Coruscant.

A large city-based planet.

Lanes of air-traffic.

Towering buildings.

Underworld glum.

A vast variety of species alike.

A stronghold.

A powerful sanctuary.

The Senate.

Powerful Senators.

A worthy Chancellor.

Also, the home of a hidden Sith Lord.

The very same who felt the vast disturbance among the Force. But not the good kind, nor the right.

The Darkside. It spoke to him. It told him that his chosen one was out there; battling a personal aggression and fear that would later play a role in the reemergence of the Sith. And so this powerful shadow waited. Waited until wave after wave of dark energy came to him and revealed that the person in which it came from was not an ordinary being.

Rather, a Jedi.

A mere Padawan.

Good, he thought. When the time comes, I will send for you.

And so he waits.

Galactic HoloNet News

Vol. 541 53/36.9.7

Mos Espa, Tatooine

In shocking news, catastrophe strikes on the vast desert planet of Tatooine. Year after year this harsh desert wasteland is host to a series of thrilling yet illegal game of Podracing. Year after year respected riders and their pods are either lost in the canyon wall, or literally come crawling back to the finish line only hair breaths away of losing oneself.

This year on the respected Boonta Eve, the widely witnessed Podrace claimed the most lives in the events history. Pod after Pod without warning or any reasonable explanation, spontaneously combusted and both racer and Pod were burned to ashes. Many spectators who witnessed the onslaught were either caught in the line of flying debris of Pod parts, while others just simple sat there enjoyed the show; all the while losing bets but still continuing to enjoy the show.

Only one survivor was found among the wreckage; a human male who stumbled across the finish line and won first place just before his Pod, too, exploded with deadly rage.

Esteemed local "gangster" Jabba the Hutt failed to comment on the recent event and no other member of his staff wished to comment.

Boonta Eve will never be the same.

Further investigation is still pending on what caused the many Pods to flame.

j.a. bourne/GHN Reporter