Author's Note: Yo! X-Mas just came early this year y'all! Instead of having you guys wait until the new year, I decided to start the first episode in the Lure of the Dark Side sequel early. Though you'll probably have to wait until the new year for continuous frequent updates as I'm still typing up Episode IX. I know I said I was going to give you guys a trailer for Episode VI first, but I got lazy. I started it, but I didn't feel like finishing it. I hope you don't mind.
This episode still contains forty-four chapters plus an epilogue, but I intend to get through it much faster than the last (which took almost five months); sometimes giving you two chapters at a time.


The Lure of the Dark Side: Chronicle 2-The Domination of the Sith

Authored by Doreen Hines, with the assistance of the following:

The Star Wars films,

The Star Wars Databank on the official website,

The Revenge of the Sith novel by Matthew Stover,

Star Wars: Dark Lord-The Rise of Darth Vaderby James Luceno,

The Wookiepedia On line Encyclopedia,

Star Wars: Legacy of the Force Book Series,

Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds Encyclopedia,

Answers On line Dictionary/Encyclopedia,

And the Wikipedia On line encyclopedia

Summery: The Domination of the Sith is the second book in the Lure of the Dark Side series. The Empire now rules over the galaxy under the direct control of the Sith. The Jedi Order has been eliminated, but for how long will this last? Betrayal, Discovery, War, and Redemption lie within.

Disclaimer: The Star Wars franchise belongs to George Lucas. Obviously, I'm just playing around in his fascinating world for fun.

Rated PG-13 for Sci-fi action violence, language and some sexual content


Dramatis Personae

Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader; Emperor's Executor, Supreme Commander of the Imperial Navy, Sith Apprentice (male human)

Antellica Grievous / Darth Lady Veradisia; Empress' Hand, Sith Apprentice (female human)

Arica Grievous / Darth Lady Zenevieva; Emperor's Hand, Sith Apprentice (female human)

Bail Organa; Viceroy and Senator of the Alderaan Sector, Leader of the Alliance to Restore the Galactic Republic (male human)

Breha Antilles Organa; Queen and Minister of Education of Alderaan, Leader of the Alliance to Restore the Galactic Republic (female human)

Charlotte Jovovich; Senator and Regional Governor of the Chommel Sector (female Human)

Leila Skywalker; Imperial Princess of the Galactic Empire (female human)

Luke Skywalker; Imperial Prince of the Galactic Empire (male human)

Mon Mothma; Senator of the Bormea Sector, Leader of the Alliance to Restore the Galactic Republic (female human)

Obi-Wan Kenobi; Exiled Jedi Master (male human)

Padme Naberrie Palpatine Amidala / Darth Lady Baynetta; Empress of the Galactic Empire, Queen of Naboo, Dark Lady of the Sith (female human)

Palpatine / Darth Sidious; Emperor of the Galactic Empire, Dark Lord of the Sith (male human)

Yoda: Exiled Jedi Master (male unknown tridactyl species)


Episode VI: The Golden Age of the Empire

Chapter 1: Briefing of Victory and the Rebel's Plan

Year 0.6, Imperial Era (IE)

The beginning of the Galactic Empire was the start of a new era, the Imperial Era to be precise. The first six months of the new government were spent with it being quite victorious. Following the eradications of the Gungan and Neimoidian species, the empire's iron fist continued upon fifteen outspoken star systems and Senators that were against it's rule, and made examples out of by the following:

Former Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker, aka Supreme Commander of the Imperial Navy, Executor of the Emperor, and Sith apprentice Darth Vader;

Former Supreme Commander and Head State of the Confederacy of the Independent Systems, Arica Grievous, aka the Emperor's Hand and Sith apprentice Darth Lady Zenevieva;

And former Jedi Knight, Antellica Grievous, aka the Empress' Hand and Sith apprentice Darth Lady Veradisia

The worlds that had once been monopolized by the now dead Separatists Order, sans the Neimoidia system – Geonosis, Muunilinst, Skako, Metalorn, Castell, and many others – had been captured and their inhabitants made into the empire's slaves. The Mid Rim planet of Kashyyyk was also captured and enslaved due to its native tribe of Wookies' resistance against the government, causing uproar in the Mid and Inner Rims of the galaxy. They wanted revenge for the empire's ruthless slaughter of their world during Order Sixty-six, the last phase of the Clone Wars. Alas, the might of the empire met them head on in battle and their world was captured almost instantly under the direction of Lord Vader.

