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This is the final chapter of Part One, gird yourself for it.
Chapter 36
Timeframe: 2030 (44 ABY, concluded).
After everyone returned safely to their respective domiciles, Harry quickly issued orders to secure certain places.
He ordered a new invention, or rather a new application of his existing satellite defense grid concept which would be a "self-healing satellite defense and blockade grid"-designed for quarantining an entire planet. It consisted of two layers of sixty-four satellites, one set with their shields aimed outward and another set with their shields aimed inward to the planets atmosphere. Between the two rings of shields were thirty-six spare satellites that could replace one in either ring, as well as the eight molecular constructor satellites to build new ones as needed; for a total of one-hundred seventy-two satellites.
One of these went to Kesh to quarantine the Sith there, and another went to the Maw Planet to quarantine it. He likewise sent an ordinary satellite defense grid to Sinkhole station. All of them also were sent a five-ship unit of Destiny to maintain positive control and patrol each location. He would return to finish the job in a more comprehensive way with the Maw Planet later, but for now all of those places would be locked down and off-limits. He also sent an HFR team to Sinkhole station to staff it and to eradicate any vestiges of the transients who in the past came and went there as part of their 'mind walking' studies. None of those places would be playgrounds for curious force sensitive's any longer. Harry sent a message to this effect to Luke for the Jedi Order as well through official channels to all the other major governments, via his Ambassador.
Not long after that Harry got word that while he was off with Luke in the Maw, the Jedi Order executed a plan thought up by Master Corran Horn to depose and arrest Chief of State Daala. The plan, called "Plan Delta," succeeded. Acting Grand Master Kenth Hamner died in an effort to attempt to prevent the rest of the Order from carrying out the plan, and Jedi Master Saba Sebatyne was made acting Grand Master of the Jedi Order. Daala's position was replaced by a ruling Triumvirate for the GA that consisted of Senator Haydnat Treen, General Merratt Jaxton (later replaced by former Chief of Staff, Wynn Dorvan), and acting Grand Master Sebatyne. And naturally, Luke Skywalker's exile was rescinded.
After some time getting things resettled in the GA, with peace appearing to want to set in for real for a while. Luke returned to his post as Grand Master of the Jedi Order and immediately moved to call for new elections for GA Chief and removed the Order from its role in the triumvirate. Wynn Dorvan was elected. Furthermore, knowing that the Senate wanted the Jedi Order off of Coruscant, and himself wishing to not have the Jedi Order remain or once again become a central figure in GA politics. The Jedi Order would move permanently to a new star system and planet given to it whole by the Avalon Empire Protectorate, and henceforth would form their own independent government, with autonomous self-rule ostensibly under the military protection of the AE since their new world would now lay safely within its borders.
The planet was Apatros in the Savareen sector, just inside AE space, near the Corellian Run. It was a barren world abandoned over five hundred years ago, five hundred years after Darth Bane once called it home. Harry had it terraformed to a paradise planet for the Jedi. It was small, moon-sized and orbited a dim orange star. But for as small as the Jedi Order was (a little more than one hundred) and at the pace it would likely grow, that might be all the world of their own they would ever need. There was also still a serviceable amount of Cortosis leftover in the mines abandoned over five hundred years ago, so the Jedi could sell the right to mine that as a means to generate independent income for themselves.
In the future the Jedi could choose to ally with or not, anyone they would choose, based on what they believed was right or wrong; and not because they were the client organization of any one government. It might appear that they were trading one client government for another, but for all they knew and experienced throughout the rest of the history of the galaxy they figured they might as well give the AE a chance, at least they hadn't screwed them over yet. And they knew that under their protection, they would be safe there. Not to mention, the bulk of the Jedi Order, especially 'the Sword of the Jedi' Jaina Solo and a number of other hawkish members, were beginning to rather like the recent proactive anti-Sith stance that Emperor Potter and the AE were beginning to take a more active role in.
