Yoda 9

Yoda 9 is the ninth issue of the canon comic miniseries Star Wars: Yoda. The issue was written by Marc Guggenheim, illustrated by Alessandro Miracolo and Annalisa Leoni, and published by Marvel Comics on July 5, 2023. The issue contains the story "Part Three: In the Belly of the Beast".

Publisher's summary

WELL, HELLO THERE… The MEGADROID is on the march! And only Jedi Master YODA and ANAKIN SKYWALKER can stop it. But what is the lesson Yoda is trying to impart on young Skywalker? Guest-starring: OBI-WAN KENOBI!

Opening crawl

SIZE MATTERS NOT
PART THREE: IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST 
The wise Jedi Master Yoda has lived a long life in service to the greater good of the galaxy.
After the rise of the Galactic Empire, he now spends his days on the secluded swamp world
Dagobah, awaiting an important visitor and reflecting on his many adventures….

Yoda and Anakin Skywalker have traveled to the planet of Golatha to destroy the foundry that is building "Megadroids"--
a new breed of massive and powerful battle droids that the Army of the Republic would be powerless against.

Yoda and Skywalker successfully eliminated the foundry, but not before a prototype Megadroid could come online.
And now it moves to destroy the two much-smaller Jedi….

Plot summary

Jedi Grand Master Yoda and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker stand before a menacing prototype megadroid who is ready to attack. Both Jedi recognizing the challenge ahead due to the droid's immense stature and lightsaber-resistant durasteel exterior. Yoda, to whom size matters not, leaps into action and swipes at the droid with his lightsaber to no success. When Skywalker creates a distraction, Yoda opens up a service plate on the droid's back and crawls into the megadroid. Unfortunately, the panel snaps closed, locking Yoda inside.

At that moment, the droid activates thrusters, escaping Golatha's atmosphere. In space, Yoda swings his lightsaber from within the droid, disabling it, but still trapped inside as the cold of space seeps in. Yoda enters meditation, recognizing the dire danger he faces.

Soon, Skywalker arrives in a Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor to rescue Yoda and recover the megadroid, which he finds is spinning uncontrollably. The two Jedi work out a plan in which Skywalker would use the Force to stop the rotation of the megadroid and Yoda would cut his way out from the inside of the droid, where the durasteel plating would not prevent lightsaber damage. The two successfully execute the maneuver, and Skywalker receives Yoda into the starfighter after a brief Force-guided unprotected spacewalk.

Later, aboard the Acclamator-class transgalactic military assault ship Aspirant, Skywalker discusses Yoda's minor injuries with medical staff ahead of visiting the little Jedi in the medical bay, where he is being cared for by the 2-1B surgical droid TB-5. Skywalker informs Yoda that the megadroid was recovered and brought to the ship's cargo bay.

Troubled, Skywalker asks Yoda if he made the younger Jedi stop the droid's rotation as a test, to which Yoda said he would never tell.

Years later, on Dagobah, Yoda talks to the Force spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi who feels Yoda has been avoiding him. Yoda finally acknowledges Kenobi's death, but tells him how the enemy they face is too big for him to defeat. He feels that he failed in many ways and that the shadow which has fallen over the galaxy is his fault; therefore, Yoda believes the galaxy is better off without him.

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  • Bantha (Mentioned only) (In flashback(s))
  • Dog (Mentioned only) (In flashback(s))
    • Akk dog (Mentioned only) (In flashback(s))
  • Rot-wing (Mentioned only) (In flashback(s))

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  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars: Yoda (2022) #9 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
  2. ↑ The third arc of Star Wars: Yoda features Agen Kolar on the Jedi High Council. "A Seat on the Council" establishes that Kolar replaced Eeth Koth, who served on the Council during The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of "The Wrong Jedi" to 19 BBY. Galactic Atlas also dates the beginning of Great Jedi Purge, which includes the events of "Victory and Death," to 19 BBY. StarWars.com Star Wars: The Clone Wars Chronological Episode Order on StarWars.com (backup link) places The Lost Missions between "The Wrong Jedi" and "Victory and Death", dating the events of The Lost Missions to 19 BBY. Kolar was later seen on the Council during Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, the events of which Galactic Atlas also dates to 19 BBY, including the destruction of the Jedi Order, limiting Kolar's tenure, and Star Wars: Yoda: Size Matters Not, to that year.
  3. ↑ StarWars.com SWCA 2022: Marvel's Star Wars: Yoda Miniseries Revealed on StarWars.com (backup link) places Star Wars: Yoda concurrent to Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 3 ABY.

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