"Seek Out the Boy": Palpatine Sent Vader on a Mission to Test Luke (Before RotJ)
Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Darth Vader #47 Summary In the latest issue ofStar Wars’canonicalDarth Vaderseries, Emperor Palpatine has finally given his Sith apprentice permission to seek out his son before the events ofReturn of the Jedi. Although the Dark Lord of the Sith and Luke had a brief starfighter dogfight in the weeks that followed Episode V, neither Vader nor Luke have truly been face to face since the younger Skywalker rejected his father on Cloud City....