After the death of Dryden Vos, the public face of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate,
it’s true leader in the shadows, Darth Maul summoned Qi’ra to Dathomir so that they
could work more closely together, since she was the highest ranking member of the syndicate
remaining.
Unfortunately, this would mark the last time she would see her former love Han Solo, and
is the last that we know of her in Canon…
Until now…
In the process of taking the carbonite frozen Han Solo from Cloud city back to Jabba the
Hutt, Solo’s body was stolen from Boba Fett by a mysterious figure, sparking a war of
the bounty hunters…
Things get so heated that Qi’ra even gets involved…
So lets find out how she fits in.
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So, the story begins inside the ship of the mysterious bounty hunter who stole Han Solo
from the grip of Boba Fett.
On board, two shadowy figures begin talking amongst each other, wondering if it was painful
to be frozen in Carbonite.
One of them makes the assumption that based on Han Solo’s face at the moment he was
frozen, it’s pretty clear he was in extraordinary pain.
Following this, we cut all the way to a deep spaceport, in the Mid rim, where a menacing
Crime Lady greets the arrival of the bounty hunters on board the Vermillion.
She welcomes Margo and Trinia out onto the deck, and asks about the condition of Solo…
Now very awesomely, Margo is actually the lady who welcomed Han, Chewie and Beckett
onto Dryden Vos’ Yacht in Solo a Star Wars story…Awesome little connection to the movie
there, and tells you the direction this story is headed.
Margo then explains to her boss that they took Solo from a back-alley doctor on Nar
Shaddaa, and managed to stabilize him in the carbonite holder, after having some issues
earlier.
The crime lady then asks Margo if Han is conscious inside of the carbonite, to which she quickly
replies “I hope not.
What a hell that would be”.
The crime lady however responds by saying it wouldn’t be so bad if he was living in
the right dream or memory.
Margo then tells her boss that there is still one more problem.
They stole Han from the doctor, but the doctor was working for someone else.
The notoriously effective bounty hunter, Boba fett.
The crime boss, however, already knows this and admires his skill, but understands that
he’s only one man, before gesturing broadly and saying “we’re all of this”, challenging
Boba to come and take Han back, as if he was right in front of her.
Back on Nar Shadda, inside of a local cantina, Boba enters a deep rage, exclaiming that somebody’s
going to die very soon.
The bartender asks him “what makes that different from every other day, Fett?
Is this a special someone”... to which Boba tells him “they stole from me”.
Boba tells the bartender that he went to a lot of trouble for this bounty and had to
work with a very complicated client.
The bartender then tells Boba Fett that if this bounty hunter knew it was his, then they’re
either tough as hell, or incredibly stupid for even daring to steal from the legendary
boba fett.
At the table near Boba, two scruffy young bounty hunters are looking for their next
gig, when they see Boba fett on the listings.
They look towards the bar and see the man standing right there, astounded at their luck…
They do note that usually big jobs like this would be handled in private, but for some
reason, this one was open to every single bounty hunter in the galaxy.
Anyone who wanted was welcome to try their hand at capturing Boba Fett.
As Boba is continuing his story about how Han was stolen from, he notices a reflection
in his glass of the young bounty hunter behind him, priming his blaster.
Without a single moment of hesitation, Boba just turns around and blasts the young hunter
with a scorching bolt right to the heart.
The stern boba is pretty unphased by this, and chalks it up to just being for money,
reputation or revenge… and notes that it always ends the same for those who try to
kill or capture boba.
Following this, Fett returns to his ship, the slave I, and immediately sends a message
to Biba fortuna, telling him that the delivery of Han Solo is still to go ahead, but will
need to be delayed.
Once he gets closer to his ship however, he notices a strange beeping, before a massive
yellow fireball bursts from the front of his ship, sending him flying backwards.
Immediately after getting up, Boba is greeted by fellow bounty hunter Zuckuss, who tells
boba that he should stay down if he wants to survive the next few minutes…
As you can tell by now, all of the big names in the bounty hunting game are converging,
and it’s definitely not going to end well for some of them.
Boba then calls Zuckuss out for pulling Chuck a cheap trick, but Zuckuss tells him “we’re
bounty hunters, fett… we live in the low.”
He then tells Boba to stand so that he can ask some questions, but Boba thinks fast and
immediately fires his back rocket at Zuckuss, just narrowly missing him . Fett then flies
into the air with his jetpack and taunts his fellow bounty hunter, telling him he should
have seen that coming, but surprisingly he actually did…
Zuckuss then points behind him, showing that 4-Lom, another of the bounty hunters from
the Empire strikes back, has arrived on the scene.
As you can see from this panel, it is pronounced 4 elloem, but 4-lom sounds much better.
4-LOM then introduces himself, much to the distaste of Boba, who’s sad that’s there’s
never just one bug.
The two bounty hunters only want to know one thing…
Where is Han solo?
They searched the Slave I, but found nothing and warn Fett that if he doesn’t start talking
soon, he won’t make it much further.
