Who’s Who on the Shadow Council: The Warlords
The remaining members of the second Shadow Council go unnamed in the credits of “The Spies,” but they are referred to in dialogue by a title familiar to fans of the old Expanded Universe: Warlords.
Warlordism was the primary mode of rule for the various splintered Imperial factions in the EU after the Battle of Endor, as Imperial military commanders and Moffs scrambled to proclaim the territory they previously ruled over in the Emperor’s name as the last true bastions of the Galactic Empire. Warlords consolidated power into individual factions that plagued the nascent New Republic for years, until 13 of the most powerful Warlords in the galaxy were executed by Admiral Natasi Daala, aided by Pellaeon, in what would go on to be the formation of the formal Imperial Remnant in the decades after the Battle of Endor.
So far from what we can tell in The Mandalorian, the Warlords fulfill a similar role in canon, even if a slightly more cooperative one: seeking personal power and wealth for their own fiefdoms rather than particularly being willing to unify into a singular Empire once again.
