However, regardless of being Brendol’s beloved protégé, Phasma’s thirst for energy led her to staff up with Armitage to kill him. (Brendol confirmed his illegitimate son little or no affection, which earned him Armitage’s hatred.) Thanks to a venomous beetle from her dwelling world, Brendol’s loss of life is untraceable and the 2 are in a position to make use of his loss of life to rise in rank. As we all know from the Sequel Trilogy, Phasma turns into a Stormtrooper Captain and Armitage turns into the Commander of Starkiller Base.
But that’s a destiny that’s nonetheless about three a long time in Brendol’s future. For now, he’s very a lot accountable for his area as an Imperial warlord. During the Shadow Council assembly in “The Spies,” Brendol is among the few Imperial officers daring sufficient to query Moff Gideon slightly than appease him out of worry. He can be accountable for Project Necromancer, which primarily based on the identify and Gideon’s point out of cloning, sounds prefer it may very well be a precursor to one of many main occasions of the Sequel Trilogy – Palpatine’s return from loss of life in The Rise of Skywalker.
Because of the Sequel Trilogy, we already know that the autumn of the New Republic and rise of the First Order is inevitable, however due to the looks of the Shadow Council and Brendol Hux, we lastly get to see how these plans started to return collectively. Season 3 of The Mandalorian has proven us how a lot the New Republic is struggling to separate itself from the Empire, and the existence of the Shadow Council additional proves the naivete of this new authorities. The New Republic is so wrapped up in attempting to be higher than the Empire that, even when individuals like Carson Teva attempt to deliver up professional considerations, they’re failing to see that the Empire isn’t as dead as they assume it’s.