Glove of Darth Vader

The **Glove of Darth Vader** was a Mandalorian Crushgaunt fitted around one of Lord Skere Kaan's indestructible Sith amulets. The gauntlet was worn by Lord Darth Vader upon his right hand. Although both gloves for Darth Vader's armor contained micronized Mandalorian armor as a means to deflect direct hits from blaster bolts (a feature made redundant due to his Force abilities), the Glove possessed exclusive features compared to the left glove, including grip-augmentation circuitry. Unlike Vader's left-hand glove, his right glove was made to be indestructible, a symbol of evil that would survive forever.

## History

During the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker severed Vader's hand with his lightsaber, and the cybernetic appendage was lost down a shaft in the Emperor's throne room aboard the Death Star. The battle station was destroyed shortly afterward, and Vader's glove was presumably lost. The glove survived, however, ensnared within a piece of wreckage that landed on the watery world of Dac; it had been pulled through a wormhole created by the explosion of the hypermatter in the Death Star's core.

In around 5 ABY, Indiana Jones and Boba Fett, seeking to recover the glove after hearing the legends about it, learned of the glove’s presence on Dac from a contact, who had stumbled upon pieces of wreckage from the Death Star while monitoring Whaladons in the ocean depths and ran a scan which revealed the outline of a glove among the debris. Fett and Jones were told by the contact to head to Bast Castle, because there was a ship at the castle that they would need to use in order to recover the glove from under the sea. After the pair recovered the glove from the depths of Dac, Jones decided that the glove should be put into storage among countless other secret items in a large warehouse on Wayland because of the dangers that could happen if it fell into the wrong hands. Fett agreed, and Jones took the glove to be put in the warehouse.

However, sometime after this, the glove was recovered by Chattar Lal, a Sith cultist of the Sith Eternal who worshiped Vader and other Sith Lords. Lal foretold that a new Emperor would soon arise, and on his hand he would wear the glove of Darth Vader. Subsequently, Lal wore the glove on his right hand when he was at his base on Mustafar with his other cultists in the hopes that his prophecy would be fulfilled. The gauntlet's value as a symbol was of little use to the Sith cultist, but its potential for use as a weapon was considered to be incalculable. It was his belief that the glove was actually a mystical relic that gave its wearer the ability to telekinetically attack others from a distance. Lal was ignorant of the fact that this ability was an aspect of Darth Vader's aptitude with the Force, and had nothing to do with his glove. He had his technicians outfit the glove with technology that could simulate Vader's Force Choke, and whenever enemies attacked him, Lal used the glove and its “power” against them as means of defense, making whomever it was pointed at gasp and fall to their knees. After this, their eardrums would explode and their brains would disintegrate. However, Lal abandoned its use in 7 ABY after discovering that utilizing it too often resulted in periods of blindness—as well as withering his hand.

After Lal was captured by Boba Fett, the glove was disposed of in the hellish landscape of Mustafar and thought lost until it was recovered by a group of the Acolytes of the Beyond not much later. Making the glove one of their objects of worship, the Acolytes planned on destroying it and returning it to Vader in death. The Bimm merchant Glah Ubooki later claimed to possess a glove worn by Darth Vader, but did not specify that it was the Glove itself.

## Trivia

* Boba Fett and Indiana Jones deciding to store the Glove of Darth Vader in the warehouse on Wayland is a nod to the Ark of the Covenant being nailed inside a wooden crate numbered 9906753 and placed inside a gigantic warehouse among hundreds of similar crates in *Raiders of the Lost Ark*.
* Chattar Lal's usage of the glove is a reference to Trioculus's usage of it in the Jedi Prince series which begins with *The Glove of Darth Vader*.
* The group of the Acolytes of the Beyond that finds Vader's glove on Mustafar and decides to destroy it to return it to its master in death in "Ochi of Bestoon" is a direct reference to the Acolytes purchasing what they believe is Vader's lightsaber and planning to destroy the weapon to return it to Vader in death in the *Aftermath* novel.

## Appearances

* Raiders of the Lost Darth (First appearance)
* Agent of Doom
* Ochi of Bestoon
* Tales from Vader's Castle, Part II (Hallucination)
* "The Sith Witch of Mustafar"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones* (In flashback(s))
* *From a Certain Point of View* (Mentioned only)