"False Histories" is a comic story published in the first issue of the 2024 comic limited series Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Last Stand. The story was written by Alex Segura, illustrated by Leonard Kirk and Jim Campbell, and published by Marvel Comics on December 25, 2024.
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Grand Moff Ubrik Adelhard reflects on the feeble nature of memory, how it serves the narrative one wants to believe. As he reclaims his Imperial Star Destroyer Scepter from the traitorous clutches of the Anzati mystic Reyna Oskure, he thinks on how he has always preferred the harshness of reality to romanticism, even when inconvenient. He contemplates how in the chaos wrought by Emperor Palpatine's death, he envisioned a better version of the Empire. However, he found himself stranded on Gallowyss, a remote planet in his own Anoat sector, clinging to life due to being misled. He thought that when Darth Vader told him that the Empire has great plans for him, that it meant they foresaw greatness; instead, Vader meant they would use him as a pawn.
With everything taken from him, Adelhard's driving force becomes his thirst for revenge. Before the Trandoshan assassin Kranor stuffed him into an escape pod, Adelhard activated his own secret contingency plan in hopes to raze the Empire to create a new one from its ashes. He planned terrorist attacks on the New Republic's home, Chandrila, for instance. Adelhard orders Commander Bragh to burn it all. He thinks of his rise through the Imperial ranks and realizes it is time to find better way.
Elsewhere in the galaxy, Captain Stansel Malgreen and his bridge crew notice a rapidly-approaching Imperial ship while on their way to Jakku. The supposedly friendly ship opens fire, but Malgreen's ship cannot evade and they crash into it. Ubrik Adelhard recognizes that the Empire's contingency plans never involved him, but that they are centralized at Jakku. He intends to take his last stand there too, hoping to be the last party standing in the upcoming battle, or leave no one standing at all.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Battle of Jakku — Last Stand 1
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Star Wars: Battle of Jakku - Republic Under Siege (2024) #1 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
- ↑ The events of "False Histories" take place after the events of Battle of Jakku — Last Stand 1, which in turn occur between the attack on Chandrila and the Battle of Jakku, which are both dated to 5 ABY by Star Wars: Timelines.