BlueLightning22: I agree people wouldn't think he'd make a good parent especially not being a Sith, but you will see what made him a good parent. With all parents, they have a lot to learn even if you are the Chosen One, a powerful Jedi Knight and a powerful Sith Lord and the Emperor of the Galactic Empire. Leading an Empire is easier than raising a Skywalker...
Darth Retaliation: Of course! You have to love Starkiller! He will be more active in the later chapters since he is undercover now but the take down of the Rebel scum and the dissolution of the Senate will happen within the next few chapters... or will it?
Michael: Thanks! I am glad you like it!
WeylandCorp 4: Thanks for your thorough review! I do agree that people seemed too perfect or open about things but you'll realize that isn't true in the coming chapters, they know better than to lie to the man who can easily read their minds, is the Emperor and their father. Luke and Leia being masters is because they were trained by their father and he is Emperor and besides him, they are the strongest Force users, they may lack experience but the Emperor trusts them and knows they can handle the pressure. I was considering other names but I really like the Imperial Knights of the Fel Empire except my Knights are different since they use both sides of the Force just as the Emperor does, master of both seems like a good balance to me. Anakin/Vader doesn't like the Jedi so it wouldn't make sense to call it the Imperial Jedi since after becoming a Sith he saw them for what they were and didn't like it, and he didn't like the Sith either after losing Padme and finding out he was manipulated by Sidious the whole time.
I do agree that being a Knight in the Imperial Knights may be confusing but it was that way in the Jedi ranks except of course they weren't Jedi Jedi like the Knights are Knights but it is similar. Galen Marek in the Force Unleashed was ordered by Vader to form the Rebel Alliance and as such he would know as much about it as Senator Organa or Senator Mothma, I realize the Alliance can't be eliminated just like that and it won't be but a large chunk of it could be eliminated. The Senate idea and the Moff Council idea is a good idea and I could make the Moff Council be administrators of systems and planets while the Senators represent the wishes of the people, that could work. But the Senate will have to dissolved before it can be recreated to support this idea.
Femalefarrier: I will keep it going! I am glad you're loving it!
And I know the story is called Emperor Vader, yet I refer to the Emperor as Anakin and Skywalker but he acts more like Vader as you'll see than he does as Anakin but he prefers to go by Anakin rather than Vader since that was the name that his dead former master gave him, he prefers the name given to him by his mother.
As you'll also notice we don't follow canon after Episode 3 on Mustafar, Anakin isn't in a suit therefore things tend to change especially since he found his children as infants, and took over the Empire very early on. Events won't match the timeline on canon or legends, therefore some may seem out of place, but for the story, it isn't.
Emperor Vader Rules the Galaxy: Chapter 2, Pilot Part 2
Aldera Royal Palace, Alderaan
Luke and Mara were escorted by Senator Organa up to the throne room of his wife, Queen Breha. It was an elegant room with two throne chairs, one for the Queen and one for her husband, the Prince Consort and Senator for Alderaan. It was a pristine white like most rooms in the Palace, it seemed to Luke that they like cleanliness as everything was sparkling clean and the same pristine white. The throne chairs were grey and side by side and of equal size, grey and white seem to be the colors of Alderaan.
"His Royal Highness, Master Luke Skywalker, Knight Mara Jade, may I present my wife, Her Majesty, the Queen of Alderaan Breha Organa." The Senator and Prince Consort Bail Organa said as the Knights bowed in respect as they always do and stood side by side facing them as the Senator took his seat next to his wife.
Luke almost scoffed at the Her Majesty part, she wasn't a Majesty... his father was Your Majesty or His Majesty and he ruled the whole Galactic Empire, what did she rule? A small insignificant planet? Big difference.
"Master Skywalker, we were close with your mother." The Queen said with a smile as she saw the young man who looked an awfully lot like his father. "She was a wonderful woman, I wish she were still here with us..."
"We're not here to discuss the past." Luke said rashly, that was a topic he had no wish to discuss with the wife of the man who held a part in her death and tried to take his sister from him when they were just tiny little defenseless infants. "We are here to discuss the uprising against the Empire from your people here on Alderaan."
