Jedi Knight Renphi, his Padawan Gaphin, and a team of some of the Republic's best and brightest set out as sacrificial lambs at the insidious behest of the Supreme Chancellor. But the Republic's best and brightest don't come to be that way by not being the best, or the brightest, and while the Jedi remain blind to the approaching menace, the scientists — particularly one Dr. Shina — have begun to unravel just what is going on, and they don't like it.
Enough is enough, Orion has remained becalmed for far too long, and now no more time is left. They will enter this new forlorn galaxy. They will use the Warp to do it. They will carve their destiny out in these alien stars, even if it means doing the unthinkable. Even if it means long jumping into the galaxy without a cognizant Navigator. Now is the time for faith to be tested, and for prayers to be heard, for the time has come for the Skywatch and their allies to depart the cold of deep space, and enter the furnace of war.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Actually a Good Idea: Dr. Shina is aboard the flagship of a small Republic task force sent by Palpatine to investigate the spatial anomalies caused by the Imperium's arrival to their galaxy. Through some Technobabble, she is able to determine that the anomalies are being caused by a massive extragalactic fleet and freaks out since it will take too long for the Republic military to send any reinforcements due to the task force being in a region of space far from the fighting of the Clone Wars. Jedi Padawan Gaphin, who up until this point was Shina's Watson, suggests instead asking for help from nearby star systems, garnering this reaction from the Cerulean doctor.Dr. Shina: [blushes in embarrassment] Oh frag. Right, I guess we could do that.
- Continuity Nod: During Gaphin's POV segment in Episode 2, his narration mentions that he had heard about Ahsoka leaving the Jedi Order, though he remains unaware of the exact details as to why.
- Dare to Be Badass: Orion Phatris gives one as part of his speech to the rest of the Imperial Fleet at the end of the episode right before they prepare to enter the Warp for the first time since they arrived in the Star Wars galaxy despite having no Navigators.Orion: There shall be no reinforcement, no resupply. The Codex says nothing about this kind of extragalactic situation, nor does any other protocol. Our path is our own to carve, lest it carve itself into us instead. Fate has thrown us far from our undying Emperor, and expects us to wither under its burden. But fate is a fool, for fate does not yet understand that distance and time are mere petty obstacles when faced with the determined faith of the Imperium of Man! Steel yourselves. We go forth to find the unknown, and make it kneel to the will of Man. Faith is the duty of the righteous, and only in death does duty end. Go now and prepare to do yours.
- I Know You're Watching Me: Jedi General Renphi and his clone troopers are searching his flagship Honor Hound for his missing Padawan Gaphin, who had skipped out on his meditation practice due to finding it boring and hidden himself in the ship's ventilation system. While listening in on Renphi's conversation with Captain Kraken from the nearby vents, Gaphin hears his master say that he intends to punish his Padawan by making him meditate in isolation for three days. Renphi suddenly very loudly adds on that if he were to find Gaphin helping out Dr. Shina in the ship's lab, he would be willing to reduce the punishment time to just three hours, revealing that he was aware Gaphin was eavesdropping on their conversation and is offering him a way to lessen his punishment.
- Mythology Gag: Purrgils are mentioned by Padawan Gaphin in Episode 2 when he suggests to Dr. Shina that the hyperwave anomalies she's detecting are being caused by a pod of Space Whales.
- Oh, Crap!: Played for Laughs with Gaphin, who has this reaction upon overhearing his master Renphi tell Captain Kraken that he intends to punish Gaphin for skipping out on his Jedi meditation training by basically grounding him in his room for three whole weeks.
- Opening Scroll: The episode opens with an opening scroll done in the classic style of the Star Wars films.Impossible! Only a few scant months before the culmination of his plans, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the soon to be reformed Galactic Republic finds himself contending with a severely destabilizing job.
Having received the information he required from the dispatched Republic Task Force, Palpatine's mind and concerns turn away from them, sending one last message to the doomed expedition before focusing elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Renphi, the Task Force, and his young Padawan, ignorantly linger near the world of Pzob, nearly all unaware of the danger fast approaching.
Nearly all... - Suddenly Shouting: Dr. Shina when she has to spell it out to Gaphin what she has discovered from studying the spatial anomaly caused by the Imperium's arrival to the Star Wars universe.Dr. Shina: It's a fleet! An extra-galactic fleet! A huge fleet! A veritable solar system of stuff just got thrown into close orbit of our Galaxy, and it is most likely stuff that BELONGS TO SOMEONE, understand?!
- Time Skip: This episode picks up about two weeks after the first episode.
