Aboard General Grievous’ flagship the Invisible Hand, Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker had a decision
to make that could alter the fate of the war. Underneath his equipped blue and red lightsabers,
the Sith apprentice Count Dooku was disarmed, and Anakin knew to kill him would not be the Jedi way.
But encouragement from the secret Sith Lord Palpatine, prompted him to kill Dooku,
and continue along the path of the dark side. After returning to Coruscant, Palpatine knew
Anakin was vulnerable to his manipulations and began to cast more doubts in his mind,
feeding him nightmares of his wife Padme Amidala dying in childbirth, then informing him that
only through his knowledge obtained from his master Darth Plagueis, could Anakin save her.
The plan is mostly a success, as Anakin completes his transformation to the dark side by killing
Master Windu instead of Palpatine, and is forced to obey his commands. But the Sith Lord had been
too late, as he had allowed for Anakin to maintain some attachment to Padme and her offspring, which
subsequently led to his demise. But what if Anakin had been secretly trained earlier by Palpatine?
Would the Sith Lord be able to detach all of Anakin’s attachments to Padme? As you
shall discover, the earlier move by Palpatine, could have changed his own reign of terror…
In the Senate office building, Palpatine stared out at Coruscant’s skyline, when he
felt the presence of Anakin enter his office. The Jedi knight had continued to express his
frustrations at the Jedi Council, and a new and more powerful apprentice would be in his grasp.
The Sith Lord had also quickly discovered the marriage between Anakin and senator Amidala,
and he was using the secrecy to ensure Padme would not intervene. Anakin was ready to move from the
Jedi, and Palpatine finally revealed that he knew of the Force, but not that he was the Sith,
until Anakin’s trust in him would not waver. Anakin is dispatched to destroy Admiral Trench,
and Palpatine orders General Grievous to position his ship in preparation to jump to
Coruscant. Palpatine waited patiently, and at last Anakin had completed his mission he had expected,
and Palpatine entered his ship under the pretence of being captured. Aboard the
flagship of Admiral Yularen, Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi looked at his slightly distant Padawan,
and together, they resisted the temptations of the plight on Mandalore to rescue Supreme Chancellor
Palpatine. The Jedi navigate through the intense Separatist gunfire, then skid their way into the
hangar of General Grievous’ hangar, and battle through the droids to find Palpatine. For the Sith
Lord this was Anakin’s crucial test, and he was delighted to find Obi-Wan had lost consciousness,
before turning to the duel between Dooku and Anakin. Palpatine encouraged Anakin to feed off
of his hate, and he overpowered Dooku, then sliced off his head without hesitation. As he felt his
hands be free of the pesky cuffs, Anakin bowed to him, and pledged his allegiance to the dark side,
before being anointed as Darth Vader. Master Kenobi is forgotten beneath the trapped platform,
and the duo aggressively march to the bridge. Igniting their blades, the Magnaguards and Battle
droids are no match for the Sith, and Grievous quickly escapes. Taking command of the ship,
Vader is able to control the burning dreadnought back to Coruscant, where Palpatine orders him to
go back to the Jedi Council, and spy on them. Back in a field of debris above the skies of Coruscant,
the trusty droid of former Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker R2-D2, lifted several pieces of
durasteel using his mechanical arm. The droid had seen Anakin’s turn to the dark side, and
knew that he had to leave him. R2 used his rocket boosters to hop onto the largest piece of the
destroyed ship, and through the flames, he found Obi-Wan. Dragging him out into an airtight space,
he relayed the signal back to Coruscant. In the Jedi Temple, Anakin had just departed from
the Council meeting, where Yoda began to grow suspicious of the Jedi. As if confirming these
thoughts, at transmission from R2 arrived, showing Master Kenobi had been trapped aboard the other
half of the ship. It was unlike Anakin to not save his master, and the Council dispatch Kel’Dor Jedi
master Plo Koon to mount a rescue. With all eyes on the Jedi, he only takes one gunship, filled
with members of his Wolfpack, and they extract Obi-Wan before he could be engulfed in smoke.
The Jedi master is treated for his wounds, then attempted to reach out for the presence of Anakin
alongside the Council members, but there was nothing. Obi-Wan could not believe that Anakin
had turned to the dark side, and had to confirm the truth. Taking a speeder to the apartment of
Senator Amidala, she had been frantically pacing her room, wondering what had happened to Anakin.
At the sight of Obi-Wan she pleads for the location of Anakin, but he coldly informs her
that Anakin was now a Sith. Padme shook her head in disbelief, but had to stay her calm for her
children, and Obi-Wan asks the Council to send a protector to guard Padme. The Council refused
these demands, when their transmission was cut off by an overwhelming darkness covers the room.
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