Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10
REIGN OF KYLO REN PART 10
Even after killing Snoke and taking the mantle of Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren still struggles with forging his own path in the shadow of his family’s legacy.
Kylo’s quest to kill the past led him to Darth Vader’s former home, where the young tyrant met the erstwhile aide of the Dark Lord, a man by the name of Vaneé.
After harrowing excursions on Tatooine, Naboo and Corellia and coming face- to-face with the new leader of the Knights of Ren, Kylo has returned to Fortress Vader to learn more of the Dark Lord’s secrets….
Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Luke Ross
Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Colorist: Nolan Woodward
Cover artist: Derrick Chew
Editor: Mark Pannicia
Publication date: November 5th 2025
In what’s sure to be an issue that garners great interest due to its connection to the wider Ben Solo story (and perhaps a way for him to return), issue 10 of Legacy of Vader kicks off on Mustafar as Kylo Ren searches for answers to a mystery that is irritating him to the point of distraction. He senses that his dead uncle Luke Skywalker is watching him, and fuelled with rage he is determined to make certain that Skywalker is gone for good, in every sense possible. With Vaneé assisting where he can, Ren asks for help and is angered by the reply, that Vaneé was merely a servant and knows little of Vader’s true machinations. Ren points out how Vaneé is judicious with his assistance, before entering a vault where Vaneé believes Kylo will find his answers, but after walking a spiral, winding path he exits where he entered, much to his annoyance. Vaneé exlains that the vault decides who enters and show genuine fear as Ren uses the Force to cast him to the ground, cracking his dome, liquid leaking out.
We next see Ren in Vader’s meditation chamber, a place that Vaneé explains the dark lord would spent many hours and even days alone. Kylo closes his eyes, imploring his grandfather to bring him Skywalker, and he opens his eyes to find himself in a swamp, hideous spinal skeletons with the skeletal faces of his mother, father and more goading and striking at him. He ignites his lightsaber, but not only his red-bladed crossguard but his blue saber as well. He hacks them to pieces, realising that this isn’t the place where he will find his uncle, and we see a vision of Luke, eyes closed at peace in a restful realm, and hear Kylo’s words – “The warrior, the seeker, Luke Skywalker. The inspiration, the teacher, the Jedi, the enemy.”
Here we see a temple, and numerous spectral shapes glowing in the Force, and as one approaches Kylo lashes out with his blade, to zero effect. The figure seemes surprised; “You should not be able to come here” it says, and as we see a quartet of figures, one of which is clearly Yoda – and perhaps amongst the others are Anakin and Obi-Wan – one steps forward to coalesce into Luke Skywalker. He doesn’t seem at all surprised that Kylo is there, and as Kylo demands to know who killed him explains that no one did, he sacrificed himself for family, for a cause he believed him and countless trillions who he would never know, all to bring back the light. Kylo is furious, telling his uncle to stop teaching him.
Luke agrees, telling Kylo that their time is over, but not hers – Rey’s – and the reason being, while Kylo never wanted to learn, she does. Ren reiterates his hatred for his uncle, telling Luke how he will find a way to destroy him, to which Luke calmly ponders on the importance of Ren even being able to reach this place, and answers “Kylo Ren means nothing to me, but I’ll always be there for Ben.”
Suddenly, Kylo is back in the swamp, a huge figure looming above him brandishing a lightsaber, chiding him for trying to return to the light and abandon his pain and vowing to remind him, and we cut back to the meditation chamber as a bloodied Kylo is hauled out by Vaneé and laid on a table to be healed, and we end with a striking image; Kylo Ren, masked and inside the bacta tank his grandfather used to heal himself so often, his eyes wide as Vaneé tells him he’s exactly where he needs to be.
As a part of the wider canon – and therefore every bit as important as any other comic, book, TV series, video game or film – this is a key story. Here we can surmise that Luke has passed into the Force to commune with other Jedi (and quite possibly his father and his two masters Kenobi and Yoda), but also that Kylo Ren has the capacity within him to still reach this realm, despite the evil he has wrought and the path he has taken. That makes sense; the end of The Rise of Skywalker saw him dissolve into the Force just as Master Yoda and his Uncle Luke had, which not only likely gave Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh the initial idea to expand the story of Ben Solo, but you could argue illustrates that the will of the Force not only shows mercy but has greater plans for people than even they know.
Of course, the significance of this wonderful issue from Charles Soule and Luke Ross has been elevated by the recent revelation that Driver and Soderbergh in concert with Lucasfilm were working on a Ben Solo movie, but even without that this is a hugely important issue, not only of Legacy of Vader but also the wider story. It could be a fever dream, a formless construct of the mind, a realm like the World Between Worlds – it doesn’t matter. Luke and Kylo Ren ‘met’ once again after Luke’s sacrifice, and the olive branch has been laid down. “Kylo Ren means nothing to me, but I’ll always be there for Ben.”
Watch this space.
