Empire's End

Empire's End (Trade Paperback)
Publication information
Publishing company	Dark Horse Comics
Subject	Star Wars
Genre	Science fiction
Release date(s)	10 September 1997
Country	United States
Language	English
Expanded Universe
Era	New Galactic Republic
Series	Dark Empire
Galactic Year	11 ABY
Canon	C
Preceded by	Dark Empire II
Followed by	Boba Fett: Death, Lies, & Treachery
Script writer	Tom Veitch Mike Beidler
Cover artist(s)	Dave Dorman
Artist(s)	Jim Baikie

Empire's End is a 1997 trade paperback compilation of the third comic book miniseries of the Dark Horse Comics metaseries Dark Empire. Written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Jim Baikie, the two-issue series was originally released by Dark Horse from October to November 1995. It is a sequel to the collections Dark Empire I and Dark Empire II. All three comic series detail the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine in cloned bodies.

Seven years after the Galactic Empire's defeat at the Battle of Endor and the establishment of the New Republic, the galaxy is once again threatened by Emperor Palpatine, resurrected in a series of clone bodies, who seeks to once again rule his Empire. He finds the perfect tool in the "Galaxy Gun," a superweapon that could annihilate a planet with a single projectile.

After perishing in battle with Luke and Leia Skywalker in Dark Empire I, Palpatine was forced to occupy an inferior clone-body. Unknown to him, his personal physician had been corrupted by his official successor, Carnor Jax, backed by a number of other high-ranking Imperial personnel. The physician had deliberately inserted genetic material and contaminants into all stored samples of the Emperor's original body, to the effect that these bodies would be nowhere as resistant to the ravaging effects of the Dark side as the original.

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