Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2, published on January 24, 2007, represents the second installment of the Star Wars: Dark Times comic book series. Mick Harrison penned the script, developing a story conceived by Welles Hartley, with visual artistry provided by Douglas Wheatley and colors rendered by Ronda Pattison.
Darth Vader, despite embracing the Sith ideology, experiences profound dismay upon discovering that both the Empire and he himself are implicated in a malevolence that he believed he had eradicated. Concurrently, a Separatist freedom fighter grapples with the harsh truth that the sacrifices of his fellow soldiers have been rendered meaningless, and their families are now bearing the consequences of their defiance. Aboard a smuggler's vessel, the crew finds themselves compelled to choose a side in a dispute they had actively attempted to evade, a conflict that has irrevocably altered the trajectory of their existence… As the Empire rises, the galaxy descends into an era of darkness, where peril lurks at every turn!