Ahsoka Tano, along with her Tano Dojo would also move to the new Jedi Headquarters and Praxeum on Apatros to assist them, as well as it would give Luke and Leia and their families time to hear first-hand stories of their grandfather and his contemporaries from when Ahsoka was a padawan. That and Ahsoka was starting to feel her age and wanted to take a more 'retired' role, back to simply being an advisor, now both to the AE as well as the Jedi. That also had the advantage of cross-fertilizing some knowledge and training between the Jedi, the Imperial Knights and the Disciples of Twilight who were part of Tano's Dojo. There was an opportunity for the Jedi Order to develop a broader base of knowledge and training repertoire in their Praxeum and for passing that down to future generations with their holocrons updated with the additional knowledge.
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The quarantine of Kesh caused quite a stir. At least on Kesh. It happened to catch the patchwork armada of several dozen vessels it had obtained through piracy over the years-which it had been according to former Kesh Sith, Vestara Khai apparently preparing to take on some sort of invasion to expand in the near future. The "fleet" included twenty-seven ChaseMaster Frigates, several Corporate Sector Gunships, several Corporate Sector Authority Frigates, two EE-104 Fisheye Stealth Vessels, a number of converted bulk freighters, a few other old scavenged and repaired warships, six Javelin star fighters, seventy-four GAT-12j Skipray Blastboats, and the Sith Meditation Sphere Ben and Vestara were both briefly entangled with and that they encountered in the Maw. On the surface they identified their Capitol city Tahv and altogether about ten thousand Sith.
(A/N: at this time, on Kesh this also included all twenty-four of the dark Nightsister Clan of witches from Dathomir, which Vestara helped her order capture, after which she herself stayed with Luke and Ben as a stipulation to Luke's agreeing to a temporary alliance with the Sith against Abeloth...which is how she ended up traveling with them thereafter...which said impromptu alliance itself never came to anything (in my retconned version of events) since Luke, Ben, and Vestara, with the help simply of the Sith from beyond shadows, defeated her themselves, after they gave the Sith fleet the slip).
To say that Grand Lord Darish Vol and High Lord Sarasu Taalon, et al. were a bit surprised, was an understatement. They then knew for certain that Vestara had betrayed them. After the AE fleet deployed the satellite grid and quarantined them, they sent down to the surface a standard old imperial message buoy that would make clear the current situation. That went something like this (paraphrasing):
"In case you have not been paying attention to recent events. The entire sector of space that includes Kesh, your formerly secret world of Sith, where you have been planning and readying your future war of conquest-is now part of the Avalon Empire Protectorate. And as such, you will henceforth live under Alteran law as do all other worlds in our space. One of those laws is, thou shalt not abuse your super-natural powers to oppress the weak. Another is, thou shalt not raise your young to grow up believing it is right to use their super-natural powers to oppress the weak, nor train them to do so. Nor may you engage in piracy and build secret fleets of warships, hell bent on invading other worlds for your mad schemes of obtaining power. In short, your entire world, your society, and your way of thinking, is under arrest. House arrest."
"Kesh is now quarantined, both protected from external threat as well as blockaded from any departures of your world through space, by science and technology so far in advance of yours that you couldn't understand it if we handed you the manuals. We trust that you have the necessary resources for at least your basic necessities there on the planet for the ongoing care and general welfare of your people. We will return to deal more directly with you when we have more time. We recommend that you use the intervening time to re-think your world-view and your future plans. As they will not include galactic conquest or domination. Do not attempt to launch any ships into space or any higher than one hundred thousand feet within your atmosphere. You have been warned."
So, naturally they tested that; and after observing a massive orbital shield absorb all the damage from their wing of seventy-four Skipray Blastboat heavy fighters, as if it were nothing. They watched very powerful plasma beams erupt from the same satellites, incinerate each and every one of them with one shot each, like it was no effort at all. They were minus one full wing of Blastboats, and stuck on the surface sucking their thumbs, or whatever angry and frustrated Sith lords do with their now copious spare time.
