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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8991103" data-attributes="member: 54629">Yup. That was a <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Meiloorun_fruit" target="_blank">meiloorun</a>!Yeah, that seems pretty obvious. For starters, he evaded Hux's question about using Pershing to do his own cloning experiments on Nevarro, but then at the end, he was bragging about combining the best of the Jedi, the cloners, and the Mandalorians. I think he was suggesting that he's working on making Force sensitive clones of himself that he will put in dark trooper suits made from beskar alloy. (I guess Luke showed him that people in suits are superior to energy-intensive droids after all.)I also got the sense that he wants to be ruler of the galaxy himself. He sees Thrawn as a rival, and he probably doesn't want to wait for Palpatine to be resurrected either. He wants to remake the Empire in his own image, not Palpatine's.Having just rewatched this episode with my girls this morning, I also got the sense that Gideon is not a Mandalorian like some people are suggesting. I think he's just a Mandalorian fanboy of sorts. If he had been one of Maul's loyalists, I think Bo-Katan would know and would mention it. Also, the way he talks about Mandalorian culture makes it sound to me like it's not his culture.I never read those books, so I'm not familiar with that storyline. I'll have to consult Wookieepedia.Palpatine is definitely around, but I suspect he might be in a similar situation to the one Voldemort was in at the start of the Harry Potter series. He hasn't got a proper body of his own yet, but his consciousness is there. At this point in the timeline, he'll be busy building up Snoke's imagined backstory and puppeting him into position to usurp control of the First Order once it arrives on the scene. (That and directing Hux and the Sith Eternal cultists working on Project Necromancy.)I dunno. The Armorer's horns are different. They're shorter, stubbier and in a single row -- like a tiara. The spikes on Gideon's helmet looked more like a crown, which is in keeping with the helmets of Maul's loyalists as well.EDIT: As an aside, I loved how the Armorer invited the Nite Owls to a feast that ended up being the Nite Owls eating while her own people just watched.</blockquote>

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