Star Wars: Dark Times

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Dark Times
Art by Douglas Wheatley
Publication information
PublisherDark Horse Comics
FormatComic book
Publication date2006–2013
No. of issues33 (32 + a 'zero issue')
Main character(s)Dass Jennir, Bomo Greenbark, Captain Schurk-Heren, and more
Creative team
Created byMick Harrison (writer), Welles Hartley (story)

Dark Times is a 2006, 33-issue (32 + a 'zero issue') comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics. It is part of their 30th-anniversary retooling of its long-running Star Wars series of comics, replacing Republic.

The first issue was released on November 8, 2006, and is written by Randy Stradley (as Mick Harrison) from a plot by Stradley (as Welles Hartley).

The series is set in the

Star Wars galaxy shortly after the events in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and about 19 years before Episode IV: A New Hope. The story begins in the days following the events in Purge by John Ostrander
.

Creation

Main characters

Story arcs

The Path to Nowhere

Issues 1–5 (November 2006–October 2007) follow the events of the

Jedi master Dass Jennir and his friend Bomo Greenbark are the only survivors of the Galactic Empire
's war on the latter's home planet. The duo sneaks onto a docked ship, and after being caught by Crys Taanzer, convinces its crew to help them escape; to avoid mandatory Imperial inspections, Jennir hatches a plan to force all the docked ships to depart at once. To find out what happened to Greenbark's family, they go to the planet where most of the Empire's captives are being taken, and find members of Greenbark's species imprisoned in pits; they learn that his wife was killed defending his daughter. Jennir infiltrates a slaver's quarters and forces him to reveal the location of Greenbark's daughter, Resa, before killing him. Jennir and his then companions travel to the mansion of the man who bought Resa, but are horrified to learn that he ate her. Jennir kills the man in order to spare Bomo the guilt, but only provokes him to angrily reveal to the entire group that Jennir is a Jedi; the group decides to depart company with the latter.

Meanwhile,

Emperor Palpatine
, even as he must reckon with his own childhood as a slave if he is to accept the Empire's allowance of such practices.

Parallels

Issues 6–10 (October 2007–February 2008) follow Jedi Master K'Kruhk, who survived the events of

Mimban to make the exchange, but are double-crossed by the buyer, Haka, who is in turn double-crossed by his man Lumbra. Captain Heren reveals to Haka that he had expected the betrayal and that Lumbra has loaded a booby-trapped crate onto his own ship. Haka then tortures Heren for the location of the real merchandise as he forces Crys to work as a slave. Lumbra crash-lands near K'Kruhk's settlement, and goes to check it out. K'Kruhk sends the younglings into hiding, as Lumbra salvages their ship to repair his own. Jedi Master Chase Piru uses the Force
to defend the younglings, revealing to Lumbra that he might have something more valuable than the crate he was originally trying to steal. Meanwhile, Bomo and Crys fight back against their guards. K'Kruhk and Piru split up to attack the pirates from opposing angles, even as Bomo's friends continue to liberate each other.

Vector

Issues 11 and 12 are the fifth and sixth parts of the 12-issue multi-series

Rakghoul
, before Vader slays him. Morne battles the stormtroopers as Heren frees himself and the others. They escape to the ship, but Crys succumbs to the Rakghoul plague, forcing Heren to shoot the monster. Vader escapes on his shuttle, leaving Morne on the planet below with the stormtroopers-turned-Rakghouls.

Blue Harvest

The title is a reference to the working title of

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in January and February 2009, Dass Jennir accepts a job to defend a town from slaver gang, even as he defends himself from a rival mercenary.

