Recaps

Tang Xiao expanded the Duchy of Dawn while Thrawn battled the Geth and Darth Malthael drew General Grievous into his struggle against the Empire and the Separatists. As the Empire invaded Felucia and other worlds, Adi Gallia and Sola Balk resisted Darth Vader, and Count Dooku prepared to unleash Dragon’s breath on Imperial forces.

• The Givin seized control of Lothal Planet with B-1 battle droids as Tang Xiao arranged industrial development there, while Ahsoka Tano hid on Raada Planet from Imperial rule.
• Ahsoka Tano took a DC-15 Blaster rifle and left with a farmer’s daughter to rescue her father, while Lux Bontri escalated his campaign against Ramses Dundrup on Onderon.
• Thrawn defeated Geth forces at Akuria and investigated the Geth’s possible connection to Dawn Star Planet, while Tang Xiao expanded industry and military power across Makito, Muunilinst, and Ord Mantell.
• Darth Malthael confronted General Grievous and helped him recover his identity as Kiman-Jai-Sheelal, then directed him toward revenge against Count Dooku.
• Tang Xiao used Sanya Tagge’s recovery from poisoning to deepen his influence over the Tagge family and prepare her return to its internal struggle.
• Imperial forces invaded Felucia, where Adi Gallia fought Darth Vader and Sola Balk delayed him before Vader killed Sola Balk and the Imperial fleet destroyed Slaughter.
• As the Empire invaded six more worlds, Count Dooku proposed using Devastation-class battleships and a Slaughter-class battleship to attack Imperial troops with Dragon’s breath.

The Confederacy of Independent Systems collapsed after General Grievous killed Count Dooku, while Tang Xiao seized Leia Organa and revealed his identity as Darth Malthael. The Duchy of Dawn conquered Levik, but a Mongal-Mongal outbreak and Umbrella’s investigation left Shepard searching the Unknown Regions as Sherry Birkin faced a lurking threat.

• Count Dooku’s battle droids and General Grievous’s forces overwhelmed him on Raxus Prime, and Grievous killed him after Dooku severed one of his arms.
• The Slaughter-class battleship unleashed Dragon's breath on Felucia before Imperial Star Destroyers destroyed it, and Tang Xiao gathered the Duchy of Dawn’s leaders as the Confederacy of Independent Systems collapsed.
• Nova and Super Lotus kidnapped Leia Organa from Alderaan and brought her to Tang Xiao, who told her Bail Organa could not protect her and revealed himself as Darth Malthael.
• Padmé Amidala awoke from her coma and chose to remain presumed dead while leading a resistance, as Bail Organa failed to bring Leia home from the Duchy of Dawn.
• The Duchy of Dawn’s fleet defeated the Xilu forces at Levik, and Tang Xiao ordered an Extermination Order after Shepard destroyed the human-battery samples and refused to hand over the technology.
• Mongal-Mongal spread through Prison Sector V, prompting He Ru to seal the stargate while Shepard warned that infected refugees might have carried the sludge beyond the prison.
• Sherry Birkin and Umbrella took control of the Laboratory 101 investigation, while Shepard left aboard the Normandy to search the Unknown Regions for Mongal-Mongal’s origin.
• Sherry Birkin led U.S.S. Delta Squad into a hidden facility filled with Mongal-Mongal containers, where a black shadow lunged at her from behind.

As Mongal-Mongal spread, the Duchy of Dawn built an alliance with the Chiss and expanded its influence in the Unknown Regions. The arc ended with Tang Xiao forcing the Chiss toward submission as they revealed that the Grysk could control other species in ways they could not detect.

• Sherry Birkin studied Mongal-Mongal while Shepard investigated its outbreak on Kruda and identified worlds along the infected fleet’s route.
• Lieutenant General Brent contacted the Chiss, warned them of the Mongal-Mongal crisis, and negotiated an alliance, a forward base, and a Stargate on Masos Planet.
• The Duchy of Dawn and the Chiss established a Joint Operations Command, while Tang Xiao’s faction expanded its influence among the Hutt families amid their civil war.
• Tang Xiao inspected the Divinity-class battleship as it demonstrated its powerful laser arrays and capacity to challenge Imperial-class Star Destroyers.
• Tang Xiao confronted Chiss representatives over the destruction at Borg-Ray and the Grysk, whose warships the Duchy of Dawn fleet destroyed after they opened fire.
• Tang Xiao used the Death Force against the Chiss delegation until the Nuruodo family agreed to bring Chiss territory and its fleets under the Duchy of Dawn.
• The Nuruodo family showed Tang Xiao evidence that Grysk crews came from seventeen species and described reports that the Grysk controlled populations and altered their memories.

The Duchy of Dawn’s campaign against the Grysk exposed the Hegemony’s control of Chiss leaders and the Duchy’s own schemes. Tang Xiao toppled the Chiss ruling families, ordered the Dominion into the war, and turned to Rassidan for a way to free the Grysk-controlled without killing them.

• Tang Xiao assigned Protoss High Templar Rassidan and a Chiss-led fleet under Admiral Ziyala to find and fight the Grysk, while Rassidan warned that Grysk mind control made the expedition dangerous.
• Rassidan reached Csilla with the Chiss delegation and helped expose the Grysk attack, but the Hegemony’s assaults spread across Chiss territory as the leaders argued over whether to defend the borders or strike back.
• Admiral Qiyala led the joint fleet to Crustai, where Rassidan and Kace Maxwell captured the Grysk agent Sangare and learned that the Hegemony used fear, mind control, and wars to subdue client species.
• Kace Maxwell confessed to Qiyala that the Duchy of Dawn had engineered the Borg-Ray incident and altered Chiss star maps, while the joint fleet’s battles against the Grysk left tens of millions of Crustai dead.
• After the Sabosen family was found assassinated, the Chiss Cabinet ordered Qiyala to disband the joint fleet, and political conflict escalated into protests and riots across Csilla.
• Tang Xiao arrived on Csilla with Adele Ulan and a vast force of droids, accused the ruling families of failing the Chiss people, and announced that family political privilege would end.
• Tang Xiao ordered the remaining Cabinet members seized and executed, revoked the ruling families’ privileges, and directed Qiyala to restore order and join the war against the Grysk.
• Tang Xiao appointed Adele-Ulan to oversee the transition and asked Rassidan how to deal with victims whose consciousness the Grysk had altered without slaughtering them.