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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/15/01 1:51pm Subject: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	What if Leia and Luke wern´t the only children of Darth Vader ? What if they had a brother raised by the Dark Lord of the Sith ? And what would happen if they met ? Please read and post a lot of comments, since i want to know what people think about my stories. For those of you who are interested in my other stories, there are: Union of the Empires greatest Warriors at http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=1301255 An AU-story taking place 17 years after the Battle of Endor that will lead to a come-together for the entire Skywalker-family. and The Colliding of Empires http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=1972709 A Crossover-Alternate Universe-Story during the time of RotJ. Everything is changed. The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW-AU Dawn was close after the great victory-celebration. The fires had died down, as had the noise of humans, ewoks and members of dozens of other races after the battle of Endor. Most of the beings were lying where they had found the place to rest. With one exeption. Luke Skywalker was standing before one of the small ewok-houses, looking towards the rising sun, lost in his thoughts. It was still hard to believe how much luck he, if not the rebel-alliance and with them the entire galaxy had had in their battle the day before. From the professional point of view he was tempted to hide behind the biggest bush imaginable, considering the easiness with which the emperor had lured them into his trap. Only a huge number of circumstances in their favor, no one of them due to their own planning had allowed them to achive victory. Or the force had really been with the rebels this day. He took a deep breath. The past didn´t matter as long as one was willing to learn from it. For the last Jedi-Knight other things were of more importance now. Since he had gotten and lost the father he had ever longed for at the same day, his sister was now his only relative left. His sister ... . It wouldn´t be easy for her to accept that part of her heritage that originated from their father. Their father ... . Suddenly footsteps behind him woke Luke from his musings. Without turning around he greeted the Newcomer. "Good morning, Han." Han Solo tried hard to hide his surprise and failed. "Damn, kiddo, how do you do that ?" Before Luke could answer the smuggler continued. "Let it be. I don´t want to hear anything about that force-stuff of yours." "It will be the force-stuff of Leia too, one day." Luke couldn´t hide an evil grin. "So you better never get on her bad side." "Considering who her father is, you are probably right." At that Luke Skywalker raised an eyebrow in surprise. "She told you ?" "Everything. She thought it to be necessary before, well ... you know." Without success the smuggler tried to stop to blush. "So the two of you had your own private victory-celebration ?", asked Luke calm. Han shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other. It was obvious that Luke had changed a lot in a short time. He had matured. Especially since yesterday. "If you want to say so." Han looked up and down Luke. "No ill feelings, huh ?" Luke sighed. "Han i loved Leia since the first time i saw her, but even if we wouldn´t be related she has made her choice and that choice is you. In a certain way her being my sister is a relief, because i still can love her without feelings of guilt or shame or jelousy when she is happy with you." Han nodded. "So the competitor is gone, but the friend can stay without a loss of face." Luke grinned at that. "And perhaps is replaced with an over-protective brother." He became serious. "If you ever hurt her ..." He could still hear his fathers threat in his ears /If you don´t surrender to the darkside, we will succed with her/. Han noticed the tension suddenly raised. Suddenly the loss of a competitor in exchange for an over-protective brother of the woman he loved didn´t seemed to be such a good thing anymore. Especially if this brother had fought sucessfully against beings like Darth Vader and the Emperor and was the son of the first of the two. "You should know me better by know, kiddo", he scolded. "I would never hurt her. I love her. More than anything else, despite who her father is." Han wanted to continue, but was stopped by Luke who had raised a hand. "I don´t doubt that, but ... " The young Jedi seemed at a loss for words and needed a few moments before he started to speak again. "Han, Leia has told you who our father