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For instance, take Outposts. Or alternatively, you can ransack it for a quick return, but this will leave it vacant and vulnerable to the Highwaymen who will eventually take back control. The Outpost will become more fortified each time and elements like the alarm will move around, making it harder to take back. Each Outpost can be taken back three times, with escalating rewards. Despite these changes, the prospect of returning to the same location might not feel as appealing as an entirely new setting.
New Dawn seems conscious of this too, smartly introducing Expedition, a new type of mission for those who crave more variety. These missions have a simple structure — you get in a chopper, head to an entirely separate part of the US, extract a package, and then attempt to get out. In fact, one is even set in a dilapidated amusement park in the bayou. To aid you on these missions, and in the core game, are entirely new cast of supporting characters.
But more importantly, there are two new Fangs for Hire. A nuclear fallout would create unnatural selection, potentially resulting in recessive genes become more popular. For instance, albino deer now appear to be the dominant form of the species. New Dawn appears to avoid a lot of the cliches of post-apocalyptic shooters. The end of days has rarely looked so inviting. Vidian also takes an interest in Gorse's labor and environmental problems.
The arrival of the Ultimatum is witnessed by the Twi'lek Hera Syndulla , who has been tracking Vidian's activities. By masking another ship's transponder, Hera is able to sneak her ship Ghost into the space traffic. Meanwhile, Caleb has adopted the pseudonym Kanan Jarrus and taken a job as a freight pilot.
Kanan travels to the Gorse system on the freighter Expedient , which is hauling Baradium bisulfate for Moonglow Polychemical. With Gorse's thorilide mines exhausted, the Empire had begun mining Cynda, which hitherto had been a nature preserve. These mining operations had caused extensive damage to much of the moon's crystalline caverns. Kanan catches a Gorse local named Skelly , a Clone Wars veteran, remonstrating with the Besalisk Lal Grallik , the chief of Moonglow Polychemical to suspend blasting operations beyond Zone Forty-Two ; where he plans to conduct a test bombing.
Despite being friends with Skelly, Kanan does not back him up because his job depends on hauling baradium bisulfate, which is used to blow up the caverns for extraction. Unknown to Skelly, his conversation with Lal is being monitored by Zaluna Myder , a Sullustan surveillance operator working for Myder's Mynocks , a surveillance subdivision of Transcept Media Solutions , a security company working for the Empire. Since Skelly's criticism of mining operations is seen as a threat to progress, her supervisor contacts the Imperial authorities, who send stormtroopers to Level Thirty-Nine to arrest Skelly.
The stormtroopers try to apprehend Skelly but the former detonations expert escapes by exploding a large cylinder which crushes his pursuers. Now a fugitive, Skelly flees into hiding. Meanwhile on Cynda, Count Vidian begins his tour of the planet's mining complex. He begins dismissing the oldest workers due to their advanced age. When the Neimoidian Director Palfa protests the summary dismissals, Vidian personally beats him to death with his mechanical hands. When Vidian accosts Okadiah, Kanan springs to his defence.
Following a brief but heated exchange, Vidian and his stormtroopers leave to deal with the incident on Cynda's Level Thirty-Nine. In the background, Hera infiltrates the facility and knocks out a stormtrooper who gets in her way. She also witnesses the brief confrontation between Vidian and Kanan.
Kanan and his fellow miners Okadiah and Yelkin find the bomb and barely escape a massive explosion, which damages the surrounding catacombs. Count Vidian is addressing a droidmaster and three aides when the floor beneath them collapses due to the explosion. Due to his cybernetic body, he manages to dig himself out. Vidian's manhunt is compounded by his rival Baron Lero Danthe announcing that the Emperor had increased Cynda's weekly thorilide output by 50 percent.
Meanwhile, Kanan and his companions have a tense reunion with Skelly, who defends his actions on the grounds that the Empire's mining operations were destroying Cynda. Unwilling to get into trouble with the Empire, Kanan decides to hand Skelly over to the Imperial authorities at Moonglow's shipyard. However, Hetto is arrested by Imperial personnel, who have been monitoring his HoloNet activities. Before his arrest, he told her that he had been meeting someone on HoloNet and had left a datacube in a potted plant. After finding Hetto's data cube, Zaluna soon discovers that Hetto's mysterious contact is Hera Syndulla.
