Because the Scourge continues its makes an attempt to own all life in Star Wars‘ galaxy, Darth Vader is about to fall to the viral AI, turning into its first human host. Nevertheless, a will like Vader’s can’t be snuffed out simply, and the battle for management is seemingly about to unite the Scourge and the Sith in an enchanting new manner.
Coming from Grek Pak and Raffaele Ienco, Star Wars: Darth Vader #41 will see the Sith lord taken over by the Scourge. Usually touted as “extra machine than man,” Vader’s cybernetic components supply a possible bridge between artificial and robotic life for the Scourge, which can also be on the lookout for a technique to entry the Drive. The difficulty’s abstract declares “Darth Vader has been taken over by the Scourge,” but in addition asks “or has the Scourge been taken over by Darth Vader?” Not too long ago, Vader has proven the flexibility to take over droids which hack into his armor controls – if he’s able to doing the identical to the Scourge, he’ll be immediately granted a military giant sufficient to deliver Palpatine’s Empire to its knees. Nevertheless, it’s additionally potential the Scourge will as a substitute choose up parts of Vader’s persona, given a previous take a look at the Scourge’s ultimate kind exhibits it with black armor in a Sith-like design.
The Scourge is a mixture of two historical applied sciences, just lately fused collectively into a brand new kind. First, a viral consciousness locked within the time jail often known as the Fermata Cage by the traditional Sith, and second an AI often known as the Spark Everlasting, which was developed by the Ascendant cult. This group of non-Drive-sensitives sought to imitate the Sith, creating expertise that may very well be used to copy Drive powers, all run by way of the Spark AI. Sadly, the Sith came upon about their plans and destroyed the expertise, however the Spark went dormant and was later in a position to escape. Fusing the 2 collectively has unlocked the deadliest model of every, creating an insufferable ‘starvation’ that should continually be fed by spreading its affect. What’s extra, the Scourge is continually pissed off by the lack of its capacity to inhabit organic life, which it may do because the Spark.
Now, the Scourge’s starvation is focusing on Darth Vader, who may effectively be the Scourge’s final weapon. With a huge military of droids already enmeshed in each nook of the galaxy, the one factor stopping the Scourge from slaughtering all organic life is its want to unfold to as many individuals as potential. If Darth Vader affords the route to take action, the warfare is over, and the Scourge has gained. If not, then the Scourge remains to be about to recruit the galaxy’s most fearsome warrior to its facet, and at last get a direct line to the Drive itself, which stays in flux from the opening of the Fermata Cage.
Darkish Droids promised to deliver horror to the Star Wars universe, and the occasion has paid off a number of instances over – now, Darth Vader faces his personal private reckoning, as he turns into a thrall of the Scourge.
Star Wars: Darth Vader #41 is offered now from Marvel Comics.