Colonel Gascon and the five droids of D-Squad have arrived at the remote town of Pons Ora on the planet Abafar and find a clone commando suffering from amnesia.
Darth Maul and Savage Opress join forces with the Death Watch and together they recruit the Black Sun and Hutt crime lords to form the Shadow Collective.
The Sith brothers and their criminal allies attack Mandalore and the Death Watch pretends to defeat them, causing the gullible people to choose Pre Vizsla's rule over Duchess Satine's.
Darth Maul has taken over leadership of Death Watch. Though the Jedi cannot officially interfere, Obi-Wan Kenobi travels to Mandalore to rescue Satine.