had Romarimonte treat Heite's wounds and covered his departure by declaring A'Sharad Heite dead; Heite then left the Black Beast Squad to seek revenge.

Galen Marek, known as Starkiller, attacked the Rebel Alliance command center on Lianna after his master ordered him to leave no survivors. He fought through the rebels’ defenses and began killing the AT-RT pilots.

• Galen Marek awakened from meditation aboard a shuttlecraft as it entered the combat zone over Lianna.
• Galen ordered the hatch opened, leaped from the shuttlecraft, and used his Lightsaber and the Force to survive the fall after the shuttle exploded.
• Galen landed amid Rebel Alliance soldiers, hurled a burning shuttle engine at them, and received orders from his master to destroy the command center without survivors.
• Galen deflected heavy blaster fire and charged several AT-RT scout walkers operated by Rebel Alliance soldiers.
• Galen killed one AT-RT pilot with his Lightsaber and crushed another pilot together with his walker using the Force.

Galen Malek, known as Star Killer, attacked the Rebel Alliance on Lianna while Darth Vader’s forces supported him from the air. He reached the basement target and confronted Jedi Master Synk, who recognized his identity, as their duel began.

• Galen Malek cut through Rebel Alliance soldiers on Lianna while the rebels called for reinforcements and Vader’s TIE fighters bombed the planet.
• The Rebel Alliance captured TIE fighters and evacuated looted components aboard freighters and corvettes, though Imperial forces intercepted some transports.
• Galen tracked his target to a former hospital and killed the Rebel Alliance soldiers guarding the basement.
• Jedi Master Synk emerged from below and nearly struck Galen, then identified him as Darth Vader’s secret assassin.
• Synk took a defensive lightsaber stance and tried to delay Galen until Rebel reinforcements arrived, while Galen answered with a cruel smile.

Galen Malek crushed the Lianna uprising and reported his victory to Darth Vader, only to be stabbed on Darth Sidious’s orders. Vader convinced Sidious of his obedience, while the chapter ended with him killing an officer who tried to report a rebel base.

• Star Killer defeated and killed Master Synk after restoring communications and revealing that the Executor had arrived at Lianna.
• The Executor and its forces surrounded Lianna, destroyed Rebel supplies, and crushed the uprising.
• Galen Malek met Juno Eclipse and PROXY aboard the Rogue Shadow before traveling to the Executor to report to Darth Vader.
• Darth Vader stabbed Galen Malek and told Darth Sidious that he had killed Star Killer as ordered.
• Darth Sidious threatened Vader over secretly taking on Galen Malek, and Vader maintained that he had been only a tool.
• After Sidious’s projection vanished, Darth Vader crushed a marine officer’s neck when the officer tried to report a Rebel base.

Galen Malek dreamed that he killed a Jedi who appeared to be his father, then woke to learn that Darth Vader had faked his death to deceive the Emperor. Vader tasked Galen with uniting and strengthening the Rebel Alliance so they could overthrow Darth Sidious and seize control of the Galactic Empire.

• Galen Malek dreamed that he intervened in Darth Vader’s duel with a powerful Jedi and killed the Jedi, whose face resembled his own.
• The dying Jedi apologized to Galen, and Galen realized he might have killed his father before Vader stabbed him in the chest.
• Galen woke restrained in a medical room, where Darth Vader explained that he had spared him and made the Emperor believe he was dead.
• Vader told Galen that they would kill the Emperor and rule the Galactic Empire together.
• Galen suggested the Kingdom of Dawn as a possible source of troops, but Vader said they needed the rebels and dissidents instead.
• Vader ordered Galen to aid and unite the Rebel Alliance, while Vader worked from within the Empire to bring down Darth Sidious.

Galen Malek was freed by PROXY after Darth Vader sent him to find the rebels, while the Empire suffered heavy losses fighting the Kingdom of Dawn. Vader repelled an attack on the Executor, purged the Emperor’s infiltrators, and ordered Rock Johnson to keep eliminating unwanted officers as the fleet prepared to withdraw.

