Nomad Nomad is a four - part story from " Star Wars Tales " . It is the saga of Darca Nyl , a wandering mercenary and takes place approximately six months after . It consisted of a four - part serial in " Star Wars Tales 21 " , " 22 " , " 23 " , and " 24 " . It was collected into a single 82 - page comic for " Star Wars Tales Volume 6 " . Plot summary . 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 Territories 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 Leddar . 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 who ' s 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 .