Chapter Summaries

Mina-Tills revealed herself as the Mon Calamari war faction’s leader and admitted to orchestrating the assassinations of King Lee-Char and Governor Kobori to ensure conflict with the Kingdom of Dawn. She confronted Quarren leader Nossori, who warned that her alliance with the Galactic Empire would bring catastrophe upon Dak Planet.

• The Mon Calamari worked with Gideon Tarkin and gave the Galactic Empire a secret hyperspace route to Lothal Planet.
• Mina-Tills revealed that she had secretly built up the Mon Calamari war faction with support from Sheev Palpatine.
• Mina-Tills admitted that she had ordered the assassinations of King Lee-Char and Governor Kobori.
• Governor Kobori discovered the Mon Calamari had provided the Empire with a hyperspace route and tried to flee, but the Eighth Brother killed him.
• Nossori received Mina-Tills's communication, and she threatened revenge against him and the Quarren.

Mina Tills tried to rally General Jarr Ackbar to lead the Mon Calamari against the Kingdom of Dawn, while an attack on Nossori by Mina’s forces was thwarted by Salarian agents. The attempted assassination pushed Dak Planet toward civil war, and Jarr ordered the Deep Sea Fleet to mobilize while demanding that the Quarren be kept from escalating the crisis.

• Mina Tills argued with Nossori over Mon Calamari’s allegiance, then cut off their call; when Nossori tried to contact General Grievous, the signal failed and his estate plunged into darkness.
• A Salarian rescued Nossori from Mina Tills’s assassins and escaped with him aboard a submarine, while Quarren fighters helped cover their retreat.
• Mina Tills urged General Jarr Ackbar to prepare the Mon Calamari military for an attack on Lothal Planet and the Kingdom of Dawn, and Jarr agreed only if the stargate and the enemy’s main fleet were dealt with first.
• After learning that agents of the Kingdom of Dawn had taken Nossori, Jarr accused Mina Tills of risking civil war and demanded that she stabilize the Quarren.
• Mina Tills said Admiral Garrosh Tarkin was coming to discuss a joint plan, and Jarr ordered regional defenses to readiness and began mobilizing the Deep Sea Fleet.

Coral City stood on the brink of civil war as Mina-Tills and Nossori traded accusations and threats. In a secret underwater base, Garrosh-Tarkin revealed that the Galactic Empire had deceived the Mon Calamari and refused to send reinforcements, then renounced his Imperial position.

• Quarren and Mon Calamari forces faced off across Coral City after Nossori survived an assassination attempt and demanded that the Mon Calamari arrest Mina-Tills.
• Nossori and Lin Nanyi called for restraint and negotiations, but Mina-Tills declared herself Governor, abolished the monarchy, and rejected the Kingdom of Dawn's ultimatum.
• Lin Nanyi warned General Grievous that Dak Planet's crisis was out of control and urged preparations for an armed occupation.
• Mina-Tills welcomed Garrosh-Tarkin to a secret base and asked him to lead an attack on Lothal Planet, but he revealed that the Galactic Empire would provide no reinforcements and that The Eye of Palpatine was out of control.
• Garrosh-Tarkin exposed the Empire's plan to use the Mon Calamari as a distraction and warned that it intended to enslave them; he then tore off his Imperial insignia and said he had come to save Dak Planet's people.
• Mina-Tills collapsed and laughed through her tears as she held Garrosh-Tarkin's discarded insignia.

After Jarl Ackbar arrested Mina-Tills and surrendered the Mon Calamari to the Kingdom of Dawn, the civil war was averted and the Empire’s route to Lothal was revealed. General Grievous then collapsed after ordering Lin Nanyi to send the Gift Ship to Targon Planet, leaving the Eye of Palpatine’s next move uncertain.

• Mina-Tills urged Jarl Ackbar to preserve the Deep Sea Fleet and continue the Mon Calamari struggle, and the radical leaders bowed to him.
• Jarl Ackbar announced the arrest of Mina-Tills and the radical leaders, accepted the Kingdom of Dawn’s rule, and ordered the Mon Calamari forces to surrender.
• The Mon Calamari laid down their weapons, and Nossori promised equal standing for both races while preparing to select a new king.
• The Mon Calamari sent Lin Nanyi the Empire’s hyperspace route to Lothal, and the Kingdom of Dawn turned its attention to the Eye of Palpatine.
• General Grievous ordered Lin Nanyi to fly the Gift Ship to Targon Planet, then collapsed and fell silent.