is." "Yes, and i still think it hard to believe." "I know. But why do you think it so hard to believe ?" Han was at a loss for words. Wasn´t that obvious ? "Simple. Vader was the embodiement of evil. A dark brute who terrorized the entire galaxy. And you and Leia, you are so good, so ... bright, ... its impossible to imagine you to be related to somebody like him." "Nevertheless he is our father. And if we are good, then we must got it from somewhere." "Perhaps from your mother", suggested Han. "Maybe. But if our mother was good, then there is still the question why she fell in love with our father." "What if she wasn´t in love with your father ?", insisted Han. "What if he ..." Han didn´t dare to say it. It would hurt his friend to much. "If he raped her ? Or simply used her as a toy ?", finished Luke Hans question with a raised eyebrow. "I think in that case i wouldn´t carry my fathers name before he became Vader. And if he would have been totally evil we all would be dead by now." Han was at a loss for words. Damned, what was his friend up to ? "Alright i give up. What has this all to do with me and Leia." "Simple. If a good man became evil once it can happen twice." Han felt oblieged to protest. "Hey, i´m no Darth Vader, not even the stuff for somebody like him. " Then the smuggler noticed something else. "What is really bothering you ? I think you are moving in circles around a topic you don´t know how to explain." The younger man was silent for a moment. "You are right", he finally admitted. "Before i knew who my father was, things seemed so clear. After Bespin my entire world was put on the head and i was forced to find my orientation again. If i had then listened to my mentors then i would have become a patricide, if not a Dark Sider like my father before me. I didn´t because i still believed that there was good in Vader and i was right. What the entire point is, is that my father, like everybody else, was a more complex being, then just a walking armour with a respirator. And suddenly i wonder how things would have developed if i would have been raised by him. If we had had a real relationship from the beginning. If he wouldn´t has been as bad as ... " "Stop. Thats enough !" Han gently put his hands on Lukes shoulder. "I can tell you. You would have become a Dark Sider like him and the galaxy would be in deeper trouble than anybody of us can imagine. Damned, i know you have this gap in your heart that always longed for a father, but it will not vanish, if you continue to ask yourself such questions. The only advise i can give you, is that you have to find something good, something positive to fill this place or it will rip you apart one day. And then you will really become your fathers son." Luke nodded with a frown. "The son of Darth Vader." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Kitt327 Title: FanForce CR North Island NZ Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 7/15/01 2:41pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	This is a neat idea - one I haven't seen done before. Great start, I can't wait to read this -----signature----- When it's dark enough, you can see the stars. "Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life." Visit FF New Zealand - http://boards.theforce.net/New_Zealand/b10035/
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Tiershon_Fett Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 7/15/01 9:25pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Lots of comments! Just kidding. This is cool. Up! -----signature----- It's been an experience. 8000, and done!
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BelleBayard Registered: Mar '00	Date Posted: 7/15/01 9:35pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Interesting premise. I'll be intrigued to see how you flesh this out. -----signature----- "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Obi-Wan to Vader before joining the Force. http://elaine-robson.tripod.com/bellesbayou/ (Belle's Bayou) http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=804409 (Beloved Mo
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Ana_Labris Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 7/17/01 5:23am Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	I love AU! pls post more! -----signature----- K.E.P.P. Agent #19! I am the one and only Angry Scientist. Darth Vader is my hero.
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Luke'sryb Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 7/17/01 7:57am Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	WELL? When are Luke and Leia going to meet their brother? Is he older? What's his name? Is he a Skywalker?
