Hey how you doing guys and welcome to another video.
So today we’re going to cover the second issue of the Crimson Reign series which is
currently ongoing and might tie directly into the Book of Boba Fett Finale.
We left off Last Week with Qi’ra calling all of remaining members of the Crimson Dawn
together in hopes of infiltrating and assassinating both Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.
The interesting thing is that this story is being told from the perspective of the Crimson
Dawn lore master.
The one who is in charge of archiving all of their history and actions.
She is telling the story of what happened to Crimson Dawn from the future through a
holocron which is being listened to by a mysterious light side force user.
Not to mention this story brought Prince Xizor back into Canon just in time for a possible
appearance in the Book of Boba Fett.
So, lets break down Issue two of Crimson Reign and how Qi’ra has 11 Royal Guards brutally
assassinated.
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So the story begins in the present timeline with the archivist continuing to tell that
mysterious light side force user and his fried about Lady Qi’ra’s journey.
She tells them that Qi’ra used every tool at her disposal in order to take down the
two Sith Lords, including deception.
Everything she told the members of Crimson dawn was just a story, designed to rile them
up and get them angry so they would be willing to participate in this coup.
Despite that, Qi’ra soon relaized that deception is not enough…
she resorted to something much powerful and something that cannot be denied.
Death.
In order to carry this out, the pulled out the most highly skilled assassins of the Crimson
Dawn to get the job done.
At this point we move back into the past timeline aboard Qi’ra ship the Vermillion.
On board is the bounty hunter known as Deathstick who is actually one of the survivors of General
Grievous’ purge on the Nightsisters.
Deathstick is waiting to be greeted by Qi’ra so that she can be given her orders.
While waiting patiently, the doors to Qi’ra office open and out walks Ochi of Bestoon,
another renowned assassin for Crimson Dawn.
Ochi tells Deathstick that she can enter and asks “who do you think she’ll send you
to kill?”.
The Nightsister though has no interest in answering that telling him that the target
is none of his business, unless Ochi’s target is her.
And if it’s not he should move swiftly along…
Ochi sarcastically says “ooh spooky”, telling Deathstick that she doesn’t scare
him at all.
Nothing does.
Not since he saw the light.
Deathstick dismissed him as crazy before moving into Qi’ra’s office with her assistants
including Margo from Solo: a Star Wars story.
Qi’ra apologizes for having kept the Hunter waiting, but gets right down to business since
Deathstick has never been the chatty type.
Right after, Margo warns Deathstick that all of the syndicates have gone to war.
The Black Sun, the Pykes… pretty much everyone except the Hutts and Crimson Dawn.
The Hutts have stayed out because Vader wiped out their entire council leaving Jabba as
the only influential hutt remaining.
Margo then hands her a data card with all of the information she needs to carr out her
bounty mission.
The target is very unique.
She is the heir to not one but two of the Galaxy’s leading criminal syndicates.
The Mourner’s clan and the Unbroken clan.
Unfortunately for Deathstick she has taken refuge with the REbel alliance, meaning it
won’t be an easy task.
Her name is Cadeliah and Qi’ra needs her taken off the board…
Im sure you know what that means.
Deathstick hesitates before accepting the task, prompting Qi’ra to ask if there is
a problem?
Deathstick however brushes it off and tells Qi’ra that as long as she gets her credits,
there will be no problem at all.
After death stick leaves, Trinia, Qi’ra’s assistant starts going off on assassins saying
that they curdle her blood because they kill for money.
Qi’ra tells them though that that’s just a random line in the sand.
Everyone kills under the right circumstances.
Everyone.
It’s all about you dress it up and the story you tell yourself to justify it.
In her many years of experience, Qi’ra has found that there are three reasons people
kill.
Some kill for their faith, like Jedi.
Some kill for Hope, Like Boba Fett and bounty hunters hoping for a better life… and then
there is one other category.
Those who kill simply for joy.
Qi’ra knows that Ochi kills because he is afraid.
Everything he kills is something that can no longer kill him.
Where he comes from, he’s seen monsters and terrifying things that would keep anyone
up at night.
Cutting onto Ochi’s ship, he is in hyperspace barrelling towards his target’s location.
He is shocked that Qi’ra spent the money to pay for an ASN courier droid.
This is the same droid that Zam Wessel used to deliver the Kohouns to Padme’s room in
Attack of the Clones.
Either way, while Ochi is on his way, Qi’ra continues talking about how in the past he
worked for Palpatine.
Ochi was so afraid of Monsters that he made himself useful to the biggest one of all,
thinking that would keep him safe.
Deep down though he knows its just a matter of time before that monster also turns on
him.
For that reason, Qi’ra gave him the job of assassinating Palpatine’s royal guards.
Ochi then arrives at his destination, which happens to be the Imperial Palace on Coruscant,
previously the Jedi temple.