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Harry met with Luke and a number of other Masters of the Jedi Order, along with Ahsoka Tano-to get a history lesson. He wanted to know all that they knew about Sith. Not their abilities or beliefs. He meant throughout history, where had they been located? Where are or were their strongholds? Why? Because new Sith keep cropping up from these old places and he planned to investigate every last one of them and search for any more lingering Sith and round them up like he had begun doing at Kesh.
"The entire Esstran sector in the Stygian Caldera Nebulae (at grid coordinate R-5) was the home of the original Sith empires, including twenty-two star systems and one-hundred twenty habitable worlds, crossing six trade-routes, including the Sith home world Korriban. The sector capital is Ziost." answered Master Corran Horn, who had always been one himself to try to keep up with such things.
"Do any of the other galactic governments claim that sector? The GA?, The IR?, the Hapan's, a randy group of Pirates?" asked Harry.
"It actually is considered part of GA space and before that the NR, the GE, the OR, and so forth. But, you are right in what I believe you are implying; since the ancient days of the Sith empire, it has only been inhabited by pirates and other Sith upstarts, criminals looking for a place to hide, other malcontents, and so forth. It doesn't even have it's own official sector governor; the closest to it was Grand Moff Tarkin of the GE during the Rebellion era when he was handed control of the entire Outer Rim over-sector." said Leia, being the most knowledgeable of such things in the room.
Harry asked "Why is it that if you know of all these places that had both ancient and even recent Sith activity, with buried secrets for newbie's to discover and exploit, that those places aren't placed firmly under the government thumb, or monitored, or controlled, blown to smithereens, something? Why is it you all act surprised when new Sith pop up every few years to take the place of the last ones? If they have an entire sector of history and resources to go learn their trade in secret waiting for their opportunity?" asked Harry, sounding rather incredulous.
"The Jedi Order itself has never been a government with the resources to do all those things you suggest. I'm not sure the Old Order would've done it anyway, but even they only had a couple thousand Jedi in the galaxy; and not the resources to do that." added Luke. "They or we, would need the resources of the government to do that, and the government when it wasn't controlled by a Sith in the first place, was just happy that whatever Sith was causing the recent trouble had been put down and spent their resources on rebuilding whatever else was important. Like the GA just did after the Yuuzhan Vong war for example." said Luke.
Harry just frowned at the answer and waited for Luke to continue.
"I'm not making excuses for them or for ourselves. Just explaining how I see it. I know that throughout my tenure, even at our best of times, when Leia was Chief of State or other strong allies were, who understand the dangers of the Sith, we could not have gotten the Senate to go along with funding such a campaign and maintaining it indefinitely." said Luke.
"Right. Okay. What if now, I say that my Empire is willing to foot the bill and put forth the resources to do that? Will the other governments support allowing me to do that, or would they just argue and fight with me over space they don't care to police themselves, that no one honest is bothering to use? Could I step in on this, or would I be wasting my time?" asked Harry.
"I don't know. I think there are some who are weary enough of the Sith to support the idea. Others may see it as the AE trying to just expand yet again from more GA space. I'm not saying that is your intent. Although I will frankly say that it does appear that way to many. For my part, I could care less, especially about these untamed wild lands so to speak that no one is looking after anyway, like you said. It is high time someone did." said Leia.
"Why don't Luke, Saba, and I, go speak to Wynn Dorvan and see what he thinks about it on your behalf?" said Leia.
"That would be great. Thanks." said Harry.
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While Leia was making plans to do that, Harry sat down privately with Luke and once again asked him to keep secret, what he had to tell him. At this point the secrecy is mostly not to spook everyone else out about his people and his intentions. Certainly if Luke ever felt that where Harry and the AE were going was in the wrong direction, he would not hold him to keeping the secrets.
Yet, it was now time for Harry to share with him the full story of the history of the Alterans, the Avalon Empire, and truly why he came to the galaxy in the first place. Their primary mission there. The same story, with more detail, that he essentially told Ahsoka Tano when she first sought him out and then came aboard with the program.
[...] an hour later...