They then tell Boba that they went inside his ship to search for Han, which disgusts
him even further because that Vessel of course belonged to his father, leading him to activate
the ship’s blasters and fire on 4-Lom and Zuckuss, leaving Zuckuss hanging off the edge
of the platform, on the verge of falling to his death.
Zuckuss then pleads with Boba not to let him die, and begins predicting the future, telling
Boba that his future is bathed in a sea of red.
Boba is not interested in this fortunetelling from Zuckuss however, and instead kicks him
off the platform.
He them moves over to 4-Lom, drawing his blade and demanding to know what is going on.
4-LOM immediately spills that Boba is actually the target, which confuses him greatly.
Fett then plugs the droid’s head into his computer systems, demanding to know who sent
him and how he knew that Boba Fett had gone solo.
After scouring through his memory banks, Boba makes a shocking discovery.
The computer reads out “Bounty placed on Boba Fett…
Open contract available to any hunter… displaying details.
This leaves Boba absolutely shocked and he demands to know who set this bounty on him…
4-LOM immediately spills the name of the client, sending Boba immediately to Tatooine…
After arriving at Jabba’s palace, 4-LOM tries to convince boba to keep him around
as he can be very useful, but instead his head is thrown down into the dunes below,
without a care in the world.
Boba is not a happy man right now.
As he reaches the gates of the palace, he is greeted by Bib fortuna who hopes there
will be no hostilities in this conversation.
Bib ells Boba that he received the message about being late for delivery with solo, and
tells him that he is one of Jabba’s most favored bounty hunters, because he can be
relied on above all to get the job done…
Bib begs to resolve whatever problem Boba has without violence, but Boba is not
going to allow that to happen.
The bounty hunter immediately opens fire on Bib’s gamorrean guards, showing that he
means business, leading bib to ragefully demand that Boba Fett be fed to Jabba’s rancor
or the sarlacc nearby.
After hearing this, Boba comes right and accuses Jabba of being the one who put the bounty
on his head, which is course is true.
Bib immediately confirms it and tells Boba Fett that the bounty was only placed because
he was taking too long to bring Captain Solo back to the palace… and word was quickly
spreading that Boba sold Han solo…
Boba quickly responds to this, telling Bib that he didn’t sell Solo, but rather another
bounty hunter stole him.
Unfortunately for him though, Jabba isn’t in town right now to clear this up…
The Hutt crime lord happens to be in hyperspace aboard the Shad’ruu war barge, where he
is discussing the re-emergence of someone terrifying to the crime game.
The hutts are debating whether or not this crime group is actually back from the ashes,
or is just a pretender, but Jabba does not care, he knows they now have Solo in their
possession.
As you can probably guess, this group is Crimson Dawn.
Meeka the hutt then notes that Crimson dawn haven’t made any moves for years… and
their re-emergence now could destabilize the whole criminal underworld.
Following this, the Hutts discuss the invitation that was sent out at the beginning of the
story by crimson dawn, bringing all of the criminal organisations together.
They mention that Chancellor Soh is a woman they can trust, but those cats of hers scare
them…
Chancellor Linah Soh was the chancellor of the Republic during the High Republic era,
and she had two massive Targons which are large cat-like creatures.
Jabba then notes to the rest of the hutts that the man who formerly ran the crimson
dawn would not be able to stay hidden this long… speculating that he is dead.
This is of course Maul, who was killed by Obi-Wan on Tatooine.
Back at Jabba’s palace, Bib informs Boba about the invitation that Crimson dawn sent
out, and wants to see it for himself.
Viewing the hologram, Boba sees the mysterious crime lady, with Han Solo behind her, inviting
Jabba to witness the return of Crimson Dawn on the planet Jekara....
I’m sure by now, you have a pretty good picture of who this is…
After realizing that Crimson Dawn are now back from the ashes and that they are the
ones who stole from him, Boba immediately knows he’s going to fly to Jekara and kill
someone, just like he said in the Cantina…
Now he knows who to kill.
Back on Jekara, Margo questions the crime lady as to why this Han Solo is so important.
She is told that Crimson dawn needed to display someone who would get the attention of the
entire galaxy, and that someone was Han Solo.
The crime lady tells Margo that somehow, this smuggler with a terrible reputation is directly
connected to almost every powerful faction in the galaxy.
The rebel alliance, the empire, and everyone in between.
And now that the invitation has gone out to witness the return of crimson dawn, Doctor
Aphra, Dengar and many more very important figures have caught on and are eager to witness
this momentous occasion.
And to end the story, the crime lady softly says “Han always wanted to save me”, before
lowering her hood and saying “now he’ll get his chance”, revealing that she is Qi’ra,
who is now the leader of Crimson dawn.
So make sure you're subscribed for the next issue of this comic, where the war of the
bounty hunters will continue, this time with much bigger stakes.
How awesome is it that Qi’ra and the crimson dawn are back!
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