Star Wars’ Prototype Inquisitors Are So Terrifying Even Palpatine Wouldn’t Repeat Them

Star Wars: The High Republic Phase III will introduce the prototype for Darth Vader’s Imperial Inquisitors, so terrifying even Palpatine wouldn’t repeat them. Set during the High Republic Era, some centuries before the beginning of the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: The High Republic tells the story of one of the worst trials the Jedi ever experienced. The Republic’s advance into the Outer Rim has stalled, with a group known as the Nihil carving out their own sector of space using an almost-impenetrable barrier called the Stormwall. Phase III of this story is set a year after the Nihil triumph, and its creators have revealed the Nihil have taken to policing it with what seem to be prototypes for the Imperial Inquisitors.