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When they fulfill their contract, all Bounty Hunters gain +50 speed for the rest of the battle on top of their own payouts. They recover health and protection when an enemy suffers or resists a debuff.

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Palpatine had somehow returnedвЂ¦before.ДЄnd if thatвЂ™s true, then in Season 3 of The Mandalorian, Din Djarin and Grogu should watch out for those World Devastators.Details: Bossk's leadership gives all Bounty Hunters extra protection, tenacity, and defense (while at full health).

And perhaps thatвЂ™s because a rebooted Dark Empirehappened around the time it did in the old EU, 10 ABY (or 6 years after Endor). The most mocked line in all of Star Wars, вЂњSomehow, Palpatine returned,вЂќ could suddenly make a lot more sense if this wasnвЂ™t the first time he returned. Again, you might think this sounds nuts, but in a way, The Rise of Skywalke r could be sideways proof that some version of Dark Empireoccurred in this canon, too. The broad strokes, including Thrawn seizing the Katana Fleet and Mara Jade trying to kill Luke Skywalker, can all still be happening out there, somewhere. (By the way, isnвЂ™t it weird to think Ben is 4-years-old during The Mandalorian!!?) But, the larger point stands. Sure, some details are already different: Leia doesnвЂ™t give birth to twins in 9 ABY, she gives birth to Ben Solo in 5 ABY. What would this look like? Maybe Thrawn is back, and Mara Jade is back, too, but this time around, thereвЂ™s no Joruus CвЂ™baoth, and nobody is using the quaint designation of вЂњDark JediвЂќ and theyвЂ™re just calling people вЂњSith.вЂќ It would be like the Star Wars version of Star TrekвЂ™s вЂњKelvin Universe,вЂќ the timeline in which the reboot films exist. In fact, it might all still happen in a modified form under Disney canon. The potential re-introduction of Thrawn in 9 ABY makes a revised version of the Heir to the Empire storyline and some of the EU books that followed possible. We assume Mara Jade never existed, and all that stuff with Luke, Han, and Leia fighting a clone version of the Emperor in Dark Empire never happened. But other than stand-out examples like sections of the book Last Shot, or the novel Bloodline, those lost years previously occupied by the bulk of the EU havenвЂ™t been вЂњreplacedвЂќ entirely in the new canon. Sure, recent games, comics, and Star Wars Resistancefill in the gaps a little bit.

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And once the new Disney canon took hold in 2014, those three decades after ROTJ that had previously been filled in by the Expanded Universe were suddenly swept away, leaving, more or less, a series of question marks between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Suddenly we knew way more about the pre- A New Hope era than weвЂ™d ever known before. After ZahnвЂ™s trilogy of novels, that time period started to get crowded, and by the time The New Jedi Order books were happening in the early 2000s, we knew more about the three decades after Return of the Jedithan we did about the Clone Wars.Д«ut when the Prequel Trilogy hit theaters, Lucasfilm began to invert that trend. ItвЂ™s hard to imagine now, but back in 1991, Heir to the Empire was the first book that truly opened up the post- Return of the Jedi era. HereвЂ™s why this matters: the year in which The Mandalorian takes place, 9 ABY (After the Battle of Yavin), is the same year in which Heir to the Empire happened in Legends. While itвЂ™s unclear whether Ahsoka has already found Ezra by the time Mando meets her on Corvus in вЂњThe Jedi,вЂќ she does know that Thrawn is back and operating somewhere in the galaxy. Five years later, just after the Battle of Endor, Sabine and Ahsoka reunited on EzraвЂ™s home planet of Lothal and decided to go look for their lost Jedi friend. In the Disney canon timeline, the last time we saw Thrawn was in roughly 0 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin), in the Rebelsseries finale, in which Ezra and Thrawn jumped into deep hyperspace on the Star Destroyer Chimaera to parts unknown.

The most compelling reason to believe that the events of The Mandaloriancould be low-key retconning the events of Heir to the Empireis simply that Ahsoka mentions sheвЂ™s looking for Grand Admiral Thrawn. Yes, Thrawn has already been re-canonized, thanks to the Rebels animated series and the newer Zahn books that have come out in the past few years, but none of those retcons put Thrawn back in the era that first made him famous. Because of the timing of The Mandalorian, Ahsoka mentioning Thrawn in вЂњThe JediвЂќ puts the character right back where he used to be in the infamously eradicated Legends timeline, which used to be known as the Expanded Universe before Disney took over.

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