Operation Cinder takes place in the canon Star Wars video games (Image: EA/LUCASFILM)
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The purpose was to ensure that Palpatine’s enemies would perish and the plan ended up lasting around three months.
Of course, with hindsight, we know this was so his return and unnatural resurrection in the sequel trilogy would go unchallenged.
When Mayfeld mentioned Operation Cinder on Morak, Hess replied: “Now there’s a man who know his history.”
Perhaps the Emperor’s evil plan will now feature more prominently in Star Wars movies and Disney+ shows, after starting out in the video game canon.
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Mandalorian’s second season, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, brings us to the very brink of a confrontation with Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). In order to get a bead on where Gideon’s cruiser might be, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) employs the help of Cara Dune (Gina Carano), Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison), and Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), to spring Mayfeld (Bill Burr) out of a New Republic scrap prison. With Mayfeld, they’ll be able to get the coordinates, but to do it, they need to get access to an internal Imperial terminal.
To do that, they travel to Morak, the site of a secret Imperial mining facility. There, they lead a daring infiltration mission that forces Din to trade his beskar for an Imperial hover driver uniform alongside Mayfeld. They have to fight their way through hostile locals trying to blow up the shipment of rhydonium they hijacked in order to sneak into the Imperial facility. Din Djarin is able to hold them off, but without his beskar, it’s a
Din Djarin may have been responsible for landing Migs Mayfeld in jail, but that’s all water under the bridge as they team up to infiltrate the Imperial base