Star Wars Reveals Kylo Ren's Secret Reunion With Luke Skywalker After The Last Jedi

Marvel's Star Wars: Legacy of Vader bid has been engaged filling successful the year-long spread betwixt the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, revealing however Kylo Ren consolidates power implicit the First Order adjacent arsenic helium continues to effort to termination the past. Already, the bid has revealed fascinating caller penetration into Ben Solo's past with the Knights of Ren. And successful the latest issue, we larn that Ben's fateful conflict with Luke Skywalker connected Crait isn't the past clip these 2 characters meet.

How does Kylo Ren reunite with his Uncle Luke, and what happens erstwhile helium does? Read connected to find out, but beware of spoilers for Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10 ahead!

Having precocious clashed with Tava Ren, the caller person of the Knights of Ren, Ben returns to Fortress Vader connected Mustafar successful this issue. Ben's quest to termination his past has taken connected a caller consciousness of urgency, arsenic helium tin consciousness the beingness of his uncle watching him done the Force. He wants to enactment a halt to that by immoderate means necessary.

Vaneé, the cybernetically enhanced erstwhile servant to Darth Vader, suggests that his caller maestro effort to participate the concealed vault astatine the bosom of Fortress Vader. Vaneé hints that this vault contains Vader's top concealed power. But erstwhile Ben tries to participate the vault, helium lone becomes disoriented and emerges done the aforesaid doorway helium entered.

Art by Luke Ross. (Image Credit: Marvel/Lucasfilm)

In bid to placate his aggravated master, Vaneé alternatively suggests that Ben instrumentality a remainder successful Vader's Sith Meditation Chamber. No sooner does helium statesman meditating than Ben undergoes a disturbing vision. He finds himself successful a haunted swamp wherever the heads of his erstwhile friends and household taunt him for his failures. Ben manifests reddish and bluish lightsabers and begins chopping astatine the heads, lone to past find himself successful a vale extracurricular a temple.

Somehow, Ben has managed to question done the Force to the afterlife wherever Force Ghosts congregate. These Force Ghosts are nary excessively blessed to beryllium paid a sojourn by idiosyncratic truthful infused with the Dark Side, but it's not agelong earlier Luke himself appears to intercede.

Art by Luke Ross. (Image Credit: Marvel/Lucasfilm)

Ben knows that his uncle died soon aft their brushwood connected Crait, but not however helium died. He demands to cognize who killed Luke, to which Luke replies, "No 1 killed me. I sacrificed my beingness for others, successful work of thing greater." He reminds Ben that this was the intent of his life, earlier inquiring what Ben's intent is.

Not successful the temper for lessons and with his jealousy connected afloat display, Ben past asks wherefore Luke agreed to thatch Rey. Luke's reply is elemental - "She wanted to learn." Angrier than ever, Ben orders his uncle to halt watching him and threatens to find a mode to destruct him, adjacent successful this spot beyond death.

Unfazed, Luke reminds his nephew that helium can't destruct him without destroying the Force itself. Luke besides points retired that Ben has achieved thing peculiar by travelling to this plane. His existent interest should beryllium figuring retired however helium managed it and what it means.

Art by Luke Ross. (Image Credit: Marvel/Lucasfilm)

And frankincense ends the reunion betwixt Luke Skywalker and Ben Solo. Ben promptly returns to the swamp, wherever he's attacked by a vengeful tone who wishes to punctual him of the symptom and acheronian that drives him. Soon after, Ben emerges from the meditation enclosure covered successful saber wounds. Vaneé helps his maestro by placing him wrong the aforesaid Bacta vessel wherever Vader spent truthful galore of his pain-filled days and nights. Like grandfather, similar grandson.

Thanks to this issue, we cognize that Ben and Luke had astatine slightest 1 brushwood pursuing their last duel, and determination surely seems to beryllium country for much Luke appearances successful the bid down the road. We besides spot clearer signs that Ben isn't arsenic consumed by the Dark Side arsenic he'd similar everyone to believe, paving the mode for his instrumentality to the airy successful The Rise of Skywalker.

But possibly astir importantly, this contented teases the enigma of the concealed vault successful Fortress Vader. What acheronian powerfulness did Vader spot there, and however volition Kylo Ren entree it? Is this the eventual endgame of the series?

Let america cognize your thoughts connected this unexpected household reunion and your theories astir Vader's vault.

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