Yeah it starts at Return of the Jedi and ends at Rise of Skywalker. Right down to unexplained clones of Palpatine and the reveal of nonsensical family ties.
So Blond Gaav finally kinda gets a name when its revealed he’s the clone of Stargazer, which it turns out was the name of the old guy who was the head of Nightmare. And he’s all “Yeah, you’re a dweebus, clone-dad” and straight up chucks him into Darkstars heart, transforming it from a big factory into its true form; a giant space peener. Swordbreaker mops up the last remaining Nightmare forces then sees the giant space peeler and says “Oh, we can’t fight that”, so Kane takes a shuttle into Darkstar to shut down its main engines, and gets into a fight with Clonegazer.
So they have a fight, but neither make any headway until Clonegazer reveals that Millie was actually Stargazers granddaughter, and that he therefor, can control her psychically and teleports her into the place he and Kane were fighting and has her shoot at him a bunch.
Meanwhile, Canal crashes into the big space peener and blows herself up along with Gor Nova, which was serving as its heart, and it’s supposed to be very heartbreaking, but Canal keeps showing up through the rest of the episode after that so it winds up having even less impact than the fakeout deaths in Rise of Skywalker. Kane and Clonegazer have another duel, and Kane realizes that and Clonegazer have the same fighting style, because Kane learned from his grandma, and his grandma was taught alongside her brother, who it turns out was Stargazer all along, so Clonegazer is basically his Grand Uncle and also Millie is his cousin, which makes all the romantic tension between them awkward. So Kane wins because he knew what Clonegazer was going to do, then he and Canals ghost (I guess?) unite to blow up Dark Star entirely and somehow everyone else escapes even though they’re in the middle of an exploding, planet sized spaceship and every nearby shuttle has already been blown up.
And over the credits we see what the rest of the cast was up to later, as Rail resumes getting hot coffee spilled on his lap, Nina spills aforesaid coffee, and Millie becomes an unmarried housewife. Then Kane and Swordbreaker show up again and that’s weird. Fade to white, end credits over.
Gonna be honest, didn’t like this anywhere even close to as much as I did Slayers. Setting aside the fact that the show was almost half over before the animation was even finished, the dub efforts were much weaker. It took a while before the filler eased of and the actual plot began and while some of the filler was fun, the main plot was weak and except for Millie and Nina teaming up towards the end, none of the cast really felt fit to shine Lina and companies shoes.
Well, the good news is that next week we’re back into Slayers with Revolution!