Dathomir, the leaving

Armed and prepared, the crew does some sneak-sneak to get to the place where Mora and Maul are going head to head. People are flying, Amidala's going ballistic with a lightsaber, Ree's decrepit aunt has lightning showering from her fingers. The battlefield is, unsurprisingly, a mess.

Z screams, "Hey, Darth Maul, male apprentice to the Emperor!" When PadMaul spins in surprise (prompting confusion from the Nightsisters), the Force users Force Light him. Ree smashes his lightsaber.

And now they're surrounded by angry confused evil Force witches. On the bright side, when they hear the explanation, they know the crew isn't lying. So, they feel they owe some kind of debt and usher them over to a place they can relax a little.

Mora, laying eyes on Dalt, orders him to go fix the machine like he promised when he left. Dalt grabs Oola and SARR to help, and goes to do just that (well, not really, but he does start disconnecting the Dark Side device). The witches are very relieved he's got a female helping him. Once they verify that Amidala's gone back to her own corpus, SARR beheads Maul's body. Ree tallies the number of off-planet people among the crowd of witches for possible future rescuing.

Not much later, Oola detects an incoming fighter, which is handily dodging its way right around the satellite defenses. Following behind is a second in pursuit, which is doing alright for itself too, though not quite as skillfully. Anakin. And...Han? Kyp? Can't be Luke, he must be heading toward Bimmisaari by now. The second fighter forces down the first one a long distance away from their location, apparently deliberately.

Ree gets an audience with "Mother," to whom she explains about the Infinity Gate and Maul, then introduces herself as Reeden Shevan. Mora explains to her that she wants to make the galaxy a better place. She plans to wipe out all the technology in the galaxy so that people will go back to a natural, balanced lifestyle. When Ree points out that using the Gate that way could kill everyone, Mora admits she hadn't thought of that, but that she's sure she can compensate to leave some alive.

Ree tells her about the family, about her being a Sent, about Dalt and the brainwashing. Mora's horrified to be related to Dalt. They argue about the meaning of balance. Ree points out that since twins were the prophecy, then that would mean that Dalt's part of it too; his technological obsession and her natural understanding must both be important.

And then a witch snags Ree's and Lydia's lightsabers and activates them. Maul. Luckily, Ree's been stocking multiple lightsabers lately.

Z and Kedrihm'Val and the others are a good distance away from Ree at this point on the other side of about 40 Force witches, so it takes a bit before they realize something's happening. When Z notices the activity, he hits a button. Crashing mechanical sounds begin out in the woods as the AT-AT he had rigged up to a slave circuit begins coming in. Meanwhile, SARR grabs Dalt's lightsaber from his belt. Kedrihm'Val, seeing this over Z's shoulder, looks kind of horrified, and Z actually shouts in shock. Poor Dalt looks terrified.

Lydia's out of the fight, Ree's holding Maul off, and the witches surrounding them are becoming suspicious of this outsider who's suddenly fighting one of their own. The rest of the group has forty witches to get through in order to get over there, so instead Kedrihm'Val calls up the plants to trap Maul. Met with a moment to take action, Ree Force Lights him, driving his spirit out of the witch's body. Maul tries to possess Kedrihm'Val, then Dalt, then Malina in quick succession, but all of them resist, so he leaps into another witch. But which one?

Kedrihm'Val senses him and sends a telepathic message to her and the other Jedi. They ambush him. Once he's down for the count, the other witches draw a magic circle to keep his spirit trapped.

Kedrihm'Val notices that Z's still holding Darth Maul's body, blue Zabrak blood running down his armor. And...oh yes, it's generating a bubble of anti-Force.

Ree turns back to Mora to present her argument, handing over the information on the Chosen One. Mora isn't convinced...and then Kyp comes crashing out of the jungle in a veil of lightning.

Z pitches Darth Maul's body at Anakin as he emerges from the woods, and hits the button for the AT-AT again. The thing opens fire with its turbo-lasers. When the smoke clears, there's nothing but a smoking crater where the clone of Anakin Skywalker stood. "I killed Darth Vader healthy!" Z boasts. Kedrihm'Val tries to process that statement, then gives up and asks Dalt, "Do I have the language right? Was that supposed to make sense?" "No," Dalt reassures him. "That was just testosterone speaking."

Kyp looks like hell, but he says he'll be okay. He tells them there was no soul in that body, just a mind that remembered some things about who it once was.

Pulling her trump card, Ree turns over the message her uncle recorded. Mora withdraws to listen to it, and (thanks to Ree's player rolling a 1 on the Will save) breaks down. Ree comes over to Kyp, who's collapsed against a tree, to thank him. "I'm not sure I could have handled that," she tells him. Kyp gives her a look that all but says, 'I'm not sure I could've handled that either!'

Mora calls her bodyguards in to her, then emerges without them, looking rejuvenated. When Ree confronts her about killing them, Mora tells her, "I suppose if they hadn't pledged their lives to me willingly, I might've had a problem with it." Ree asks Dalt how the gate is coming. Not sure what she's exactly asking about, he says it'll take weeks to get it working, so Mora decides she might as well go back with Ree to visit Devith.

Once Dalt finishes disconnecting the Dark Side device, Kedrihm'Val Force Lights the goo to render it inert. "I should dismantle it, I suppose," Dalt says thoughtfully. "It is an abomination, but it's a beautiful piece of technology..." He comments that if he activated the gate, he could fix Kedrihm'Val's world, bring back Alderaan, and fix all sorts of things. "What'd you just say?!" demands Endek, popping out of the bushes where he'd been lurking the whole time, ready to snipe Mora.

Kyp gets put in medbay (where SARR gets to watch over him, oh goodie!). They mag the Jedi fighters to the Starwind, Z detonates the bombs on the Infiltrator. It's a real big explosion; everyone applauds. The witches put Maul's spirit in a rock, which Oola drops into a box of ysalamiri hormone. That'll be one ticked-off mineral. Kedrihm'Val puts Padme in the medbay along with Kyp, and observes that it really is her soul in there. Kyp offers sarcasm: "Luke, we killed a crazy robot clone of your father, but on the bright side we brought your mom back from the dead." Dalt explains that he created his cloning technology specifically to recall a person's spirit, as he wanted to use it to bring himself back if he died. Ree speaks to witches to find out if any of the kidnapped offworlders want to leave, and gathers people up.

Once they take off, Endek demands to know what they meant about bringing back planets. They explain about the Gate and everything. Dalt wonders aloud whether Ree's planet is really the 'Force star' he's been looking for. Endek likes the idea of bringing back Alderaan. Apparently its destruction really upset him. Kedrihm'Val, on the other hand, is less thrilled with the idea of mucking around with the natural order any more than they have already.

They make Kedrihm'Val run errands for their guests, who expect to be served by men and probably would prefer, well, not-Z. Z tries to insult Dalt: "You're the closest thing to a woman we have on this ship. Well jedi woman. I mean you're gay! You're gay, Dalt!"

"Well..." drawls Dalt, looking a bit surprised by the outburst. "And think how much money I wasted on your mother."

Z jumps across the table at him. Dalt Force-chokes him in self-defense while Ree and Kedrihm'Val grab him and shove him back in his seat, then scold Dalt.

Ree calls her family to let them know whom she's bringing home. Her uncle is stunned but happy. Her mom is also shocked but gamely steps up. "Oh my. Wow. Um...well, I'll make up the guest rooms, and... What does she eat, other than babies?"