Star Wars Tales es unaserie de cómics publicada por Dark Horse Comics , que comenzó el 29 de septiembre de 1999 y finalizó su publicación el 13 de julio de 2005. Cada número tiene 64 páginas y presenta algunas historias no relacionadas de varias eras de la línea de tiempo de Star Wars . [1] Las historias de los números 1 al 20 fueron etiquetadas retroactivamente como "Infinities", colocándolas fuera del canon de Star Wars , mientras que las de los números 21 al 24 se consideraron dentro de la continuidad, a menos que se etiquetara lo contrario. Las referencias a las historias se hicieron dentro del Universo Expandido , cuya totalidad fue considerada no canónica por Lucasfilm en 2014. [2]
La serie completa se recopiló en seis libros de bolsillo comerciales , cada uno de los cuales comprendía cuatro números.
Han Solo y Chewbacca , volando en la Jaina's Light (nombrada en honor a la madre de Han), son detenidos por la Vigilant , una nave imperial . Se realiza una inspección de Nivel Uno en la Jaina's Light , pero el Capitán Imperial Deyd Llnewe y el Teniente Raprice no encuentran nada. Esto sucede dos veces más, con la inspección siendo cada vez más intensiva, Llnewe está convencido de que Solo está tramando algo. Después de la tercera inspección fallida, Han y Chewbacca son enviados de camino, cuando el Capitán Llnewe de repente se da cuenta de que las naves que Solo estaba pilotando eran diferentes cada vez; Han no estaba contrabandeando especias o alguna otra sustancia ilegal, sino naves. Deyd ordena a sus artilleros que disparen contra Han, pero para entonces ya se había ido.
En la ciudad gungan de Otoh Gunga, el chef Marshoo atrapa a Jar Jar Binks en la cocina intentando recoger las sobras. Marshoo se prepara para golpear a Binks justo cuando el capitán Roos Tarpals llega para arrestarlo por lo mismo. Le pone las esposas a Binks y se lo lleva. Poco después, Tarpals le dice a Binks que todos en la estación lo llaman "La muerte del capitán Tarpals". De repente, Tarpals es emboscado por Marshoo y algunos de sus amigos, que se preparan para golpear a Binks como habían planeado. Le arrojan una sartén a Binks, pero él se agacha y la sartén sale volando hacia su kaadu, que contraataca con una patada a Marshoo, enviándolo a él y a sus compinches a una pequeña fuente. Binks revive a Tarpals y pide que lo liberen después de encargarse de Marshoo. Roos lo ignora y lo lleva a la superficie de Naboo, donde vivirá durante mucho tiempo.
Vilmarh Grahrk ha sido contratado por la gente de Ootoola (a quienes cariñosamente llama "caras de pez") para sacar de contrabando a la princesa Foolookoola fuera del planeta; actualmente está siendo perseguida por los puristas de Ootoola, quienes previamente mataron al patriarca y su esposa, tomando el poder del planeta. Él y Naradan D'ulin, el cuidador de la princesa, comienzan a llevarla a la nave de Villie, cuando de repente son emboscados por un grupo de puristas de Ootoola. Villie entrega a la princesa, diciéndole a Naradan que los puristas ofrecieron más créditos que los leales. Naradan y la princesa son llevados y puestos en la prisión de los puristas.
Esa noche, Villie abre la puerta de la prisión y los rescata, solo para recibir un puñetazo en la cara de Naradan. Vilmarh explica que antes, con la princesa suelta, todos la buscaban, pero ahora que han asumido que todavía está encerrada, nadie intentará encontrarla. Naradan agarra un rifle en caso de que ella decida dispararle, y se dirigen hacia afuera. Ven a un par de guardias, y Villie se acerca casualmente a ellos, roba uno de sus blásters y les dispara a ambos. Villie, Naradan y la princesa escapan rápidamente del palacio y se dirigen a la nave de Vilmarh, el Inferno, donde son recibidos vocalmente por NT. Se van volando, Villie destruye el palacio en su camino hacia arriba. Se dirigen al planeta Dur Sabon, donde Foolookoola vivirá su vida entre los Dur Sabon hasta que pueda regresar a Ootoola.
