Star Wars : Republic : Prelude to Rebellion Prelude to Rebellion was the first story arc of the " " series of comic books . It spanned issues 1 to 6 of Dark Horse Comics ' ongoing series , originally titled simply Star Wars . There was also an online preview issue # 0 published exclusively on the Official Star Wars website in and never published anywhere else . Publisher ' s summary . Ki - Adi - Mundi is a Jedi Knight of formidable strength and influence . On his homeworld of Cerea , most of the planet ' s citizens are happy to continue their low - tech lives of simplicity , isolated from the Republic , but a growing voice calls for the advanced technologies brought by offworlders . When Ki becomes a strong voice of opposition for such development , he is falsely charged with murder and is swiftly drawn into a web of conspiracy and intrigue that could rock the galaxy to its foundations — a web that may have the vile crime lord Jabba the Hutt and the powerful Trade Federation at its center , setting the stage for ! Plot summary . Prelude to Rebellion opens on the planet Cerea , home of Jedi Knight Ki - Adi - Mundi . Long isolated , the planet is being wooed by the Republic . A representative has been sent to persuade the Elders of Cerea to join , offering trade and scientific advancement to Cerea ' s largely unindustrialized population . Ki - Adi - Mundi dissuades the Elders by speaking of the benefits of the Cerean lifestyle , a peaceful way in harmony with nature that is at odds with the Republic ' s polluting technology . Ki returns home to find out that his daughter Sylvn has run away with a member of the Pro - Tech Movement : a group of young Cereans who are in favor of technological advancement . Searching for Sylvn , Ki winds up at a Pro - tech rally led by the human diplomat Bron . After interrupting Bron , Ki is given a chance to speak , but is shouted down by the crowd and seized by a group of angry youth . Sylvn tries to persuade her boyfriend Maj - Odo - Nomor to help release her father , but instead he steals Ki ' s lightsaber . Not being trained , he accidentally kills another Cerean , but in the chaos , he escapes , leaving Ki with the blame . Ki is cleared since there was a video of the rally , but his lightsaber remains in custody . He returns home to find a group of youth on swoops , among them Sylvn , escaping from the house with stolen food . Ki follows them to an outsider citadel where he meets with an old friend and informant Ydde . Fearing for his life , Ydde tells Ki nothing and walks away from him . Ki follows him to an alley where he is ambushed by a group of thugs led by a Devaronian . Ki defeats them only to find Ydde dead , shot in the chest by an assassin . Meanwhile , elsewhere in the citadel , the small group of youth are sheltering in the apartment of a Chevin smuggler named Ephant Mon . Three of them , Twin , Skeel and Kordren , decide to go swoop racing , but Skeel dies and Kordren ends up in the hospital when the swoops turn out to be sabotaged . After finding the name of Ephant Mon in a clue left by Ydde , Ki attempts to persuade the Elders to return his lightsaber . He fails in this , so Ki decides to interrogate a Gran who is under suspicion of murder . The Gran tells Ki , under Force suggestion , where he can find Ephant Mon . Ki arrives at the apartment to find it empty except for a merc droid . Lacking his lightsaber , Ki is forced to flee the droid and runs into a messenger from the Elders . They flee to the sewers where the messenger delivers Ki ' s lightsaber . Back in possession of his blade , Ki defeats the droid easily , but being injured in the fight , is taken to a medical center . Ephant Mon and the Pro - tech youth escaped Cerea on Mon ' s shuttle , but trouble appears , and Sylvn is locked out of an escape pod by Maj . She screams as dangerous divvik s close in , but at the last second , she is rescued by Mon who decides to use her as a hostage to ensure their escape . Ki tracks the ship along with the droids J1M , B3NK , 2 - ROB , and the reprogrammed merc droid FLTCH R - 1 , knowing that Mon ' s ship is infested with the divviks . They catch up to Mon in orbit around the planet Tatooine and Ki enters the ship , fighting with divviks until he reaches the escape pod . Within the pod , a fight breaks out and Mon kills Maj . With his daughter in the pod , Ki - Adi - Mundi has no choice but to let Mon escape to Tatooine . They track the pod to Jabba ' s palace , and after surviving a fighter attack , manage to rescue Sylvn and Twin before they are killed by an ion storm . During the chaos , Jabba launches a freighter carry smuggled goods , but J1M managed to infiltrate the ship and download the cargo manifest . Ki returns to Cerea to find that the Pro - tech movement has died down and the Republic presence on the planet has sharply decreased . In reward for his hard work , the Elders order Ki to spend some time with his family , which he does with pleasure .