After the call for Order 66 was given to all Clone troopers of the Republic, Anakin Skywalker
was sent to the Jedi temple to begin the slaughter of all Jed inside, during Operation: Knightfall,
where he shredded through Jedi Masters, Padawans and of course, the younglings.
At the moment Anakin and his Clone Troopers began to march on the temple, Plo Koon’s
niece, Sha Koon was inside and witnessed Anakin’s destruction.
After seeing this, Sha Koon vowed to become Palpatine’s apprentice instead of Anakin,
but Why?
Lets find out!
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The story begins with Plo Koon’s niece in a dark, traumatic flashback, where she fights
with her Clone Troopers at the battle of Giju, and is unfortunately losing many of her men.
Her mind then violently snaps to another flashback, where she is speaking to her uncle Plo Koon
on their homeworld of Dorin, interestingly without his mask.
Her flashback then turns to her uncle’s horrid death in the skies of Cato Neimodia,
before again turning to a chilling memory of Anakin’s face, with his Sith eyes glaring
deep into her soul.
Sha Koon is being flooded with chaotic memories and emotions, all out of orders.
Following this, Sha Koon then knows that she must put all of these memories back in order
and give them context in order to regain her strength and resolve.
This again rushes the same memories through her head, but this time she can clearly remember
the events and what happens in them.
Her memories then begin playing over in her mind once again, this time however in order,
from the moment she was brought to the Jedi.
Sha Koon begins speaking to her uncle on their home planet, and she very quickly realizes
that because the two of them were so strong in the force, they shared an unusually intense
telepathic bond.
Without even having to say a word, Sha Koon knew that as soon as Plo arrived at her house,
he was there to take her to the Jedi Order for training.
Following this, she remembers her time training with the other younglings at the Jedi temple
under master Yoda, before eventually being taken on by an Ithorian Master.
During the Stark Hyperspace war, Sha Koon was able to telepathically communicate with
her uncle from far across the galaxy, and convey Plo Koon’s thoughts to the Jedi council,
saving his life.
Later on, Sha Koon becomes a Jedi Knight herself, where she eventually takes on a padawan of
her own, named Baylis Archan.
Achan too had a natural affinity for telepathy, so their relationship came naturally and they
became great friends over their time training together.
Tragically, as the war raged on, Sha Koon lost her padawan on the planet Giju during
the War, along with every single one of her Clone Troopers… filling her with pain and
regret for fighting in such a useless battle, in such a pointless war.
From this point forward, she vows to never fight in another war for the Jedi Order ever
again.
As she remembers this line, she is ripped out of her flashback, to the present, where
she is trading blows with Darth Vader swinging her emerald green lightsaber with rage and
fury.
Between each swing and slash, more memories come back to her, this time, with her uncle
Plo approaching her at the Jedi meditation garden
Sha Koon believes that her uncle has only visited her, to ask that she rejoin the war,
but surprisingly she is wrong.
Plo has come to visit her because he knows that with Count Dooku’s death, the end of
the war is only a matter of time.
As Vader continues to strike range and fury into Sha koon in the present, her flashbacks
continue flowing.
Plo tells his young niece that there is something she can do to contribute to the war, without
fighting.
Plo then tells her “Count Dooku said as this war started, that someone close to the
hierarchy of the Republic is the Sith Lord.
I’d like you to scour the Jedi archives--see if you can learn anything that might lead
to our hidden enemy.
In her flashback, Sha Koon then agrees and travels to the Jedi temple library and begins
scouring through the Jedi chronicles.
Jedi Librarian, Jocasta Nu offers her help to Sha Koon, but she knows that what she is
researching is deeper than any other Jedi has gone before, declining the Librarian’s
help.
The librarian even tells Sha Koon that long ago, she knew every piece of information within
the Jedi archives, but after Kamino was removed without her knowledge… she no longer has
confidence in her abilities.
After this, Jocasta Nu leaves Sha Koon to her research, where she eventually spent days
on end, studying, researching and barely sleeping, desperate to find out who the sith Lord named
Sidious could truly be.
Tragically, as she is conducting her research, the tragic call of Order 66 is given by Palpatine,
and she senses the horrible betrayal and death of her uncle in the skies above Cato Neimoidia.
