Recaps

Tang Xiao expanded the Fourth Civilization’s military and political influence while maneuvering Black Sun, Damask Holdings, and Hego Damask II toward conflict. The arc left him preparing for the coming Battle of Malastare Canyon as the Fourth Civilization entered the Tatooine war.

• Tang Xiao killed Damask Holdings’ representative, then negotiated a 30% stake for Hego Damask II’s company while Semir vowed revenge on Hego and joined Tang Xiao’s plans.
• Tang Xiao appointed Volgograd Kanidi to lead the Ironfang and oversee ship construction, then sent Buka and the Kig-Yar to target Gaddula’s ships near Tatooine.
• When Black Sun blockaded Endor, Tang Xiao led the Fourth Civilization’s fighters and frigates in destroying its fleet and ordered that no survivors be left.
• Tang Xiao uncovered a planetary-destroying nuclear bomb connected to a plot against Hego, while Francis Underwood and Super Lotus advanced separate political and intelligence plans.
• Tang Xiao unveiled two Revenge-class destroyers as Dawn City expanded, then arranged for Kanidi’s forces to support Gaddula before switching sides to Jabba.
• Vitaly recruited Broderick Shale and his group into the Calamity Legion, offering supplies and vehicles so they could continue raiding and challenge Jabba.
• Kanidi and eighteen Wraith fighters destroyed bounty hunter ships near Tatooine, while Tang Xiao convinced Darth Pregas that Gaddula, Black Sun, and Bando Gosa had a hidden backer.
• Darth Pregas authorized Tang Xiao’s warships to fight alongside Jabba and ordered preparations for a coming battle, while Tang Xiao concealed his knowledge of the Battle of Malastare Canyon.

Tang Xiao expanded the Fourth Civilization while Francis and Claire maneuvered around Palpatine and the Trade Federation’s pressure on their Mutual Aid Fund. On Sojourn Planet, Tang Xiao embraced the Dark Side, forged a crimson Lightsaber, and entered Hego Damask II’s dangerous world of political and corporate intrigue.

• Tang Xiao confronted the Fourth Civilization’s resource and population limits, expanded its administration and infrastructure, and appointed Ni Yongxiao, Baron Zemo, and Francis Underwood to key roles.
• Claire Underwood promoted the Mutual Aid Fund with Palpatine’s backing, while Francis rejected Palpatine’s political maneuvering and turned toward the Trade Federation.
• Tang Xiao sent Ni Yongxiao to investigate Black Sun’s weapons smuggling as Broderick-Shale allied with Gaddula against Jabba and drew bounty hunters into desert ambushes.
• Darth Pregas summoned Tang Xiao to Sojourn Planet, gave him the Book of Sith, and began teaching him to forge a Lightsaber and refine his Kyber Crystal.
• Tang Xiao confronted the Sith remnants within the Kyber Crystal, survived the collapse of the ancient chamber, and assembled a black Lightsaber with a crimson blade.
• Douglas Stamp coerced Rune Haako into a political scheme as Claire’s Mutual Aid Fund campaign faced an attack and Trade Federation pressure on its supporters.
• Hego Damask II introduced Tang Xiao to Madam Proxima and Dryden Vos, then staged a hunt in which Tang Xiao killed a Morristine Eight-Legged Dragon and claimed Ailiya-Isabel.
• Hego Damask II gave Ailiya-Isabel to Tang Xiao and explained that Malastare’s opposition to a proposed fuel tax could help ignite a crisis.

Tang Xiao and General Trench led the Corporate Alliance’s mercenary forces in a campaign to seize Malastare’s fuel supply, while Palpatine maneuvered the Republic into a crisis. After Trench defeated the Republic relief fleet, Jedi Knights arrived to challenge the blockade.

• Hego Damask II revealed that he was Darth Pregas and trained Tang Xiao in Force combat before Tang Xiao returned to the Endor system with Ailiya Isabel.
• Francis Underwood explained Palpatine’s political maneuvering and the Republic’s growing dispute with the Corporate Alliance, while Tang Xiao gathered ships and allies for the Malastare campaign.
• Tang Xiao deployed 72 ships under Igor Zavalov, with Carl Walton as deputy commander, and the fleet assembled at Agomar under General Trench’s command.
• Francis spoke in the Senate as Valorum’s proposed mediation failed, and the Senate learned that the Corporate Alliance had blockaded Malastare with a mercenary fleet.
• The Corporate Alliance and its allies attacked Malastare, while Igor Zavalov’s forces destroyed the planet’s defenses and Trench’s Interdictor cut off its hyperspace routes.
• Wullf Yularen led a Republic relief fleet into Trench’s ambush, and the coalition shattered its formation as Yularen requested Senate aid.
• Palpatine urged Valorum to involve the Jedi, while Yoda said the Dark Side was behind the unrest and Master Kep-she was already on her way.
• After Trench’s renewed attack reached a deadlock, Kep Xi arrived with two other Jedi fighters and demanded that the Corporate Alliance lift its blockade and resume negotiations.

Tang Xiao lured Black Sun into a devastating trap, then uncovered an assassination plot and became Darth Pregas’s apprentice. After returning to Endor, he found Dawn Star Planet growing into a larger, more developed settlement.

• Kep-Shee and two Jedi apprentices led Wullf Yularen’s charge against Trench’s blockade, and Keppie destroyed Trench’s flagship before the Fourth Group withdrew.
• Tang Xiao and Baron Zemo lured Vego Kash Garulan’s fleet to Endor, where hidden mines and Wraith fighters crippled Black Sun’s forces and Rescue Boats captured Garulan’s cruiser.
• Tang Xiao killed Garulan and took his head, while the Fourth Civilization repaired its fleet and used the captured cruiser’s records to monitor Black Sun.
• Tang Xiao learned that Black Sun and Bando Gora were preparing a super nuclear bomb, then warned Hego Damask II of the assassination plot against him.
• Hego revealed that he was Darth Pregas and named Tang Xiao his Sith apprentice, while Tang Xiao absorbed Darth Venamis’s lingering consciousness and Dark Side power.
• Darth Pregas revived Garulan’s head, which spoke of Naboo and King Veruna, as King Ars Veruna promoted the N-1 Starfighter and plotted around Hego Damask II.
• Sheev Palpatine informed Veruna that Hego would accompany Newt Gunray to Coruscant, while Tang Xiao completed his studies with Darth Pregas and returned to Endor.
• Tang Xiao inspected Dawn City as its population reached 100,000, with new towns, mining zones, circulating currency, and growing settlements for Ewoks.