The concluding chapter, Allegiance 4, of the canon comic book miniseries Star Wars: Allegiance is here. Ethan Sacks penned the story, Luke Ross provided the illustrations, and Marvel Comics released it on October 30, 2019. "A Rising Tide" is the story presented in this issue, where the Resistance forges a bond with the Mon Calamari forces led by Aftab Ackbar.
Aftab Ackbar examines the burning wreckage of the shuttle in Dac City on Mon Cala. He fears the Resistance members, including General Leia Organa, have been killed. To his great relief, he sees that Rey Skywalker used the Force to protect them from the explosion and the resulting debris. Rey spots the Quarren saboteur running away. She tells Chewbacca to guard the General while she and Rose Tico chase after the saboteur. C-3PO also offers to help protect the General.
Rose takes a speeder bike from a Mon Calamari officer. The Quarren tries to get to the water, fleeing through the marketplace. Rose accidentally runs into a Mon Calamari and their child. Rose stops the Quarren saboteur from escaping by ramming the speeder bike into him, knocking him into a crate of crustaceans. When a Mon Calamari merchant asks who will pay for the damage, Rey says she will put it on Chadkol Gee's tab and promises to make him answer for his actions.
Poe Dameron has finished loading the first crates of New Republic weapons onto their transport at Base 354-23X. Poe has also unwittingly tricked the bounty hunters' ship into moving into his position. Poe contacts Finn via comlink and wakes him up. Finn says he has everything under control, but Wooro begins to wake up. Meanwhile, Kendoh Voss opens fire on Poe, who complains to BB-8 for not warning him.
Basso Mak uses his starship to block Finn's escape from the hangar. Basso attacks the hangar, and Finn avoids being hit. Poe informs BB-8 that they have to get past the assassin and rescue Finn before he gets into even more trouble. BB-8 tells Poe in binary that he has the situation under control. BB-8 dodges fire from Kendoh, who wants to collect a second First Order bounty on Poe. However, BB-8 throws a grenade at her, forcing her to jump out of the way.
Poe and BB-8 board the Resistance ship. He tells Finn over the comlink to get past the bounty hunters and meet him outside the hangar before the base is destroyed. Poe wonders how he can escape while avoiding Basso's laser fire.
A fleet of First Order Resurgent-class Star Destroyers arrives above Mon Cala. Leia and her followers learn about the First Order fleet. C-3PO gets scared, but General Organa orders him and Chewbacca to prepare the Millennium Falcon for evacuation. Rose says they have to get her to the Falcon, but the General insists on staying until they have secured the Mon Calamari starships.
King Ech-Char addresses the assassination attempt on General Organa and the First Order fleet in the throne room. Nossor Ri tries to blame General Organa and the Resistance for bringing the First Order Star Destroyers to Mon Cala. However, Aftab and Leia reveal that they have proof that his protégé Chadkol Gee hired the saboteur who tried to assassinate Leia. Leia adds that the saboteur was also Chadkol's personal attendant and can testify that Chadkol told the First Order they were there.
When confronted by King Ech-Char, Chadkol says he was motivated by love for Mon Cala and memories of the Imperial occupation. Ech-Char condemns Chadkol for his treason and promises to punish him. Leia asks King Ech-Char to show mercy, saying that now is not the time for recriminations. She gives a speech encouraging the Mon Calamari and Quarren to renew their alliance with the Resistance and give them the ships the Resistance navy needs. She asks them to make a "terrible sacrifice" while thinking about her own sacrifices, including the destruction of Alderaan and the death of her husband Han Solo at the hands of Kylo Ren.
Choosing forgiveness, she releases the Quarren saboteur and urges them to focus on fighting the First Order. King Ech-Char is moved by Leia's words and agrees to give the Resistance the ships they need. However, he is worried that they cannot break the First Order blockade. A remorseful Nossor Ri decides to make up for the sins of his soldier.
Remex Io complains that Basso Mak is being reckless with their Resistance target back at Base 354-23X. Kendoh realizes that the base is sitting on a cache of ammunition and detonators and orders Basso to evacuate. Before he can, Finn rams the T-47 airspeeder into the bounty hunter's ship, killing Basso and damaging the bounty hunter's ship in an explosion. Finn ejects, but the ejection seat's thrusters are not working.
Poe tells BB-8 to pop the canopy and eject the passenger seat. With BB-8's help, he maneuvers his ship below Finn's ejection seat. Finn's ejection seat lands in the passenger compartment of Poe's ship. When Finn asks if they got the weapons, Finn says they got most of them and survived doing it. He says that there is good enough reason to celebrate.
The bounty hunters lament their lost bounties. Io complains that they have lost their money. Kendoh replies that it could have been worse, prompting Io to remind her that the First Order will be hunting them down for their failures. Kendoh says that with Basso dead, they should have enough rations to survive long enough to repair their ship and move onto their plan to steal the Sword of Khashyun. She orders Io and Wooro to get to work.
General Armitage Hux receives word from his crew that a Mon Calamari fighter is approaching their fleet above Mon Cala. Nossor Ri pilots the fighter, leading several TIE/fo space superiority fighters on a chase. Before he is killed by Hux's Star Destroyer, Ri vows to fight for Mon Cala until the death. Hux realizes that Ri's last stand was a distraction while a First Order officer detects ships approaching from the far side of the planet.
With the First Order distracted, General Organa and Aftab lead the Mon Calamari ships to escape into hyperspace. Though the First Order destroys a MG-100 StarFortress SF-17, the rest of the fleet manages to jump into hyperspace. Rey says aboard the Falcon that General Nossor Ri's sacrifice worked. Leia responds that his death will be the first of many sacrifices to come.
An angry General Hux decides to punish the planet Mon Cala for siding with the Resistance. He promises to show the galaxy what happens to those who side against their enemies. TIE fighters and stormtroopers descend on the planet. Chadkol and his family huddle in Dac City as a stormtrooper approaches them. Chadkol says that he warned that the Resistance would bring war to Mon Cala repeatedly.
Allegiance 4 sets the stage for the events in Sacks's prior Star Wars series, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, with the Kendoh Gang in pursuit of the Sword of Khashyun.
- UPC 759606094158; October 30 , 2019 ; Marvel Comics ; First printing [1] 00411; Cover A; Marco Checchetto 00421; Cover B 00431; Cover C; Will Sliney & Guru-eFX