La historia se desarrolla en el año 3 DBY. Awarru Tark llega a bordo del Destructor Estelar Avenger en un carguero YT-1300, respondiendo al llamado de Darth Vader para que los cazarrecompensas encuentren el Halcón Milenario . Cuando se encuentra con Vader, inmediatamente lanza un asalto feroz contra el Lord Sith con granadas y cuchillas de luz que se extienden desde sus brazos.
Cuando Vader llega a la mente de Tark, descubre que Awarru Tark es en realidad Stauz Czycz . Czycz se sometió a una transformación quirúrgica para implantar un generador de campo de fuerza en su cuerpo, para poder atacar a Vader como venganza, después de haber perdido a su propia familia en un asalto imperial a su mundo natal.
Usando la telequinesis para desactivar el generador, Vader decapita a Czycz, dejándolo considerando el estado de Czycz como más una máquina que un hombre.
Moff Wilhuff Tarkin , Tol Sivron y Bevel Lemelisk presentan su propuesta de Estrella de la Muerte al Emperador Palpatine y Darth Vader . Los defectos percibidos de los esquemas se discuten con humor. La apariencia de Bevel Lemelisk es diferente en este cómic que en cualquier otra fuente donde se lo retrata. Esta fue una elección intencional por parte del creador del cómic, aunque por razones desconocidas. También se debe notar la presencia de Ackbar , un Mon Calamari y esclavo del Gran Moff Tarkin, pronto a ser Almirante de la Alianza Rebelde, escuchando a través de la puerta.
Varias referencias en la historia aluden a la cultura popular, entre ellas las siguientes:
Mientras se discute la posibilidad de nombrar caballero a Yaddle, el Consejo Jedi revisa la historia de su entrenamiento bajo la tutela de Polvin Kut, doscientos años antes.
En una misión para liberar las colonias del brujo advozse Tulak, el dúo es traicionado en Koba, lo que lleva a la muerte de Kut. El brujo toma como rehén al padawan Yaddle, pero éste se muestra inmune a sus interrogatorios y le advierte: "Si gobiernas por el terror, morirás por el miedo".
Con el tiempo, Tulak se cansa de la colonia y abandona Koba. Sin embargo, encierra a Yaddle en un pozo con la esperanza de poder usarla como una herramienta de negociación en el futuro, pero pronto se olvida de ella. Está confinada durante un siglo, sobreviviendo con comida y agua proporcionadas por los guardianes que quedaron atrás cuando Tulak se fue. Con el paso de las generaciones, la sociedad Koba se derrumba, aunque los primitivos todavía la cuidan, bajando la comida como parte de un ritual que apenas entienden. Se habla de ella como La de Abajo. Durante este tiempo, Yaddle perfecciona sus habilidades Jedi.
Finalmente, un terremoto derriba el techo de su foso, lo que le permite escapar. Al ver la destrucción de la aldea cercana, permanece en el planeta para ayudar a los Kobans. Se dedica a enseñar a los niños, la sociedad se reconstruye a su alrededor. Está tranquilamente contenta con su trabajo hasta el día en que Kalut, el hijo de Tulak, regresa a Koba y lo reclama como su reliquia. Ataca casualmente, mata a muchos y decide qué tomar, si es que toma algo. Obligado a luchar, Kulat termina atravesado por su propia arma y muere.
Al escuchar la historia, el Consejo Jedi, en particular Yoda, se sienten inclinados a iniciarla como Maestra Jedi.
Un encuentro en los campos de hielo congelados.
Una serie de devastadoras incursiones piratas le están costando a la Rebelión decenas de vidas perdidas, toneladas de equipo y naves y su credibilidad a los ojos de otras fuerzas. Lando recibe la misión de liderar una misión para destruir a los piratas. Entre su gente, ¡el hombre que enseñó a los piratas todo lo que saben!
A bordo del acorazado de la Federación de Comercio Stockade, el encarcelado Feeorin Nym le cuenta la historia de cómo llegó allí a su compañero de celda neimoidiano...
En órbita alrededor de Maramere en Havoc, Nym, Kole y Jinkins esperaban a que la mercenaria Vana Sage y sus "compradores" (un grupo de cazarrecompensas de clase alta) intercambiaran armas experimentales por cristales de Stygium.
