If Star Wars fans don't know the power of the Sith Lord Momin already, that's about to change. Because the Sith's legacy has just been woven into the movie canon - despite the Jedi trying to wipe him from history.
The new twist on the Sith is delivered in the ongoing Darth Vader comic series, already a major source of new, canonical stories in Anakin Skywalker's time at the Emperor's side. And unlike the previous addition to the now-limited number of confirmed Sith Lords, the dual lightsaber wielding Darth Atrius, the impact of Lord Momin isn't purely for the die-hard Star Wars mythology fans.
The comics have revealed him as the architect of Darth Vader's Mustafar castle, but this Sith's story is so much bigger, and so much better. Especially since he gave Vader the designs from beyond the grave.
- This Page: How Lord Momin First Appeared in Canon
- Page 2: How Lord Momin Reaches Vader Through The Dark Side
Lord Momin's Helmet is The Emperor's Prized Relic
Where Darth Atrius and his cross guard lightsabers were a completely new addition to the Star Wars canon, fans of the comics may find the name a bit familiar. The name was first printed in the 2015 Star Wars: Lando comic, when the titular thief and some colleagues managed to steal Emperor Palpatine's Personal yacht. When they went looking for riches, they instead found relics of an altogether different sort. The relic room of Palpatine's private vessel was filled with artifacts of the Sith - a group Lando had never even heard of, with all evidence believed lost. Evidence secretly gathered by Palpatine, in preparation to bring the Sith their vengeance.
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At the time Lando had no reason to assume that Palpatine was anything but a history nut, and was concerned only with which of the relics would fetch the biggest buyer. So he didn't much care when his fellow thief, a student of Jedi and Sith history, noted that the belongings were those of "Lord Momin, an ancient Sith sculptor." A student of history who was too distracted by Lando to take notice of Lord Momin's perfectly preserved helmet... or its eyes glowing red at the arrival of visitors.
Lord Momin's Helmet is Basically Possessed
The issue doesn't actually reveal any other exposition about who Lord Momin is to the Emperor, or which of his reported "works" were built, then later destroyed to be completely missing from the modern galaxy. Instead, the glow of Lord Momin's empty helmet, like two blazing eyes, poisons one of the men in Lando's gang. Infecting him with hate and anger, he lashes out at the partner who is supposed to be the closest person in the world to him, mocking their plans for the future, and slicing off an arm.
Eventually, the helmet returns to transmit unknown knowledge upon even Lando's equally-in-danger colleague just by being placed in her hands. The heroes won the day, and Palpatine's yacht was destroyed, and the helmet and belongings of Lord Momin along with it. But that story was set just a short time before Return of the Jedi. It may have been the end of Lord Momin's influence on the surviving Sith Master and Apprentice, but it wasn't the beginning.
That story has now been told, revealing how Lord Momin passed wisdom to Emperor Palpatine, and instructed Darth Vader to build his terrifying, temple-like castle on the molten surface of Mustafar.
Page 2 of 2: How Momin Reaches Vader Through The Dark Side
Palpatine Knows Vader Needs an Architect For His Castle
This issue of the comic continues shortly after Darth Vader has demanded a homeworld of his own from his Sith Master, Emperor Palpatine. Vader's decision to claim Mustafar as his own makes perfect, sinister sense to the Emperor - the place where Anakin Skywalker was destroyed by Obi-wan Kenobi shall be where Darth Vader resides, growing in his mastery of the Dark Side. But having seen how strongly the power of the Dark Side is concentrated in a cave not far from where he was dismembered, Vader's mind is made up. The cave where Darth Vader bled his lightsaber crystal red shall be where his builds his home... but he needs an architect for that job.
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Palpatine assigns Colonel Alva Brenne to the task, after she oversaw design and construction of the Emperor's palace where the Jedi aesthetic once ruled on Coruscant. And to her credit, Colonel Brenne proves to be truly Imperial in her determination and work ethic. Darth Vader isn't an easy client, since he doesn't seem to want anything besides communion with the Dark Side of The Force. And after her first completed drawings for Vader's Mustafar home are rejected instantly by Vader, her path towards the famous, soaring, brutal, black stone castle is hard to see.
Luckily, Emperor Palpatine also granted Vader a gift to take along on his journey... the helmet of Lord Momin, famed sculptor of the Sith.
Lord Momin Gives Vader His Castle... Through Murder
It shouldn't be seen as coincidence that Palpatine gave Vader the powerful artifact of a Sith builder, just as he ventured out to construct a fortress befitting a Sith Apprentice. The odds are good that Palpatine expected the helmet of Lord Momin to seduce Colonel Brenne's assistant into wearing it, slaying Brenne, then drafting the plans for Vader's true castle before attacking him, ensuring Vader would get the message. As Palpatine informed Vader:
"Momin was uncommon among Sith. Many of us build our legacy through destruction. Momin preferred to create. He and I have that in common. The uses he found for The Force were truly unique, likely never again replicated."
The issue leaves it fairly clear that Vader's time in meditation has proven fruitful already, with an approximation of his final castle design (glimpsed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) hovering as a hologram before him. And after years of plotting, Darth Vader writer Charles Soule has gotten to deliver on his earlier tease of Lord Momin in Star Wars: Lando. The question now is whether Darth Vader also opens himself up to the influences of Lord Momin to go about constructing the castle. Not to mention what other knowledge Momin passed on to Palpatine through the helmet, that can't be learned in any Jedi or Sith Holocron.
More likely, however, is that the construction will be carried out by the apparent Force-wielding Mustafarian metallurgists introduced in the same issue. After being... convinced to do Vader's bidding, of course.
Darth Vader #21 is available now from Marvel Comics.
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