The Mandalorian
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Summary
It ’s been almost five year sinceThe Mandalorianseason 1 aired on Disney+ , yet theStar Warsfranchise still has yet to explain why the Client wanted Grogu dead . Werner Herzog ’s nameless Clientis the first true antagonist ofThe Mandalorian . By engage Din Djarin to find and secure Grogu , the Client is responsible for setting the entire story of the show in move . Nevertheless , the Client ’s tangible slant on Grogu ’s capture remains shroud in secret . It ’s manifest the Client work for Moff Gideon — who clearly wants Grogu active — yetthe Client actively seek to have Grogu killed .
The Mandalorianseason 3 reveals Gideon ’s true reason for wanting Grogu . Grogu ’s midi - chlorian - ample bloodallows Gideon to create Force - sensitve clones of himself . In other tidings , Gideon steals Palpatine ’s ideaof create a more powerful clone . Star Warshas made it quite clear that extracting midi - chlorian profligate from a know host is substantive . But the Client sends IG-11 with orders to kill Grogu , and after Djarin render the youngster , the Client orders Doctor Pershing to chuck out of the assetonce the necessary information has been extract . In brusk , the Client seems to be acting against Moff Gideon ’s wishes .
Moff Gideon May Have Ordered The Client To Capture Or Kill Grogu
If the Empire can’t have Grogu, no one can
The most unconvincing possibility is that Gideon secretly instructed the Client to bring Grogu in either alive or dead . This seems impossible sincePershing clear states to the Client that their boss ordered Grogu to be have animated . However , the Client ’s practical instructions to Din Djarin could potentially have come from Gideon himself . Gideon needed Grogu alive to study the musical instrument digital interface - chlorians in his lineage , but he was not the only one searching for the child at the time . In other give-and-take , if Gideon could n’t have Grogu alive , then no one else could either .
New details about Palpatine ’s Project Necromancer in The Bad Batch season 3 have just made one throwaway line in The Mandalorian season 3 substantive .
While this theory seems to go against Gideon ’s wish , it ’s possible that Gideon did n’t actualise the delicate nature of midi - chlorian cloning at that time . He may also have been searching for Grogu on behalf of the Imperial Shadow Council forProject Necromancer . Only after he received Grogu ’s intel did he agnize how really valuable the child was . Nevertheless , while this possibility explains why the Client send out so many trailing fob — some with orders to stamp out rather than gaining control — it fails to explicate why the Client wanted to toss off Grogu rather than deliver him to Gideon .
The Client Could Have His Own Agenda
He might be looking for a promotion
Despite being hired by Moff Gideon , it ’s remove the Client takes matters into his own hands when it come to Grogu . The Client may have understand just how valuable Grogu was to Gideonand the other Imperials work on Project Necromancer . And while he could n’t directly disobey them , he may have subtly been wreak to sabotage their plan . By experience Grogu “ accidentally ” bolt down , he would de-escalate his commanding officer , potentially paving a agency to rise the ravel . It ’s also possible the Client even hated Gideon , and desire Grogu idle out of vestal maliciousness .
While the mysterious Client did have some form of status within the Imperial remnants , he also acted subservient to Moff Gideon . Having Grogu killed outright would have been too blatantly disobedient . Instead , he gave preferable order to capture to Din Djarin , the think good amplitude hunter in parsec . Meanwhile , he also gave multiple orders to kill to other bountifulness Orion — like IG-11 — in hopes one of them may wipe out Grogu and ruin Gideon ’s machinations . However , when Djarin proved to successfully capture Grogu , the Client begrudgingly allowed Pershing to accumulate samples , then regulate Grogu to be executed rather than deliver him to Gideon .
The Client May Have Wanted To Stop Project Necromancer
He could be a double agent for the New Republic
Rather than shoot down Grogu for his own gain , it ’s also possible the Client was in reality a double agent for the New Republic . His history and status as an X - Imperial may have given him clearance to know about Project Necromancer and Palpatine ’s desire to come back . By redact the pieces together on his own , he agnise Grogu would be used for some villainous cloning purpose , and therefore sought to cast out of him . By “ sacrifice ” Grogu , he go for to end any luck of Palpatine ’s return .
This theory has virtue for several reasons . The Client does n’t necessarily seem to be an entirely bad Imperial . He tells Din that he ’s glad to see the beskar back in the men of a Mandalorian , suggestinghe believed the Empire was wrong to take it in the first place . likewise , he also respects Mandalorian craftmanship at the terminal of the series and compliments Din ’s finely made armour . But in any cause , this theory helps excuse why Gideon was killed the Client at the goal ofThe Mandalorianseason 1 .
The Client May Have Been Double-Dipping With Another Interested Party
He may have just wanted more money
One of the more plausible theories for why the Client wanted Grogu dead has to do with him hedging his stakes . Gideon was n’t the only interested company in Grogu ; Grogu was being carry by Nikto Mercenaries . So while Gideon want Grogu alive for his midi - chlorian blood , there were other parties who wanted Grogu dead rather than see him fall into the hands of the Imperial remnants . To this destruction , the Client secretly engage himself out to other parties , in addition to Gideon . That way , regardless ofwhether Grogu came back beat or alive , the Client would be paidhandsomely .
Even though Din successfully deliver Grogu alive , the Client believed he could still rake in the double defrayal from the political party that desire him dead . By evoke and sending the midi - chlorian data to Gideon , the Client would be pay . But by have Pershing kill Grogu , he could also hope to be paid by those that want the child stagnant . In other parole , the Client was cheating Gideon out of Groguin ordination to take in even more money . This also explains why Gideon was so uncoerced to kill the Client at the end ofThe Mandalorian .
Moff Gideon ostensibly snuff it in The Mandalorian season 3 finis , but his mustache — of all things — may be a clue to his paying back in The Mandalorian & Grogu .
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In any font , the Client ’s rightful design for wanting Grogu dead remain a whodunit . And since the serial publication has n’t mentioned him since , it seems unlikelyStar Warswill ever go back and explain his angle in the story . irrespective of whether he was working against Moff Gideon or double - dipping with another political party , the Client was n’t authoritative enough to keep around . But thanks to Pershing , Grogu pull round long enough for Din to deliver him , at last beginningThe Mandalorian .
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