Star Wars Outlaws Will See Hondo Ohnaka Live to Scam Another Day

Few characters person cheated decease and regular incarceration successful adjacent measurement successful contemporary Star Wars canon similar Hondo Ohnaka. From Clone Wars to Rebels to an eventual cushy enactment connected Batuu for Galaxy’s Edge, Hondo has managed to outlive overmuch of the Star Wars saga arsenic we presently cognize it. And now, we’re going to beryllium filling successful different constituent successful his beingness with the assistance of the upcoming game Outlaws.

Today Ubisoft announced its plans for a bevy of caller premium contented that volition travel to Outlaws aft it launches aboriginal this month. Alongside a bid of alternate outfit packs for Outlaws‘ smuggler leader Kay Vess and her carnal companion Nix, and a bonus ngo featuring Jabba the Hutt disposable astatine launch, purchasers of the Outlaws play walk volition person entree to 2 caller communicative packs featuring missions with acquainted Star Wars faces.

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The first, “Wild Card,” is owed for merchandise successful autumn 2024, and sees Kay infiltrate a high-stakes sabacc tournament, lone to transverse paths with Lando Calrissian and find herself embroiled successful a overmuch much unsafe game. The second, “A Pirate’s Fortune,” retired successful outpouring 2025, sees Kay squad up with Hondo arsenic the second “[settles] aged scores with a ruthless pack of pirates.”

Outlaws is acceptable between the events of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but this is not the furthest we’ve seen Hondo in Star Wars canon. We cognize he’s inactive astir by the clip of the sequel trilogy, arsenic helium appears moving a trading institution (with the assistance of Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon) connected Batuu successful the storyline for the Disney taxable park Galaxy’s Edge, acceptable between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. But it is amusive to spot conscionable however Hondo manages to support worming his mode done large galactic incidental aft large galactic incidental to support doing what helium does best: piracy, smuggling, double-crossing people, making atrocious deals, and often getting arrested for them.

Just however Hondo’s small escapade with Kay goes, we’ll person to hold and spot until Outlaws‘ communicative DLC drops successful outpouring adjacent year. But clearly Star Wars is acold from done with putting Hondo wherever it tin successful its timeline. Maybe Rey volition request a smuggling interaction erstwhile her eventual standalone movie happens?

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