Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Ertl)

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a mini comic book distributed in certain of the Ertl Company's model kits from the Shadows of the Empire series. The comic covers the period of Fett's departure from Gall to Luke's departure from Tatooine in chapter 16 of the Shadows of the Empire novel.

Plot summary

Luke Skywalker and Rogue Squadron engage a squadron of TIE fighters that were harassing Leia Organa Solo, Lando Calrissian, and C-3PO onboard on the Millennium Falcon. Leia, Lando, and the others had tracked Boba Fett to Gall, who was transporting Han Solo. However, the Falcon maintained damage and had to break off pursuit.

Meanwhile, onboard Slave I, Fett told Han that he was more trouble in carbonite than he was before. However, he also admitted to considering taking Darth Vader's bounty on Luke.

On Kile, Luke, Wedge Antilles, and the rest of Rogue Squadron discover that an R2 unit that tried to kill Luke had been destroyed. Luke was then attacked by a mechanic but was killed. Luke deduces that Vader paid the mechanic to kill him. Meanwhile,the Executor approaches a Rebel shipyard and Vader, along with other TIE pilots easily destroy it. Vader then makes contact with Emperor Palpatine to inform him of the shipyard's destruction. Palpatine is displeased that Vader did not inform Prince Xizor of the attack. Xizor had been listening to the conversation and informed Guri of his intent to kill Luke to prevent Vader from capturing him and presenting him to Palpatine. Back on Kile, Luke receives a message from Koth Melan and asks him to come join him immediately. With that, Luke and R2-D2 board Luke's X-wing and head off.

Media

Cover gallery

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  Cover art

Appearances

By type

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

Characters

Wedge Antilles C-3PO Lando Calrissian Viera Cheran Boba Fett Guri Wes Janson Koth Melan (Appears on screen) Ledre Okins Leia Organa Palpatine R2-D2 Dash Rendar Luke Skywalker Han Solo (in carbonite) Unidentified R2 unit (Wes Janson) Darth Vader Xizor

Droid models

3PO-series protocol droid Human replica droid Message droid R2-series astromech droid

Events

Galactic Civil War Battle of Gall Battle of the Bajic Shipyards

Locations

Bajic sector Coruscant Imperial Palace Gall Gall City Kile Rebel base (Kile) Tatooine Ben Kenobi's hut Zhar

Organizations and titles

Alliance to Restore the Republic Bothan Spynet (Appears on screen) Rogue Squadron Black Sun Prince Bounty hunter Galactic Empire Galactic Emperor Order of the Sith Lords Princess

Sentient species

Bothan (Appears on screen) Falleen Human

Vehicles and vessels

B-wing starfighter BTL Y-wing starfighter CR90 corvette Death Star II (Indirect mention only) Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft Slave I Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Unidentified Imperial II-class Star Destroyer (Gall, dayside) Swoop T-65 X-wing starfighter TIE/LN starfighter TIE Advanced x1 Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1 YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon

Weapons and technology

Darth Vader's armor DL-44 heavy blaster pistol (In flashback(s)) Holoprojector Hologram Luke Skywalker's lightsaber Mandalorian armor Z-6 jetpack

Miscellanea

Carbonite

Collections

• Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 1

Sources

• "ComicScan: The Graying of the Galaxy" – Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 7
• "ComicScan: Rare, but Sometimes Well-Done" – Star Wars Galaxy Collector 2

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