Chapter Summaries

Jango Fett decided to seek Bo-Katan Kryze’s help against Pre Vizsla, while John 117 warned that Mandalore’s people had not risen up enough to defeat him. On a remote planet, a man called Big Beard comforted Satine as she desperately watched reports about Mandalore.

• Resk and Ventra told Jango Fett that Pre Vizsla was deploying troops across Mandalore and intended to exterminate its people.
• Jango Fett decided to find the hidden Bo-Katan Kryze and bring Boba Fett to convince her to join the fight.
• Jango Fett left John 117 in command, and John said Mandalore’s people had not truly risen up against Pre Vizsla.
• On a remote planet, Big Beard found Satine screaming over a news report about Pre Vizsla’s campaign on Mandalore.
• Big Beard turned off the news and told Satine they had nothing to do with Mandalore anymore.

Obi-Wan Kenobi learned that Pre Vizsla was carrying out a genocide on Mandalore and planned to crown himself in Sundari City, while Satine Kryze struggled against her brain damage to follow the news. The chapter left Obi-Wan facing Satine’s renewed determination to see what was happening to her homeworld.

• Obi-Wan comforted Satine after she woke and asked to learn what had happened to Mandalore.
• Obi-Wan searched the news and learned that Pre Vizsla’s forces were massacring Mandalorians and that his coronation would take place in Sundari City a month later.
• Satine watched the reports despite the damage to her brain, and Obi-Wan held her as she trembled.
• Obi-Wan urged Satine to stay away from Mandalore, but she blamed herself for having made its people lay down their weapons.
• Satine insisted on watching the news, and Obi-Wan saw a spark of clarity in her eyes as her love for Mandalore fought against her brain damage.

Jango Fett brought Boba Fett to meet Bo-Katan Kryze, hoping to convince her that he would fight Pre Vizsla for Mandalore rather than sell it to the Duchy of Dawn. Bo-Katan rejected his claims and put a pistol to Boba's head, ordering him to remove his helmet.

• Jango Fett and Boba Fett landed in the Night Owls' stronghold and surrendered their weapons before asking to meet Bo-Katan Kryze.
• Jango Fett declared his loyalty to Mandalore, but Bo-Katan accused him of being a creation and agent of the Duchy of Dawn.
• Jango Fett admitted the Duchy of Dawn had given him the strength to challenge Pre Vizsla and offered to die with his warriors after victory.
• Bo-Katan condemned Jango for abandoning Mandalore and ordered her warriors to kill him.
• Jango Fett shielded Boba Fett and begged Bo-Katan to spare his son.
• Bo-Katan pressed her pistol against Boba Fett's helmet and ordered him to take it off.

Jango Fett sought Bo-Katan Kryze’s help against Pre Vizsla, arguing that Mandalorians had to resolve their own conflicts. He offered to follow her command and promised to take his own life after Pre Vizsla was defeated.

• Bo-Katan Kryze pointed her gun at Jango Fett and ordered Boba Fett to remove his helmet.
• Boba Fett recited the Six Actions and swore to follow them, while Jango explained that Mandalorian customs allowed different interpretations of helmet-wearing.
• Bo-Katan Kryze called Jango a traitor, and Jango insisted that Boba was a true Mandalorian raised to preserve their traditions.
• Jango asked Bo-Katan Kryze to help stop Pre Vizsla, accusing him of twice slaughtering Mandalorians.
• Jango asked Bo-Katan Kryze to lead him against Pre Vizsla and vowed to take his own life afterward, saluting with “This is the way!”

Bo-Katan Kryze secured the Mandalore Engine Company's covert support and declared open resistance against Pre Vizsla, starting Mandalore's civil war. The Rebel Alliance then organized local militias to evacuate civilians and disrupt the government forces' supply lines.

• Bo-Katan Kryze met secretly with the Mandalore Engine Company, which agreed to provide armed airspeeders and Scyk fighters while demanding a share of Death Watch's seized property.
• Bo-Katan Kryze refused the company's offer to broker black-market weapons because she trusted Vitaly Orlov more.
• On the third day of Pre Vizsla's massacres, Bo-Katan Kryze condemned his rule, declared herself temporary leader of the resistance, and placed Jango Fett's Mandalorian Restoration Army under her command.
• Bo-Katan Kryze's resistance movement became the Rebel Alliance, which recruited soldiers and built an army.
• The Rebel Alliance organized regional militias to evacuate civilians, sabotage transport and supplies, and attack government convoys moving across Mandalore.

Vitaly Orlov returned to Mandalore with weapons and gathered support for the Rebel Alliance as resistance against Pre Vizsla spread. The rebels struggled to hold their cities while Pre Vizsla prepared to crown himself Mand'alor in Sundari City, which Gal Saxon secured through mass purges.

