Star Wars: Dark Empire | FULL STORY

6 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker ventures into the Dark Side of the Force as the reborn Emperor Palpatine reveals himself, pitting Luke against his Jedi in training sister Leia Organa-Solo!
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[@StraightToThePointz]

I enjoy this a lot better than the movies on how they handled Sidious and Luke. It’s fun.

[@wfanking1187]

I loved it always wanted to see Prime Sidious in action against Luke Skywalker, the clone body with Sidious's mind did the trick, an an epic duel.

[@cremipara1236]

Somehow,palpatine returned

[@libernihilus]

This is the primary Legends source material for the Sequel Trilogy. (The primary source for Rogue One, comparatively, is the 1995 LucasArts "Doom clone"/FPS Dark Forces) A number of major and minor plot elements were adjusted to fit Disney's vision: Darth Caedus is now Kylo Ren, but is still Leia and Han's kiddo, etc. (owing to the dispensation of the Empire and the Sith Order plot depicted in Aftermath, Ben is no longer considered a "Sith")

[@pilotamurorei]

what disney "made" doesnt exist. Dont talk about here, pleeb

[@snowhuskybaalkaii8621]

Thank you for sharing the story . I expected Dark Empire to be a bigger Arc .

[@FortressofSolitude1138]

there are two followups to it that i will probably end up covering the problem is they arent very good

[@snowhuskybaalkaii8621]

@@FortressofSolitude1138 Yes , Legends were hit or miss ( like most expansions of fictional universes ) .

[@orinanime]

It is bigger. I'm pretty sure The Dark Empire Trilogy is 14 comic issues long. This was just the first 6.

[@snowhuskybaalkaii8621]

@@orinanime Ah good to know thanks !

[@billepperson2662]

Incredible video! Please tell me you're planning on doing more star wars legends? I'd absolutely LOVE to see the first 10 or 20 years after ROTJ chronologically, starting w/ Truce @ Bakura, continuing through the Thrawn & Jedi Academy trilogies...

[@pilotamurorei]

this is star wars CANON, not fucking legends. Fuck whatever disney says.

[@erickirk2427]

What Palpatine could have done was use sith magic or sorcery to prolong the life of his bodies but he had every intention to go to other bodies.

[@ericlandriault5748]

Incredible story.

[@scottewing2031]

Great succinct precis to the visuals. This was the best post ROTJ comics ~ and would have made a great movie. Especially at the start you can see where JJ got some of his ROS plot ideas.

[@Kageofyoutube]

I love this book so much

[@Dexxxterity]

Dude the emperor disarmed Luke at full strength while he was changing bodies, that’s crazy… that makes Mace Windu the 🐐 😂

[@TheSithEternal]

Or did Sidious just allow Windu to win? That's the question, and there is evidence on either side.

[@Dexxxterity]

@@TheSithEternal lol no

[@billepperson2662]

13:50 What's that she's trying to hand Leia on the right? An i-phone?!

[@themightymikeshow1992]

they should have lead with this story into the sequel trilogies it was done better and that way they could have came up with a better story for the new ones

[@jdjoon]

No, thanks.

[@fenixa2z936]

I demand Denis Villeneuve make a trilogy of this with Sebastian Stan 🔥🔥🔥

[@Pajamalamalamalama]

I like that the sequels take inspiration from Dark Empire

[@FortressofSolitude1138]

its why i find when people say things like palpatine coming back and Luke turning away from the Jedi is trash funny since more often then not they will say this book is awesome, and all of that happened in it lol

[@Pajamalamalamalama]

@@FortressofSolitude1138 right? It makes sense to me that Palpatine cheated death and had a contingency plan. He's smart, he would have had foresight, and he bragged to Vader that he knew how to achieve immortality in ep 3.

[@WingMaster562]

@@FortressofSolitude1138 it's more on the delivery. The bland line of "Somehow, Palpatine has returned" is what most people took away from the sequels.

[@Mortis3897]

@@FortressofSolitude1138 to be fair dark empire was critisized for palpatnines resurection and the story was overall better executed

[@stealthboy5767]

So then why does it fuckin suck?

[@LiamIsCool77]

I consider this canon

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

It is so bad bro. So bad that they copied it for ep 9

[@fazbrogaming7776]

So the sequels are basically an inspiration if the dark empire. That explains it. I can’t believe it but I think episode 9 did a slightly better job than TDE when it came to palpatene returning, instead of the galactic core, the unknown regions makes more sense.

[@SardonicJosh]

And you’re wrong. Palpatine’s return is more nonsensical in TROS and at the very least properly explained in DE

[@clockehvac1240]

​@@SardonicJoshexactly TROS IS STRAIGHT TRASH. DARK EMPIRE MADE WAY MORE SENSE

[@HM04Gaming1]

Somehow the man survived lol

[@zaquhe]

Wow, this is the first time ive heard the Solo twins' prophecy. Jacen was boned from the beginning.

[@anthonyp6896]

I do like some of the Canon stories of Star wars but I like the legend stories a lot better

[@erikdanielsson8215]

That chould have been a great movie or trilodgy.

[@themightymikeshow1992]

make this a show neowwww

[@ericlandriault5748]

This is between return of the jedi and the mandalorian?

[@FortressofSolitude1138]

this is not canon

[@wfanking1187]

@@FortressofSolitude1138 wish it was.

[@orinanime]

It's not Canon but if you want to know where it "should" theoretically take place: The year is 10 ABY. 6 years after Return of the Jedi. The Mandalorian takes place in 9 ABY, 5 years after Return of the Jedi.

[@anthonyp6896]

I think Luke should have stayed alive all the way into the rise of Skywalker that would have been so cool to have a rematch between Luke Skywalker and Darth sidious in the rise of Skywalker what do you guys think

[@baggin.]

I wonder if marvel will do this after episode 9

[@FortressofSolitude1138]

being the sequel trilogy borrowed heavily from this storyline i very highly doubt it

[@BashkimJahiu]

Luke joins the Dark Side in this story, but people say that Luke in The Last Jedi is out of character...

[@FortressofSolitude1138]

thats the insane thing about it! Also so much of this story is in the Sequels almost exactly as it is here yet people hate it

[@Ashguy733]

He did it with the intention of trying to destroy the Emperor and not risk anyone else like Leia becaus of her children from being corrupted.

[@MercilessBug]

Luke did this so he could keep tabs on Palpatine and at the same time know what was that seduced Vader to the dark side. That knowledge actually led Luke to become a grandmaster and learn how not to fear the dark side but rather understand how it works and how to achieve balance between the light and dark, correcting the mistakes of the old Jedi order, an order that feared the dark and sought to destroy it. Canon Luke is the total opposite, he became a sad old man, riddled with fear, that instead of building a brand new, powerful and wise Jedi Order, gave up to his fears and anxiety, tried to kill his nephew and in turn drove him to the dark side. What does he do after this? He becomes a bitter hermit and spends the rest of his days drinking green mik straight from the alien tit. And then they say this Luke is out of character.

[@snowhuskybaalkaii8621]

Anything outside the movies always were fanfiction dressed as canon to get money from the hardcore fanbase . Which does not means it is bad but it is what it is . So yes Luke is out of character in the Disney trilogy , ask Hamill .

[@gamestation2690]

@@snowhuskybaalkaii8621 What makes you think he is the final authority of how the character should be? He's only the actor who plays him.

[@tikvision]

Hate the artwork