Chapter 1.
"Man, that crate was really heavy. What the heck was in it concrete!?" the Imperial officer asked in a tired voice.
"How the heck should I know,?" Stormtroopers ZQ-176 responded with a shrug. "We don't ask questions we do our duty as soldiers of the Empire," he pointed out to the officer, named Exo Borealis.
"Guess you're right, let's get some grub."
The two grunts of the Imperial Fleet walked away. Once they disappeared, and the door to the armory closed, the crate they were carrying opened. Out of it stepped a 13 year old boy, with electric blue eyes and ocean blue hair.
"That was a close one, good going Ezra Bridger."
It hadn't been an easy decision to leave his home planet of Lothal and venture out into the dangerous wider Galaxy. It defines tell had taken all his guts for Ezra to stow away on a star destroyer to leave Lothal. Ezra had persuaded himself to go by reminding himself that with an unjust, undemocratic Empire in place, no planet was suitable or safe for anyone. That, and the fact that he couldn't contain his passion for exploration any longer. The universe was way bigger than Lothal and he was going to examine it, thoroughly.
It hadn't been hard to stow away on the star destroyer. All he'd had to do was steal an imperial com-link, say in a fake voice that there was a disturbance in a different part of town, then hide himself in weapons crate; after removing the weapons inside of course.
"All cargo secured, preparing the jump to hyperspace," the vessel's radio loudly announced to all it's passengers.
"I've got to see this," Ezra said to himself excitedly. He quickly climbed the stacks of crates, removed the cover of an air vent, and climbed inside. It only took him a few minutes to reach the bridge . He carefully remove the vent cover, and poked his head, upside down, out of ventilator shaft. He was just in time to see the beautiful sea of stars in outer space become white lines, which then became a fiery, blue, white tunnel. Ezra covered his mouth to prevent the 'Whoah' that wanted to escape it from doing so.
'I should have done this a long time ago' the son of Ephraim and Mira Bridger told himself, silently.
"We should reach Jedha in about three hours sir," captain Leif Daniels told his Admiral Nicholas Tessler.
Ezra was drawn away from his thoughts to the conversation.
"I can't wait until this special project of the Emperor's is finished. No one will dare stand against the might of out Empire when it's finished." The sadistic officer proudly told his right-hand man.
"When you think about it, the weapon is like a giant lightsaber, and it will do to a planet what a lightsaber would to to a person."
"That is the idea, isn't it."
The two men had no idea that an orphan, hiding in the vents above them, heard every sick word they were saying, and made a silent vow. Wherever, and whatever this 'project' was, he would find it, and he would destroy it. 'I will not allow the Empire to terrorize and mass murder the galaxy into submission.' the young Bridger thought to himself.
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In a grotto, on the arid world of Jedha, a blind yellow- skinned human male sat meditating. His friend, Baze Malbus, was outside, on guard. That man was Chirrut Imwe, blind since birth. He was a guardian of the whills, a group of people who worshipped the force but weren't force sensitive, adhered to the light side, and didn't follow Jedi or Sith Dogma. They believed that because the force flowed through all living things, anyone could learn to use it, not just force sensitives. And using it didn't always entail throwing things around. They also believed the force decided who lived and died, and that no man or thing decided his fate. As such, they trusted in the force, rather than their own abilities.
Chirrut's eyes, which had been closed for ten minutes, suddenly popped open.
"There is young visitor heading toward my home. I will greet him when he arrives."
I'll stop here for now folks, to keep you wanting more. In case you're wondering, both Jyn and Galen Erso will be making an appearance in this story!