A/N: So, as you may or may not know, I made a story codex for this, however, as I am now starting to write this, that has been deleted, and changes have been made to the idea that I had to this story.
First, the title was previously Legend of the Iota Republic, the name has been changed to Voidhunter, due to Iota meaning small, and because Voidhunter sounds infinitely more badass than "small".
Second, the story, unlike the codex, will begin three years into the Voidhunter Galactic Civil War.
Third, though this and the ones beyond it are not actually changes, rather being points I wish to make regarding the story, I'll actually be explaining shit about why there are three different sides to this conflict rather than two, said explanation will come later.
Fourth, flamers requesting that I shut down this story right after its first official chapter and beyond will be ignored with the disdain that they truly deserve, myself and ZF IAnswerToNoOne have already had to deal with that shit with his posting of our collaboration "For Judgement Shall Be Passed", and it is pointless, ignorant, and selfish to demand that someone stop writing something they enjoy just because you do not understand or like it.
Fifth, to anyone who decides to carry out the aforementioned shutdown request, you will, once again, be ignored with all the disdain you deserve, if you use a guest account to repeatedly do so, I will consider it harassment and delete your repeated shutdown requests, and, if need be, I will find a way to IP Ban you from reviewing this story, as there surely is at least one way to do so floating around somewhere on the Internet.
Sixth, to anyone who actually cares and/or likes Star Wars, enjoy this story that I have written for everyone, including myself, and don't be a dumbshit flamer.
Star Wars: Legend of the Voidhunter Republic.
Chapter 1: Vector.
Voidhunter Republic Listening Post: Coruscant System, Capital of the Voidhunter Galactic Republic, 0VCO.
Voidhunter Republic Capital, Automated Sensor Array Station H497949024934.
Unknown contact detected, scanning...
Matching scans to Republic Civilian Database... No match found.
Switching to Republic Military Database...
Accessing Voidhunter Republic Military and Naval Database... Authorization accepted...
Matching scans to Republic Military Database... Match found.
Scans matched to Voidhunter Imperial Systems military vessel designated Imperial-II-class Star Destroyer, IFF Tag unknown, IFF Tag is non-responsive, switching to search-scan sensors for further analysis...
Life signs detected... negative... Life-support systems inoperable, thermal scan initiated... thermal responses, zero... thermal response detected, engines have become operational, calculating collision courses with linked sensor array stations... no collision paths currently detected. Calculating possible collision courses with registered civilian and naval vessels... none.
Calculating possible collision courses with registered stellar and planetary bodies... Collision course detected, naval and civilian vessels have been notified and are en route to prevent possible collisions...
Alert, interdiction field detected. Ion cannon fire detected, collision courses calculated... Republic naval vessels now unable to respond to possible threat, surface Anti-Air defenses alerted...
Unidentified Star Destroyer has released two thousand escape pods, calculating trajectories and possible collision courses... collision courses confirmed, all civilian traffic diverted from areas of possible impact...
Recalculating all trajectories and possible collision courses... collision courses confirmed, all trajectories confirmed to converge on points of impact...
Second wave of two thousand escape pods detected from unknown Star Destroyer, calculating collision courses... collision courses confirmed...
Third wave detected, calculating... two Gamma-class Assault Shuttles detected. Fifteen Imperial Delta-class Transports detected. Eight Lambda-class Shuttles detected. Seventy-two TIE-Series Starfighters detected.
Fourth wave detected, calculating... cargo jettisoned... ground vehicles appear to have been jettisoned... calculating trajectory... confirmed.
Collision courses recalculated... collision courses, Coruscant...
Collisions detected, alerting all Republic naval forces within one thousand light-years of this station...
Responses detected, Republic naval forces en route to Coruscant System, all inbound civilian traffic has been diverted to other systems along the Hyperlane network.
Current situation w-warrants further m-monitoring...
Jedi Master Michael Tyranide, Coruscant Jedi Temple, 0VCO.
As the middle-aged Tynaran Jedi Master watched in confusion and mounting horror, the sky began to rain durasteel and fire.
Hundreds... no, thousands of Imperial escape pods breached the atmosphere and hurtled toward the surface, each one colliding into dozens of buildings on their way down in explosions of shrapnel and fire.
Behind them came a wave of seventy two TIE Fighters, which proceeded to engage Coruscant's Anti-Air defenses, clearing the way for the various shuttles falling onto the planet-city.
One such shuttle, a Gamma-class by its appearance, angled itself right for the previously untouched Jedi Temple.
As it came toward the Temple, he tried to sense the beings inside, only to find that, as far as the Force was concerned, the shuttle was completely empty.
The shuttle soon crashed onto one of the landing pads, sending up a flurry of sparks as Jedi of multiple species and levels of experience dived out of the way, some barely managing to get out of its path as the landing craft skidded to a stop just barely at the edge of the platform, its bay door falling open with a clang of durasteel which resounded throughout the silent area.
