While having drinks with his former superior officer, Migs Mayfeld mentioned that he was
present during Operation Cinder, Palpatine’s despicable contingency plan that would decimate
many imperial worlds after his death, because he believed that if the Empire could not defend
it’s emperor, then it did not deserve to exist.
So, I’m going to break down the disgraceful truth of what happened during Operation Cinder.
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After the creation of the Galactic Empire and the destruction of the Jedi Order Palpatine
created many contingency plans in case he was killed during his reign.
One of these was known as Operation Cinder.
Palpatine believed that if he were to ever perish unexpectedly, then the empire did not
even deserve to live on beyond him.
Because of this strong belief, he entrusted a man named Gallius Rax, who had known Palpatine
since he was only a young boy, to watch over the construction of his dark observatory on
Jakku, to be used in Operation Cinder many years later.
Make sure you remember this, as it will be very important later.
Gallius Rax eventually rose through the ranks of the Empire to the position of Fleet Admiral
in the IMperial Navy, preparing him for his final role and his service to Palpatine in
the futre.
Not only did Palptine want the current Empire destroyed upon his death, but the contingency
plan also called for a rebirth of the empire at a later date, by allowing a very small
and secretive group of Imperial survivors to escape to the unknown regions, where they
would rebuild the empire in the shadows.
This small, select group of course eventually went on to form the First Order in the unknown
regions, as a result of Palpatine's plan.
After the supposed “Death” of Palpatine at the hands on Darth Vader on the SEcond
death star, the Operation Cinder contingency plan was initiated very shortly after, and
several Messenger Droids with the face of Palpatine being projected through them, delivered
the message to top ranking imperial officials to begin the operation.
As the orders were given, these high ranking imperial officers utilized a horrible technology
known as Climate Disruption arrays, which orbited the target planets, and provoked vicious
storms, violent hurricanes and other horrible natural disasters which would tear a planet
apart and kill everyone on its surface.
The List of planets known to be targeted by Operation Cinder on that one disgraceful day
were the following:
Fondor, known for it’s massive manufcation hub and shipyards
Pillio, known for it’s massive coral reefs and huge amount of aquatic species
Vardos, homeworld of Iden and Garrick Versio - and also the location of the Empire’s
Future Military Leaders Prep School Abednedo, known for spreading their citizens
around the galaxy to a large variety of planets Candovant, an imperial world that remained
loyal to the Empire throughout the Galactic Civil war,
Commenor, homeworld of Rebel General Jan Dodonna Nacronis, known for it’s raging siltstorms
, Naboo, Of course the homeworld of Palpatine
and Padme And finally Burnin Konn, a massive chromium
mining colony, as well as the location where Mayfeld Lost so many of his fellow men
There certainly were more locations on the Operation Cinder list, but these are the ones
that we currently know of in Canon.
And now I’ll breakdown the disgraceful actions that went down at some of these locations.
After the Battle of Endor had ended and resulted in Imperial defeat, Imperial Commander Iden
Version of the Inferno Squad was summoned by her Father Garrick Versio, aboard the ISD
Eviscerator in Orbit of the planet Vardos, where she received Orders from Palpatine’s
creepy messenger droids.
Versio was slightly suspicious of what exactly Operation: Cinder entailer, but her Inferno
squad was soon sent to an Imperial shipyard above the planet Fondor to provide Security
for high ranking Imperial named Moff Raythe, who was attempting to obtain the satellites
required to initiate the destruction of Imperial planets.
Soon after the satellites were successfully acquired and the Emperor’s observatory for
studying the Unknown Regions on the planet Pilo was destroyed.
Following this, Iden Versio returned to Vardos, her homeworld, where she noticed that the
satellites she had helped to obtain, were know deployed above her own planet.
After realizing her home would become a target of Palpatine’s destruction plan, she flew
into a rage and confronted her father, furious that their own homeworld would become a target
of Operation: Cinder, despite having been so loyal to it for so many years.
Iden Versio’s father however told his daughter that Operation: Cinder was for the greater
good of the Empire, and that their homeworld, as well as many others should be sacrificed
in order to strike utter fear and brutality into the hearts of every citizen of the Galaxy.
