In the days following the freezing of Han Solo on cloud city by Darth Vader, Boba Fett
actually managed to lose the carbonite body of Han while trying to keep it frozen on the
smugglers moon Nar Shaddaa.
Surprisingly, the body actually ended up in the hands of Qi’ra who is now in charge
of the Crimson Dawn Crime syndicate after the death of Darth Maul at the hands of Obi-Wan
Kenobi.
After Qi’ra captured the body of Han Solo, she invited the entire criminal underworld
to an event where she displayed the body and challenged the others to take it from her…
Eventually, Boba Fett got Han back, but it served as a way for Qi’ra to announce to
the Galaxy that Crimson Dawn was back and that she was about to prove a very scary point…
Now she has a new goal.
Learning from the scattered teachings of Darth Maul himself, Qi’ra has transformed the
Crimson Dawn Crime Syndicate into a group which now serves the dark side and that has
one singular goal.
The destruction of the Sith…
So, lets get into it!
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and check out the prequel to this, War of the Bounty Hunters.
So the story begins in the present, inside of a mysterious dark room, where two unidentified
people have just come across a mysterious, Grey Force holocron.
This means that the holocron can be opened with both the light side and the dark side…
As a result, the two are pretty confused, but they quickly agree that it definitely
is a holocron, just not one like any they’ve seen before.
Moments later, one of the two mysterious beings opens up the holocron and inside is greeted
by the presence of the holocron keeper.
She tells the two that the Holocron has been accessed using the Light side of the force
this time, but opening it with the dark side would have also worked…
Although it may tell a slightly different story.
Tell me down in the comments who you think these two mysterious beings are since we probably
won't find out until the end of the series.
The Holocron keeper then goes on to say that this is the story of a woman named qi’ra.
She grew up as a scrumrat in the sewers of corellia, but managed to rise to become the
leader of crimson dawn.
As the leader of the new syndicate, she gave them a true purpose, something which Maul
had never done before…
And she is just about to reveal that purpose.
Moving out onto the flagship of Crimson Dawn, the Vermillion, Qi’ra has gathered the most
heinous, violent and disgraceful thugs she could put together in order to begin her new
plan.
She tells her new syndicate members that those standing here are the only ones in the galaxy
with the power to pull this goal off… and that goal is to defeat the Sith and take down
Darth Sidious and his reign…
She then introduces the new handpicked members of her syndicate, including the Knights of
Ren, Channath Cha and the Orphans, Ochi of Bestoon, Deathstick, Margo from Solo A Star
Wars sttory, trinia, and lastly, the archivist who is the one telling this story through
the holocron in the present time.
Qi’ra explains to her fellow members that the Sith are an Ancient order, masters of
the dark side of the force.
She learned about them from the one who ruled Crimson Dawn before her…
Maul.
She explains that for some time, he was one of the Sith, even using the title Darth.
She goes on to tell them that there are only ever two sith.
Maul then learned of their mysteries, their power and their ambition, but then he died.
Just as quickly though he was reborn, which Qi’ra believes is not to uncommon for members
of the Sith.
Finally, Qi’ra warns her members that like so many others, Maul was simply used and discarded,
which is all Palptine does.
She then moves on to show her members a hologram of how she believes power should be divided
in the galaxy.
Almost like an endless mountain range with many peaks, but none dramatically higher than
any other.
Unfortunately that’s not how this galaxy operates any longer.
Under the sith, it is like a pyramid.
At its peak, one man waits, ready to destroy anyone who dared to approach.
He is the only truly free man in the galaxy.
His name is Emperor Palpatine, or Darth Sidious.
Qi’ra managed to learn his true sith name and that of his apprentice vader by rummaging
through Maul’s old artifacts and learning under him after killing Dryden Vos.
No matter what, she wants them dead.
She then moves to all of her members, asking them what they have against the Sith, first
starting off with Ren from the Knights of Ren.
Qi’ra knows that Palpatine stole his pride and his ambitions, and he simply responds
“damn right he did”.
Palpatine stole love and hope from the Orphans, the identity of Deathstick, the vision of
Oci of Bestoon, and the legacy of the archivist.
Qi’ra carefully tells them that nobody here is a good person, but some are worse than
others.
She says that she doesn’t trust them, and they should trust her, while explaining her
defeat of Dryden Vos from Solo: A Star Wars story.
Following this we see a flashback of Qi’ra learning from Maul after Dryden Vos’ defeat
and the fact that he had a plan to destroy sidious but he was killed before it could
be completed.
Qi’ra however wont make the same mistakes and now she has collected an assortment of
Sith artifacts from him, and some that she has even collected on her own.
Moving onto the black sun frigate named Darkpath, Qi’ra arrives and is greeted by Lord Gyuti
of the black sun.
The two exchange their hellos and are escorted by both of their security details to begin
a very secretive meeting.
Qi’ra starts off soft by telling the Black sun Lord that they do not want any of the
territory or any of their deals because a gang war would be wasteful, but instead wants
to serve as a small jobs contractor for their syndicate.
A very small, but elite group who can get any job done with no questions asked.
She is also trying to convince the Black Sun to work more closely with the Empire now that
the Hutt council was gone.