Una vez a bordo de la estación espacial, Nym y su tripulación se reunieron con los compradores para intercambiar bienes. Cuando Nym reveló que había enterrado las células de energía de las armas como medida de seguridad, se desató una pelea entre la tripulación del Havoc y los cazarrecompensas.
Bajo la amenaza de Droidekas, Sage capturó a la tripulación, envió a Kole y Jinkins a Maramere en una cápsula de escape y tomó el Havoc como pago por entregar a Nym a la Federación de Comercio.
De vuelta a la celda, Merick y Bravo llegan para torturar a Nym, quien jura vengarse de Vana Sage.
Los miembros del Consejo Jedi Micah Giiett y Plo Koon se embarcan en una misión al planeta Ord Mantell para rescatar al famoso chef Slabba Drewl de Corpo el Hutt. Al parecer, Drewl fue esclavizado por Corpo después de perder una apuesta con el Hutt.
Las prioridades de Corpo en la vida eran el juego y la comida, y su posesión más preciada era un droide de cocina MREM-02, llamado Moreemohtwo. Giett apuesta a Corpo que puede preparar una comida mejor que una hecha por Moreemohtwo. Corpo acepta la apuesta: si Giett gana, Drewl queda libre. Si gana Moreemohtwo, Giett también se convertirá en esclavo del hutt.
Giiett ordena en secreto a Plo Koon que "sabotee" la comida preparada por el droide. El "concurso de cocina" comienza, con un anfitrión anunciando el ingrediente principal: los retorcidos denusianos. Giiett es mordido en la nariz por un retorcido, y usa su sable de luz para cortar y cocinar rápidamente el ingrediente principal. Mientras tanto, Plo Koon reemplaza disimuladamente la salsa seebo de Moreemohtwo con aceite de droide, y desliza excrementos de gundar, salsa para quemar rakririan y polvos para pies bothanos en la olla de Moreemohtwo.
Al final del concurso de cocina, Moreemohtwo presenta cinco platos de comida que se ven deliciosos, mientras que Giett presenta sus dos cuencos desordenados de estofado de pollo. Después de que Corpo prueba la comida saboteada de Moreemohtwo, Corpo libera inmediatamente a Drewl.
Mace Windu y Yoda debaten la posibilidad de entrenar a Anakin Skywalker mientras comen en un restaurante de comida rápida, recurriendo a analogías basadas en la comida para demostrar sus argumentos. En un momento dado, Yoda usa sus poderes de control mental sobre la camarera para que la comida sea gratis, para protegerlos de los "precios altos". También evitan un robo. Al final de la historia, el Canciller Supremo Palpatine se une a ellos y expresa su opinión de que Skywalker sería un buen Jedi.
C-3PO y R2D2 forman parte del equipo de droides de una nave que transporta tecnología vital para la rebelión. Cuando un ataque mata a todos los humanos a bordo, hay que hacer algo. R2D2 tiene un plan.
Para ayudar a su hijo Anakin a dormir, Han Solo cuenta la fantástica historia de lo que le sucedió a la mano perdida de Luke Skywalker.
El Halcón Milenario, una de las últimas naves en abandonar el lugar de la Batalla de Yavin, se ve envuelto en una batalla con una nave pirata muy dura. Luke Skywalker está allí para echar una mano. Hasta que se estrella contra los niveles superiores de la nave...
Darth Sidious interroga a su aprendiz Darth Maul para que le explique la historia detrás de su nuevo sable de luz de doble hoja. Sidious le ordenó a Maul que fuera al sistema Jentares para matar al maestro Jedi Siolo Ur Manka. Pero Manka derrotó fácilmente el ataque sorpresa de Maul, usando solo un bastón de madera. Habiendo huido, Maul se reagrupó y construyó su nueva arma. En la siguiente pelea, Maul sorprende a Manka, apuñalándolo por la espalda con la segunda espada. Sidious anima a Maul a nombrar el arma. Sin embargo, Maul no quiere que se convierta en nada más que un instrumento anónimo de asesinato .
Mace Windu aparece en cada historia de este número.
