Madlands

Mando needs a guide to the Madlands, she needs a ride that can keep her one step ahead of the Ministry.
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Set after The Mandalorian season two: Searching for his lost Tribe, Mando has followed hints of a trail all the way to the Madlands - a distant and notoriously difficult corner of the galaxy. Between the ever-shifting spatial anomalies and the sector's primary syndicate, he'll need a guide. The information trader that he takes aboard the Razor Crest can certainly help in his search, if they can both stay ahead of the growing trouble she seems to have gotten herself into.
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Thank you for taking a look at my story - a plot-rich slow-burn with (what I feel are) rewarding pay-offs, plus some fun and adventure along the way!
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Here's a sample paragraph (spoiler-alert!):
"Mando settled back into the pilot's seat while Grey took her spot and dragged a datapad onto her lap. When he looked back a few minutes later, she was fast asleep.
He sighed, stood, and came to move the screen out of her limp hands. As he carefully pulled it away, the signet caught his attention. She was still wearing it, perhaps hadn't once taken it off. Her cloak was unclasped, and the pendant sat half on the skin of her sternum, half on the soft fabric of her tank as it swelled over her breasts.
Having the metal wrought into the shape of his Mudhorn had probably been a level of detail beyond what the ruse required. But he hadn't wanted to give her someone else's mark, or even something more general. Staring at it as it rose and fell with each of her breaths, Mando felt the surge of an emotion that he knew had no place to go."

Notes:
• Diverges from in-show plot points beginning with the Book of Boba Fett
• Canon-compliant, with one ship-sized exception: the Razor Crest was not destroyed (because, Razor Crest)
• Beyond Mando himself, mostly original characters + all original narrative, worlds, etc.
• Plot-rich slow-burn
• Rating: M - Mild Violence & Smut