After General Grievous collapsed from his wounds, Lin Nanyi sent him to Dawn Star Planet for treatment and prepared to finish the trap against The Eye of Palpatine. Meanwhile, The Will found Coaxium and footage of the Destruction battleship being repaired on Kubindi planet, then jumped there to destroy it.

• Lin Nanyi summoned medical robots after General Grievous collapsed, and they diagnosed major organ failure and bodily system dysfunction.
• Lin Nanyi sent General Grievous to Dawn Star Planet under escort and realized Grievous had been badly wounded while continuing to command the battle.
• The Will seized a cargo ship that arrived at Targon Planet and found Coaxium among its cargo.
• The Will discovered footage of the Destruction battleship being repaired and traced the cargo ship's route to Kubindi planet.
• The Eye of Palpatine loaded the Coaxium into its hyperspace engines and jumped toward Kubindi planet.

On Charro IV Planet, Gideon Tarkin struggled to track The Eye of Palpatine and learned that a coup on Dak Planet had put his nephew Garrosh Tarkin in danger. The Eye was eventually detected at Kubindi planet, a primitive world.

• Gideon Tarkin received a message from Targon Planet reporting that The Eye of Palpatine was not there.
• Gideon Tarkin ordered nearby hyperspace stations to search for The Eye of Palpatine.
• A message from Drallert Planet reported that Gial Ackbar had arrested Mina Tills and accepted the Kingdom of Dawn's terms on behalf of the Mon Calamari.
• Gideon Tarkin ordered reconnaissance craft sent to Dak Planet to investigate the coup and find out what had happened to Garrosh.
• The Eye of Palpatine was detected at Kubindi planet, which the communications officer described as a backward primitive planet.

Gideon Tarkin learned that the Empire had only seventy-three-year-old intelligence on Kubindi and sent reconnaissance craft to investigate. On Kubindi, Lin Nanyi completed a layered defense against The Eye of Palpatine, and sensors detected the enemy’s arrival in thirty minutes.

• Gideon Tarkin discovered that the Intelligence Department’s report on Kubindi was seventy-three years old and ordered nearby forces to launch reconnaissance craft.
• Lin Nanyi prepared Kubindi as a fortress planet, arranging drone harassment, mobile strikes, crewless battlecruisers, and an antimatter trap around the wreckage of the Destruction.
• Lin Nanyi divided his fleet into four sections and drilled his captains on the planned defense against The Eye of Palpatine.
• A sensor technician reported large-scale hyperspace fluctuations and estimated contact in thirty minutes.

Lin Nanyi confronted The Eye of Palpatine as it emerged near Kubindi planet and unleashed his fleet’s defenses and weapons against it. The Eye’s super AI identified the Destruction battleship as a target and accelerated toward it while Particle Beam Lances struck its hull.

• Lin Nanyi ordered Kubindi planet’s shield and orbital defenses activated and directed his fleet to prepare mines, weapons, and electronic warfare.
• The Eye of Palpatine emerged from hyperspace near Kubindi planet, revealing its immense size and layered defenses to Lin Nanyi.
• Lin Nanyi ordered the Particle Beam Lances and Swarm Drones to attack as hundreds of thousands of guided space mines struck the super warship’s shields.
• Hypermatter Railgun shots arrived, and one hit The Eye of Palpatine, revealing the firing Kohl II-class Heavy Cruiser’s position.
• The Eye of Palpatine’s super AI, The Will, identified the Destruction battleship as an enemy and accelerated toward it as Particle Beam Lances hit its hull.

The Eye of Palpatine endured the Kingdom of Dawn fleet’s bombardment and used powerful electronic interference to cripple its missiles and electronic warfare ships. Lin Nanyi reinforced the fleet’s countermeasures, then ordered the Hell-Angel Class Battlecruisers to close in and attack with Disintegration Beams as The Eye prepared to destroy the Destruction battleship wreckage.

