Mace Windu 2 is the second issue of the 2024 comic miniseries Star Wars: Mace Windu. The issue was written by Marc Bernardin, illustrated by Georges Jeanty, Dexter Vines, and Andrew Dalhouse, and published by Marvel Comics on March 13, 2024.
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INTO THE STORM AGAINST THE BORE WORM! MACE WINDU & AZITA CRUZ [sic] must work together to escape the menace of the BORE WORM! But what else lies in their path and who is following them? And what is COAXIUM ULTRA?
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Inside of an abandoned warehouse, Mace Windu uses the Force to lift up the wreckage of the broken refinery security’s speeder, and Azita Cruuz questions if that makes him tired. He explains that it’s like a muscle, where a few flexes are fine, but doing too much can cause you to reach failure. Channeling the Force is a matter of will - knowing when to push, pull, and let go. After cleaning up the scene, the two slip through a crack in the wall and reach a set of caves in the ice.
Mace finally introduces himself, and as the two cross a river of blue lava, Cruuz explains that it’s the hottest part of a flame, and Dr. Bishop picked this moon because the highest heat yields the purest product. Windu asks for her side of the story and how she ended up in this situation, and she starts with the basic answer of hearing from some guy in some place about some thing, in order not to give away details. She is able to get things for people, sometimes legal and other times illegal, so when she heard of the scientist, she drugged Dr. Bishop, causing him to have zero memory of creating Coaxium Ultra or anything else from the past six months. Mace believes that that’s immoral, but Cruuz brings up that most things that happen to people happen against their will, and uses an example by asking if Mace volunteered to become a Jedi.
Before he can answer, they are interrupted by attacking Bore Worms, and the two take off running through the tight tunnels of the ice caves. Mace attempts to cut one down using his lightsaber, but it only bounces off and is unable to penetrate the skin. He is then hit by their tails and flung into the wall. As he recovers, he tells Azita that he has a feeling she’d known about their impenetrable skin, but she only responds that he never asked. As the worms come back around to attack again, Mace uses the Force to connect with one worm and calm it, causing it to go unconscious. Azita then starts to shoot at the other one to get its attention, and explains that the energy coursing through the lava both engorged the worms and hardened their skin. Leading it straight to Windu, he once again uses the Force to make it lose consciousness. When Mace asks if she knows where she’s going, she says that she wouldn’t be a smuggler if she didn’t know how to get the rest of what she was smuggling. Mace then clues in that there’s still more Coaxium Ultra stashed somewhere else.
Elsewhere on Tatooine at the palace of Jabba of the Hutt, a man named Cuthus approaches the Anzellan Yaya Shram, and explains that he’s offering him a job due to his reputation for discretion. His task is to recover and bring back the Coaxium Ultra from Ro Mira, and if he fails, then it’s better for both of them if Jabba never knew about the job in the first place.
Back in the ice caves, Cruuz and Windu come across a large gap and hear the Bore Worms starting to wake up, prompting Windu to come up with an idea to use an ice pillar as a bridge. Azita takes out her supply of Coaxium Ultra and pours a drop onto the blade of her knife. She then flings the drop at the ice ceiling, causing the pillar to drop and allowing for Mace to use the Force and position it into place, allowing them to cross the gap safely. The Bore Worms then arrive, but Mace uses his lightsaber to cut down the pillar before the worms can cross, leaving them on the other side. He explains that while it would’ve been easier to kill them, they are still animals acting with no ill intent, and a Jedi doesn’t kill because it’s convenient. A Jedi only takes a life when there is no other course of action, and while they may call it a lightsaber, in truth it’s a shield and a means of protection. He then proceeds to answer her earlier question, that he did not choose to join the Jedi Order. She asks if he ever wonders what life would’ve been like if that decision wasn’t taken away from him, but he answers that they are who they are on life’s path. She then says that she doesn’t know who she’s going to give the Coaxium Ultra formula to, but is warming up to giving it to someone from their homeworld of Haruun Kal. Mace is taken aback at this revelation, and she shows him her scar that is only given out to toddlers on Haruun Kal, just like his that she spotted earlier.
As the two climb up an ice wall using their tools, she explains that most Haruun Kal children grew up hard, and leaving was a matter of will and sacrifice. Once at the top, they are secretly watched by two people who become acquainted with the fact that there’s a Jedi involved in this. The male Twi’lek believes that they should alert The Shroud of this, but Diya says that they are Dusk Weavers of the Had’le Path, and don’t taint their hearts and minds with the abominations of science and their so-called science. If The Shroud is supposed to know, then they already do. They then settle on waiting to let the two take them to the rest of the Coaxium Ultra, and will then purify the galaxy with fire.
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New 'Star Wars' Women's History Month Covers Celebrate Icons of a Galaxy Far, Far Away on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)- "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 224
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars: Mace Windu (2024) #2 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
- ↑ Mace Windu 2 establishes its events take place prior to Mace Windu's entry into the Jedi High Council. Master & Apprentice establishes that Windu is part of the Jedi Council at the time of Nim Pianna's death, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 48 BBY. Therefore, the events of Mace Windu 2 must take place by that year.
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