Empress Naberrie Palpatine Amidala, the estranged and soon to be ex-wife of Darth Vader and daughter of the empire's ruler, Palpatine, had easily dropped the pregnancy pounds after giving birth to she and Vader's twin children – Luke and Leila Skywalker – and gotten back into shape in a months time. She and Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, as executives of the emperor's battle station project – codenamed Hammertong, though its actual name was Death Star – continued to oversee the production of it in the Outer Rim system of Mustafar. However, she wasn't able to tend to it as much as she would've liked at first, due to the busyness of her applications as Empress of the Galactic Empire and Queen of her mid rim homeworld, Naboo. Because of this, the Hands of the Emperor and Empress and Lord Vader would oversee it at the times she couldn't.

The royal twins, Luke and Leila, meanwhile, under the care of their father, grew wondrously and began to speak more and more as the days went by. To them, their three closet relations – their father and the Grievous twins – were known as Dada, Telly, and Ree.

Things were marvelous for everyone in the empire's inner circle of Sith. Except Antellica Grievous that is, though no one knew it. Antellica knew her twin, Arica, suspected something even if she never said anything. But suspecting was one thing; actually knowing was another.

Previous to her leave from Coruscant for her first mission as Empress' Hand – to eliminate an outspoken opposer of the Empire – Antellica had discovered, to much horror, that she was four months pregnant with a son. She'd been studying her reflection in a full length door-sized mirror in her Holiday Lakes Hotel quarters when she'd realized that she was developing somewhat of a belly. She was still sick on occasion, and hadn't had her menstrual cycle for about four months, but she never thought to think anything of this. Her menstrual cycle was irregular in the sense that it never came every three weeks. It came whenever it wanted to with usually no more than four to nine periods a year. Antellica had gone almost three months, during the Clone Wars, without her cycle, so this was yet another reason why the thought of her being pregnant never crossed her mind.

However, upon searching within herself with the Force just to make sure – she'd briefly placed herself under the illusion that the reason her stomach was expanding was because she was eating too much – she found that she was indeed pregnant. Beyond horrified, she was also very scared. She wanted to tell Arica, but was too afraid she'd tell Anakin, who'd in turn probably tell the emperor, who'd tell his daughter. That of course would also raise the question as to who the father was. The answer to that question would not only make the emperor and empress livid, but she would get in trouble – possibly be killed – for lying to them about how Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi supposedly escaped, when in fact it was she who'd actually set him free. This led her mind to wonder how Obi-Wan would react to this. Antellica naturally assumed she'd never see him again, but at the same time knew that he must somehow know about this. Maybe he purposely impregnated her, but then that couldn't be true. It was Antellica who'd requested they be intimate. Not that Obi-Wan hadn't wanted to, but she wondered that perhaps if she hadn't asked him to give her something to remember him by if they would've done it anyway.

Her thoughts did drift back to Obi-Wan on occasion. She presumed she was still in love with him. And after discovering her pregnancy, despite her better judgment, found that her mind kept thinking back to their last encounter.

Because she was showing somewhat, Antellica ceased wearing tight fitting tops and pants that showed off her slender figure, and began to go with looser fitting clothes. As to not arouse suspicion, she nonchalantly commented to Arica and Anakin that she grew tired of wearing tight fitting clothes as they were the thing of sixteen year olds. (She and Arica had recently celebrated their seventeenth birthday.) Whenever she was around anyone however, Force-sensitive or not, Antellica kept her pregnancy cloaked with the Force. She knew she couldn't do this forever, but decided she would continue to do so until she couldn't any longer.


Meanwhile on the Core World Chandrila, exiled Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi had adapted to the simple life of the planet quite easily. Since first coming to the world with the planet's Senatorial representative, Mon Mothma, six months ago he'd been staying at the Hanna Royal Palace as an associate assistant to their young queen, Nagida. Since this job mainly required that he stay inside the palace and answer calls, set up interviews with the press and public, do paper work, and other such things that assistants to royalty do, it was easy for him to stay hidden from the empire so close to its capital. Yet at the same time, stay active within the Alliance to Restore the Galactic Republic and informed of what the government they were secretly plotting against was up to.

As the empire continued to do its treachery abroad, Senator Mothma continued to secretly rally supporters for the alliance as much as possible. They currently had about three hundred systems with them in this, but that was a far cry from the numbers they once possessed. At the end of the Clone Wars, the two thousand Senators that had signed a petition against Palpatine were all in with the alliance to a certain extent. However since then, with the elimination of fifteen outspoken Senators against the government, the enslavement of the Wookies, and capture of Kashyyyk, more and more Senators, out of fear, were dropping out of the alliance and giving their full fledged allegiance to the empire. Yet despite the depressing odds against them, Obi-Wan urged Mon and the others not to give up hope and keep pressing on.

