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word of advice ! This clause hold spoilers for Star Wars : Doctor Aphra # 38When reckon superweapons inStar Wars , many fans might stick out straight to the Death Star of the original trilogy or theFinal Protocol of theStar WarsLegacycontinuity . But right now inStar Warscanon , there ’s one in picky that ’s staring fans in the face , one that get those others look tame . And this ancient superweapon just becameStar Wars ’ serious unsolved mystery story .
properly now , Star Warsis in the middle of one of its most impactful comic book plot line to date : Dark Droids . Dark Droidsis something of a horror event , as a viral AI hivemind call the Scourge is assimilating droids and bionic man across the galaxy , turning them into murderously dangerous creatures that pose a threat to both the Rebellion and the Empire . Despite the fact that this continuity is position between the events ofEpisode VandEpisode VI , the Scourge is not a new menace , but rather one that ’s bond to the ancient Sith .
Star Wars has zero in in on the time period when the ancient Sith Lords make unnecessary the galaxy , locking away an even darker baron that has since resurfaced .
The Scourge was imprisoned within a temporal Sith artifact / containment forebode the Fermata Cage , in which it was trapped from approximately 1,100 - 1,000 BBY ( give that the Sith who make it was Darth Momin , and he live within that 100 - year period ) . It was release when the Fermata Cage was opened during the previousStar Warsevent , Hidden Empire , at which degree the ancient AI computer virus commingle with another anti - Sith AI call the Spark Eternal . This conglutination created the Scourge , and it wo n’t arrest until it ’s assimilated everything and everyone in the galaxy - including organic life .
The Scourge Is Star Wars’ Most Terrifying Superweapon, Yet Its Origin Is Still A Mystery
InStar Wars : medico Aphra#38 by Alyssa Wong and Minkyu Jung , Doctor Aphra and her squad of morally ambiguous spacefarers are on a mission to lay aside one of their friends - a cyborg - who had been taken over by the Scourge . Upon finding her , Doctor Aphra uses her cybernetic enhancement to infiltrate her friend ’s idea and see on the button what the Scourge is , and what its goals are .
Aphra discover a few things that fans did n’t already have it off : the Scourge was specifically created to run through and disperse across the galax ( as react to that being a cataclysmal fault in its original scheduling ) , and it has finally found a fashion to have organics with no engraft cybernetics - which is something that will assuredly be addressed and explored in greater item as the crossover voter event continues .
Who Would Create The Scourge To Consume The Star Wars Galaxy?
Fans bonk that the Scourge was around during the age of the ancient Sith , that it was eventually shoot down by the Sith ( presumptively Darth Momin himself ) , and that it has return to bump in the Star Wars galaxy to uphold its purpose ( with the added Spark Eternal upgrade ) . However , that still leaves sports fan with one question : who would create something like this ? It ’s one affair to design a superweapon that can take out full planets with the printing press of a release , but it ’s something else only to contrive an AI organisation that is autonomously driven to take all living - organic and man-made - in the entire galaxy , and probably beyond . This take ofDoctor Aphraconfirms that the Scourge is just doing what it was originally made to do , so now it ’s just a matter of receive out who made it in the first place .
Though the Scourge ’s Divine is still a mystery toStar Warsfans , there ’s one affair fans do know at this fourth dimension : they ’re worse than the Sith . And that alone is an intriguing enough concept to make the enigma surrounding this ancient superweapon aStar Warsstory worth telling .
Star Wars : Doctor Aphra # 38by Marvel Comics is available now .