Mace Windu ha localizado a Uda-Khalid, un conocido asesino, y ha venido a enfrentarse a él. La historia comienza con Windu acercándose a la fortaleza en la que se encuentra. El camino es un puente estrecho que cruza un profundo barranco. Mientras lo cruza, dos guardias observan su aproximación, debatiendo si es o no un cazarrecompensas y cómo podría haber encontrado a Uda-Khalid. Mientras cruza, debe luchar contra fuertes vientos y "gusanos caminantes" (grandes gusanos que salen de los lados del medio del puente). Los centinelas lo pierden de vista, solo para encontrar a Windu parado justo detrás de ellos. Antes de dispararle, los engaña mentalmente para que crean que su trabajo es proteger las murallas de intrusos externos y que, dado que está dentro de las murallas, no podría ser un peligro.
Windu entra en la sala de audiencias principal y encuentra a Uda-Khalid esperándolo. Ofrece duplicar el salario de Windu, creyendo que es un cazarrecompensas, a lo que Windu responde que le han pagado con la historia de sus crímenes. Uda-Khalid dice que no ha dejado ninguna evidencia de sus crímenes, ningún sobreviviente, ningún testigo. Luego vemos cientos, si no miles, de espíritus de las víctimas de Uda-Khalid llenando la sala alrededor de los dos. Windu revela que es un Caballero Jedi y enciende su sable de luz. Khalid se regodea de que ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que mató a un Jedi, y el duelo comienza, solo para terminar rápidamente con una puñalada en el corazón de Uda-Khalid.
Un joven Padawan llamado Mace Windu fue enviado a Hurikane para negociar con estos seres y posiblemente obtener algunos de los cristales. Después de que los eventos salieron mal, varios de los nativos persiguieron a Windu, lo que provocó que Mace entrara en pánico y los empujara hacia un cañón. Al darse cuenta de su error, el joven aprendiz Jedi curó el cuerpo roto del ser recomponiéndolo con la Fuerza. En agradecimiento, Mace recibió algunos de los cristales de Hurikane del cuerpo del ser, que utilizó para crear la hoja de su sable de luz púrpura.
Mientras se enfrenta a una tormenta de arena de Tatooine y a criaturas del desierto, incluido un dragón Krayt, Luke, de 10 años, consigue un aliado inesperado: "Annie", su padre Anakin cuando era niño.
Una desventura de los amigos de la infancia y futuros compañeros del Escuadrón Pícaro Luke y Biggs Darklighter que ocurre cuando ambos intentan despegar de Tatooine y experimentar el viaje espacial cuatro años antes de que ambos lucharan en la Batalla de Yavin.
Leia channels her inner femme fatale while teaming up with the Quetzal Sisters, a group of Rebel operatives who are already known as such, while intercepting a holocube on Elerion that contains Rebel base information before it can be sold to the Empire.
In this possibly canon story, Han Solo and Chewbacca come into the possession of some valuable glowing Tandgor gems, that Solo claims will pay off debts and mod the Millennium Falcon. When the Falcon runs low on fuel they head for a small unnamed planet. Solo receives no lifesign readings, as if the whole planet's population disappeared. After making planet fall, Solo and Chewbacca step out of their ship and into the fog, only for the Corellian to be confronted and overwhelmed by groaning skeletal figures; The undead. After Chewbacca fights them off they beat a hasty retreat back to the Falcon but find the fuel line has been severed. It seems someone doesn't want them to leave. Arming themselves, the two-man crew of the Falcon head back out and come face to face with a local and her baby. She explains that the crew of a 'Great Interplanetary Ark' perished after their ship crashed in the planet's fog. They are compelled to wander the planet as corpses, terrorizing the locals every night. Using the Tandgor Gems to lay down lines, Han forms a makeshift runway that drives away the fog. A ghostly apparition of the ship that crashed long ago uses it to land, easing the spirits of the perished crew. The living dead would no longer terrorize the planets residents. Han and Chewie leave the planet out of pocket, but were rewarded with enough fuel to last them the rest of their journey.