"I am sorry, Master." She said with disdain as she looked to her husband and back at the Knights. "I believe you're the victim of bad intelligence."
"Your Majesty, or whatever style you go by, we received very good intelligence." Knight Jade said as she took a step forward, she didn't like people lying to her and although the Queen is good at blocking her thoughts, she still gives off some thoughts and emotions and she knows very well that the Knights don't make futile trips. "We don't know if you're working with the Rebel Alliance but you might as well be, if you're allowing an uprising against the Empire on your planet. You don't have to agree with it, but you do have to abide by the law. The Empire is a legal government, it is the official government of the Old Republic and Alderaan falls under its jurisdiction as do the former Confederacy of Independent Systems and all of the planets annexed by the Galactic Empire since its inception. Failure to enforce Imperial Laws here on Alderaan will result in Imperial occupation. Alderaan is supposedly a peaceful planet, if you wish for it to remain that way without being policed by the Empire then you should quell any rebellion since we know your people support you and will do as you ask."
"On the other hand, if you don't do as Knight Jade has requested then you should know that there is an Imperial Fleet preparing to come here and set up an Imperial Garrison which will be administered by a new Imperial Moff." Luke said subtly, knowing they'll know what that means. "If you wish to remain in charge and in control of your planet then you should prove it. Knight Jade and I will be here for the next twenty four standard hours and if you fail to comply with our request then the next step is aggressive negotiations and if that doesn't work then we'll let the Emperor know and he will give the order to the Grand Admiral and Grand General in charge of the Imperial Fleet and Imperial Army Forces and you'll have Imperial Troops marching up and down your streets and occupying your planet by tomorrow evening. I don't think either of us want that, now do we?"
"Of course, not." Senator Organa said as he looked to his wife and shrugged, it was up to her, she is the Queen and Ruler of the planet not the Senator.
"We will see to it that this... so-called uprising is put down before it begins." The Queen promised and smiled doing her best fake smile, everyone knows that she has enough diplomatic experience to pull it off but the Knight's saw right through it.
"Good!" Luke said pulling off his best happy voice as he wanted to take a look around Alderaan and he knew Galen was around somewhere and as much as he wanted to see him, he knew he couldn't since Jade didn't know about it and that could blow his cover. "We'll be around, if you need us just look for the people in the red armor."
Luke and Mara bowed again before excusing themselves and making their way out of the throne room and out of the Aldera Royal Palace as quickly as possible. Mara knew that Luke wasn't comfortable around either of them and she knew why, but she wasn't going to ask or push it.
Imperial Palace, Imperial City
Emperor Skywalker sat in his office with Grand Moff Tarkin, the Director of ISB, the Director of Imperial Intelligence, the General in charge of Imperial Military Intelligence and Master Ahsoka Tano of the Imperial Knights who is mostly an instructor but with all Knights and Masters, she is also in the field and oversees the Intelligence Directorate for the Knights which is the clandestine intelligence branch which oversees all of its covert operatives that are spread throughout the galaxy except for Galen Marek who is considered a traitor.
"Let's begin, shall we?" The Emperor asked as he looked around his office as he sat behind his large spotless desk. He took a sip of caf which he always does to keep awake during these boring meetings and he read various reports on his datapad as he looked to those who mostly made up the team of the Imperial Security briefings but this isn't a security briefing, it is a pre-mission briefing. "We have compiled the full list of Rebel bases, the leaders of the Alliance including those connected to the Senate and other wealthy benefactors who would like nothing more than to overthrow us to bring back democracy. Democracy, I wonder whose bright idea that was. Like all of these different worlds and species would actually agree on something that would benefit all of their worlds? No, I don't think so and the collapse of the Republic proved that especially with the corruption from the Senators who cared more about themselves and their bank accounts than their planets and systems. I am done ranting about something so foolish, now where are we?"