• Darth Vader released Galen Malek and told him to find the rebels, while warning him that the Dark Side was always by his side.
• PROXY revealed that six months had passed since Malek’s death and that the Empire had suffered badly in two offensives by the Kingdom of Dawn.
• A Kingdom of Dawn Ankollon-class Titan warship and Ogre-class Siege Cruisers attacked the Executor with torpedoes, but Darth Vader held them in place until Imperial defenses destroyed them.
• Rock Johnson told Darth Vader that the Emperor’s planted officers had been purged from the Executor.
• Darth Vader ordered the fleet to withdraw from its fight against Ling Liang and told Rock Johnson to continue removing unwanted officers; he rejected Rock calling him Anakin.

Imperial Finance Department officials restricted Mon Mothma’s household spending and sealed an antique shop tied to her charitable foundation. At a banquet, Mon Mothma and Bail Organa discussed the Empire’s investigation and the loss of their funding channel.

• Two Imperial officials accused Mon Mothma’s expenditures of failing review standards, imposed restrictions on her household finances, and said they had sealed an antique shop.
• Perrin Fertha defended Mon Mothma and promised to confront Finance Department officials at a banquet hosted by the Minister of Internal Affairs.
• Perrin Fertha asked Mon Mothma about her foundation while they traveled to the banquet, then spoke enthusiastically about collecting antiques.
• Perrin Fertha became the center of attention at the banquet while Mon Mothma was regarded as a wealthy woman devoted to pleasure.
• Bail Organa told Mon Mothma that the Empire had examined their expenditure records and that the sealed antique shop had cut off their funding channel.
• Mon Mothma told Bail Organa that her accounts would withstand the investigation.

Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Garm Bel Iblis met secretly to discuss the resistance’s losses and the Empire’s threats to independent industry. The leader’s instructions defined the movement as a military organization devoted to freedom and called for a network of military, intelligence, and industrial support.

• Bail Organa told Mon Mothma that the Kingdom of Dawn had defeated Imperial fleets and that the Empire was preparing a counterattack after purging its ranks.
• Mon Mothma and Bail Organa agreed to attend a meeting proposed by Garm Bel Iblis, despite their concerns about his motives.
• Garm Bel Iblis warned that Palpatine was pressuring military-industrial companies and that Corellia Engineering Company could be targeted next.
• Garm Bel Iblis agreed to fund and support former Separatist planets, while explaining that their industrial resources could strengthen the resistance.
• Garm Bel Iblis played the leader’s recorded instructions, which rejected rebuilding the Galactic Republic and defined the movement as a military organization committed to freedom.
• The leader called for military advisers, intelligence agencies, industrial systems, and coordinated support for planets resisting the Galactic Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn.

Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Garm Bel Iblis heard a recording urging the resistance to recruit broadly and strengthen its military organization, then planned intelligence, political, and industrial work. In 10 BBY, the Kingdom of Dawn launched surprise attacks that devastated the Empire’s Twelfth Army and forced Darth Vader’s Death Squadron to retreat, before its fleets fell silent again.

• The recording called for recruiting people from across the galaxy, maintaining military discipline, and using the next war between the Kingdom of Dawn and the Galactic Empire to grow stronger.
• Mon Mothma continued intelligence and administrative work, Bail Organa focused on gaining planetary support through the Senate, and Garm Bel Iblis arranged for Corellia Engineering Company to build frigates and supply maintenance parts.
• Garm Bel Iblis revealed the X-wing and explained that the Empire had blockaded Incom Corporation to seize its prototype and designs.
• In August 10 BBY, General Grievous ambushed the Galactic Empire’s Twelfth Army near Mimban, and the refitted Destruction battleship helped crush its main fleet.
• Ling Liang broke out from Fondor Planet and attacked Darth Vader’s Death Squadron with the Taowu Titan and Ogre-class Siege Cruisers, prompting Vader to retreat.
• Ling Liang opened a hyperspace route to the Kingdom of Dawn’s homeland, then ceased further military operations.

