Emperor Vader stood gazing at the stars that were visible from the windows of the bridge of a certain Super Star Destroyer that should by all accounts be making all due haste to Coruscant for his coronation. As he fell into a near-medatative state he heard a thump behind him. He turned to the source of the noise only to find that one of his captains was laying dead on the deck. Blinking in confusion at this since he hadn't been the one responsible and officers didn't usually fall over dead otherwise, he moved to examine the corpse.
If he was faking in order to scare the junior officers like that one time...Well, he wouldn't be faking for very much longer.
He nudged the body with the toe of his boot. The man was indeed dead.
There was another thump from nearby as another bridge officer fell down dead apparently from heart attack.
Two Days Earlier:
The Emperor studied the boy who had been summoned by his technicians. There didn't seem to be anything extraordinary about the brown haired, brown eyed boy who didn't appear to be in the least bit Force sensitive that stood before him. The only oddity that seemed to be related to the boy that he had noted was that he could sense another presence in the room but was unable to see whoever it was.
As he tried to figure out why the machines that were meant to summon Vader's replacement from elsewhere had determined this boy to be a good apprentice for him, the boy pulled a black rectangular object with writing he didn't recognize on one side of it that looked like it had been made of either flimsiplast or actual paper from his bag, flipped it open, and scrawled something inside of it with a writing implement...
Light Yagami smirked as he studied his surroundings, ignoring the shriveled corpse that had fallen to the floor. His being a closeted Star Wars geek had really paid off...