"We have met as you requested and we have come up with a three phase plan for this operation." Director Armand Isard, the Director of the Imperial Intelligence said as he handed the Emperor a datapad with the phases detailed. "Phase one is to send out our forces to each of the systems in question and ensure that everyone and everything is in place. Phase two is to surround the complexes that the suspects are in and the final phase is to take them down, obviously but it would be pointless to raid a complex that was abandoned or if the suspects already moved on."
"While the forces are moving into place and by forces we mean ISB, Stormtrooper Corps, Imperial Navy, Imperial Army, the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations as well as the Imperial Knights." Director of ISB, Lord Crueya Vandron, of the House Vandron in Senex-Juvex said as he spoke with ease, he was use to these sort of briefings with the Emperor. "While they're moving into place, we would ask for you to call for an emergency session of congress and that is when you can dissolve the Senate and for those Senators that are connected to the Rebel Alliance, they could be arrested there by the Stormtroopers and your Royal Guardsmen."
"Meanwhile the Knights will coordinate with the Imperial Forces and help take down the Rebel Alliance bases since we know of at least a dozen that contain at least one Jedi." Master Tano said speaking up as she did with ease considering the Emperor was her former Master, even though she still calls him Skyguy when everyone else isn't around.
"Do you have a date in mind for this operation?" Anakin asked as he didn't really want to spread his forces thin, he'd rather catch them all on one planet or a handful of planets but that seemed unlikely to happen unless Galen could somehow make it happen or they could leak bad intel about some major imperial operation that'll wipe out a planet or a secret doomsday weapon, but Anakin stopped thinking as Grand Moff Tarkin answered his question.
"We were planning for just over a month from today." The Grand Moff replied as he was just as eager to get rid of the Rebels, he wanted to control the Empire but knew that would never happen, especially not now but he was satisfied with what he had.
"How many different location are we talking about here?" He asked again as he formulated his own plan.
"We're talking about just over seventy locations, but that is actual locations." Director Vandron replied. "We still have people that are known to move around and there is no telling where they'll actually be as well as starships that could be in space at the time of our mobilization."
"So, in other words there is a good chance that people will slip through and we can deal with more rebel cells in the future?" Anakin asked rhetorically. "I know that not everyone is nor will be satisfied with the Empire and I don't give a damn about them, what we do is best for the galaxy whether they see it or not. However when someone takes up arms against the Empire and speak against it with their nonsensical propaganda, they declare war and we will retaliate and show the galaxy that if they mess with us that they will pay a hundred fold for their stupidity and that there will be collateral damage and it will be punishment and an example to others.
"So, here is what I want to do." The Emperor said taking another sip of caf and placing it back on the table. "I want to set up a secret doomsday weapon on a remote planet, the only thing is that this weapon will not exist. We'll have the intelligence leaked to the Alliance that we are trying to develop a biological weapon of mass destruction and it will make the blue shadow virus look like a cold. We'll have it leaked that the weapon is almost complete and scheduled to be tested on an unknown planet around the same time as this operation. We'll be there waiting for them and we'll eliminate the Rebels they send to eliminate the weapon that doesn't exist. In order for this to work, we'll have to pick a remote Imperial Base or Outpost and clear it out just in case they plan on bombarding the location from above. The timing will have to be perfect but we'll have a man on the inside informing us of their time of attack and we will plan accordingly. We'll also need a ship with a gravity well projector in place to ensure that no Rebel makes it out alive. Then we also know the high ranking members of this Alliance will want to oversee this operation and we should be able to ensure that they are in one of their Rebel Bases. Can we make this work?"
"I think that's a great idea." Director Armand said with a slight smile and a nod, a little disappointed that it wasn't his idea. "We could make it happen and we'll create fake reports to make it appear as though we've been working on it for years. We'll slip it to on one of our people on the inside who could say they got it from one of their Imperial sources and we should be able to keep our original schedule."
