Darkness Returns

Ch1 Prelude to War

Date 19.3 ABY Location: The Maw.

Within the heart of the Maw the mysterious warlord gazes out the window of the stations war room. Whatching as Tie fighters and Star Destroyers orbit the perimiter. His train of thought is disrupted when he hears the hissing sound of rooms blast doors open. He is always early for his brefings. His Xo walks up to him.

"Your early."

"I like to get things started right away", the admrial states. He then turns around and walks up to the table and turns around and with his deep stern voice says"Ahh now that were all hear we can get started" and sits down in his seat.

"You all know why you are here, for the past six years we have been planning and waiting now it is time to begin preparations" the admrial proudly proclaims.

"For those of you who do not know me my name is Grand Admrial Xavier DeGuale, I'm the commanding officer of this operation, Please relax we have along night ahead of us. Col Tyler give me the reort"

"Sir we've rallied up nearly all rouge imperial forces. We also got word to Admrial Palleon on Bastion, and has agreed to suport our cause." Col Tyler reports.

"Excellent colonel, now what about our finances? Did we manage to find all the emperors vaults?"

"All but one sir, we have discovered that one of the vaults had fallen into the hands of Tyber Zahn and his pirate scum."

"Then we will just have to deal with them accordingly, but not yet were still not ready for a full scale war." Shortly after a fleet of ten Venator class Star Destroyers exits out of hyperspace near the station.

The crazed worlord points out towards the arriving battle groupe,"As all of you can see our reconstruction effort is coming along quite well, it will be just a matter of time and and the galaxy will once again be in our hands. The first phase of the plan is gather resorces. We recently made contact the CEO's of Rothana Heavy Engineering and the Seinar Division on Lianna, they have agreed to give full production rights to their shipyards, production will commence very soon. Were still working on KDY and rest of Seinar, but I know in time they will take our side. In the mean time I still want all of you to continue to scavenge for hardware and usable warships. Admrial Typho what is are current count?"

The Xo looks down and and brings up a hologram list of personell and hardware."Sir we currently including Paleons forces, have three hundred Imperial class Stardestroyers, Five hundred Victory class, Five hundred fifty Venator class, and two hundred fifty Acclamator assault ships, two Super Stardestoyers that incudes yours and Paleons, and around 250,000 groud troops sir. We also managed to find almost one hundred clone war and early emperial era weapons chaches, each chache has almost 50,000 smallarms including DC-15a,DC-15s,E-11's.

"I like the sound of these numbers, This is a very good start. We can now proceed with the second phase of my plan." Admrial DeGuale stands up and looks over to Col Tyler."Colonel I want you to take a small assualt force including your Stormcommando company to Kamino. Take over the planet and restart its cloning facilities, and fortify it for permanent establishment. See to it personally Colonel and kill anyone that stands in your way. Any questions Colonel?"

"No sir" Tyler replies.

"Then make ready to depart with in six hours,your dismissed"

The colonel bows his head to the admrial and exits the room.

"Any questions so far?" DeGuale asks

Admrial Daala stands up" Do you really think Corperate Sector will actually sell all five hundred of their Victory Star Destroyers back to the Empire?"

"Yes my dear Natasi, we have more than enough credits to ofer the CSA for those ships." DeGuale answer her

Colonel Soontir Fel stands up next,"Admrial a few months back you mentioned that you also plan on hitting other targets besides the Republic, may I ask who else?"

"Ahh yes thank you for reminding Colonel" DeGuale walks up to the starchart." Yes I do plan on taking over several other leading powers in the galaxy, such as Hutt and Consortium worlds, the Hapan, and a few valuable systems in the unknown regions."

"Where in the unknown regions and why?" Daala asks

"Most of these systems are unamed, but I do have them charted for reference. The system known only as the Solar System would be a suitable target. The Solar System has humans on it. The third planet in its system is its capital known as Earth. Another usefull system would be Lylat. Its capital Corneria is also very industrialised. Now everyone knows what their assignments are, we have alot of work to do we will meet back here agian Saturday at 18:00, your dismissed.

After everyone exited the room the DeGuale just continued to stare out the window whatching and planning.

Corneria city 3 days later. 6pm 5 months after Aparoid invasion.

On the ballconny of the finest condo in the city Fox stares out at the evening sky. He hears the sound of footsteps from behind him. He didn't even have to turn around to know who it was.

"You know Fox I don't have to be a telepath to to know when somthings bothering you."

"Am I that easy to read?" Fox jokingly says

"I not joking Fox, whats the matter you been like this for three days now."Krystal askes as she puts her srms around his back.

"To be honest Krystal I really don't know, I just got this weird feeling that somthing bad is going to happen."

Krystal looks up to Fox and kisses him on the cheek,"You worry to much, now lets go and get some dinner I'm starving"

Fox gazes at Krystal and smiles,"Mabey your right, mabey I'm just paranoid."

The two walk out the building to enjoy the peacful night.