Chapter 22. Sleep Of Death
Plagueis was on his way to Coruscant to see his apprentice Darth Sidious. He had accomplished his goal with the human named Shmi Skywalker. Everything was falling into place, just in seven short years Padme Amidala would finish with school and be in the perfect place to become Queen of Naboo. At the moment she was interning with Palpatine in the senate.
When his ship pulled into orbit he shuttled down and walked into a party being held by Palpatine. Several distinct Senators were there, like Bale Organa, Ale Eteam, Mon Mothma, the Senator of Naboo, and the senator of Yelma. Padme Amidala and Tarkin were there as well.
"I thought I told you that I wanted to meet with you in private…"
"It is just a small celebration among friends… and a private one between us… Jedi Masters Sifo Dyas and Dooku are on board…"
"What about Qui Gon Jin…"
"He is a trouble maker… and often he causes the council problems… All that considering he will never join the fold… Dyas and Dooku have made hints and what ifs to him… He is stubborn…"
"Maybe we could do to him what we did to Dyas…"
"The council hasn't assigned him an apprentice yet…"
Palpatine watched as his master drank large amounts of wine laced with his blood. Amidala was too young and her father wouldn't allow it, but all the other guests were drinking wine laced with his blood so that Plagueis wouldn't perceive a threat to himself. Every now and then Palpatine would nudge Plagueis in the force to see if the connection had been made.
As the evening wound down Plagueis excused himself to his office that had a bed room. Normally he didn't require sleep, but his body was telling him that it was time to regenerate. He lay on the bed and went into his self induced coma. Two hours later the door opened and Palpatine entered, he had complete control over the Sith Lord.
"I know you can hear me…" Palpatine said gloating. He could feel Plagueis' rage at being betrayed. He was trying to wwake up, but he couldn't. "…I want you to know that I appreciate everything you have done for me… and you said it yourself that I should be the face of the galaxy… but in order for me to truly be powerful I must remove you… It is the way of the sith… Don't worry the grand scheme will come to pass in my hands and the Jedi will fall… Farewell my master…"
He ignited his lightsaber and plunged it into Plagueis heart chamber. Muuns had three hearts all connected by a central chamber. So when he stabbed the Muun all three hearts bled into his body and because Palpatine kept his cells from regenerating he couldn't heal. Palpatine stood over his former master's body directing the energy flowing from his lifeless body into the force. When the process was done Palpatine ran his hand over the Muun's face.
"It is a quiet thing to become the new Lord of the Sith…" He whispered.
In the following days the body of Tin'sar Demask was discovered in his office bedroom. The official report was that he had suffered a major heart attack in all three of his hearts. Palpatine said a few choice words in regards to his former mentor. Palpatine had the body moved in secret to the planet Vash were he secretly had a tomb built in honor of Darth Plagueis the wise. Demask's will was a storm of controversy, he had left all his personal wealth to Palpatine, his companies were sold off in bits and pieces, but every asset public, private, and secret wound up in Palpatine's hands.
Another month passed before he could safely move his apprentice Darth Maul to Coruscant. There Palpatine could watch over his growing empire, conduct the business of the grand scheme and continue the training of Darth Maul.
Palpatine was finally able to visit Muunilist, Tin'sar's estate had been sold to a Muun who worked for Palpatine. Farmer was dead, without Palpatine to rejuvenate him he died of etreme old age. After ensuring that there were no booby traps Palpatine entered the secret laboratory, but it had been ransacked and all the files erased.
A lowely medical droid came out of a secret compartment and projected a hologram of Plagueis. "Hello Sidious… If you are watching this then I am dead… Killed by you… I hold no anger to you and as I said it would be your right to try and usurp me if you could… In my arrogance I thought you would fail… and maybe I should have killed you myself… At anyrate N12's mind has been erased and all my force experiments destroyed… save one, but you will never know what that was… I am taking my secrets of immortality and how to reverse death with me… If you are the person I think you are then maybe you wll figure it out… but I doubt that… Since I am dead you are meant to rule the galaxy… and see the grand scheme finally fulfilled… Be careful Palpatine… Arrogance has always been the downfall of every sith no matter how powerful they were… Darth Bane fell because he underestimated his apprentice… Sadly that is my story… I am sympathetic to your cause as it is my cause so I have left you all the contact information for the sith spy network… and the Mandalorian named Jango Fett… You probably still want revenge, but he is a pure blood Mandalorian… and a clone army based on Mandalorian DNA is very valuable against the Jedi… Do not worry though the Madalorian his death at the hands of a Jedi has been foretold… Farewell Sidious…"
"Truly you are Darth Plaueis The Wise…"