"See that it does, you have my full support and I want to be kept updated. I am the only one with the identity of my informant and it'll stay that way but we'll need to coordinate with him and he'll let me know when the attack will take place. We will plan for that to make our move. I want this plan to be put in motion at our earliest convenience. I also don't want many more people in on this, the fewer that know of our plan, the better. " The Emperor ordered and everyone knows better than to let him down especially when it comes to a ragtag group of Rebels who have no experience in warfare or guerrilla warfare like he does. "Dismissed."
Everyone nodded in acknowledgement and were dismissed as the Emperor had to continue his day, running an Empire the size of a Galaxy, is not easy and he wasn't prepared for it.
I am no Sidious, he told himself. But I am a better ruler than he would ever dream of being...
Imperial Knights Temple
Master Leia Skywalker finished her first lecture of the day with the youngling's as she taught them about the Force. The Force is what makes a Knight, a Knight. Being a Knight has a lot more to do than just twirling around your lightsaber and trying to kill your enemy or to disarm them, it is about using the Force to defend the Empire and Emperor but the Emperor doesn't need protection.
The younglings learn much about the Force until they're ten years old and that is when they start putting their knowledge to practical use. The younglings also learn a basic education and learn meditation. As they get older they'll be exposed to more and more until they become apprentices to a Knight or Master Knight and put their skills to use in the field where they'll gain their true education in the ways of the Force and how to wield lightsabers successfully.
Wielding a lightsaber isn't easy, it takes more than to know how to swing and block. You have to use the Force and the Force will guide you but it takes more than the Force to win a duel, it takes strength, knowledge and knowing yourself and opponent but mostly yourself. Anakin could easily overpower almost anyone in the galaxy and he knows more about both sides of the Force than anyone else, alive. He is a true master of both the dark and the light and that is what the Knights learn.
They don't preach about anger or hatred, fear or pain but they do allow emotions to play a role in lightsaber dueling. Sometimes you get angry during battle, Anakin has plenty of times but there is a fine line and that line is taught to the younglings and to the Apprentices.
The Chosen One was the one chosen to bring balance to the Force and Anakin believes the best way to do that is to use both sides of the Force as it is intended to be used. He already achieved his destiny and brought balance to the Force but it isn't over yet and just because the Sith were eliminated doesn't mean they won't return and then there are still the Jedi...
You can't have balance by only using the light side, or the pure or natural side as the Jedi liked to call it but there is a dark side, the corrupt side to the Jedi and if there is one then obviously it is available to be used. How can you have balance when you only allow one side? That isn't balance that is just what the Jedi used because they were afraid of the temptations of the dark side, just because most if not every single Sith was evil doesn't mean that the dark side is inherently evil or only to be used by those that are evil.
The Jedi taught their people not to have fear but they all feared the dark side and everything that could lead one to the dark side was forbidden.
Attachments, forbidden.
Anger, forbidden.
Hatred, forbidden.
Fear, forbidden.
All of these are allowed in the Imperial Knights but the students, younglings and Apprentices are taught to hone in on their emotions and not to let their emotions control them. Being angry in battle or feeling hatred for something is permitted in battle but you can't let that anger control you, control your judgement you need to control it. Skywalker knows better than anyone but his love for his children and his beliefs overpowered the way he felt and the pain he felt for the loss of the only woman besides his mother that he ever loved. He would do anything for her and go back in time to prevent what happened... but he couldn't. Instead he decided to do what Padme would've wanted him to do and that was to raise the twins the way they would've. He taught them what Padme taught him, he taught them right from wrong and he let them make their own mistakes. He let them choose their own paths but he also raised them as their Master since they were destined to be Knights, whether or not they wanted to be didn't matter but they still had to be trained because of who they were and how powerful they could become and if they didn't want to remain in the Imperial Knight's that choice was their own but he had to train them nevertheless.