Despite the pleas from his own daughter, Garrick Versio ordered the satellite to fire on his
home planet anyway, triggering horrendous electrical storms on the surface of Vardos,
laying waste to every single structure, living being and settlement below.
Even more disgracefully, Garrick Versio ensured that all non-imperial ships attempting to
escape the surface of his home planet would be shot down to further terrify the Galaxy.
This event eventually led to Iden Versio and some other members of their Inferno Squad
to defect fro the Empire, jumping into hyperspace, before eventually arriving in the Outer Rim,
where they formally surrendered themselves to the Rebel alliance.
Following this, the next target on Operation: Cinder’s horrific kill list was the planet
Naboo.
While aboard his Star Destroyer, the Torment, Imperial Captain Lerr Duvat was approached
by one of Palpatine’s eerie messenger droids, giving him the command to initiate Operation:
cinder immediately.
Soon after receiving the command, he launched the same climate disruption satellites into
orbit, allowing them to create massive hurricanes and brutal electrical storms across naboo.
By the time the power of the satellite array reached even a mere 25% efficiency, class-five
hurricanes were already beginning to form and raging fires, mass flooding and horrible
chaos ripped across the surface of Naboo.
Because of this atrocity occuring on her planet, the Queen of Naboo, Sosha Soruna, was forced
to scramble her very small starfighter fleet to destroy the satellites.
Rebel alliance members, Share Bey, Leia Organa, and the Queen herself very quickly engaged
the Imperial forces above Naboo, managing to destroy some of the Satellites, but very
very badly outgunned and almost killed during the battle.
Fortunately for them however, Rebel General Lando Clarissian arrived with a Rebel reinforcement
fleet, and the Rebel Danger Squadron, which Iden Versio had now joined after defecting
from the Empire.
After managing to destroy many more of the satellite with these reinforcements, all Rebel
forces quickly evacuated to the nearest safe haven, which was the royal palace in Theed.
Once inside, the Rebels activated a defence system, which send a shocking ionic disruption
across the entire city, disabling all starfighters and stopping any blasters from firing.
This of course forced the Empire to surrender and Flee from Naboo.
Following this horrendous attack on Naboo, the Empire shifted it’s focus, continuing
to carry out the Operation Cinder contingency on countless other worlds, including the ones
listed above like Nacronis, Commendor, Candovant and of course Burnin Konn, where Migs Mayfeld
tragically had almost all of his fellow soldiers wiped out, leaving him as one of the only
survivors of that tragic day.
After this event, Migs Mayfeld defected from the Empire because of the trauma and held
a huge hatred inside of him, wondering how the Empire could do this to their own men.
In the aftermath of Operation: Cinder Naboo was once again attacked by the Imperial Remnants,
in the event known as the Naboo Invasions, but this time the New Republic forces had
no trouble defending against these attacks.
And finally, the New Republic forces converged on the planet Jakku, where the final phase
of Palpatine’s contingency plan was about to be carried out in the year 5 ABY.
The New Republic army attacked the Imperial Forces there, led by Gallius Rax, the man
Palpatine initially entrusted with his plans.
He attempted to finish Palpatine’s plans by using ancient sith artifacts which were
buried under the sandy surface of Jakku to corrupt the planet’s core and darken it’s
life essence, destroying the desert world and wiping out both the Imperial and New Republic
forces.
Unfortunately for him however he was killed by fellow Imperial, Grand Admiral Rae Sloane,
who wanted Revenge against Rax because he removed her from power in the past.
With his final, dying breaths however, he urged Rae Slaone to regroup with the select
Imperial officers and Palpatine loyalists in the Unknown regions to begin the creation
of the First order.
Following Rax’s failure on Jakku, the Galactic Civil war finally came to an end with the
New Republic emerging victorious, and agreeing to the Galactic Concordance with the Empire’s
Grand Vizier, Mas Amedda, which granted peace for some time.
The New Republic didn’t realize however that deep in the unknown regions, Rae Sloane,
Brendol Hux, and other important imperial figures were gathered in the unknown regions,
seeking to one day create the First order, and eventually, the final order.
So that is the full, disgraceful story behind Operation Cinder, and how it eventually led
into the first Order.
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