This story is set 996 years before the Battle of Yavin on the planet Ceriun, where a Jedi's ship crashes near a primitive agriculture village. Some of the adults go to inspect the crash, and the dying Jedi gives them a Sith holocron to keep safe until another Jedi can come to retrieve it. The younger generation of the village disagree with their hiding it, and want to take it to give it to any Sith that show up looking for it, so as to get on their good side and be taken as apprentices. Two of the older men are killed in a fight that breaks out, and comes to a halt with a Sith enters and takes the holocron. The boys confront him and tell him they did all of this for him, for the Sith, to prove themselves so he would take them with him. He ends up cutting one boy in half, and tells them the Sith take whatever they want without anyone else's help, and rides off on his speeder
The Sith Lord Finn and his apprentice are on an outlying world, having set off an explosion in a building. On their way back to their ship, they are stopped by Lod, a Toydarian who offers Finn Marka, his blue-haired Human slave girl. When Marka refuses to show Finn her teeth, he hits her, causing the apprentice to angrily yell at him to stop. When Lod tells Finn that he should keep a closer eye on his slave, the apprentice screams that he is not a slave, and kills Lod with his lightsaber.
Finn scolds the apprentice for showing compassion, a Jedi trait, and Marka asks to be taken with them, using a mind trick on the apprentice. Finn says that he has no need for a slave and already has an apprentice, and the two Sith leave, heading back to their ship. Finn orders the apprentice to deal with Marka as he heads to the top of the building their landing pad is on. A few minutes later the apprentice returns with Marka in tow, having been unable to kill her. Finn once more tells Marka that he already has an apprentice.
In response, Marka uses the Force to snatch the apprentice's lightsaber, then pushes him off the building to his death. Finn's only response is to ask Marka if she is coming or not.
During the Clone Wars, the Jedi Vydel Dir'Nul has ignored the call of the Jedi Council to take up a position as general. Instead, she tracks a serial killer called Kardem as vengeance for the murder of her lover, the freighter pilot Ash B'risko. Since Ash, Kardem has killed only female Twi'leks, but more disturbing is his means of killing: lightsaber and Force lightning, indicating that he is a dark Jedi. As she finds Kardem's eighth victim after following his trail of hints, a hooded figure approaches her and calls her name. They fight, but the figure disarms her and tells her he has come to take her back to the Jedi Council, but she retaliates with Force lightning. As he calls the name of Master Dir'Nul, she responds that her name is Kardem. The Jedi reveals that Dir'Nul is Kardem. She discovered Ash with a Twi'lek dancing girl, and in her rage killed him, creating the dark side mental persona of Kardem in the process. From then on, she killed female Twi'leks in the Kardem persona, then investigated the murders in the Dir'Nul persona. The Jedi tells her that he was sent to bring her back, dead or alive. Calling upon the dark side, Kardem kills him with lightning and his lightsaber. She then reverts to the Dir'Nul persona and is shocked to find that "Kardem" has claimed yet another victim, this time a Jedi. She reaffirms her vow to bring the killer to justice.
Boba Fett comes to get his armor repaired on the remote planet of Ma'ar Shaddam. While he is not wearing it, a group of bounty hunters attempt to kill him. Dressed only in a robe, he tricks some of the hunters into killing each other. He kills another barehanded and steals the dead being's blade. The ringleader of the hunters steals Fett's Mandalorian armor and Slave I. Using the ship's cannons, he blasts the facility that Fett is in. Believing he killed Fett, he goes to a nearby cantina, impersonating him. Fett comes in wearing Jango's old armor and takes his armor back, but leaves the impersonator alive to remember who is number one.
Boba Fett takes a job from Drex, a crime lord in the Gallapraxis system. It is his job to get Feleen Bantillian, dead or alive, for the fee of 50,000. Drex tells him that Bantillian had killed his son. Fett tracks him to an abandoned droid plant on Vornax, and gives him a chance to surrender. Bantillian tells Fett that he is Drex's son, and that Fett killed his brother. Drex set up Fett. Fett fires at Bantillian, who blocks the blast with an old droideka shield. Bantillian closes the roof of the area they are in. Dozens of old droids stagger towards Fett, trying to kill him. A war droid shoots him out of the sky, damaging his jetpack. Fett destroys the droid. Fett then shoots a tank of machine oil, setting Bantillian afire. The being jumps into a deep pool of water, only belatedly realizing that he cannot swim. He calls for his droids to help and all of them sink to the bottom. Fett goes back to an astonished Drex, who pays Fett reluctantly. Fett gives Drex Bantillian's head, with a thermal detonator in the mouth. As Fett leaves he mutters, "Payback doesn't pay."
