Important notes:
As you can see from the description, I mixed the characters of the new movie with the characters of the EU, I tried to have no consistency issues between them, this mainly concerns Luke. He is a bit darker as you would expect him to be. I've tried to make him as the transition between the brave hero who fought Darth Vader in the Second Death Star and the cold, harsh man who just turned away from everything once he failed to restore the Jedi Order. I hope I got it right :)
This is my first story in English, I wrote it as a one part short story, and sadly this was the worst possible way to upload it, since its long and it is full of grammatical mistakes. I decided to chop it into pieces, I try to cut it in reasonable parts that make some sense on their own, I think that the first few pages would make an acceptable prologue, therefore I will start with that, and we will see how it works out :)
The fall of a noble soul:
Part I.
Grand Admiral Thrawn stood at the bridge of the Chimaera, observing the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer in front of him, gliding slowly in the blackness of space. The Lone Star was one of its kind. Emperor Snoke wanted to create countless more, making them the backbone of the Imperial Fleet. But so far the crippled, beaten Empire could only produce one of these magnificent beasts. If it were to Thrawn, he would make it the flagship of the remaining Fleet, but it was the Emperor's call, and he wanted it to serve as the home ship of his private guardians, known as the First Order.
It was no wonder that the Lone Star was here, Thrawn had a proposition to the Sith Lord. He would only tell him about it aboard the Chimaera, the only star destroyer in the Fleet he known and trusted enough to survive this encounter. His proposal was dangerous alone, his true plan could get him killed in an instant, if the Emperor would find it out before its too late.
But only one thing at a time. For now, Thrawn had to play his game of shadowing and deceit with the Sith Lord standing right beside him. He already told him his proposition, the only thing left was to listen to his answer in a calm, yet determined manner, and react accordingly.
„I am sick of your games, Grand Admiral," the Sith said after careful consideration.
„These games are the only thing that keep the Empire alive, my lord," Thrawn cocked his eyebrow. „If the Jedi discover the facility, all the clones of Noeya Adane must be present in there, ensuring our success."
„Its not the question of if, Grand Admiral, it is the question of when," said the dark robed figure. „We mustn't underestimate Luke Skywalker, nor his Jedi Order. If they discover its location, they will succeed in destroying it. I agree that some of her clones has to be present in the facility, in order to convince Skywalker about his victory, but we can't lose all of them."
„You are speaking about these Force-sensitive puppets of yours, like they were irreplaceable," Thrawn said, slightly turning towards him. „They are common clones, we could have thousands of them by now, if your apprentice gets himself killed a bit later. I am sure you would find a way to create more of them after we lost the facility."
„No Force-sensitive is replaceable," the Sith shrugged.
„They are," the Grand Admiral shook his head. „Unless I'm right."
„Meaning?" the Emperor tried to mask his genuine shock, but no man could hide anything from Thrawn.
„You can clone a dead person from his genes, but you can't clone the Force itself. You can only exploit the living Force from a living body, thus I conclude that Noeya Adane is still alive."
„She died when the time came for her to die," the Sith snapped.
„Indeed," Thrawn nodded. „She was just as dead as you were, when your apprentice struck you down, believing he got rid of you for eternity. Yet here you are, long after he is gone, just as Noeya Adane is down there, in the heart of that facility, living in constant suffering, while she is forced to feed hundreds of embryos with the Force."
Thrawn remained silent, Snoke stared at him for a moment, trying to mask his mixed emotions. He chose well when he made him to be the master of the Imperial Fleet. Maybe too well.
„Interesting, that one with such knowledge would like me to send all of my clones to their certain doom," the Sith said.
„No sacrifice, no victory."
„I thought losing the facility is a certainty," the Emperor said, facing toward the Lone Star.
„It is, yet such an event doesn't necessarily equals with defeat," Thrawn nodded. „If Skywalker finds Adane, one of two things are going to happen: he lets her go, knowing that you can make an army of clones, if you get her in your grasp again, or he puts his lightsaber through her chest."
„No jedi would do such a thing. Especially not him."
„He will, after he sees how many of them we've created," the Grand Admiral said with a flicker of smile on his face. „And by that I don't mean the embryos, those value are small to a life of an adult, even for a jedi. I speak about the very clones you would spare from this fight. Let him fight them, let him kill them, let him lose a friend or two to them. He will know what to do, when he finds Noeya, and after the facility is nothing, but ash, he will remember what he did, and this will start him on the road leading to his inevitable fall. You won't destroy the jedi with brute force, no sith did that ever before. You can do that only from the inside, just as your apprentice did before us."
„Very well," the Sith said, admiring his insight. „Yet I would still spare one of the clones, just in case."
„Yes, I knew you would want to save at least one of them. Most certainly the newest one, who possesses so much danger that even you would be afraid to face her by the time she reaches the height of her power. You wished to hide her not just from me, but from the everyone else as well, but you have failed to deceive me. By the time you arrived here, I didn't just order every clone to be at the facility, but I have menaged to withdrew all our additional forces from the system, ensuring their doom." Thrawn said so calmly, that Snoke barely noticed that the stormtroopers raised up their weapons around him. Most of them pointed at him, while others were targeting his guardians, the troopers of the First Order, who were still loyal to him.
„What's the meaning of this, Grand Admiral?" The Sith raised his voice.
„Not Grand Admiral, not anymore, my friend," Thrawn said in a cold manner. „The time of Emperor Snoke is over."
This was the first small piece of the short story, I hope you enjoyed it! I will try my best to to entertain you guys with the rest, it would be a huge help if you gave me an honest opinion about it, and some grammatical errors, if its possible, then I could rework the rest according to your feedback :)