"To tell the truth I'd already guessed part of it. Not that I had any real proof. Nor do we know all that much fact about the Celestials from our history. But, I had suspected that you were in some way related to them. I thought that at least, you must be as a race, as old as them, to know some of the things we would expect only them to know. And to be able to do some of the things we only ascribed to their abilities. So, yes. I'm not too surprised." replied Luke.
"I guess you feel now is the time to come clean on some of that and to move more aggressively against the Sith as you've begun doing because Abeloth is destroyed and all that is left is to secure the fonts, or ethereal substrate from the higher plane as you called it?" continued Luke.
"That is basically it, yes. And now that the AE has full control of the Maw territory and all the ancient Celestial technology put in place to maintain it. I feel like we can finish that job and keep a lockdown on it. There are still things I don't know about how our cousins created this Force phenomenon in this galaxy by doing what they did. I would like to continue to study it too. Just in case there is more we need to know." said Harry.
"But, research has already shown that 'the Force' is not something we can or probably at this advanced age, should, try to undo or prevent from spreading in general. Despite the fact that it came into being unnaturally. Which to be honest was one of my concerns before ever arriving here." said Harry.
"But unless we get different readings when I go in to study the fonts themselves. I now believe that we can contain and prevent any future massive problems with it, a reoccurrence of the likes of an Abeloth or the Ones, for example. If we simply ensure that no other beings can directly and in person access the substrate itself." said Harry.
"It does continue to leak new energy from the higher plane into this galaxy in small quantities on an ongoing basis. But, we theorize that the actual act of having spread biologically into nearly all life in the galaxy through these symbiotic midichlorians, has actually managed to create a sustainable balance. In other words, usually it doesn't gather naturally into an extreme nexus the likes of an Abeloth for instance, no over-abundance in any one place, it is spread out almost evenly now throughout the galaxy." said Harry.
"The other thing which is still only a hypothesis, not quite a theory until I can study it in detail. Is that I don't actually think the two fonts are as diametrically opposed at the source as we had been led to believe. I think that is just a result of its initial manifestation into the original mother and her own demons and insecurities, which almost got out of control when it tried to possess her, which she then forcibly divided into two opposing sides." said Harry.
"I suspect that the original motive for the pool of nexus energy to become a sentient individual no longer drives anything that is going on, because of the evolution of the dissipation and dilution of the energy through midichlorians everywhere. And subsequently, I think that wherever the manifested super-natural abilities are used for either good or bad purpose, the motives are strictly coming from the individuals now. Especially since the last vestige of the original motive that lived on through Abeloth, has now been vanquished and there are no longer any more of 'the One's'." said Harry.
"Therefore, as I said at the start, I believe that our main objective needs to be to ensure, that no one else gets direct access to those fonts or the substrate. To prevent any further concentrations of the energy from forming and frankly possessing or taking over the mind and body of an individual. And that it is okay to continue to nurture and support Force sensitive adepts such as the Jedi, because your motives are to use the abilities for good and to help others. While we must continue to weed out, stop, and insomuch as possible, prevent any more Sith, whose motives are to use the abilities for bad and for personal gain." said Harry.
"It is a relief to know you don't want to put a stop to all of us Force users." said Luke, half kidding and half-serious. As he knew that Harry's studies and conclusions could have gone that way at some point if things had been different.
"Yes, of course. You're right to guess that I might've concluded that, had the evidence pointed that way, but that is not what I'm seeing. Remember also that our genetic study of this, while it did originate through un-natural causes, has since then actually imprinted itself permanently into the genome of almost all sentient life in this galaxy. It couldn't be undone if we had to. So, I am choosing to accept the observations that point to nature itself having gradually solved the problem over time, through beneficial evolution, as it normally does. And also, I think that if this were such an affront to the overall good order of the universe, that higher powers, which I know exist, would've stepped in on it." said Harry.
"That's good. I'd like to share with you more in the future about all of your observations and understanding of all of this. But, for now what actually is your plan to keep those fonts contained, or more contained than you have already?" asked Luke.