Obi-Wan tried to kill Anakin on Mustafar and if he could kill him or try to kill him then he could surely try and kill his children, or same with Yoda or the other Jedi out there that want nothing more than to kill the man who destroyed the Jedi Order. The man who turned on his friends and family, after being told they turned on him which he believed but then he learned that they didn't necessarily turn on him but they were afraid of him and his power and they were trying to limit him and that was just as bad. He may have been manipulated but he did what he did over his own free will and he would have to live with that, but he knew it was necessary and sometimes you need to do unpleasant things for the overall good. The galaxy is a better place without them, afterall without them there would've been no Clone Wars, millions would've survived but because the Jedi wanted to lead the war and keep the real reasons of the war to themselves which could be considered treason against the Senate, they decided their own fate.
They signed their own death warrant, was his reasoning and he believed that wholeheartedly.
He explained that to the twins and taught them everything he learned, however unpleasant some of it may have been to relive, it wasn't like he wasn't reliving it every day anyway...
Leia left her lecture and decided to go and visit Rharo, she wanted to speak to him to make sure he'd be willing to do it before she and Luke forced their father to see him and talk to him. He dealt with numerous traumatic experiences himself and he helped others work through their own but she was sure that he didn't deal with anything or anyone like her father and that was why it would be hard but he liked challenges and so didn't her father. She just hoped that her father wouldn't Force choke him to death for pushing him and forcing him to open up to him when he kept the way he felt to himself. He always told Leia and Luke that he was okay and the past was in the past but they knew he was trying to look tough which is the way the galaxy sees him, or as a monster as others see him but they knew that he wasn't really a monster. He may have been tough and ruthless and unforgiving to some but to them he wasn't, he never did anything in front of them that would make him look like a bad man or a dangerous man but they knew that he was dangerous. He was a Sith and he was a Jedi, now he was the master of both sides and the Chosen One, no one is more powerful than he is and that makes him dangerous.
She reached the infirmary and walked through to the counselors office where a few different counselors were but she was only looking for one in particular and she found him in his office as the door was opened and she knocked on it to get his attention, "do you have a minute?" She asked as he smiled and waved her in.
"I have all the time in the galaxy for you, Master Leia." Rharo said as he waved her to a seat next to his desk as he stopped doing whatever it was he was doing and he focused on her. Usually a Master goes by the last name like Master Skywalker but since there are two Master Skywalker's, they go by Master Luke and Master Leia by Temple staff and by those in the Knights especially when they're together.
"I was thinking of something and I wanted to run it by you before going through with it." She said cryptically as she wasn't sure what he would think of it, she hoped he'd be open to it as she knew her father needed it but he was the Emperor and the Grand Master of the Imperial Knights. He was the man in charge of everything and had absolute power over everyone in the galaxy.
"I am happy to help, what were you thinking?" He asked as he had no idea what she was about to ask him but was definitely curious.
"My father never spoke about what happened over his lifetime." She said and he knew immediately what she was asking of him but she continued before he could say anything. "He told us about everything and he never held back but he wouldn't go into details about certain things and he had no problem answering any of our questions. However he never spoke to anyone about his feelings about anything. We know it isn't healthy for him to be keeping everything bottled up, now granted he already exploded more than once but he is going to have a meltdown and sure he is good at hiding the way he feels and hiding his emotions when he wants too but every year around Empire day he is a different person. He isn't himself, he puts on a mask and pretends everything is okay but we know it isn't. That is the day he ceased to be the Jedi Knight and that is the day his world was tipped upside down and the next day we were born and our mother died which hurts him more than anything. His mother died, a few years before and she was the only family he had until he married our mom and when she died for a short time he believed he killed her and us. When he found us everything changed for him but his wife, the love of his life was still dead because of him, he may not have killed her but he feels responsible, he believes he did kill her and that is killing him inside. He needs to open up about it and learn to deal with it, I want you to work with him on that, if you're willing to do it."
The Healer was silent for a few moments as he absorbed the request, he knew he never dealt with anything so traumatic before but he also knew that the request had merit and needed to be done. He was honored that she asked him, but he was also fearful of the man as he knew he could easily kill anyone with just thinking it. Most people need to use their hand for a Force choke but he doesn't and he doesn't even need to be in the same room, he just needs to see you and that's all she wrote but he also knew the Emperor was hurting and that his daughter was right. He did need to talk about the past in order to learn to live with it, he appeared to be doing just that but there was a long time when he exploded on people for no reason and couldn't control his emotions, he had emotional breakdowns all because of his deceased wife. It was always her or his mother. He knew he had to do it, regardless of how he felt about it.