• Vitaly Orlov brought one hundred thousand blaster rifles to Mandalore and secured support from local officials, security commanders, and merchants.
• Cities and settlements organized militias and resistance movements, while government troops struggled to control the population and some units defected to the Rebel Alliance.
• Pre Vizsla redirected his forces to seize rebellious cities' water systems and dust shields, but Bo-Katan Kryze's militias, local security forces, and Jango Fett's Mandalorian Restoration Army fought back.
• Vitaly Orlov left Mandalore again to gather resources from his brother Yuri Orlov's legacy on Nashadda and fund the resistance.
• Pre Vizsla planned to crown himself Mand'alor in Sundari City, where Gal Saxon stationed one hundred thousand troops and purged and massacred civilians.

Jango Fett and the Mandalorian warriors fought alongside the Rebel Alliance in Secypii City, but government forces overwhelmed the defenders and forced the city to surrender. Their resistance bought Bo-Katan Kryze’s movement time, and she rallied Mandalorians across the planet to rise against Pre Vizsla.

• Jango Fett and twenty Mandalorian warriors attacked government forces in Secypii City while Kom'rk-class fighters bombarded the defenders.
• The Rebel Alliance struggled to resist the government advance and evacuate civilians as Jango Fett’s group ran out of ammunition and fuel and withdrew.
• Government forces threatened to disable Secypii City’s dust shield, forcing the city to surrender after holding out for another half day.
• Government troops surrounded civilian evacuation sites and executed people suspected of supporting the Rebel Alliance.
• Jango Fett and the Mandalorian warriors escaped, while their resistance bought Bo-Katan Kryze’s movement time.
• Bo-Katan Kryze denounced Pre Vizsla and urged Mandalorians across the planet to rise up and resist.

Bo-Katan Kryze addressed Mandalore while trying to strengthen her Rebel Alliance, as the fighting against Pre Vizsla went badly. After Secundus City fell, she welcomed new civilian and security-force recruits, while Jango Fett and Master Chief John-117 prepared a raid to disrupt Vizsla’s supplies ahead of his coronation.

• Bo-Katan Kryze gave a speech using communications support secretly provided by the Duchy of Dawn forces, while keeping Mandalore Engine Company at arm’s length.
• Bo-Katan Kryze learned that the Rebel Alliance had lost Secundus City after holding government forces there for a week.
• Korkie Kryze reported that teachers and students from the Mandalore Royal Academy of Government wanted to join Bo-Katan’s team if she could guarantee their safety.
• Korkie Kryze said his classmate Lars’s father would bring five hundred armed public security officers to join the rebellion.
• Master Chief John-117 reported that Vizsla’s forces planned to airlift supplies near Secundus City, and Jango Fett chose to attack them with John despite Bo-Katan’s concerns.

Private Darko recalled happier days at Secundus City Stadium as he documented his fear and disillusionment after the Vizsla government forces executed civilians following the city's surrender. As his depleted company went to collect water, he saw the dead civilians and wounded prisoners forced to operate the damaged water plant.

• Darko remembered watching Mandalore defeat Alderaan at the Galactic Cup three years earlier and wrote about his father's death in a terrorist attack.
• He recorded that the Commander had ordered three thousand residents of Secundus City executed and that he had avoided taking part by claiming he was injured.
• Darko wrote that his company was nearly out of ammunition and supplies and hoped the fighting would end.
• Darko joined Company 17 to collect water after it had lost 120 men, with many wounded soldiers suffering in an inadequately equipped field hospital.
• Darko saw bound civilian corpses on the way to the water plant and found wounded Rebel Alliance prisoners operating its sole functioning machine.

Darko and Company 17 moved to defend the loading platform after Jango Fett and his Super Soldiers destroyed a transport ship carrying desperately needed supplies. Darko survived the massacre by lying still, then broke down at the sight of the ruined battlefield.

• Darko watched missiles destroy the transport ship just after he received water.
• The lieutenant ordered Company 17 to assemble and advance to the loading platform.
• Darko saw Jango Fett and his Super Soldiers attack the soldiers around the burning wreck.
• A warrior marked Unit 117 landed among Company 17 and killed the soldiers, while Darko dropped his empty rifle and lay still.
• After the fighting subsided, Darko saw the dead and wounded across the ruins and vomited in terror.

The Vizsla government forces abandoned Secundus City after Jango Fett's attacks destroyed their supply fleet and exposed Pre Vizsla's failure to sustain his army. As Pre Vizsla tried to regroup his scattered troops, Bo-Katan Kryze's Rebel Alliance counterattacked toward Sundari City, with only five days left before the coronation.

