Star Wars Tales Volume 6

Star Wars Tales Volume 6 is the sixth Star Wars Tales trade paperback, collecting issues 21-24.

Star Wars Tales 21

Nomad, Chapter one

Script: Rob Williams

Pencils: Brandon Badeaux

Colors: Dan Jackson

22 Pages

Galactic Year: 32 BBY

Preceded by: Force Fiction

Followed by: Nomad, Chapter two

A ship on a mission to return the deadly prisoner called Lycan to Coruscant crashes on the lands of Darca Nyl and he finds a dying Jedi Knight in the wreckage. The Jedi tells him of Lycan and gives Nyl his lightsaber. Nyl rushes back home and finds his son slain by Lycan, which causes Darca to pursue him.

Darca Nyl's pursuit leads him to an uninhospitable, colonized planet in the Outer Rim rich with ore, where he soon meets Samuel, the owner of the planet's mining facility. Samuel mistakes the lightsaber-wielding Nyl for a Jedi after he ends a conflict between Samuel's men and a boy accused of conspiring in the kidnapping of Samuel's daughter Leddar. Samuel reveals that Lycan has already left the planet a week earlier on a supply ship, but he asks Nyl to help return his daughter before he tells him Lycan's destination. Darca Nyl accepts the deal and ventures with Samuel outside the facility in protective suits to find Ledd. After a brief fight they managed to disarm the kidnapper and rescue Leddar. Samuel finally reveals that Lycan was heading for Molavar.

Walking the Path that's Given

Script: Shane McCarthy & Thomas Andrews

Pencils: Michel Lacombe

Inks: Serge LaPointe

Colors: SnoCone Studios

17 Pages

Galactic Year: 0 ABY

Preceded by: As Long as We Live Forever

Followed by: Vader's Quest

Equals and Opposites

Script: Nathan P. Butler

Pencils: James Raiz

Colors: Michael Atiyeh

14 Pages

Galactic Year: 28 ABY

Preceded by: Revenants

Followed by: The Lost Lightsaber

Star Wars Tales 22

Honor Bound

Script: Ian Edginton

Pencils: Steve Pugh

Colors: Michael Atiyeh

22 Pages

Galactic Year: 21 BBY

Preceded by: Jedi: Dooku

Followed by: Rather Darkness Visible

Nomad, Chapter two

Script: Rob Williams

Pencils: Brandon Badeaux

Colors: Dan Jackson

18 Pages

Galactic Year: 32 BBY

Preceded by: Nomad, Chapter one

Followed by: Nomad, Chapter three

Darca Nyl's pursuit is interrupted when the crew of the ship he is on turns against him. He manages to take care of them, but the ship crashes on an unknown planet. He soon meets a woman named Jaren and her brother Ament who he rescues from a man on a speeder bike. The siblings lie about their reason of being chased, but they tell Nyl he can find a freighter in their hometown. The following night Nyl's emotional difficulties finally catch up with him when Jaren shows him a trick: An image of his son in a campfire. Upon seeing the image he is compelled to face his feelings of guilt and rage. The next day, Ament leaves and doesn't return. Darca, while searching for Ament, finds a bear-like creature that attacks him. He ends up killing the creature with the lightsaber, but runs back to the campfire when he hears Jaren scream. Ament had returned and was killing a similar bear-like creature that threatened Jaren's life. It turned out that Ament was a murderer and that Jaren had helped him escape from prison. Ament suffered of guilty conscience and Darca Nyl took him and Jaren to the bikers who were chasing them earlier, who were able to show Nyl where he could get a ride to Molavar.

Marooned

Story & Art: Lucas Marangon

14 Pages

Galactic Year: 5 ABY

Preceded by: Mara Jade: A Night on the Town

Followed by: Three Against the Galaxy

Star Wars Tales 23

Shadows and Light

Script: Joshua Ortega

Art: Dustin Weaver

Colors: Michael Atiyeh

Letters: Michael Heisler

Galactic Year: 3,993 BBY

Preceded by: The Sith War

Followed by: Unseen, Unheard

Nomad, Chapter three

Script: Rob Williams

Pencils: Brandon Badeaux

Colors: Dan Jackson

18 Pages

Galactic Year: 32 BBY

Preceded by: Nomad, Chapter two

Followed by: Nomad, Chapter four

On Molavar Darca Nyl continues his pursuit of Lycan, who had wreaked havoc in a local casino. Lycan had taken a ship of one of the people he killed in the casino and landed in the middle of the desert and in order to reach it Nyl joins a convoy led by a Molavaran called Tooth.

Four days later Tooth's convoy finds Lycan's ship, and Darca leaves to pursue on his own. He is soon found by a moisture farmer named Byrom, whose wife has just encountered Lycan in the desert. Byrom is troubled by a Molavaran gangster named Sleeth, whose mother is the reigning crime-lady of Malcraan. When Sleeth arrives to ask for protection money, Nyl chases them away and humiliates Sleeth. Darca wants to help defend Byrom, but Byrom insists that he continue his search for Lycan. Nyl leaves, and soon Sleeth's mother arrives to exact revenge. However, Darca returns with Tooth's convoy and Tooth forms an alliance with Byrom against Sleeth's mother. Darca leaves again in a borrowed landspeeder to pursue Lycan.

Lucky

Script: Rob Williams

Pencils: Michel Lacombe

Inks: Serge LaPointe & Andrew Pepoy

Colors: Wil Glass

14 Pages

Galactic Year: 4 ABY

Preceded by: Free Memory

Followed by: Do or Do Not

Star Wars Tales 24

Marked

Script: Rob Williams

Pencils: Cully Hamner

Colors: Wil Glass

12 Pages

Galactic Year: 33 BBY

Preceded by: Nameless

Followed by: Urchins

Darth Sidious sends Darth Maul on a mission to eliminate a certain disturbance in the Force. Sidious informs Maul that the phenomenon threatens to wake the Jedi from their complacency and inability to sense the return of the Sith.

Maul tracks his quarry to a cantina on a planet in the Outer Rim. The disturbance is in the form of a Drovian brute called Silus, who is extremely strong in the dark side of the Force. Silus is a champion competitor in a fighting sport that involves use of the Force, and the winning of credits.

When Maul enters, an Aleena called Tabor engages Silus in combat. Tabor is no match for him, and dies quickly.

Maul confronts Silus, and opens a holocommunication channel to his master. Through the holo, Sidious offers Silus an opportunity to become his new apprentice: by giving him a chance to kill Darth Maul. Maul is confused by his Master's apparent betrayal, and turns to great anger. He kills Silus without much effort. Maul later realizes that it was merely a test of his own strength, and a lesson demonstrating that in fear there is power.

Throughout the story, Maul experiences some minor flashbacks. The flashbacks reveal that Maul had plain red skin as a child, and that his Sith tattoos were applied by none other than Darth Sidious himself.

Fett Club

Script: Kevin Rubio

Pencils: Roger Langridge

Colors: Wil Glass

11 Pages

This story is non-canon

Unseen, Unheard

Script: Chris Avellone

Pencils: Dustin Weaver

6 Pages

Galactic Year: 3,952 BBY

Preceded by: Shadows and Light

Followed by: Redemption

Nomad, Chapter four

Script: Rob Williams

Pencils: Brandon Badeaux

Colors: Dan Jackson

24 Pages

Galactic Year: 32 BBY

Preceded by: Nomad, Chapter three

Followed by: Emissaries to Malastare