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Star Wars
The Legacy of the One Sith
Year: 138 ABY
Locution: Taris, in the Taris System
Subject: Darth Zorn, a Falleen Sith scribe
Entry 3
Greetings again my fellow Sith, much has passed since my last entry. I have been busy playing the ever most humble assistant to my dung-for-brains employer, Count Rein Verner. I swear, a Kowakian monkey-lizard has better sense than he does and is less annoying!
If it weren't for his status as chief adviser to the Prime Minster and all that valuable information that he so carelessly hands to me, I would've slaughtered him by now with my own two hands.
Then again, that would be too good for him. I'll devise something more creative to inflict upon Verner in the future when his usefulness is at an end.
My current predicament actually reminds me of how Darth Sidious must of have felt when he was posting as an unassuming politician during the last days of the Old Republic.
Which brings me to my next topic...Darth Sidious' rise to power.
This man is better known to the galaxy at large as Emperor Palpatine, the tyrant that twisted the Republic into the First Galactic Empire and the ruthless purger of the Old Jedi Order.
We know know him as the last true heir of Bane's Sith Order and the one whose demise paved the way for our ascension.
Where lesser beings see a universal monster in Palpatine, I see an intergalactic genius who had achieved a brilliant victory for the Sith. But only to have its success crippled by the Rule of Two that even he barely followed.
It was combination of that and his arrogance that would eventually prove to be Sidious' undoing."
Darth Sidious was born into nobility on the peace-sick world of Naboo eighty-two years before the Battle of Yavin. He grew up in all that riches and prosperity had to offer, yet its so-called privileges did not satisfied him.
In fact, Palpatine was starving for a greater calling than what his current state could offer.
He was hungering for power, complete and absolute power. It was this coalition of ambition, drive, and lack of morality that eventually caught the attention of the reigning Sith Lord, Darth Plagueis.
From what I have been able to gather in my research is that Plagueis was a wise and poweful Sith who sought to become immortal though bizarre experiments with the force.
Must I confess, the exact details of Palpatine's conversion to the Sith Order and the tutelage under his Master, continues to be shrouded in mystery for me to narrate an accurate chronicle of it. I suspect that Palpatine erased most records about his former teacher in an attempt to ensure that the information would not be exploited by his enemies.
Yet what we do know is that he took the title of Sidious and when he learned everything could from Plagueis many years later, he slew his Master in his sleep.
Sidious had inherited the Rule of Two, a system that once purified the Sith a thousand years before. Now it only serve to limiting the Sith, keeping them in shadows of the galaxy, influencing it but never ruling it.
This was so until Darth Sidious began implementing the final stages of the Grand Plan.
As Palpatine, he entered into galactic politics as senator of his home-world. In time he won over the leaders of the Republic as an incorruptible rock to lean on in the colossal cesspool which was the Senate. Truly, politicians can be most gullible beings in the all of the cosmos!
On the other hand, as Darth Sidious himself he recruited many pawns to carry out his will, such as the fearsome Darth Maul his first apprentice.
His skills with the lightsaber and his brutality proved him to be an excellent assassin of the dark side. Especially when he wiped out all the leaders of the Black Sun criminal organization in one mission.
Then there was the Trade Federation, a self-centered mega corporation that dominated galactic commerce at the time. Using blackmail and armed force to eliminate their rivals. Their aggression provided the Dark Lord a distraction that the galaxy would focus on.
It was wasn't too long when Sidious' suggestions to those cowardly Neimoidians became orders.
Utilizing his apprentice and many factions across the stars along with a few other elements, Sidious used them cleverly to test and weaken the only true threat to his coming reign, the Jedi Order.
From the various events that he orchestrated, the future emperor found the Jedi easily deceived. They unknowingly served as useful tools in his plans for the coming purge.
The seeds of their disaster can be traced back to the founding of the Ruusan Reformations in the aftermath of the Sith's apparent demise.
The war weary Republic had stupidly disbanded their military, leaving the Jedi and a few galactic security forces to maintain the peace throughout the galaxy. This peace would prove to be as hollow as their ideals.
