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Star Wars: Lady Vader
Topic Started: Dec 31 2015, 11:41 PM (232 Views)
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(POD: General Grievous kills Anakin in the battle of Coruscant)

It is 42 years since the Clone Wars started, 39 years since Palpatine proclaimed the Galactic Empire, and it is 16 years since his political protege turned Sith apprentice turned against him on the Second Death Star. Since then, the Galaxy has been plunged into chaos and anarchy as the galactic situation has shifted since the rise of the Seperatists.

First, the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Seperatists pitted the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems against the Clone Armies of the Galactic Republic, this war saw many heroes rise and fall, with Anakin Skywalker, "the Hero with no fear" being the Republic's greatest Jedi hero, but he eventually fell to General Grievous on the Invisible Hand in the Battle of Coruscant while rescuing Chancellor Palpatine but before dying, he killed Count Dooku. But Anakin had left a secret wife, Senator Padme Amidala, who was also pregnant, she also received lots of midichlorians from Anakin as well in the process. Senator Padme Amidala would prove to be easy to seduce into the Dark Side of the Force in her grief [1] as Chancellor Palpatine would summon her to the Chancellor's building at the same time as the Jedi, after they learned of a dark side prescence at the Supreme Chancellor's office, tried to arrest Palpatine and Mace Windu fights Palpatine and Palpatine tricks Senator Amidala into killing Mace Windu by shooting him in the back when he was distracted with dueling Palpatine. Palpatine then proclaims her to be "Darth Muder" afterwards, instructing her to first storm the Jedi Temple then kill the Seperatist leaders, which she does with ruthless efficiency with the Trade Federation leaders being Force-choked AND stabbed with a lightsaber as Palpatine proclaims a 10,000 year Galactic Empire to the Senate and Order 66 decimates the Jedi. Obi-Wan Kenobi, after learning of Padme's turn towards the Sith through C-3PO after she gave birth to twins, tracks her down to Mustafar after her killing of the Seperatist Leadership and they fight a duel in Mustafar's wastes where Padme is severely injured.

After the rise of the Empire, the Rebel Alliance, even with it's most prominent founder now a Dark Lady of the Sith, grew in strength as Senators Mon Mothma of Chandrilla and Bail Organa of Alderaan bravely lead Senators who haven't abandoned the ideals of the Galactic Republic and other people opposed to the Galactic Empire in waging a guerrilla war against the Galactic Empire with Bail Organa's leadership of the Rebels being secret as he retains his seat in the Imperial Senate. Meanwhile Emperor Palpatine gives his new apprentice the role of President of the Imperial Senate in addition to being Supreme Commander [2]. As for Padme's children, Leia is adopted by Owen and Beru Lars and Luke is adopted by Bail Organa.. With the Empire's "New Order" now solidified, Sheev Palpatine and Darth Muder now focus on their darker exploits as Palpatine tries to find the secrets for immortality while Darth Muder tries to find a way to bring her husband back to life, which fails, but in one of the attempts to find a way to revive the dead, she stumbles upon an otherwise insignificant long-dead world, but she then finds a Sith Holocorn from Darth Revan which spoke of the Force, of balance, of how there could be life without the Force, and of many stranger things, this would prove to be important in the future [3]. For now, she keeps the Holocorn in her star destroyer, the Exactor.

The Rebel Alliance eventually rises from the shadows with a daring raid, where they capture the blueprints for the infamous Imperial Superweapon, the Death Star, which has the power to destroy entire planets in a single blow, the blueprints were in the Tantive IV, Prince Luke Organa's spaceship, which was intercepted by Darth Muder's personal star destroyer and captured with Captain Antilles being strangled after refusing to tell where the plans are but Grand Moff Tarkin, after suggesting that Alderaan be destroyed, was force-choked by Darth Muder, albeit not fatally [4], but not before C-3P0 and R2D2 were placed in a pod for Tatooine along with the Death Star plans, the droids are purchased by Owen Lars and his adopted daughter Leia Skywalker, Leia then meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, exiled Jedi Master, who tells her that "Darth Muder" betrayed and killed her parents [5]. In the hunt for the droids, the stormtroopers kill the Lars family aside from Leia as Obi-Wan and Leia meet Han Solo and Chewbacca, who provide them the Millennium Falcon which enables them to go to the Death Star, where they rescue Prince Luke which they do but Obi-Wan Kenobi is killed in the process by Darth Muder. The Rebel Alliance eventually destroyed the Death Star but Darth Muder escaped on her Star Destroyer (did you expect her to be a good starfighter pilot). The destruction of the Death Star along with the destruction of Delaya led to more recruits joining the Rebel Alliance.

