GALEN
Q'SON
Q'son (Kah-sun) is a planet in the Quinar system on the edge of the Outer Rim. The planet has the weirdest geographical landscape in the entire Galaxy. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter happen all year round on the planet at the same time. The planet is divided into four quadrants by fifty-foot gorges that go down to the planet's core. A fog rises up covering the gorges. The Northwest side is mountainous and it snows. The Northeast side is all forest and is Fall all year round. The Southeast side is summer like and desert terrain. The Southwest side is full of tropical islands and is always like Spring.
The Rebels have a secret base on the Southwest side. It is just one of several cell-bases they have all over the outerrim. After defeating Darth Vader Starkiller's clone remembers the name his parents gave him. Galen Marek, Jedi Master and Colonel of the Rebel Alliance. There are many in the Alliance who do not trust him because he is a clone, but Juno Eclipse and General Ramh Kota vouch for Galen and there is the fact that he captured Darth Vader.
Galen lies in bed next to Juno. He watches her as she sleeps. Then he feels a disturbance in the force, a presence similar to his and that of the original Galen's force essence. He gets out of bed as he is assaulted with images of confusion, death, and finally resolve. An hour passes by when he is joined by Juno.
"Are you alright?"
He sighs, "I…I felt a disturbance in the force."
"The Emperor?"
"No! A clone of Star…Galen."
"I thought you said all the clones died in the battle."
"I did."
"And we searched the city before we left."
"Maybe we missed one."
"Maybe you are mistaken."
He shakes his head and walks away from her, "I am not."
She joins him on the couch, "What do you want to do?"
Before he can answer his name is called over the COM system. "Colonel Marek…Commander Eclipse please report to command center…Colonel Marek…Commander Eclipse please report to command center."
"What is going on?" Juno asks when they enter together.
"General Nadine is arriving Ma'am…With override command orders."
"Welcome to Q-Base General…What can we do for you?"
"Is there somewhere we can talk privately?" They lead him to a conference room. "The Prisoner…has he said anything?"
"Not a word since after Dantooine."
"The Alliance High Council wants him moved to Polis Massa."
"Why? We were put in charge of this operation."
He sighs, "What do you know about Vader?"
"Not much…" Galen says. "Vader taught me to hate and use the Darkside of the Force…He never spoke of private things to me or the original Galen."
"Just tell us General." Juno says.
"Before he was Darth Vader…He was Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker…He betrayed the Jedi. As the war started Anakin Skywalker broke one of his vows…He married Senator Padme Amidala. She died in childbirth."
"So."
Galen had been training under General Ramh Kota. So he starts to understand the General's intentions. "You are hoping Vader will sense her death there through the force and get him to talk."
Nadine looks at Galen, "That is our hope."
"And what if this doesn't work?"
"You are ordered to kill him."
General Ramh Kota is standing guard at the door of the room where Darth Vader is being held. The ceiling of the hallway is lined with automated guns. There are a hundred heavily armed troops lining the hallway as well. He stands up as Galen and Juno approach. "Galen what is going on?" He tells him. "Are you insane? Whose crazy idea is this?"
"King Organa's and Mon Mothma's…"
"I strongly protest. What if this doesn't work."
"I have orders to execute him." Galen speaks into his COM device, "Control go to lock down and switch off all internal Cameras…"
"Copy that sir."
To enter Vader's cell Galen and Kota have to place their hands on two separate hand scanners. The doors open and then a second set of doors. There are turret guns on the ceiling and floor pointing at Vader who is imprisoned in a graviton restrainer. The hover pad is turned on and they float the Prisoner through the base to a private hangar where Galen's ship the Rogue Shadow is being kept. They place Vader on board, do a flight check and take off with Galen, Juno, and Kota on board.
POLIS MASSA
VADER
No matter what they did to him Vader would not speak. Neither did he try to escape, because he lost his lightsaber and his right hand had been severed in his fight with Starkiller. He didn't even speak when they turned off his respirator. The Rebels were smart to move him every three weeks from base to base. Despite all his force power he could never tell what system he was in. He was never allowed to see the sky or stars.
As they removed him from the Rogue Shadow Vader could sense life all around him. But he also felt something else as they moved him through the base they passed through the medical facility. That is where Vader felt it; an echo in the force of her…
"Anakin! Is he alive? Obi-Wan there is still good in him…" He sees the long dead wife of Anakin Skywalker Padme Amidala. He sees his Old Master Obi-Wan Kenobi…And he sees a baby. "Luke!" Padme names him…
"You felt something didn't you?" Galen asks. "Padme Amidala." He says her name trying to get a reaction out of him. Vader's anger rises, but he does not lash out. He remains quiet behind his mask staring with hatred at his creation. "I didn't know you had a wife or should I say Anakin Skywalker had a wife…And she died here of a broken heart." Vader remains quiet, "You have fallen so far that you don't even acknowledge she ever lived."
Galen starts to walk away, "When I get out of here I will kill you and the girl."
Galen stops without looking back, "You fought my father Galen Marek…You fought me and both times you lost."
