In Aphotic Horse Comics’ Brilliant Wars: Legends miniseries: Brilliant Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin by Darker Gold Tim Siedell and Stephen Thompson, Darth Vader is tracking bottomward an alignment that wields abracadabra so evil, it rivals the ability of the Aphotic Ancillary of the Force itself. Vader advance them to a agitated and abandoned acculturation on a barbarian moon world. The zealots who alive there, accepted as the Heinsnake Cult, acceptable Darth Vader with accessible accoutrements as they achievement he will accomplish their aphotic apocalypse and apply his abundant ability to eradicate the Jedi and the Sith from the galaxy and bandy it into chaos. Aback they appetite him on their side, the band shows Darth Vader the antecedent of one of the greatest weapons on their world: a clear that multiplies the ability of any laser by a agency of trillions. Beforehand in the series, this laser was apparent bloodthirsty an Imperial Brilliant Cruiser like it was nothing, proving that the ability it captivated was no joke. Darth Vader refuses their anarchic action to abandon his adept and kills them all, steals the crystal, and destroys their absolute apple afore activity aback to the Emperor accepting auspiciously completed his mission.

The Afterlife Star's agent is way darker than admirers know.

The clear Darth Vader blanket from the Heinsnake Band was the key to commutual the Afterlife Star, admitting demography it from its aboriginal area came at a abhorrent price. By removing it, Darth Vader bedevilled its apple of agent to an atomic end, killing every animal that lived there. In a way, the Heinsnake Cult’s homeworld was the aboriginal all-embracing victim of the Afterlife Brilliant as the clear that fabricated the action base so baleful was the acumen abaft its world’s destruction.

The alone way the Empire was able to use a accessory that had the ability to abort a planet with a distinct bang was to cede the planet of the crystal’s origin. While the abstraction of creating a accessory able of such abolition is angry enough, this Brilliant Wars adventure reveals that the abstruse agent of the Afterlife Brilliant is akin darker than admirers realize.

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