Hunt for Grogu

During the New Republic Era in the year 9 ABY, a remnant of the fallen Galactic Empire led by Moff Gideon launched a hunt for Grogu to acquire a mysterious Force-sensitive alien child named Grogu in the Outer Rim Territories, far from the New Republic's authority. Initially, the Imperial Remnant used the Bounty Hunters' Guild to hire bounty hunters based on the planet Nevarro to capture Grogu, but Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin instead decided to rescue and protect Grogu from the Imperials.

After rescuing Grogu on Nevarro, Djarin fled the planet, where he had resided with an underground Mandalorian tribe and had been hired by "the Client," but was pursued across the galaxy by hunters who sought to collect the bounty on the child. Guild agent Greef Karga allied with Djarin after the Imperial Remnant took over Nevarro's town and agreed to clear their names if they helped drive out the Imperials. Djarin and Karga, along with allies Carasynthia Dune, Kuiil, and IG-11, defeated Moff Gideon and his escort, though Kuiil was killed and IG-11 destroyed while Djarin's tribe was wiped out by the Imperials. A sole Mandalorian survivor on Nevarro, "the Armorer," quested Djarin with protecting the child as its father until he could find its kind and reunite it with them, whom they believed to be the Jedi. Djarin left Nevarro on his starship Razor Crest, though Gideon survived his defeat and escaped his crashed Outland TIE fighter with the Darksaber.

Secret experiments involving transfusions of blood with a high enough M-count to volunteer bodies continued to be carried out by Gideon's faction in a seemingly abandoned Imperial base on Nevarro, but were forced to end when the Imperial scientists led by Doctor Penn Pershing ran out of the child's blood samples; the base was later destroyed by Djarin, Karga, and Dune when Djarin returned to Nevarro to revisit his old friends and repair his ship. However, a Mimbanese mechanic placed a tracking beacon on Djarin's ship, allowing Gideon's forces to track Djarin and Grogu.

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