Dark Empire 6

Dark Empire 6: The Fate of a Galaxy was the sixth and final issue of the 6 part Star Wars: Dark Empire series of comics. It was released on October 20, 1992 by Dark Horse Comics.

Opening crawl

BOOK 6: THE FATE OF A GALAXY Even as the Imperial World Devastators continue to savage the Alliance, Princess Leia and Han Solo succeed in freeing Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 from the clutches of the evil Emperor Palpatine. During the rescue, Leia captures one of the Emperor's most prized possesssions: an ancient artifact called the ''Jedi Holocron''. The Holocron is a legendary source of Jedi teaching believed lost for over six hundred years. As the heroes of the Rebel Alliance escape through hyperspace aboard the Millennium Falcon, Luke explains that the master control codes to the Emperor's World Devastators are now safely hidden in Artoo's memory banks... ''Then Luke vanishes''. Using the secrets of the Dark Side, Luke has created a doppelganger to trick his friends into leaving him on Byss – where, at that very moment, Luke is confronting the dying despot, and smashing the Emperor's clone tanks with his lightsaber! But before Luke can finish his dreadful task, the Emperor succeeds in transferring his consciousness to one of his clones, a strong and agile fifteen-year-old! Filled with Dark Side power, the reborn Emperor engages Luke in a ferocious lightsaber duel – and ''wins''. Triumphant over his greatest adversary, the young Emperor vows to find Leia – and the Holocron – and crush the Rebellion once and for all!

Publisher's summary

Left behind on Byss, Luke travels with the newly-powerful Emperor Palpatine to capture his sister Leia. Meanwhile, the Jedi Holocron delivers a thousand-year-old prophecy to Leia, which tells of her battle against the young Emperor!

And as the Battle of Calamari rages over the waters of that world and the Mon Calamari Rebels wonder when their savior Luke will shut down the killing machines, a battle begins above them that overshadows the outcome of their more conventional war…

The key to their survival all comes down to the data carried inside one brave little robot.

Appearances

By type

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

Characters

Full cover art. Bodo Baas Bodo Baas's Master (Appears in holocron) (First mentioned) C-3PO Lando Calrissian Chewbacca Deppo (First appearance) Jan Dodonna Titus Klev Mon Mothma Shug Ninx Palpatine R2-D2 Luke Skywalker Han Solo Leia Organa Solo Salla Zend

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid

Events

Galactic Civil War Operation Shadow Hand Battle of Pinnacle Base (First appearance)

Locations

Byss Da Soocha V Mon Calamari

Organizations and titles

Galactic Empire Galactic Emperor Stormtrooper Jedi New Republic Calamari Defense Force Third Battalion Sea Commando Order of the Sith Lords Dark Lord of the Sith

Sentient species

Human Clone Naboo Ixll Krevaaki (Appears in holocron) Wookiee

Vehicles and vessels

A-9 Vigilance interceptor AQ-5 Waveskimmer Amphibion DP20 frigate CR90 corvette E-wing escort starfighter EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate Lambda-class shuttle MC90 Star Cruiser Star Destroyer Eclipse-class dreadnought Eclipse Allegiance-class battlecruiser T-65 X-wing starfighter

Weapons and technology

Holocron Jedi Holocron Lightsaber Palpatine's blue-bladed lightsaber (First appearance)

Miscellanea

The Force Force harmony (First appearance) Force storm

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

External links

• The Full Power of the Dark Side on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link)

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