The story begins with Boba Fett waking up in his home. After looking in the mirror and seeing his father's face, Boba looks for his daily bounty. After passing up escaped Wookiee slaves and high-ranking Imperial defectors, he settles for a dead-or-alive bounty named Bendu Fry. He goes into the cantina, where Fry is telling a joke to two women. As he says the punch line, Fett approaches. Fry tries to run, but Fett easily catches the fat Devaronian. To save his life, Bendu tells Fett of a Twi'lek Jedi Knight who is living on the planet. Fett leaves to track the Jedi down, and seems to locate his target. It turns out, however, the Twi'lek is not the Jedi after all, but the Jedi's son. The boy's father was killed at the Battle of Geonosis. Fett allows the boy to live and returns to cantina, disintegrating Bendu and getting his bounty.
On the planet Kuat a year prior to the Battle Of Geonosis, a lone cloaked figure wanders into a small colony. When the leader of the colonists, Larbo emerges to see what is happening, the young Boba Fett hurls a thermal detonator and flees into one of the tents. As Chaos ensues Jango Fett arrives to slaughter the scattered prey. When approached by two gun men, a flick Knife appears from his gauntlet and, presumably, slits their throats. He then hunts down the other Colonists. Larbo finds Boba cowering in the corner of his tent and holds him at gunpoint to interrogate him. He is horrified to learn the young boy is the bounty hunters son. Jango, having finished assassinating the remaining members of the camp tracks down Boba and demands Larbo releases his son and slashes his way through the tents canopy. A disgusted Larbo asks what kind of man would use his own son a bait, and Boba replies "Only a son can know his father's heart". Jango seizes Boba and throws a Thermal Detonator into the tent before escaping with the boy. Jango and Boba leave the planet in Slave I, and the Bounty Hunter confirms to Count Dooku that his mission was accomplished. The Ruling Families can now commence with building factories for the Trade Federation and the Sith Lords other allies. On Boba's first training mission he learns an important lesson - that a warrior must suppress all emotion to succeed.
Several months after Chewbacca's death, Han Solo has been convinced by his wife and Lando Calrissian to stop moping and go on a reconnaissance mission on the other side of the galaxy from Vector Prime. Near Raxus Prime, Han's shuttle encounters Slave I and is shot down onto the junkyard moon. Keeping a log on his datapad for Leia, Han spends the next few weeks trekking across the moon, making makeshift weapons and survival gear to avoid Boba Fett, who is hunting him. Han finally comes to the realization that there is more than one Fett following him. When that happens, he comes face to face with the real Fett. Fett reveals to Han that the entire event has been a training exercise to cull the weak recruits from the new batch of Mandalorian Protectors prior to them taking up service for the Yuuzhan Vong - since, as mercenaries, the Mandalorians go for the highest bidder, and the Yuuzhan Vong are currently the richest ones in the galaxy. The Mandalorians then take off, leaving Han behind.
On the planet Gibbela, an agricultural planet well off any trade routes, a small Imperial contingent arrives to take control on the planet, demanding surrender from the first inhabitant they meet, a short, unassuming farmer. Much to their surprise, it transforms into a gigantic clawed beast and kills them all. The creature shrinks back to its original size and continues its fieldwork, using the remaining armor and weapons of the deceased Imperials as farm equipment.
On Katanos VII, Jedi Knight Lunis and his Padawan Obs Kaj investigate intelligence that the miners of the planet are performing illegal cloning experiments. Obs Kaj has grown disillusioned with the state of affairs in the Republic and secretly plans to leave the Jedi Order after the mission. However, when they arrive, they discover that they have walked into an ambush. The miners reveal that as profits from the cortosis mines declined, they looked to the Galactic Senate for support, but were spurned, and they began cloning operations to earn the necessary income. Their cloning attempts failed, and eventually they turned to the Confederacy of Independent Systems when they learned about the bounties that had been placed on Jedi. As the miners attack the Jedi, Obs Kaj feels cut off in the Force from her Master, a result of her distancing herself. Lunis eventually falls and Kaj flees, escaping in a short-range shuttlepod. As she leaves the planet's surface, broadcasting a distress call, a ship makes contact with her. When it approaches, she realizes it is in fact Count Dooku, who promptly fires upon her, blowing her craft from the sky. When Dooku later makes contact with the miners, he says he will only pay for the death of Lunis, half of what they expected and not enough to keep the mines afloat.