Palpatine forced Kuat Drive Yards into a semi-nationalized state, and Little Kuat suppressed the company’s liberal faction to prevent an Imperial takeover. The crisis deepened when Willix-Blythex left Quat Planet with dissidents, though his disappearance was only one sign that Kuat Drive Yards faced a larger problem.

• After two Imperial defeats, Palpatine ordered military-industrial conglomerates nationalized, and Little Kuat resisted the pressure on Kuat Drive Yards.
• Little Kuat rigged Quat Planet’s industrial Star Ring with explosives, while the Empire arrested senator Gideon Danu and sent Dark Prophet Jedgar to oversee the company.
• Little Kuat accepted Imperial oversight after Dunn-Vesex warned him against turning Kuat Drive Yards toward the Northern Territory.
• Little Kuat expelled the liberal democratic elders from the Quat Elder Council, worsening internal divisions and disrupting the company’s warship design and construction.
• In August, 10 years before the Battle of Yavin, liberal faction members left Quat Planet with Willix-Blythex, who had willingly gone with them, and the Empire failed to intercept him near the Kingdom of Dawn’s border.

The Galactic Empire pushed to nationalize major military-industrial companies, but their responses differed sharply. Sith Fleet Systems cooperated, while Corellia Engineering Company and the autonomous Corellian star sector resisted and reached only a fragile, nominal compromise with the Empire.

• Little Kuat kept Kuat Drive Yards stable despite internal unrest from its liberal democratic faction.
• Sith Fleet Systems agreed to nationalization and let Imperial officials restructure its board and enter the company, with a Dark Prophet serving as the Imperial representative.
• Garm Bel Iblis and Corellia Engineering Company fiercely rejected nationalization, driving away Imperial investigators.
• The Galactic Empire negotiated with Corellia Engineering Company and secured an agreement for Corellian star sector representatives to supervise the company.
• The Corellian star sector and the Galactic Empire both recognized that the nominal arrangement had not resolved their conflict.

As the Galactic Empire pressured Corellia Engineering Company and Incom Corporation, both companies covertly aided the Rebel Alliance, while Corellian officials and criminal syndicates prepared for possible upheaval. The Empire arrested Incom’s executives and engineers and seized the X-wing’s designs and prototype, setting up the rescue operation Mon Mothma later carried out.

• Garm Bel Iblis persuaded Corellia Engineering Company executives to secretly build corvettes and supply the Rebel Alliance with civilian ships and technical support.
• As Imperial defeats and nationalization pressure fueled talk of Corellian independence, the Sakorian Big Three, the White Worm Gang, and Crimson Dawn began preparing to exploit the turmoil and investigate Midpoint Station.
• Madam Proxima and Dryden Vos recalled Tang Xiao’s instructions and saw the independence movement as a chance for their syndicates to become legitimate.
• After the Empire favored Sith Fleet Systems and sidelined Incom Corporation, Incom contacted the Rebel Alliance and worked with General Jan Dodonna to design the T-65 X-wing fighter.
• The Imperial Intelligence Department raided Incom Corporation, arrested its senior executives and engineers, and seized the X-wing’s design data and prototype.
• Mon Mothma later carried out the leader’s request, conveyed through Garm Bel Iblis, to rescue Incom’s people and the X-wing materials.

Mon Mothma outmaneuvered the Empire to rescue Incom Corporation’s personnel, data, and X-wing prototypes, while Palpatine used Tagge Company’s nationalization to tighten control over industrial research and advance the Dark Trooper and DS-1 projects. The chapter leaves the Empire building its weapons and military-industrial power for its conflict with the Kingdom of Dawn.

