STAR WARS HAS FINALLY REVEALED exactly how the Rebel Alliance discovered that the Second
Death Star Existed…
We all know the infamous way that the Rebel Alliance was able to find out the location
and weapons system of Palpatine’s second death star, through the infamous Bothan spies…
But with the new issue 28 of Star wWars 2020, we know know the way they found out the Station
existed in the first place is much much darker.
The discovery involves both the Crimson Dawn and Luke Skywalker going undercover as an
Imperial officer.
And coolest of all, Luke Skywalker gets to meet Hera Syndulla for the first time in canon!
So today we’re going to break DOWN Exactly how all of this went down and what it means
for the future of the Star Wars Canon!
**************TV SCREECH TRANSITION**************
So considering I haven’t covered every single one of the previous issues in this series,
im going to assume you need a recap.
And strap in because this storyline gets absolutely crazy…
**************************STRAP IN MEME**************************
So literally in the middle of the events of the Empire Strikes Back, Qi’ra, who you
will probably remember from Solo as Darth Maul’s apprentice and Han’s Lover…
******************************************Qi’ra from solo clip******************************************
Literally STOLE Han’s Carbonite frozen body from Boba Fett on Nar Shadda.
Qi’ra then had the bright idea of auctioning off her former Lover’s body to the other
crime syndicates across the galaxy, which as you can imagine caused complete and utter
chaos…
So much chaos that Palpatine himself took notice, and sent in Darth Vader to keep the
crime world under control…
Qi’ra then proceeds to literally fight Vader (and put up a genuine strong fight)…
****************************************************************************PUNCH EFFECTS, WITH THE PANEL OF HER FIGHTING VADER
WHIPPING ACROSS THE SCREEN.****************************************************************************
Her true plan with all of this was to strike back at Darth Sidious and the Empire for making
it impossible for scrum rats like herself to make it in the galaxy… and on top of
that, her own master DARTH MAUL was wronged by sidious, giving her all the more reason
to hate him…
Going into the series we all knew that she was doomed to fail in this goal, because Qi’ra
is nowhere to be seen on the screen after Solo, and Sidious is obviously in the OT…
BUT MAYBE WE WERE DEAD WRONG ABOUT THIS…
MAYBE QI’RA ACTIONS DO ACTUALLY LEAD TO THE FALL OF PALPATINE, ALBEING IN an INDIRECT
WAY.
So, with all of that said, let’s begin with the start of the comic…
The issue begins off on one of the major ships of the Rebel Alliance Fleets, inside of the
comms room.
Hera Syndulla, and Alliance General and Luke Skywalker are reviewing incoming distress
requests from across the galaxy of people looking to defect to the rebel alliance or
find safety with them.
The job pretty much consists of scouring out scams, schemes and undercover imperial signals,
but Luke focusses in on one particular signal.
He senses in the force that something is going on with this particular signal from two imperial
defectors, and Hera is pretty hesitant about responding to it.
Luke then assures Hera that everything is connected to the force and thats how he knows
this signal is real, to which she tells him that he sounds like Kanan Jarrus…
************************************************************YOU’RE GONNA MAKE ME CRY MEME.************************************************************
In case you don’t know, Kanan was Hera’s Love interest in Star Wars Rebels and was
the Master of Ezra Bridger.
The other comms guys on the job agree that if Luke Skywalker thinks that this signal
is worth their time, then they have to take his word for it…
This then leads the deck officer to look further into the signature, and he determines that
the two fled the empire with their shuttle called the Scopius and that a systems wide
alert has been sent out for them…
Because of this, they think it could be legit…
Now Luke on the other hand uses his mystical force powers to look deeper into the situation
************************FORCE MEME/EFFECT?!,************************ before realizing that there is something very
signficant about these two defectors.
FINALLY, the tracker hooks into the ship’s transponder and determines that the ship has
been first to the river moon of Al’Doleem, which was the place where Darth Vader ABSOLUTELY
YEETED Kirak Infil’a, Flooded his entire city and then stole his lightsaber…
************************************************************SOME EFFECTS TO MAKE IT FUNNY.************************************************************
and finally, the ship ended at the lower levels of Coruscant… ******************scary LEVEL
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Down in the absolute PITS of Coruscant, where slime and sludge flows, the two imperial defectors
have brought their children with them.
The Father immediately realizes that Coruscant security speeds are coming down quickly to
investigate the crash site, and if they aren’t slowed down, they’ll immediately be caught…
As a result, he leaves his kids with his mother to pull off a distraction.
She is worried for his life, but he tells her that nothing bad is gonna happen, he wouldn’t
dare lie to her about something like that…
************************************************************************************************************I’m sure this means it’s going to be extremely
well!************************************************************************************************************
After this, the man named Melton rushes back to the Scopium shuttle that they used to escape
and desperately searches for the scuttle button so that he can self destruct the ship and
hopefully take the security out with it.
