Crimson Empire III : Empire Lost Crimson Empire III : Empire Lost is the sequel to " Crimson Empire " and " " set in the wake of the Battle of Nam Chorios . Like its predecessors , it is a 6 - part miniseries co - written by Mike Richardson and Randy Stradley . Though originally canceled , the series was revived for a 2011 - 12 release . About the time that the first issue was released , Dark Horse created a caption contest for two lucky people to win a copy of the first issue signed by three of the creators . Plot . Two years after the events of Council of Blood , Kir Kanos is sought by a man named Ennix Devian , who is a threat to the galaxy large enough for Vima - Da - Boda to warn Jedi Master Luke Skywalker of Devian , the leader of a splinter faction of the Imperial Remnant known as the Restored Empire , wishes to reform the Empire under the ideals of Palpatine in the same vein as Kanos . To this end , Devian hires bounty hunter Boba Fett to retrieve Kanos , who was operating under his " Kenix Kil " pseudonym in the backwater region of Meenka , and bring him to the Restored Empire homebase of RZ7 - 6113 - 23 . There , Kanos is acquainted with a massive army and fleet made up of Clone Wars - era hardware , which Devian plans to use to attack the homeworlds of both the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic and create a new order . Meanwhile , political turmoil erupts on various worlds due to the influence of Nom Anor , a man of unknown origin who arranges the theft of a small supply of the volatile and highly explosive material zinethium from a storehouse on Nyara . Recognizing Devian as a corrupt " thug " and assassin with no moral value , Kanos rejects his political ideals , escaping from the base in a captured shuttle . He travels to Coruscant in an attempt to make amends with Mirith Sinn and warn her of Devian ' s imminent attack ; however , he is unaware that the shuttle has been embedded with the zinethium stolen from Nyara , which is abandoned in orbit by Luke Skywalker just as it detonates . The blame falls on Kanos , who was accompanying Sinn to a possible peace treaty between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic hosted by the D ' Asta family . Soon after the attempted attack on Coruscant , the peace summit is disrupted by a squad of Devian ' s stormtroopers , and Feena D ' Asta is killed in the ensuing firefight . With peace talks halted by what seemed to be a New Republic ambush , Admiral Gilad Pellaeon of the Imperial Remnant quickly launches a retaliatory fleet towards Coruscant ; with the Imperial homeworld of Orinda left relatively undefended , Devian mobilizes his fleet to attack . Amidst this political and military confusion , Kanos and Sinn make an alliance with Feena ' s father , Ragez , who offers his fleet to ambush Devian ' s fleet as it enters the Orinda system . They narrowly save Admiral Pellaeon from capture by Devian during the battle , and Kanos challenges Devian to a final duel . Kanos overcomes Devian and kills him , but is critically wounded in the process . He uses this opportunity to fake his death , allowing the New Republic to pardon him " posthumously " of his crimes while he recovered from his wounds in one of Ragez D ' Asta ' s safehouses . D ' Asta and his remaining daughter , the clone of Feena created by Black Sun which he adopted , help Kanos begin a new life , one without the Empire . Development . " Crimson Empire III " was originally planned for release in 2001 and later 2002 , but the project was eventually shelved . The basic plotline , set in the New Jedi Order era , was to have Kir Kanos fight Luke Skywalker , the last one left who was complicit in Palpatine ' s death . The concept of an Imperial Royal Guard fighting Skywalker was a concept Stradley developed for Marvel ' s " Star Wars " series , but was not allowed to use ; it was the originator of the original " Crimson Empire " concept . Besides Kanos and Skywalker , Mirith Sinn would certainly have appeared , and Nom Anor might have also . Besides the plot of Kanos fighting Skywalker , it might have provided an additional tie - in to the Bantam / Dark Horse invasion storyline . The short comic " Hard Currency " also seemed to be a prelude to " Crimson Empire III " . In 2008 , Mike Richardson announced that he and Stradley were working on the project again to finally wrap up the " Crimson Empire " saga . Several days later , however , Stradley announced that although there had been talks , the project was not going to happen . In 2010 , at Celebration V , " Crimson Empire III " was announced for a 2011 release . Richardson and Stradley will be writing , with Paul Gulacy on the art . A prequel story titled " The Third Time Pays for All " was published in " Dark Horse Presents < nowiki > # < / nowiki > 1 " in April 2011 . In July 2011 , the solicit for the first issue was released , revealing the miniseries ' subtitle as " Empire Lost " . Behind the scenes . The opening line of issue one places this ten years after the death of Palpatine at Endor which would logically place " Empire Lost " in 14 ABY .