Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness is a comic that first appeared in " Star Wars Tales 16 " and was collected in " Star Wars Tales Volume 4 " . Plot summary . A group of Jedi has been dispatched to hunt down and stop several Dark Jedi . The mission leads the Jedi to a Commerce Guild trading station . One Jedi , Minch , catches up to a Dark Jedi and corners him . Igniting his lightsaber , Minch attempts to defeat the Dark Jedi in combat . As they duel , the Dark Jedi insults Minch in an attempt to anger him , referring to him as a Padawan and calling him " Little One . " This ploy seems to work as Minch is knocked to the ground . Luckily for him , four other Jedi arrive at the scene quickly , but the Dark Jedi plunges his own lightsaber into his chest . Minch is left feeling angry and embarrassed by his failure to defeat the Dark Jedi on his own . The Jedi are then contacted by allies monitoring the trading station , who alert them to the launch of a small ship . The Jedi hurry to their starfighters and attempt to contact the other ship , which they ' ve decided must be piloted by the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi Master . Following the ship closely , they attempt once again to contact it . It is then when the ship turns and makes a run for the planet Dagobah . Wanting to make up for his defeat at the hands of the Dark Jedi , Minch breaks off formation and disobeys orders to return , heading after the Bpfasshi master . On the way down , Minch ' s ship is struck by lightning and crashes into a swamp . Ignoring further orders to ' sit tight ' , Minch runs after the fleeing Bpfasshi master into the vegetation of the planet . Minch follows the master into a cave underneath a tree . As Minch enters the cave , the Bpfasshi Master calls him a ' Child ' who is ' small and weak , full of fear and anger . ' Irritated at once by being called a small weak little Jedi , Minch leaps up at the Dark Jedi Master , yelling " SIZE MATTERS NOT ! " Having blocked the initial attack and unleashing his own strength upon Minch the Master says matter - of - factly , " As you can see size does matter . " Angered , Minch sweeps his saber at the Bpfasshi , who then apparently changes into hundreds of smaller incarnations , who crawl onto Minch . He desperately sweeps around with his lightsaber as his vision blackens . Awakening seconds later , he sees the Master lying next to the wall of the cave , wounded and bleeding . He tells Minch " . . . you will make a great addition . . . to the Dark Jedi . . . one day . . . " before passing away . Reporting to the other Jedi , Minch announces , " Complete is our mission . " He walks to the craft that has arrived to take him from Dagobah and says to himself " Away from this cursed place , the sooner the better . " Meanwhile , the blood from the Dark Jedi Master seeps into the ground in the cave . Behind the scenes . The story ' s title is a reference to the book " " , which the " Star Wars " novel " Shatterpoint " was partially inspired by . The main characters in the Star Wars short story are after a rogue Sith on a mission given by the Jedi Order . In the novel " Heart of Darkness " , the main protagonist Charlie Marlowe , is sent to retrieve a rogue merchant named Kurtz by a Belgian trading company .