Darth Vader for the first time since his accidence into becoming into a Sith lord was speechless. Instead of the brewing anger that was accustomed to the dark lord, he was deep in sorrow. Regret was starting to seep into his soul. Perhaps he was wrong in slaughtering the Jedi? He always hated that memory he had with the younglings, why did he have to kill them?

Sidious was hardly a kind and gentle man that Vader grew to become close friends with. He was now cold and ruthless, about everything. Vader was growing thoughts of doubt already before finding his beloved, now they were full blown into elaborate plans just waiting for the strike. Padme was clearly disgusted with him, and really could he blame her?

How could she trust him anymore if he would be so willing to follow orders to kill children? What would he have done if that was his own child? Would he bring his lightsabre down in a swing of death or would he spare its life?

Ever since coming into power Vader has been used as an anti rebellion tool. His job was simple, if there was a rebellion anywhere within the realm of the empire, destroy it. Vader's plans was simple now, he would amass an army loyal to him and kill off the emperor, now all he needed was a competent commander.

Vader always has known that for horrible Jedi, there was an Awesome one. For every awesome salesman there was one so bad that they couldn't convince people to take free money. For every Anakin, there was an Obi-wan. To be honest with himself, he had seen many of generals that were complete tools. They had no military common sense what so ever, and he had yet seen one to amaze him.

The one good thing about being assigned to destroy these rebellions was all of the military minds that he had come up against. Today, finally today he was impressed. An admiral a few days ago was given one of the largest fleets in the empires arsnel, there objective was to go to the planet of Cislla. There fleet even though out numbering there opponents 20 to 1 encountered a surprise counter attack. The battle lasted for hours, though both sides took heavy losses the empire stopped sending transmissions, the Chiss had won.

Taking another force equal to the same size of the last one Vader was now in place for what he wanted. His fleet moved in and immediately he could see the losses of the battle before littering space. Underneath his mask he let a rare smile emerge, this commander was good, real good.

"Were in range lord Vader." The comm officer announced, the men were getting ready to decimate the remaining enemy fleet for what it did to there comrades.

"Hail them, lets see if we can end this without bloodshed." Vader pronounced, obviously shocking some of the members of this crew. With a nod of the comm officer's head a soft beep echoed through the ship and a man with blue skin and bright red eyes appeared on his view screen.

"Commander, I must say I'm impressed. Against overwhelming odds you and your people's warrior spirit has shinned through what seemed to be a clear defeat." The man seemed skeptical, though not to many people can say that actually received praise from lord Vader himself, especially if he was the opposing commander.

"I mean no disrespect lord Vader, but I know you and your fleet did not travel the whole galaxy just to talk. State your terms." Even in obvious defeat he still held on to his pride and self respect. Vader could hardly contain his smile now. He had found a hidden gem in the far reaches of the galaxy that if given the size of fleet that Vader could supply, Sidious would not be able to stand a chance.

"Your people have gained my respect commander, surrender now and only your leaders shall be persecuted. Your men will be unharmed and become members of the empire." The Chiss eyes quickly sharpened, he took a quick look around his ship and then back towards Vader.

"If my blood must be spilled along with the royal family in order for our people to remained unscathed and safe. Then lord Vader, where shall I surrender?" The commander's eyes seemed to water a bit as his eyes seemed to dart somewhere off screen.

"My troops are securing the royal palace now, that will be sufficient." The view cut off as the ships of the Chiss started to descend into the atmosphere and towards the capital.

"Hail the commander of the battalion securing the palace."

"Yes mi lord." A moment later a clone trooper appeared on screen.

"Commander, an enemy officer is going to come to you to surrender, do not under any circumstances harm him is that clear?" Vader spoke and raised his voice at the end to show that this decision could not be denied on any circumstance.

"It will be done." The clone trooper replied.

"Line him up in the firing squad but do not shoot him nor the royal family until I'm there to give command." Before the trooper could reply Vader cut off the screen. The ship landed with ease and as soon as it landed Vader was walking out with his personal body guards. He was escorted to the Royal palace, within moments he was at the throne where the King and Queen along with the mysterious commander were lined up waiting for there deaths.

"This is all your fault! We should of never heeded your advice on that ignorant counter attack!" The queen was screaming loudly at the man, he just looked in different.

"Your majesty, that attack saved the lives of your people." He tried to explain calmly, instead the slightly over weight queen was just belligerent.

"At what cost!? Our lives!" she screamed, even at this point the king just stood there and held his head up high doing his best to keep his composer. The queen looked at there military commander and spitted on his face.