The exact same feeling she felt when her own Padawan met his demise all that time ago.
Not long ager this, smoke began to fill the vast halls of the Jedi temple, seeping into
the Jedi research area, before chilling screams rang through the entire temple.
Sha Koon immediately stood up, absolutely terrified at what she might find, vowing to
stop the pain, suffering and screaming coming from around the temple.
As she trampled through the halls of the temple, she was absollytey shocked and also confused
to see the Clone Trooper’s of Anakin Skywalkers 501st inside.
She thinks to herself “Clone Troopers?
This deep in the temple?
Not permitted…
How?
Why?
The moment this thought finishes, the Clone Troopers point their weapons at the Young
Jedi, and immediately open fire, but she responds by igniting her lightsaber and ferociously
fighting to save her life.
This sadly reminds her of when she lost her own troopers back on Giju, but this time,
she was the one taking their lives.
For a reason she had not yet discovered.
After killing the 501st troopers, Sha Koon rushes through the halls of the temple, blocking,
deflecting and dodging any fire that comes her way, knowing that she must retreat and
get to safety.
As she is running through the chaos-filled temple, her vision is filled with something
she cannot even comprehend.
Anakin Skywalker is powering his way through the temple, slaughtering every Jedi he sees.
Because of her enhanced telepathy ability, she can feel Anakin’s mind, his thoughts
are like ice and his emotions burning like a pit of fire.
She knows he has gone to the dark.
He Is the sith.
Sha koon then continues slaughtering 501st troopers to protect herself, but soon realizes
that she will not be herded like a mindless beast.
She wants to be something greater.
She is not going to be slain like the other weak Jedi.
This leads Sha Koon to escape into the under levels of coruscant, and as much time passes,
she eventually knows what she must do.
Sha Koon contacts Emperor Palpatine and he is genuinely shocked that someone was able
to contact him this easily.
Sha tells Palpatine that she is one of the surviving Jedi and that she knows that he
is a Sith Lord, to which Palpatine asks her what exactly she knows about the Sith.
Sha tells him that she has studied the ancient teachings of the Sith and has now realized
that the Dark Side is much stronger than the light.
With the destruction of the Jedi, she can now see who holds true power in the galaxy.
She then tells Palpatine “the jedi were wrong--sith Sith were right.”
Palpatine chuckles at this, asking what exactly she wants.
Sha Koon then bows down and tells Palpatine “to serve.
To learn.
To become your apprentice… master.
Palpatine then bursts out into laughter and tells her “if you’ve studied your sith
lore, then you know that there are only two.
And I already have my apprentice.
Sha Koon however responds to this by saying “and If I killed him?”, to which Palpatine
finally agrees and tells her that if she can defeat Lord Vader, she will have proven herself
worth of the title Sith apprentice.
Eventually, Darth Vader meets up with Sha Koon deep in the Coruscant underworld, where
Vader immediately exposes her for lying to Palpatine and tells her that Palpatine knew
all along that the only reason she wanted to become his apprentice was to kill him.
Sha Koon believes that Vader is a monster.
A magnificent monster.
Immediately, Sha Koon removes her robes and calls Anakin “Killer of Younglings.
Betrayer of friends and Destroyer of the Jedi.
Vader then begins taunting Plo’s niece telling her that she is the last Jedi and there is
no hope for the restoration of the order, before the two engage is a monumental lightsaber
battle, swinging their red and green blades together time and time again with the force
flowing through them both, until eventually Vader force chokes Sha Koon, weakening her
badly.
While in her weakened state, Plo’s niece drops her lightsaber is is immediately impaled
by Vader’s flickering red blade, fatally wounding her.
Before her essence is transferred into the cosmic force however, she is shown a vision
of Luke Skywalker, Leia and all of the other people who will bring hope to the galaxy,
and continue the Jedi way into the future.
She is even shown the emperor’s eventual demise on the second death star, along with
Luke’s future, Kyle katarn, Mara Jade and others who will bring the Jedi back.
To end the story, Vader returns to his Master who congratulates him for his defeat, and
reassures him that the Sith will now control the galaxy for all of eternity…
Of course, being completely wrong.
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