Both Han and Leia followed Wedge into their main conference bay where Mon Mothma, Corporal Blin and a large amount of their pilots sat waiting for them, each with worried glints in their eye.

"General Organa, Captain Solo. Of course we would've allowed Captain Solo more time to recover if we hadn't deemed this urgent, but this is the biggest news we've had since the formation of our rebellion" Mon Mothma began, gliding over to the rusty holo-projector as Han, Leia and Wedge perched on three free chairs coincidentally free amongst the large group of pilots watching with anticipation. "We have the true identity of the man under the hood, the man beneath Darth Vader"

"He's converted back to the light?" Leia asked with a wrinkled nose.

"No" Corporal Blin spoke up, allowing his companion to adjust the picture quality of the fuzzy humans on the projection device. "He is certainly still a Sith, It's common knowledge amongst us elders that the Sith have yellow or sometimes even orange, much like Vader still does, however he has been presented without that cloak used to hide his face, and to make matters worse he has a very attractive woman and a young child with him"

"And why is Darth Vader's love life any of our concern?" Leia snapped, rising to her full height. "Maybe he'll have fewer bad moods but do you really think he has any control over the vast laws everybody in the galaxy is caged within! You cannot tell me that this is going-" she stopped with a cool look from Han, his lips pursed in pure frustration as he stared at the holo-projector. "What?"

"Oh nothing, I'm pretty sure they're waiting for you to shut up so they can show us what they want to show us" he commented snidely, pulling Leia back onto the seat despite her snap in protest. "At least hear what they've got to say"

"Thank you Captain. General we can assure you this isn't a waste of your time" Mon smiled as calmly as she could, Leia had to appreciate the woman could handle a lot of things without cracking under the pressure. "We were not able to gather you all before the speech was over, however we have found a news report analysing the beginning of the ceremony and everything said by Vader" she stepped aside and allowed the projection to show.

Atop of a large balcony to the Imperial Palace stood a tall and quite frankly very handsome man, his blondish browning hair seemed to match his perfectly golden eyes and the scar running over his right eye made his tanned face look all the more muscular. Beside him was a woman dressed in a slimming black gown that showed off her figure amazingly, so much so it reminded Leia of those fake dolls she'd have as a child that gave girls unrealistic body expectations, the woman's brown hair fell in curls down her back and pink lips made her cheeks and collarbone pop in the sunlight. While her left arm was threaded through Vader's her right arm held a very small child, a head of blond curls resting down against his mother's chest while his blue eyes looked to his father with admiration.

"I don't like the fact they're all so attractive" Wedge muttered under his breath in disgust.

"You can't call a toddler attractive" Wes hissed from behind him.

"After the death of ruthless dictator Emperor Palpatine our Galactic Empire is taking on it's new leader, Emperor Vader along with his wife and son. Will this fallen Jedi be able to balance a life with his family and ruling an entire empire. Stay tuned as we explain every aspect of our new leaders opening ceremony speech" Han found himself rolling his eyes as the twi'lek woman on screen attempted to engage the little audience she most likely thought she had. The projections switched back to the family of three high up above it's adoring crowd, all standing with large smiles.

"Citizens of Coruscant, Comrades from our neighbouring imperial core planets and people of our entire galaxy watching from their own planets, the knowledge I am about to bestow upon you all is surely going to change many views today. Views of old and young, views of human and alien alike, and especially the views those of the terrorist association the Rebellion 'Freedom' Fighters" the crowd began to roar with boos and hisses at the mention of the rebels causing a few pilots to hurl a few insults back at the projector. "From this day onwards our Galactic Empire will no longer be dictated with an iron fist, it will no longer torture the citizens of our galaxy with it's anti-freedom reign, for Emperor Palpatine is no longer controlling this government. Instead I, Lord Emperor Vader, shall rule from here on until my death with two companions at my side" Vader stepped aside and allowed the woman holding the small boy to step forward, passing over the child to Vader.

"Is she crazy?!" Leia growled to herself. "That poor little boy"

"My first is my beloved and beautiful Wife Padme Naberrie-Vader, the new empress to our Galactic Empire" the crowd filled with applause as Padme waved to the crowd politely, her small smile widening as people shouted words over her beauty and their admiration for her. "And my second, my young son Lucas Vader, Imperial Prince and Second in line to the throne" once again Vader stepped forward and tilted the boy's face towards the crowd, which just grew louder at the sight of the young boy's innocent features.