"May you burn in hell." She declared rather venomous.

"Ready." Vader spoke out loud, the stormtroopers all started to load there rifles. He wanted them to sweat a bit.

"Aim!" He ordered loudly, all of them replied in hastily manner.

"Daddy, no!" A little girl with black hair ran through the stormtroopers and towards the commander.

"Chisten! Get back!" He screamed, fear was now extremely present in his eyes. Even though he was non force user he was clearly radiating his fear through him. He looked down at his daughter, seeing her gave the man purpose, the reason why he did everything. To Vader he just now became an open book thanks to his daughter. The counter strike was in hopes that instead of obliteration he could save his planet and in the empires defeat save his daughters life.

"What is your name?" Vader spoke, the man just looked at him in his watery red eyes.

"Mitth'raw'nuruodo" He responded simply.

"Anything for short?" Vader asked, not daring to pronounce the name he just heard afraid to botch it in front of his inferiors.

"Thrawn, I'm known to my people as Thrawn." Vader grinned underneath his helmet.

"Well Thrawn follow me, unless of course you do in fact wish to die." Thrawn just stared in shock, was he actually being spared by the ruthless Darth Vader? Not wanting to press his chances he shot up in a bolt of quickness and chased after the dark lord, leaving the royal couple to there fate. As soon as Thrawn got behind the stormtroopers the dark lord turned around for moment and gave one last order.

"Fire." The royal couple, the ones that insisted on rebelling against the empire was dead. The emperor will be happy, his adversaries was dead and Vader just got his commander, so soon the emperor would be dead just as well.

Vader's good mood was disrupted by the little girl that was hugging her fathers leg. He assumed she had no where else to go so he allowed her to come along, he could tell that Thrawn was hoping or more like praying that he wouldn't mind her. What really got him about the girl was the fact it reminded him of the girl him a Padme were suppose to have. He clearly felt her force signature within her mothers stomach and dreamed of actually raising there daughter. Instead, she was dead, but perhaps not. Padme did survive thanks to his old mentor, was there a chance that the child survived as well, was Anakin really a father?

He quickly shook himself out of it, there was no Anakin, there was only Darth Vader. He saved this Thrawn from termination and in return would get his service, half of his plan was now complete, or soon to be. Entering an office that was suited for the Dark lord in the relatively short time the storm troopers had, he sat down behind the desk and mentioned to Thrawn and his daughter to do the same.

"I have a proposition for you that I'm sure you will find is to good to be refused." Vader started to speak, noticing a bottle of brandy he poured the Chiss a glass and offered it to Thrawn.

"I'm sorry Vader, I refuse to drink in front of my daughter." He sure does have some gall.

"A noble reason." Vader simply stated.

"So tell me commander, what exactly do you want?" He asked, hoping to get the Chiss's ambitions from him. He was willing to offer almost anything this man would want for his loyalty, almost.

"To put it simply Vader, I want my planets freedom. The empire is constantly attacking us trying to make us submit to your rule, but is unwilling to accept anything but unconditional surrender. I cannot condone that."

"I'm not going to waste your or my time Commander, so I'll be blunt. A rebellion is about to take place, one unlike any other. It will not be a simple system declaring themselves free from this oppressive tyranny, but will strike the entire empire into civil war."

"And so your saying you want my help?"

"More than that Commander." This caught the Commander's attention.

"Oh, how much more?"

"Supreme high Admiral. Second in command, how does that sound Thrawn?"

"And what about Cislla?"

"It will be under the empire's jurisdiction, but also under the direct control of its new king. You." Silence consumed the room as Thrawn started to calculate it in his head. This was pretty much along the same lines as what you dreamed about growing up but knew it would never happen. To Thrawn though, it really was happening, King Thrawn. His blue lips curled itself into a smile as he stared at the dark lord.

"What are your orders mi lord?"

"I have a personal matter to look into at the moment, ensure the transition for Cislla into the empire is a smooth one. I will be back in about a weeks time with further instructions."

"Consider it done mi lord." The Chiss replied and then bowed showing his respect to his new superior. Walking back to his ship Vader hailed his intelligence officer and was updated on his most recent project.

"Any news on the prisoner?"

"My lord, it appears he has been assigned to a mining colony years ago and has stayed there since. Deltraas's moon."

"You have done well, let us depart immediately once I'm on board." The officer nodded his head and awaited his commander.