"I'd be honored too, however I don't want you to set him up and have us ambush him." Rharo said knowing that he'd be killed instantly if anything like that happened. "I'll talk with him but only if he agrees to it, I don't want to die because you decided to set him up and force him to speak with me. It has to be done on his own accord. If he isn't ready or willing to speak then I can't force him too like I could do to everyone else here. He is the Grand Master and the Emperor, the man who gives orders not the man who takes them."
"Luke and I already have that covered." Leia said with a delighted smile. "We're going to ambush him at Sunday night dinner and force him to meet with you, don't worry we won't let him kill you or injure you physically. Hearing his story though and his experiences may hurt you emotionally and mentally which is why he doesn't speak of it but he never had an easy life, he was always the victim and never allowed to live his life the way he wanted too until he killed the Emperor. That was his first time truly being free." Leia said standing up and heading to the door and opening it. "Thank you, Rharo. I'll let you know what he says and then we can set up an appointment at the Palace?"
"Very well, Master Leia." Rharo replied with a smile as she returned the smile and left the door open and he sighed heavily, he had no idea what he was getting himself into but he was the most experienced and he knew both men, well all three men. Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight. Darth Vader, Sith Lord. Then Anakin Skywalker, Emperor of the Galactic Empire and Master of the Force.
Imperial Palace, Imperial City
Emperor Anakin Skywalker sat in his office after a long day of meetings, meetings and more meetings. He met with many people and most of them he couldn't care less about, he wouldn't mind running his lightsaber through them or applying the Force choke to them as they sucked up to him and tried to look like the work they did was worthy of his attention and it made him sick. He liked his job and knew what he was doing and what he wanted to do but he didn't like having to meet with people who weren't worthy of his attention like most of them weren't.
However, his last meeting was with an Agent from Imperial Intelligence who delivered the confidential Imperial background report on this Han Solo who seemed to have a life a lot like Anakin and like him he also turned it around.
Imperial Security Bureau
Classified Background Search Query
Case Officer: Colonel Wulf Yularen
Case Report: Background Report on subject Han Solo
Name: Han Solo
Place of Birth: Corellia
Year of Birth/Age: 29 BBY/28 Years Old
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 1.8 Meters
Weight: 80 Kg
Detailed Report: Han Solo was born to Jonash Solo (father) and Jaina Solo (mother) on the planet Corellia, the family was descended from Berethron e Solo who brought democracy to Corellia. He had a quiet childhood until two years later in 27 BBY when he was found in a Corellia Spaceport alone and was taken into custody by the Corellian Security Forces where he went missing and was reported missing by Corellian authorities however they didn't know his name, his fingerprints were taken along with his picture and he was listed as a missing person by the Security Forces Officer that located him. Upon further research, the same Officer located the boy on a security hologram and found him in the custody of one Garris Shrike.
Garris Shrike was a known bounty hunter and was a very quick tempered man. He was suspected to be the boy's father and the missing persons report was rescinded and forgotten about. Garris Shrike was known to be quick to anger and was known for bringing in bounties but most were deceased and beaten badly. He decided eventually to change his career.
Over the years it was determined that was a mistake as Garris Shrike turned out to collect orphans from around the galaxy and decided to train them and turned his life to one of crime. He used the orphaned children for tricks and theft for his own wealth, his own benefit and he was known to beat the children and has done so numerous times on security holograms. He wasn't arrested or charged for the various assaults as he claimed it was an accident or various other excuses and the various Security Forces and Law Enforcement Officers decided not to charge him but put him on record and issued him a warning on three different occasions.
Han Solo was missing for many years after that, he was wanted by numerous planets for smuggling and theft but the charges were dismissed as the time elapsed to capture and charge him have passed and as it was determined that he was coerced into doing so, the charges were expunged from his record.