"Sure. Right now of course we've just locked up access in or out from space with our quarantine satellite network. But, I plan to ensure that Centerpoint and Sinkhole and Kessel get a good comprehensive overall and upgrades to keep them in good operating condition for another million years or more. The perpetual energy solution is still the best for that and I intend to keep the artificial Maw nebulae construct just like it is. Changing it now might actually disrupt the gravitational eddies in the neighboring sectors so I don't want to forcibly change all of that now." said Harry.
"Then, for the new. I plan to install a small, unmanned, fully-automated Alteran outpost on the planet itself, encasing the location on the planet where the substrate exists. Then inside that secure structure which would be further shielded and protected, I will build covers of a sort that will be made out of a material that I know of which can safely heat-sink, conduct and shunt the energy better than the original solution ever dreamed of. These caps will be literally lids of a sort down to a femtometer of distance from the surface of the substrate." said Harry.
"Even at that distance, microscopic particles of energy will continue to seep into the galaxy, albeit at a slower and more measurable and controlled pace than it does now. Thus further lessening the odds of future clusters of nexus energy forming to possess people. And the rest of the energy, you will hardly believe me I think, but my people understand the science behind this. We will actually shunt into an inverse quantum matrix that literally will perpetually power this new facility. Thus putting that portion of extra bleed off energy to good use in securing the rest of it." said Harry.
"Wow. You're right. I hardly believe it. If you can manipulate these energies at that level, why can't you just seal the rift itself, like the original Celestials wanted to do in the first place?" asked Like.
"Because the source of the energy, which is the background energy itself of the higher plane where all of our ascended beings live, has far greater energy potential than anything we can create on this side. It simply won't allow us to close it. It's a real tear and it's leaking, and the pressure for wont of a better word, from the other side, is just too great. That is why I devised this method. Thinking it would be the best compromise solution. I've often wondered why none of the ascended have bothered to close it from the other side." said Harry.
"Okay, that makes sense I guess. Not a scientist myself, remember. But, you reminded me of something else I wanted to ask you. Abeloth and the other beings like the Ones. If they are not like the other ascended beings that you described, how is it that they still had a strong living presence in the realm beyond shadows. Isn't that the same as the ascended plane you spoke of?" asked Luke.
"Ah. No. Good question though, I'm glad you asked it. You see, when a being ascends to the higher planes, there are actual levels if you will of those planes. For simplicity lets leave it at three levels, this one, the material plane, a place in the middle, higher than here but not at the highest plane, then the actual higher plane." said Harry.
"And believe it or not, I've actually encountered another being like this. One that had ascended but for its shall we say bad behavior, was forcibly partially descended by the power of the Other ascended. So, the being lived in between, still as pure energy, not on the higher plane, and still able to partially manifest itself into our material plane." said Harry.
"That is essentially, the same of what happened with the original 'Ones' and 'Abeloth'. In their case it was because of this tear and reaching nearly the same state, from the other direction. You see, the only way to truly ascend to the higher plane is either through your own enlightenment, and a few other secrets of your physical development that I am not supposed to just share whenever I feel like it, so unfortunately can't tell you-you need to develop on your own you see. -or- Another foolproof way is for one of the truly ascended beings to ascend you, to help you along." said Harry.
"Then, until this happened, and even we had no idea this could happen. And, you'll recall, it was because of those people experimenting with a way around the normal ascension process, that we had this 'un-natural' thing that occurred. Wherein they tore a hole directly into the dimension itself, where the higher plane exists. They were neither enlightened enough to ascend, nor were their physical bodies developed to the point it was capable of ascending, so they achieved some kind of mutated possession by the energy itself. Honestly, I'm not sure I want to understand it any better than that. I just want to prevent it from happening again." said Harry.
"So, what about what we call force-ghosts, like when we commune with the spirits of our dead masters and occasionally others like we do when I mind-walk beyond shadows. What are they really?" asked Luke.
"They are actually ascended beings. One's who did make it to the next level naturally, or with help by another ascended being. Now, not to confuse you but, you remember I said to keep it simple lets call it the three levels? Well in actuality there are many more than just three simple levels, or that is more than just one higher plane, and one in between. There are a number of in between levels, all of higher planes than this, and all in which one is considered ascended and living as pure energy." said Harry.
