Star Wars: Dark Empire I
| Dark Empire I (Trade Paperback) | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publishing company | Dark Horse Comics |
| Subject | Star Wars |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Release date(s) | 1995 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| No. of pages | 152 |
| ISBN | ISBN |
| Expanded Universe | |
| Era | New Galactic Republic |
| Series | Dark Empire |
| Galactic Year | 10 ABY |
| Canon | C |
| Preceded by | The Thrawn Trilogy |
| Followed by | Dark Empire II |
| Script writer | Tom Veitch |
| Cover artist(s) | Mark Zug |
| Artist(s) | Cam Kennedy |
| Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
Dark Empire I is a 1995 trade paperback compilation of the first six-part comic book miniseries of the Dark Horse Comics metaseries Dark Empire. Written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Cam Kennedy, the series was originally released bi-monthly by Dark Horse from December 1991 to October 1992. The subsequent sequel series were collected as Dark Empire II and Empire's End. All three comic series detail the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine in cloned bodies.
During the confusion of the civil war between Imperial factions, the Rebel Alliance sought to weaken the factions as much as possible by surreptitiously entering systems and battles with captured Star Destroyers, broadcasting falsified signals, and provoking attacks by one group against another.
On one of these raids to the Coruscant system, the Star Destroyer Liberator (formerly the HIMS Adjudicator, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer captured at the Battle of Endor and, over a five-year period, repaired and beefed-up for covert missions) its sister ship, the Emancipator (originally the Accuser), three Star Destroyers demanded novel and unusual codes for clearance. The codes the Alliance had stolen or bartered with slicers for did not work, and Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian were shot down over the former Imperial City. They should have perished, but in a curious parallel to the opening of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Luke, like his father, managed to successfully land the gargantuan vessel without too many casualties on the surface of Coruscant. For the next several days, Luke and Lando and their forces hid and fought Imperial forces.
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