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: A generous payment in Beskar steel, the sacred metal used to forge Mandalorian armor. [6]

: Critics from Variety and Rolling Stone praised the high-budget "theatrical" look, noting it barely felt different from the main films. [6, 12]

Set five years after the fall of the Empire, the episode introduces a nameless, laconic bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) operating in the lawless outer reaches of the galaxy. [6]

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