Shadow Stalker Shadow Stalker was a one - shot comic originally serialized in " Star Wars Galaxy " and tied into the " " multimedia campaign by expanding on the character of Jix , introduced in the comic version of " Shadows of the Empire " . It also serves as the prequel of the comic strip " Iceworld " , showing the origins of the Frija Torlock replica droid . It was released on November 19 , 1997 by Dark Horse Comics . Publisher ' s summary . " Darth Vader has a covert agent to take care of his dirty work : Jix . Vader dispatches Jix to take care of an Imperial governor who has defected to the Rebel Alliance . But Jix finds a different , more important traitor , and winds up in a one - man war against a legion of stormtroopers . This one - shot collects the hit serial from Topps ' " Star Wars Galaxy " magazine . " Plot summary . Former Imperial Gunnery Sergeant Wrenga Jixton ( a . k . a . Jix ) is called before Darth Vader on Coruscant . He evades Vader ‘ s castle ‘ s security and meets the Dark Lord of the Sith in his meditation chamber ( much like the one that will be aboard the Executor ) . Vader wants Jix to go to Corulag and assassinate Imperial Governor Torlock , who is supposedly planning to defect to the Rebel Alliance . He wants the kill to look like the work of the Rebels . Jix makes it to Corulag and finds a landspeeder under attack by Rebels . Inside , he finds Frija Torlock and a hologram of the governor . Frija tells him that her father is suspected of treason and in hiding or in prison . Jix realizes that more is up than he believed when he notes the Rebels who attacked the speeder were actually Black Sun operatives . He takes her to relative safety and then heads for the prison where Governor Torlock has supposedly been taken . Upon breaking in , he finds that the Torlock in the prison is actually a human replica droid ( HRD ) of Torlock . He is captured by Imperial Admiral Droon , who is in league with the real Frija . ( The one he saved was another HRD . ) They are dropped into a pit with a dragon slug , but manage to survive . The Torlock HRD then tells Jix that the real Torlock had learned that the Rebels would soon attack Corulag , so he build the two HRDs and made an escape plan . He then learned that Droon and Frija had been conspiring to implicate him as a traitor so that Droon could rule Corulag in his place . Jix notes that since Vader wanted Torlock dead or captured ( which would ‘ ve left Droon in power either way ) , Droon ‘ s plan almost succeeded . Jix breaks into Droon ‘ s quarters and kills Frija when she tries to kill Droon for saying it was all her idea . He knocks out Droon and notices Droon ‘ s collection of lightsabers , taking one with him . Jix reunites the Torlock HRD and Frija HRD and they escape to Coruscant . Jix brings Droon to Vader , where Vader informs Droon of how Jix came to be in the Dark Lord ‘ s service . After the mission to Falleen and Jix ‘ s subsequent court - martial and escape from Kessel , Vader was on a mission to Aridus when he was nearly killed when a tower he was in exploded . He awoke aboard Jix ‘ s craft . Jix had been in hiding on Aridus , and in return for keeping the Empire from Jix ‘ s newfound " home " of Aridus , Jix would do whatever the Dark Lord commanded . Knowing that Vader will not let Droon live with this new knowledge , Jix gives Droon the lightsaber from Droon ‘ s quarters and walks out of the room as Vader ignites his lightsaber and kills Droon in a very uneven match . Outside , Jix is thanked by the two HRDs and lies when he tells the Frija HRD that Frija survived the encounter on Corulag . The Frija HRD is happy about this , hugs him , and she and her " father " depart from Coruscant . Behind the scenes . " " places this tale , " Almost three years after the Battle of Yavin . . . " .