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Over the last decade since the Battle of Naboo there has been an ever-growing discontent in the Republic. Palpatine has accumulated ever-greater powers and among the Jedi there is a schism between Yoda's increasingly less moral methods and those of a sect led by Anakin Skywalker who hold to a more puritan Jedi Code (while Anakin is simultaneously engaged ).

During this time, a dangerous and violent Dark Side user has arisen: Komari Vosa, who has set a fire rolling through the corrupt and inefficient Republic. Her call for the Secession of worlds based on Commerce Rights () has led to the formation of a Confederacy of Independent Systems. Vosa has added in a much more dangerous legacy for the Republic, as well. Her new Confederacy has promised Droids will be treated as sapients equal to any other.

And her new Confederacy is also Openly Dark-Sider, led by the malevolent Bando Gora religion, with allies among the Sorcerers of Tund. Even the Jedi now speak of wishing for Sith allies, in hopes at least that Sith, Tund, and Gora would destroy each other.

A sequence of Separatist hits on Senators associated with Anakin Skywalker has culminated in an attempt on his fiancee. In response the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan ventured to Geonosis, but now Vosa has captured them and also the Young Padme Amidala.

And a new and darker era dawns for the Republic...

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Darth Sidious quietly grumbled to himself. The debate over the Military Creation Act was being stifled by Jedi fools and apologists for the Republic who did not understand at all how dangerous the new Confederacy was. Listening to Aks Moe ranting at length about how wartime regulations might hurt corruption, Sidious let out a slight sigh.

Then Bail Organa of Alderaan began shouting at Moe, calling him a corrupt lying sonofabitch who'd taken a lot of suspicious donations from people invested in the anti-war cause. Organa saw no good that would come of a Confederacy led by Darksiders. He'd warned that this could lead easily to something as horrible as the New Sith Wars but it was to no avail.

Seated in the pavilion of the Chancellor of the Republic, with Masters Windu and Yoda by his side, Darth Sidious twiddled his thumb as the Senate became increasingly an uproar.

Suddenly a beeping sound appeared on the HoloNet connection of the Senatorial pads. A scarred blond woman cloaked in a very expensive-looking cloak, wielding two lightsabers, was busy torturing Senator Amidala of Naboo, whom had had the annoying Gungan Twit as her shadow-senator.

Everyone, even the two Jedi and the Sith Lord rose to their feet in shock.

Vosa looked at them and in tones of ice over Amidala's screaming and cursing at her said "Send Jedi to rescue Jedi. You send this powerless fool, an agent of the Republic's political leadership, after two potential leaders of your Grand Army of the Republic you debate in your Senate sessions, leading to we in the Confederacy of Independent Systems having reminded you that all we ask is to be let alone.

The cornerstone of our new Confederacy rests on the great truth that the Force-User is the superior of the Flatscan, and that this is so noted that the Flatscan organic life and android AI life should be together equal. As you persist in acts of aggression toward us, dispatching two Jedi and one political leader to bail your troops out, I hereby respond to these aggressions by declaring that as of now, a state of war exists between this vile, corrupt Republic of Mudsills which worships the idea that there is equality of unequals as decreed by the Force itself and the Confederacy of Independent Systems."

Amidala had by this point ceased screaming, curled up in a fetal position, whimpering on the Holoscreen. To the sound of mechanical footsteps, Vosa suddenly made a smile that made many shudder.

"I leave it to General Grievous, Supreme Commander of the Droid Army of the Confederacy of Independent Systems to give one notice to your society of decaying filth even a Dianoga wouldn't touch."

A huge and intimidating form appeared, splitting two arms into four. Alien eyes looked out between droid plating. A voice deeper than that the deepest human could muster spoke in Galactic Basic "Palpatine is Sidious. The Supreme Chancellor of the Republic is a Sith Lord. The Sith Wars are over. They have won. The Wars of the Gora have begun. And the Republic, so long at war with Sith has these last 10 years subsisted on a lie."

And with that the Holonet cut off to a sudden complete silence in the Senate Chamber as all eyes turned to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, flanked by two Jedi Masters...

Luis Salcedo LouieSal

8/19/12

to me

Chapter I, Part I:
The nature of the One Force differs from that of other attempts past and present to blend the Light and the Dark Sides. Attempts to do that dated all the way to the Sith Lady Kreia in the time of the Sith Wars. In this case, the obvious difference was that there had just been an atrocity, and that the Bando Gora were a threat both to the Order I headed at the time and to the Jedi. We chose what was at first an alliance of convenience. At the time of the First Battle of Geonosis we had not the least idea what the Great Clone War would become.
-Darth Sidious, Memoirs of the First Galactic Emperor.

Across the Senate chamber, time stood still for a moment. Yet none of the observers noted so much as a twitch from Windu or from Yoda. The only movement was when the lips of the Supreme Chancellor began to speak in a thunderous voice:

"It is indeed true that I am the leader of the Order of the Sith Lords. The Light and Dark War devastated us also. For the last several years I have led the Jedi and the Republic, and have made no gestures to harm either. The only crime that was committed was that of a sect of Dark Siders envious of the power that we Sith have developed in the Dark Side.

The Bando Gora disfigure themselves, and speak in terms of reviving independence of Droids from rule. The armies sent by the Trade Federation to occupy my very homeworld itself were powerful when directed by sapients. If droids are granted rule of themselves they could easily become a fifth column of traitors in our very midst.

Should the corporations assure their "Rights" the result would be an oligarchy of the wealthy, who rule us all with the same iron fists. We have seen the kindness of Trade Federation rule on one planet, Naboo, where several million of our citizens died in the Theed region alone in a few weeks of occupation.

That madwoman whose authority rules this "Confederacy of Independent Systems" has claimed that all the Confederates wish is to be let alone. Yet we see them torturing and mutilating Jedi, who even I must admit have done brave, even impossible things in pursuit of the Republic, and reducing one of the bravest senators of the Republic to a gibbering piece of insanity.

We have just this very day passed a Military Creation Act, and as my first act with this new authority, I announce a Grand Army of the Republic, designed to counter these threats of the Confederacy. I have nothing to offer except blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We shall fight in space, we shall fight in cities, we shall fight with growing confidence and strength against this colossus of corporate greed and utter horror. We shall fight on Geonosis, we shall fight on Aargonar, we shall fight in Dathomir we shall fight to our last breath, whatever the cost may be.

Disputes over the role emotion and the self play over the Force cannot divide we citizens of the Republic. The Jedi and Sith share a history more in common than either of us shall ever admit. We cannot let those mystic chords of memory lose their significance, yet in the spirit of the ancestral Jedi and Republican armies and also those of my predecessors, we must stand against this infamous and treacherous act of the Confederacy.

Citizens of the Republic, in answer to this act of brute force, bad faith, injustice, and malice on the part of the treasonous inhabitants of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, I will dispatch a group of Jedi under members of the Council Depa Billaba, Adi Gallia, and Yarael Poof with the first trained detachments of our Grand Army of the Republic to the world of Geonosis, that we may confront these traitors, and deal to the forces of treason a death blow from which they may never recover!".

And with the sudden finish of Palpatine's speech, Darth Sidious noted that Masters Yoda and Windu rose by him and shouted "For the Republic and victory!".

And at the order of the Chancellor 200 million GAR soldiers under command of three members of the Jedi Council began their journey to the world of Geonosis. The shroud of war had fallen on the Republic, and neither the clones impassive behind their masks nor the forces of the Droid Army under command of the first Sectorial General of the Confederacy, the bounty hunter/mercenary Durge had any idea what lay in store for them...