Palpatine:
15 years after my performance during Black Sun's invasion of Naboo I retired from the Naboo military as a general to move into active politics. I had successfully convinced their government to increase the planet's military so that they could never again come close to total defeat like that. I set myself up initially as an office worker for the council of the City of Kaidal. Setting myself up as a candidate, I was soon selected as their Parliamentary Representative. A further 6 years after that I became Governor of the State of Tharala.
Syfo Dyas, One year before Palpatine's rise to the rank of Governor
I didn't need an invitation. I somehow knew that Arna Kenobi's wife Jaralla was due to give birth to a son. However I may not be gong to meet with a happy occasion in this case. I could foresee the deaths of both the mother and the child, due to their insistence on having a natural birth and not allowing the use of any modern medical technology.
As I reached the Birthing Hall in the Krelli Village they would obviously not let me in but I believed I could influence things from afar. The presence of a life that was about to merge into two lives caused a very strong surge ion the force, and I was able to concentrate on this and focus on the energies created by the midichlorians in the mother and child's DNA to strengthen the life force in them.
The hour arrived and Bail Kenobi greeted me at the entrance and took us to where the mother was resting.
She was too tired to speak but Arna told me how they feared they would lose the child, and so had chose to name the baby after a word that in an old Naboo language meant "miracle"…
Obi-Wan.
Palpatine, 3 years after the birth of Obi-Wan Kenobi:
I knew the time had some to cause a crisis in the Republic to move my plans further. The Republic only seemed to hide its ineffectiveness by simply not even trying to make any major achievement or advance any cause. This time they would be forced to deal with the situation, and flounder.
The former, well, former in the eyes of the Republic that is, Mandalorian world of Concord Dawn would be where the seeds of dissension would begin. Here I arranged a supposedly diplomatic mission between myself Tralkor Sennus, who was the President of their world's largest alliance of nations and was tipped to be their first world leader in a proposed world government. I however would offer him something much greater. The chance to become leader of the 82 reunited Mandalorian worlds. It may have seemed impossible for this small number of worlds to pull off from the much greater Republic. Many of their citizens saw the Mandalorian era as an old legend of the past, and on a full scale war the 82 world would be like a feather against a hurricane when compared to the Republic.
The main motivation for wanting to form their own empire was due to their glory days thousands of years ago, which ended in a war between the Mandalorians and the Republic, in which the Mandalorians were defeated. It was a small, but string, minority who would do anything to go back to their Golden Age. Another obvious advantage would be the fact that the Jedi would be their mortal enemy, with them having playing such a big part in the fall of the Mandalorians. And the enemy of my enemy would be what I would consider a friend.
I however would advise him on how the right attacks in the right places would cave the Republic in. Two of his top generals, Jaster Mereel and Jingar Fett, backed me up on this and convinced him this would be possible.
Syfo Dyas:
By this time I had become a well-respected Jedi Master and had been made a member of the Jedi council.
In the Jedi temple I was duelling with Jorus C'Baoth when a crystalline aircraft that didn't seem to be designed for air travel at all appeared at the window. Before anything untoward could happen I was able to telekinetically activate the Temple's shields and as the craft fired into the shield ineffectively the anti-aircraft cannon swung round but could not lock onto this target. Fighters were scrambled but this... thing was able to outmanoeuvre even the best Jedi pilots.
I raced to where the gun turret was and knocked the Jedi on guard out of the way. I knew that he was avoiding operating the cannon as it had to point towards where the main city was, and so would cause much damage if it were to miss. But I knew I could make this shot count. I fire just below the ship's engine and it its crew bailed out as it crashed into the ground. It looked like they were quite ready for a pitched battle though as they all had jetpacks and was making their way to the upper floors. Outside the Q-wing fighters were successfully engaging the other Mandalorian fighters but again, pretty much every ship was spitting out a bunch of jetpack-equipped warriors.
I abandoned the cannon and went to where 3 of them were cutting their way in through one of the upper windows. As soon as I got in the room there was already one Jedi that had died failing to block the Mandalorian's blaster bolts, even though he was only up against three of them. I had a better chance against them though. Whilst telekinetically chocking one of the three to death, I threw one of my sabres at another one, successfully impaling him, and after blocking several shots form the remaining one, disabled his two blaster pistols with one stroke then beheaded him with the other.
Meanwhile I sensed Naria was in danger. By the time I got to her she had failed to clock one of the blast bolts from one warrior and took the shot in the chest. This warrior was one I would later find out was called Jaster Mereel. As I threw one of my sabres at him he flew out of the way and retreated out of sight but I now was more concerned with the fate of Naria. I was able with the force of will to cause tissue from other area of the body to break down and migrate towards the chest would and reconstruct themselves where they were needed. She was still unconscious from the trauma at the end of this, but she would survive.
The surviving Mandalorians retreated to an escape ship, which hurtled off before anyone could target and destroy it. They had succeeded in killing 51 Jedi that day, compared to 31 Mandalorian casualties.
The Mandalorians announced in a Holonet broadcast that the fact they could take on Jedi in this was a demonstration of what they were capable of, and that there would be further attacks unless the Republic recognised the Mandalorians as a separate Empire.
The Mandalorians would never have any chance in an all-out war against the Republic, especially as only a minority from their worlds were really interested in the cause but the problem was that the loudest public critics were very anti-war and would condemn nearly any Republican response, diminishing their potential to deal with any insurgency.