Jedi of many non-human species paled as the sounds of growling and moans of hunger reached their enhanced senses.
With a moan, a corpse covered in blood-streaked Stormtrooper armor appeared from the inside of the shuttle, staring at the Jedi with eyes the color of human blood.
Michael, and the many fellow Jedi around him, gained expressions of shock and horror, the corpse was soon joined by around three dozen more, each one staring at the Jedi with expressions of unrestrained hunger and blood lust.
With a shriek of hunger, each of the corpses charged the dozens of Jedi, who immediately lit and raised their lightsabers in self-defense.
One female Padawan, who attempted to restrain one of the corpses using the Force, found the effort to be useless, and as a result, the corpse was able to get within arms reach, seizing her wrist and drawing itself toward her as she gained a look of fear, letting out a shriek of pain which quickly faded as the creature ripped her throat out with its decayed teeth.
Michael found himself under attack by two of the corpses, one of which managed to inflict a bite on his left wrist while he cut off the head of the other, retaliating against the first with his lightsaber impaling it through the heart, causing it to become limp while the green blade continued to burn through its chest.
Raising its head, the creature proceeded to shriek in his face and resume its previous attempts to bite him, leading the Tynaran to sweep his lightsaber up, vivisecting it with his lightsaber exiting the top of its skull.
Looking around, the Jedi Master found many of the other Jedi had followed his lead in using lethal force against the creatures.
Hearing growls, he glanced down, discovering that the head of the creature he had decapitated was still, somehow, alive and attempting to bite at his foot, leading him to step away while slicing the green blade of his lightsaber through it, ending the decapitated creature permanently.
Hearing growls directly behind him, he turned, silently watching in shock as the corpse of the dead Padawan who had attempted to use the Force on one of the creatures rose, her eyes as red as human blood, and charged him.
Finding that another of the creatures had gotten behind him, he drew his second lightsaber and spun, both green blades finding their mark as each swept through the sides of the one of the creatures' heads.
Seeing that his former Padawan had come to assist him, he called out, "Is anyone wounded?"
Jedi Sentinel Ziren Zarkos glanced at the others, who gave negatives ranging between human shrugs to Wookiee grunts, "No, Master, they are not wounded."
Michael nodded, watching as the wound on his arm quickly repaired itself, chlorophyll absorbing the sunlight as cells regenerated over and over again until the wound had completely closed.
Hearing a shout of surprise, he and Ziren ran toward the entrance to the Temple, only pausing to stare in mute shock as an Imperial Star Destroyer breached the atmosphere and crashed into an unseen part of the city.
Then, for the second time that day, the sky rained fire as hundreds of Imperial ground vehicles fell to the surface at terminal velocity.
The two shared a look, a hundred years of experience allowing the two to understand exactly what the other was thinking.
In this case, they wondered, if one of those creatures was capable of killing a Jedi, how much damage could the creatures do in a crowded area full of civilians...
The two then realized the true gravity of the situation, considering that Coruscant was the most populated planet in the galaxy, and that these beings could cause any being to presumably come back and spread whatever it was that caused their behavior...
The implication that Coruscant could very easily fall to these creatures was at the forefront of their minds as the two ran toward the entrance to the Temple, the other Jedi who knew of the threat these beings posed following close behind.
Bursting into the entrance of the Temple, they found the other Jedi staring at them in shock, having seen the creatures they had fought.
Mace Windu glanced at them in what seemed to be faint concern, before turning back to stare at the falling debris in silence.
Michael walked toward them, deactivating his lightsabers, and bowed to Grandmaster Yoda, "Master, what do you recommend?"
Yoda looked up at the Tynaran with concern, "Abandon the Temple, we must."
The statement drew stares and protests from the surrounding Jedi, who argued that the Temple had always been their home, and that they should not simply leave it to be desecrated by the creatures.
With barely a second of warning through the Force, the Jedi in the room flung themselves back as an air speeder crashed into one the room's supporting pillars, breaking through and becoming stuck with a human male flying from the cockpit.
The human was brutally thrown onto Yoda, the assembled Jedi barely catching a glimpse of red eyes, as a flash of green came from the creature, the blade of the lightsaber cutting through its chest and pushing it off of the Grandmaster, after which Ziren used his natural abilities to send a concentrated bolt of plasma through the head of the creature as it let out a single screech, before going limp.
As Yoda stood, relatively unharmed except for a few cuts from the debris, only Ziren noticed as the blood of the corpse seemed to move toward his injuries.
Ziren decided that it could not be left until later, "Master Yoda, the blood, it is moving toward your wounds..."
Yoda glanced down, and could only stare in mute shock as the blood of the creature soaked itself into his skin.
