Instead, Cere and Cal’s journey to uncover the mysteries of the Zeffo leads them to finding Nightsister Merrin on Dathomir, who agrees to accompany Cal and his crew aboard the ship. Players can also optionally obtain a Bogling companion on Bogano, where the adorable droid BD-1 is also found, which then sheepishly hides within the Mantis as a stowaway. The potential for companions in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is fascinating, but the present crew may be in peril as their fates and whereabouts are currently and purposefully undetermined.
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Where the Mantis Crew Leaves Off in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order concludes with about as open of an ending as it could have, with Cal making the executive decision to destroy the holocron, leaving the fates of all known Force-sensitives up to the Force. This cliffhanger implies that the Mantis crew will not be looking for Force-sensitives in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and their choices and exploration is now completely unknown.
The crew does not seem to have any other goal or agenda between Cal, BD-1, Cere, Greez, and Merrin, so the narrative thread that Respawn chooses to follow is open-ended and enigmatic. Because of how significant the concept of companions is in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, it would surely be a mistake for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to abandon that system.
The sequel should feature new NPC companions found on diverse planets that players can potentially recruit, adding to the Mantis family in a meaningful way that could make for interesting planet-hopping side quests. The infinite potential Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has with this premise, as well as its canonical era setting in Star Wars, will surely make for an exciting narrative if Respawn does pursue it in the sequel. However, there is an ominous atmosphere lingering in the cinematic reveal teaser for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor that may suggest the Mantis crew will be in some sort of peril.
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The Mantis Crew is Notably Absent in the Teaser for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s teaser is brief and full of dubious phrases to parse and characters to identify. Following a short period of time when it was rumored that Cal may not be returning as the sequel’s protagonist, that has since been refuted as Cal and BD-1 appear.
Cal is seen battling against a hooded assailant who wields a red-colored lightsaber and a blaster, and Cal and BD-1 also stumble upon an unidentified figure suspended in a bacta tank, who single-handedly secured the majority of discourse following the teaser’s reveal. It is also revealed that Cal’s lightsaber will end up in the possession of some enemy of Cal’s at some point, but plot details are otherwise unknown.
Rather, a shot of the Mantis’ interior depicts the ship crashing onto a planet with sparks igniting from its holotable, which may also be teasing what planet they have arrived at. No characters are shown within the ship as it crash-lands, and none of the other crew members are seen throughout the teaser at all.
The only thing that is certain is that Cal and his droid companion are alive, and may be on their own journey of discovery. In terms of the whereabouts of the crew, it is up to anyone’s imagination to fill in those blanks until more information is eventually shared about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. But in the meantime, there are a few possibilities for what the crew’s fate will be during the events of the sequel.
The Potential Fate of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s Mantis Crew
The crew’s absence automatically insinuates that they are in some sort of trouble, if not dead, making the sequel’s tone already much darker than the original. It is possible that the crew is simply scattered and fending for themselves, as Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s subtitle may infer, or that they may have been taken and are being held captive in order to get to Cal and BD-1, who may have been able to escape. If true, players may be tasked with traveling to different planets and rescuing each crewmate. If their fates are worse, such as if the crew is suddenly revealed to be dead, players may instead find new crew members and avenge Cal’s old ones.
Of course, there is a possibility that the Mantis crew is completely fine in the beginning of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The teaser is purposefully dour, but the crew’s absence from it does not necessarily mean that they have met a tragic end. It would make sense if, during Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the Mantis crew is attacked or hunted by the Empire following their run-in with Darth Vader himself at Nur’s Fortress Inquisitorius, which Cal, Cere, and BD-1 barely managed to escape from.
This close shave would certainly aggravate Vader, who could have then sent dedicated forces to capture and enslave the Mantis crew. In terms of the effect this would have on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s gameplay, players could be encountering even more bounty hunters or Imperial forces than they had in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and getting from planet-to-planet could be even more precarious if the crew is indeed being hunted.
Basically any theory or assumption about what the Mantis crew’s fate is, or where they will be at the start of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is valid for now until more of the sequel is officially shared. It would be unfortunate to already lose the Mantis crew established in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order since their budding friendships have just begun, and there are a lot of potential avenues their stories could take them, while the sequel may inevitably introduce more characters as companions entering into their fold.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor releases on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S in 2023.
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