Prologue
*In Darth Vader's flagship, The Executer*
Darth Vader was walking along the corridors in the bridge of his own flagship, the Super Star Destroyer, The Executer. The flagship is then followed by several other Star Destroyers as all the star cruisers travel to the Unknown Regions of the galaxy.
Ever since the destruction of the first Death Star, the Emperor was very displeased at him and forced him to go through a series of difficult and life-threatening trials just for Vader to regain the Emperor's trust. As punishment for his massive failure, he must serve under Grand General Tagge and act as one of his subordinates. Although he despises him, Vader still followed his orders and destroyed and killed a few space pirates and found a few spies and traitors in the Empire.
During this time of regaining his mantle to the Emperor, Vader became obsessed on finding the lone X-Wing Pilot who unbelievably, single-handedly destoyed the most powerful weapon in the entire galaxy ever built, the Death Star. The destruction not only displeased the Emperor, but also taken the life of one of his close friends he had left, Grand Moff Tarkin. On his journey to find the pilot, he forced himself to go to the one planet he never knew he would ever returned, the last planet Vader never knew would return back to; Tatooine.
The same planet where he was raised as a slave when he was a child, the same planet where he lost his mother, and the same planet where he took his first step towards the dark side by slaughtering an entire village of sand people who killed his mother. He went there as his first assignment after his failure in the Death Star to negotiate a deal with the great Jabba the Hutt. The one thing that benefited Vader during his negotiations with Jabba the Hutt was that he met the most fierce Bounty Hunter in the galaxy, Boba Fett.
So instead of searching for this young boy himself, he paid this Bounty Hunter to do it for him while Vader continued on with his assigned duties.
Vader then meets Doctor Aphra, and the two formed a temporary partnership. Vader asked Doctor Aphra for loyal troops of unquestionable loyalty as his personal army, where Aphra stated that they are going to Geonosis to an abandoned Droid factory. During his time there, he gets flashbacks during his time as Anakin along with Padme and Obi-wan in the Geonosian arena, where they were rescued by the Jedi and was the first ever battle that sparked up the Clone Wars. It was also there where he was brutally defeated for the first time during his first lightsaber duel with Count Dooku. Vader and Aphra then finds the last remaining Geonosian Queen, who Vader simply kills. Vader then gained an army of loyal Commando Droids for his personal army.
Later during his many trials, Vader learned that the Emperor was recruiting new apprentices who could possibly replace his position in the Empire if he fails. Vader then came up with a plan to kill each one of them, and surely one by one, they were killed since none of them were force-sensitive making him for more powerful than any of them. Vader then conspires against Doctor Cylo, accusing him of treachery against the Empire and then executing him for this. The Emperor then became pleased with Vader once more and then brought Darth Vader back to his rightful place in the Empire, where Vader also gained access to his new flagship, the Super Star Destroyer, the Executor.
After gaining the Emperor's trust once more, Vader was tasked with travelling to the Unknown regions to expand their Empire.
As Vader enters the bridge's control room, the Admiral went up to Vader to discuss to him some news. "Lord Vader!" said the Admiral "I have some new that I would like to discuss with you my lord.". Vader looked at the Admiral "Very well then" Vader said "This better be interesting." The Admiral spoke up "Yes it is Lord Vader. Our scanners found a new unexplored planet in the Unknown Regions. We tried communicating to it but to no avail. We think this planet may have some primitive life and possibly some useful materials that we may use."
Vader looks through the large window of the bridge and sees the planet that the Admiral was referring to. The unknown planet looks very much like Alderaan, before it was destroyed, and Naboo, filled with forest and seas. Vader the looks back at the commander "Send the Imperial probes and scan different regions of this planet. We must search if it has possible signs of intelligent life. If there is and that the inhabitants are quite hostile, send a few Star destroyers to deal with the matter." "Yes my lord." The Admiral replied back.
The Admiral then walks up to the operators and said "Send the probes down there and have a thorough search of this planet. If there's sign of intelligent life, both mild or hostile, send a legion of Stormtroopers to investigate the matter further.". The operators then replied "Yes sir. Deploying the probes now." The probes were then deployed into the planet. "This should be interesting. Let us see what this planet has in store for us." said Darth Vader.