As the former Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker bowed at his feet, everything was transpiring
as Palpatine had foreseen. Anointing him as his new apprentice Darth Vader, he ordered
him to purge the Jedi in their former home, assisted by Order 66, resulting in the clones
turning upon the Jedi generals they had served under, throughout the war between the Republic
and the Separatists. After completing the siege of the Temple, Vader goes to the one
person capable of seeing through his darkness, in his wife senator Padme Amidala of Naboo.
But so engrossed in the dark side and the potential ending of the war, the Anakin that
Padme had known had been replaced, as he left the senate apartment complex to kill the Separatist
Alliance, hidden on Mustafar by Sidious. After the Chancellor had declared himself to be
the new Galactic Empire, Padme returned to her apartment, and had been quickly met by
Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had been deployed by Jedi Grandmaster Yoda to find his lost
Padawan and destroy him if necessary. The senator does not tell the Jedi the location
of Vader, for fear the master would destroy him, but Obi-Wan had snuck her ship, and they
eventually landed on Mustafar. The heavily pregnant senator ran to Vader, but then stopped,
as she soon realised that Obi-Wan had been right about what Anakin had become. The offer
to join him in ruling the galaxy together, was met by horror and following a duel between
Vader and his old master, the apprentice remained a slave to Palpatine. But what if Padme had
accepted Vader’s offer to join him? Would Vader be able to overthrow Palpatine as he
had promised? As you are going to discover, Padme could have shifted the fate of the New
Empire… The senator of Naboo looked into the smouldering
lava banks of the planet, as she had been offered to join Vader in ruling the galaxy.
The words of Obi-Wan screamed in her mind, but she felt there was good in this monster
in front of her, and she was determined to see Anakin again. Taking a step to Vader,
they were both surprised to see Obi-Wan, and the Jedi master ordered Padme to step away.
Vader stepped in between them to prevent her going to the Jedi, and ordered her to take
her starfighter, then leave the planet to avoid seeing the bloodshed. Igniting their
blades, Anakin’s starfighter took off, as the heroes clashed on the platform. Obi-Wan
knew the power of Anakin from their training and battles, but with the dark side, the former
Jedi smashed against his defences, and he needed all his mastery of Soresu to keep him
at bay. The Jedi moved the battle to the mining area, and sensed that Vader was overconfident,
so assumed Qui-Gon’s stance to test the Jedi. Vader looked delighted by the change
in form, and moved for the kill, but Obi-Wan cut across his body, then launched the biggest
Force push he could, and Vader landed on top of a lava bank. But as Obi-Wan walked towards
him, the Starfighter piloted by Padme arrived to collect the injured Sith, and they flew
off of the planet. Obi-Wan had no choice, but to trudge back to the star skiff, joined
by R2-D2 and C3P0, and aimed made his way to Coruscant to help Yoda in his battle with
the Emperor. Approaching the planet’s coordinates, the Jedi master is stopped by a transmission
from senator Organa, and he instructs him to head to his apartment to discuss their
next plans, without Padme or her Force sensitive children. Yoda and Bail Organa deem it necessary
to find Padme, and they take his Alderaanian starship to Mustafar, to look for any traces
of Vader and Padme’s location. Obi-Wan on the other hand, took his own starfighter,
and headed for the planet of Naboo, hoping that the Empire had not made their presence,
landing in the picturesque hills. The Jedi could already see clone troopers beginning
to patrol the streets, and the Jedi master needed all of his stealth to rush to the Theed
Royal palace, where Queen Apailana had been waiting for any news on Padme. The Queen welcomed
the Jedi into her home, but he had no time to exchange pleasantries, as he told her that
Padme was in the hands of Vader and the Empire, and he needed the help of Naboo to find her.
The Queen provides Obi-Wan with her security Force and the Gungans, and representative
Jar Jar Binks arrived to join the Jedi on his way to Mustafar again. Reconvening with
Yoda and Bail Organa, they had managed to procure a number of recordings between Palpatine
and Vader, and they discover that the Sith Lord had wanted to take Vader to oversee the
construction of the Death star. The Jedi had been correct, as the apprentice had recovered
from his wounds, at the Grand Republic medical facility on Coruscant, and bowed to Palpatine
at the helm of the star destroyer. The Sith Lord looked across from Vader, and his eyes
narrowed at the sight of Padme, ordering Vader to eliminate this weakness. Vader merely waved
his hand gently, and all of the naval officers clutched at their throats, as he then ordered
Padme to move to safety, as he pointed his blade. Palpatine accused his apprentice of
treason, in making an attempt on his life, and summoned his own blade. As they converged
to meet in the centre of the bridge, the ship began to shake from their power, and the lights
flickered out. The two Sith soon pushed against each in other in a battle of the Force, and
the energy around them buzzed, until it became too much for their surroundings. Palpatine
and Vader projected in opposite directions, and their fates were in the balance.
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