Star Wars Tales Volume 5
| Star Wars Tales Volume 5 | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publishing company | Dark Horse Comics |
| Subject | Star Wars |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Release date(s) | 23 February 2005 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| No. of pages | 248 |
| Size & Weight | 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches 2.64 pounds |
| ISBN | ISBN |
| Expanded Universe | |
| Series | Star Wars Tales |
| Preceded by | Star Wars Tales Volume 4 |
| Followed by | Star Wars Tales Volume 6 |
| Designer(s) | Joshua Elliott |
| Art director(s) | Lia Ribacchi |
| Editor(s) | Dave Land |
| Assistant editor(s) | Katie Moody |
| Publisher(s) | Mike Richardson |
| Star Wars Tales 17 | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Subject | Star Wars |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Release date(s) | 1 October 2003 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| No. of pages | 64 |
| Cover artist(s) | UDON |
| Designer(s) | Debra Bailey |
| Editor(s) | Dave Land |
| Assistant editor(s) | Philip Simon |
| Publisher(s) | Mike Richardson |
| Star Wars Tales 18 | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Subject | Star Wars |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Release date(s) | 24 December 2003 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| No. of pages | 64 |
| Cover artist(s) | Cam Kennedy |
| Designer(s) | Debra Bailey |
| Editor(s) | Dave Land |
| Assistant editor(s) | Katie Moody |
| Publisher(s) | Mike Richardson |
| Star Wars Tales 19 | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Subject | Star Wars |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Release date(s) | 14 April 2004 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| No. of pages | 64 |
| Cover artist(s) | Andrew Robinson |
| Designer(s) | Debra Bailey |
| Editor(s) | Dave Land |
| Assistant editor(s) | Philip Simon |
| Publisher(s) | Mike Richardson |
| Star Wars Tales 20 | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Subject | Star Wars |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Release date(s) | 30 June 2004 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| No. of pages | 64 |
| Cover artist(s) | Tony Millionaire |
| Designer(s) | Debra Bailey |
| Editor(s) | Dave Land |
| Assistant editor(s) | Katie Moody |
| Publisher(s) | Mike Richardson |
Star Wars Tales Volume 5 is the fifth Star Wars Tales trade paperback, collecting issues 17-20.
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.
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