Blue Waters: episode #8 The Story in the Senate and the
Destruction of the Trade Federation
Previously: Anakin has now met his father and
brothers. But this is not all that went
on last episode, oh no. Darth Sidious has
now heard of the Slave raid on Tatooine and instructs Arawn to keep a close
watch on the young man named Anakin Skywalker.
"Arawn, you are
dismissed."
Arawn bows, then leaves. Sidious is left alone in his office. Now for a flashback: Supreme Chancellor Palpatine gets ready for
yet another Senate meeting. Although
Tatooine is no longer in the Republic, there was much talk about the Slave
raids. Palpatine had not heard of this
event, he had his mind wrapped up in other thoughts.
"Everyone please…" he attempted to get attention, but it took 10 minutes
for everyone to quiet down.
The Jedi were again represented at this meeting. Palpatine wished they weren't present. It made Palpatine sweat every time he saw a
Jedi…especially ever since he was elected Supreme Chancellor…he was always
afraid they'd see something, but they never did.
Mace Windu stepped forward, "We have
still not discovered this other Sith, and we know he still lives there is an
unbalance in the Force. Although he has
not shown himself, we still feel threatened boy this."
Palpatine knew he couldn't let the
subject slip this time, there was far too much at stake…he was so much closer
now to the goal.
"Fine," Palpatine says. "I'll set aside a time to meet with you
about the matter. I'm not going to
waste precious time talking about it in one of our Senate sessions, though."
Mace Windu accepted this. "All
right," he said.
Then someone said, "He was only a
Jedi-in-Training."
This got Palpatine's attention.
"What are you babbling about?"
Even though this was no Senate matter, no one objected to it, including
the Supreme Chancellor himself.
"Anakin Skywalker freed all the slaves
on Tatooine."
Palpatine sat back.
"Anakin Skywalker?"
The last time the Chancellor had seen Anakin was 9 years ago after
Obi-Wan had just taken him on as an apprentice. Little by little different people told the story. One thing Palpatine was certain of was that
this boy had the potential to become a very powerful Jedi.
Palpatine said to himself, "I'm definitely
going to have to look into this…"
Then they moved onto other issues, but
Palpatine's mind remained on Anakin.
The rest of the episode is devoted to Arawn. Sidious had given him the task of hunting down and killing the
Trade Federation. This was not beyond
Arawn's skills. Since this is not a
major event in Blue Waters, I will not go into much detail, but his event is
necessary. The Trade Federation had fallen apart after what had happened on
Naboo. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine
himself forbade them to have it anymore.
But Arawn had known what Darth Sidious meant when he had told him to get
rid of the Trade Federation: he had
meant the people who had actually been involved in The Deal: Nute Gunray and Rune Haako. Arawn had heard of them making comments
about the Sith.
"Well, Sidious will no longer have to worry about them."
So, Arawn went ahead, after locating the two, and killed
them. No one missed them, since there
was no Trade Federation any longer, and they were prisoners anyway, serving
time on that planet. Palpatine had sent
them away to a prison camp, but he wasn't sure where. It hadn't taken Arawn that long to compile a list of possible
places, provided by Darth Sidious, and to find out which ones. And now to Arawn's other mission: Princess Samantha. Samantha had adjusted well to living on Coruscant with her Royal
family after being queen of Naboo.
Samantha was now 23 years old, and she had grown to be among the
prettiest females in the galaxy. But
because she was in the Royal Jedi family, many guys came to her in hopes for
money and because she was a beautiful princess. She didn't go for any of them.
Tim and Sally Jedi were kind of nervous about this, because they wanted
her to carry on the family line.
Samantha's parents wouldn't let her marry just anyone…it needed to be
someone rich…this is because they cared about their family image in front of
the public. She wouldn't have to marry
a prince or king, just someone rich.
And Arawn fell into that category; he knew…Darth Sidious paid him
extremely well. The only problem is
that Samantha did not share this view.
She only wanted love. Often
times these types of people her parents wanted her to marry lacked love,
consideration, compassion, and everything she wanted in a guy, which Arawn is
just about to find out.
