Operation: Cinder was, more or less, Emperor Sheev Palpatine’s spiteful dying wish for revenge following the Battle of Endor - the resounding defeat that ends Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and the original trilogy. “I lived it.” And it’s likely that Din knows it too, because he starts frantically signalling to his ad hoc partner to shut the hell up.
“Nah, I don’t just know it,” Mayfeld says. “Now there’s a man who know his history,” Hess drawls out, in a strangely Southern accent. “How about a toast to Operation: Cinder,” he says. When cornered by officer Valen Hess, and with Din stumbling over his assumed identity as an Imperial tank trooper, Mayfeld steps in. Those who never finished the single-player campaign in Battlefront 2 - or who never even started it - can be forgiven for not getting the reference, but it’s a historic low point for an already brutal regime. The thread that this episode pulls at is a little-known event in galactic history known as Operation: Cinder. Imperial officer Valin Hess was a commander who participated in the campaign of retribution known as Operation: Cinder. That transformation begins with a nod to, of all things, 2017’s Electronic Arts shooter, Star Wars Battlefront 2. Things go a bit off track, however, and ultimately Mando is just a bystander to Mayfeld’s high-stakes journey toward redemption. But, he’s also a former Imperial soldier, and that’s what makes him the perfect candidate to help Din Djarin get the information that he needs to track down Baby Yoda.
It comes from Migs Mayfeld, played by actor Bill Burr, who makes a return appearance in the role that he had in season 1 - as a red-headed scoundrel, a gunman, and a skilled slicer. In “The Believer,” Chapter 15 of Disney’s The Mandalorian, there’s a throwaway line that simply screams for further explanation.
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