Anakin Skywalker’s green interceptor looks like one more piece of machinery left behind when his life collapsed on Mustafar. The movie never returns to it, and Vader soon becomes linked with very different ships. That makes the fighter easy to forget, even though it was sitting beside one of the most important moments in Star Wars. Its later story turns that abandoned Jedi craft into a surprisingly personal piece of Vader’s history.
The Interceptor Was Left On Mustafar
This was not the yellow Jedi interceptor that Anakin flew during the Battle of Coruscant. That yellow craft was lost aboard the Invisible Hand. The ship in this story was a different Eta-2 Jedi starfighter, painted gray and green and used by Anakin after Palpatine named him Darth Vader.
After the attack on the Jedi Temple, Vader flew the green interceptor to Padmé’s apartment. He then took it to Mustafar with R2-D2, where he killed the Separatist leaders on Palpatine’s orders. Obi-Wan arrived aboard Padmé’s ship, not in the interceptor, and their duel ended with Vader burned and dismembered beside the lava river.
Palpatine’s group recovered Vader and carried him away in a medical capsule. By then, Vader could not simply climb back into the tiny cockpit and fly. R2-D2 also left with Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Bail Organa. The fighter remained on the planet while Vader received his armor and began his new life inside the suit.
Vader Found It Again After Cloud City
The ship returned in Marvel’s Darth Vader (2020) #8. This story takes place in 3 ABY, shortly after Luke Skywalker rejected Vader’s offer on Cloud City. Palpatine punished Vader for his failure, damaged his cybernetic body, and left him on Mustafar without his lightsaber.
Vader was not returning as a powerful Imperial commander with a fleet behind him. He was broken, isolated, and forced to survive close to the same ground where Anakin had been destroyed more than twenty years earlier. Finding the old interceptor there was not just convenient transportation. It confronted Vader with a physical remnant of his last day as Anakin Skywalker.
The fighter was not ready to fly. In Darth Vader (2020) #9, Vader fought Ochi of Bestoon and the Droid Crush Pirates of Bestoon. After defeating the pirates, he used parts from their droids to repair the Eta-2. It was a rough rebuild made from whatever he could take, not a careful restoration of a museum piece.
That repair also answers a practical question. The comic does not ask us to believe the interceptor sat untouched for decades and started perfectly on the first try. Vader had to rebuild it before it could carry him away. What remains unexplained is how much of the original fighter survived and why it had not already been removed from Mustafar.
The Old Jedi Fighter Became Vader’s Escape Ship
Vader’s choice of ship was partly forced, but it also created a sharp visual contrast. The Eta-2 had been designed as a small, fast Jedi interceptor. Its cockpit was cramped, its frame was light, and it lacked the heavy presence of Vader’s later black craft. Now a towering armored Sith Lord had to squeeze into the machine he used before the suit existed.
He also turned the Jedi fighter into something much harsher. Vader captured Ochi, placed him inside an escape pod, and attached the pod beneath the interceptor. Ochi then helped provide the route to Exegol through a Sith wayfinder. The same green craft that had carried Anakin to serve Palpatine on Mustafar was now carrying Vader toward Palpatine’s hidden world in an act of rebellion.
Its Final Flight Ended On Exegol
The journey continued in Darth Vader (2020) #10. Imperial forces tried to stop Vader before he reached Exegol, but he fought through the attacking TIE fighters in the repaired Eta-2. It is a striking sequence because the Empire’s own machines are hunting its most feared enforcer while he flies a relic from the Jedi Order.
The issue then sends Vader into the Red Honeycomb Zone, the dangerous region guarding the route to Exegol. He experiences visions connected to his past and possible future as he forces the fighter through. The Eta-2 makes it beyond that barrier, but the flight ends in a crash on Exegol.
Vader and Ochi survive and continue across the planet, so the crash is not the end of their mission. It is, however, the last confirmed appearance of the green interceptor. The comic never returns to show whether the wreck stayed there, was taken apart, or could have flown again.
So the clean answer is: Anakin’s green interceptor stayed on Mustafar, Vader repaired it more than twenty years later, and its last confirmed stop was a crash on Exegol. Canon follows that path clearly. What happened to the wreck afterward is still an open question.