In the next few weeks the Empire put, with undue haste, measures in to reduce the power of the Turbosteel production and the Union. Mr.N was working for a while, but he was now aware that he was on the wanted list of the Empire and would not be long before some action was taken against him. Another opportunity like this did not happen in the Galaxy.

Any possibly now of a peaceful overthrow of Palpatine's regime was gone and the choice of war or living under an unspeakably ruthless dictatorship with the desire of destroying all was inevitable. And a long-lived war it was too in various guises. The Union's power was quickly reduced and no-one with influence wanted to continue the struggle in that manner. Had they only continued for a few weeks like Arthur had suggested things would have been so different. A bankrupt Empire would have been forced to fall.

Rather hard to blame all this on Dave, simply because he couldn't handle his dependency on Beer. Especially as he was a decent man who wanted good in the galaxy, not without talents either. But such could be the fact.

To the other characters of this tale. Mr.N disappeared. He was given warning by Sarah that the Imperials where after him, said he was 'off to the pirate sector,' and vanished. In fact, dispite the grim nature of this tale, there where pirates and smugglers, some of whom where causing major disruption in some parts of the Galaxy to the Empire. Indeed, there where even some planets, admittedly very few, that where hidden in the Galaxy, which is a big place, and untouched by the Empire's evil. It's possible that Mr.N made it to one of them, though that tale is never told, and frankly it is unlikely, it is more probable that Mr.N died in the unregulated systems of space on the way.

Curiously though, Mugwort did a similair thing, but of course he did survive, but he never mentioned the fate of Mr.N. Arthur was captured for treason a year after these events and executed by the Empire. Dave survived, but he did not enjoy the years of Imperial domination and did try in his own small way, and small it was too to help the future rebellion.

So that's it. The story of how a peaceful resolution to the Galaxy's problems was possible, even likely at one stage, but never happened. Well, the rest of the history was endless war.

THE END.