Han Solo and Chewbacca are aboard the Millennium Falcon when they are attacked by Imperials. They are forced to leap to hyperspace blind and end up in our Solar System, where they crash on Earth's Pacific Northwest. Believing they are on Endor due to the large trees, they venture out to investigate, but Han is killed by Native Americans. The mourning Chewbacca leaves the Falcon to live in the trees, where the natives believe him to be a sasquatch. One hundred and twenty-six years later, the wreckage of the Falcon and Han's remains are found by the intrepid American archaeologist Indiana Jones and his sidekick, Short Round. Indy, spooked by how "eerily familiar" the remains are, decides to leave them in peace.
Sometime long after the Battle of Yavin, the wicked Vindar have forced their neighboring race into slavery and rule them with an iron fist. The Vindar have tortured, burned, and killed many members of the other race, thus breaking the spirits of most of the race's people—but not that of Otalp. Since he was young, his den-mother told him of the mysterious "Oracle" she saw in one of her visions. The Oracle is said to tell tales of the past to give hope for the future. Otalp's den-brother, Remoh, disagrees with this, but only travels with Otalp to escape the misery of their eternal slavery.
When they reach the cave where The Oracle is fabled to live, Remoh repeats the classic line. As they enter the cave, they come across a certain protocol droid sputtering about a tragedy that occurred when he was last deactivated. The droid says strange words, like "Ar-Too" and "Master Luke", which confuses the brothers. As soon he starts talking in an understandable language, Otalp requests a story from him. Though the droid admits to being not that good a storyteller, he decides, because Otalp and Remoh came so far, to tell them the best story he knows. The story of young boy from a desolate planet who redeemed a darkened soul and freed the galaxy from the clutches of the ultimate evil using a mythical tool known as a "lightsaber". As the droid tells this story, the two brothers imagine it all as though it were their own kind who was fighting the fights.
Just after the storyteller has concluded his tale, the Vindar blasts his head off. While Remoh hides, Otalp claims that he came alone. The Vindar kills him and leave to attend other matters. As Remoh gazes over the petrified corpse of his brother, he notices an oddly shaped metal rod poking out of the storyteller's severed torso chest. Remoh notices it has a button and pushes it. A glowing, green blade appears from the rod. Realization dawning on him, he starts to think of a way to free his desolate planet from the clutches of their ultimate evil.
On the seas of Naboo, George R. Binks of the Binks & Son Whaling Company attempts to take down a whale. However, the irresponsibility and clumsiness of his son Jar Jar causes their ship to founder and the Binkses to be marooned on a deserted island. A month goes by, and George is driven to madness by his son's follies. When Jar Jar proposes to swim for the mainland, George eagerly agrees, knowing that he will likely not make it. However, his wife intervenes. George, unable to take any more, decides to shoot himself. When his wife tries to stop him by asking him to "Think of our son!", he pulls the trigger, which grazes his skull. As he lies there he reminisces of his love Sheebla, and how he chose not to marry her because she could not bear him the son he wanted. As he imagines seeing Sheebla standing before him, the hallucination clears to reveal that it is really Jar Jar with an octopus wrapped around his head. George's only response is crushing despair.
Melvin Fett, cousin of the infamous Boba Fett, travels to the "desert" planet of Tatooine seeking the bounty on Jar Jar Binks, hoping to finally gain respect from other bounty hunters. As he walks under the boiling twin suns in the Tatooine dunes, he hears Jar Jar, but because he is unable to see because of the sweat stinging his eyes, he doesn't notice that it is just a Jawa drinking out of a Jar Jar Binks Commemorative Drinking Cup with flexible straw and "talking action". As he pulls out his blaster, he trips on a rock and the blaster flies out of his hands and knocks out the Jawa. Grabbing the cup, he praises himself by the capture, thinking the other bounty hunters will never laugh at him ever again.
