Mace Windu 4 is the fourth and final 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 May 15, 2024.
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INTRODUCING THE SHROUD! Just as MACE and smuggler AZITA CRUUZ arrive at her freighter, they're beset by MURO, DIYA and the leader of their cult, THE SHROUD. The Shroud is something that Mace Windu was never trained for and isn't prepared for – and might push a JEDI KNIGHT to his breaking point!
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On Ro Mira at the Radial Spaceport, Mace Windu and Azita Cruuz are ambushed by Dusk Weavers Diya and Muro of the Had’le Path, and they believe that the technology they have has corrupted the galaxy and twisted it into a cold, disconnected, desolate place. A reset is necessary, with fire and blood, and the Coaxium Ultra is only the beginning. Mace vows to put a stop to this madness, and engages Diya who is wielding a weapon with energy that can compete with and resist a lightsaber. Diya explains that nature provides if you know where to look and your eyes aren’t blinded by progress.
Meanwhile, Muro, wielding two knives, pursues Azita who doesn’t think that she’s involved in this and is innocent. Muro says that no one is innocent as she flees inside of a ship. She uses the darkness and her thermal vision goggles to hide, allowing her to ambush Muro and take him captive. Outside, Windu and Diya duel on top of the ship, and he eventually gains the upper hand and knocks her to the ground down below. With both Dusk Weavers incapacitated, Mace calls his astromech to have him bring his starfighter to his location.
Just then, their captives begin to kneel as their leader, the weaver of dusk, approaches. A Devaronian called The Shroud tells Diya and Muro that they are no longer travelers on the Had’le Path, so he gives them the option to take their lives or take their leave, and they choose the latter. As The Shroud picks up Diya’s mysterious energy weapon, Mace questions who they were to him. The Shroud explains that followers need someone to follow, and leaders need someone to lead, with each reliant on each other, but he doesn’t care about either. Mace says that for being a cult fixated on eliminating technology, he sure is well informed, almost like he has access to a computer network.
When The Shroud said that he uses his enemy’s tools against him, Mace says that he isn’t his enemy, but is a Jedi. The Shroud calls him a believer, and the most deluded of them all, as one doesn’t believe in things that are true, as if a thing is, it is, whether you believe in it or not. He doesn’t have to believe in the air he breathes, but Mace has to believe in the order, in his masters in the Force. The Shroud claims that he and the other Jedi don’t know what the Force is, but he does since he looked deep into the heart of the Force, and stood at the edge of the abyss and surrendered himself to it. There is no light side or dark side, only power, and controlling the Force is a myth. As Mace duels with him, he knows that whatever his path has been, it has driven him dangerously mad.
Azita steps in and fires three shots into The Shroud’s chest, but this has no effect on him, so Mace orders her to get into his ship with R8-B7. As their fight picks back up, Mace realizes that The Shroud must have been a Jedi, and he learns that he almost was but had too many questions that no one could answer, and he ended up finding them on the path, and now Windu is in his way. He tells Mace that he might be useful on the path, and they could return worlds like Haruun Kal to grace, and he would invite him in to join, but his mind would snap after being exposed to the truth of the Force.
Having heard enough, Mace uses his lightsaber to cut all of the ship’s landing gear, causing it to collapse on The Shroud, but to Mace’s surprise, he uses the Force to lift it up off of himself. However, Azita returns in Mace’s starfighter and fires on the ship, destroying it and sending it up in flames. After she touches down, Mace confirms with her that she has the Coaxium Ultra sample and formula, and that the Jedi will be the only ones to have it. He then tells her that after they deliver it to the Jedi Order and he gets some answers on The Shroud, they’ll pay Haruun Kal a visit and do some good. As they fly off in his starfighter, the hand of The Shroud emerges from the debris down below.
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- ↑ 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) #4 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
- ↑ Mace Windu 4 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 4 must take place by that year.
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