• The Vizsla government forces retreated from Secundus City after running out of ammunition and water, destroying the city's water supply facility and dust-shield controller as they withdrew.
• Jango Fett and his Super Soldiers repeatedly attacked supply spacecraft and convoys, then destroyed a transport fleet and triggered the collapse of the more than 90,000 troops in Secundus City.
• News of the defeat exposed Pre Vizsla's supply failures, and people who had hesitated to rebel raised the banner of resistance.
• Pre Vizsla began withdrawing his forces from more than a hundred battlefields to loyal cities so they could reorganize and rest.
• Bo-Katan Kryze's Rebel Alliance counterattacked starving, undersupplied Vizsla government forces and used Bric-Arol-class airspeeders to push toward Sundari City.
• The Rebel Alliance advanced toward the capital as Pre Vizsla's coronation ceremony drew within five days.

Tiber Zayne manipulated Pre Vizsla’s coronation plans while expanding the Zann Consortium’s operations on Saleucami. On Dathomir, Darth Maul awakened after nearly twenty years and learned that Savage Opress had helped build a hidden Shadow Empire under Darth Tenebrus.

• Tiber Zayne ordered Urai Fen to send Pre Vizsla limited supplies so he could proceed with his coronation, where Jango Fett or Bo-Katan Kryze might kill him.
• Tiber Zayne learned that Silri had prepared to act against Black Sun with Savage Opress and revealed his interest in bringing Darth Maul into the conflict.
• The Zann Consortium processed warship wreckage on Saleucami, giving it a vast supply of materials for recycling and refitting.
• Savage Opress awakened Darth Maul from a Bacta tank and explained the major events of the twenty years since Maul’s defeat on Naboo.
• Darth Maul despaired that Darth Sidious and Darth Malthael controlled the galaxy, but Savage Opress claimed they had become a hidden variable and built a Shadow Empire.
• Savage Opress identified Darth Tenebrus as the force behind their rise, and Darth Maul realized the hidden base did not feel like the Dathomir he remembered.

Darth Maul agreed to help Savage Opress build the Shadow Collective by taking control of Black Sun, while privately plotting to avoid becoming Darth Tenebrus’s puppet again. On Mandalore, Pre Vizsla prepared for his coronation as True Mandalor and learned that Bo-Katan Kryze was assembling a large force against Sundari City.

• Darth Maul questioned whether Darth Tenebrus was using him, then told Savage Opress to create their legion and asked about their mission to bring Black Sun under their control.
• Savage Opress said Night sister Silri had gone to Nal Hutta satellite and that Darth Tenebrus would reveal his plan after Black Sun joined them.
• Pre Vizsla brooded over Mandalore’s failing campaign, his reliance on Zann Consortium supplies, and his coming coronation as True Mandalor.
• Gal Saxon reported that the Rebel Alliance west of Sundari City had been defeated, and Pre Vizsla praised him as his Grand Strategist.
• Gal Saxon told Pre Vizsla that Bo-Katan Kryze was gathering about twenty thousand troops with airspeeders and fighters, and he promised to secure Sundari City’s skies for the coronation.

In 11 BBY, the Duchy of Dawn and the Galactic Empire began negotiations while Pre Vizsla prepared to restore the Mandalorian Crusaders on Mandalore. Bo-Katan Kryze launched an assault on Sundari City, beginning the Battle of Sundari.

• Hutt Space’s civil war abruptly halted as the Goresla Family began planning a unified regime.
• The Galactic Empire and the Duchy of Dawn traded accusations and closed their borders, but Francis Underwood later traveled to the Empire to negotiate reopening the Rendili Trade Route with Koruya-Van D'ron.
• Pre Vizsla announced his coronation as True Mandalor and the restoration of the Mandalorian Crusaders, while Bo-Katan Kryze vowed to resist and march on Sundari City.
• Bo-Katan Kryze assembled 20,000 troops and prepared to attack Pre Vizsla’s 100,000-strong force outside Sundari City.
• Bo-Katan Kryze ordered her troops to charge as Jango Fett, twenty Super Soldiers, and John 117 joined the assault, beginning the Battle of Sundari.

Pre-Vizsla staged a sacred ceremony to proclaim himself True Mandalor while the Rebel Alliance and Mandalorian Restoration Army attacked Sundari. As the War God Priest prepared to crown him, someone grabbed the helmet first.

• Pre-Vizsla climbed to the altar as Gal Saxon's troops and Death Watch warriors forced Sundari's residents to watch his ceremony.
• The Rebel Alliance began bombarding the Vizsla government forces, and its Scyk fighters attacked their corvettes.
• Jango Fett, John-117, and the Night Owls broke through the government forces' positions and advanced toward the city.
• The War God Priest completed the ritual and raised the Mandalorian helmet to proclaim Pre-Vizsla True Mandalor.
• As Pre-Vizsla knelt to receive the helmet, a hand reached from behind and seized it first.

