If you remember The Mandalorian season 2 finale, Din won the Darksaber from Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). This immediately caused all kinds of drama. When Din tried to offer Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) the blade, the weapon she’d been searching for since she first teamed up with the bounty hunter, Gideon laughed and explained that the Darksaber could only be won in battle. But before Din and a very tense Bo-Katan could decide whether it was time to fight, dark troopers showed up to kill them.
This storyline was left unresolved by the end of the episode, but the fact that Din is still carrying the sword in The Book of Boba Fett probably means he settled things with Bo-Katan one way or the other. We likely won’t see what happened there until The Mandalorian season 3, which is currently filming for a late 2022 release. But that’s not the plot hole.
The issue actually involves Gideon’s explanation of how one becomes the rightful wielder of the Darksaber. He says it must be earned in combat, but that’s not how Bo-Katan originally acquired the weapon on Rebels. She was gifted the sword by Sabine after the Mandalorian warrior fought to free their home planet from an Imperial puppet government. Sabine gave her the sword because she felt Bo-Katan would be a good leader for their people.
Since Bo-Katan received the Darksaber as a gift on Rebels, making her ruler of Mandalore, why would she now have to fight Din for the weapon on The Mandalorian? Well, the Armorer explains the difference on The Book of Boba Fett.
“Bo-Katan Kryze is a cautionary tale. She once laid claim to rule Mandalore based purely on blood and the sword you now possess. But it was gifted to her and not won by creed [read: in battle],” the Armorer tells Din. “Her rule ended in tragedy. They lost their way and we lost our world.”
We watch in a flashback as TIE bombers and Imperial combat droids lay waste to Mandalore, killing all on the planet’s surface during the purge known as as “the Night of a Thousand Tears.”
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