A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
Before the Order of the Phoenix and it's sister organization, the D.A., fought its way to freedom, before the Jedi Knights (all of whom were secretly members of the Order of the Phoenix) vanished from the face of the earth, before the Dark Lord established his empire across the world with its stronghold on the planet of Earth, before any of these things occurred, the Ministry of Magic, headed by the Minister for Magic, ruled the entire galaxy.
It was a time of peace, watched over by the ever-vigilant Ministry of Magic and their peacemakers, the Jedi Knights.
The Jedi were peace keepers who used their amazing fighting skills to defend justice. They obtained all their powers from the Force, which is an energy field created by all living things, that surrounds and penetrates living beings and binds the galaxy together.
Among the Jedi, there were some rebels who used the same powers that the Jedi used, along with several dark powers that the Jedi Council had forbidden. Their ideology and principles differed vastly from the mainstream Jedi, and their emotions were fueled by anger and hate, rather than peace and love.
Two thousand years ago, these rebel Jedi grew to such a large number, that they disbanded themselves from the Jedi Order and severed all ties with their fellow Jedi Knights. They focused on all their negative emotions and hence utilised the 'dark side' of the Force.
The Order of the Phoenix was founded by Merlin, a highly accomplished Jedi Grand Master, two thousand years previously, and its aim was to eliminate the dangerous threat posed by the newly formed Sith order. It comprised of the entire Jedi Order as well as normal wizards who weren't Force-sensitive. (Wizards used an ordinary magical wand, unlike the Jedi.)
The Jedi fought fiercely against the Sith, using lightsabers as their weapon of choice, and the climax of the devastating battle took place deep down on the volcanic planet of Mustafar. The Jedi themselves were overwhelmed by the dark powers of the Sith, but Merlin himself created the biggest turnaround in the history of battle by using his lightsaber and his oneness with the Force in a way no Jedi had ever seen before, resulting in his destroying the Sith singlehandedly and hence giving victory to the Order of the Phoenix.
Merlin, however, was mortally wounded by a Sith Lord known as Darth Bane. Darth Bane was struck down, and forgotten about. The entire Order of the Phoenix, the Jedi and the wizards, watched as their saviour bade them farewell and was charred to death in the hot fires of the Mustafar fortress.
After the war (known as The First Sith War), the Jedi High Council constructed a Jedi temple at the site of Merlin's death, to train and educate Jedi younglings in the ways of the Force till the age of eleven. A school to house both wizards and Jedi alike and educate them till the age of seventeen, was set up by four great wizards of the Jedi Order on the planet of Earth - Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin.
However, after a fierce dispute with the other three, Salazar Slytherin, who had fallen to the temptation of the Dark Side, left the school and was never heard of again.
Unknown to the Order, Darth Bane, who was on the brink of death, escaped the fire temple and hid far away on an unknown planet and advanced his knowledge of the Dark Side of the Force, then set out in search of an apprentice to whom he could pass on his learnings. Unlike his fellow Sith Lords, who were all destroyed, Darth Bane understood : Patience. Patience was the key to the survival of the Sith Order. Patience would one day give them victory over the Jedi.
It could have been purely a coincidence or merely a trick of the Force that Darth Bane and Salazar Slytherin met, united by their hatred of the Jedi and likewise in their abilities to exploit the Dark Side of the Force. A Rule of Two was established, with Darth Bane taking on Slytherin as his apprentice.
Darth Bane proceeded to teach Slytherin everything he knew about the Force, skills with a lightsaber, as well as channeling anger and hatred for destruction.
As Salazar Slytherin grew stronger under the training of Lord Bane, he became more and more confident in his ability to overthrow his own master. He picked a moment when his master was meditating, and struck him down without regret.
