Imperial Center

Darth Vindicta's meeting with the emperor had gone just as she had expected it would go. Palpatine had tried turning her against her father by using his role in her mother's death against him. Unfortunately for the Emperor, Vindicta was well aware of the part her father had played. Vader had foreseen what might happen should his master ever discover he was training her. Every ploy the Emperor might use to turn her against him had already been discussed. For her part Vindicta played along with the Emperor's scheme, feigning shock at the news and listened as the Emperor told her about Vader's final days a Jedi. She was told to be wary of her father who was not above betraying those closest to him to get what he wanted.

After their meeting Vindicta was given a suite in the palace for her use whenever she was on planet until more suitable accommodations could be arranged. The Emperor had then given her the same mandate he had given her father, hunt down the rebels and any Jedi and report to him directly. When she arrived at her suite the first thing she did was contact the Vengeance in orbit. The captain appeared on a small holo projector in her room.

"Captain, how soon will you be ready to leave?" She asked him.

"My Lady, we should be ready in a matter of hours. We're just getting a standard resupply. It shouldn't take long." He informed her.

"Very well, contact Captain Eclipse on Tatooine and tell her to join us at Dantooine once her repairs are finished. We're to investigate an abandoned rebel base." She informed the captain expecting that to be the end of the conversation.

The captain looked at her nervously "My Lady the repairs to the Rogue Shadow were finished yesterday; Captain Eclipse departed the system saying she was on a secret mission for you."

"I ordered no mission" Vindicta said angrily "Where did she go?" she asked the captain.

"She didn't say my lady, she only said you had sent her on a mission and left" the captain said nervously.

"Cancel the mission to Dantooine, I want a list of all possible destinations on the trajectory she was last seen heading and send me all files on Captain Eclipse" Vindicta ordered.

"At once my Lady!" the captain said as Vindicta cut the transmission.


Death Star I

The freighter had escaped with a tracking device just as Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin had planned. The TIE squadron had done an excellent job of harassing the ship as it left the system but had taken a few losses. That was to be expected if the escape was going to be convincing. Soon the location of the rebel base would no longer be a secret and the empire would crush them once and for all. Vader was in his quarters speaking with Darth Vindicta on a private encrypted channel that he himself had developed the codes for, and which only he and his daughter knew.

"It was as you said father, he tried to use your role in Padme Amidala's death to turn me." The holographic image told him.

"It is not like the emperor to be predictable" Lord Vader said as he thought about the situation "Play along but be mindful"

"Yes Father" Lady Vindicta said "it may be a trick to test my loyalties"

"The emperor is not to be underestimated. He did not get to where he is by being careless" Vader told his daughter.

"Of course father, I will inform you of any changes" She said as the transmission ended.

He turned around in his chair to gaze out the viewport at the rubble that was once Alderaan. He had been correct in assuming the Emperor would try to turn her against him. Vader had seen this possibility years ago when Vindicta was still a child. He had told his daughter everything about how he had come to be Darth Vader. The Emperor's false promises to save his wife, the betrayal by the Jedi, all of it. He had kept no secrets from her knowing that any he did keep could be used against him.

He was lost in thought when the buzzer to his quarters sounded, he told whoever it was to enter and a young female captain walked in.

"My lord, Grand Moff Tarkin wishes to inform form you that the freighter was tracked to Yavin IV. We are calculating the jump to hyperspace now and are expected to arrive in eighteen hours" the captain informed him.

"Very well, send a message to the Emperor and the Vengeance informing them we have found the location of the rebel base." Vader ordered the captain before she left. Five minutes later the giant space station was on its way to the rebel's secret base.


Rogue Shadow

The trip to the Sluis sector had taken fifteen hours after leaving the Tatoo system. During the long flight Juno Eclipse got to know her new Jedi friend. She learned the Jedi had actually left the order prior to the purges which explained how she had survived order sixty-six. After working on freighters for a few years she had run into the man who had trained her master and her master's son on Tatooine ten years ago and been helping to train the boy ever since. Once they had entered hyperspace Ahsoka had told Juno their destination inside the Sluis sector, Dagobah. Juno had to make adjustments in flight, which not easy while at light speed, doable but not easy.

They dropped out of hyperspace above a swampy world as a light started blinking, informing them of an incoming message. Juno and Ahsoka looked at each other wondering if it was possible the Empire hadn't discovered her defection yet. Juno played the prerecorded message informing the Vengeance of the rebel's secret base having been located on Yavin.

