She asked him that before (On The Mandalorian) too, though. Their little cult of fanatics asks their people that a lot as a test of worthiness and righteousness to remain in the cult.
Well, it wouldn't be much of a cult without reputative rituals and chants to enforce behavioural norms and uniform thought patterns, would it?
I had just hoped that Din would have grown a bit from his experiences and tell them it's a stupid policy and he doesn't care about being in the Mando Club any more, and that he took his helmet off to help complete the task of returning Grogu to the Jedi as she commanded. Plus, he just wants to eat a sandwich around the lunch table with other people sometimes. Is that too much to ask, stupid Armor fanatic lady?
I think at this point he fells he has nowhere else to go. I mean this has been his whole life since childhood. He doesn't' know any other way to be . . . yet.
I kept expecting him to explain that removing his helmet led to accomplishing his mission and with honor but Din is so dialed into the Foundling Code and the ways of the Armorer and Paz Viszla that even at that moment of truth he couldn't bring himself to make an excuse. He's that committed.
This is the way.
I'm thinking that she didn't feel like she could take him one on one. At least not yet. Mando specifically mentioned that he won it from Moff Gideon, not that he got to keep it after a fight with Bo-Katan.
It's not about being able to take him in a fight (she almost certainly can) it's as Gideon said; it's about the
story.
"Slaying the perpetrator of the Great Purge in the Night of a Thousand Tears and reclaiming the Darksaber to reunite the scattered peoples on Mandalore once again" is the story she was hoping for.
"Slaying the nobody bounty hunter/foundling Child of the Watch right after he defeated the perpetrator of the Great Purge in the Night of a Thousand Tears and reclaiming the Darksaber only to have it snatched away by a twice failed pretender to the throne in a greedy power grab" is the story that would be told if she challenged Dyn.
The former would have gotten her an army of loyal warriors, the latter would have gotten her an endless string of challengers and more infighting that they can't afford. Hell even Sabine's
"stole it from the witch haunted treasure horde of the Shadow of the Crimson Dawn" story is better than that one! So for now she just has to bide her time and keep on building her forces. Maybe she's planning to build Dyn up in power before making an open challenge, maybe she's debating with herself whether or not she even wants to try and rule again. Maybe she thinks it's time to bring Sabine back into the fold and convincer her to try and rule instead.
It's fun but yeah a fighter craft isn't really a ship you'd want to live out of.
I guess like the Firespray I'm a bit confused by the Razor Crest. I had always thought that was the name of his ship but here the way they were talking it sounded like a type of ship.
"I never said I had a Razor Crest. I said I had a replacement for a Razor Crest."
"These are a lot harder to come by than some plain old Razor Crest."
"Did you used to fly a Razor Crest?"
So I guess it's like saying "Take the Camry and pick up the kids.".
I always took the idea that he never named it as part of the whole "weapons are part of my religion" thing. Maybe The Creed frowns on giving names to weapons and that just like a sigil or clan, such things must be earned with great deeds (like the Darksaber.) So a "true" Mandalorian wouldn't name a ship for the same reason they wouldn't name their blasters or vibro-blade.
Fighter's got some good speed though. Hyperspace might be tricky without an astromech, but it has been over three decades since the N1 was top of the line. Maybe they can squeeze in a nav computer in these days.
It is tiny though next to an X-wing.
That's a thing about Star Wars technology that a lot of fans seem to have misapprehensions about: there's little if any real technological development from one century to the next, let alone one decade. Everything has already been invented, and if they're not using it, it's probably a matter of expense, or practicality. There may be refinements and small improvements, but 99.9% of the time they're just rediscovering or reinvented something old that just fell out of use for one reason or another.
After all; the N-1s were hand crafted because it was a prestigious craft in a time when bespoke artisan engineering was in vogue, not because they didn't have droids that could do the work for them.
TIEs didn't lack for shields, hyperdrives and life support because the technology wasn't available; they lacked those things because they were supposed to be cheap and disposable, just like the people that piloted them. The Jedi didn't use Deltas and Etas that needed hyper-rings to jump because the tech wasn't compact enough, they did so because it allowed their ships to be lighter, faster, more manoeuvrable, and an external ring had a larger fuel capacity meaning it had greater range than an onboard drive ever could.
Similarly; having a droid socket seems more a matter of efficiency than necessity. I mean think about it; astronavigation is just ONE thing an R2 or a C1 is built to do, so presumably the astronavigation computer itself is somewhere inside it; so it's by definition smaller than the droid and thus not an issue of compactness. Half the point of the droid is to act as co-pilot and on-board mechanic; meaning they don't have to add extra mass to the ship installing a separate navicomp because the droids are plug & play.
So yeah, she just probably shoved in an old navicomp in there somewhere.
