Written by Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison, art and cover by Douglas Wheatley, colored by Ronda Pattison.
"The Path to Nowhere," part 2 of 5. Despite his acceptance of the Sith ways, Darth Vader is shocked to find the Empire - and himself - complicit in an evil he thought he had put behind him . . . A Separatist freedom fighter deals with the realization that the sacrifice made by his brothers-in-arms has been for nothing - and that their families are paying the price for their resistance... The crew of a smuggler's ship is forced to take sides in a conflict they have sought to avoid - and which has already changed the course of all their lives...The dawn of the Empire plunges the galaxy into dark times, and every direction leads to danger!