Creatures of the Force
For the past year, the destructive Clone Wars has waged across the galaxy, costing billions of lives for all involved in it.
The Confederacy of Independent Systems, led by the sinister Count Dooku, and their droid armies have fought against the Galactic Republic, led by the vigilant Jedi, and their clone armies in hopes of becoming the new order of rule in the galaxy.
Nothing has seemed to give the Separatists an upper hand in the fighting, not even Dooku's two deadly apprentices, the cyborg General Grievous and the Sith assassin Asajj Ventress. That was. until now.
Recently, an egg of a previously unknown reptilian species was discovered in the horde of a pirate's cache in the Outer Rim. It has now made its way to the hands of the Separatists, and, more importantly, Dooku himself.
Prolonged studies on the seemingly unbreakable stone-like egg has revealed something astonishing: the creature within is Force-sensitive.
However, due to being unable to open the egg without killing the creature within, Dooku has been unable to discover the true capabilities of said creature. It has, however, allowed him to discover its planet of origin: a previously unknown habitable planet in the far reaches of the Outer Rim. One with no technology.
Ordered by his master, the mysterious Darth Sidious, to find out exactly how powerful the Force is within this creature, and if there are anymore in existence, Dooku has sent a probe droid to scout out this new planet beforehand, and what it has showed him is something else surprising: civilization on the planet. A primitive one, but a civilization at that.
Dooku has sent a message to the leader of this new planet's civilization, whoever he or she may be, in hopes that a diplomatic measure can be used to speed the task his master has given hi towards its completion...
The war with the Varden has taken more effort than Galbatorix had previously thought.
In the past few months, his trusted second-in-command, the Shade known as Durza, had been slain at a crushing defeat at Farthen Dur. Not only that, but his best spies stationed in the Varden, the Twins, had been killed at the recent battle at the Burning Plains.
On the bright side, one of his dragon eggs had hatched for Murtagh, the bastard son of his former number two, Morzan. And, the entirety of the traitorous village of Carvahall had been burned to ash and cinders, with a good portion of its population killed as well.
Despite his army's recent defeats, Galbatorix remained calm. He still had plenty of time before the Varden and their allies were ready to converge on Uru'baen, and they still had quite a few cities to go through before they got to him. Plus, he had his new Rider and the Ra'zac to keep them at bay, aided by several thousand soldiers and magicians. He would surely discover the True Name before then.
However, despite this, a new revelation had dawned on him.
Just two days ago, a few of his soldiers had brought him a strange object that had seemingly fallen from the skies near Uru'baen. Then, the object had come to life and delivered him a message from an unknown man who called himself Count Dooku.
Although impressed with the strange magic the Count had sent him, he was uninterested in what the man had to say until the blue, recorded scry held up an item of extreme interest to him: a dragon egg.
He had believed there to be only three eggs left in existence, and two of them already to have hatched. So, whether this was a trick or not, this certainly interested the King. Especially when this Count Dooku expressed interest to talk with him about the egg.
Oh yes, Galbatorix was certainly going to message this mysterious man back...
I am sorry if this chapter is a little corny and a little short. It's just my best attempt at an extended version of one of the text crawls from the beginning of a Star Wars film.
The next chapter(which should be uploaded along with this prelude) will feature an actual story in it.
So, stay tuned for the true beginning of Creatures of the Force!