In Star Wars: Outlaws, Crimson Dawn and Qi'ra Return. Forgotten After Solo: A Star Wars Story with A Chance to Tell The Story That Movies Dropped
The trailer for Star Wars: Outlaws has debuted. In it we saw a heroine well known to fans of Star Wars movies, whose story was abandoned on the big and small screens, but developed in another medium. Will it be used in the game?
Warning! Article contains spoilers from Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: Crimson Reign.
The trailer for the Star Wars: Outlaws video game has generated a lot of interest. After its debut, a few questions arose among fans of the universe, mainly due to the appearance of what appears to be Qi'ra from Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate. After the failure of the cinematic production focusing on Han Solo, this character and organization disappeared from the screens, and they could only make their presence felt in the comic books, making them perhaps not more widely known to many. And that's a pity, because Crimson Dawn has an interesting history in store, which had a major impact on the shape of the Galaxy and the relationships within it.
Who is Qi'ra and what is Crimson Dawn?
But who exactly are Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn? Let's start with the criminal organization led by Darth Maul himself. This syndicate quickly became famous in the galactic underworld for its ruthlessness and efficiency. They operated during the reign of the Galactic Empire, engaging in smuggling, extortion and other criminal enterprises.
As for Qi'ra, she hails from the planet Corellia, where she grew up on the streets and befriended Han Solo in her youth. Unfortunately, at one stage they were separated after a failed joint action. Han escaped and Qi'ra was captured and later sold, eventually ending up with Dryden Vos, the face of Crimson Dawn, representing the group on behalf of Sith Lord Maul. She tried several times to escape from captivity, thus attracting the attention of Vos, who saw her potential and offered her a place in the ranks of the syndicate. Qi'ra became Dryden Vos' most important lieutenant, however, after some time she took his place, taking the man's life. And after the death of Darth Maul, she became the full-fledged leader of the Crimson Dawn. After taking over, Qi'ra reorganized the syndicate and began preparing to carry out her plan – the overthrow of Darth Sidious and Darth Vader.
The character and Crimson Dawn were introduced in the film Solo: A Star Wars Story. There, Qi'ra was played by Emilia Clarke. The Crimson Dawn member, like her organization itself, played a significant role in this cinematic production, however, this was their only appearance on screens.
Victims of the failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story could have been the start of a new series of spin-offs that focus on lower-stakes events and allow more experimentation with the tone of the productions. Unfortunately, the financial performance of the movie, which saw its budget grow significantly from projected $125 million to $275 million, proved to be a problem. Debuting in the shadow of the show Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi and other factors, the production failed financially, earning $393.2 million. According to media reports, with the final budget of Solo: A Star Wars Story, the film should have earned at least $500 million to be profitable. This wasn’t achieved by and Lucasfilm buried plans for more spin-offs.
Victims were also characters from Solo: A Star Wars Story, who might have lived to see further fates on the big screens, given that the ideas for their further fates were there. Unfortunately, Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn failed to again star in live-action productions, and their story was only continued in the comic books, where they showed that they had real potential. Unfortunately, we didn't get a movie or TV shows adaptation of Syndicate War.
The Syndicate War was a months-long conflict, set during the reign of the Galactic Empire, which was initiated by the resurgent Crimson Dawn syndicate. It came about through Lady Qi'ra, waging a secret war aimed at overthrowing Darth Sidious and Darth Vader to end their reign. This war led to many syndicates turning against each other, so that the order of the criminal underworld was disrupted.
The origins of the Syndicate War in Star Wars: Outlaws?
Of course, the game doesn't focus on Crimson Dawn, so you can't expect them to play a significant role there, but perhaps we'll see some situations involving them or learn about their actions from other sources as Kay Vess, since her adventures take place at a time when a significant chapter in Crimson Dawn's history took place, somewhere between the films Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.
It was during this period that Crimson Dawn initiated the Syndicate War, which led to a split between the various factions. This was after Crimson Dawn captured Han Solo frozen in carbonite, who we saw in the Star Wars: Outlaws trailer, observed by Kay Vess in Jabba's Palace. Its location suggests that either during or before the game there was a theft of the imprisoned Han by Crimson Dawn, who took him away from Boba Fett. The bounty hunter later retrieved him and delivered him to Jabba's Palace, where Han was located at the beginning of Return of the Jedi and, as we already know from the trailer, in Star Wars: Outlaws.
However, it's worth noting that at the beginning of the trailer, when Crimson Dawn was mentioned and the character, who may be Qi'ra was shown, she was attending a meeting with other syndicates, so the Syndicate War was certainly not yet underway at that time. However, it is possible that Qi'ra was already executing her plan at that time, starting to create misunderstandings among the syndicates, which we may witness or hear about as Kay Vess.
