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THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO THE EMPEROR'S SHADOW, WHERE PALPATINE HAS A FAR MORE INSIDUOUS ROLE FOR HER THAN SIMPLY GUARDING HIM AS A BRAINWASHED GUARDIAN SLAVE. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF IT, AS USUAL.
THE EMPEROR'S SHADOW:
THE BLACK QUEEN
PART ONE: PROLOGUE
I am the Emperor's Shadow.
My role is simple: I stand as the silent guardian to His Imperial Highness, the Emperor Palpatine. I am his last line of defence, and his most effective form of protection. I am also a puppet dancing on his strings, his plaything and pet…my own identity utterly buried, my mind trapped inside the worst prison possible, and my body completely enslaved to his will. He is my Master, and through a technological monstrosity imbued with an experimental serum and some powerful Sith magic, I am helpless to resist his every whim, conditioned to obey and shaped to follow his orders. It is a fate that my previous self would not have dreamed possible in her worst nightmares…
I was formerly known as Padme' Amidala, former Queen and Senator of Naboo. Wife of Anakin Skywalker, and mother to his children. I did not die at the end of the Clone Wars, as has been declared by Imperial propaganda, but I in fact am very much alive. However, my ordeal at the hands of the Emperor following the declaration of the New Order has left me an unwilling slave, my body controlled by the Emperor through the force using a special serum that leaves my body susceptible to control. My mind is still my own, but it is locked inside my head-able to witness my new thought processes and actions but never able to participate.
I have already elaborated about how I was kidnapped and fitted with this infernal mind control device. I have detailed my year of hell at the Royal Guard Training Academy, being victimised by a truly callous Chief Instructor on the orders of the Emperor and being beaten to within an inch of my life on a daily basis. Having survived that ordeal, and being subject to the Emperor's manipulation along the way, I spoke of how I was clad in all-concealing armour that utterly destroyed my identity and transformed me into a faceless nightmare at the Emperor's side. Finally, I revealed that I was not only forced to witness my own funeral procession, but that I am addicted to the serum and can no longer function without it due to the length of time that I have been using the serum. I have been transformed from a senator to a monster in the new Imperial regime. A nightmarish monster clad in black armour that makes me look even more imposing physically than I actually am, a cloak that shrouds me in darkness, and a helmet equipped with a voice changer so that I do not even sound like myself. That was the story of the death of Padme' Amidala, and the rise of The Emperor's Shadow.
But that story has been told…
No, this story is the story of how I ceased to be simply a faceless watcher at the Emperor's side and became an instrument of his will, spreading terror and bloodshed across the galaxy. This story will tell of how the Emperor perverted my skills and beliefs as a Senator, and turned me into a tyrant-the type of monster that I had fought so viciously against all of my career. This is the story of how the Emperor used me as his personal tool to subjugate his own homeworld…my own homeworld. This story will tell you how Naboo was viciously crushed under the Imperial heel, and of my part in the whole nightmare. The next chapter in my forced career as an Imperial agent…
This is the story of how Naboo, having already rebelled against the new Imperial regime and been put to the lightsabre by the Dark Lord of the Sith known (and feared) galaxy-wide as Darth Vader, was subjected to the tyrannical rule of another shadowy nightmare figure when they gained the strength and courage to attempt to throw off the yoke of Imperial tyranny. This is how that figure cut a bloody swathe through Naboo society as she firmly established Naboo as an Imperial stronghold, leading the Rebellion on that planet to slaughter along the way.
This is the story of the first Imperial queen. The much-despised Imperial ruler of Naboo.
Her rise to power, her bloody reign of terror and how she brought Naboo to its knees.
Her Shadow Angels, a waking nightmare for all on the planet…especially for me.
How she defiled not only my legacy but that of the entire Monarchy of Naboo…
And how I was forced to reign as a tyrant queen over my own people.
The Black Queen…