After the end of the Clone Wars Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, Bobbi Morse and Yelena Belova are fugitives from the Global Empire. They are forced into a nomadic lifestyle to avoid Darth Vader and his Inquisitors who aren't just Jedi Hunters but superhero vigilante hunters. They find some semblance of a peaceful life with the Free Ryloth Movement led by Revolutionary General Cham Syndulla. As payment for getting refuge from his forces the group reluctantly agrees to a bold plan of Syndulla's and his right hand woman Ishval to assassinate Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader when they perform their first official visit to Ryloth/Algeria. The visit is a staging ground to perform the assassination. Imperial leader Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine discovers the plot and sends her elite operative John Walker aka U.S. Agent to stop the assassination.