Darth Vader and the Lost Command Volume 3

Darth Vader and the Lost Command Volume 3 is the 3rd volume in the Lost Command Series.

Summary
The battle begins. A couple of AT-ATs try to make their way across the tar pits, but most get sucked down, crew and all. The Atoans use a massive floating/speeder-like platform that transports their capital away from the battle. They decide the only way that they will be able to defeat them, is if they take out their engines. One of the stormtroopers fires a rocket launcher at their engines. The trooper guessed right, and they scored a hit. A couple of minutes later, Darth Vader and his team of Clone Shadow Troopers arrive on an Imperial Gunship. Vader jumps off the ship down to the platform, with his troopers in tow. And, to bring up the rear, Lady Saro is holding onto Captain Shale as they move across the zip-line. The team moves around, and finds some resistance guards, which they immediately kill. The guards' bodies are disposed of by being thrown into the tar. Shale tells Saro that one of the guards was carrying something he did not know. She tells him that it is an electronic box for maps. Shale tells her that Vader thinks that Tarkin is near. The troopers soon encounter more resistance soldiers, and this time, Vader snaps the bridge they were standing on in half. Only a few remain, which are shortly killed by Vader's crimson red lightsaber.

The team then comes up on a door, the only door that leads to the prisoners. The troops stayed back as Vader killed the resistance men to "clear the way". The troopers stayed back because they would have only caused harm to the group. The team soon arrives on another door, and Vader uses his saber to pierce it, and cut a hole. When he gets the door "open", he sees a protocol droid which he guesses is Tarkin. The droid reveals that Tarkin was taken away about a week ago, and that he left a "gift" for anyone who came to rescue him. Vader looks at it, and orders everybody to get down right as the bomb exploded. The droid is destroyed, but everyone else lives, including Vader who managed to escape only with a slightly damaged control console on his chest. Vader tells them that they will not be attacking from the shadows, and that they will take the bridge next. Several troopers use cables to go down to the windows of the bridge, where they place charges, right in front of the workers' eyes, as they know they will surely die in the blast. The ones that tried to escape where then cut down by the troopers, and all but one remained. The troopers went down the hall, but Vader came in last with Shale, and captured an Atoan woman. Vader instructs Saro to tell the prisoner the Atoan word for "hostage". After the city was under Imperial Occupation, Vader continues to question the hostage. After speaking to Shale a bit more, he leaves the interrogation to the protocol droid as he uses the force to lift up a bridge worker, and threw him into the tar. Vader demanded the truth from the prisoner once more, and the droid said that she said that he was a liar. Shale, now frustrated, says that this is insane, Again, not believing her, Vader throws another worker into the tar. As the hostage tried to run to Vader, Shale shot her, later claiming to Vader that he thought that she was going to attack him. Vader tells Shale to retrieve their forces, and send them back to the Star Destroyer, where they will discuss the fate of Tarkin. Vader has another dream, where he is sleeping, but is awakened by Padme telling him that Assassins are coming. Vader quickly awakens to find that his troops have turned on him. He tells them all that he knows who sent them, and he will die next.