Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn were revealed to have started a new era of Crimson Dawn after Maul - one that resurfaces just before Return of the Jedi. We know from Star Wars Rebels that at some point when Luke Skywalker is a young boy Maul ends up searching for Sith artifacts of power, which ends up stranding him on a remote planet for years - before he is ultimately killed in a final duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi.įurthermore, this Maul animated series would also help further the story of Crimson Dawn - a group that the makers of Star Wars are clearly investing in right now.

This Darth Maul series would also be a nice, controlled, limited event, that also further helps expand the Solo side of the franchise.

Maul was briefly deposed from his criminal throne when Darth Sidious finally came to cow his former apprentice, but he eventually took control of Mandalore again. Maul (and for a time his brother, Savage Opress) ruled the planet Mandalore and its warrior clans, as leader of the Shadow Collective, an alliance of Star Wars' most insidious crime syndicates (Pyke Syndicate, Black Sun, Hutt Clan). After he seemingly died in The Phantom Menace, Clone Wars revealed that Maul in fact survived as a crazed cyborg, and was brought back to sanity (and full bodily functions) by the dark magic of his home planet, Dathomir. (Photo: Lucasfilm Animation)Īs stated, Maul's appearance in Solo was a fun cameo for fans of Star Wars movies - but it was also confusing to those who had followed Star Wars in other media like the books, comics and animated series Clone Wars and Rebels. One of the final scenes of the movie revealed that Maul would be Qi'ra's new boss, as the former Sith Lord had formed his nefarious crime syndicate by the time the Empire took control of the galaxy.

Voss died in a duel with Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) and his childhood love, Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke), but Qi'ra in turn double-crossed Han, in order to take command of Crimson Dawn herself. The ending of Solo (Spoilers) revealed Maul to be the dark power behind Crimson Dawn, the clandestine criminal syndicate run by Dryden Voss (Paul Bettany).

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