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/17/01 12:30pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Thank you all for your responses (critics in a constructive way will be welcome, too). It will take some time until the siblings are going to met. As with my other stories mentioned above, i try to mix the events in my stories with the events in the official SW-Universe until a certain point to give everything a touch of constance (But that you can read for yourself). And no lets introduce the "New, Bad Boy" The tale of Darth Vaders Son Chapter One Carefully Nilan Vortigern stepped down the stairs towards the catacombs and dungeons of the old castle. The hands of the old man were still trembling with disbelief. Contrary to the palace of Darth Vader on Coruscant this castle on the Planet Chalakorn was remote enough not to fall victim to a rubbing and burning Mob, who, now that his Master was dead, suddenly was brave enough to fight and to rebel. /Who doesn´t dare to beat the Dewback, beats the satchel/thought Vortigern with contempt, although he had to admit that with Darth Vader still alive he would have never dared to compare him with a Dewback. Now that his Master was dead Vortigern was practically the only heir above one of the greatest fortunes of the galaxy and the countless secrets of the man. But Vortigern was no heir, he was an administrator. Entitled to the legacy was another one and because Vortigern was a honourable man, he would make sure that this other one would get, what was rightfully his. Vortigern smiled with contempt, when he thought about the greedy rats on Coruscant and inside the hated rebel-alliance, who were looking foreward to use the fortune of his Master for their own dirty purposes. Unfortanatly it was unevitable to allow them access to a part of that fortune, but those would only be pieces, that he had taken care of. Vortigern was a capable administrator who made no mistakes. That would have been unthinkable for the Majordomus. Especially being the Majordomus of Lord Darth Vader. Finally the old man reached the last level of the catacombs and stopped before a wall that was in no way different than the others. But when Vortigern touched a hidden contact a sealed door opened and Vortigern entered a big, cube-shaped chamber. On the first look the room seemed to be empty. Thick layers of dust covered the floor and the walls. The walls were barren with exeption of the walls opposite to the door. An artist with two left hands seemed to have tried to decorate the wall with some fresques. The contures of two humanoid shapes were hardly to recognize. Nilan Vortigern moved towards the figure on the right side and wished the dust away. Under the dust the wall consisted of pure carbonite. The Majordomus remembered like yesterday when he had activated the carbon-freezing-chamber by the orders of his Master. Now he touched a button that initiated a process that would free the unfortunate prisoner from his cold sleep after six years. With a hiss the solid carbonite turned into gases freeing the frozen prisoner piece for piece until the young man dropped to the floor with a moan in front of Vortigerns feet. Sinking down on one knee the old man moved a medical scanner above the crumbled body. Satisfied he confirmed that the boy wasn´t harmed. "Cold, so cold", whispered the teenager. "Shhh, stay calm Lucan. I´ve freed you from the carbonite, but your senses have first to adjust to working again." "Vortigern, is it you ? I can´t see anything." "Yes, it is me my young Lord. You have to be patient, the pain and the loss of orientation will soon be gone. Now come, let me help you." With all the strenght in his old boones Vortigern managed to pull the young man to his feet. Breathing heavily he carried Lucan through the dark corridors and to his great relief the young man was able to walk on his own again, when they reached the stairs upwards. The young one only grapped Vortigerns shoulder for the old man to lead the way. "Seems i´m among the living again", he said with a laugh. "Yes, my young Lord, you are alive", confirmed Vortigern. /Damn, how am i going to tell him the bad news ?/ Lucan Vader made his first steps into a world, that had changed dramatically with the Empires defeat at Endor. ----------------------------- Six years prior. "Is there no other solution ?" The voice of the young man sounded nearly begging. But only nearly. And only for those recognizable, who knew the boy since the day of his birth. Everybody else would have been astounded at the calm exterior of the teenager especially considering the fate waiting for him. But they were alone, so there was no witness to the events going to happen. "Unfortanatly not. But Palpatine isn´t even willing to discuss it. Already now he is afraid of you, you and your power. Our power. Because of that he has ordered your termination." Darth Vaders voice sounded even deeper than normally. "And because of that i have to vanish." "Yes. Without a trace, that nobody can find you." "For how long will i be frozen ?" "I don´t know. But our time will come. The emperor finally believes that our fates are connected enough, that he doesn´t need you as a potential hostage or distraction for me anymore. Lets make him believe that he has me under total control." "Why not kill him now. You trained me well." Vader shook his head. "Its to soon. Palpatines mastery of the Dark Side is still unmatched. And even if i could challenge him, there are still a lot of preperations to make to make a smooth take-over of the Empire possible." The young man nodded his head. "I wish i could at least say good-bye to mother", he said with a low voice. "We don´t have the time for that. I will explain it to her." Vader hesitated. "Are you ready ?" The boy nodded his head and looked at the Sith-Lord in a way, perhaps nobody before had looked at a Sith-Lord. A look with all the love and faith only a child was capable of. "I am ready", he said with a calm voice. Vader gave Vortigern at the controls of the carbon-freezing-chamber a sign and the Majordomus pressed a button. Steam filled the chamber and a loud hiss was to hear. Despite that Vader could noticed a tear on the face of the young man and heard his last, wisphered words. "I love you." For a short moment the mechanical heartbeat and the painful breathing of the Dark Lord seemed to stopp. The man behind the mask wanted to liberate himself with a scream, but his lips stayed close. When the freezing-process was finished it was for Vader as if one of the last parts of his humanity had finally died. Because in one point he had lied to the boy. He didn´t knew if he would someday be capable to kill the emperor on his own, didn´t knew if the boy would ever rise from the cold grave he had thrown him into. Nobody heard the whispered words of the Dark Lord. "I love you too, Son." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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MariahJade2 Title: FanFic Archive Editor Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 7/17/01 7:49pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Very interesting. -----signature----- Have a question or suggestion for the Archive? PM me anytime. Thank you Phillies! World Series Champs.
