- "Moff Gideon. You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you are in possession of, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know."
- — Din Djarin, to Moff Gideon
During the Second Federation-Der'kal War in 2392, a group of Mandalorians and a marshal along with a Starfleet Admiral, a mercenary and former bounty hunter mounted a rescue of Jett from Moff Gideon's light cruiser. They were able to pilot their stolen shuttle through the launch tube and crash land in the cruiser, allowing the team to board it.
After a fight between the team and Imperial stormtroopers, they were able to successfully captured the light cruiser's bridge. Djarin soon returned with Gideon in stuncuffs, having rescued Grogu from his holding cell, and holding the Darksaber, thereby making him the ruler of Mandalore.
However the dark trooper droid platoon that Djarin thought he destroyed flew back to Gideon's cruiser and boarded it, eventually making their way to the bridge; the team sealed the blast doors to stall them, though the droids began to punch the doors.
However a mysterious robed figure wielding a blue-bladed lightsaber had boarded the ship and cut her way through the droids and destroyed them. The Master revealed herself to be Aayla Secura, informed Djarin and his allies that they were safe.
Prelude[]
- "The Moff has a light cruiser. It could be helpful in your effort to regain Mandalore."
"[…] We will help you. In exchange, we will keep that ship to retake Mandalore. […] One more thing. Gideon has a weapon that once belonged to me. It is an ancient weapon that can cut through anything. […] It cannot cut through pure beskar. I will kill the moff and retake what is rightfully mine. With the Darksaber restored to me, Mandalore will finally be within reach."
"Help me rescue Jett, and you can have whatever you want. He is my only priority." - — Din Djarin and Bo-Katan
While on a mission on Tython with Din Djarin, there, however, he was found by Gideon's forces, who captured Jett, returned him to Gideon's light cruiser, and then jumped into hyperspace to a location unknown to Djarin. However, Djarin was joined in his quest to rescue Jett by Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, who deemed themselves indebted to Djarin after he allowed Fett to keep his armor that he had previously captured. After raiding an Imperial remnant base on Morak with the help of Djarin's friend Cara Dune, a marshal, and ex-sharpshooter Migs Mayfeld, Djarin and his allies discovered the coordinates to Gideon's light cruiser.
Djarin, Dune, Fett, and Shand captured Gideon's Shuttle 2743, which had been transporting Doctor Pershing and killed one of the two pilots. They then traveled to a desert world where they enlisted the aid of Mandalorian warriors Bo-Katan and Koska Reeves; Bo-Katan sought to reclaim the Darksaber from Moff Gideon, who had acquired the weapon following the Great Purge of Mandalore, in order to reclaim the Mandalorian throne and unite the Mandalorians to take back their homeworld of Mandalore.
The rescue[]
- "Phase one, Lambda shuttle issues a distress call. Two, we come in hot and emergency land at the mouth of the fighter launch tube, cutting off any potential interceptors. Koska, Fennec, Dune, and myself disembark with maximum initiative. Once we've neutralized the launch bay, we make our ways through these tandem desks in a penetration maneuver."
"And me?"
"We'll be misdirection. Once we draw a crowd, you slip through the shadows, get Jett." - — Bo-Katan and Din Djarin
A platoon of dark troopers is activated in response to Din Djarin's team's arrival
Arriving out of hyperspace near Moff Gideon's light cruiser, Boba Fett, from the Slave I, feigned fire on the shuttle containing the rest of the team. He drew away three TIE fighters that deployed from Gideon's cruiser while the shuttle crash landed through the launch tube into the cruiser, allowing the team to board it. Fett blasted the starfighters before then jumping to hyperspace himself.
Inside the cruiser, Dune, Shand, Bo-Katan, Typhuss and Reeves made their way to the bridge, fighting against stormtroopers along the way, while Djarin alone snuck to Jett's cell. As he made his way to the cell, Djarin found the cargo bay storing the platoon of third-generation dark troopers; however, the combat droids had already been activated. Using Pershing's code cylinder, Djarin closed the doors, though one of the droids escaped and caught Djarin. Djarin ultimately destroyed it with his beskar spear and opened up the room's sealed doors, pulling the rest of the platoon out into space.
While the rest of the team seized the bridge, Djarin defeated the troopers guarding the cell; but inside, he found Gideon with the Darksaber unsheathed and above Jett. Gideon forced Djarin to kick his blaster pistol over to him, and tricked Djarin into a false deal: in exchange for Jett, Djarin agreed to leave Gideon and never cross paths with him again. When Djarin moved in, Gideon attacked the Mandalorian with the Darksaber. In the hallway outside the cell, Djarin unsheathed his beskar spear and briefly dueled Gideon, ultimately defeating the moff.
Djarin escorts a defeated Gideon onto the bridge
Djarin freed Jett, took the Darksaber, and delivered a captured Gideon to the bridge before Bo-Katan and the rest of the team. Gideon remarked that Bo-Katan was unable to take the Darksaber, and thus claim the Mandalorian throne, for she had not defeated him in combat, but Djarin had instead. With their rocket boosters, the dark trooper droid platoon flew back to Gideon's cruiser and boarded it, eventually making their way to the bridge; the team sealed the blast doors to stall them, though the droids began to punch the doors in an effort to pound through them.
However, before the droids could breach the doors, a Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor arrived out of hyperspace and docked inside the cruiser.
Aid from Secura[]
From the bridge, the team and Moff Gideon watched the security cameras as a mysterious robed figure wielding a blue-bladed lightsaber cut his way through the droids; Bo-Katan identified the figure to be a power-sensitive. The woman eventually ascended in an elevator to the hallway before the bridge and destroyed the remaining dark troopers. Gideon picked up a nearby blaster pistol that he had been hiding and repeatedly shot Bo-Katan; however, before he could then fire on Jett, Djarin leaped in front of Jett, shielding him with his beskar armor. Gideon then attempted to kill himself with the blaster, but Dune knocked him out before he could.
Aftermath[]
With the remaining dark troopers destroyed, Din Djarin opened up the blast doors as the woman entered through the smoke, turned off her lightsaber and removed her hood, revealing herself to be Aayla Secura, informed Djarin and his allies that they were safe as she departed from the cruiser.
Boba Fett, who had left the rescue early on after having fulling his debt to Djarin, went with Fennec Shand to the Palace on Tatooine, which was owned by Bib Fortuna and attacked the palace and killed Fortuna where Boba sat on the throne Fett then formed his own criminal empire from the remnants of the other crime lord's former empire and became the Daimyo, who sought to rule out of respect rather than fear that had existed under the other crime lord.