This 'Star Wars' Betrayal Causes Tatooine To Erupt Into A Civil War
The Book of Boba Fett is slowly (you might say very slowly) building up towards its climax at the end of its 7-episode run. And this climax more and more seems to be an inevitable war between the Pyke syndicate and Boba’s “army.”
Previous episodes have shown the former bounty hunter first being taken captive by a tribe of Tusken Raiders. Over time – and Chapter 4: The Gathering demonstrated that this period was actually several years – he earned their trust. They showed him how to fight with a gaffi stick, and Fett trained them to ride speeder bikes. Together they stopped a spice train operated by the Pykes and sent the survivors back to their leaders under the merciless twin-suns of Tatooine with only a minimal water supply. Fett should have known from his past dealings that the Pykes wouldn’t take such an insult lightly!
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Later, when he visited the Pyke leader on Tatooine, he was informed that the Kintan Striders, a Nikto gang, had already collected protection money. When Fett returned to the settlement of his tribe, he found it was destroyed and the Tuskens killed. Graffiti on one of the tents showed the symbol of the Kintan Striders. But, as Fennec Shand pointed out in Chapter 4: The Gathering, it is unlikely that a speeder bike gang could wipe out a whole Tusken tribe, implying more significant forces in play.
Already Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land had shown that the mayor of Mos Espa, an Ithorian named Mok Shaiz, wasn’t willing to accept Boba Fett as the new daimyo, as he not only refused to pay any tribute but rather expected such a thing for himself. Later he sent a gang of Night Wind assassins to kill Fett. Still, the former bounty hunter insisted on ruling through respect did not kill Shaiz.
The mayor’s betrayal went even deeper: at the end of Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa, his sneaky majordomo revealed that Shaiz was working with the Pykes and probably was so all along. Simultaneously at least a dozen Pykes unboarded a civilian spaceship that had landed on Tatooine. Only the first wave of many, as Fennec remarked. It remains to be seen if Shaiz did this for his own advantage or was blackmailed by the Pykes.
So, it seems that Shaiz’s betrayal was far more than just an unwillingness to pay tribute to a daimyo, whom most saw as incapable of protecting them, but part of a bigger scheme by the Pykes to rule Tatooine and Jabba's former empire. This threat was obliviously large enough that even the Hutts themselves were willing to give up their claim over Tatooine.
So going forward, a civil war on the desert planet seems inevitable, with the Pyke syndicate on one side, a faction with nearly infinite resources and the ambition to take revenge on Fett and his clan. This clan consists of Fennec Shand, two mildly useful Gamorrean guards, cyberpunk teenagers, and Black Krrsantan. The Wookiee and the master assassin are capable fighters but hardly a match for an army of Pykes.
In Chapter 4: The Gathering, Fett and Shand tried to pull the three factions that controlled Mos Espa - the Trandoshans, the Aqualish, and the Klatoonians – on his side, but all they ultimately got was a vague promise to stay neutral and not side with the Pykes.
Even if these factions also had a deal with the Pykes, it is likely, that at least one of them would ultimately fight alongside Fett if they felt threatened or betrayed by the crime syndicate. And it is possible that the Tusken woman, who taught Fett how to fight with a gaffi stick, might have escaped the assault on her village and show up again in the end, as her body wasn’t shown when Fett burnt the corpses of the Sand People. Nevertheless, Boba is still desperate to find some muscles to join him in his war against the Pykes.
Chapter 4: The Gathering ends with Fennec explaining that money can buy these muscles, and the musical cue at the very end of this episode gives a clear hint on who one of these muscles will be:
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Source(s): CBR