Knowing he is about to face the man he once worked for, Ochi is nervous for the mission.
Back in the gossiping session with Qi’ra and her top aides, she starts gushing about
Deathstick’s past.
She tells them that her entire linease was wiped out during the Clone Wars and she and
her mother were two of the very few who made it out.
Since the very earliest days of her life she has carried the guilt of being one of the
survivors of General Grievous’ raid, leading her to turn to the life of an assassin.
Deathstick kills because she is completely and utterly alone in this world.
She believes sharing that pain will lessen it, but all that results in is more people
hurt.
Despite this, Qi’ra was able to gain Deathstick’s loyalty by revealing to her that Emperor Palpatine
was the one behind the Death of her people, since he gave the Order to grievous.
Qi’ra obviously learned this information from her time as Maul’s apprentice.
Sitting beside a campfire in the forest Deathstick continues mulling this bounty mission over
in her head, convincing herself that she can kill this young girl…
when really, she doesn’t have it in her.
Cutting down to very deep in the Coruscant Underworld, at level 2658, Ochi enters the
shop of a local poisons dealer.
Funnily enough this is the same level where Palpatine brought Anakin to a bar as a young
kid…
That’s a comic ill cover very soon.
The poisons dealer is actually a man named Zlarb who comes all the way back from an old
Legends Novel called Han Solo’s revenge.
This one is a very deep cut and awesome to see him back in the Canon.
After listing off a range of poisons which will help Ochi with his mission, many of which
are from legends, he decides to take all of them since Qi’ra is paying…
Very slick Ochi.
Moving back to Deathstick, she has finally located the young girl target at the Outer
Rim rebel base of Panisia…
Now instead of taking the shot herself, Deathstick tries to take the road which wont destroy
her conscience.
She calls the Imperial Anti terror watchline and reports the location of the Rebel base,
hoping the young girl will be killed for her, without her even taking a single shot.
Back on Coruscant, Ochi gives the poison to his droid and sends it off to the imperial
palace.
The droid turns itself invisible and immediately makes it into the living quarters of Palpatine’s
royal guards, the most prestigious soldiers of the Empire.
Inside the royal guards are in their standard imperial uniforms and two of them are talking
about their friend Deez missing breakfast.
Before you break out into laughter this guy actually featured on a very important mission
to Ryloth with Darth Vader and Palpatine in the Lords of the Sith Novel.
So that’s a really nice little canon connection!
Regardless, Ochi tells his droid to blast it…
But before we see what happens, we cut back to the Rebel base.
The Rebels are terrified that the Empire has finally arrived at their base and they try
to move Cadeliah into hiding.
She’s a tough one though and says she’s not helpless, she wants to fight back.
Putting her feelings aside, the young crime heir moves into a bunker, but before she can
get it, Deathstick arrives.
The Nightsister bounty hunter then disasrms the young girl with ease and grabs her by
the arm…
We then cut back to Ochi who notices Major Deez on on his spy droid’s sensors.
With a single precise slug shot to the neck, Ochi infects him with the poisons he bought
from the coruscant underworld.
He hopes that Major Deez will spread the toxins to the rest of his Royal Guard squad mates
when he returns to the barracks.
Ochi then begins waiting patiently as his droid returns, hoping, even praying that the
plan works.
The toxin must spread or he’ll be considered an utter failure by Qi’ra.
Back in the dressing room for the Emperor’s royal guards, the men are getting into their
outfits and chatting, having no idea whats about to come.
They then march onto a nearby transport, ready to be taken directly to the Emperor himself.
Inside the Emperor’s chambers, Mas Amedda begins warning him about the ongoing war between
the syndicates and how it shows no sign of slowing down.
The red clad royal guards watch on as Palpatine walks forward and he is just about to send
the the fleet out to deal with these power hungry syndicates when something shocking
happens.
Every single one of Palpatine’s royal guards drops to the ground in agony, each dying without
a single word.
Mas Amedda falls into a panic, “they’re… they’re dead my lord.”
Palpatine though responds, Yes, Grand Vizier.
I can see that.
Back aboard Qi’ra ship the Vermillion, Deathstick has returned with Cadeliah and drops her off
with the boss.
Deathstick then really shows her true softer side, asking Qi’ra what she’s going to
do with her.
Qi’ra however refuses to answer and says “your job was to deliver the girl.
From here, her fate belongs to me”
After this, the young girl is unblindfolded and finds herself facing Qi’ra and her two
associates, absolutely in shock.
Qi’ra tells the girl her name, before slyly telling her that they’re going to be…
good friends…
Qi’ra is certainly getting this girl ready to either be her heir or to serve alongside
her in the ongoing syndicate war.
Will we see Qi’ra or maybe even this girl appear in the Book of Boba Fett as the head
of a syndicate?
Well we only have one more week to find out…
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Thanks so much for watching, really hope you guys enjoyed and are hyped for the next issue.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!