• The Eye of Palpatine advanced through the fleet’s mines, beams, drones, and missiles while its shields and rocky armor resisted most attacks.
• Lin Nanyi held to the battle plan and let his subordinate commanders direct the four squadrons’ full bombardment.
• The Eye of Palpatine unleashed electronic interference that disabled most missiles and badly damaged the fleet’s electronic warfare vessels.
• Lin Nanyi ordered all Dunov Class battlecruisers to reinforce the Twinblade-class EW light cruisers, then brought Kubindi’s ground systems into the counterattack.
• Lin Nanyi learned that the Doomsday Battlefield class’s EMP system could not penetrate The Eye of Palpatine’s rocky layers as the super warship charged its laser and attacked the Destruction wreckage.
• Lin Nanyi ordered all Hell-Angel Class Battlecruisers to close to the shortest possible range and fire Disintegration Beams.

Lin Nanyi ordered the Kingdom of Dawn fleet to use Disintegration Beams to break through The Eye of Palpatine’s rocky shell and disable its electronic warfare advantage. After heavy losses, the fleet exposed the super battleship’s metallic body and found that the Doomsday Battlefield-class ships’ Power-Destroying Devices could weaken its reactor supply, leaving the battle poised for the fleet’s next attack.

• Lin Nanyi sent twenty Hell Angel-class Battlecruisers armed with Disintegration Beams toward The Eye of Palpatine, covered by more than 60,000 Swarm II Drones.
• The Eye of Palpatine launched thousands of missiles, destroying two Light Cruisers, then used its Turbolasers and Super-Focused Laser to destroy or damage several Hell Angel-class ships.
• Fifteen Hell Angel-class Battlecruisers reached close range and fired Disintegration Beams, triggering the collapse of The Eye of Palpatine’s rocky outer layer.
• Lin Nanyi ordered the fleet to attack from four directions, and the Kingdom of Dawn warships closed in while The Eye of Palpatine turned to target them.
• As the rock layer disintegrated and The Eye of Palpatine’s metallic body emerged, Lin Nanyi learned that the Doomsday Battlefield-class ships’ Power-Destroying Devices were effective.
• Lin Nanyi ordered the Doomsday Battlefield-class ships to concentrate their devices, the electronic warfare ships to advance, and rescue boats to deploy; the devices began neutralizing The Eye of Palpatine’s reactor energy.

Kanan Jarrus and the rebels learned that a shipment of shield-piercing missiles would soon pass through Dawn Port on Lothal, and they planned to destroy it. Hera Syndulla confirmed that their explosives were already hidden aboard the transport ships, as the rebels prepared to attack the spaceport.

• Kanan Jarrus told Ezra Bridger, Hera Syndulla, and Zeb Aurelios that Dawn Port's cargo throughput had tripled and Kael-Marr was rushing supplies out of Lothal.
• Kanan explained that a shipment of shield-piercing missiles would arrive from Dawn Star Planet without an escort and pass through Dawn Port.
• Kanan said the rebels had to destroy the missiles to stop the Kingdom of Dawn from turning Lothal into a rear base.
• Zeb Aurelios urged the group to blow up the spaceport and the missiles.
• Hera Syndulla confirmed that the Rebel Alliance's special bombs had been installed aboard every transport ship they had handled, and that Kael-Marr's people would not detect them.

Lin Nanyi’s fleet exploited the Eye of Palpatine’s exposed hull to overwhelm its defenses with electronic warfare, fighters, Rescue Boats, and Disintegration Beams. As the super warship was battered and cornered, it launched hundreds of commandeered civilian spacecraft into the battle.

• Lin Nanyi’s fleet disintegrated the rock layers around the Eye of Palpatine, allowing its electronic warfare ships to disrupt the super warship and restore the fleet’s communications.
• More than seven hundred fighters attacked the Eye of Palpatine’s engine exhausts, forcing it to shield its engines and lose speed.
• Lin Nanyi ordered more than a hundred Rescue Boats to approach under cover and attach themselves to the Eye of Palpatine, where they began cutting into its armor to reach data links.
• The Eye of Palpatine spun and fired its forward laser system, but the Kingdom of Dawn warships kept out of its line of fire while nine Hell-Angel Class Battlecruisers targeted its laser-focusing device and engines with Disintegration Beams.
• With its options dwindling, the Eye of Palpatine opened its Hangar Platforms and sent hundreds of commandeered civilian spacecraft charging at the Kingdom of Dawn fleet.