Issues

  • Dark Times #1: The Path to Nowhere, Part 1 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Nov 2006) $2.99
  • Dark Times #2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Jan 2007) $2.99
  • Dark Times #3: The Path to Nowhere, Part 3 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, May 2007) $2.99
  • Dark Times #4: The Path to Nowhere, Part 4 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Jul 2007) $2.99
  • Dark Times #5: The Path to Nowhere, Part 5 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Oct 2007) $2.99
  • Dark Times #6: Parallels, Part 1 of 5 (Color 40 Pages, Oct 2007) $2.99
  • Dark Times #7: Parallels, Part 2 of 5 (Color 40 Pages, Dec 2007) $2.99
  • Dark Times #8: Parallels, Part 3 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Jan 2008) $2.99
  • Dark Times #9: Parallels, Part 4 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Feb 2008) $2.99
  • Dark Times #10: Parallels, Part 5 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Apr 2008) $2.99
  • Dark Times #11: Vector, Part 5 of 12 (Color 40 pages, May 2008) $2.99
  • Dark Times #12: Vector, Part 6 of 12 (Color 40 pages, Jun 2008) $2.99
  • Dark Times #0: Blue Harvest, Prologue (Color 40 pages, Aug 2009) $2.99
  • Dark Times #13: Blue Harvest, Part 1 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Apr 2009) $2.99
  • Dark Times #14: Blue Harvest, Part 2 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Aug 2009) $2.99
  • Dark Times #15: Blue Harvest, Part 3 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Jan 2010) $2.99
  • Dark Times #16: Blue Harvest, Part 4 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Apr 2010) $2.99
  • Dark Times #17: Blue Harvest, Part 5 of 5 (Color 40 pages, Jun 2010) $2.99
  • Dark Times #18: Out of the Wilderness, Part 1 of 5 (Color 40 Pages, Aug 2011) $2.99
  • Dark Times #19: Out of the Wilderness, Part 2 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Sep 2011) $2.99
  • Dark Times #20: Out of the Wilderness, Part 3 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Nov 2011) $2.99
  • Dark Times #21: Out of the Wilderness, Part 4 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Feb 2012) $2.99
  • Dark Times #22: Out of the Wilderness, Part 5 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Apr 2012) $3.50
  • Dark Times #23: Fire Carrier, Part 1 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Feb 2013) $2.99
  • Dark Times #24: Fire Carrier, Part 2 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Mar 2013) $2.99
  • Dark Times #25: Fire Carrier, Part 3 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Apr 2013) $2.99
  • Dark Times #26: Fire Carrier, Part 4 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, May 2013) $2.99
  • Dark Times #27: Fire Carrier, Part 5 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Jun 2013) $2.99
  • Dark Times #28: A Spark Remains, Part 1 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Jul 2013) $3.50
  • Dark Times #29: A Spark Remains, Part 2 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Aug 2013) $3.50
  • Dark Times #30: A Spark Remains, Part 3 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Sep 2013) $3.50
  • Dark Times #31: A Spark Remains, Part 4 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Oct 2013) $3.50
  • Dark Times #32: A Spark Remains, Part 5 of 5 (Color 32 Pages, Nov 2013) $3.50

Trade Paperbacks

  • The Path to Nowhere ....(#s 1–5) - $17.95
  • Parallels ......................(#s 6–10) - $17.95
  • Vector .........................(#s 11-12 & KotOR 25–28) - $17.95
  • Blue Harvest ................(#s 13-17 & #0) - $17.95
  • Out of the Wilderness....(#s 18–22) - $17.99
  • Fire Carrier ...................(#s 23–27) - $18.99
  • A Spark Remains ...................(#s 28–32) - $19.99
  • Omnibus: Dark Times Volume 1 (#s 0-12 & Republic #79-80) - $24.99

Story arcs

  • The Path to Nowhere #1-5
  • Parallels #6-10
  • Vector #11-12 (#5-6 of Vector)
  • Blue Harvest #13-17 & #0
  • Out of the Wilderness #18-22
  • Fire Carrier #23-27
  • A Spark Remains #28-32

Reviews

References

  1. ^ "Avant-Première: Degenesis | Article | RPGGeek".

External links

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