Whereas the Sith will be the final villains of the Star Wars motion pictures, it seems that the galaxy owes its survival to the despicable Darkish Facet cult. An historic spiritual order devoted to unfettered emotion and the acquisition of energy in any respect prices, the Sith’s energy has waxed and waned over the millennia, taking them from a serious galactic pressure to a near-mythical relic of the previous and again once more.

In Charles Soule, Luke Ross, Alex Sinclair, and Travis Lanham’s Star Wars: Darkish Droids #2, the brand new villain Scourge shares a few of its previous. Scourge is a brand new composite being created by the merging of two historic applied sciences. One is the Spark Everlasting, an historic synthetic intelligence designed to interchange the Pressure, whereas the opposite is an unnamed viral consciousness which is pushed to always unfold and ‘eat’ new droids, including them to its hive thoughts as its main crucial. The 2 lately mixed because of Woman Qi’ra’s try and overthrow the Sith, creating the newly born Scourge – a being with the identical voracious starvation, however now prolonged to organic life. Nevertheless, because the Scourge thinks again on its viral half’s origins, it reveals that the final time it ran wild, the Sith have been those to defeat it.

The Sith Stopped The Unique Scourge from Spreading

In an effort to lure and kill Palpatine, Qi’ra used a tool often called the Fermata Cage. The Darkish Facet expertise is basically a time jail, trapping its sufferer in a single suspended second, stretched out to eternity. Nevertheless, when the Fermata Cage opened, the one factor that fell out was a small, disc-shaped droid – a tool followers now know to have contained the final of the viral intelligence defeated by the Sith. Scourge reveals that the Sith initially beat it utilizing the Pressure, saving the complete galaxy from its starvation.

By connecting to increasingly droids, Scourge is quickly rising its intelligence, however it now has entry to a lot info, it fears its sentience will finish us subtle amongst its many our bodies and minds, leaving it open to assault. The Scourge can’t cease ‘consuming,’ and so its solely attainable endgame is to soak up or wipe out all types of life aside from itself. As soon as that is achieved, it could discover its personal limitless mind with out coming to any hurt.

Scourge Needs to ‘Eat’ The Total Star Wars Galaxy

The opposite half of the Scourge – the Spark Everlasting – was additionally defeated by the Sith. Designed by the Ascendant cult – a gaggle of non-Pressure sensitives who needed to duplicate the Pressure by means of expertise – the AI was incomplete when Sith Darkseekers worn out its creators and locked it away, however was reawakened and gained a organic physique when it encountered the thief Chelli Lona Aphra. Whereas the Sith could also be self-serving, their spiritual beliefs do venerate the Pressure, and on the peak of their energy they despatched out cadres of Darkseekers to wipe out any risk to their beliefs and steal any useful discoveries. Within the case of the Scourge, nevertheless, they appear to have judged each the unique virus and the Spark Everlasting too harmful, sealing them away slightly than attempting to make use of them.

It is Time for the Sith to Save the Galaxy… Once more

The variety of Sith proven stopping the Spark Everlasting and the unique Scourge virus suggests these occasions occurred earlier than Darth Bane launched the Rule of Two round 1000 BBY – a millennium earlier than the prequel trilogy. Whereas the Sith have achieved horrible issues, the Scourge makes it clear that its starvation will drive it to beat all different types of life, suggesting they really saved the galaxy by defeating it the primary time. Now, the Scourge is hoping to make use of the cyborg Darth Vader to unfold to natural life and management the Pressure.

If Vader is the one to defeat the Scourge’s new type, that can imply the Sith as soon as once more saved the galaxy from a good bigger risk – one which, not like their very own cult, cannot be overthrown at a later date. It is even attainable because of this the Pressure permits the Sith to exist, offering it with aggressive safety towards existential threats. Regardless of the fact, Star Wars has confirmed that it was the traditional Sith who saved the galaxy from the Scourge virus earlier than, and that combating off this immense risk a second time is prone to fall on them as soon as once more.

Star Wars: Darkish Droids #2 is on the market now from Marvel Comics.