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"The warden is ready to see you now, come with us." Jared and Padme both followed the troops to the building in the actual mining tunnels. Once inside it was welcomed at a perfect 75 degrees temperature, something both Jared and Padme grew unaccustomed to during there stay in the mines. The building was surprising clean and well maintained. Going up the stairs to the main office Padme was getting nervous, Jared instead released his uneasiness into the force and did his best to remain in the here and now.

Do or do not, there is no try. One of Yoda's favorite sayings popped into his head which caused him to smile inwardly. He often wondered how the little troll would of favored in the mines, perhaps he finally found something that he was better than Yoda in.

The door for the office opened up and a slightly chubby man was sitting down at a well organized desk. He looked like he hasn't shaved in a couple of days and had cold piercing blue eyes. Looking down he realized his right hand was mechanical.

"I received this piece of junk in the clone wars." He replied, noticing Jared looking at his hand.

"Which side?" Jared asked, truth was there was veterans everywhere you went, there was almost just as many that fought with the separatists than there was with the republic.

"Republic, I lost it in the battle of Malfor." Jared just nodded his head unsure on whether or not he should try and continue that same conversation. Instead the man spoke up and went right to the point.

"My guards found this in your cell." He spoke up and threw the rudimentary lightsabre down on the desk. This was going bad, deciding not to speak would probably be the best course of action he decided. Still he could not help but to speak out anyway.

"It doesn't work, I assure you."

"I know this, it is one of the reasons why I called you in my office." This had really started to get both Jared's and Padme's attention.

"Oh?"

"First let me tell you my story, it will explain everything." They just nodded and awaited for him to start.

"I was stationed in the capital, the battle was a lost cause. We were severely out numbered, and running low on supplies. We begged the republic to send reinforcements, or at least a transport convoy to try and sneak us out of there. Every day it seemed as if a friend of mine would pass away, all we heard from the front lines was defeat, never was there a victory. Finally after a few months or so all the remaining survivors all compacted in the capital." Reaching over he grabbed a drink of water and then started to continue again.

"Then the day had arrived, the one everyone in my company was hoping for. Relief was coming, they were getting us off planet. The only problem was we had to survive another month of the onslaught, and the separatists were determined to crush us as soon as possible. The best tacticians we had, because you see all of our generals were dead, so the company commanders got together and devised a strategy. We determined by the medical supplies, the ammunition and the food we could last a week tops. Needless to say moral was at an all time low. Hell, we would of surrendered if we didn't know they would kill us on site." He took a moment and started to recollect himself, gathering in all his memories to tell it the best.

"Then the damnedest thing happened, a miracle. A Jedi Master by the name of Kit Fisto had lost a tough long hard battle and him and the remainder of his force was in the process of retreating. He had heard about our plight and I suppose something touched his alien heart. His force was large compared to ours, but yet it was still out numbered 3 to 1. The damn bastard spear headed the whole damn block aid. It was complete utter suicide, or to any rational being could see it as it. Some how he only lost 2 ships, pretty much all of the storm troopers under his command made it and the best part about it was they brought enough supplies to last us another 6 months. My men were completely ecstatic, they were going home thanks to this Jedi." Pulling out a drawer he reached in and started to finger something out of view from the two prisoners.

"Thats when I lost my hand. I was lying in bed getting this piece of crap installed, and I look over and who do I see? The damn Jedi hurt himself pretty badly trying to land his star fighter. He took one look at me and smiled, I will never forget the look in his eyes. The whole time all I can think of is this is the person that saved our skins from complete annihilation. When the transports came I was so ready to leave, yet before I stepped on a ship the Master sought me out. He told me he had received a vision while he was healing, he told me that I would come across a Jedi on the road to redemption and for me to give him this." He pulled out a green stone from his drawer and showed it to Jared.

"He pulled it out of his lightsabre, he also told me the one I would give this to will help steer the galaxy straight." Still running his finger tips of the surface of the stone, he really did not want to part with it but yet he reluctantly handed it over to Jared.

" I already filed a report towards headquarters. It stats that you both stole an imperial shuttle and escaped. A shuttle is waiting for you on the surface." Jared just looked on in shock for a moment before replying.

"Thank you." He choked out.

"May I ask Jedi, what exactly are you planning on doing?"

"I will find the emperor, then I will end his reign over the galaxy." Both Padme and Jared were escorted towards the shuttle just like the man said and instantly Jared took off.

"Any Idea's on were you want to go?"

"I need to talk to Obi-wan about the whole thing with Vader." She replied, and then added something else.

"Also I want to see my son. Lets go to Tatooine.