Publishing company Dark Horse Comics Genre Science fiction Country United States | Subject Star Wars Release date(s) 25 January 2006 Language English | |
Star Wars Tales Volume 6 is the sixth Star Wars Tales trade paperback, collecting issues 21-24.
Contents
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 twoA 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 QuestEquals 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 LightsaberHonor Bound
Script: Ian Edginton Pencils: Steve Pugh Colors: Michael Atiyeh 22 Pages Galactic Year: 21 BBY Preceded by: Jedi: Dooku Followed by: Rather Darkness VisibleNomad, 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 threeDarca 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 GalaxyShadows 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, UnheardNomad, 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 fourOn 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 NotMarked
Script: Rob Williams Pencils: Cully Hamner Colors: Wil Glass 12 Pages Galactic Year: 33 BBY Preceded by: Nameless Followed by: UrchinsDarth 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.