(Photo: Phil Noto)

Prepare for your first glimpse into the post-Return of the Jedi Star Wars universe. Marvel Comics has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive preview of Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #1

From the creative team of writer Greg Rucka and artist Marco Checchetto, Shattered Empire is the four issue miniseries that will tell the story of what happened immediately after the Battle of Endor. If this preview is anything to go by, it seems like the Empire isn’t going down without a fight.

Check out the preview pages and solicitation text below. Shattered Empire #1 goes on sale Sept. 9.

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #1 (of 4)

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS

(W) Greg Rucka (A) Marco Checchetto (CA) Phil Noto

For the first time in the new Star Wars canon, journey with us into the time after the end of Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (PUNISHER, WOLVERINE, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (AVENGERS WORLD, PUNISHER) take us past the destruction of the second Death Star into the chaos of a Shattered Empire.

Rated T+

Item Code: JUL150767

In Shops: 9/9/2015

SRP: $3.99