Can Someone tel me what happend in the Dark Empire Series of Comics?

HI all,


I was wondering if anyone could tell me what happend in the Dark Empeire Series and where I could get a set of the comics so I can read them myself. i would like to know everything and how it concets in with eposode III.

Bill

 

There's not really any connection to Episode III. Basically, the Emperor comes back, turns Luke to the Dark Side, then back again, some other random things like that.

 

Here's what happens:

+ Palpy comes back
+ Luke turns to the dark side
+ Luke turns back to the light side
+ The World Devastators are introduced
+ Leia helps Luke out with Palpatine
+ Lost Jedi introduce themselves
+ Palpatine introduces a new Force power
+ Palpatine tries to send his Force and life essence into one of the Solo kids
+ Palpatine dies again

It's kinda cool, but a lot of people aren't into the series because it makes Vader's death pointless - he died while balancing the Force and with Palpatine coming back, it shows it was in vain.

They're fun and worth checking out - if you can find them.

 

Connection with ROTS?

Uh... like the Trilobite dude said, there's not much. Palpatine's in it. And so is Coruscant. And there's a battle over Coruscant. Other than that the connections are limited.

It's pretty much all about Palps cloning himself and retaking Coruscant. And then Leia has Jacen and Jaina. The bounty hunters fight Han... some guy makes a weapon of mass destruction and it gets destroyed... Luke saves the galaxy. Pretty much the usual same-old-same-old that happens in every story.

EDIT: ^ There you go.

 

Dark Empire I and II aren't that difficult to find as they're not currently out of print. Empire's End, though, is quite rare. I made inquiries into getting it at a local bookstore and they said they could get me one but the place they'd order it from would charge about $100. One hundred dollars for 56 measly pages. That's about $1.80 per page

 

$100????!!!???


Go E-Bay, man...

 

$100 there too

And I have no desire to own the loose issues.

 

Dark Empire mostly ties in with Episode 3 by showing exactly what Palpatine meant by cheating death (transferring his "essence" into clone bodies).

However, I choose to believe it's just clones that were programmed with his memories.

 

My local library had a copy of the Empires End TPB. It disappeared after a while...

 

Darn! I read the first half of that and was planning on asking you where your library was....

You don't happen to know where that book disappeared to, eh?

 

How much do you wanna bet that it's the one on the link listed Ebay auction?

 

*cough* Luke never goes to the Dark Side *cough*

 

Boba Fett also makes a return!

The Emperor in ROTS never learnt the Power to cheat death,as he mentions to the newly christened Darth Vader ,"Its a power which only one ever achieved,but together we can discover it"...something along those lines,implying that Lord Sidious had no such power,but sought it aswel as Vader did!

But in the comics Darth Tyranus also used clones of himself.

 

Clones of himself... yes.

But Palpy had "dead" clones that his spirit took over.

Big difference.

 

I shouldn't have bothered with the 2nd, but I wanted to see what the pro vs con hype was about regarding Dark Empire.

 

Anakin, you mean.

 

Actually Dark Empire/3 was my very first comic ever, not that I knew what SW was much then, or what was going on. A water world under attack, Leia worried over her brother, brother holographing to her at the end.

But you would have been shocked to hear the zee droid say Fett lives, and then having to wait the next issue. As issue finales go, it was a good one.

 

Ya know I think EIII really validated the Dark Empire Series. Alot of people hate the idea of a clone emperor, but it really kind of makes sense. Cloning has been a part of the Star Wars universe ever since 1977 when Obi Wan first mentioned the Clone Wars to Luke in A New Hope. Cloning becomes even more of a standard in episodes I, II, and III. In episode III we see that gaining immortality is a key Sith ideal. Could it be that Pluageus did know the secret to immortality, and perhaps it was the same technique Sidious learns. The way I see it Pluageus could have promised to teach this skill to Sidious, of course this was a lie. Why would a master teach such an important skill to an apprentice. He was probably confident that Sidious would not kill him without learning the trick. Sidious realized he was being strung along and decided to go ahead and kill Pluageus knowing he would never turn over the secret and being confident that he could figure it out on his own. In Dark Empire Palpitine states he can enter any host and displace the original personality. This could have been the technique used by Pluageus, diplacing the identities of others. I would assume this would be more difficult than entering a mindless clone. Once Palpitine finally learned the skill from that unfortunate Jedi he probably came up with the idea for the clones rather and taking over a host and fighting with the original identity. He didn't realize that the clone bodies that were somewhat removed from the force would burn out so fast until he was already in of them. To me the cloning concept and the quest for eternal life set up in EI, II and III support DE. Alot of people hate the world devestators and galaxy gun, but super weapons have always been part of the Star Wars universe. The galaxy gun makes more sense to me than the Dearh Star. It can stay in the relative safety of the core systems and strike at any target in the galaxy.