Leia Organa Solo was a fresh mother when she arrived in the Nubian system. She had dreaded leaving her son and husband behind, but the planet her mother had called home was in catastrophe. Naboo had been a loyalist planet as that was where Emperor Palpatine originated from, but good people still thrived on the planet, and she was determined to help them. Queen Sosha Soruna had a long slender face covered in traditional Nubian face paint- white powder and a fine red line down her chin, fierce eyes, and the disposition of a battle ready monarch. She greeted Leia with a deep embrace.

"I know you were asked here to assist with what my advisors are calling Project Cinder, but there is something a bit more delicate that I wish to speak to you about."

"Of course your Majesty."

Queen Soruna urgently pulled on her arm, "This way."

They left the main palace diverging into the servants quarters. Leia could sense an odd albeit weak shift in the force. The Queen led her into a broom closet of a room where a small cradle was nestled.

"I-i," Leia started to express her confusion.

Soruna gently picked up a bundled baby, "This is Calliope and she is very special."

"Are you not allowed to have children during your term as Queen?" She asked.

A soft chuckle came from the Queen, "My apologies, Calliope isn't mine."

The babe reached out a wee hand towards her. Leia leaned in taking in the child's dynamic violaceous color.

"Calliope's birth surname," The Queen hesitated, "Is Palpatine."

Dithered, Leia took a step back. The child was of course innocent and blameless, but how quickly could that turn. Soruna could sense her apprehension,

"Her parents were executed when we took Naboo back from it's militarization. I saved her."

"That was very noble of you." Leia chose her words carefully.

This time the Queen's laugh was trickled with sadness,
"It was actually selfish in a way. I assume you do not know much Nubian history?"

Leia confirmed the Queen's assumption with a nod.
"There's an old prophecy that a great Queen will arise and one shall know her for her eyes will be a Nubian sunset.
Soruna beckoned behind Leia to see the setting sun. After a clash of blue and red her breath was taken away by the vivacious violet sky. It was beautiful to behold, and Leia couldn't help but think of her mother and how many of those sunsets she had seen.

"It's a silly thing I know, but I also...just couldn't let them strike her down."Soruna took the child back from Leia gently, " We are in a ruinous state Senator Organa even when we deal with this atmospheric turbulence. Naboo deserves peace and prosperity the right way. The people yearn for it."

"But her lineage. She will never be elected. I also don't understand why you have brought this to me."

"No one knows there was a child, and I planned to give her my surname when the time is right." Sosha stood shifting the child in her arms, "I bring you into this because I know your brother may be planning to take on students." She eyed Leia, "I know you have felt it. Even so tiny this girl and the force are intertwined."

"You want my brother to train the grandchild of the man who enslaved the whole galaxy?" She felt disgusted now.

Sosha's eyes narrowed, "Names don't make children into their elders."

This drew Leia back. Her own birth father had been to the darkside and back. She herself was raised in the light, knowing right from wrong. The Queen held out the babe to her, and unsteadily she took her. She felt a strange correlation between her own child and this girl. Both had steep lineage in the darkness, but if they didn't know it and were raised like she had been there wouldn't be a fear in sight. Leia knew she would have to argue with Han about not telling their son about his grandfather.

"If I am lucky I'll be re elected for another two terms and I can keep her until then. Then would you consider taking her to be trained as a jedi?"

"I don't see why she needs to be trained." Leia responded.

Sosha's eyes glimmered, "Naboo needs to change from having women who look phenomenal to women who are phenomenal. The Queen's during the galactic conflict were mere figure heads. They need to be like your mother. She was fierce and strong willed, but she also had training just like me. Perhaps not as a jedi but you understand."

Leia watched how closely they listened. Each of them fell on her every word until she was finished,

"I came back to Naboo when Soruna's terms as Queen was over. Calliope was a young wild albeit bright child, and to herself she was a Soruna not a Palpatine- to my knowledge she doesn't even know. I brought her to Luke as Sosha had requested of me. And-"

"And then she turned to the dark side." Rey said bitterly.

Rey took the room in slowly. Her friends voices slowly muted to her as they commenced a barrage of questions on the General, and there he sat brooding on a bench. She didn't say anything nor would she. If she didn't acknowledge him he wouldn't look up and perhaps the connection would cease. She did wonder though what he would think of being a father since he had murdered his own.
"Rebirth, means rejuvenation-comeback-revival." Kylo Ren chewed on his cheek. He knew the scavenger was there, but he neglected to address her out of spite.

Rey left the vision with the words plugged into her head,
"Rebirth…." Rey said aloud.

"What did you say?" Calliope's voice tore through the room like an explosion.