Cal Kestis and the crew of the Stinger Mantis are rarely dull after Cera Junda and Griz Dritus rescue Cal on Braca in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. However, no one has pursued the crew of the Stinger Mantis as successfully or as closely Star Wars Jedi series as the Haxion Brood, a gang of bounty hunters that Cal met when he and BD-1 were kidnapped by them and forced into an Ordo Eris battle arena against waves of enemies hosted by the Sorc Tormo.
Bounty hunters were a huge source of spontaneous tension and high stakes Star Wars Jedi franchise so far, but whether Haxion Brood should be repeated for a third time or shelved for another handful of diverse, random mercenaries is another matter entirely, especially if Cal himself is willing to become a bounty hunter of sorts. indeed Star Wars Jedi: Survivor making Haxion Brood a much more obvious threat than before. But although they appear in the same way to intercept the players, Cal now gains the upper hand, and this time the hunters become the hunted in Star Wars Jedi: Survivorteasing a whole new arc for Cal in the next entry.
Star Wars Jedi Casting Cal Kestis as a Bounty Hunter Could Draw on Jango Fett's Origin Story
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter indulges in many optional dead or alive contracts that players can seek out at their discretion. This concept is phenomenally executed in the early levels of chapters like Coruscant, where enemies are few and far between enough that players can conveniently and generously search for NPCs with Jango's slow-motion visor.
However, the bounty hunting becomes much more difficult and impractical in later chapters where waves of enemies flood the screen, flanking players and pelting them with blaster shots or missiles from invisible distances, but it's still an attractive feature that makes the game feel like more than a rudimentary arcade shooter. Indeed, if you decide to pass the bounties alive, players have to first tag a scanned target and then tie them up with Jango Fett's cord and interact with them, which is nearly impossible to do in the middle of a room full of enemies.
It's even harder to try to thoroughly destroy all the other enemies in the room first and save the reward objective at the end, but there are a few options left to secure the reward in the mid-to-late game. Either way, these elements will make for fantastic ingredients in the next one Star Wars Jedi games, especially if Cal himself becomes an official bounty hunter, since technically he already is He survived while taking out targets for the Caij Vanda intrigue.
The only incentive for players was reward pucks for several abilities – some for
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A blaster stance and some for slicing up BD-1 droids and blaster cosmetics to turn them in, and surely the sequel could have an even bigger reward for hunting down characters and being able to turn that reward in alive.
The Star Wars Jedi Bounty Hunt Is Too Important To Shelve
The Haxion Brood wasn't decimated for good, and with so many Bounty Hunters and Bounty Droids destroyed by Cal, it would make sense for Sork Torm's hunt to be even more persistent and brutal in the third game. Now that Cal has developed a taste for bounty hunting, it puts him in an interesting position to possibly seek out bounties on his own, even without Cage informing him of the locations of the Brood branches that have been patiently awaiting his arrival.
He survived teased that Cal might soon give up his lightsaber and stop fighting. Of course, with the Haxion Brood looking for Cal Kestis and the Stinger Mantis team, the refugee Jedi Knight might not have any quick means of bounty hunting until that issue is resolved indefinitely, and it would be a shame to see this subplot arc suddenly dropped by a third Star Wars Jedi game, one way or another without a specific solution.