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DarkLady27 Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 7/17/01 8:11pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Yes, very interesting indeed. I must say well done and continue please. I just have one question, is Vader still alive? I didn't exactly see that anywhere. I look forward to seeing the meeting between all three siblings -----signature----- "You may try and break me but I will not yield!". "Everybody loves pidgeons."-- Charles Darwin
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Kitt327 Title: FanForce CR North Island NZ Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 7/19/01 1:53am Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Hmm, I wonder who his mother was . . . -----signature----- When it's dark enough, you can see the stars. "Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life." Visit FF New Zealand - http://boards.theforce.net/New_Zealand/b10035/
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Ana_Labris Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 7/19/01 2:52am Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Oh, that was so goooood!!! I wonder who the mother is Amidala? -----signature----- K.E.P.P. Agent #19! I am the one and only Angry Scientist. Darth Vader is my hero.
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/22/01 4:43am Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	The tale of Darth Vaders Son - Part One Two dayes had passed, days Lukan had spent with sleep and eating. Now he and Vortigern were sitting in one of the conference-rooms of the fortress. Vortigern watched the young man carefully. At the age of fivteen Lucan was already more than six feet tall with broad shoulders and long, strong limbs. Piercing blue eyes under bushy black eyebrows looked out of a broad but handsome, aristrocratic face. Lucan had tied his long darkbrown hair to a ponytail and was clad in simple black trowsers, a white shirt, a black vest and kneehigh black boots. Vortigern shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The young man wouldn´t like what he had to tell him. "How much time has passed, Majordomus ?", opened Lucan the conversation. "More than six years, MyLord", answered Vortigern. "Six years", shouted the young Lord Vader, taking a deep breath, before he continued. "A long time. But in the expected timeframe." Then his features seemed to brighten. "When will my father arrive, Vortigern ?" Vortigern looked with sad eyes at the boy. "There was a battle. Somewhere in the outer rim at a place called Endor. The Emperor as well as your father were killed by rebels." Lucan stared with disbelief at the older man. "You are lying", he nearly chocked. "An insignificant group of rebels couldn´t have done something like that. Not against the empire." "Times have changed. Four years prior the three biggest rebel-groups have allied themself into an Alliance. And after the destruction of Alderaan their support increased even more. Rumors even claim that a Jedi-Knight is fighting with them." "The Jedi are extinct", protested Lucan. "Obviously not." With a roar Lucan Vader rose from his seat. Gripping the heavy chair he throw the piece of furniture against the opposite wall of the room. Regaining his composure he took a heavy breath and took place in another chair. "What happened to my mother ? Is she still alive ?" The young man thought with worry about the disease that had been slowly killing his mother before he had been frozen. "Yes and no. A short time after your vanishing, she let herself getting frozen, too. Please don´t order me to repeat all the ugly details about the arguments between your parents, after you have been put into carbonite." "I understand." There was a long silence between those two so different men. Then again Lucan started to talk. "If Palpatine and my father are dead, who is now leading the empire ?" "At the moment the Grandwesir Sate Pestage. But in my opinion it will not take long, until Ysanne Isard will replace him. Chaos is spreading. Many Moffs and Admirals have already announced their own empires, declared themself warlords and are fighting each other." "A chaos the rebel-scum will exploit with no doubt. Impossible, but on the other hand not surprising. If my memory doesn´t deceive me it was the main task of my father after the extinction of the Jedi to supress the secessionmovements of the warlords and to hold the all to independent Admirals and Governours in line. Isn´t there anybody with enough power and integrety to get the warlords under his control ?" "Not at the moment. And until there is somebody found they will have weakend each other that much, that it will be an easy game for the rebels." "You are very sure of that, Vortigern. Even if the rebels managed to kill the emperor and murder my father, they can´t fight the various fractions. Force sake we are talking about the imperial