CURSE OF THE JEDI! – A DARK DROIDS TIE-IN! Killer Droids have taken over Darth Vader's flagship Super Star Destroyer, the Executor! But even with the powerful Kyberite shield, the Dark Lord of the Sith cannot fully control the Force! Will the lessons of Jedi Masters Qui-Gon and Obi-Warn [sic] save him from the SCOURGE — or make him a tool for its galactic conquest?
On February 4, 2023, writer Greg Pak tweeted that he was due to work on the issue that month, which would be the record for the most consecutive issues of a single series he had wrote. On March 18, Raffaele Ienco stated he would be the artist for the issue but had yet to receive its script.