Empire's End (Star Wars: Dark Empire Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)At the end of Dark Empire II, the evil Emperor Palpatine stood poised on the brink of victory over the New Republic. Once more, his technical innovators have built a superweapon -- a Galaxy Gun that fires "intelligent" planet-killing missiles -- that threatens the former Rebel Alliance with total annihilation. And once more, the familiar cast of heroes (Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the rest of the Star Wars crew) must race to stop Palpatine once and for all.
For both sides, this is a conflict for all the marbles, you might say. For Palpatine, it's his final chance to retain flesh-and-blood life. His once-large collection of clones has been destroyed by either Luke Skywalker or renegade Imperial court members, and the clone body he currently "lives in" is breaking down and becoming unstable. His last hope is Han and Leia's newborn, named for his late grandfather Anakin. If he can take over the child's body with his dark side essence, Palpatine can carry out his plan to take back the galaxy. By cloning his new body, he can also rule the Empire forever.
Of course, even the best of Palpatine's plans can be thwarted, and Tom Veitch and Jim Baikie leave no doubt as to which side will prevail in Empire's End. By far the shortest of the three installments in the Dark Empire series, it is also very true to the Star Wars template....good triumphs over evil, there are some awesome space battles, and, of course, a climactic lightsaber duel. The story's brevity (I believe the original comic series was only two issues long) is somewhat surprising, as is the change in look, since artist Jim Baikie's style is very different from Cam Kennedy's.

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Emperor Palpatine has a new weapon -- one that can annihilate a planet. But he's not targeting a planet -- he's targeting the future of the Jedi, Leia's children. It looks like a hopeless situation for Luke Skywalker, who has the critical task of protecting the children. But it's not the first time Luke has found hope where none existed. The finale to the Dark Empire trilogy is collected here.

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