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In the Footsteps of
their Fathers |
COMIC STORIES |
Thomas Andrews, Scott
Allie, Adriana Melo, Joe Corroney, Michel LaCombe et al. |
Dark Horse Comics
[US]; Titan Books [UK] |
Stories published as:
Comic Book Series (2005)
Graphic Novel (2006)
Omnibus Graphic
Novels (2011)
e-Comic Books (2012)
Epic Collection Graphic
Novel (2019) |
Alternative language(s): ![[Also published in French language]](../../updates/images/frflag.jpg)  ![[Also published in German language]](../../updates/images/deflag.jpg) |
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Synopsis:
This book collects together the following comic stories
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The Price of
Power
For the velociraptor-like
inhabitants of Tiss'sharrl, assassination is a
common method of corporate or political
advancement-as the planet's president can attest.
But the Tiss'shar are about to get a surprising
lesson in the use of force from one who has made the
ruthless application of fear and violence a way of
life: Darth Vader has dropped in for an unexpected
visit.
Vader's arrival could not have come at a worse time
for the President, who is fending off attempts on
his life-and business offers from a dangerous
quarter. But even the President's cool reptilian
intellect can't guess at the real reasons for
Vader's visit, or the depths at which the Dark
Lord's machinations run...
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In The Shadows
of their Fathers
With its mines played out and the planet nearly
stripped of its valuable ore, the Empire's interest
in Jabiim is waning. But Emperor Palpatine is not
willing to allow Jabiimi rebels to forcibly boot the
last of his stormtroopers off the planet. The harder
they fight, the tighter the Imperial grip becomes.
Help arrives in the form of the Rebel Alliance,
which is hoping to convince the fiercely independent
Jabiimi to join their galaxy-wide cause. But Rebel
hero Luke Skywalker doesn't realize he's walking in
his father's tainted footsteps-or that the name
"Skywalker" may earn him a death sentence
from his would be allies!
Luke, Leia, and their companions have been taken
prisoner on Jabiim by the very Rebels they've come
to help. Worse, the only people from whom they could
expect any help-X-wing pilots Wedge Antilles and
Hobbie Klivian-are up to their necks in trouble
themselves. To top it off, an Imperial fleet is
headed for the planet with orders to kill or capture
everybody!
Luke thinks he can find a way out of their current
predicament if he can just figure out what it was
that his father-Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker-did
twenty years ago that caused this whole mess!
On the planet Jabiim, Luke Skywalker's situation has
gone from bad to worse. Having managed an escape
from the rebel group who wants revenge for his
father's actions during the Clone Wars, and having
fought his way clear of the Imperial stormtroopers
who are after any Rebel on which they can lay their
hands, Luke ends up the captive of third party
players. A group of wealthy Jabiimi have made a deal
with the Empire: in exchange for their own freedom,
they're going to give the rest of the planet's
population to the Empire as slaves! Luke's only hope
lies with Leia and the droids-but they have problems
of their own!
Imperial Slave Ships are coming to take possession
of the conquered population of Jabiim, and the only
thing standing between them and the successful
completion of their mission are two Rebel X-wing
pilots. Hobbie Klivian and Wedge Antilles are in for
the fight of their lives! Meanwhile, planetside,
Luke Skywalker and his captors have joined forces to
battle an army of stormtroopers. But Luke's having a
hard time focusing his fledgling Jedi powers as he
is haunted by the recent knowledge that his father,
Anakin Skywalker, was not a hero to the people of
Jabiim, but a traitor! For the second time, events
on Jabiim are coming to disastrous ends because of
the presence of a Jedi named Skywalker.
The first time was during the Clone Wars when young
Anakin Skywalker was forced to abandon the Loyalist
Jabiimi troops to the not-so-tender mercies of the
Separatists.
Now, Luke Skywalker, whose presence on the otherwise
insignificant planet has attracted the attention of
none other than Darth Vader, must decide whether to
stay and fight and risk everything, or escape and
leave the Jabiimi freedom fighters to face Vader's
wrath.
But the choice may not be Luke's alone-and no matter
what he decides, Vader could end up with another
prize that could doom the Rebel fleet!
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Chronology:
These stories occur approximately 8 months after the
Battle of Yavin. |
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Related Stories (in
chronological order):
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