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Synopsis:
A ship on a mission to return the deadly prisoner called
Lycan to Coruscant crashes on the lands of Darca Nyl and
he finds a dying Jedi Knight in the wreckage. The Jedi
tells him of Lycan and gives Nyl his lightsaber. Nyl
rushes back home and finds his son slain by Lycan, which
causes Darca to pursue him.
Darca Nyl's pursuit leads him to a inhospitable,
colonized planet in the Outer Rim rich with ore, where
he soon meets Samuel, the owner of the planet's mining
facility. Samuel mistakes the lightsaber-wielding Nyl
for a Jedi after he ends a conflict between Samuel's men
and a boy accused of conspiring in the kidnapping of
Samuel's daughter Leddar. Samuel reveals that Lycan has
already left the planet a week earlier on a supply ship,
but he asks Nyl to help return his daughter before he
tells him Lycan's destination. Darca Nyl accepts the
deal and ventures with Samuel outside the facility in
protective suits to find Ledd. After a brief fight they
managed to disarm the kidnapper and rescue Leddar.
Samuel finally reveals that Lycan was heading for
Molavar.
Darca Nyl's pursuit is interrupted when the crew of the
ship he is on turns against him. He manages to take care
of them, but the ship crashes on an unknown planet. He
soon meets a woman named Jaren and her brother Ament who
he rescues from a man on a speeder bike. The siblings
lie about their reason of being chased, but they tell
Nyl he can find a freighter in their hometown. The
following night Nyl's emotional difficulties finally
catch up with him when Jaren shows him a trick: An image
of his son in a campfire. Upon seeing the image he is
compelled to face his feelings of guilt and rage. The
next day, Ament leaves and doesn't return. Darca, while
searching for Ament, finds a bear-like creature that
attacks him. He ends up killing the creature with the
lightsaber, but runs back to the campfire when he hears
Jaren scream. Ament had returned and was killing a
similar bear-like creature that threatened Jaren's life.
It turned out that Ament was a murderer and that Jaren
had helped him escape from prison. Ament suffered of
guilty conscience and Darca Nyl took him and Jaren to
the bikers who were chasing them earlier, who were able
to show Nyl where he could get a ride to Molavar.
On Molavar Darca Nyl continues his pursuit of Lycan, who
had wreaked havoc in a local casino. Lycan had taken a
ship of one of the people he killed in the casino and
landed in the middle of the desert and in order to reach
it Nyl joins a convoy led by a Molavaran called Tooth.
Four days later Tooth's convoy finds Lycan's ship, and
Darca leaves to pursue on his own. He is soon found by a
moisture farmer named Byrom, whose wife has just
encountered Lycan in the desert. Byrom is troubled by a
Molavaran gangster named Sleeth, whose mother is the
reigning crime-lady of Malcraan. When Sleeth arrives to
ask for protection money, Nyl chases them away and
humiliates Sleeth. Darca wants to help defend Byrom, but
Byrom insists that he continue his search for Lycan. Nyl
leaves, and soon Sleeth's mother arrives to exact
revenge. However, Darca returns with Tooth's convoy and
Tooth forms an alliance with Byrom against Sleeth's
mother. Darca leaves again in a borrowed landspeeder to
pursue Lycan.
Almost a week later, Darca comes across Lycan in the
desert and engages him in a fierce lightsaber fight.
Darca rushes into a cave where he lays mines and awaits
Lycan's arrival. Lycan enters the cave and overpowers
Darca with his lightsaber. Lycan then interrogates Darca
in order to try and restore his memory that he lost when
the transport ship crashed. When Lycan remembers his
name and purpose, he goes to kill Darca. Darca then sets
off the mines, killing Lycan and allowing him to make
his escape.
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