Dark Legacy 1

20 years before the Battle of Yavin 4

Utapau

The holoimage flickered. "Where did you find the body?" The cloaked man asked.

"On the landing platform, where his ship should have been." The clone trooper said. He hoped for his life that the cloaked man was not angry at him. If he did, he knew he would not survive to see the next morning. "It must have been his ship we detected right before it entered hyperspace."

"Yes, that is what it must have been." The image said. "Where is the body now?"

"We have retrieved it and locked it up."

"How damaged is it?" The image asked.

"There is severe damage, mainly to the midsection and the head area."

"Is it repairable?" The image asked.

The clone hesitated for a moment. "Yes, though it might take a while."

"I will arrive shortly." The image said. "Have the body ready for me, and keep it safe. I do not want it to receive anymore damage."

"Yes, Chancellor." The clone said.

"Do not disappoint me, Commander Cody." The image said, and then flickered out.

Cody gulped, and looked at the body in stasis nearby. Not that it needed to be in stasis, as it was, for all intents and purposes, dead. But the Chancellor wanted it. And whatever the Chancellor wants, he gets.