After the destruction of the Deathstar by Luke Skywalker and the Rebels, the emperor
placed the majority of the blame squarely on Darth Vader for his mistakes.
After acquiring the assistance of archaeologist, Doctor Chelli Aphra, Vader has put together
a small personal army made up of the very same battle droids he fought against during
the Clone Wars, in order to hunt down anyone who opposes him and threatens to take his
position as the sith apprentice to Palpatine.
In this personal army was a pack of extremely loyal recovered Separatist Commando droids.
So before we get into it, make sure you’re subscribed for the prequel and sequel to this
issue, which I will be releasing very shortly.
So the story begins with Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra aboard Padme’s Naboo Royal Starship,
which Vader acquired in the last issue of the comic.
So if you want to see how he managed that, make sure you let me know down below.
The two are on the search for one of Palpatine’s operatives known as Cylo-IV and are currently
travelling towards his secret research base.
Aphra calls Vader over to her, and tells him that she doesn’t want to jinx anything,
but she believes she might have found his base.
Vader hilariously responds to her saying “you are correct”, already knowing that Aphra
was just joking and that the base is clearly in sight already.
Eventually, the two arrive at the abomination of a research, and Vader immediately orders
Aphra to begin.
Aphra quickly agrees to the illegal boarding mission, and prepares the ion charges on the
ship, while Vader’s horde of Commando Droids line up behind him, ready to strike.
As Vader prepares to board the ship with his Commando droids, Aphra wishes him well and
tells him “may the force be with you”, in awe at her current job.
Soon after this, a massive blast tears through the deck of the research base, scaring everyone
on board and leading the security teams on board to quickly mobile, after realizing that
it was an ion charge that hit.
All circuits on the base are down, along with all of the doors being sealt.
As the alarms on the station blare out, an unauthorized docking is immediately detected,
terrifying the security staff even further.
The security teams then line up in a very similar way to A New Hope and Rogue one, while
Vader uses his red lightsaber to melt through the blast doors… but he’s not the first
one through.
Instead, Aphra’s droid, Triple zero is the one to come through the smoke filled entrance,
begging that the security forces don’t shoot him.
They immediately demand that he identify himself, and Triple Zero has no problems doing this,
before also introducing his droid friend, BT.
Not long after this however, a scorching red lightsaber blade plunges through the wall,
and Triple Zero reveals to the guards that he was trolling them badly, and servingly
only as a distraction for Darth Vader’s entrance.
As Vader bursts his way into the facility, many security staff are vionelty ripped out
in to the cold void of space, but Vader Aphra’s droids have no problem because they’re wearing
magnetic clamps.
Aphra is quietly very pleased to see the security members be ripped out into space, saying “ thats
what you get for not wearing magnetic clamps.”.
Aphra immediately reseals the station remotely, before Vader’s commando droids enter the
area and line up behind their master, Darth Vader.
Triple Zero is looking for Vader’s approval after serving as a distraction, but Vader
is unfortunately not one for compliments, brushing him off and ordering that he help
open the door.
Triple Zero is saddened by this, remarking that he has had far more grateful masters
in the past, and coldying saying “no, it didn’t stop me killing them and drinking
their blood…
Yeah this droid is absolutely maniacal.
How can you not love him.
Following this, Vader holds his flickering lightsaber out in front of him, before ordering
his Commando droids to follow him into the next room.
The pack of Commando droids clank forward all in sync, following Vader to their next
objective.
Back on the ship, Chelli Aphra has just received the plans that the little astromech, BT managed
to steal from the internal computer system, and is slowly putting together a layout of
the research base.
Aphra immediately spots two main areas of resistance.
One is the barracks and the other is the Dojo.
Aphra relays this information to Vader, which leads him to send his second platoon of Commando
Droids to the Dojo, and the first to follow him.