A ship on a mission to return the deadly prisoner called Lycan to Coruscant crashes on the lands of Darca Nyl and he finds a dying Jedi Knight in the wreckage. The Jedi tells him of Lycan and gives Nyl his lightsaber. Nyl rushes back home and finds his son slain by Lycan, which causes Darca to pursue him.
Darca Nyl's pursuit leads him to an uninhospitable, colonized planet in the Outer Rim rich with ore, where he soon meets Samuel, the owner of the planet's mining facility. Samuel mistakes the lightsaber-wielding Nyl for a Jedi after he ends a conflict between Samuel's men and a boy accused of conspiring in the kidnapping of Samuel's daughter Leddar. Samuel reveals that Lycan has already left the planet a week earlier on a supply ship, but he asks Nyl to help return his daughter before he tells him Lycan's destination. Darca Nyl accepts the deal and ventures with Samuel outside the facility in protective suits to find Ledd. After a brief fight they managed to disarm the kidnapper and rescue Leddar. Samuel finally reveals that Lycan was heading for Molavar.
Darca Nyl's pursuit is interrupted when the crew of the ship he is on turns against him. He manages to take care of them, but the ship crashes on an unknown planet. He soon meets a woman named Jaren and her brother Ament who he rescues from a man on a speeder bike. The siblings lie about their reason of being chased, but they tell Nyl he can find a freighter in their hometown. The following night Nyl's emotional difficulties finally catch up with him when Jaren shows him a trick: An image of his son in a campfire. Upon seeing the image he is compelled to face his feelings of guilt and rage. The next day, Ament leaves and doesn't return. Darca, while searching for Ament, finds a bear-like creature that attacks him. He ends up killing the creature with the lightsaber, but runs back to the campfire when he hears Jaren scream. Ament had returned and was killing a similar bear-like creature that threatened Jaren's life. It turned out that Ament was a murderer and that Jaren had helped him escape from prison. Ament suffered of guilty conscience and Darca Nyl took him and Jaren to the bikers who were chasing them earlier, who were able to show Nyl where he could get a ride to Molavar.
On Molavar Darca Nyl continues his pursuit of Lycan, who had wreaked havoc in a local casino. Lycan had taken a ship of one of the people he killed in the casino and landed in the middle of the desert and in order to reach it Nyl joins a convoy led by a Molavaran called Tooth.
Four days later Tooth's convoy finds Lycan's ship, and Darca leaves to pursue on his own. He is soon found by a moisture farmer named Byrom, whose wife has just encountered Lycan in the desert. Byrom is troubled by a Molavaran gangster named Sleeth, whose mother is the reigning crime-lady of Malcraan. When Sleeth arrives to ask for protection money, Nyl chases them away and humiliates Sleeth. Darca wants to help defend Byrom, but Byrom insists that he continue his search for Lycan. Nyl leaves, and soon Sleeth's mother arrives to exact revenge. However, Darca returns with Tooth's convoy and Tooth forms an alliance with Byrom against Sleeth's mother. Darca leaves again in a borrowed landspeeder to pursue Lycan.
Darth Sidious sends Darth Maul on a mission to eliminate a certain disturbance in the Force. Sidious informs Maul that the phenomenon threatens to wake the Jedi from their complacency and inability to sense the return of the Sith.
Maul tracks his quarry to a cantina on a planet in the Outer Rim. The disturbance is in the form of a Drovian brute called Silus, who is extremely strong in the dark side of the Force. Silus is a champion competitor in a fighting sport that involves use of the Force, and the winning of credits.
When Maul enters, an Aleena called Tabor engages Silus in combat. Tabor is no match for him, and dies quickly.
Maul confronts Silus, and opens a holocommunication channel to his master. Through the holo, Sidious offers Silus an opportunity to become his new apprentice: by giving him a chance to kill Darth Maul. Maul is confused by his Master's apparent betrayal, and turns to great anger. He kills Silus without much effort. Maul later realizes that it was merely a test of his own strength, and a lesson demonstrating that in fear there is power.
Throughout the story, Maul experiences some minor flashbacks. The flashbacks reveal that Maul had plain red skin as a child, and that his Sith tattoos were applied by none other than Darth Sidious himself.