- "Lieutenant…you trailed off. You were giving us the parameters of the mission."
"Yes…Lord Vader asked for your unit by name…to track down the target, if he was not already destroyed, and to wipe his memory wetware completely."
"His memory?"
"He may have witnessed something he shouldn't have. And if he did, then his processor would have recorded it. Classified information that would be…problematic…in the hands of the Rebellion."
"That will not be allowed to happen—Inferno Squad will make sure of it." - ―Iden Versio and Jyala Haydenn
Between 3 ABY and 4 ABY,[1] a hunt for Valance[2] was carried out by the Imperial Special Forces unit Inferno Squad to hunt the cyborg Beilert Valance, who had previously served in the Galactic Empire but had gone rogue after he learned that his former lover, Yuralla Vega, had been killed by the Empire. The purpose of the mission was for Inferno Squad, who had been specifically requested for the mission by the Sith Lord Darth Vader, to prevent the Rebel Alliance from potentially learning about classified Imperial information that Valance may have recorded previously by hunting him down and wiping his memory.[4] During the hunt, Inferno Squad ambushed Valance and the crew of the bounty hunter T'onga, who were assisting Valance after they had rescued him on Bestine, at the black-market spaceport Depatar[3] and succeeded in wiping his memories.[2]
Appearances[]
- Revelations (2022) 1 (First mentioned) (Vision to Darth Vader)
- Bounty Hunters 31 (Mentioned only)
- Bounty Hunters 32 (First appearance)
- Bounty Hunters 33
- Bounty Hunters 34 (First identified as hunt for Valance)
- Bounty Hunters 35 (Indirectly mentioned only; in the opening crawl)
Sources[]
- Inferno Squad Strikes Back in Marvel's April 2023 Star Wars Comics – Exclusive Preview on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Master Yoda and Anakin Skywalker Team Up in Marvel's June 2023 Star Wars Comics – Exclusive Preview on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Iden Versio Finds Her Target in Marvel's Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #34 — Exclusive Preview on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 219
- "Sacks Appeal" — Star Wars Insider 224
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The events of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, including the hunt for Valance, take place after the Escape from Cloud City and before the Rescue of Han Solo, which are dated to 3 ABY and 4 ABY, respectively, by Star Wars: Galactic Atlas.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bounty Hunters 34
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bounty Hunters 33
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Bounty Hunters 31
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 Bounty Hunters 32