Count Vidian is contacted by Lal Grallik, who informs him that he has captured the fugitive Skelly. Before Imperial forces can take Skelly into custody, Hera hires the criminal gang known as the Sarlaccs to stage a fight outside the Moonglow's headquarters so that she could rescue Skelly. Due to the distraction, Hera is able to rescue Skelly. However, the gang's leader Charko turns on Hera and tries to rob her. Before the Sarlaccs can assault her, Kanan comes to the Twi'lek's aid and helps her defeat the gang.
Count Vidian is contacted by Lal Grallik, who informs him that he has captured the fugitive Skelly. We get a pretty lame villain and a very personality-less intro to Kanan and Hera. The threat itself, while interesting, made for a slow and scattered plot. But Jarrus won't be fighting alone. Then the brutal death of a friend at the Empire's hands forces the ex-Jedi to make a choice:
The two then part company. Aboard the Ultimatum , Captain Sloane and commander Nibiru Chamas discuss Count Vidian's micro-management including shutting down a medcenter and his background. While his biography claimed that Vidian was an engineer at a Corellian starship design firm who contracted Shilmer's syndrome , Chamas doubts the authenticity of that account.
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Meanwhile, at his home in Gorse City 's Crispus Commons , Skelly encounters Hera, who had hoped to recruit him as a rebel operative. However, she quickly dismisses him as a crank and leaves; believing that she had wasted her time rescuing him. However, she receives a note from Okadiah Garson telling her to meet him at The Asteroid Belt bar, which he owns. Shortly later, Kanan is joined by Okadiah, Zaluna, and finally Hera herself.
Hera reveals that she had come looking for Hetto, who had contact her about abuses of authority in the Gorse system via HoloNet. Zaluna informs Hera that Hetto was arrested by the Empire but that he had managed to download sensitive Imperial information onto the Transcept database including a visit to Gorse by a mysterious man named Lemuel Tharsa twenty years ago.
Zaluna then quickly departs shortly before the arrival of Skelly. Seeking an opportunity to take Vidian out, Skelly asks his allies for help in securing an ID to get through the security cordon around that part of Shaketown. Due to Skelly's reckless nature, Hera and Kanan are reluctant to help. Before they can leave, an Imperial patrol enters the bar searching for Skelly.
Kanan, Hera, and Okadian manage to outwit the stormtroopers by hiding Skelly in a closet and claiming that an intoxicated Wookiee is inside. After the stormtroopers leave, Hera convinces Kanan to lend her his Moonglow security card so that she can enter the facility and spy on Count Vidian to find out why he is interested in the Gorse system. While he is wary of getting into trouble with the Empire, he agrees to lead Hera there on the condition that "no crazy stuff" takes place. Hera also takes an interest in Lemuel Tharsa, a mining consultant doing freelance work for the Imperial government.
She suspects that he is somehow connected to Count Vidian and believes that Moonglow will have the answers she is looking for. For the tour, they are hosted by the Besalisk chief operating officer Lal Grallik and her husband Gord. Meanwhile, Kanan and Hera infiltrate the factory in a hoverbus disguised as factory workers. Meanwhile, Skelly infiltrates the factory through the sewers with the help of the chef Drakka. However, Skelly is quickly spotted by Vidian, who assaults him after Skelly tries to hand him a Holodisc in an attempt to save Cynda.
Sloane and her stormtroopers attempt to apprehend Skelly but he flees onto the conveyer belt system. Following Skelly's escape, Kanan is spotted and detained by Sloane. After learning from Baron Lero Danthe that the Empire has tripled Cynda's thorilide output, an irritated Vidian callously murders Lal by throwing her into a bath of xenoboric acid.
