Star Wars: The High Republic Phase III will introduce the prototype for Darth Vader’s Imperial Inquisitors, so terrifying even Palpatine wouldn’t repeat them. Set during the High Republic Era, some centuries before the beginning of the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: The High Republic tells the story of one of the worst trials the Jedi ever experienced. The Republic’s advance into the Outer Rim has stalled, with a group known as the Nihil carving out their own sector of space using an almost-impenetrable barrier called the Stormwall. Phase III of this story is set a year after the Nihil triumph, and its creators have revealed the Nihil have taken to policing it with what seem to be prototypes for the Imperial Inquisitors.
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Speaking on the official Star Wars website, author Cavan Scott – a key player in this transmedia initiative – reveals the Nihil have started turning Force-sensitives into Jedi hunters. Even more disturbingly, these hunters are partnered with Force predators known as the Nameless. This clearly establishes the pattern Palpatine would repeat centuries later, when he established the Inquisitors.
“One of the things that is interesting about the experiments on the Nameless is their relationship with the Children of the Storm. Baron Boolan is experimenting on Force users to transform them into vicious hunters with one mission and one mission alone: to find and kidnap young Force sensitives that can add to their genetically mutated number. In doing this he has teamed most of his hunters up with one or more Nameless, a partnership that causes nothing but trouble — and pain — for the Children themselves. How do the Children cope with such trauma? Well, you’ll have to keep a look out for future stories by myself and George [Mann] to find out! Needless to say, it isn’t pretty.”
Even Palpatine Would Never Choose To Use The Nameless
Even Palpatine would never use the Nameless. This is because these creatures twist and distort the Force around them, leaving any Force-sensitives bombarded with terrifying hallucinations. The Nameless feed by consuming any being who possesses the ability to manipulate the Force, and doing so kills them in a horrific way, literally calcifying their body. Star Wars: The High Republic Phase II revealed that a Force-sensitive who spends time with the Nameless – even one who is protected from their savage hunger – finds their body gradually turning to stone.
Palpatine’s Inquisitors didn’t exactly have a high life-expectancy; they had all been killed in battle sometime before the Star Wars original trilogy, with some even slaughtered by Darth Vader himself when they displeased him. But they surely fared better than the Children of the Storm, the Force-sensitives who were bound to the Nameless and turned into Jedi hunters by Marchion Ro. Star Wars: The High Republic really has just introduced a plan so evil, even Palpatine wouldn’t perform it.
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