He was believed to be raised by Wookies and was known to be on Kashyyyk during his childhood and later during the Clone Wars and even during the Age of the Empire before he joined the Imperial Navy.
At the age of eighteen, he applied for the Imperial Academy on Carida and was accepted. He was placed in the Pilot program and finished at the top of his class. He graduated with the rank of Lieutenant and served as a pilot of the TIE Fighter Wing and was assigned to the Avenger and assigned to the 302nd Flight Wing. He was noted on many occasions for his exemplary skills in piloting and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and was made an instructor for new pilots.
He is currently a Lieutenant Commander still and is still an instructor for new pilots. He was however reassigned to the Executor where he is presently assigned and serving. The Executor is the personal flagship to the Emperor, Emperor Anakin Skywalker.
END OF REPORT
Anakin was not impressed. Not only is this man ten years old than his daughter but he is also assigned to his personal flagship but there are over three hundred thousand crewmen onboard and he only knows the senior personnel and the senior personnel of the 501st Legion which is his personal Legion that he still directly commands and they only take orders from him.
Anakin wasn't sure what to do and it wouldn't really be unusual for him to board his ship and seek out this man and talk to him and get to know him and decide from there if he wishes to transfer him or have him executed, or to do it himself.
Padme was older than you...
Five years older, Anakin reminded his subconscious. Five years is a big difference compared to ten years especially considering one decade ago, the twins were only eight and Han Solo was in the Imperial Academy.
Maybe, what I decided to say to Leia would get her to move on from him. Why couldn't she date someone closer to her age or better yet... never date anyone.
That was an idea but he knew that wasn't going to happen, he may be the Emperor but he can't place his own child on house arrest when he knew he raised her well. She would have to make her own decisions, he decided. And I would have to trust her judgement but if he hurts her, then the gloves come off, literally.
"Sorry, Your Majesty." Anakin's assistant said as she poked her head into his office as Anakin just stared at her, or rather through her as he was pulled from his thoughts. "Prince Xizor is here."
"Does he have an appointment?" Anakin asked, he hated criminals and especially criminal organizations. He is the Galactic Emperor and doesn't have time for a crime boss with a Royal title, having a Royal title doesn't make you royalty.
"No he doesn't, he insisted that it's important." The assistant said again and Anakin knew he couldn't take his anger out on her, she was just doing her job which isn't an easy one and finding an assistant who is proficient isn't easy.
"Did the slime ball say what he wanted?"Anakin asked knowing he probably didn't say. He always acted as though every problem he had was Anakin's problem, doesn't he know how to control his own criminal organization? Anakin wondered.
"You already know what he thinks of me..." She said causing Anakin to laugh, he knew well.
"Tell him to make it quick or I'll kill him." Anakin said as she smiled and turned to allow the Prince in as the Royal Guards stood around the outer office to secure it even though they didn't need too. They were more or less there for show, or decoration even.
"Your Majesty," Prince Xizor said as the reptile entered the office with the slimy smile on his face as Anakin didn't look impressed or happy.
"Xizor, let's get right to it shall we?" Anakin insisted as he sat back in his chair with his focus on the slime that he would love to kill but didn't want a war with the Black Suns, of course after the Rebel scum are eliminated then it'd be possible but even then he knew he had to deal with him and his kind, for now anyway.
"Of course," the Prince said. "I received word from my people that your informant is passing you bad information, or rather misinformation. The Alliance knows of him and the raid you're planning on them won't work. They're smarter than you know."
"Excuse me?" Anakin asked as he couldn't help but be surprised. "My informant? The Alliance knows? How could they possibly know about something that isn't even set in durasteel yet?"
"I know that your former apprentice, or still current apprentice Galen Marek is your informant and the one that formally established the Rebel Alliance." He said matter-of-factly. "I also know that you are planning a raid that is supposed to happen in one month or just after one month from now and it won't work. You have two problems, the misinformation and a leak at the top."