Desiring to increase production, Vidian dismisses Skelly's warning. Hera witnesses Vidian in the act of murdering Lal and informs Gord that Vidian murdered his wife. Initially disbelieving the rebel, he changes his mind when he sees the security monitor. Vidian and his entourage prepare to depart on their shuttle but it is destroyed by a bomb planted by Skelly. Vidian and Sloane survive the explosion but several Imperials are killed. Following the blast, a vengeful Gord attempts to attack Vidian for murdering his wife but is beaten up by several stormtroopers.
Vidian decides to commandeer the hoverbus in order to reach the spaceport in Highground. Kanan and Hera commandeer a nearby hover truck and follow Vidian, determined to kill him once and for all. Hera suspects that Vidian is up to something. Skelly also follows on a stolen speeder bike. Before he can leave, Skelly destroys the shuttle with an explosive.
Kanan and Hera arrive at the spaceport followed by a vengeful Gord. Vidian spots Kanan and Hera and orders them to surrender. The two manage to escape when Gord attacks Vidian, giving them enough time to flee on their commandeered hoverbus with Skelly. After killing Gord, Vidian reprimands Captain Sloane for the poor security arrangements and issues an alert for Skelly and his companions; emphasising that the former is to be shot while the latter brought to him.
Following a wild pursuit through the streets of Gorse City , the rebels managed to lose their Imperial pursuers and dump the wrecked bus in The Pits. After landing the hoverbus in a quarry, they find that Zaluna had accidentally stowed aboard the bus' toilet. Due to the bus' thick door, Zaluna had been unable to call for help. Kanan and Hera strike up an alliance with Skelly to stop Count Vidian. The three rebels are joined by Zaluna, who wants to make amends for running the surveillance camera that got him arrested. Meanwhile, Vidian and Sloane depart on a third shuttle Bastinade.
The Imperials are shamefaced by the loss of the transports, TIE fighters, and their quarry. With the help of Zaluna, the fugitives make their way back to their safe house at The Asteroid Belt, where they are sheltered by the sympathetic Okadiah. During a private meeting, Hera tells her new-found allies that it is better for opponents of the Empire to work together rather than staging lone wolf attacks on the Empire.
Zaluna's decision to aid the rebels is further promoted by the news that she had lost her job at Transcept Media Solutions due to her ties to Hetto. The rebels also examine a recording device that Zaluna had located on the hoverbus and learn that Vidian is planning to blow up Cynda in order to mine the moon's thorilide reserves. The rebels quickly realize that this was why Vidian had left Moonglow abruptly. Vidian had used Skelly's research on the moon's brittle surface as an inspiration for his scheme to meet the Empire's new thorilide quota. Sloane fears that destroying the moon would also cause the brittle thorilide molecules to dissolve.
But Vidian is determined to proceed with his plans for reasons which he has not fully disclosed. The following day, the Imperials begin bombing the part of Cynda where mining operations had been occurring. This explosion is witnessed by many in Gorse City including Kanan and his companions.
Upon landing on Cynda, they find a dying Okadiah at the site of the explosion. Kanan comforts Okadiah in his last moments. Back aboard the Ultimatum , Count Vidian expresses delight at the successful test bombing. Tharsa also claimed that Cynda would have enough thorilide for the next two thousand years. However, Sloane is skeptical of the report and suspicious of Lemuel.
Vidian is also unperturbed that the test bombing had killed many mining personnel and justifies his decision to sacrifice their lives to maintaining the secrecy of his project. Count Vidian sees the Cynda gambit as an opportunity to outmanuever his rival Baron Danthe and gain the Emperor's favor. Imperial forces impose restrictions on space traffic in the Gorse system to facilitate Vidian's plan and order all empty mining cargo ships to follow the Ultimatum to the Calcoraan system.
To hide Vidian's true agenda, Imperial HoloNews reported that Vidian was trying to stabilize the moon. After hearing the report, Skelly and Hera realize that Calcoraan is a major Imperial supply base in the sector and that Vidian plans to import a large quantity of baradium into the Gorse system.
The four rebels decide to travel to the Imperial depot on Calcoraan to stop Vidian's plot. Kanan agrees to serve as the pilot on the condition that Hera serve as the group's tactician.