The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU

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The Colliding of Empires - Part III

John Marshall watched as the shuttle of their visitor was put to the floor of the hangar by the "Dantes Inferno"s tractor beams.
The hangar-master of this hangar had worked with perfect precision. To Johns left and to his right were in each case ten soldiers positioned, fully clad in battlesuits, with their weapons raised. Normaly the SolarFleet and especially Perry Rhodan tried to renounce to use such primitive methods of impressing and intimidating, but since their expected guest was a human with a military background, who typically liked such kind of parades ... .

A shadow covered the light and the australian leader of the Mutant-Corps turned to the tall figure of Takor Kasom, who had just arrived from the commandcentre.

"Major", Marshall nodded polite.

"Hello, Mister Marshall", greeted the Ertuser with a grin. "Everything ready to greet our new friend ?" He pointed at the assembled soldiers.

"As ready as possible", stated Marshall. "Although i´m not sure if it will be enough."

The USO-Specialist looked at the telepath with a questioning look. "Explain.", he ordered.

The mutant shook his shoulders. "I can´t. Ever since Gucky told me he sensed that something about this galaxy feels strange, i searched for it myself."

Kasom wasn´t sure if he understood. "And", he asked.

"And the feeling has suddenly increased", answerd Marshall. "Dramaticly."

Kasoms eyes narrowed suspiciously. "You think it has something to do with our visitor ?"

Marshalls face had become grim. "I just don´t think so, i know. This Lord Vader could be a dangerous foe."

"Or a powerful ally", stated Kasom. "We´ll see what kind of man he is." he nodded towards the landed shuttle, where now a ramp lowered itself to the floor.

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Sitting on the couch in the command-centre of the "Dantes Inferno", the mousebeaver Gucky rolled his eyes.

"My God, the nonsence John sometimes thinks."

Atlan and Perry Rhodan turned towards the Ilt, questions in their eyes.

"What is it, Gucky ?", asked Rhodan the little being.

"This Lord Vader has just left his shuttle and John is thinking about comics from Bob Kane and novels from a guy called Sir Walter Scott, all of them dealing with Black Knights. This Vader has to be an aweinspiring sight if John is that impressed. After all he has seen a lot of things during the last sixhundred years."

"We all have", stated Rhodan, "but that doesn´t makes us resistent against surprises. The nature of the unknown is, that you know nothing about it."

"Haha, very funny", commented Gucky.

"In every case, we know now that we will be talking to the right person and not some unimportant underling", added Atlan.

"And this means, that we have to be very careful", concluded Rhodan. "First meetings with the representives of a new civilization are always difficult and a being, that has managed it to the top in a society of the size we believe we are dealing with, isn´t to underestimate."

"And you are curious, what has impressed the good John that much, that he thinks about invincible knights from the tales of his childhood." mused Atlan with a grin.

Rhodan raised an eyebrow. "Invincible ? As far as i remember John was referring to Black Knights."

Atlan snorted. "What has happened to your education ? Black Knights were the embodiement of invincibility in those tales."

"And as you said yourself, they are just tales. But i openly admit, that i am curious."

 

A Black Knight, not far away from the truth. Is John Marshall able to sense anything from Vader? I don't think Vader likes parades very much.

Just in case you ask, yes, I want more!

 

The Colliding of Empires - Part III

Vader walked down the ramp of his shuttle into the huge hangar.

To the right and to the left soldiers were posted and the Dark Lord watched their appaerance. Black armoured boots and gloves. A uniform of darkblue colour covering the entire body.
About those combinations the soldiers were wearing armour to protect the uppertorso, broad belts and helmets with huge see-through visors and packs on their backs.
The entire combination looked like a heavily upgraded spacesuit for combat-purposes.

Then Darth Vader concentrated on the two men that had come to welcome him. The first seemed to be an ordinary human, although handsome. Tall, with broad shoulders,
blue eyes and black hair. To his great surprise the force felt different around this man. More concentrated, denser, there was no way to express it right. The concentration
of force-waves was at its top on a point on the chest of the man, above the heart. What Vader didn´t knew was , that he had sensed the cellfrequency-activator of John Marshall,
a device that had keept the man alive for the last sixhundred years.

