Mace Windu 3 is the third 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 April 17, 2024.
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ONE OF THE GREATEST JEDI MUST STOP AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET FROM FALLING INTO THE WRONG HANDS! On the refinery moon RO MIRA, MACE WINDU and smuggler AZITA CRUUZ – carrying the formula to a paradigm-smashing energy source – are on the run from Ro Mira's security forces and a HUTT-hired BOUNTY HUNTER. Can MACE dispatch a squadron of fighters led by the ruthless Anzellan YAYA SHRAM with nothing by his LIGHTSABER and THE FORCE? Introducing MURO and DIYA, DUSK WEAVERS OF THE HAD'LE PATH, a cult obsessed with wiping technology from the face of the galaxy!
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On Ro Mira, Mace Windu and Azita Cruuz emerge from the ice caves and uncover a waiting speeder hidden with a white tarp to blend in with the snow. As the two get in and speed off across the ice flats, Mace questions her on what she’ll do after selling the Coaxium Ultra, and she responds that she’s going to survive. She lives a small life, only poking her head out of the sand every once in a while to restock her cargo and fill her fuel reserves. Mace thinks this sounds lonely, but Azita thinks otherwise and that it sounds perfect as she’s always been alone.
Bringing up Haruun Kal, Windu asks if she was lonely back then, and she explains that growing up in the capital city of Pelek Baw, there were scores of kids who had to grow up without any parents. Her parents died during the crossing, and she arrived an orphan. Due to other kids being cruel to her because she was different, she became her own best friend and took in the sunrises off the southern gas marshes and fished the shores of Lake Haruuni. Just then, they are interrupted by approaching unwanted company, and two ships fly overhead, announcing that they are Ro Mira Refinery Security. They open fire and purposefully miss the speeder, warning them to surrender and return the stolen property, and if they do then they’ll be pardoned of any crimes. With no other options, Mace tells Azita that he can get her out of this only if she agrees to sell everything to the Jedi Order. Agreeing after a pause, Mace contacts the ships and introduces himself, saying that the speeder is now under his protection, and any further hostilities will be considered as an act of aggression against the Jedi Order. After some time, the refinery authorities agree to yield to the authority of Mace and the Jedi Order, and they stand down and return to base.
Just as things start to seem peaceful, both of the ships are unexpectedly blasted out of the sky by Yaya Shram and his squadron of fighters. They alert Windu and Cruuz that they have something that Jabba the Hutt wants, and begin to open fire on them, not caring that the speeder is under the protection of the Jedi. Not able to keep dodging their shots forever, Mace tells Azita to slow up, and he leaps onto one of the ships while telling himself that the secret to doing the impossible lies not in believing in the impossible, and knowing that doubt is what wakes you up when you’re living the dream. As he leaps from ship to ship, he uses his lightsaber to cut the ships apart, taking them out of the sky, and saying that the dream is being a beacon in the night for those afraid of the dark. Coming up on the ship of the Anzellan bounty hunter Yaya Shram, Mace shatters the glass of his cockpit, but Yaya tells him that he’s incurred the wrath of Jabba and Yaya before ejecting from the ship. With all of the ships destroyed and the threat gone, Mace returns to the speeder down below, just before the self-destruct of Yaya’s ship goes off.
The two then travel to Ro Mira’s Radial Spaceport, and pay a man forty credits for speeder parking, but allow him to keep it since they won’t be coming back. Mace goes over the plan to verify her payload and the Coaxium Ultra formula, and then the two of them fly to Coruscant to make the delivery, and finally she’ll get paid. As they prepare to board a ship, they are ambushed by Muro and Diya, Dusk Weavers from the Had’le Path. Muro says that it’s a pity that they don’t understand why their time is so short, and Diya answers that they don’t know how corrupted they’ve been by the technology of their decaying world. But together they’ll show them the path back to nature and grace - one paved with pain.
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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) #3 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
- ↑ Mace Windu 3 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 3 must take place by that year.
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