Recaps

Tang Xiao and his allies used the Ragnarok-class Titan as bait for Darth Pregas while expanding their influence through Black Sun’s destruction, Gaddula’s carrier project, and a violent uprising on Cerea. The arc left the Republic weakening under engineered crises as Tang Xiao and Hego Damask II pursued a strategy to make it defeat itself.

• Tang Xiao revealed the Ragnarok-class Titan design to Semir Tonis, who agreed to use it to entice Hego Damask II into a project that would outlast Darth Pregas.
• Ni Yongxiao’s forces attacked Black Sun across several worlds, while Yuri Orlov and Vitaly reunited with Gaddula Besadi and Tang Xiao offered her a Land Carrier to challenge Jabba.
• Tang Xiao gave the Titan plans to Darth Pregas, who named the ship Malthael and excluded Tang Xiao from its construction while continuing his Force training.
• Francis Underwood entered Palpatine’s political circle, while Dooku learned Komari Vosa led Bando Gora and confronted the Jedi Council over her survival.
• Yuri Orlov armed Elder Dor’s Technology Movement on Cerea, and its followers defeated the Elder Council army before Dor tried to take political control.
• Ki-Adi-Mundi challenged Dor’s claims at Tekav City, while Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi arrested Yuri as he tried to flee.
• Tang Xiao arranged to rescue Yuri, while Darth Pregas helped Ars Veruna disappear and used the former king to teach Tang Xiao a lethal Force technique.
• Palpatine advanced plans for a Commerce Summit as unrest spread, and Hego Damask II explained to Tang Xiao that their goal was to make the Republic destroy itself.

Tang Xiao expanded the Fourth Civilization’s military and commercial influence while carrying out Darth Pregas’s orders against Black Sun and Bando Gosa. As the Commerce Summit opened on Eriadu, political tensions over Outer Rim taxes and warship restrictions erupted into violence.

• Hego Damask II recruited Tang Xiao into the secret plan to create a clone army, while Tang accepted Darth Pregas’s demand to destroy Black Sun and Bando Gosa strongholds.
• Baron Helmut Zemo stirred resentment among Jabba’s unpaid mercenaries and helped turn Cerea’s anti-technology purge into a growing crisis.
• Tang Xiao destroyed Vego Sedonian’s casino, while Darth Maul continued killing Black Sun leaders and Darth Sidious courted Nute Gunray.
• Zam built up the Indjori with Fourth Group weapons and funding, while Tang ordered Shen Yuanhao to secure their loyalty and resist the Verma Brothers.
• Tang Xiao fought Komari Vosa at the Bando Gora stronghold, but Darth Pregas ordered him to leave her for Dooku, who later killed her and recruited Jango Fett to lead the clone army.
• Tang expanded the Fourth Civilization’s military production, founded Tyran Heavy Industries, recruited Rory Swann, and persuaded Trench to serve as a future admiral.
• At the Eriadu Commerce Summit, Phineas Valorum proposed Outer Rim taxes in exchange for larger warships, while delegates argued over trade, security, and the Rusan Treaty.
• Sheev Palpatine pressured the Trade Federation to maintain trade routes and demanded that Fourth Group withdraw its advertisements, but the next day’s summit began with an explosion that shattered the Republic’s public calm.

After the Sesenna Hall massacre, the Republic’s crisis deepened into an arms race while Tang Xiao expanded the Fourth Civilization’s influence through deals, military planning, and the Caladanian conflict. The stretch left Titan Security fighting on Nal Hutta and Gaddula racing to finish a Land Carrier as Tang Xiao warned her that Jabba was coming.

• Fifteen thousand tampered B-1 droids attacked Sesenna Hall, killing thousands, and the Nebula Front claimed responsibility as Qui-Gon Jinn pursued the terrorists.
• Phineas Valorum’s tax policy and the failed summit drove the Republic, corporations, and Outer Rim powers toward open defiance and a galaxy-wide arms race.
• Tang Xiao and the Fourth Civilization’s leaders planned a future fleet and expanded production, while Tang Xiao investigated Sherry Birkin and advanced negotiations over Caladan Planet.
• Tang Xiao offered Grievous weapons and aid, then helped the Caladanians survive the Republic’s embargo by promising food and work for veterans.
• Tang Xiao founded Titan Security to employ Caladanian fighters, and Big Boss led them against the Rocru gang on Nal Hutta.
• Magtan Scar and Jason Statham captured Jawas’ Sandcrawlers for Gaddula’s Land Carrier project, while Gaddula learned the project lacked vital materials.
• Tang Xiao contacted Gaddula, revealed that Hego Damask II had survived the nuclear bomb, and warned her that the Land Carrier was her last chance against Jabba.

Tang Xiao expanded Fourth Civilization’s influence through Cerea and the Indori while Republic and Jedi intervention failed to stop the resulting wars and attacks. Darth Pregas brought Tang Xiao into his hidden laboratory to study his research and manage the Fourth Civilization remotely, positioning him as a possible heir and counterweight to Darth Sidious.

• Tang Xiao strengthened cooperation with Semirres Planet and established the Hiigaran Aerospace Group, while the Technology Movement’s uprising plunged Cerea into civil war.
• Hakimi and Elder Dor Fermi Bonmi led the Technology Movement against rival Elder Council factions as Fourth Group supplied aid and weapons, and Yuri Orlov resumed arms dealing on Cerea.
• Cun Te used cigars to win the Yoha tribe’s support, and the Indori launched a campaign that seized the Golden Nyss Shipyard and attacked Mayvitch 7.
• Chancellor Phineas Valorum revoked Fourth Group’s Republic licenses, while the Jedi sent Master Windu to confront the Indori and Zam led a failed raid on the Jedi Temple.
• Master Windu and the Judicial Fleet defeated the Indori, but Fourth Group claimed the Golden Nyss Shipyard and prepared it to build Hiigaran-class battlecruisers.
• Wat Tambor agreed to sell weapons to both sides of Cerea’s war, while Darth Sidious and Darth Pregas discussed their plans against Black Sun, Naboo, and the Fourth Group.
• Darth Pregas showed Tang Xiao his secret laboratory and research manuscripts, ordered him to study there, and left him to manage Fourth Civilization remotely.