A few variants of the Dark Trooper emerged from the game, ranging from beefed-up battle droids to exoskeleton-ish battle suits. The “Dark Trooper Project” was spearheaded by General Rom Mohc, a weapon-obsessed officer who wanted to bring the power of the Death Star to Emperor Palpatine’s individual soldiers. The in-game mythology was just enough to tickle a Star Wars movie-starved kid’s imagination. Turns out, I was not alone: Dark Forces and its sequels are regarded as some of the best Star Wars games of all time, giving players the early joy of throwing thermal detonators and slashing up baddies with lightsabers. Screenshot from Limited Run Games’ reissue of Dark Forces Image: Limited Run Games/LucasartsĪs a late-stage millennial, I have fond memories of smuggling the Dark Forces CD-ROM into school, camping out in the computer lab, and blasting away Dark Troopers instead of getting my required dose of natural vitamin D from the sun. As Gideon announces in Chapter 14, “The Tragedy,” these are the “Dark Troopers,” first introduced in the 1995 first-person shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces. But the answer was somehow even nerdier, and perhaps obvious based on the Darth Vader look of the soldiers.
We speculated at the time that the new form of troopers could be anything from a new clone army - Gideon is working with an ex-Kamino scientist, after all - to some new and improved take on the Death Trooper introduced in Rogue One. The reference in question paid off the ending of episode 4, which revealed that Moff Gideon not only wielded the Darksaber, but had a mysterious, sophisticated new army of his own. Chapter 14, “The Tragedy,” has a more direct reference - and it will make Lucasarts devotees of the mid-’90s giddy as hell.
Along with the Kenner toy reference in the season 2 premiere, the episode nodded to a side quest in the fan favorite, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. So why not the rich text of a beloved Star Wars video game?Ĭlearly, there are “gamers” among The Mandalorian staff. Even if lore was decommissioned after Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, there’s a chance that Favreau could recanonize characters and history for the new timeline, like Filoni did for Thrawn in Rebels (and again in Mandalorian).
From the very first episode, which answered an age-old, ice-cream-related Star Wars question to the introduction of Ahsoka Tano herself and the season 2 premiere’s overt reference to the awkward, bent-over way the old Boba Fett Kenner toy would shoot rockets, anything remotely beloved by longtime fans can (and probably will) make it into Disney Plus’ series. The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau and his phantom associate Dave Filoni have made it clear: There is no sector of the Star Wars galaxy to which they won’t go.
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