"When one ascends, they are not immediately enlightened enough to ascend to the highest of planes, but they are still living beings of pure energy, and higher than the material. Your force ghosts would be on one of those intermediate higher planes, with potential to ascend even higher over time. I only know this much, I cannot tell you precisely how they achieve that because I don't know or don't remember, or something. I feel like I should know, but other than the basic idea of how it works for some reason I can't explain it better than that. I do know that ascended beings are still, just as many of us are, still endeavoring to ascend even higher." said Harry.
"Anyway, these force-ghosts would be traveling down to the lowest plane possible from wherever they really are, to this plane you call beyond shadows that you can astral project your own soul too, so they can meet you half-way as it were, to commune with you. You see they can travel down to the lower planes easily enough, they just can't ascend higher than they individually are until they are ready to." said Harry.
"You sure seem to know a lot about this stuff. Why is that?" asked Luke.
"Sigh... that is a long story. Ask me again sometime and I might tell you. Also, some of it I've come into by having secret knowledge shared with my that I'm forbidden from sharing. So, I won't cross that line. But, I've given you enough to think about today I think. I will leave you with one final thought, because I suspect you wonder why you can't commune with anyone you want whenever you want, even when you know they have crossed over and ascended. That is because, ascended beings are not supposed to interfere with those of us living on the material plane at all. There are exceptions made, and there are those that break or bend the rules as well. Most of those rules are actually self-imposed by the highest order of ascended beings themselves. Some of it are rules that come from a bit higher up. I just wanted to leave you with that so that you don't frustrate yourself with your efforts in mind-walking. That ability itself is unusual and a rare talent even for people with your abilities or mine." said Harry.
"Okay, thanks. So, can you do that too? Astral project as you called it?" asked Luke.
"Yes, after a fashion. It is a bit different for us. If it makes you feel any better I would say your ability is a bit greater than ours in one way. In that you can reach into one of the higher planes at all and meet the ascended half-way. I've not discovered that ability in my people yet. However, we can astral project our souls to other places actually within the material realm, sort of a soul-walking type of experience wherein we could be almost anywhere else, naturally unknown to others in the material plane." said Harry.
"And as for ghosts. In our world, it is different. We have them, but true ghosts in our world are echoes of the spirits of individuals that have died but refused to move on, and they actually still exist and remain on the material plane, but unseen by everyone except those of us with enough zpe sensitivity to see them and speak to them. But, in that case we are not astral projecting ourselves, we are simply speaking to them in our normal waking material world as easily as you and I are speaking. It is they who are stuck here." said Harry.
"Interesting. So, do you astral project often?" asked Luke.
"Actually no. I've only done it a bit when I was younger and learning and practicing all of my abilities. I don't particularly like the disassociated feeling of it, and it leaves the physical body vulnerable. Just like you were when you mind-walked. I mean I have plenty of very safe places I can do so if I felt the need. But, like I said I don't really enjoy the sensation. And I haven't really any need to do it. It's also not a very common ability to learn among my people. It's just something we are capable of, so if we want to stretch our limits, you know, teach ourselves everything we can do, some of us will try to learn it. But, you wouldn't find it commonly done. In fact we have far easier ways to sneak around invisibly, unseen, unheard, unfelt in the material plane if we want to. Someday I may show you our phase-shifting technology and this handy cloak of invisibility that I have. But, I don't want to completely freak you out all at once." said Harry.
"It might be a bit too late for that my friend. You tell me your race is over sixty million years old and as a people were ancient before our ancients were young. We walk among the stars, true. But, you stride across galaxies, across the universe. I am, for insomuch as I can be at this stage in my career, a bit freaked out." said Luke.
"But, we're still friends and confidantes right?" asked Harry.
"Oh yes, if anything you've earned even more of my trust and admiration. But, still, a bit freaked out. It's not everyday you learn some of the things I just learned." said Luke.