The Rebel Alliance eventually is driven to the Ice World of Hoth but the Imperials, with Darth Muder leading them, drive them out of Hoth in the infamous battle as Leia receives Jedi training from Master Yoda in Dagobah and Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Prince Luke Organa flee to Bespin, eventually, Leia finds her way to Bespin, where in a lightsabre duel with Darth Muder, she then learns that Darth Muder is her mother and that Darth Muder wants her to join her and rule the galaxy as Mother and Daughter, which she refuses. Afterwards, Darth Muder is now influenced more and more by Revan's holocorn and eventually decides to forge a "New Sith Order", one where a "Unifying Force" would guide the Galaxy and force-users would be shown how to draw upon the force without fear of light and dark and how to understand it. In her "New Sith Order", no-one would be denied basic pleasures of life like love or family life. During the same time, she turns to form a clique to launch a coup d'etat against Sheev Palpatine including Admiral Thrawn and many other generals, admirals, and Moffs. She also persuades the leadership of the Rebel Alliance to not fight the forces she has arrayed for the coup. In the Second Death Star, over Endor, the coup begins when Leia surrenders herself to the emperor and after Palpatine tries to strike her down with Sith Lightning, Mother and Daughter strikes down Sheev Palpatine with their lightsabers as Admiral Thrawn, over the hologram, declares that a massive Imperial Fleet has declared for Darth Muder. After peace talks with the Alliance, Empress Amidala proclaims a "Galactic Imperial Federation" with herself as Empress and that a "new age of peace and prosperity has arrived", she could hardly have been more wrong as new forces try to strike down the new peace.

Sate Pestage and Ysanne Isard evaded the coup plotters and fled to Byss where they proclaimed that Empress Amidala was an imposter, that they represented the legitimate Galactic Empire, and that the New Order will be restored to it's glory before the coup began. They enlist the loyalty of many Moffs and Admirals who remain loyal to Palpatine and three years after the coup d'etat, they eventually arise as 1/3rd of the Federation's military and 1/4th of it's systems declare for Pestage and Isard and proclaim the rebirth of the Galactic Empire. On the other hand, Admiral Jasper Kortu [6], proclaimed that Padme Amidala's Galactic Imperial Federation was merely Palpatine's empire by another name and proclaimed a "New Galactic Republic", under a new ideology he himself devised where force users were deemed "reactionary" and that a revolution was necessary to end the "New Order" completely and a year after Isard and Pestage launch their uprising, they launched their own uprising as a tenth of the Federation's fleet and almost 15% of it's systems declare for Kortu's New Republic. Padme Amidala had planned to retire from politics after the first election for the role of Premier, but she felt compelled to remain in power by this turn of events. And the Galaxy was once more pushed into civil war.

Around a decade later, the third phase of the Galactic Civil War [7] shows no sign of abating as the three states show no sign of faltering in their struggle to gain total control of the Galaxy as massive armies and star fleets fight it out over the galaxy. In addition, the three sides have commissioned the creation of new superweapons, with rumors of a "supernova bomb" being developed by the Restored Empire whispered in the capital worlds of the Imperial Federation and the New Republic. The three sides will not falter until the enemies of their just cause will be crushed by the righteous forces of their side. And so, the Galactic Civil War continues.

Strongest of the three states is the Galactic Imperial Federation, still led by Empress Padme Amidala, who nowadays mainly defers to the Federal Assembly. The Galactic Federation's military has gained more powers during the war under Admiral Thrawn but the Federal Assembly still has many political powers albeit with many members of the Federal Assembly representing out-lying worlds being practically little more than seat warmers due to their worlds being occupied by either New Republic or Imperial control. Some parts of the Federation are practically semi-independent like the Hapes Consortium and Mandalore, who for the most part act more like Federation allies than members of the Federation.

