1925, Reaper
An entire Imperial combat unit—more than forty Clone Troopers and two TX-130 Saber tanks—had been silently wiped out!
Aside from the burning tank wreckage, the scene was littered with the mangled corpses of Imperial Stormtroopers. It was utterly gruesome.
Yet this shadowy figure strolled through the hellish scene as though taking a leisurely walk. Countless wisps of black mist shrouded her body, making her true form impossible to see. But with every step she took, streams of black mist seemed to be drawn from the surrounding corpses and absorbed into her body.
As the black mist from over forty Imperial Stormtrooper corpses was absorbed, the shadowy figure's body seemed to become more solid.
Then the shadow let out a terrifying cackle, transformed into mist once more, and vanished into the jungle.
As the Galactic Empire's forces launched their attack on Kovietto, the capital of Felucia, reports of attacks kept arriving from their rear! Multiple Imperial supply convoys and reserve units had been ambushed and completely annihilated.
Furthermore, none of the attacked units had left survivors! Even the chaotic communications and footage sent back from the attack sites revealed nothing about the assailant's identity. Words such as ghost, Jedi Knight, and Lightsaber appeared amid the garbled reports, only making the situation more baffling.
Upon receiving the report while commanding operations on Osus Planet, Darth Vader immediately judged that the culprit was likely one of the Dark Jedi Knights who had joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After the Jedi Order had fallen, many Jedi Knights who survived Order 66 had fled to the Confederacy of Independent Systems and joined Count Dooku's ranks.
As a once highly respected Jedi Master, Count Dooku naturally had many willing followers.
Darth Vader dispatched four fallen Dark Jedi Knights to Felucia, ordering them to