"Great Luke. Let's keep working together. I am sure that over time I will be able to open you up to many more interesting things. As well as the people throughout the galaxy. It's just too unruly and unpredictable now. If we put all of our knowledge into the hands of anyone's reach in this galaxy, think of the wars we'd have then. So, just a little bit at a time, yes?" said Harry.
"Absolutely. I agree. I am honored to be among the first you've shared some of this with. Thank you." said Luke.
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Leia let them know that she and Saba had arranged for Harry to meet with Chief Dorvan to discuss his questions or proposals regarding dealing with Sith.
So, Harry took the lot of them in one of their Destiny cruisers, directly to Coruscant. Because it would only take them a few hours traveling on one of his ships. They met with Chief Dorvan and he seemed open to the ideas but had questions.
"Why are you suddenly so interested in going after Sith?" asked Chief Dorvan.
"The Maw planet where the source of the overly-powerful dark force entity Abeloth was, is secure and will be even more secure soon. The threat of new otherworldly force super-powers, dark or light should be contained going forward. So, I believe now is the time to go on the offensive to find and stamp out those remaining that exist in hiding, who already believe in following the dark and seeking out those methods. Knowing that now there is no large nexus of power capable of supporting them, hiding them, for them to find and exploit." said Harry.
"Essentially, I think that for the first time in a hundred thousand years, the galaxy finally has the dark side, on the run. I think now if we chase the remainder down, we can finally achieve what Luke perceives as the balance of the flow of the force, with the light simply guarding and the dark in retreat and gone for good, at least as any kind of dominant, gathered force. No pun intended." said Harry.
"You really think there are more hidden out there?" asked Chief Dorvan.
"Well, I don't know if word made it back to you yet. But, in our own newly expanded territory, we found an entire planet of ten thousand Sith, calling themselves the "Lost Tribe of Sith." They are actually the group that Grand Master Skywalker encountered on his road to discovering Abeloth and where they picked up their newest recruit from, Vestara Khai who defected from them to help him and his son Ben during those fights. They had been living in secret and in seclusion for about five thousand years until a number of years ago when they suddenly received the means of space travel again. Since then, they do as Sith do, they'd been planning, and readying an army and a fleet of ships, designed to come out into the galaxy and wage war again. We would likely not have discovered them, other than the small force Master Skywalker encountered, until they moved on their full offensive, which appeared to be imminent when I found them. If it weren't for the information that Ms. Khai gave us." said Harry.
"I assume then you've moved to contain them?" asked Chief Dorvan.
"I have. And that is a very good way of describing it, for the time being." said Harry, as he then went on to briefly describe his quarantine of their planet. Their initial attempt to challenge it, and the destruction of their wing of Blastboats.
"So, I inquired of the senior Jedi, about what they knew of other past Sith strongholds. They tell me that the GA government, nor any of its predecessors would have the resources for a campaign of that nature. But, I am willing to foot the entire bill and take care of it directly. I want to see the Sith and all evil and dark forces put down. You could say that ever since I was born, dark lords have been my specialty." said Harry.
"Very well. I was nearly convinced of the efficacy of this argument and approach by former Chief's Solo and Sebatyne in the first place. I will agree with you conditionally, in that as you and the Jedi discover worlds and territories that are ostensibly in GA space, but as you say, untamed and unpoliced by us, that you believe you want to take control over for this purpose. That you consult with this office first, so that we can agree with you in consensus before you act in any permanent way. Until then, you have our leave to go to those places and conduct your investigations; and of course use force to defend yourselves as prudent. I will take this proposal to the Senate. Given the current mood regarding the Jedi and the force in general, I think they will approve, with the stipulation I mentioned." replied Chief Dorvan.
"Thank you Chief. I look forward to working with your government in partnership on this." replied Harry, diplomatically, shaking the Chief's hand.
"Yes. Thank you Wynn. We appreciate it. I think with Emperor Potter's help we might actually get this galaxy well and cleaned up for good this time." said Luke, shaking Chief Dorvan's hand.
