David Bridges
Few characters have cheated loss of life and common incarceration in equal measure in modern Star Wars canon like Hondo Ohnaka. From Clone Wars to Rebels to an eventual comfortable keep on Batuu for Galaxy’s Edge, Hondo has managed to survive a lot of the Star Wars saga as we at present understand it. And now, we’re going to be filling in one other level in his life with the assistance of the upcoming sport Outlaws.
As we speak Ubisoft introduced its plans for a bevy of latest premium content material that can come to Outlaws after it launches later this month. Alongside a collection of alternate outfit packs for Outlaws‘ smuggler hero Kay Vess and her animal companion Nix, and a bonus mission that includes Jabba the Hutt obtainable at launch, purchasers of the Outlaws season move will obtain entry to 2 new story packs that includes missions with acquainted Star Wars faces.
The primary, “Wild Card,” is due for launch in fall 2024, and sees Kay infiltrate a high-stakes sabacc event, solely to cross paths with Lando Calrissian and discover herself embroiled in a way more harmful sport. The second, “A Pirate’s Fortune,” out in spring 2025, sees Kay group up with Hondo because the latter “[settles] outdated scores with a ruthless gang of pirates.”
Outlaws is ready between the occasions of Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi, however this isn’t the furthest we’ve seen Hondo in Star Wars canon. We all know he’s nonetheless round by the point of the sequel trilogy, as he seems working a buying and selling firm (with the assistance of Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon) on Batuu within the storyline for the Disney theme park Galaxy’s Edge, set between The Final Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. However it is enjoyable to see simply how Hondo manages to maintain worming his means by means of main galactic incident after main galactic incident to maintain doing what he does greatest: piracy, smuggling, double-crossing individuals, making dangerous offers, and infrequently getting arrested for them.
Simply how Hondo’s little journey with Kay goes, we’ll have to attend and see till Outlaws‘ story DLC drops in spring subsequent 12 months. However clearly Star Wars is way from carried out with placing Hondo wherever it will probably in its timeline. Perhaps Rey will want a smuggling contact when her eventual standalone film occurs?
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