Given that this partly taking place on Tatioone, and the reference to the Fetts, it's might be about Cobb Vanth, the guy that salvaged Boba Fett's armor after the Sarlacc regurgitated it in Aftermath.
Solid callout there, especially with the Tatooine & Fett references. What's especially interesting about that particular group of characters is that Cobb Vanth, Boba Fett, & Jango Fett are currently only ever referenced as being Human in canon, and none of them have been confirmed as actually
being Mandalorian,
despite possessing Mandalorian armor.
Sabine is the only Mandalorian that I know of directly in the post-RotJ setting, though I could be missing some other characters. At the very least, I'd expect to see her in some capacity, even if Cobb Vanth is our main protagonist given how closely connected she is to the legacy and history around Mandalore, the Dark Saber, and the threads of other bits of story from pre-RotJ in order to give this series some more to hold on to and to help tie those gaps together between 6 & 7.
TBQH, I wouldn't be opposed to it being about someone other than her, but I think that there's a good opportunity to potentially seeing Tiya Sircar, Taylor Gray, & Ashley Eckstein appearing as the live action versions of their animated counterparts. They're currently all in the right age group to be able to pull that off, and it presents a solid opportunity for them in a way that I think fans would find meaningful, since we've seen Saw Guerrera in two animated series and live action as well. Whether or not the main story of
The Mandalorian follows the post-Rebels thread possibly leading back up to Thrawn, or if there's just an intersection of both stories that happen briefly – the overall scenario seems plausible enough. Especially if Dave is involved as a director for two episodes, it's almost certainly involving his characters in some way, and that premise alone sounds pretty exciting.
Either way, we've seen how Rebels kicked off as a standalone that eventually linked into the Clone Wars legacy, and it seems like they'll rely on using SOME building blocks of what fans are passionate about to hook this new series in to the rest of everything else.
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