Gal Saxon betrayed Pre Vizsla during the Mand'alor ceremony, denounced his rule, and rallied the crowd by invoking Mandalore’s history of humiliation. After beheading Pre Vizsla, Saxon’s forces clashed with Death Watch, plunging Sundari City into civil war.

• Gal Saxon stunned Pre Vizsla with an electroshocker and took the Darksaber ceremony platform.
• Gal Saxon condemned Pre Vizsla and the Kryze family, urging Mandalorians to reject submission and restore their strength.
• Gal Saxon seized the Darksaber and beheaded Pre Vizsla, then raised his head and declared that the Mandalorians would be great again.
• The crowd rallied behind Gal Saxon as Death Watch warriors tried to attack him or flee.
• Gal Saxon’s troops and returning Kom'rk-class fighters opened fire on Death Watch, and fighting spread through Sundari City as civilians fled in panic.

Shen-Jon maneuvered to place a strong ruler over Mandalore after chaos discredited its existing leaders. Just as Bo-Katan Kryze’s forces neared victory, a mysterious transmission disabled their vehicles and turned the battle into a massacre.

• Shen-Jon concluded that Mandalore’s people would follow whoever could restore strength and planned to bring that leader before them.
• Bo-Katan Kryze’s Rebel Alliance broke through the government forces’ defenses and prepared to advance into Sundari City.
• Gal Saxon killed Pre Vizsla and proclaimed himself king, adding another contender for Mandalore’s rule.
• Bo-Katan Kryze ordered Jango Fett and the Mandalorian Restoration Army to capture the Sundari Royal Palace.
• A mysterious transmission caused Rebel Alliance starfighters and airspeeders to malfunction, plunging its forces into chaos and killing soldiers and civilians.

Gal Saxon crushed Bo-Katan Kryze’s Rebel Alliance, seized power on Mandalore, and slaughtered the Vizsla forces on Concordia. With the Zann Consortium’s investment behind him, Gal Saxon became the sole ruler, while Shen-Jon and Tiber Zayne revealed he had been their intended pawn all along.

• After the Rebel Alliance’s weapons and vehicles malfunctioned, Gal Saxon’s forces routed Bo-Katan Kryze’s army, and fewer than two hundred soldiers escaped with her.
• Mandalore Engine Company told Bo-Katan Kryze it was loyal to Gal Saxon, who then abolished the political system and proclaimed himself Mandalore Governor.
• Gal Saxon declared the Vizsla and Kryze families traitors and led his forces in a massacre on Concordia that nearly wiped out Pre Vizsla’s supporters.
• Gal Saxon announced reforms and a five-billion-credit investment from the Zann Consortium, prompting cities across Mandalore to support him.
• Shen-Jon and Tiber Zayne revealed that Gal Saxon had been their real pawn, and the Zann Consortium committed to backing Mandalore’s development.

Bo-Katan Kryze grieved over the failure to stop Gal Saxon, but Vitaly Orlov helped her regain resolve and urged her to prepare for the Zann Consortium’s next move. Meanwhile, Mace Windu and Olegar arrived at Haruun Kal, where Windu sensed the planet was awakening.

• Vitaly Orlov comforted Bo-Katan Kryze and explained that Gal Saxon’s rise had been engineered by the Zann Consortium.
• Vitaly told Bo-Katan about his conflicted relationship with his brother Yuri Orlov and reconsidered how Yuri’s weapons had helped people resist oppression.
• Vitaly asked Bo-Katan whether resisting tyranny was wrong, and she firmly rejected the idea before leaning against him and falling asleep.
• Vitaly resolved to wait for the Zann Consortium to reveal its plans while preparing to defend Mandalore’s people when they needed help.
• Mace Windu arrived at Haruun Kal with Olegar, who said Windu could resolve the planet’s powerful anomaly as the Son of Haruun Kal.

Mace Windu revealed his plan to destroy the galaxy and make the Dream Sisters its gods before departing for Haruun Kal, while Olegar headed for the Mandalore star sector. Tang Xiao investigated Mandalore’s sudden unification under Gal Saxon and learned that Olegar was also moving toward the sector.

• Mace Windu told Olegar that he sought revenge against the Dark Side and intended to destroy the galaxy, leaving only ten thousand people under the Dream Sisters’ rule.
• Mace Windu took a shuttle toward Haruun Kal, while Olegar ordered his destroyer to the Mandalore star sector.
• Tang Xiao learned that Gal Saxon had unified Mandalore and asked Salatan Morse to investigate.
• Salatan Morse reported finding no leads on Darth Maul or the Shadow Collective, assessed that Savage Opress was likely hiding on Dathomir, and described Black Sun’s current leadership.
• Salatan Morse reported that Olegar had visited Tangrene, where Blood Knights killed a Ghost Agent, and that Olegar’s warship was now heading toward Mandalore.