Melton finds the button just in time, and activates it on a delay, and leaves the ship
just in time…
The guards chasing him run right into the trap and the whole thing goes BOOM (heavy
bass boost), killing all of them, and leaving Melton with just a few small scrapes to the
face.
Melton gets back to his family and his children are terrified, but they know they’ll know
be safe.
We then cut back to Rebel, where the Rebels are shocked at Luke’s suggestion to just
waltz onto Coruscant, the literal home of the Emperor…
******************************YOU crazy meme.****************************** And I don’t blame them.
by this point in the timeline everyone knows how powerful and cruel Palpatine can be…
But regardless, Luke offers to go to Coruscant himself for this pickup, and Hera STRONGLY
advises against this, considering a) he’s literally the only Jedi they have, and b)
everyone knows his name and there are huge bounties on him because of what happened with
the first death star.
Hera syndulla is insistent that he doesn’t go to Coruscant himelf, but nobody is going
to stop a Jedi who is being told by the force that something very important is there…
We then cut to an awesome shot of Luke in full imperial officer attire, blending in
perfectly at the Coruscant works district.
This is actually where Palpatine and Dooku often held their secretive meetings during
the clone wars, and featured heavily in the Darth Plagueis novel.
Despite the concerns of the rebels who dropped him off, Luke assures that that everything
is going to be alright and hands over his lightsaber…
The two are shocked.
******************************WUTFACE meme.******************************
They ask “wont you need this?”, but Luke wisely realizes that if he even dares to ignite
it, the whole planet will collapse onto his location and tear him to shreds.
****************************************tear to shreds meme.****************************************
Cutting back to the family, they come under intense fire from the Local security forces,
and a terrifying Coruscant Underworld creature approaches one of the children.
Thankfully the disgusting sewer creature is quickly taken out by the mother, but the other
Coruscant Security forces are still on their tale.
The children are still terrified and the parents know that they’re completely boxed in.
This is likely the end of the road for them, and they’ll be turned over to the empire
as traitors…
Thankfully though, Melton sees a new tunnel in the distance, and immediatey herds the
rest of of his family towards it, giving them one final chance at escaping.
As they move into the tunnel however, an imperial looking figure approaches and the family IMMEDIATELY
opens fire on him.
****************Bad idea****************
As you can probably tell by now, the Imperial officer is actually Luke skywalker who we
saw get into the disguise earlier, and he’s forced to use the force to dodge their blaster
fire.
not to mention, he pulls the blaster right out of the mother’s hands, proving to them
that he really is a Jedi.
The kids are incredibly happy and excited to see this, asking how he even managed to
find them.
Luke tells them that he simply found some stormtroopers and asked them where the search
was taking place.
**********************SIMPLE meme.**********************
At this point though, Luke can’t take too long explaining things as the Coruscant Security
forces are yet again still on their way…
So knowing this, Luke Tries something…
Different…
He tries to get the troopers to stand down using his imperial officer disguise, but this
fails horribly.
Luke, using his knowledge of the force realizes that there are far too many to fight, or even
mind trick, so he does something incredibly special…
He uses the Animal Bond force ability, used by the likes of Ezra Bridger and Obi-Wan Kenobi
in the past to lure out the underworld swamp creatures.
Luke then unleashes the beasts on the troopers, giving the family an easy escape route out…
Luke gives a quick little quip, before we cut back to the Rebel Alliance fleet with
Hera Syndulla and Mon Mothma.
On board the head ship, Luke Informs Mothma and Hera that the family is being debriefed
by Rebel intelligence as they speak, but he had a chance to speak to them on the way back.
The information he has is so important that he asks Leia to be present to hear it…
Luke then takes a pause and reveals that the parents who defected from the Empire were
both members of the Crimson Dawn Crime family.
If you’ve seen Solo: A star Wars story, you’ll remember that this is Dryden Vos
and Darth Maul’s syndicate…
In the recent comic storyline, they have been attempting to take down the Empire, as we
went over at the start of the video…
This sends Admiral Ackbar and Hera into a fiery discussion about them, but Mon Mothma
quickly pulls them out of it.
This isn’t the main issue…
Luke then drops the huge bombshell, that the Empire is building YET ANOTHER Death Star,
much to the shock of the others…
All of their jaws drop at this revelation, and none of them know what to say…
After some thought, Mon Mothma says “if we could do it once, we can do it again…
Let’s get to work…
Which is pretty corny and not the most compelling reaction to the situation…
but there we have it.
The Rebels finally know about the second death star, and we still don’t know how the Bothans
play into this storyline…
I’m going to assume they show up in the next few issues and begin sending missions
to scout out the Second Death Star, and these will probably involve the Bothans.
Hopefully we get to see that actually covered in the big screen, which would be the biggest
storyline shown in the comics for a long time.
Usually they shy away from doing anything too meaningful in the comics incase they want
to show it on the big screen.
Hopefully that begins to change.
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