"What a sweet boy, stick around folks there was a lot more where that came from. I think we can all agree that our new Emperor is going to be a raging success. Back to you Vieta"

Mon re-dimmed the projection as it cut back to a human woman stood in one of the lower streets in Coruscant. The whole room had been stunned to complete silence as every rebel contemplated the result of their situation in front of them.

"How-" Leia muttered as she rose from her chair, the first to break the awkward silence. "But I mean- that's surely impossible is it not?"

"That is, without a doubt, fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, and that young woman next to him is Senator Padme Amidala Naberrie. My initial thoughts were she had been preserved in some sort of carbonite and has recently been unfrozen by the emperor or Vader himself, but then it dawned upon me that Anakin Skywalker would not be this young if he had been alive all of these years. He too must have been preserved and is taking on the lie he always has been Vader" Mon explained, her face so plain Leia couldn't decipher her true thoughts on the matter "while it is good news we know of the new Emperor's real identity we are yet to discover what his real plans and motives are, we can't attack without motive as that would make us a terrorist organisation"

"On one hand this guy is a Sith Lord, and Siths aren't very well known for their kind nature, but on the other hand he's a husband and a father. For his son to be so calm around him Vader couldn't treat the boy too badly" Wedge questioned.

"Wait just one kriffing second" Han spoke up. "Are we just going to forget the fact Luke Skywalker is the son of Anakin Skywalker, and how that blond haired blue eyed child looks remarkably like our own Commander of Rogue squadron. Does that not alarm anybody else? I at least thought you'd be interest Princess, Antilles" Murmurs floated throughout the room over Han's claim, some agreeing and others brushing it aside as his hibernation sickness.

"What exactly are you suggesting Solo? Skywalker betrayed and abandoned the rebellion to go on some sort of happily ever after with his father?" Corporal Blin questioned, raising his eyebrows as Han's statement.

"No! He's been brainwashed and somehow regressed to that young age, it'd be kriffing weird if their son was older than his parents. Luke has always wanted family but he knows right from wrong, he's our rebel and he has people who have filled those family gaps in for him. I'm telling every single one of you right here, right now, Luke Skywalker would not have gone down without a fight. Now you lot can do whatever you want on your next attacks, but don't include me unless it has anything to do with getting our Luke back" nobody in the room uttered a word as Han strutted away, leaving everybody behind in stunned silence.


"And from this day forth our Galactic Empire will grow, we will thrive under our new leadership, we will flourish under the freedom your new Emperor has to offer. The coronation ceremony shall begin shortly at approximately 0800, it will be viewable to the public through the news public streaming across the holonet and I look forward to speaking with you all during the public ceremony later on this evening" Padme smiled, waving her hand regally as she turned and relinked her arm through Anakin's. The family of three gave one final look to the crowd before they glided through the slightly open curtain, Luke sat in the dark lord's arms.

"You were magnificent" Vader smiled gently, leaning down to peck his wife's lips. "I'm almost convinced they preferred you over me, the crowd was going- how did you put it little one?"

"Super duper loud" Luke grumbled, his golden boy persona slowly melting away as the three year old became agitatedly tired.

"Yes that. A true Empress"

"Oh stop it, it was a family effort I would say. Luke you were so well behaved, Mama is so proud of you" she praised, running a hand through his blond hair while he let out a long yawn. "I bet you're sleepy huh? Well we shall go and find Admiral Piett and then you can take a long nap, how about that my angel?"

"No, you go and prepare for the next ceremony, you'll want to re-freshen your make up or whatever it is you women do, I shall take Luke to find the Admiral" Vader insisted, applying a few gentle kisses to Padme cheeks and lips. "Especially with that smudge on your lower lip"

"I had a smudge on my lower lip?! And you didn't tell me?" She gasped, covering her mouth with her petite hands. "What if the public get all riled about it, what if they know what we did?"

"We had a short break from toddler duty, we kissed very-" he paused as he looked into Luke's blue, sleepy and innocent eyes. "Passionately, all married couples do. Now go and freshen up, I'll rejoin you in our chambers once this little one is in safe hands"

"Okay, whatever you say dear. See you in a little while Luke, Mama loves you"

"I loves you too Mama" He slurred, his eyes slowly drooping as he rested against his father's broad shoulders. The two lovers left in separate directions to fulfil their mini-missions before their 30 minutes ran out.