"Well they've either forgotten to cut us off from all transmissions assigned to the ship or they haven't realized your defection" Ahsoka said pondering the situation "Why would that message come to this shuttle though?" Ahsoka wondered out loud.

Juno looked at her with grin "Didn't I tell you? This is the personal shuttle of Darth Vindicta" she told the Jedi with a wink.

"Darth Vindicta? I've never heard of her, who is that?" Ahsoka asked the former imperial.

"She was new to the fleet actually, about a week ago The Emperor informed everyone that she was now second in command after Vader and that she answered only to Vader and The Emperor himself "Juno told Ahsoka as she started scanning the planet. "Little known fun fact, she's his daughter"

Ahsoka looked at Juno slightly confused "Whose daughter? The Emperors?" she asked causing Juno to laugh.

"No she's Vader's daughter" Juno said still working the controls and getting startled by Ahsoka's reaction.

"WHAT?!" Ahsoka exclaimed at the news.

Juno went on to explain her service with Starkiller, which explained to Ahsoka who she had fought on imperial center four years ago. What Ahsoka couldn't figure was how Vader had a daughter, who was Luke's age if Juno had guessed it correctly. That had to mean she was Luke's twin. She further explained how Vader had set up a test on a planet called Korriban for the two and how Vindicta had but lost and arm; but had still defeated her rival resulting in Juno being assigned to her.

"Well it seems you're a wealth of knowledge. Any luck locating anything down there?" Ahsoka asked referring to the planet below and changing the subject. She needed to discuss this with Yoda.

"Not really, lots of life forms but no cities or technology. What exactly are we doing here?" Juno asked in return.

"We're looking for a Jedi Master named Yoda. I was told he was here" Ahsoka said as she reached out with the force to try and sense the ancient Jedi grand Master. "Head to the Northern Hemisphere" She told the pilot. She hadn't sensed Yoda but something told her that was the best place to start.

Juno piloted the shuttle down through the stormy atmosphere to where Ahsoka had indicated trying to steady the ship as they passed through a fierce electrical storm. Breaking through the bottom Juno piloted the craft to a small clearing where she landed the shuttle next to a large bog. The two exited the craft and agreed the best thing to do would be to set up camp before beginning the search.


Imperial Star Destroyer Vengeance

Back on board the Vengeance Darth Vindicta was going over the list of systems the Rogue Shadow could have gone to. She ruled out about half them due to the size of the imperial garrisons there. If Juno would have gone to any of them she would have already been informed. Immediately after being learning of the Rogue Shadow's disappearance, Vindicta had issued orders for every garrison to inform her if the ship showed up and had placed Juno Eclipse on the galactic wanted list for treason.

Vindicta wasn't sure why she needed to find the wayward captain so bad. After all, with all the desertion in the fleet what was one more? But something told her not finding the captain could be extremely dangerous. As she was looking through the list the captain informed her that Lord Vader sent a message saying the rebel base had been located on Yavin and that the Emperor also had sent a message and wished to speak to her immediately. Putting aside the data pad she had been working with, Vindicta went to the holo projection room and knelt on the pad as the Emperor appeared above her.

"What troubles you my apprentice? I can feel your frustration." The Emperor asked her.

"It is the shuttle pilot Juno Eclipse master, she has deserted and I feel if she is not found she will prove to be a dangerous foe" Vindicta told the Emperor who was quiet for a moment as he searched within the force.

"You will join your father in the Yavin system, there you will find your troublesome pilot and together with Lord Vader defeat the rebels" The Emperor finally said to her.

"Yes, my master" Vindicta said as the Emperor's image faded away.

She went back to the bridge where the captain informed her that it would take the Vengeance twenty hours to get to the Yavin system from Imperial Center. That wasn't fast enough for Vindicta, he then informed her that there was a prototype TIE advanced with a hyperdrive in one of the hangars, designed by Lord Vader himself, that could get her there in fifteen. She told the captain that he could give the crew shore leave while she joined Darth Vader on the Death Star and she would either return or send for the Vengeance after the rebellion had been destroyed.