starfleet, the biggest war machine ever buildt." "A machine that is hopelessly divided. If you have studied the same reports and informations as i did, you would agree with me, MyLord. Without a leader powerful enough to unite the various fractions the empire is doomed." The young Lord Vader thought about that for a moment. The 25,000 Imperator-class Stardestroyers and the hundreds, if not thousands of battle-cruisers and battle-ships of the Imperial Navy. Not to mention the millions of Stardestroyers,dreadnoughts, picket-cruisers, Frigates and Corvettes in the more than thousand sector fleets. The loss of personel and material had to be astronomical if they were all fighting each other. Not to mention the devastation of worlds and the deaths of countless of innocent civilians. People that had relied on the empire to protect them, to garantee the frame they had buildt their lives in. The live-work of his father falling apart. It made his stomach turn. Lucan Vaders shoulders straightened. "Then i will be this leader. I won´t allow that the live of my father, the order he has fought for so long and died for, will be destroyed under the feet of narrow-minded, powerhungry militaries and idealistic and pastorientated fools like the rebels." Nilan Vortigern stared at his young master speechless. "You can´t do that, MyLord", he finally managed to say. Lucan glared darkly at the old man. "I am Lucan Vader. Son of Darth Vader and the force is my servant. Why shouldn´t i ?", grolled the young man. "Because everybody will only see a growing teenager in you, MyLord, despite your training and other abilities. Nobody would take you serious. And you haven´t realised how many have feared and hated your father in the higher ranks of the empire. The same goes for the rebels. As soon as they fing out that there is a son of Lord Vader, they will try everything to destroy you as long as they can. I´m afraid you have no other choice but to vanish again and to wait for the right opportunity." For the first time Lucan seemed to become aware of how serious the situation really was. "Vanish again ? Give up my name, my birthright ? Watch the empire decay and break apart ? Do you know what you are saying, Vortigern " The majordomus stood up and walked to his young master. In an comforting guesture he put a hand on Lucans shoulder. "MyLord, since your father saved my live so many years ago and offered me a place in his house, i have loyally served him with deeds as with words. With pride i can claim that i have been one of the persons your father listened to and he never had reason to regret it. Sometimes i think i had been one of his few friends as far as something like that was possible. THat may be wishfull thinking of an old man, but there are no other words to discribe our relationship. I beg you MyLord, please listen to me know. Don´t let wrong pride and impatience guide you into the abyss. Don´t make yourself a target. Retreat for the moment. Plan for the future. Collect your forces. Your hour will come sooner or later. Palpatines empire is dying. You don´t have to accompany it on the way to its doom." Lucan Vader took a deep breath. "Very well", he answered. "So be it." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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DarkLady27 Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 7/22/01 1:34pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Hmmm you've really got me wondering there on what will take place next . I also really liked how you put Anakin's and Padmé's characteristic features in Lucan. Good mix. Great post. Hopefully his mother will be revived. -----signature----- "You may try and break me but I will not yield!". "Everybody loves pidgeons."-- Charles Darwin
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/24/01 12:27pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	The tale of Darth Vaders Son - Part I It was two weeks later in the evening when Lucan Vader was sitting behind a desk in his private quaters. The quaters of the young Lord Vader were a mixture of office, childhood playground and workshop, with a half dozen computers and nearly every tool in existence. The heir of Darth Vader had spent the last weeks to get back in shape and to get trusted with all the events and changes that had occured during his "sleep". The disbanding of the senate by the emperor and how the local Moffs and Governours had gotten direct control over their territories. This step made sence and had been long overdue. Already during the time of the Old Republic the area to govern had become to big, to be governed by a central authority. Delegating the power and responsebilities to the people directly in place had been a logical step. The tool to hold them and their sector-forces inline had been the Imperial Navy with its 25,000 Imperator-Class-Stardestroyers, its bigger ships and the Death Star. The construction of