Author Note:
1. I do not own SW or any of the official SW characters.
2. These letters should not be taken literally
3. This story is AU
4. I'm having co-writers write the part of the Trade Federation.
Timeframe: Begings a little before TPM and ends in ROTS The quick background story of this Note- Palpatine, as Darth Sidioius, made a decision to lure the Trade Federation in aiding him advance in his political career...to create sympathy for himself. The Notes begin with his proposition to the Trade Federation...
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Note 1:
To Rune Hakko and Nute Gunray,
You are the heads of the Trade Federation, are you not? I have a proposal to make to you. You want to be able to control a planet of your own? That would be nice, wouldn't it? Of course you do! You could be just like the Maurders that way. They own planets.
But you're thinking, "We have no way," right? Well what if I told you that there was a way.
Let me first introduce myself….my name is Darth Sidious, a Sith master. I have the very way of exactly how this could be done.
I know of a certain planet called Naboo…I also have arranged it so that the current ruler of the planet falls sick. There is a young teenage girl who has been very active on the planet. I have arranged things so that she will be elected as Queen.
Seeing how she is only 14, you will be able to control her quite easily.
So I was wondering if we might come to an arrangement. I need you to invade that planet for me…that's all I need you to do.
Everything else will fall into place nicely for me. Everyone will be so sympathetic towards Naboo, but that is not your concern. I need you to invade it.
I have certain…connections with the Senate…and I will see to it that your invasion is made legal…I have the means of bogging down the Senate with so many procedures that no one will be able to deal with you, and you'll have control of the planet.
Do not speak to anyone about this, you got it? If I find out that you have…you don't even want to know what I'd do to you. AM I CLEAR ON THIS?
Darth Sidious