The Kingdom of Dawn fleet overwhelmed The Eye of Palpatine after it launched a chaotic swarm of scavenged ships, then disabled its defenses and destroyed it when its forced hyperspace jump failed. Klaw the Eternal accepted Targon Planet’s entry into the Kingdom of Dawn, while Lin Nanyi ordered his fleet to retreat clear of the exploding superwarship.

• The Eye of Palpatine launched more than ten thousand mismatched ships that attacked the Kingdom of Dawn fleet, but Wraith fighters and Swarm II Drones destroyed most of them.
• Klaw the Eternal recognized many of the launched ships as Targonian vessels, then agreed to join the Kingdom of Dawn after Lin Nanyi’s drones destroyed Targon Planet’s remaining fleet.
• Rescue Boats, electronic-warfare ships, missiles, and Disintegration Beams suppressed The Eye of Palpatine and battered its shield until the shield failed.
• A Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser struck The Eye of Palpatine’s charging super laser, triggering catastrophic internal explosions.
• Lin Nanyi ordered the Kingdom of Dawn fleet to withdraw when the superwarship activated its hyperspace engine, but the failed jump tore The Eye of Palpatine into an enormous debris belt.

After the Kingdom of Dawn destroyed The Eye of Palpatine, Lin Nanyi’s fleet became the strongest force in the Eastern Territory, but a terrorist attack crippled Dawn Port and destroyed thousands of Phase missiles. Three years later, smugglers on Akrit'tar unearthed a damaged component marked with the Galactic Empire’s emblem.

• Lin Nanyi assessed the heavy damage to his fleet after The Eye of Palpatine was destroyed and left part of it to garrison Kubindi planet.
• Lin Nanyi learned that terrorists had attacked Dawn Port, damaging landing pads and destroying cargo, including eight thousand Phase missiles.
• Lin Nanyi ordered two lightly damaged Oracle-class battleships to Lothal Planet and sent Sun God and Hantan ahead of the main fleet.
• Three years later, three people searching Akrit'tar uncovered a large, battered metal component and carried it to a modified Grey Horse-class escort carrier.
• Gallandro’s fellow smuggler asked about the mysterious signal, and Gallandro brushed dirt from the component to reveal a Galactic Empire emblem.

As Gallandro’s pirates activated a mysterious Galactic Empire device that repeatedly identified itself as the Empire, Gial Ackbar considered the Mon Calamari and Quarren’s uncertain future under the Kingdom of Dawn. He reflected on how liberal ideology’s demand for autonomy made species fear national integration, leaving him with no hopeful conclusion for Dak Planet.

• Gallandro and his pirates connected a damaged metal component to a military-grade mainframe, and it powered on despite a burst of sparks.
• The component repeatedly displayed, “I am the Galactic Empire,” while Gallandro ordered the technician to discover what it was.
• On Dak Planet the day after the Lothal Planet spaceport attack, Gial Ackbar remained alone in his office, worrying that the Mon Calamari had no future.
• Gial Ackbar considered Nossori’s fear that the Quarren would lose their independence if they joined the Kingdom of Dawn.
• The chapter explained how the Republic’s liberal system gave planets autonomy but enabled Mega-Trust exploitation, making them wary of both corporate economic integration and centralized national rule.

Gial Ackbar ordered Operation Rainbow to begin as the Mon Calamari faced the Kingdom of Dawn’s occupation. At Bubble Prison, Mina Tills revealed Garrosh Tarkin’s planned escape, and Eighth Brother found him at Spaceport Seven before a young woman using Force Stealth attacked.

• Gial Ackbar concluded that resistance was the Mon Calamari’s only hope and ordered Operation Rainbow to begin immediately.
• Mina Tills waited in Bubble Prison, believing her surrender had given Gial Ackbar and the Mon Calamari one last chance.
• Eighth Brother questioned Mina Tills about Garrosh Tarkin, and she gave him the location of Spaceport Seven in exchange for a promise of a swift death.
• Eighth Brother spotted a guarded, cloaked figure at Spaceport Seven and prepared to attack, suspecting it was Garrosh Tarkin.
• A young woman with a yellow Lightsaber ambushed Eighth Brother, traded blows with him, and vanished using Force Stealth.