The Republic rejected the Mandalorians' demands, but only just, but Sidious and I would ensure that the Mandalorians' cause would soon advance no further.
Darth Sidious, 7 years later:
For all that they are great warriors and strategists, some of the Mandalorians are so weak-minded. I had allowed plans to get into their hands that Naboo were preparing an invasion of Concord Dawn to end the war. Naboo had, after all, had a major military upgrade under my instructions. They would conclude at this that I had betrayed them, but I now no longer needed their co-operation.
This would end in a war, which would bring down the Mandalorians, but at the same time weaken the Republic.
As this would result in the deaths of many of their warriors, we had already extracted DNA from many of their greatest warriors such as Jaster Mereel and Jingar Fett, with view to using it to create a clone army with the assistance of the scientists from Kamino, however the one to watch may be Jingar's 14-year-old trainee son, Jango, who seemed to be a new rising star. We would have to make sure he survived this battle.
A cloaked destroyer ship arrived in orbit and I arranged to meet with Jingar Fett to sort out the crisis but he was rather shocked when as soon as my shuttle docked all their monitors malfunctioned and they were even more shocked after I exited the shuttle and within fractions of a second I drew my sabre out and hacked all his bodyguards to pieces, finally beheading him. By the time any other troops had arrived I had already put on Fett's armour, and programmed the shuttle to return to Naboo on autopilot, and I was able to snare their minds to convince them I was indeed Jingar Fett. I instructed them that Naboo had betrayed the Mandalorians, and to start their invasion.
When the invasion arrived, it consisted of a largely atmospheric invasion, consisting mainly of their crystalline warships but also a few new shuttled-sized ships that looked very awkward in shape, but could manoeuvre better than virtually any other ship I had seen.
Our destroyer ship descended near the Krelli village, where we would come off the ship and act as shock troops to attack the Krelli, who the Mandalorians, like Black Sun before them, believed them to be Jedi elite, whereas my own motivation was to wipe out any organisation that would oppose the Sith in any way.
I was surprised that Jaster Mereel had brought Jingar's son with him to fight. Jango was wearing a special youth-sized armour suit, but as yet was not equipped with a jetpack. The Mandalorians started slaughtering everyone in the village but then I knew I couldn't join in this fight too long, as I sensed that tremor in the force that one again my accursed master Plagueis had got wind of this invasion and arrived on the planet to intervene. As I retreated, Jaster saw me trying to escape and seemed to be catching on that I wasn't who I appeared to be. As he started shooting at me I drew my sabre to block the bolts, and then used my jetpack to fly round him and impale him in the back of the neck, and then I flew off towards the hangar bays of the nearest city, Cheelis.
In the hangar bays I changed into a flight suit and boarder on the new N-1 fighters. As I took off I was being pursued by one of their new ships. This fighter would seemingly have no chance against one of their new advance d ships but I was skilled enough to allow to chase me while I analysed it's movements, and it seemed when it was at a certain angle there was a delay in its acceleration, so once it was at this angle I felt behind it and shot out its 4 engines. Once it has lost its engines it was easy to shoot out its shield generators then fire 2 proton missiles at it, disintegrating both it and its crew.
This day would succeed in undermining both sides of the conflict. It would highlight how the Republic was ineffective in dealing with the Mandalorian threat, and the warriors of Naboo. I would once again be able to present myself as a hero in the situation. But considering the years I invested in this plan, it was never as effective as I'd hoped, and it looked as if I would have to turn to manipulating the Commercial Alliance for my main phase of the plan.
Darth Plagueis:
The armoured warriors were slaughtering everyone in the village. My only chance would be to save the Kenobi family. I was too late. When I reached their apartment 2 of these cowardly warriors had fired shots into Bail, Jaina, Arna, Jaralla and Obi-wan. Before any more damage could be done I cleaved both soldiers in half but I knew I could only save one of the five wounded, so I chose the younger one, obi-Wan. Another Mandalorian came into the room but before I could react, Obi-Wan made one of the sabres I had left on the floor float into his hand and stabbed the warrior in the chest. For now I let him keep hold of the sabre, as he would need all the protection he could get.
We fought our way through some of the warriors – we encountered far less resistance than we expected – and used an abandoned air taxi to take us to Cheelis. Fortunately we were able to get hold of an unarmed transport because with the Mandalorians being beaten back so quickly, there had been very little in the way of an evacuation. Once again I was able to fool any security system into allowing me to take the ship.
I had to make my decision on the fate of Obi-Wan. After years serving in the Jedi order, albeit as a double agent, I was beginning to think that they were the least of a multitude of evils, so I chose to take him to the Jedi temple on Coruscant.
Obi-Wan had been told by his family, against the Krelli code, about the outside world but he was very startled when he encountered Yoda.
"Hmm, Force sense I in you," Yoda said to him, "but situation familiar to you not. Of Coruscant, what think you?"
"Well, it's big, and doesn't look real," Obi-Wan replied, " and why do you talk backwards?"
"All tales not make sense always when you hear the beginning before the end", Yoda replied, and turned round to me "Trained as a Jedi you wish him? Too old, do you not think him?"
"He has learned much in the Force under the Krelli order." I used the same lie as I used when I convinced them to allow me into the Jedi order.
After a debate shorter than I feared Yoda finally accepted the challenge to take on Obi-Wan as one of the younglings. In time either Yoda or another master would take him on as an apprentice, and form there would fulfil his destiny.