Warning! This put up accommodates SPOILERS for Star Wars: Battle of Jakku- Insurgency Rising #1Star Wars is lastly revealing the backstory behind Darth Vader’s masks and who had it earlier than Kylo Ren. Having just lately wrapped up its canonical Star Wars series set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Marvel has now begun a brand-new trilogy of tales set within the aftermath of the Battle of Endor which is able to culminate within the Battle of Jakku. To that finish, we now know who had Vader’s masks earlier than Kylo Ren ultimately will get his palms on it as seen within the sequels.
Within the brand-new Star Wars: Battle of Jukku- Insurgency Rising #1 from Alex Segura, Leonard Kirk, and Rachelle Rosenberg, the Insurgent Alliance remains to be on Endor, celebrating their victory over the Empire with the destruction of the second Death Star and the deaths of both Palpatine and Darth Vader. Having been redeemed by killing the Emperor and sacrificing himself to avoid wasting his son, Vader’s physique was taken by Luke to be burned on a funeral pyre, as seen in Return of the Jedi. Now, this new problem reveals another person who visited Vader’s nonetheless smoldering stays after Luke:
Whereas the remainder of the Rebels are nonetheless celebrating with the Ewoks, Leia Organa is proven conversing with what’s left of the person who she solely just lately discovered was her true father from her twin brother Luke (one other key revelation). Wanting to talk with Darth Vader “face-to-face”, Leia finds none aside from the previous Sith lord’s charred and melted masks.
Leia Visited Darth Vader’s Funeral Pyre
Wanting To Converse With Her Father
Remarkably, neither Return of the Jedi nor any of the sequel motion pictures take time to deal with how Leia felt about Vader being her father. That stated, the 2016 novel Bloodline by Claudia Grey does discover Leia’s relationship with the truth that such an evil man and tyrant to the galaxy was secretly her organic father. Nevertheless, it is within the context of when Leia’s secret was exposed to the rest of the galaxy as a political transfer to undermine her work with the New Republic Senate. The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis briefly touches on Leia’s preliminary response when Luke first informed her about their father.
Regardless of Vader’s redemption, Leia nonetheless holds anger for all the pieces her father had achieved and all of the ache he prompted…
Now, Insurgency Rising is lastly revealing extra of Leia’s emotions not lengthy after she discovered the reality herself, mere hours after Vader’s loss of life together with his physique remains to be on the pyre. To that finish, it is proven that Leia has fairly a little bit of anger in direction of the person who had a direct hand in torturing her and killing her buddies, to not point out his function within the destruction of her homeworld Alderaan. Regardless of Vader’s redemption, Leia nonetheless holds anger for all the pieces her father had achieved and all of the ache he prompted.
Leia Is The Motive Kylo Ren Finally Will get Vader’s Masks
Discarding The Helmet Away From The Pyre
Earlier than she returns to the celebration, Leia is seen throwing the melted helmet away from the burial pyre. As such, this explains how Vader’s mask will one day be recovered and fall into the hands of Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren. As seen within the sequel motion pictures, Leia’s son makes use of the masks years later to heart himself at the hours of darkness facet of the Pressure following his corruption as Kylo Ren. To that finish, it is going to be fascinating to see how Leia would possibly reconcile with this anger towards Darth Vader she’s nonetheless holding onto within the rapid aftermath of Endor.
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku- Insurgency #1 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.