In Obi-Wan's time on Chandrila, he became good friends with both Mon and the young queen, and learned much about them. Mon had been serving the Bormea Sector as Senator for the past eight years now, since the age of twenty-one, winning much praise as the youngest Senator ever elected in the history of the New Galactic Republic. Before that, she'd acted as an assistant to the Governor of Chandrila's capital city, Hanna, interestingly enough, her mother Tanis Mothma. Even before that however, as young adolescent, she'd dreamed of being either a novelist or school teacher. These dreams soon vanished though when she saw a live report of refugees being held hostage against their will to mine gold in the planet's underground caverns beneath the rocky mountains. Chandrila's representative at the time – Mon's predecessor – and the King and Queen – young Nagida's deceased parents – had negotiated with these gold hungry criminals, who'd taken over the gold mine through a Boss Kingpin, to let the innocent people go. This conflict almost led to an all out planetary war, but finally came to a halt at the arrival of a Jedi team coming to Chandrila's aide by catching the Boss Kingpin in question and bringing justice upon him through death, thus putting an end to the conflict. This almost war inspired Mon to be a politician.

As for the teenage queen Nagida, her parents had been assassinated during the conflict, leaving behind a two-year-old daughter for the King's mother to raise. Because of Nagida's young age at the time of her parents death, she didn't remember them very much, which she found to be sad. Her grandmother, the former queen, Lady Donatella, assumed the throne soon after their death, serving only as custodian for Nagida until she reached the legal age of the eighteen. And though her grandmother had taken back her seat on the throne as a temporary queen, Nagida knew she was never happy doing it. The years were incredibly hard to her, and it's not as though she'd been anywhere near young at her son and daughter-in-law's murder. And she continued to grow older as the years went on. It eventually became to much for her.

At Mon's election as Senator, however, the young woman gladly helped the queen with whatever she needed, and after a year of this, Lady Donatella dubbed Mon the planet's associate ruler to go with her representative role. As such, Mon was invited to move into the palace, which she did, and continued to help her lady with Chandrila's rule and the upbringing of Nagida. Lady Donatella eventually died of old age the previous year. And in spite of Nagida now being nineteen and the planet's official ruler, Mon was invited to continue her stay at the palace despite the fact that her assistance was no longer needed. This is how it was easy for Mon to get Obi-Wan a job in Nagida's court. Ever since the Jedi team had stopped the almost war on the planet, the Jedi were known as friends and heroes on Chandrila. A place they would always be welcome.

Though Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and Jedi Master Yoda didn't have much to do with the alliance, that didn't mean they were left in the dark about its goings. Obi-Wan made it a point to keep them informed of everything, hoping it would urge them to let go of their acceptance of defeat. However, nothing Obi-Wan or the others said got them to change their minds and join the alliance fully.

Through a secret source on Kessel, the budding alliance was able to purchase a moderate amount of military vessels which were housed on Senator Giddean Daru's Core world, Kuat. For a while, they weren't really sure about where to base the alliance, but finally decided on the outer rim world of Cardooine. It was located in the center of the region, and besides a small group of immigrated humans that resided on the world to manufacture the wood of Fijisi trees for the luxurious paneling and artwork of vast castles and other high-class buildings, the planet was relatively uninhabited. The Empire had no other use for it, so the alliance was easily able to meet and set headquarters there without anyone noticing.

The day Vader and Baynetta's twins, Luke and Leila, were born both Obi-Wan and Yoda felt it through the Force. They were quite powerful. Not more so than the Emperor or Anakin (Obi-Wan refused to call his former apprentice by his Sith title), but if trained up well and put together against the two, the twins could be a large threat to not only the Sith, but the empire as well. As Obi-Wan thought about this, his mind began to form a plan. If only there was a way to get the twins out of the Siths' clutches. They could be trained up as Jedi and bring a new hope back to the galaxy as a whole. When Obi-Wan shared this plan with Mon, naturally, she was hesitant. Kidnapping the Empire's Prince and Princess would be considered even higher treason then their alliance against the government. The consequences, if caught, were endless, though torture and death were the two things that stood out the most. Shockingly, when Obi-Wan told Yoda of this plan, the small Jedi agreed with him, saying he'd done much meditation and deep thinking on the matter himself and thought this to be a wonderful opportunity. Although it was bound to cause and bring attention to themselves, it would be better for the galaxy in the long run.

Convincing the alliance of this however was a different story. Out of its entirety, only thirty percent agreed, fifty percent disagreed, and the remaining twenty percent weren't sure. Not everyone was convinced this was the only way to bring peace and justice back to the galaxy. After much debate and arguing however, mainly over who would help the Jedi in leading the mission, a slightly hesitant Bail Organa agreed to help the Jedi out of respect and belief in them that they could pull this off. Spies within the empire could determine a time to set the kidnapping trap. It was eventually decided that when Lord Vader went off to the Outer Rim to oversee some undisclosed pet project of the Emperor's – all the supreme ruler would say on this secret project was that it was a "surprise" – they'd make their move and hope for the best.

Exactly two months after the twins were born, this risky plan was set into motion.