And then there was something else special about this man. Then Vader concentrated on his companion.

If Vader had been anybody else then the being that he was, the first sight of an ertruser would have scared him. Taller than a Wookiee and much more massive than any of those
forrest-people could ever hope to be. A redbrown, square face, the entire skull shaved bald with with exeption of a broad stripe of spicky goldblond hair.

Contrary to the other people in the hangar the uniform of this man was black and showed different insignia. Vader had met enough man like this giant, to recognize a highly trained
military.

Reaching out with the force, he discovered to his surprise that he couldn´t read the minds of both of them, while he had no problems sensing the minds of the other soldiers.

And then he felt somebody carefully trying to invade his mind.

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John Marshall tried hard not to show the sudden attack of awe, when the man who called himself Vader had left his shuttle. A tall, massivly buildt humanoid, clad entirely in black, face hidden behind a skull-like mask,
the fearinspiring sound of mechanical breathing, this Vader seemed to be some kind of monster that had left his cave. The telepath had encountered lots of dangerous liveforms, from reptilian topsiders, insectoid druufs,
dreadworms, dolans and the berserker-like cousins of the haluter, the Uleb. Those live-forms had been dangerous and aweinspiring for their physical characteristics, even if some of them hadn´t been enemies to the
SolarEmpire.

But Vader, although a human, seemed to be more dangerous, than every other human John had met so far. There was something about him the mutant wasn´t able to describe, an aura of power, of darkness. A dark god of war and death.
John Marshall remembered the tales of Black Knights in the middle ages at the sight of their visitor.

Getting his composure back, he tried to scan the mind of the man.

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A telepath !

Vader smiled under his mask. The smaller of the two men was a telepath. And he was good. A less experienced man than Vader wouldn´t have recognized it at all.
Concentrating on the force he blocked the probing touches of the telepath and sended an impuls of pain back. This trick had proved to be very useful, when he had hunted and fought the Jedi-Knights. It had always proved to be distraction
enough to allow him to kill them. The sudden expression of pain and disbelief on their faces before the killing blow, because of that trick had been one of the rare pleasures he had had during that period of time.

In the mans cheek twitched a muscle, when the pain hit him, but that was it.

Vader was impressed. Only very strong minds were able to bear that kind of pain. This man was obviously not one of those weak, mental instable human telepaths he had learnt to expect the most of them to b

 

I want more.
When are they going to meet each other? In the next post? Or in the post after the next post?

 

Don´t know so myself, so please be patient.

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The Colliding of Empires - Part III

Lead by John Marshall and followed by the gigantic figure of Takor Kasom, Darth Vader headed for the command-centre of the "Dantes Inferno".

From the hangar they stepped in a large corridor directed to the centre of the huge sphere. To Vaders great surprise the floor under them started to move, with fast increasing speed.

Taking a careful look the Sith-Lord registered the broad walkways left and right to the moving part of the floor, as well as more narrow corridors crossing with this wide one and the huge number of doors, which undoubtly lead to various rooms.

Thanks to the sensors inside his mask he was able to discover a number of hidden doors and hatches distributed along the walls.

Darth Vader could only guess what was
behind them, but he was sure they hid some
nasty surprises for possible boarding parties.

Aboard imperial starships such surprises normaly consisted of destroyer-droids and AT-PT-Walkers.

Then the speed of the moving band slowed down and came to a halt inside a hall with a large number of big tubulars. John Marshall stepped through an opening in one of the tubulars and seemed suddenly to stand in the thin air.

"An antigrav-lift", explained Marshall, who had turned around. "There are actually two fields of gravity. One pulls you upwards, the other lows you down slower than normal gravity."

Vader took his time and put only his head through the opening in the tubular and looked down the near endless shaft.

"And if the energy for the antigravity-fields ceases to exist ?", he asked.

"Then hope you are outside or catch the ladder", answered Kasom with a malicous grin.

Vader decided to ignore the ertruser and stepped inside the shaft. Taking a grip inside he pushed himself upwards copying the movements he had observed done by Marshall. Kasom followed close by.

During the short trip Vader considered grateful, that he had come alone aboard. The ordinary imperial officers would have probably peed their pants, before they would have gotten used to the idea of moving only in an antigravity-field without some solid ground under their feet.

