Recaps

Tang Xiao unleashed the Togot Swarm against Grysk-controlled worlds, then confronted Black Star and lost contact with the Duchy of Dawn. While the Priestess and her allies searched for Tang Xiao, they fought Olegar aboard the Glory, where Judgment’s corruption of a Void Crystal sent Olegar and his Dark Templars through a spatial vortex.

• Tang Xiao used the Togot Swarm to conquer Grysk-controlled planets, but Abathur warned that the swarm was not ready for interstellar war.
• Black Star lured Tang Xiao to Aberla Planet and attacked his mind, but the resurrected Togot Mother Nest overwhelmed Black Star as Oola-Khan and Sola-A joined into a Dark Archon.
• Tang Xiao’s battle left the Priestess without her Force connection to him, and she ordered the Duchy of Dawn to high alert while setting out to find him.
• Olegar awakened aboard the Glory mothership and used his mind-control powers to turn its crew and battle droids against the Priestess, Fenix, and Judgment.
• The Priestess and Fenix found Olegar in Laboratory Seven, where he used a Void Crystal to become a Dark Archon and fought them with Tang Xiao’s Soul Reaper Sword.
• Marka Ragnos awakened within the Soul Reaper Sword and fought Olegar, while the Priestess and Fenix battled his four Dark Templar followers.
• Judgment corrupted Olegar’s Void Crystal with the Muur Talisman, weakening him and turning the controlled crew into Rakghouls.
• Olegar took the Soul Reaper Sword and escaped with the four Dark Templars through a spatial vortex caused by the unstable Void Crystal.

The Galactic Empire moved to destroy the Trade Federation, while the Duchy of Dawn supported its resistance indirectly and the Empire’s brutal invasion of Rosha intensified. Meanwhile, Olegar began a ritual on Haruun Kal, and Tang Xiao confronted Father on Mortis and planned his escape.

• The Priestess learned that Olegar had escaped with the Soul Reaper Sword after his control caused catastrophic losses, and the Regency Council learned Tang Xiao had vanished after a Grysk ambush.
• Palpatine and Vader launched Operation: Eradicate against the Trade Federation, which resisted by cutting off navigation data as the Duchy of Dawn refused to send troops but offered aid and a refuge on Rendili.
• Darth Vader attacked Rosha and Vulpter, issuing Order 37 and escalating the invasion until Imperial forces executed more than one million Roshan hostages and Toreso-Bore and four leaders called for resistance before killing themselves on a broadcast.
• Lott Dod obtained Wat Tambor’s hidden war-technology data, while Yuri Orlov agreed to supply the Trade Federation and the Duchy of Dawn backed it with intelligence, weapons, supplies, sabotage, and Rebel Alliance support.
• Padmé Amidala prepared an uprising on Columex as Olegar reached Haruun Kal, broke through its dream illusions, and began a ritual with the Dream Sisters’ help.
• After completing the ritual, Olegar returned to orbit as Tang Xiao, imprisoned on Mortis, confronted Father, who explained his approaching death and the danger posed by Son and Daughter.
• Tang Xiao realized his torment had eased, judged that Father maintained balance between Son and Daughter, and resolved to escape Mortis and exploit them.

Tang Xiao escaped Mortis after using the Dagger of Mortis to help the Daughter kill the Son, then returned to the Duchy of Dawn and prepared for the threats gathering around it. Meanwhile, Oruba Goresla crushed the Desilijic and Besadi kajidics, while Tiber Zayne escaped prison with Silri and uncovered a Sith star map.

• Tang Xiao resisted the Son’s attempts to recruit him, then secured the Dagger of Mortis and helped the wounded Daughter kill the Son before a warp gate carried him away from Mortis.
• Olegar brought Tang Xiao to Naos, and Tang Xiao sent him a Deceiver-class destroyer while refusing his demand to wage war on the Khalai Protoss.
• Tang Xiao returned to Dawn Star Planet, announced the Duchy’s victory over the Grysk and cooperation with the Chiss, and appointed Tang Yun as his heir through a Regency Council.
• The Desilijic and Besadi fleets fought at Planet Barab until Oruba Goresla’s concealed fleet ambushed and destroyed them, earning its black-cloaked commander the name Barab Butcher.
• Oruba established a new Hutt Council, declared rival leaders war criminals, and used his forces to destroy Desilijic and Besadi holdings while Jabba escaped with wealth and followers.
• Tiber Zayne was imprisoned on Felucia, where infiltrators triggered an uprising that let him reach a captive Nightsister and recruit her to decipher Jabba’s Sith storage device.
• Tiber Zayne escaped to Dathomir with Silri, who decoded the device as a prophecy and star map, and he announced plans to assemble a fleet to reach its destination.

Shepard and Tang Xiao’s forces pursued the Mind-harp as Mongal-Mongal overran Crakull, while the Empire moved against the Duchy of Dawn and the Rafa system. The Infinite arrived at Crakull carrying a severed Plastic Pyramid, as the coalition prepared to confront Mongal-Mongal with the unfinished Emissary and the carrier fleets.

• Shen Jon and Tiber Zayne uncovered Darth Kapranis’s Immortal Army and used a Kyber Crystal to free the carbonite-sealed warriors, who assembled under their command.
• Shepard ended the Korlok factions’ fighting and learned that the Mind-harp came from the Saru ruins in the Rafa system, then led a force to Xiala to contact the Duchy of Dawn.
• Tang Xiao sent the Eternity to support Shepard and ordered an investigation of the Rafa system, where Ghost Agents seized Dr. Yako Vesti and his team to study the Mind-harp.
• Shepard’s defenders held the Xiala relay against Mongal-Mongal until the Eternity arrived, while Dr. Yako explained that the Mind-harp could restore the Toka people’s intelligence and shield a planet from Mongal-Mongal’s control.
• Shepard refused to abandon the Korlok and Lugubra, but Mongal-Mongal invaded Crakull amid a factional coup, so she arrested both factions’ leaders and established a provisional government under Vishal.
• Tang Xiao committed the Duchy’s carriers and Ander Viking to the campaign, while Palpatine ordered an Imperial response and approved plans to target the Duchy and Chiss territory.
• After the Elder faction surrendered, Crakull’s defenses collapsed and Mongal-Mongal cut the planet off, and the unfinished Emissary arrived, and Matt Hona warned that its Doomsday Weapon could fire only once.
• The Empire surrounded Rafa Planet Five, but the Infinite escaped with the relics and arrived at Crakull carrying a Plastic Pyramid cut in half.