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"Run."
Episode 1: The Path of Fear
- Let's get the obvious out of the way first: GRIEVOUS. IS. TERRIFYING. Not only does his new model add to his fear factor, his movements and mannerisms are perfectly in tone with that of an efficient killing machine, as he was known across the galaxy. To top it all off, he's not even trying! He doesn't even bring out his second pair of arms until the very end! Nothing the Nightsisters do even slow him or his droids down. He's basically toying with Morgan's mother, Selena, for most of their fight, until he sticks a 3rd lightsaber into her gut and cruelly mocks her mother's last words before ordering some Commando Droids and his Battle Droids to continue killing the Nightsisters, ala Ridley during Samus's childhood on K2-L. In the end, his signature laugh is left seared in Morgan's memory, a reminder that for a non-Jedi, Grievous truly seemed like some unstoppable murderous abomination. All in all, the episode uses Grievous in much the same way other Star Wars media has used Darth Vader.
- The execution of the Nightsister clan from Morgan Elsbeth's perspective. From a great distance and up close, she sees her kin being slaughtered by General Grievous, with entire villages and forests burned by the very war machine that would devastate the galaxy for three years.
- The Commando Droid that stays behind to find Elsbeth after its 2 comrades go on ahead deserves special mention. Elsbeth is hiding in the tree and is scared to come out, knowing she could be joining her sisters in death at any moment, not unlike a predator stalking its prey. Eventually, the droid blasts the tree with its E-5 Blaster rifle, forcing Elsbeth to fight for her life, first by disarming the droid of its gun with a kick and then stealing it, before having to contend with its vibrosword. Finally, it grabs her by her throat, though Morgan stabs it with a miniature dagger and wins. However, it's only a minor victory, since the Separatists have thousands upon thousands of Battle Droids and that Commando Droid, despite being a superior model to the B1 Battle Droid, was just a minor loss and Elsbeth's fight didn't make a difference in the long run.
Episode 2: The Path of Anger
- Morgan’s plans for the TIE Defender are scoffed at, but not before Moff Isdain was able to trick her into revealing that she would’ve funded the project with the lush resources of the Corvus system. Isdain smugly tells Morgan that the Empire will be coming to claim Corvus to help themselves to said lush resources instead and condescendingly tells her to go and get ready for their arrival. In one brief conversation, Isdain shows why the Empire is a bastion of Psychopathic Manchildren, telling Morgan her planet will be conquered with the same attitude that a greedy bully would tell their victim in grade school that they’ll be taking their sack lunch. And the Empire is well in the position to get away with it. If not for Thrawn showing interest in the project and recruiting her, Isdain would've been a worse leader for Corvus than Elsbeth.
- Rukh returns and jumps Morgan out of practically nowhere. Given he’s a species most in the galaxy aren’t familiar with, it’s quite literally an alien attack on Morgan that she takes some time to be able to hold her own against.
- In her anger to seek revenge, she approaches the future Grand Admiral Thrawn to offer that rage in the Empire's service. Thrawn accepts her offer and a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers descend upon Corvus. Morgan think it's Isdain making good on his desire for Corvus's resources, but Thrawn corrects her by saying it's a portion of the Seventh Fleet and they'll help Morgan with producing the TIE Defenders with Corvus's resources. Considering the reactions of Wing and the townspeople, they would've been better off with a greedy short-sighted human Moff, that, while oppressive, could easily be defeated by rebels, rather than a intelligent Imperial who can outthink them and knows how to use their world's resources more properly. In a few years, the results of that service would bring the deadliest mind in the galaxy back to the forefront.
Episode 3: The Path of Hate
- It looks like Nadura will be suffering a fate like Minister Tua when her ship is about to be destroyed by Morgan’s forces, but soon she will end up wishing it had been that quick. Nadura is blasted back from her ship with severe, mortal burns that scald her and miraculously don’t kill her immediately. This just means she has a few minutes to lie in shock and agony until she finally expires.
Episode 4: Devoted
- Like Ahsoka and Maul before her, Barriss senses a great disturbance in the Force, hearing screaming and agonized cries through it. She looks out her window to see the Jedi Temple burning on the night of Vader’s massacre. The only reason she is alive is because of her life sentence from her fall from the Jedi.
- Barriss demands to know what’s happened from her clone trooper guards, who coldly tell her she’s lucky she’s not a Jedi anymore. They then say that by tomorrow, the Jedi will be extinct with the same smugness that we heard many clone troopers brag about their scores of clanker kills throughout the war, showing the clones who obeyed their chips are already gone… and worse, the chip is making them enjoy the slaughter of their former allies.
- Nur looks more hellish than ever, and it fits given the nature of the Inquisitorius.
- Out of the three prospective recruits, Ahmar decides he will not entertain the idea of joining the Empire even though he too was disillusioned with the Jedi, and simply decides to leave his cell to try to leave despite the Grand Inquisitor warning the nominees to not try to do so. Sure enough, when they reconvene, the Grand Inquisitor smugly claims Ahmar suffered an unfortunate accident. Both Barriss and Dante get the picture.
- The Duel to the Death between Barriss and Dante is brutal since they are trapped inside a forcefield that slowly shrinks, pushing them closer to a Bottomless Pit. Barriss at first tries to bluff the Grand Inquisitor by not fighting, but the timid Dante reveals himself to be an unfettered individual willing to do anything to survive and attacks her with such feral maneuvers. At first, Dante gets the upper hand... only for Barriss to suddenly Force Choke him and then snap his neck before tossing his body into the pit. Not only does this moment highlight Barriss' own ruthlessness when backed into a corner, but it's also a Call-Back to how she used the Force to choke Letta in front of Ahsoka.
- Grand Inquisitor has the newly minted Barriss, as well as implied other recent recruits (along with Fourth Sister), kneel so they can meet their new master. Cue the iconic Vader Breath as the true master of the Inquisitorius arrives and takes a seat on his throne. Not a single word is uttered by Darth - only his terrifying mechanical breathing is heard across the room. And it gets the point across perfectly that Barriss is in way, way over her head with no clear way out.
- The mere implication that Vader still remembers Barriss for all the trouble she caused in the past, but chooses to let her live... for now.
Episode 5: Realization
- Fourth Sister massacring the shantytown upon learning they were lying about the Jedi. It cuts away to outside the town’s few remaining walls, but the horrid violence is more than apparent. Especially when Fourth's lightsaber suddenly lances through the wall.