Then another thought hit him. The gravity on the entire ship was lower than what he was used, perhaps a quater if not a third.
No wonder most of these strangers he had seen so far were above six feet and beyond that tall.

As Marshall left the tubular, Vaders sence of orientation told him, that they had reached the command-centre. If he was right, the command-centre of the "Dantes Inferno" was directly located in the centre of the ship at the most protected place, another plus-point compared to the most imperial ships with their huge and easy to hit conning towers.

Folling the telepath Darth Vader entered the command-room of the "Dantes Inferno", where he was going to meet Perry Rhodan.

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Turning his head from the dark clad giant with the mask-like helmet to Atlan, Rhodan tried hard to surpress to burst out with laughter. The only sign of his amusement were the twitching muscels in his cheeks.

Gucky hadn´t that much self-composure and pressed both of his small hands over his mouth to hinder himself to start hysterically to laugh, while he shifted on the couch. The huge eyes of the small being seemed to popp out of their holes, when they saw Vader. The rest of the crew inside the huge command-room tried hard not to grin.

The reason for this was the following:

Atlan had left only minutes before, muttering something about first impressions and fitting outfits. When he returned through the entrance that lead to the quaters of the officers of the ship, next to the command-room he was wearing the old uniform-battlesuit-combination from the time, when he was still the heir to the ArkonEmpire and an Admiral of its fleet.

This tenthousand years old piece of chlothing consisted of a black bodysuit with metal armor for the upper torso, the upper arms and protective knee-pieces. To underline Atlans position in the old nobility of Arkon a cloak of a dar

 

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The Colliding of Empires - Interlude

Unnoticed from everybody the events happening aboard the "Dantes Inferno" were observed by two beings.

"Hmmmm", explained the first of them. "You scared those Vader a little, it seems. But comparing Rhodan with this Palpatine you told me about ... ."

"According to what you told me about him, he has quite the potential.", answered the second being.

"Yes, but its the purpose those powers are used for."

"Don´t tell me you have feelings for those mortal ants."

"I can´t help it, i´ve observed their lives for millenia, their struggles and challenges, their growth and deaths."

"I did the same. But we can´t intervene in their pathetic struggles, even if billions suffer and loose their lives. We can only
gave small pushes into the direction we want."

"Ohh, but we can do more", protested the first of the two beings.

"Don´t dare to do something in favour of your champion", warned the second being. "You are only a guest in my territory and you will not intervene with my plans."

"As if it will be necessary", stated the first being with confidence. "Rhodan eats guys like Vader and Palpatine for breakfeast."

"Neighter you nor he shouldn´t underestimate Vader", warned the second being.

"Why should Rhodan underestimate him ? And considering our plans, they should be on the same side."

"Oh, they will, they will", chuckled the second being.

"Hmmmpppfffffff", grunted the first being. "Its now over thirtythousand years that you showed them the ways of the force, but only few of them have matured enough to master their own destiny. To really see the greatness of the universe, to lead and guide the others on the right road. And always their little problems and ambitions have set you back. Not to mention how complacent they became in the last centuries."

"And because of that i brought Vader and Palpatine together."

"How nice from you."

"It was necessary. I´m not that ambitous than you, my dear friend", answered the other being calm. "I don´t think it is necessary to equipt a small number of mortals with eternal live to rule all the others in our sence, who become old and die. Thats not the way nature should work."

"Ohh, but it worked. It works perfect."

"For the last sixhundred years. And you had to wait twentythousand years till somebody solved your little riddle with eternal live as price."

"Doesn´t matter. In this time the terrans made more progresses than the entire Old Republic", protested the first being.

"You are still young for one of our kind", explained the second being patiently. "May i remind you that your first try, when you gave the secret of eternal live to the "Masters of the Island", the result was a terror-regime that influenced the destiny of two galaxies for twentythousand years, until they were defeated by your Rhodan."

"I know, i know. It was because of this i invented the "Galactic Enigma". To prevent the wrong ones from getting the secret of eternal live. Not even our kind is immune to mistakes."

"You are right, my friend. And because of this it is better not to intervene directly, but to give small hints and pushes for developments in the right direction.

But lets take a look, what happens now."

