On the steps of the Jedi Temple, Mas Amedda is conducting a ceremony, destroying the lightsabers of the many Jedi slain and sent into hiding by the Great Jedi Purge, telling the citizens that they will never again fear the Jedi, and that Palpatine has saved them from their treachery. He advises Vader to rise and follow as he has something to show him. Acknowledging it has been a traumatic time for Vader, he warns if he touches him again with the Force, he will finish what Kenobi could not.

Palpatine tells him that particular blade belonged to another-a Jedi-and he is a Sith. Vader retorts he has lost it in the duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and that the Jedi took it with him.

As Vader struggles in agony, Palpatine tells him to defend himself with his lightsaber. Vader agrees to live, and Palpatine says 'Good.' then shocks his apprentice with bolts of Force lightning. However, in her death, Padmé has given Vader a gift of pain, which he must accept or die. Vader asks why Palpatine cannot bring her back as he said he could, and he replies that in his rage, Vader chose a different path, and even the dark side of the Force cannot bring her back. As his new master, Darth Sidious, smirks, Vader lashes out with the Force, destroying the medical droids and even throwing the Emperor against the wall. In the Grand Republic Medical Facility on Coruscant, Darth Vader repeats the word 'No' as he remembers choking Padmé Amidala on Mustafar. Is only rage, pain, and the new Galactic Empire. Retrieved by Palpatine, and placed into a suit ofĬybernetic armor to preserve his life, Vader awakens to Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Vader was left to die on the Skywalker betrayed the Jedi and became the Sith Lordĭarth Vader. Help prevent the death of his pregnant wife, Padmé, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker has fallen to the dark Palpatine has become Emperor, finally in position toīend the galaxy to his will through the power of the Having lost everything that was once dear to him, the former chosen one must take his first steps into a darker world…as Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith! Plot summary The most fearsome villain of all time returns with an all-new series! When Anakin Skywalker fell, both to the pull of the dark side and to the blade of Obi-Wan Kenobi, he rose back up, more machine than man.

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