"How could you possibly know any of this?" Anakin demanded as he stood and lifted his desk with his hands and flipped it as it flew in the air and against the far wall going just over the Prince's head. "My own people don't know about Galen! I made damn sure about that! I made him appear to be a terrorist, I made him appear to have tried to kill me! The only ones on the inside who know are my children and they wouldn't say anything! They grew up with him for the last fifteen years!"
"They're not the leaks, it is one of your top officials though." The Prince said, it was a relief to Anakin he didn't think his own kids would do such a thing, it is a good thing they didn't. "Your boy, Luke is on Alderaan and the uprising is false. That was the plan, to get Knights out there to attack or kill. They know that as long as you and the Knights are alive that they will never succeed and since the Knights serve you and the Empire, they are a threat and the Jedi Order or what is left of it have marked them all as targets. The war and the time since then changed them and them working with these terrorists, they have evolved. They are more of a threat now, than ever before."
"Are you telling me this to earn a favor in the future or are you trying to earn a favor and lend support to help me end this threat and bring peace to the galaxy. We all know that peace benefits all, another war would only set back the Empire and the Black Suns." Anakin said knowing that Xizor never comes to him without a plan and always has an ulterior motive or sometimes likes to prove that his people are better than the Imperial's.
"Both, earn a favor and to lend support." He said with his slimy smile as he took a hololetter and handed it to Anakin.
Anakin took it and played the message as he immediately recognized the person and threw the hololetter against the wall, "he was the one who brought up the whole uprising threat." Armand Isard, what have you done? "I need to contact the Knights and send reinforcements along with the Fleet."
"I can lend support, we have people on Alderaan." The Prince offered and Anakin was tempted to tell him where to shove it but he knew he may not have time to wait, he nodded.
"Do it, and I will contact my people regardless. I need to get word to my son." Anakin said as he searched for his holocomm to warn Luke but he couldn't find it and when he did after he remembered he threw the desk, it was smashed. "Dammit!" He shouted as he went outside his office and ran to the Situation Room, he could control the galaxy from there and there is where he contacted the Knights to mobilize and gave the order for the Fleet to move in but they won't be there for over an hour, the nearest Knights couldn't arrive until a half hour then he tried to contact Luke or Mara and even Galen to warn him to get out.
Alderaan
Luke and Mara left the Palace and roamed around Alderaan as they visited various shops and historical locations around the city but they couldn't find anything of interest. Luke and Mara decided to leave the city and visit the mountains, it wasn't every day that they got to do that and Aldera was making Luke sick just being around the vermin that tried to take him from his family for their own evil purposes, who were they to do such a thing? He didn't know but he was happy that his father found him and his twin before they could go through and force him to live on Tatooine with people that Anakin hate and are partially responsible for the death of his grandmother.
Luke was roaming when his holocomm sounded and he reached into his secure pocket and took it out and answered it to see his father.
"Luke! You need to get out of Alder-"
DANGER!
Luke dropped the holocomm as he felt a ripple in the Force and it screamed at him as he held his hand out and called his lightsaber to him as it sprang from his belt and into his hand, Mara did the same as they were under attack. Blaster fire flew at them from all directions and explosions were heard, the holocomm was still on and Anakin couldn't do anything but watch and then it lost connection.
This is it for Chapter 2! I am sure you want to know what happened in the eighteen years between Mustafar and the present and that will be answered with the therapy sessions. He will relive his past from his childhood to the time he was a Jedi to the time he was a Sith Lord and then when he was Emperor and a new father. You will see the twins grow up and the twins will speak of it as well, this story is mostly about the three of them and they will be the focus of it. Starkiller as well, but he didn't become apart of the family until he and the twins were three years old, but he is a main character along with the rest of the Skywalker's.
The next chapter will be surrounding Alderaan and the war with the Rebels will be officially beginning as they and the Jedi have decided that the time for waiting was over. However we don't follow their side, we're only on the side of the Imperial's therefore we get to see things through them, through the Skywalker's, mostly.
