Dark Empire 3

Dark Empire 3: The Battle for Calamari was the third issue of the six-part Star Wars: Dark Empire series of comics. It was released April 21, 1992 by Dark Horse Comics and reprinted on August 18, 1992.

Opening crawl

BOOK 3: THE BATTLE FOR CALAMARI Brought to a sinister and beautiful world called ''Byss'', Luke Skywalker finds himself the prisoner of ''Emperor Palpatine'', now triumphantly alive! As the villainous Emperor explains to Luke, it was to Byss that his living energy was transported when his diseased and corrupted body was destroyed by Darth Vader. On Byss he took a new ''clone body'' – as he had ''many times before''. Once restored to physical life, the Emperor allowed the civil war to rage on while he quietly and patiently rebuilt his forces, preparing a massive final blow against all who would deny him everlasting dominion over the Empire! Even now, as Luke appears to fall under the Emperor's ever-expanding power, massive engines of destruction are inflicting death blows to the floating cities of Calamari, long-standing allies of the Rebel Alliance... In response to Admiral Ackbar's urgent commands, the Rebel Destroyer ''Emancipator'', together with an armada of Frigates and Star Cruisers, makes the hyperspace jump to the Calamari water world, ready to engage the Emperor's ''World Devastators''!

Publisher's summary

A war for the planet Calamari erupts over that planet's surface, already threatened by the massive World Destroyers. While Lando and Wedge take on the Imperial stormtroopers, Leia is tormented by visions of Luke being sucked into the darkness. Meanwhile, it seems that Han has run into some "old friends"!

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Cover art. Wedge Antilles C-3PO Lando Calrissian Chewbacca Anky Fremp (First appearance) Spurch Goa (First appearance) Gorm the Dissolver (First appearance) Kane Griggs (First appearance) Titus Klev (First appearance) Mon Mothma Dyyz Nataz (First appearance) Shug Ninx (First appearance) Carlist Rieekan Luke Skywalker Han Solo Leia Organa Solo Mako Spince (First appearance) Darth Vader (Vision) Zevulon Veers (First appearance) Vima-Da-Boda (First appearance) Salla Zend (First appearance) ZZ-4Z (First appearance)

Droid models

JV-Z1/D butler droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid

Events

Galactic Civil War Operation Shadow Hand Battle of Calamari

Locations

Da Soocha V Mon Calamari Nar Shaddaa Han Solo's apartment Spacebarn

Organizations and titles

Galactic Republic Sector Ranger Jedi Jedi Knight New Republic

Sentient species

Diollan (First appearance) Gank (First appearance) Human Ixll Skup (First appearance) Wookiee Rwook

Vehicles and vessels

A-9 Vigilance interceptor Allegiance-class battlecruiser Allegiance CloakShape fighter E-wing escort starfighter Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Emancipator MB-C1 medium transport (First appearance) Starlight Intruder (First appearance) Procursator-class Star Destroyer (First appearance) (Retcon) Pursuer-class enforcement ship TIE/D automated starfighter V-wing Speeder Transport, Model A World Devastator

Weapons and technology

Armor Darth Vader's armor (In flashback(s)) Stormtrooper armor Blaster Blaster rifle E-11 blaster rifle A280 blaster rifle Hyperspace compass

Miscellanea

The Chute The Force Dark side of the Force Force vision

Collections

• Dark Empire trade paperback
• Star Wars: Dark Empire Third Edition
• Star Wars: Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy
• Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy
• Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Vol. 5

Sources

• "Boba Fett: Mystery Man in Not-So-Shining Armor" – Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 1

External links

• The Alliance is Finished! on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link)

In other languages

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