Star Wars (2020) #47-50

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#47 — “The Trial of Lando Calrissian (Finale)”

Before Hope Dies formally begins, issue #47 concludes the long-running Lando Calrissian treason arc. Lando confronts a Rebel tribunal questioning his loyalty due to actions taken during Mutiny at Mon Cala. His fate and relationship with the Alliance set the emotional stakes as the galaxy braces for what’s next.

*In Star Wars (2020) #48–50, the story shifts from military maneuvering to deeply personal reckonings about guilt, responsibility, and moral limits. Issue #48 centers on Leia Organa, haunted by recurring nightmares of Alderaan’s destruction and overwhelmed by the tension between rescuing Han Solo and leading the Rebel Alliance against a resurgent Empire. When contact is lost with the Alderaan Survivor Fleet, Leia joins Luke Skywalker and Evaan Verlaine on a rescue mission that turns into a trap laid by former Imperial commander Ellian Zahra. The mission ends in disaster: the fleet appears destroyed, Leia is wounded, Luke sacrifices himself to save her, and Leia is captured — reinforcing her fear that everyone she tries to protect ultimately pays the price.

Issue #49 escalates the personal conflict between Leia and Zahra, turning the arc into a confrontation over moral absolutism and vengeance. Zahra reveals how she survived their last encounter and how Leia’s refusal to kill her shattered Zahra’s belief in Imperial order, leaving her scarred, mutilated, and obsessed with proving Leia’s moral “hypocrisy.” Zahra intends to sell Leia to the Empire, but Luke intervenes, and together the Rebels sabotage Zahra’s operation. Luke spares Zahra’s life, believing she can still choose a better path — a decision Leia reluctantly honors until Zahra proves incapable of letting go of her hatred. Leia ultimately orders Zahra’s death when Zahra attacks again, affirming that mercy without accountability can become another form of harm. The issue closes with Leia learning that most of the Alderaanian survivors escaped after all, allowing her a measure of peace and clarity.

Issue #50 reframes the entire volume as a moral parable told years later by Luke to Ben Solo, focusing on the cost of choosing the “path of light.” Luke recounts a secret mission undertaken during Han’s captivity involving the Grim Rose — a mystical assassination device capable of killing Emperor Palpatine through a web of personal connections, at the cost of countless innocent lives along the way. Though the weapon could have ended the Sith, Luke realizes that using it would require embracing mass murder and abandoning hope for Vader’s redemption. By altering the weapon’s target to someone long dead, Luke neutralizes it without sacrificing his values. In the present, Luke explains to Ben that defeating evil by becoming evil only perpetuates darkness — a lesson meant to guide Ben away from the very fate the reader knows awaits him.

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