Chapter 3: Through the restless nights
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant, Imperial Palace
Emperor Anakin Solo the first paced around the main hall. He was anxiously specting the courier from Yavin 4, he felt through the force that the discovery was going to change the course of the history of the Galaxy forever.
As he pondered, he began reminiscing about how it all and they had come to the present situation. How he watched both his parents struggled valiantly and against all odds to keep the new republic together and make life better for its citizens and how eternal gridlock in the republic's senate kept anything from moving forward and finally to see how members of the senate conspired and carried out an assassination against his beloved parents and his uncle Luke, to this day he could remember as if it was yesterday the horrible explosion that took the lives of his loved ones.
The despicable incident plunged the galaxy yet again into civil war. At the end of which his faction had come out victorious but not without losses. It was almost too much to bear, The senate's ineptitude led to the death of Chewie during the conflict with the Vong, followed by the insane betrayal that killed his next of kin and in the civil war Lowie Chewie's nephew was also killed. So he dissolved the senate and proceeded to decree just about everything his parents wanted but never got to see. He abolished slavery throughout the galaxy and made sure that just about every sentient being would have a chance at education and health care. All the planets would retain true autonomy with the caveat that they would not support outlawed practices and of course pay taxes for education, health services and military.
Military... Although he knew he had to keep a strong military he did not encourage the building and development of weapons of mass destruction such as Death Stars and World Devastators in fact he outlawed it, though he kept at least 2 world devastators just in case somebody didn't get the message about his wishes on the matter. He would unleash them upon the construction site without a blink. And to make it clearer to the offenders the reprocessed materials would be for civilian use.
So his rise to power had been diametrically different to that of Palpatine. Where as Palpatine had orquestrated just about every mayor incident that lead to his rise to power, from the invasion of his home world by the Trade Federation to the Clone Wars. Circumstances had determined Anakin's own rise to power.
And Palpatine had been a true Egomaniac building lavish palaces and while he allowed some autonomy to the galaxy's worlds. He had been taxing them to death for his excessive military investment and WMD programs.
And that made him admired and loved by a large number of the galaxy's population. But keeping a galaxy wide health/education program was not without a strain. So there nearly just as many that were not happy with his social reforms.
Anakin though that some sacrifices were needed for the greater good and if health and education were not worth it, then he did not know what could be.
His thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of the courier he thanked the StormTrooper and ordered him to take a well deserved R&R. Then he proceeded to his chamber to play the awaited HoloRecording.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
Tenel Ka was awakened by a StormTrooper "What is it"
"We have figured how to activate the device milady"
"I'm on my way."
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant, Imperial Palace
Emperor Anakin Solo the first paced around the main hall. He was anxiously specting the courier from Yavin 4, he felt through the force that the discovery was going to change the course of the history of the Galaxy forever.
As he pondered, he began reminiscing about how it all and they had come to the present situation. How he watched both his parents struggled valiantly and against all odds to keep the new republic together and make life better for its citizens and how eternal gridlock in the republic's senate kept anything from moving forward and finally to see how members of the senate conspired and carried out an assassination against his beloved parents and his uncle Luke, to this day he could remember as if it was yesterday the horrible explosion that took the lives of his loved ones.
The despicable incident plunged the galaxy yet again into civil war. At the end of which his faction had come out victorious but not without losses. It was almost too much to bear, The senate's ineptitude led to the death of Chewie during the conflict with the Vong, followed by the insane betrayal that killed his next of kin and in the civil war Lowie Chewie's nephew was also killed. So he dissolved the senate and proceeded to decree just about everything his parents wanted but never got to see. He abolished slavery throughout the galaxy and made sure that just about every sentient being would have a chance at education and health care. All the planets would retain true autonomy with the caveat that they would not support outlawed practices and of course pay taxes for education, health services and military.
Military... Although he knew he had to keep a strong military he did not encourage the building and development of weapons of mass destruction such as Death Stars and World Devastators in fact he outlawed it, though he kept at least 2 world devastators just in case somebody didn't get the message about his wishes on the matter. He would unleash them upon the construction site without a blink. And to make it clearer to the offenders the reprocessed materials would be for civilian use.
So his rise to power had been diametrically different to that of Palpatine. Where as Palpatine had orquestrated just about every mayor incident that lead to his rise to power, from the invasion of his home world by the Trade Federation to the Clone Wars. Circumstances had determined Anakin's own rise to power.
And Palpatine had been a true Egomaniac building lavish palaces and while he allowed some autonomy to the galaxy's worlds. He had been taxing them to death for his excessive military investment and WMD programs.
And that made him admired and loved by a large number of the galaxy's population. But keeping a galaxy wide health/education program was not without a strain. So there nearly just as many that were not happy with his social reforms.
Anakin though that some sacrifices were needed for the greater good and if health and education were not worth it, then he did not know what could be.
His thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of the courier he thanked the StormTrooper and ordered him to take a well deserved R&R. Then he proceeded to his chamber to play the awaited HoloRecording.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
Tenel Ka was awakened by a StormTrooper "What is it"
"We have figured how to activate the device milady"
"I'm on my way."