What Gideon Wants with the Child in The Mandalorian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVZbDBZKqSE - from the Star Wars Explained YouTube channel (9 mins long).

Some interesting ideas about what might be Gideon’s motivation. I really like the idea that he’s a bit like Krennic from RO and that he’s a minor Moff that through unforeseen circumstances has ended up in a position of power and that now he’s basically trying to make himself the new Vader/Palpatine. Which makes a lot of sense for someone who wears dark armor, a dark cape like Vader, and even has a lightsaber…and there’s the theory that the Force experiments are at least partially about him trying to become Force-sensitive.

Also, and alternatively, since there’s been a lot of discussion about what the new canon Darktroopers might be like, they don’t have to be stormtrooper battle droids like the Dark Forces game, there were Force-empowered stormtroopers in Dark Empire that just so happened to have the same name.