With the rise in AI, everyone is a little bit terrified about what machines can do and apparently now it’s apparently even affecting Star Wars, both Jedi and Sith alike. This summer, a malevolent being known as The Scourge threatens to conquer the galaxy.
Set between both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi, this Scourge is a menace whose corruption is going from droid to cyborg and even human, all with the goal to control The Force. Which is sort of similar to the nefarious plot revealed via Moff Tarkin in the latest season of The Mandalorian.
Threatening both Empire and Rebels alike, including Darth Vader himself (who is part-machine), the series created by writer Charles Soule and artist Luke Ross promises to be a horror tale unlike anything ever told in Star Wars as all droids and machines are taken over by this new threat. Organic life’s only hope comes from Ajax Sigma.
Star Wars one-time leader of the droid rebellion and possibly the only free-willed machine capable of stopping the threat of The Scourge. How and why is unknown. As is the reason why Jabba The Hutt wanted to acquire Ajax so badly.
Check out the covers now and witness the start of a dark chapter in Star Wars storytelling when STAR WARS: DARK DROIDS #1 hits stands on August 2.
STAR WARS: DARK DROIDS #1 (OF 5) – 75960620562200112
Written by CHARLES SOULE
Art by LUKE ROSS
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Variant Cover by JIM CHEUNG
On Sale 8/2
STAR WARS: DARK DROIDS #2 (OF 5) – 75960620562200211
Written by CHARLES SOULE
Art by LUKE ROSS
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
On Sale 9/6