So, within a thousand year time span the Republic faced a crisis that their so-called peacekeepers couldn't stop with meditations or their little displays of the Force...a phantom menace.
It all started when the Trade Federation, angered by a measure in the senate to tax their trade routes through the outlying systems, blockaded Naboo in retaliation for its senator's support of the new law.
None suspected that Palpatine the same senator had secretly ordered the blockade.
In a vain effort to stop the crisis from escalating into violence, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum illegally bypassed the petty Senate and called on the Jedi for assistance. He dispatched Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenboi to negotiate with the Federation.
But the negotiations never took place. Darth Sidious ordered the meddlers' execution when alerted by his puppets. It was unfortunate that it failed and the Jedi escaped.
Yet their interference couldn't stop the invasion of the Federation's droid army upon Naboo when it commenced.
The planet's ruling monarch, Queen Padme Amidala volunteered to submit to the assault when it finally arrived upon her doorstep.
However, the success proved to be fleeting when the missing Jedi reappeared and snatched the queen right out of the clutches of those incompetent Neimoidians and their half-useless droids. So Sidious dispatched Darth Maul to settle the matter.
Maul tracked the runaways to the dust ball world known as Tatootine yet they eluded him and they made their way to the galactic capital.
There Queen Amidala met with Palpatine and the Chancellor to get the Republic to end the occupation of her pathetic excuse for a home world.
Despite his apprentice's failure, the Dark Lord was able to capitalized on it by manipulating the desperate queen into a vote of no confidence for Chancellor Valorum. This vote resulted from Valorum's indecisiveness in the face of the crisis
Thereby making Palpatine, the representative of the suffering world a nominee as Valorum's successor.
However Amidala proved to be more bold than Sidious originally thought when she and her followers along with the same two Jedi returned to Naboo to drive out the Trade Federation.
Somehow that little band united the primitive-minded Gungans to their cause. Then they used them as bait for the Droid Army while they sneaked into the capital to capture the Federation's leader, Viceroy Nute Gunnary.
Darth Maul ambushed the intruders but the Jedi kept him away from the queen's party when confronted, thus a fatal duel began.
In the ensuing battle, many Gungans and Naboo perished and the Jedi Qui-Gon was gutted by Maul. Though in the end the Viceroy was captured, the droid forces deactivated and Maul was cut down by Obi-Wan.
The Battle of Naboo was hailed as a grand victory for those who cherished the Republic. In reality it fully revealed its incompetence to all the galaxy when it came to dealing with threats.
It wasn't the Republic that fought and won the battle but a mismatched force of locals, Jedi, and a child! So in the process, many systems began to rightly doubt the Republic's worth and dissent grew.
Most importantly, Palpatine now had gained new-found power as Supreme Chancellor which would work into his future plans. He also found a potential student in the slave boy-turned Jedi recruit Ankain Skywalker. Young Skywalker had in fact destroyed the control ship that turn the tide of the Naboo conflict, a very impressive deed for such a child.
In the following years Darth Sidious would watch Skywalker's career with great interest as he set the stage for the Clone Wars. I will have to elaborate in my next entry, my idiot boss Verner is bugging me about his daughter running off into the Lower City. Apparently he wants me to bring her back without alerting the authorities to save himself from public embarrassment.
It may take me years but I am going to kill Verner for these humiliating errands!
A/N(Hello everybody I'm back. It would be an massive understatement to say that its has been awhile since I wrote an update on this fic. Now time to address an issue that is bound to come up. For the record I have read the Darth Plagueis novel which is awesome by the way. Yet I decided not to add most of its information to this Sith chronicle mainly, because I don't want to spoil the novel's plot those who haven't read it. Also I thought that my character Darth Zorn should not know all the facts or details from time to time, like it happens to every real-life historian. With that aside I wish to continue to express my thanks to Loteva for her honest reviews in the past chapters. To CMR Rosa I want to assure you that your suggestions are very much appreciated and I will try to fit them in somehow in the future parts of this story or in a spinoff if possible. Til next time folks and may the force be with you all.