• Mon Mothma diverted Imperial forces by arranging the abduction of Kuat Drive Yards engineers, then helped Rebels and four Jedi attack Fresia, seize Incom’s database and four X-wing prototypes, and destroy the last prototype.
• The Imperial Intelligence Department sealed Fresia and searched for the attackers, while Mon Mothma arranged for Rebels to abduct Incom technicians from a Mid Rim mining planet; the Intelligence Department executed the officer who had split its forces.
• Orman Tagge accepted Tagge Company’s nationalization and gained control of the company’s decisions, while Palpatine used the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance to direct resources from industrial corporations.
• Orman Tagge completed the design for the first-stage Dark Trooper, and Admirals Zaarin and March joined the alliance to develop new starfighters.
• The Galactic Empire pursued the DS-1 battle station as a weapon of terror intended to suppress rebellion and strengthen its war against the Kingdom of Dawn.

Palpatine pushed the DS-1 Battle Station forward as a weapon meant to strike at Tang Xiao, while Tang Xiao’s efforts to obstruct the project were partly undone by Palpatine’s maneuvering. Construction continued in secret on Tarassia under Orson Krennic, where rebellions among enslaved Geonosian workers forced him to provide them with better support.

• Palpatine advanced the DS-1 project despite opposition from Imperial officials and industrial giants, intending it as a gift for Tang Xiao.
• Tang Xiao delayed construction and tracked the project, but Poggle the Lesser’s betrayal and the kidnapping of Emperor Karina cut him off from reliable information.
• The Galactic Empire moved the DS-1’s core column and equatorial framework from Geonosis to Tarassia, where Emperor Karina was forced to produce Geonosian workers.
• Orson Krennic divided the station’s design into hundreds of thousands of secret contracts and organized Geonosian laborers and engineering droids to build it.
• Geonosian workers repeatedly rebelled against enslavement, so Orson Krennic provided them with a lavish logistical corps to keep construction going.

The chapter described the Fourth Civilization’s unmanned aircraft, from inexpensive Vulture droid fighters to the powerful Protoss-built Swarm Interceptors. It ended with the complete Swarm Interceptor still undeployed because the Protoss had not decided whether their High Templars should enter the war.

• The Fourth Civilization kept large numbers of Vulture droid fighters in escort fleets and planetary defenses despite retiring them from frontline service.
• The Fourth Civilization used several thousand Hyena-class Droid Fighter/Bombers and Tri-fighters to support defenses on important planets.
• Halo Weapon Systems Corporation’s F-99 Wombat served mainly as a remotely controlled reconnaissance drone carried by Fourth Civilization warships.
• The Fourth Group’s Acolyte drones received few orders, while the United Mining Group’s mining drones helped build the Fourth Civilization’s early industrial capacity.
• The Fourth Civilization deployed Protoss-built Swarm II Interceptors from Consul-class aircraft carriers, controlled by captured Dark Jedi Knights linked to central computers.
• The Protoss had not decided whether High Templars would personally control the complete Swarm Interceptor in frontline combat.

The Galactic Empire advanced construction of the Death Star while Orson Krennic and Wilhuff Tarkin fought over control, and Galen Erso discovered that Krennic had deceived him about the superlaser. After Palpatine revealed the Death Star to the Senate, Ganzo Doso activated a Geonosian altar and identified a traitor in space.

• The DS-1's main framework and Hypermatter reactor were completed, and construction began on its gravity systems, armor, and Geonosian residential zones.
• Wilhuff Tarkin joined Orson Krennic as a project leader, but their struggle escalated until Krennic sent Tarkin away after a riot and deadly clashes among the Geonosians.
• Orson Krennic recruited Galen Erso under the false pretense of researching planetary energy transmission, and Galen discovered he was actually helping develop a planet-destroying superlaser.
• Emperor Palpatine announced the Death Star in the Senate and ordered the Empire and Orman Tagge to concentrate resources on completing it within a year.
• Ganzo Doso placed a Geonosian head on an altar at the Sacred Site, which sent a beam into space as he said, "Found you... traitor..."

The chapter recounts Poggle the Lesser’s rise and betrayal of the Geonosians, then follows Tang Xiao’s support for Gizor Dellso as he searches for their kidnapped Queen. A stowaway discovered by Nova provides Gizor with a lead and sparks a Geonosian uprising.