the Death Star. Lucan was sure that the finished construction of the battle-station and the disbandening of the Senate at the same time was no coincidence. The Death Star had been in many ways a symbol. Although insignificiant compared to the power of the force, its awesome destructive powers were understandable by everyone, while the Emperor had made sure that the force was viewed only as an ancient religion. Furthermore it was a symbol of the scale and power of the emperor, a symbol that showed everybody that there was no chance in resisting the empire. Of course for the mass of a Death Star hundreds of millions of Stardestroyers could have been buildt, but for those millions of ships, millions of loyal commanders had to be found. And considering the number of deserting commanders during the last years, even honourable men like Jan Dodonna or Crix Madine, it was easier to have one loyal commander on the bridge of a supership. Not to mention that the ordinary Stardestroyer was a relativly small ship by the standards of the empire and didn´t carry enough firepower in an age of planetary shields. There were only two problems connected to the Death Star. First the destruction of Alderaan. Lucan didn´t cried a tear for that planet, he had once been there and the pacifistic people of the planet, together with their facade of culture, civilization and superiority had caused him a great headache. Such a behaivior just wasn´t normal. In Lucans eyes the Alderaans had been cowards, hiding behind others and let others take care of the dirty work necessary to be done, while preaching bombastic speechs about morals, when action was needed. "Damned Alderaanians, speaking of peace and supporting the rebels against a legal government", murmered Lucan with contempt. It confirmed his point of view about their treacherous nature, their cowardice by letting the dirty work be done by the rebels, while cleaning their hands in innocence. Unfortanatly the majority of other sentinent beings didn´t thought about that, when they started to support the Rebel-Alliance, they only thought about the reputatiation of the Alderaanians as peaceful people and moral role-models, what made them to perfect martyrs for the Rebels. And of course, since not only the Alderaanians who had supported the Rebel-Alliance were killed, but many innocent men, women and children who wern´t responsible for the actions of their leadership, the uproar was justified, Lucan had to admit, even if the deathtoll now would be much bigger than that, with the civil-war raging . What brought Lucan to the second problem connected with the Death Star: Nothing of the consequences of the destruction of Alderaan would have happened if the superiority of the Empire had stayed intact. But its destruction the very same day in orbit of Yavin ... . It had proven that the empire wasn´t invincible and, in the eyes of the public, that the Death Star was only effective against helpless worlds, while even a small rebel-outpost was capable of winning against it. "Tarkin should be glad, he died in that battle", Lucan mused, "i bet the emperor would have found a very creative way to punish that old fool for the loss of the battle-station." Of course Tarkins doctrin of ruling through fear of force, then ruling through the use of force itself had fitted perfectly well with the founding philosophy of the Sith, but not to its logical end. Obviously Palpatine had forgotten about that as well, because sooner or later fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering and suffering leads to ... strenght and growth (as long as it doesn´t kill you). It seemed that the rebels indeed had become stronger and grown. What brought him to the Heros of Yavin: Princess Leia Organa, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker Lucan read their files, then reread them again. About Leia Organa he already knew, Daugther of Bail and Sabe Organa from Alderaan. Already the first intelligence reports about her described her as above average intelligent, headstrong and stubborn. And not to forget very idealistic. Lucan sighed. Such was the stuff female rebels were made of. What an asset she could have been for the empire. Palpatine shold have founded a boarding-school for the children of important dignetaries and planetary leaders to raise them in his favour. The young Lord Vader took a pencil and made a notice about the idea of a boarding-school, when he had restored order in the galaxy. Lucan looked over her picture again, admiring the calm, dignified beauty of the princess. It was obvious that everybody in the galaxy would have preferred such a pretty face above the wrickled visage of Palpatine. According to the files the princess was also a vicious fighter if necessary and Lucan, at age fivteen still influenced by his hormones, wondered if she would be a wildcat in bed too. Unfortanatly he would never find out, since she was the enemy. "When