"My son…Luke…I have a son." Vader mentally says to himself. "And Obi-Wan hid him from me…Very wise Obi-Wan…But you have failed and I will find my son."
BOBA FETT
He is known as the deadliest Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy. When Boba Fett goes after a target he never fails to bring in a bounty he is after. And even though there is no bounty Boba knows that he will be handsomely rewarded for rescuing Darth Vader. He will succeed where Sith Inquisitors have failed. "They move him every three weeks from base to base…I know of three rebel cell bases…" An informant had told him, "One is on Polis Massa…Another on Practuss and one on Lothal."
Fett shot the informant so that he would not sell his information to an Inquisitor. He knew the Rebels would not take Vader to Lothal. It is heavily occupied by Imperial troops. He waited on Practuss for nine weeks and after slicing into Rebel communications learned that General Nadine was on his way to Q'son. He follows the Rogue Shadow to Polis Massa.
Fett had been cloned from his father Jango Fett. His father died in an arena on Geonosis at the start of the Clone Wars. Boba had been on his own ever since. He tried to get revenge on the Jedi who murdered his father and was captured. He was taken to a maximum security facility, but escaped after two years. Boba lands his ship on the far side of the Asteroid. He exits his ship Slave I, activates his personal cloaking device and flies across the Asteroid towards the base.
After scanning the base, Boba locates Vader and the main power generator. He plants a bomb on the generator and makes his way to Vader's cell. He scans the interior before making his move. Vader is surrounded by auto-turrets and is held a graviton restrainer. There is a double door that needs two hand scan IDs to open and then a hundred men in the hallway outside. There is another man, Galen Marek armed with two lightsabers.
Of all the force wielders in the Galaxy this clone of Starkiller is the only one who can go toe to toe with Darth Vader. "Shit!" Boba says. Knocking out the generator will hold Starkiller back for a while. Problem was Vader's hand had been severed. "Here goes nothing." Boba presses the button to blow the bomb on the main generator. The base goes dark, the artificial gravity is turned off along with life support and communications.
Boba blows a hole into Vader's cell just as he uses the force to free himself from the graviton restrainer. "I think this belongs to you." He says handing him his lightsaber. Boba had recovered it on Kamino before he left to track Vader down. The door to his cell starts to open as Galen Marek uses the force to open it.
"Come we need to get out of here." Boba says. He is ignored as Vader ignites his lightsaber using his left hand.
JUNO
She is on the floor in her room gasping for air. The door is forced open by Kota and gives her a breathing mask. "Are you alright?"
"Yes where is Galen?"
"He was guarding Vader…"
"We have to help him!"
"Galen can take care of himself."
BOBA
Galen points his hand at Boba grabbing him in the force and throws him into the wall. He is slow to get up as Vader and Galen start fighting. "I really hate Jedi…" Boba says aiming his rocket and firing it. It explodes behind Galen knocking him off his feet. This allows Vader to cut off Galen's arms.
"I see now it was mistake to create you."
"And I made a mistake allowing you to live…"
"The Jedi were always weak fools…"
"Strike me down…But know this…It is not over!"
Vader raises his saber and swings, Galen's body vanishes, "What happened to him? Boba asks joining Vader.
"He is one with the force now?" Vader replies walking off.
"Where are you going?"
"Ramh Kota and the woman still live…A mistake I intend to correct…"
Reluctantly Boba follows him through the base. There is little to no resistance as many are suffocating from a lack of oxygen. When they reach the hangar the Rogue Shadow is gone. Vader unleashes a force wave destroying the hangar and half the base. "Where is your ship?" He asks looking at Boba.
He presses a button on his arm gauntlet, "It's on the way."
MAANAAN
The Selkath of Manaan are split on support of the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. There is a Rebel safehouse of Maanaan's ocean floor for Rebels. It is here that Rogue Shadow lands in the underwater base. "What happened?" Mon Mothma asks via holonet.
"We were hit…The main generator was blown up."
"And Vader…"
"We just received word from a survivor from Polis…Vader has escaped."
"Damn!"
"My lady…Galen Marek is dead…I felt him die in the force." Ramh Kota says.
"Then we lost our only hope of defeating Vader and his Emperor."
King Bail Organa is online as well, "All is not lost Senator…There is another."
"Of whom do you speak?" Kota asks.
"It is classified General…"
After speaking to Mon Mothma and Bail Organa Juno pulls Ramh on the side, "I have something to tell you."
"What?"
VADER'S FORTRESS
Boba Fett is handsomely rewarded after Vader's hand is repaired by Med-Droids. Then Vader cleans himself and contacts the Emperor. "Lord Vader you survived." He says via hologram.
"Thanks to the Bounty Hunter Boba Fett."
"And Starkiller's clone?"
"Dead!"
"Good…I want you to head for Kamino…Make sure none of the clones survived. A report came in that a ship was stolen and several Stormtroopers were found dead."
"I will leave at once my Master." Vader did not tell Darth Sidious about his son. He wanted to find Luke, turn him and then together they could overthrow Palpatine.