Slytherin found an apprentice soon enough. When Slytherin was on his death bed, he went into a trance and made a prophecy to his apprentice, which was passed down from master to apprentice over many generations. It said : 'My true heir through not only Sith lineage, but also that of blood, will be powerful beyond all, once he rises ; the Jedi will be purged, but due to an unnatural fear of death, he will have only one challenger who could possibly destroy him, a chosen one with a chosen ally, one he holds dear. My heir will be immortal with the Force, and unbeatable with a saber, his only bane being a will and a wand.'
Consequently, the Sith fiercely guarded this secret and generation after generation hid their existence for nearly two thousand years, waiting for the true heir to rise and bring about the downfall of all the Jedi.
In the year 1945, almost fifty years before the present date, a dark wizard named Grindelwald rose to power, his followers were the Knights of Walpurgis. The Jedi High Council reasoned that not he nor his followers were Sith Lords as none of the dark wizards used the Force as a means of oppression or even lightsabers. The Jedi Council sent a handful of its young and budding Jedi Knights to destroy the threat. However, Gellert Grindelwald was an accomplished Sith Master who disagreed with the policy of generations of Sith hiding themselves from the Jedi, when he felt that they should come out and rule the world. He anticipated that the Jedi High Council would underestimate his army, and send only a few Jedi Knights to handle the situation. Acting accordingly, when he met the inexperienced Jedi, he slew them all.
However, one man on the Jedi High Council disagreed with the pitiful amount of Jedi dispatched. He suspected something more sinister was at work, and began to suspect the true nature of Grindelwald. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore left to encounter Grindelwald against the wishes of the Jedi High Council. When he reached, he found that all the Jedi lay slain and that Grindelwald was waiting for him. Although no other soul was there to witness it, Dumbledore and Grindelwald engaged themselves in one of the fiercest duels ever known, fighting each others' mind with the Force, and a lightsaber and a wand simultaneously to parry and attack. Dumbledore eventually emerged victorious, but before he cast the death blow on his opponent, he did something Sith-like for the greater good. He tortured his opponent, before using Legillimency against him to find out the lost history of the Sith. He discovered the prophecy and slew Grindelwald. Dumbledore spoke of what he discovered only to the Jedi High Council, who agreed with him that it was best to keep silence, and act only when it was the the time to act, since the true heir or 'The Chosen One' had not yet made an appearance.
Now, roughly two thousand years since the First Battle of the Sith, and almost fifty years since the war against Grindelwald, for the most part, peace reigned throughout the planet, although several disputes did rise between the Ministry of Magic and various powerful business organisations.
One of these disputes was between the Ministry and The Trade Federation. The Trade Federation, an organization of merchants and high profile business-class people, was so powerful that they were said to have sources within the impenetrable Ministry. The Federation wanted more than eighty percent of the taxes received by the Ministry and also duty-free exports to all of its clients around the galaxy.
The situation got worse, and the Ministry acted on the rumours of spies within its walls. The Jedi were called in to check every member of the Ministry for signs of the Imperius curse, including the Minister himself. This act of the Jedi itself signified grave danger and possibility of war, as it was the first time in history that the Jedi were used for political purposes. Even their security check failed to yield any mole.
Bolstered by this psychological victory, the Trade Federation blockaded the small planet of Naboo which was close to the border of the Outer Rim Territories, hereby cutting off all supplies of drugs, medicines, weapons, food and many other commodities to or from that planet.
Now slowly getting desperate, the Ministry sent two powerful Jedi to the headquarters of the Trade Federation unit that surrounded Naboo. The chosen Jedi Knights were Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks. They were expected to negotiate till both sides reached an amicable agreement. They expected their mission to be short and simple....
AN:- So there's the prologue of an intended crossover b/w HP and Star Wars. Hopefully, you guys don't think I'm insane. And I really need reviews from you guys, not just hits, because I need to know what you guys think of this ambitious (crazy?) attempt.
Oh, yeah, in this universe, a lightsaber and a wand will almost always stalemate against each other. A lightsaber can block and absorb any curse from a wand, however it can't penetrate through a properly created shield by a wand.
And the first line is not really true, I just have to start somewhere...