• Poggle the Lesser led a lower-caste revolution, joined Count Dooku’s Separatists, and later secretly surrendered to Palpatine and agreed to help build the DS-1 battle station.
• Fearing an upper-caste counterrevolution, Poggle kidnapped Emperor Karina and planned to destroy Geonosis and most of its population before rebuilding society under his control.
• After the Geonosians suffered devastating losses, Tang Xiao funded their search for Emperor Karina and backed Gizor Dellso as a more trustworthy leader.
• Gizor told Tang Xiao he could use the brains of newly hatched Geonosians to locate Emperor Karina through the hive mind, but the Kingdom of Dawn’s agents found no Geonosians for years.
• After a riot on Tarassia helped Orson Krennic push Wilhuff Tarkin out of the DS-1 project, Nova found a Geonosian stowaway on Tarkin’s former engineering ship and brought him to Gizor, where he was executed and ignited an uprising.

Nova and Ganzo-Dosso used a captured Geonosian’s brain to locate Queen Karina and Poggle-the Lesser in an unmapped region of the Northern Galaxy, prompting the Geonosians to call for war and seek the Kingdom of Dawn’s help. On Dawn Star Planet, Nova and Salatan Morse weighed the risks of acting on the uncertain coordinates as the Death Star neared completion.

• Ganzo-Dosso extracted a captured Geonosian’s brain and used its connection to the Sacred Site to pinpoint Queen Karina and Poggle-the Lesser in an unmapped region of space.
• Nova agreed to secure the Kingdom of Dawn’s assistance after Ganzo-Dosso promised the Geonosians would join the kingdom if Karina was rescued.
• Ganzo-Dosso summoned Geonosians across the planet and used a giant horn to send a call toward Karina’s location.
• Poggle-the Lesser confronted Orson Krennic about Karina’s declining health, while Krennic assured him Tarassia would belong to the Geonosians after the Death Star’s engines were installed.
• Orson Krennic ordered Tarassia’s blockade maintained and looked forward to testing the Death Star on the planet.
• Salatan Morse warned Nova that the coordinates were uncertain and that the Death Star could destroy Dawn Star Planet, while Nova argued they had no other intelligence.

Salatan Morse presented the Death Star intelligence to the High Command, which approved a limited Geonosian-led operation called Operation Poseidon. At Tarassia, the Death Star activated its sublight engines, but the Dark Prophets warned Orson Krennic of an imminent attack—and alarms revealed the Death Star itself was under attack.

• Salatan Morse showed Nova Tang Xiao’s notes about the Death Star and argued that its current construction site could be identified through the Geonosians.
• The High Command approved Operation Poseidon, limiting the Navy to escorting the Geonosians until Ganzo Daoso could verify the intelligence and provide details.
• Orson Krennic activated the Death Star’s sublight engines at Tarassia and arranged a ceremony before Imperial officials and Lord Kadann.
• Kadann departed after praising Krennic, while the two Dark Prophets warned Krennic to put the forces on combat readiness.
• Orson Krennic ordered the Tarassia Defense Fleet to prepare for an attack, and an alarm reported that the Death Star itself was under attack.

Orson Krennic responded to an uprising on the Death Star, while Poggle the Lesser discovered that Queen Karina had vanished and was captured by Geonosian warriors. Nova revealed that the Kingdom of Dawn had infiltrated the project’s supply chain, leaving the Death Star’s secrecy exposed.

• Orson Krennic learned that Geonosians had seized parts of the Death Star’s residential sector and ordered troops to suppress the riot.
• Poggle the Lesser hurried to Queen Karina’s nest after she had ignored his communications for three days.
• Poggle found Queen Karina missing and was seized by Geonosian warriors.
• Ganzo-Dos appeared, and Nova revealed that the Kingdom of Dawn had infiltrated Tarassia through the Death Star’s supply shipments.
• Nova explained to Poggle that tracing the shipments’ destinations had allowed her agents to bypass the project’s security.