Warning! Spoilers forward for Bounty Hunters #38!
Marvel’s Star Wars line of comics has launched a bunch of latest threats to the galaxy, together with the traditional droid revolutionary referred to as Ajax and his Second Revelation faction. The group’s warrior pedigree was expanded on additional within the newest concern of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, which depicts them going head-to-head with Separatist forces below Normal Grievous, in a forgotten chapter of Clone Wars historical past.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #38 – by Ethan Sacks and David Tinto – is the sequence’ contribution to Marvel’s Darkish Droids occasion. Ajax Sigma’s return to the galaxy, and to his Second Revelation followers, seems set to have main ramifications for Star Wars.
As the problem exhibits, they’ve already had a higher affect than beforehand realized.
Marvel’s Star Wars: Darkish Droids crossover occasion has more and more turn out to be a story of two droid armies. The viral synthetic intelligence referred to as the Scourge continues its drive for galactic domination; capable of infect droids and bend them to its will, it now seeks to do the identical with natural lifeforms. Ajax Sigma and his Second Revelation search the abolition of droid servitude within the galaxy via revolutionary means. Bounty Hunters #38 particulars the present occasions on Kligson’s Moon, the distant world remains to be residence to the remnants of Ajax Sigma’s misplaced campaign, whereas additionally flashing again to the moon’s surprisingly important function within the Clone Wars.
Throughout his first revolution, Ajax Sigma made his ultimate stand on Kligson’s Moon, the place he was in the end reduce down by the Jedi. The revolutionary’s followers continued to inhabit the moon till the time of the Clone Wars, when the remaining droids have been approached straight by Normal Grievous who proposed an alliance in opposition to their mutual Jedi foes. Grievous’s overture was met with disdain by the droids. Whereas that they had little curiosity in ongoing galactic affairs, as they awaited Ajax Sigma’s return, the droid revolutionaries loathed how the Separatists used their droids as disposable slaves. Despite his in depth cybernetic modifications they considered Grievous himself as a “stinking”, “rotting” natural.
Sigma’s loyal droids emphatically declined the provide to serve within the Separatists’ Droid Military, resulting in the 2 primarily mechanical forces participating in a pitched battle on the moon’s floor. Surprisingly, Grievous’ armies victory wouldn’t be his that day. In a curious twist, Sigma’s droids used Grievous’s personal ways in opposition to him. Individually, no droid on Kligson’s Moon was a match for Normal Grievous. Nevertheless, their numbers are legion– regardless of what number of droids Grievous scrapped, extra would rise to take their place: inevitably Grievous could be overwhelmed and finally succumb if he continued to struggle. This is similar strategy Grievous deployed on worlds throughout the galaxy, which resulted in numerous deaths.
Grievous, true to his nature, finally made a hasty retreat. This beforehand unknown encounter between Separatist forces, led by their most harmful conflict commander, and the droid revolutionaries loyal to Ajax Sigma, as seen in Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #38, is a formidable approach to bolster readers notion of them, as they seem on observe to play a pivotal function within the climax of Star Wars: Darkish Droids, and maybe past. Forcing Normal Grievous to retreat isn’t a small feat. Ajax Sigma’s droid revolutionaries completed it, and after a long time in seclusion they’re again, together with their chief. The affect Ajax Sigma could have on the way forward for Star Wars shouldn’t be understated.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #38 is offered now from Marvel Comics