At This Point, The New Republic Is Trying to Regulate EVERYTHING Here are three big takeaways for what this all tells us about the state of the galaxy.ģ. By the end of the episode, the New Republic X-wing cops do figure out who Mando is, but they let him go anyway. Like cops pulling you over because you have a cracked taillight, they're making sure his ship is running a 'transponder beacon,' which is obviously something Mando doesn't want to do because it would broadcast to almost everyone who he is and what he's up to. The events of 'The Prisoner' are certainly on Mando's mind when two New Republic X-wings sweep in and ask him to prove that he's not part of the Empire. In this episode, one of those X-wing pilots, Trapper Wolf (again played by co-showrunner Dave Fiolni) returns, but this time, it's more than just a fun cameo. That episode ended with three X-wings unwittingly doing Mando's dirty work for him by taking out the criminals who double-crossed him. In The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 6, 'The Prisoner,' Mando took a job that involved breaking criminal out of a New Republic prison ship. Here's how The Mandalorian just gave us a larger piece to the political puzzle of the Star Wars sequels. The way the New Republic pilots behave, and one specific line, hints at something else - when the Rebellion against the Empire was successful, the Empire didn't go away.Īlthough in-canon Star Wars novels like Claudia Grey's Bloodline and Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy give a larger sense of galactic politics after Return of the Jedi and before The Force Awakens, actually seeing how this plays out on screen is a very different thing. But this plot point is about more than just a chance sequence involving classic spaceships.

When Mando gets pulled-over by two New Republic X-wings for not having the proper transponder identification, things get tense. In The MandalorianChapter 10 - Episode 2 of Season 2 - the most heroic starship design in Star Wars will make you think more of a police car than an attack fighter. It's even worse when the cops are driving X-wing fighters.

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