Disclaimer provided in Prologue.
The Destruction of Earth: The Crippling of the Federation
Chapter 3: The Empire's Devious Plans
Meanwhile, halfway across the Universe, in a galaxy far, far away, were a group of Imperial construction workers and exploration workers. They were fevershily working on setting up hyperspace tunneling equipment to stablize a recently-discovered wormhole. This wormhole, after months of study, had been discovered to link to another galaxy. The Imperials had gathered information on this galaxy, discovering it was broken up into hundreds of tiny states, instead of one central government. These included the Borg, Dominion, Federation, Romulan Empire, Klingon Empire, Ferengi Alliance, and numerous other powers.
Most people in the Galactic Empire considered this pathetic. Even more information solidifed their thoughts. The Empire itself ruled over fifty million colonies, protectorates, and governorships, as well one and a half million member or conquered systems, spread throughout it's galaxy. Imperials compared this to the 16,000 systems held by the Borg, the 10,000 systems held by the Dominion, and the 1,150 systems held by the Federation. They thought this pitiful.
Anyways, Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and Grand Moff Tarkin had made the decision the Death Star would destroy a planet named Earth, indicated to be the capital of the Federation. This was to demostrate how the Death Star could cripple entire governments and how it was superior to others. Evidence was also discovered that the entire Admiralty and government of this Federation was also assembled on Earth, so this would deliver a good blow to the Federation. Also, 12 billion people resided on this world. While considered quite pitiful, it would increase the amount of people slaughtered by the Death Star, which currently, was at 3 billion, effectively the populations of Despayre, Alderaan, and Yavin IV, all victims of the Death Star superlaser.
Soon, the wormhole was stablizied, and a Imperial fleet of 200 Imperial-class Star Destroyers and one Super-Star Destroyer was placed, alongside hundreds of smaller dreadnoughts and at least three thousand Tie Fighters. Finally, the Death Star itself appeared and traveled through the wormhole, along with 40 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, a Super-Star Destroyer, and thirty Victory-class Star Destroyers. It then went into hyperspace, setting it's course for..Earth.