Second most powerful is the Restored Galactic Empire, led by Supreme Director Ysanne Isard (Palpatine is the Eternal Emperor) after a coup six years after the start of the civil war deposed Sate Pestage, under Ysanne Isard's rule, the Empire has become increasingly feudal as the Moffs become increasingly hereditary offices with Moffs passing power to their sons when they die. In addition, the Empire has become an even worse place to live in as almost all resources are devoted to the war effort and the government shows it's indifference to the mass famine in many worlds. In addition, the Humanocentrist ideology of Palpatine's Galactic Empire has developed into an even worse ideology which states that the Galaxy was made for Humanity and all other races exist to serve man, and if they refuse, they will be "dealt with". There are rumors that industrial genocide has been perpetrated against other species in the name of this "New Order".

Weakest of the three states is the "New Galactic Republic", led by the self-styled "First Citizen" Jasper Kortu and his "Committee for the Victory of the Revolution". The New Galactic Republic proclaims itself to be the "light of freedom and security" against the "Force Theocracies", in reality, it is a military dictatorship ruled by Kortu's clique, which is comprised of an uneasy mixture of Seperatist remnants [8], supporters in Kortu's ideology, and idealistic/naive supporters of the Old Republic. The New Galactic Republic is also highly militarized, even more so than the "Restored Galactic Empire", with almost every adult citizen a conscript or reservist in the Republican Military. The Revolutionary Guard is the elite of the New Galactic Republic's military, comprised of two sections, one for tracking down the enemies of the revolution and serves as a secret police, and another to serve as the armored vanguard of the revolution's army.

In addition to the three powers, there are other players in the Galactic stage like the Mon Calamari Republic, who view the Imperial Federation and the Restored Empire merely as two sides of the same Imperial coin and the "New Galactic Republic" as lunatics, the Hutts, who have risen anew and supply weapons to all three sides, the Zann Consortium, ruled by the infamous Tyber Zann, the Kaminoans, who supply clones to the Federation but are otherwise neutral, and the Pentastar Alignment, who also split with the Restored Empire but went their separate ways after the Restored Empire became increasingly barbaric. In addition, the civil war has led to an utter collapse of the Galactic Economy as the three sides attack merchant fleets as well.

In the meantime, First Citizen Jasper Kortu has been ordering Thers Kigbu, head of the Republican Guard, to research a way to tap into the Force without using Force sensitives with "Special Operations Unit 317" getting places with midichlorian experimentation with the end-goal of providing a way for anyone to become a force-sensitive via weaponry and tools, which is close, if the propaganda is to be believed.

In a remote world in the outer rim, one of the Galaxy's most wanted terrorists, Lumiya, head of the infamous "First Order", plots her next move. For a decade, Lumiya has waged a terrorist campaign against all three sides in the name of the "legitimate" Sith Order, hijacking star ships, assassinating political leaders, bombing buildings, and other sorts of terrorist activites, and she has trained, in violation of Darth Bane's Rule of Two, two apprentices, Kylo Ren and A'Sharad Hett, who has taken on the name "Darth Krayt". The First Order's most infamous attack was when tried to assassinate First Citizen Kortu but failed. But the First Order is persistant, and soon the First Order, if they have their way, will have their revenge on Darth Muder and her false order.

But soon, a new danger will be added to the Galaxy's woes, as on the edges of the Galaxy, trillions of Yuuzhan Vong are massing on giant worldships, and the Vong will not stop until the "impure" galaxy is "cleansed" of mechanical "filth". Admiral Thrawn has already warned the Empress about the situation but the New Republic and the Restored Empire have little warning about the impending threat, and soon, the galaxy will burn

[1] She died from "losing the will to live" in the CTL, which is saying something about her ability to be seduced to the Dark Side if her husband died and she got force abilities from Anakin's midichlorians
[2] How ironic
[3] Revan's teachings being rediscovered is interesting
[4] His force-choking was similar to Admiral Motti in the CTL and Darth Muder said that he was planning to become Emperor
[5] Obi-Wan doesn't want Leia to learn the grim truth about how Darth Muder rose
[6] Reference to RvBomally's fine work
[7] I did some in-universe historiography as well with the Clone Wars, the rebellion against Palpatine's Empire, and the three states period being seen as different phases of the same war
[8] They won't forgive or forget what happened on Mustafar to their council at Padme/Muder's hands and many of them were part of the Rebel Alliance

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