Aphra then keeps Vader up to date from the ship, warning vader that his forces are facing
much resistance in the barracks, but Vader simply doesn’t care, as the Commando Droids
who followed his have begun opening fire and are absolutely shredding through the station.
Vader’s second Platoon of Commando droids then come across two strange humans, before
reporting this to Vader…
Strangely however, Aphra is panicked as she immediately loses contact with the commando
droids who discovered the humans.
This deeply angers Vader, and he immediately orders the Commandos following him to quickly
get moving towards the other location.
Out of nowhere, one of Vader’s commando droids is savagely ripped in half, by behind
Vader.
Vader then turns to inspect the situation, and immediately sees the two humans from earlier,
with one of them holding a green lightsaber, and the other, who happens to be her brother,
holding a yellow one.
These two siblings however are not force sensitive.
Vader immediately recognizes that their moves were not of the force… instead, simply trickery.
Vader then calls the two siblings out, telling them that the force is weak with them and
that they are no Jedi and for that matter, they are no Sith either.
The brother, named Morit, however is disgusted by the names Jedi and sith, telling Vader
that those are the last things he’d ever want to be, before he locks his yellow blade
with vader’s.
His sister Aiolin, then rapidly spins her lightsaber and attempts to strike Vader down,
but he is of course too strong for her.
Aiolin then begins to taunt Vader, and is moments away from calling out his past as
Jedi, but her brother angrily steps in and warns her to keep her mouth shut.
As he does this, the man Vader was originally looking for, Cylo, a cyborg scientist working
for Palpatine also enters and demands that the fighting stop.
Cylo then reveals to Vader that he is no longer Cylo-IV and has transferred to a new body,
now being Cylo-V. He also reveals that he has created a personality map which is small
enough to be simulated efficiently and is now literally immortal because he can keep
switching bodies.
Vader however has no interest in this, and instead blasts Cylo for attempting to create
apprentices for himself, telling him that there is nothing of the force inside of them,
and for that matter, the force does not flow strongly through anything in this research
facility.
Cylo however corrects the Dark Lord, telling him that he is not attempting to create apprentices
for himself, but instead replacements for Vader, revealing that he has been hired by
the Emperor after the destruction of the Death star, to find… or create the person who
will take Vader’s place.
Cylo arrogantly tries to argue to Vader that the force is now obsolete and that the replacement
candidates that he has created are the future.
These replacements are also holding the destroyed remains of Vader’s commando droids, after
managing to take out most of their platoon.
Vader is absolutely disgusted by this, calling the whole project Blasphemous, but Cylo responds
by saying “this has nothing to do with teh force.
Much like you, Lord vader.”, calling him more machine than man.
Cylo then goes even further, calling these replacements Vader’s children, which finally
infuriates Vader enough for him to lift his lightsaber agains the crazy scientist, being
only moments away from striking him down…
He is however stopped by a chilling voice in the distance… the voice of his master,
Darth Sidious.
Sidious immediately Order’s Vader not to kill Cylo, and even burns him by saying “he
is sensitive on the topic of children”...
Following this, Cylo attempts to show off to Sidious, exclaiming that he is about to
prove that an apprentice is no longer necessary to the Emperor’s grand plan, and should
only serve a ceremonial role.
Sidious however is sick of Cylo's attention seeking, and demands him to get to the point,
and show him something worthy of the emperor’s attention.
Cylo agrees to this, and prepares all of his creations, of a variety of species and talents
to take on Vader, in hopes of proving that they are worthy of replacing the Dark Lord,
who Cylo views as outdated and unnecessary.
But let me know down below, do you agree with Cylo’s thinking, or is Vader still very
necessary to Palpatine’s plans…
Obviously Vader ended up being Palpatine’s downfall, for the exact reason that Palpatine
is literally worried about here, his children… so let me know.
In the next episode of the series, we’ll see how Vader does against this abominations,
and where Vader’s power lies, considering Palpatine is still disgusted at him for the
events of the Battle of Yavin and the destruction of the Death STar.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one.