Exchanging expressions of worry and shock, each of the Jedi realized the fact that, should a cure not be found, and soon, Yoda, Grandmaster of the Jedi Order, would die...
Coruscant, five minutes after first sensor scan of unknown Imperial Systems Star Destroyer.
As the Jedi ran on toward the Temple Hangars, Master Tyranide carried Yoda, the natural energy his body produced helping the Grandmaster hold off the unknown infection, unfortunately, unless they found a cure, the only thing that would be able to save Yoda at that point would be a direct intervention from the Force itself.
Every one of the hundreds of fleeing Jedi, from Padawan to Master, knew how unlikely it was for such a thing to occur.
As Michael ran, he glanced up, watching the TIE Starfighters and Republic air forces battle above the city, each of the Imperial fighters, no doubt piloted by the infected, managed to down at least two of their opponents, some even running straight into the Clone Z-95 Headhunters in order to inflict as much damage as possible.
His comlink continued to light up, having long since been muted in order to prevent any infected from hearing the sound.
Within a few minutes, the Jedi reached the hangar, the few inside already notified of the situation through the Holonet and the words of the Jedi Councilors.
As the Jedi shuttles lifted off, they watched LAATs come from the ships in orbit, Clone Troopers moving in to evacuate civilians as multiple transports flew toward the Senate building to evacuate as many as they could.
To their horror, Grandmaster Yoda had fallen silent, the centuries old Jedi had now stopped breathing, as the Jedi inside the shuttle watched, Grandmaster Yoda of the Jedi Order became one with the Force, his corpse opening its blood red eyes as Michael put the end of his lightsaber against its forehead, and with the press of a button and a hiss of plasma, the Jedi Order no longer possessed a leader...
Orbit of Coruscant, Voidhunter Galactic Republic (VGR) Venator-class Star Destroyer Resolute, three hours after initial sensor contact with unknown Imperial Systems Star Destroyer.
As Anakin stared at the datapad in horror, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan collapsed into two chairs in shock.
Anakin's thoughts were moving at light-year speeds in that single second as he tried to process everything that he just read.
Yoda, the Jedi who had been Grandmaster of the Order for as long as anyone, even the species from the Kydeirak System, could remember, was dead.
A single Imperial Systems Star Destroyer, the data stores on board the ship designating it as the Vector, had attacked and crashed on Coruscant, releasing a virus by the name of Blackwing, which, if Mace Windu was to be believed, reanimated the dead of any species as flesh-eating monsters.
Said virus was currently spreading throughout the city-planet with ease, the death count and number of infected already rising into the billions, even as he looked up to stare at the Capital of the Republic in horror.
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was also gone, found dead in his office by ARC Troopers surrounded by the dead bodies of infected civilians, twin lightsabers resting near the hands of his corpse.
From the files Sentinel Zarkos had managed to recover, the Chancellor had apparently caused the entire war in an effort to cede the Republic to the Imperial Systems, using the Clone armies of the Republic to destroy the Jedi Order in the process and creating a massive super-weapon in order to spread fear and oppression throughout the galaxy.
The files, to the horror of the Jedi, stated that Sheev Palpatine was actually the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, the creator of the Imperial Systems.
If the files were to be believed, then the Supreme Chancellor had actually manipulated the entire Voidhunter Galaxy into a three-way civil war.
Anakin Skywalker collapsed into a nearby chair, and, overcome with horror, shock, and betrayal, fell into unconsciousness.
Orbit of Coruscant, five hours after initial sensor contact with Imperial Systems Star Destroyer designate Vector.
With a pulse of Hypermatter particles and Cronau radiation, a massive grey sphere materialized at the edge of the system, the Clones on board now under the command of acting-Grandmaster Mace Windu, and moved toward the Republic fleet with its main weapon pointed toward the infested city-planet.
The Death Star, now under the command of the Galactic Republic, and designated as the first DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, stopped in orbit of the Republic capital and homeworld of humanity, and began to charge its main weapon, the decision having been made with great reluctance, with the reason for such an action being an effort to prevent galaxy-wide extinction...
The main weapon of the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station fired, the fully-powered superlaser lancing toward the city-planet in seconds, the bridges of the Republic ships filled with blinding green light as the horrible and necessary deed was done...
The city-planet of Coruscant, once the shining capital of the Galactic Republic and holding a population of two trillion sentient beings, was gone, the entire planet destroyed in an instant which would be remembered throughout the galaxy for decades once the event had been declassified from the highest level of Republic digital defenses.
A/N: So, yes, we now have a large divergence from canon, with the Empire showing up years before they're exactly supposed to, though, to be honest, they are much smaller than their canon counterpart.
Oh, and Coruscant got shit-mixed by a Republic/Jedi controlled Death Star. I mentioned that, didn't I? No, I didn't? Well, the more you know, I guess...