"I walk" Luke spoke up, glancing at the politicians as they strode past his father with simple "congratulations my new Emperor" or "you're son will make a fine leader one day". Vader shook his head with a smile as Luke snuggled his face shyly away from any unwanted attention.

"Not yet Luke, we need to get there as quick as possible. You can walk back to your bedroom with Admiral Piett" Vader comforted, planting a kiss atop his sons head when he found themselves alone in a corridor. "Good boy"

"I always good boy Papa"

"Very true son, I think I can see the Admiral" Vader had instructed Admiral Piett to meet him at the entrance to his own private wing after the speeches had ended as he had watched the ceremony from the politicians balcony below, mainly to keep a watchful eye for any protesters.

"I sees him too" Luke pointed out at the shortish man came into view, leaning up against the wall and flipping frequencies in his comlink. "Hi Adme" Vader bit down on his lip to prevent a laugh erupting from this throat at Luke's new dubbed nickname for the Admiral.

"Hello young Luke. May I just begin by saying the speeches were spectacular my lord" the Admiral began, automatically taking Luke from his father like it was second nature.

"I was good"

"Yes you were my young prince"

"Thank you Admiral. I'd prefer it if Luke isn't present during the coronation ceremony, he hasn't had very much sleep and would not take well to sitting still for hours upon end while Padme and I make declarations and sign documents. I'd prefer you to stay with him the whole time yet if their is any reason for your need to depart assign 2 stormtroopers to stand guard at his room while you're gone"

"Perfectly understood my Lord. Shall I contact you specifically if anything goes wrong with the young prince?"

"Yes, I will be able to respond during the three intervals" Vader explained, taking Luke one last time to give the boy a hug. "Behave for the Admiral and get some force forsaken sleep, you don't want to be sleepy when you get your turn to speak do you?"

"No Papa, I go straight sleep right now" Luke giggled, waving at his father as the man began to descend the corridor. "Buh-Bye!"

"Come on then young prince, let's get you to your bed chambers then" The Admiral smiled.


I can't write political stuff, I really suck at it.

I watched a new hope three times while writing this because I'm ridiculously sad.

So you know those rewrites I promised? The ones that didn't happen? Yeah I'm sorry. I just don't want to be putting stuff out when I don't think it's adequate, I had that problem with my other book 'the little rebel' I was posting for the sake of posting, not because I liked what I was doing. However I have now rewritten the first chapter and I am adding slight changes to the other two (nothing so major it affects the plot)

Anyway I got all of my exam results back and I didn't fail anything so that's great! But I do need to improve in science (ughhh science)

I've had so many things to say and now it's come to actually writing them down I've forgotten them because I'm dumb.

Well a boy did take me to watch the new Aladdin a few days ago and I was pleasantly surprised, Will Smith made his own genie and didn't try and copy Robin Williams which I've got to give him at least.

Just in case I don't post again before this (which let's pray I do) it's my birthday on the 24th of June, I'm not even that excited because it's not a special birthday, I'm only turning 15 and I still feel like a 10 year old sometimes. What's scary is that I'm 16 and finished with high school next year. My mum and I are going to see the new child's play so there is that, Mark Hamill is in it and I love horrors so, win win I guess.

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PS' reply: I'm good at family fluff, pretty much the only thing I can write XD I haven't even posted the photo yet but my posters did come and let's just say they're amazing and I love them! That poster sounds so epic! Kylo is definitely not a Sith Lord. And that is utter treason that there's no Luke or Anakin. I'm so hype for Ep. 9 at the minute, my dad said if we're lucky he'll take me to see it the day it comes out because I only have half a day at school since it'll be Christmas break. There are so many movies I'm excited for this year, and I've only got 6 more weeks of year 10 then we break up for 8 weeks and lord knows I need a break from school. Thanks for your name suggestions by the way! You know if you have any suggestions with little side story lines or a chapter with a certain family fluff thing going on let me know!

Stregian's reply: those were some great ideas! And I incorporated the first one because it was quite clever, I hope you're enjoying the book so far.

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