There will soon come a day when the future of the galaxy hinges on the fate of one boy, though he does not yet know it. Growing up on the desert world Tatooine, Anakin Skywalker never thought he would venture beyond the small life he has. Simple, boyhood pursuits seem like the only things he should be concerned with. But destiny has other things in mind.

Though all eyes are on the boy Anakin Skywalker, there is another young man making his rite of passage. The only thing standing between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knighthood is a lesson he must learn from his Jedi Master, but the only place where he can learn that lesson is in the middle of an intergalactic war!

Her world has been blockaded and her people imprisoned, but the young Queen Amidala,recently elected to the throne of Naboo, is a teenager of uncommon wisdom. Exiled from her home and spirited away by a pair of Jedi, Amidala will look upon every experience as a potential key to her world's problems. But her salvation may rest in the hands of another- perhaps where she least expects it!

The precursor comic to Phantom Menace, the first chapter in the life of Anakin Skywalker! Meet the nine year old boy who will come to be ruler of the Dark Force.