Dark Times—Fire Carrier 2 is the twenty-fourth issue of the Star Wars: Dark Times comic series and the second in the Fire Carrier story arc.

Darth Vader grooms a new tool for the Empire—a new assassin.

Meanwhile, Jedi Master K'Kruhk flees across the countryside with a group of young Padawans. His hope is to find a safe haven and prevent the impressionable younglings from experiencing any more tragedy. But tragedy is exactly what awaits them..