Marvel Comics is celebrating ten years of Star Wars One-shot comics A new legacy Surrender – what Includes a story featuring the return of Darth Momin, Darth Vader’s heretic mentor. Excitingly, every story in this issue will spotlight Star Wars Characters who debuted in the comics in the last decade.
According to Marvel’s announcement, Star Wars: A New Legacy #1 features stories by Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen and Charles Soule, along with art by Salva Espin, Leonard Kirk and Ramon Rosanas. One of the stories is set to include Darth Momin, which has an incredible impact on Star Wars Study in the Marvel era.
Charles Soule’s story in A new legacy May introduce a new artifact created by Momin, adding to his devastating legacy in the Star Wars Universe.
Marvel’s upcoming Star Wars anthology one-shot will add to the legacy of Sith inventor Darth Momin
Star Wars: A New Legacy #1 – Written by Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, & Charles Soule; Art by Salva Espin, Leonard Kirk, & Ramon Rosanas
The Aldaraan setting of Charles Soule’s story in Star Wars: A New Legacy #1 makes it clear that it is set before the events of the original Star Wars Film. In the story, a gathering on the planet in honor of the Emperor – with attendees including the planet’s future destroyers, Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin – is also the setting of a heist plot, involving Doctor Aphra. A Sith artifact has been teased as playing a role in the tale, and one of the characters neutralized in the story is Darth Momin.
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Darth Momin is most famous in Star Wars Cannon as the inventor of the Fermata CageA prison, able to freeze a horse or a place in time, then release like no time. His next was a Dark Side-infused weapon with enough power to wipe out an entire city; The city would be frozen in time moments before their destruction, capturing their expression of fear. Before he could complete his plan, he was stopped by the Jedi, who caused him to lose control of his superweapon, destroying himself in the process, leaving only his mask with his spirit behind.
Darth Momin taught Vader a vital lesson, shaping the trajectory of the original trilogy
Star Wars: A New Legacy #1 – Main Cover by Steve McNiven; Variant covers by Neill Francis Yu & Kyle Hotz
Darth Momin’s mask was gifted to Darth Vader by Emperor Palpatine. Vader realized that Moomin’s spirit could possess anyone wearing his mask, and Moomin worked through him to design Fortress Vader. The fortress was designed to open a door through time with the Dark Side, so Vader could resurrect his late wife Padmé Amidala. Although the function of the fortress was true, Momin manipulated Vader and used the door to retrieve his body from the past. Vader ended up defeating Momin and reached through the door himself, found Padmé, but she denied coming back with him.
If the Sith artifact Doctor Aphra and Sana Starros are about to encounter was truly designed and sculpted by Momin herself, they are in for a tough challenge in the upcoming Star Wars: A New Legacy.
in this sense, Darth Momin taught Darth Vader an invaluable lesson, inadvertently becoming one of his mentors, as revealed by Marvel’s Star Wars comics. Although he failed time and again, thwarted by the Jedi and then Darth Vader, Darth Momin’s “works of art” always completed their intended tasks, and he always came just within reach of victory. The inventions of the Sith heresy obviously have a common theme of time manipulation, and if the Sith artifact Doctor Aphra and Sana Starros are about to encounter was indeed designed and sculpted by Momin herself, they are in for a tough challenge in the upcoming Star Wars: A new legacy Anthology.
Star Wars: A New Legacy #1 will be available January 29, 2025 from Marvel Comics.