Empires End

Star Wars: Empire's End (Dark Empire part 3) 1995
From the publisher, Dark Horse...
Emperor Palpatine has a new weapon—one that can annihilate a planet. But he's not targeting a planet—he's targeting the future of the Jedi, Leia's children. It looks like a hopeless situation for Luke Skywalker, who has the critical task of protecting the children. But it's not the first time Luke has found hope where none existed. The finale to the Dark Empire trilogy is collected here.

The opening crawl....
Emperor Palpatine has deployed a terrible new weapon, once again asserting his dominance over the galaxy. With the Alliance base destroyed, and its leaders driven into hiding, many worlds sympatetic to the Alliance have capitulated to the Empire on pain of annihilation.
Luke Skywalker and his small band of Jedi have but one hope: draw the Emperor into a face-to-face confrontation, end his dark reign, and restore peace to the galaxy for all time...