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With that ball rolling, Harry returned everyone to Atropos, where the next stop would be everyone's planned attendance at the wedding of the century. Jedi Master Jaina Solo, called 'The Sword of the Jedi,' to Jagged Fel, Chief of State of the Imperial Remnant. Chief Fel was about to hand over his Head of State position to former Admiral Vitor Reige, the first democratically-elected Head of State of the Imperial Remnant after Fel dropped out of a three-way contest with Natasi Daala. The wedding would take place aboard the Hapan Battle Dragon, Dragon Queen II, a few weeks later. Harry and Hermione attended both as State guests and as friends of the family of the bride.
The End
of Part One
-currently, I do plan a Part Two. But I might take a break from this story for a while to work on, finish, and publish a couple others that have been languishing on my computer for a few months.
Epilogue:
Not too much so as not to spoil Part Two.
1. Harry will go on to secure and round up all the Sith. Including the One Sith on Korriban. Along the way he rolls up a little more territory in the galaxy that becomes part of the AE. He tucks the Sith he finds all away on Kesh, using it as a Sith and other dark-side force users, penal colony planet from there forward. A move that becomes very popular with the galaxy. Not so much on Kesh itself.
2. After some period of time, something happens :-) and Jagged Fel resumes headship of the Imperial Remnant and is named Emperor, the first in a long line of Emperor's of the new Fel Empire and Fel dynasty.
3. Vestara Khai never betrays the order and Ben and they end up getting married. Now you know in my AU where Ben's line comes from going forward.
4. Allana goes on to have an interesting future of her own.
5. Harry locks up the Maw tight, just like he said. It doesn't become a problem again. Abeloth and the Ones truly are dead.
6. The Avalon Empire stabilizes, and both within Triangulum and the rest of the Local Group of galaxies a golden age ensues.
-How far into the future will I start Part Two? I don't know, but obviously there will be come time skip.
-Will I finally get around to adding arc's like Mass Effect and other games, or stuff I've repeatedly said no to because I don't know enough about any of them to do it any justice? No. Unless-I decide to try a reality bending route, but I still swear that if I try that, I will not be able to do justice to those other worlds that I do not know enough about. So, don't hold your breath.
A/N:
-The activities of the "Lost Tribe of the Sith" will be entirely AU now. Forget what you saw them do in SWEU if I didn't already use some of it. They are up to their assholes in alligators now that Harry is on their case.
-Abeloth is dead ahead of schedule from fanon, so the events where she impersonated Senator Rokari Kem and that entire conspiracy never happened. In my story, Luke and company got to her a little ahead of schedule and put paid to anything else she had cooking. The Kesh never got attacked by Abeloth either. Vestara Khai never had a chance on Coruscant to redeem herself to the Kesh Sith by betraying the Jedi Order, so she is still on the run from them; and as I said in the mini-epilogue, remains true to the Jedi and Ben.
-None of the things stated in SWEU from 127 ABY happened, with the possible exception of the birth of key individuals. The Ossus project never happened because the AE took care of it. Therefore there was no Sith-Imperial War, and no rising of the One Sith, since they've been in Kesh jail for a long time already.
-Where the SWEU AU goes from here in my story, therefore will be entirely made up. I hope you don't hate it. But, if you do, I'm sorry? I hope to show a little of the future of characters that just dropped out of the SWEU story after 44 ABY. But, other than the characters themselves, what I do with them is entirely me from now on, obviously. Also, when I do Part Two, I hope to get back to the other, non-Star Wars stuff; and possibly some other new stuff.
-The Freedom Flight slave uprisings in Klatooine and Blaudu Sextus never happened since they are in AE space, so for continuity we shall just say that the necessary SWEU equivalent events happened elsewhere in GA space so that their overall subsequent political events occurred as normal. (The where and how is not important to this story because it's just not...just the result...Mandolarans acted as mercenaries for Daala, Daala got coup'd, Fett broke her out along with Tahiri who goes on to become Jagged Fel's 'Hand'...who knows if we'll see any of them again in my story ;-).