Dagobah

They were trying to set up camp before nightfall so they could begin their search for Yoda in the morning. Ahsoka was on the ship looking for the electric perimeter fence while Juno was clearing away the brush. She couldn't shake the feeling that something was watching her work. Looking around Juno couldn't see anything but the feeling didn't go away. She turned back to work on the brush and let out a scream; standing in front of her was a little green figure with a cane. Recovering from being startled she spoke the figure.

"Hello, how are you little guy?" she asked him.

"why here are you? Hmmm" the little green creature asked as Juno felt relief that he spoke basic and not some strange alien dialect.

"We're looking for someone." Juno told him thinking maybe he could help them.

The little green creature walked into the area she had already cleared and sat on one of the boxes. "Found someone, you have" he said making himself comfortable.

Juno looked at the creature skeptically. There was something about him that seemed off like he was testing her. "We're looking for a great Jedi Master; We were told he was somewhere on this world."

The little green creature looked over his shoulder at the ship. "Who mean you, by we? Hmmm" he asked turning back to her.

"My friend and I, she's a jedi knight. She needs to find him" Juno said not sure if sure if she had said to much but she didn't think this little green creature had any ties to the empire. Not on this backwater planet anyway.

Once again the little green creature looked back to the Rogue Shadow "A jedi, calls her does she?" he asked turning back to Juno.

Before Juno could answer Ahsoka came down the ramp "Juno, I can't find those…" she stopped seeing who Juno was talking to "Yoda!" she said running over to there Juno stood talking the little creature.

Juno looked at him again quizzically "You're Yoda? You're definitely not what I expected in a Jedi master to be honest" she said to Yoda.

"Judge be my size do you?" he said shaking his glimmer stick at her before turning to Ahsoka "Warms my heart it does, to see you young one."

Ahsoka threw her arms around the Jedi Master catching him by surprise before letting go. She was happy to see him after all this time. She told him about the ten years training Luke under Obi-Wan's guidance; about what had happened on Tatooine and how Juno had defected from the empire and brought her here at Obi-Wan's suggestion.

"Wants the rank of master for you, he does." He stated more than asked "Trained one Jedi you have. Now seek to train another, do you? Hmmm" he asked Ahsoka but looking at Juno who had a very confused look on her face.

"What? No, I can't use the force. I'm just a pilot" She said looking Yoda and then Ahsoka who looked just as confused as Juno.

Yoda shook his glimmer stick at her "For nine hundred years, trained Jedi, I have. Feel when someone is strong with the force, I can" he scolded her.

"But Master Yoda, I already have a padawan. I can't train Juno too. It's against the code." Ahsoka said to the Jedi master who was still looking at Juno.

"Told Obi-Wan, you did, taught young Skywalker all you can" Yoda said to Ahsoka, who wonder how he knew that "Ready for the rank of master, you are. Finish young Skywalker's training, I will. Take this one for an apprentice you may"

Ahsoka had a smile on her face but Juno still wore a very confused look on hers. How could she be a Jedi if she couldn't use the force? She was sure this Yoda character had spent to many years out here alone and had lost his mind.

"Come, to young Skywalker we must go" Yoda said as he got off the box "On the way, show you the first steps I will" he said to Juno as he went up the ramp of the Rogue Shadow.

Juno looked at Ahsoka who was still smiling at her. "If Yoda says the force is strong with you, then the force is strong with you…Padawan. Looks like we're going Yavin" she said to a still stunned Juno before she started collecting the crates they had already unloaded and started loading them back onto the ship.

"You do realize the Empire is about to attack Yavin don't you?" Juno called after her "That's what that message meant Ahsoka!"

"That's MASTER Ahsoka to you now PADAWAN!" Ahsoka called cheerfully down from inside the ship.

"What in the galaxy is a padawan?" Juno asked herself as she started helping load the ship back up.


Yavin IV

The Millennium Falcon exited hyperspace in the Yavin system and headed to the fourth moon of the gas giant. They had escaped the imperials only for Winter to say they had been let go so they could track the ship. They needed to get Artoo to the alliance command to get the data analyzed to find a weakness, and they needed to do it soon, the empire was on its way. They entered the atmosphere of the fourth moon and headed towards an old massassi temple.

The temple was surrounded by rotting jungle in every direction, and lone soldier stood watch on one of the tower watching them go by. After landing in the hangar, a commander came over to Winter and offered his condolences over the loss of Alderaan. She thanked him and gave Artoo over to the techs to analyze the plans. After about four hours of going over the data they had found a potential weak spot and called a briefing.