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IfStar Warsfans have ever wondered whyDarth Vadertakes orders from Grand Moff Tarkin , the comic books have at long last explain it . And as common for these canon expansions , the solution is more badass and than anyone dared to hope .
These days it ’s prosperous to forget that when he was first introduced , Vader was check as the onset dog"at the end of Tarkin ’s leash,“only later revealed to be the Emperor ’s correct hand humans , and his fellow swayer of the galaxy as Sith Apprentice . So … why would such a brawny warrior answer to the orders and dislike of a non - Force user like Tarkin ?
The response comes inDarth Vader#18 - when Tarkin proved himself the only humans smart enough to hunt Vader … and win .
The risible tale proceed from the early days of Vader ’s life history post - Jedi ( and Tarkin ’s rise to the top of the Empire leading ) . antecedently , Vader had assisted Tarkin incapturing King Lee - Char of the Mon Calaat the Moff ’s postulation , know that a favour would be offered to him in returns . A favour that come out # 16 dip into once it ’s already get .
Just Vader , Tarkin , and the officer ’s top agents on a deserted world … granting the request to hound him . Apparently , no matter how many of them Vader kills in the process .
It ’s an entertaining story from Charles Soule and Guiseppe Camuncoli and , like some of their best before , offer young glimpses intothe mythology and origin of Darth Vader . In the cognitive operation , delivering fans unexampled details on the Sith ’s abilities , limitations , and ambition . And whether Vader made his request out of a secret desire to really be vote down , kill , or get used to his new Force abilities ( and cybernetic physiology ) , Tarkin was oblige to do his part . And use the deaths of so many of his recruited tracker - murdered in terrible elbow room - tohisadvantage , as well .
The story is the sort of highlight reel Vader fan are n’t used to , which was a major reason why seeingVader ’s lightsaber acquisition at the close of Rogue Oneleft so many speechless . The laughable delivers on almost the same level , showing Vader ’s special invulnerability to attack , an power to breathe without his iconic respirator ( or survive without breathe at all ? ) , and his fury when his lightsaber is actually steal from him . And , of course , the rage he shows when he eventually steals it back .
But it ’s Tarkin who is carrying out his own missionary post at every turn , size up his potential foe or , take he survives this favour , his possible ally . The most important detail being the space at which Vader can actually choke or kill a target . A aloofness Tarkin does his best to keep to as he take flight from Vader , the only hold out extremity of his squad . Flees until he collapses , awaiting his own death at the Smith ’s Force powers .
Or so Vader thinks .
The gimmick comes when Tarkin reveals his design has n’t miscarry at all . He has engineered this routine of result - including , presumably , the massacre of his own men to draw Vader out - to have the Emperor ’s new apprentice comply him out into the rough , deadly patch of the planet ’s stark landscape . A position where lightning will essay out the tallest metal target it can find . Darth Vader may have The Force , but that does n’t say him when he ’s truly been outsmarted .
Tarkin is gracious as he stands over Vader ’s charred , smoke torso , calling in a shuttle to take them both off - planet and see Vader gets aesculapian attending . But the words catch in his pharynx as Vader , even sunburn and bloody , reaches out with The Force to show he has n’t been defeated just yet . An angry , arrogant Vader would obliterate him just to prove his own domination . But Vader output when Tarkin has also dropped beside him .
Perhaps it ’s acknowledgement that Tarkin earned his respect by besting him . Or perhaps Vader realizes that such a tactician could be a strong ally against those already plotting to secernate him from the Emperor . Either way , it seems Vader and Tarkin leave this encounter on a flight towards their future partnership .
Darth Vader#18is uncommitted now fromMarvel Comics .
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