![]() Our protagonist attempts to use his recent upgrades to go up against Vader in combat, but the dark side of the Force and a certain red-bladed lightsaber are just too much for him to overcome, and he ends up capitulating to the Dark Lord’s insistent demands. Now Vader has literally taken his heart, not to mention made copies of his memories, in an effort to conscript Valance in his quest to take down the criminal enterprise known as Crimson Dawn (see today’s new issue of Star Wars: Darth Vader for more on that particular vendetta). He refuses to serve the Empire again, reminding Vader that last time around he was left for dead by his squadmates (except Han Solo, who led an effort to rescue him, which is what led Beilert to attempt to return the favor and got him in all this trouble in the first place), transformed into part machine, and discarded. And in the newest issue of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, out today, we get to see Valance’s reaction to all that.īounty Hunters #18 opens with a flashback to Beilert’s youth, when he idolized the Empire and was inspired by an Imperial “hero” named Captain Tarl Sokoli who eliminated the pirates occupying the mines of his home planet of Chorin.Ĭut to roughly 20 years later, when Valance is held captive in a tiny cell aboard Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer Executor. ![]() At the end of Marvel’s War of the Bounty Hunters crossover event, the cyborg Beilert Valance was captured by Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire, reconstructed after briefly dying on the operating table, and forced into apparent servitude.
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