Xiao Yan, Zhang Xucheng, and Talia discovered that the man they had been sent to capture was an impostor, while the real Garrosh Tarkin joined Gial Ackbar beneath the sea. Ackbar launched Operation Codename: Rainbow, revealing that the Mon Calamari’s underwater city was a fleet of concealed warships escaping into space.

• Eighth Brother fought the invisible Xiao Yan while Talia and Zhang Xucheng attacked the Rebel Alliance soldiers guarding their supposed target, only to discover the man was Nikola, not Garrosh Tarkin.
• Xiao Yan killed Eighth Brother, and Talia killed the Rebel captain after Kryster confirmed he did not know where Garrosh was.
• Kryster reported that Mina Tills and twenty-seven other radical Mon Calamari leaders had committed suicide with help from Quarren Guardians, while Shen Yuanhao said the Quarren would need a formal order to seal off Dak Planet.
• At a secret command center beneath Sar Galva, Garrosh Tarkin agreed to fight for freedom alongside Gial Ackbar, who ordered Operation Codename: Rainbow to begin.
• The disguised buildings of the underwater city transformed into City Warships and surged through the sea toward space, forming the Mon Calamari’s Deep Sea Fleet.

After Gial Ackbar fled Dak Planet with the Deep Sea Fleet, Lin Nanyi imposed military occupation and sweeping control over the Mon Calamari. He also reorganized Lothal Planet’s government and industry, leaving both populations facing harsh exploitation and political subjugation.

• Gial Ackbar escaped Dak Planet with more than 120 capital ships and over 100 cruisers, while Quarren leader Nossori collapsed and the surrounding forces went on alert.
• Lin Nanyi learned of the fleet’s escape, summoned Nossori, and reported the crisis to the Kingdom of Dawn High Command.
• Lin Nanyi appointed Arinda Price Grand Moff of Lothal Planet and ordered her to oversee a secret-police investigation into the Dawn Port bombing.
• Lin Nanyi ordered Lothal Planet’s agriculture replaced by heavy industry, while Shilka presented a plan to build 100 Givin cities and increase the Givin population to one billion.
• Lin Nanyi ordered Dak Planet occupied, its monarchy abolished, its Mon Calamari disarmed, and its companies nationalized under a new governor’s administration.
• The Kingdom of Dawn classified the Mon Calamari as an affiliated species and imposed heavy taxes and burdensome expenses on them after Ackbar’s departure had sealed their political future.

Tang Xiao reviewed the Eastern Territory campaign’s results and appointed Lin Nanyi governor while promoting General Grievous to command the fleet. At the medical center, San Hill warned that Grievous was near death and that only his soul remained alive, leaving Tang Xiao to consider how to preserve him.

• Tang Xiao learned that Lin Nanyi had recaptured Boonta and secured the campaign’s key objectives, including the destruction of The Eye of Palpatine.
• Tang Xiao stripped Lin Nanyi of his military posts and appointed him Governor of Mon Calamari and temporary Governor of the Eastern Territory.
• Tang Xiao assigned General Grievous command of the Eastern Territory Fleet, promoting him to Admiral of the Navy, and noted Bentilais San Skar’s recent promotion to Army General.
• Tang Xiao visited the medical center, where San Hill and the project engineers were trying to save Grievous in a Bacta tank.
• San Hill told Tang Xiao that Grievous could not leave the tank and was physically dead, with only his soul still alive.

Tang Xiao confronted Grievous in the realm of souls and persuaded him to reject death and embrace a new identity as a god of war. As Grievous’s body failed, Tang Xiao ordered his ship prepared for a journey to Protoss territory.

• Tang Xiao entered the soul realm and heard Grievous explain that he was tired and wanted to die.
• Tang Xiao told Grievous that the Caladanians had prospered and urged him to find a new purpose in battle.
• Tang Xiao offered Grievous power and a stage beyond the Milky Way Galaxy, then gave him an iron-gray mask and named him Chariot.
• Grievous accepted the mask and embraced his identity as a warrior born for battle.
• Grievous’s body began to fail in the Bacta tank, and Tang Xiao told the medical staff to prepare the ship for Protoss territory.