i´m ready with you, you will wish to have died with Alderaan, your highness. Perhaps i let you even stay alive and sell you as pleasure slave to the hutts." Lucan despised slavery as much as his father had, but he thought it to be a kind of poetic justice that somebody who had spent his, in that case her live, from the creche in a sheltered position of wealth and respect, to become a slave, being responsible of the death of somebody who had been born as a slave and had spent his entire live to achive the power to put an end to slavery and to punish the slaveholders. The thought brought back all those memories of his father, the plans they had made for the galaxy, as soon as they would have defeated Palpatine. Now it was up to him alone to make their plans true. Lucan started to read the next file: Han Solo: former imperial Lieutanent thrown out of imperial service for attacking an superior officer. Lucan made a face when he read the details. As it seemed Solo had only tried to protect a Wookee-Slave. In a society, at least technological as advanced as the empire, there was no real need for slaves. Slaves needed food, shelter, training, they were rebellious and you couldn´t rely on them. To have them was just a sign of superiority, if not useless cruelity. However discipline had to be maintained and so Solo had been forced out of the imperial Navy. Lucan grimaced at that. According to his file Solo had been one of the best in his class, despite being a nobody. Raised to waste nothing, Lucan considered that sending this Solo-guy to the unknown regions to serve under this alien Admiral, ... what was his name ?, ... would have been a better punishment and of better use for the empire. But the imperial high command had always been very generous with its officers, especially those that lacked the necessary connections. The upper ranks of the imperial fleet were filled with ambitous, but dumb and incompetent officers, who propagated the policy Palpatine had wanted to hear. No wonder that chaos was spreading after the death of Palpatine and Lucans father. But when Lucan read the rest of Solos file his sympathy for the man vanished. According to this report Han Solo had turned into a spicesmuggler for Jabba the Hutt. Spicesmuggler. For a hutt. Solo a criminal. Working for the alien scum that had enslaved his father and grandmother. There was no way to sink lower. Obviously Solo wasn´t the material for an officer after all and the Judges had recognized it. The last one was Luke Skywalker. Now this name rung a bell. Hadn´t there been a Jedi-Knight during the times of the clone-wars named Skywalker, close to Obi-Wan Kenobi ? According to his fathers tales Skywalker had been a comrade who had considered to join the emperor together with Vader, but died in battle. Kenobi had blamed Vader for his death and their fight had left Lucans father back as a cripple. That alone was enough reason to hate everything connected to the man. So this Skywalker was the rebellions pet-Jedi, responsible for his fathers death. Lucan took a close look at his picture. Luke Skywalker had a handsome face, blue eyes and blond hair and somehow he seemed familiar to Lucan. The young Lord Vader had a hard time to find the man not sympathic. From the file about the young man he knew that he had grown up on a moisture farm on Tatooine (the galaxy had truly become a village) and was then brought into the rebellion by Kenobi. Lucan shook his head. Reading about the deeds of the man showed a very capable person, if he left the morality of his actions beside. He could even imagine being best friends and comrades with Skywalker, but that had become impossible. There was no doubt Kenobi and whatever other Jedi out there, had poissened the spirit of the man bejoind repair, although his father seemed to have tried to save the son of his old comrade from the Jedis evil influence more than once. And what had been the reward for Darth Vaders efforts ? That bastard had murdered him. With gritted teeth Lucan shreeded the picture of Luke Skywalker to pieces. "You are dead Skywalker", he muttered. "Dead, dead, dead." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Luke'sryb Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 7/24/01 12:42pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	ANI TALK TO YOUR WAYWARD SON BEFORE HE DOES SOMETHING STUPID LIKE HURTING LUKE!
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DarkLady27 Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 7/24/01 1:16pm Subject: RE: The tale of Darth Vaders Son - A SW - AU (please be nice and post a lot of comments)
	Uh oh... sounds like Lucan is going to go on the rampage. Luke and Leia better watch out. I can't wait for them to meet each other . Great post! -----signature----- "You may try and break me but I will not yield!". "Everybody loves pidgeons."-- Charles Darwin
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