For those of you who don’t know, Darth Vader slaughtered the Entire Hutt council because
of the events at Jekara, involving Han Solo’s frozen body…
If you want to see that, make sure you check out my war of the bounty hunters playlist!
As Qi’ra is attempting to sell her syndicate’s services to the Black Sun, Margo and Trinia
are doing the exact same thing with the Pykes and other syndicates, urging them to also
try to fill the vacuum that the dead Hutt council have left, hoping to sow discord and
contest between all of the syndicates.
Finally, Qi’ra tells Lord Gyuti to pass on the word to Prince Xizor, who im sure all
of you will know is the infamous black sun crime Lord from Shadows of the Empire.
This is his first mention back in the new canon, except for a small salad at Galaxy's
edge named after him.
So it’s pretty likely that he’s leading the syndicate right now and is pulling all
of the strings.
Tell me down below if you remember shadows of the empire.
Following this, we cut to Dantooine aboard the Siroto where the Orphans are about to
begin their phase of the mission.
They’re going to raid a black sun smash-processing lab, where they’re currently tweaking the
formula of their spice to make it more powerful Im sure I dont’ have to explain what smash
is…
The crew and their sarcastic droid aren’t too happy about simply rolling up and murdering
everyone working there, but Chanath Cha calms their minds and tells them that these are
horrible people anyway who are trying to get people addicted to their smash.
The group is then given a quick lesson on why they are called the Orphans…
Everyone in the group is an orphan.
The droid is the last of her factory line the other, Imara Vex’s parents haven't been
seen since she was young and Chanath Cha’s parents were killed by Darth Vader right in
front of her with the lightsaber of the 9th sister.
This scene actually takes place in the Darth VAder 2017 comic, which is a great little
connection.
From that day on she swore that she would end Darth Vader no matter what it took.
MMoving down on to the surface, the Orphans storm the smash lab violently killing all
of the guards without a second thought before entering the main chamber.
Inside they are again met with fierce resistance, warning everyone inside that all comms have
been jammed and nobody is coming to help.
Chanath Cha is eventually overwhelmed by the the sheer number of blaster bolts coming her
way, but she manages to spring her shield up just in time to save herself.
AFter that their droid Ladybright is having the time of her life incinerating all of the
spice production facilities, but outside they have a bigger problem.
Two black sun ships have managed to escape, and if they can get to hyser space its game
over.
Everyone will know the orphans are behind the attack.
Luckily however Imara Vex is able to get off a legendary shot and obliterate the bluck
sun ships above the atmosphere, ending the threat.
Back at the black sun headquarters, everything is in complete shambles with Lord Gyuti panicking
and feeling deeply insulted by the attack, which no one has yet claimed responsibility
for.
Having realized that nobody is going to come out to claim this attack, the Lord Gyuti decides
that he’ll have to hit them all…
Now in the next weeks following this, the Orphans continued doing the same thing to
other syndicates, in order to spark chaos, dissent and distrust between the criminal
syndicates, ensuring that nobody survived to reveal who were behind the attacks.
And while this was happening, Qi’ra was using double agents within the syndicates
but controlled by the Dawn to make them believe that the Empire was pitting every syndicate
against each other, in order to find the strongest.
This little gang war however eventually reached the ears of Palpatine himself at the Imperial
Palace on Coruscant, and he was certainly not pleased.
He immediately summoned lord Vader to put an end to this disorder in the Galaxy and
restore the authority of the Empire.
This however was all part of Qi’ra’s plan.
Now moving to the Night Buzzard, the ship of the Knights of Ren, the leader himself
is practicing with Knight Marinda and tells her tha Qi’ra will give them access to any
dark side artefact that they can find from Maul’s old collection, as long as they follow
her orders and achieve success.
And moments later they receive those orders… the Knights of Ren will attempt a heist on
Fortress Vader… if they can pull it off, they will become legends.
Ochi of bestoon also plays his own role, sharpening the blade we See in the rise of skywalker,
ready to attack anyone Qi’ra asked him too.
He also debates the morality of all this killing, being very lost about what is right.
AFter that, Deathstick herself is mediating but she is not conflicted at all like Ochi.
She was born of the Night and no one could be more at home in the darkness than her.
She isn’t bothered about all this killing and her target, which is Darth Sidious.
Now finally, we come to one of the most interest characters of this saga, which is the archivist.
Qi’ra has employed her as a general advisor on all matters relating to the force and the
Sith.
Now very interestingly, Qi’ra has tasked the archivist to find surviving members of
the Jedi Order, who themselves were destroyed by Sidious and try to recruit them.
They could be very powerful allies.
Her prime target is Master Yoda himself.
If Yoda will not join them, he can be used very well as bait…
She is then interrupted suddenly by a mysterious figure… we’ll have to wait till next week
to find out who it is.
Now finally, Qi’ra tells her closest advisors to send out the assassins to their targets
and also to contact Leia Organa.
Qi’ra knows that the rebels will be part of this little plan to take down sidious,
whether they like it or not.
And to end the story, Qi’ra looks out in the vastness of space and says to her advisors
“you know, I really think this could work”...
But this story is a tragedy…
Not destined to pan out how she thinks…
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Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!