 

Who are these two beings?

"And considering our plans, they should be on the same side." - I somehow hoped they would be on the same side.

 

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The Colliding of Empires - Part IV

While they moved towards the conference-table Rhodan was thinking about the appereace of their visitor.

Darth Vader was indeed an impressive, if not intimidating sight, surrounded by an aura of power on a scale Rhodan had encountered only a few times in his long live.

Some of those beings had been allies, other enemies.

He wondered what Vader would be.

Vader on the other side had never encountered a group of beings whose single members seemed to be so different from each other.

The titanic figure of this Icho Tolot, towering above everybody else, next to that small creature introduced as Gucky.

The giants Melbar Kasom and Ther Khein.

The only slightly average humans seemed to be Marshall, whom he knew to be a telepath, this Arno Kalup, Atlan who was similiar clad than him, what had been a surprise and Rhodan.

Rhodan who seemed to be the most ordinary of them all.

Until you took a closer look to notice the carefully concealed power and charisma of the man.

Vader had no doubt, that Atlan and Rhodan were the most dangerous of the group he was facing.

They took place and looked at each other until Vader wasn´t longer able to stay quite and started to speak.

"I guess you are curious about the current situation in our galaxy. Especially about the Empire and the Rebels ?"

"We are", answered Rhodan.

"Right, but you´ll have to know its a longer story."

"Don´t worry, we have time", grunted Kalup.

Vader glared at the man, Kalup was wearing a simple uniform with a white coat and nothing like rank-insignias. Discipline, it seemed was rather relaxed on this ship.

"Our history is millenias old", started Vader his explenations towards the terrans. "With exeption of the Unknown Regions, Wild Space, the galactic halo and a number of other areas the galaxy was ruled by the Old Republic.

With no outside enemy, unlimited trade and countless planets to colonize and to exploit our worlds prospered in peace under the rule of the Republics senate."

/With exeption of mothballs like Tatooine and other planets controlled by the Hutts and those like them/, thought Vader, while the old anger filled his heart.

"But that changed, didn´t it ?", asked Atlan. The tenthousand year old Arkonide had seen countless nations raise to power and been drawn back to dust.

Some things would never change, always stay the same as it was some kind of universal law.

"Unfortanatly yes", admitted Vader. "Over the last centuries of its history the Republic increased more in size than ever before, until the central government wasn´t longer capable to administer all the worlds equally.

To make matters worse the greed and egoistical needs of the members of the senate became stronger than their sence of responsibility and their determination for the commen good.

Worlds and people started to turn against each other, while the military stopped to maintain order throughout our space. Private armies emerged to satisfy the need for security by the great businesscompanies and other organizations."

Vader watched the terrans showing their disguest. Good.

"Let me guess, after proofing their value as defensive-forces, those companies discovered the temptation to use them to enforce their business-interests ?", asked Kasom.

The USO-Specialist had infiltrated and helped to destroy enough of such groups back home in the Milkyway-Galaxy. Most times they only meant trouble and if unemployed such groups of mercenarys turned often into pirates.

"Correct", confirmed Vader. Time to play the emotional sympathy-card. "The home-planet of my former wife was invaded by one of those groups during one of those inccidents. If we hadn´t been able to solve the situation ourself the senate would probably still discuss the means to deal with this situation", added Vader with a hint of dark humour.

Rhodan considered, what he had heard so far. Until now everything made sence of what Lord Vader had told them.

The fearsome exterior of the man in front of his eyes and th

 

The Colliding of Empires - Part IV

"As i said some drastic changes had become necessary, but from the senate no one was capable of them with one exeption.

The later Emperor Palpatine.

He had the vision of a better galaxy and the endurance to make it true.

Under his leadership our forces were strenghtened and order restored.

The competences of the senate were restricted and the central authority deals now only with the most important issues.

Everything else is now governed and administred by the local Moffs, who have direct control and responsibility over their sectors."

"Nice. And how do the rebels fit in ?", asked Gucky.

For the taste of the mousebeaver this Vader liked to much talking for himself and according to what he sensed from the Dark Lord things in this Galaxy were far from alright, although Vader was speaking the truth.

"The rebels or the "Alliance for the Restauration of the Republic" like they call themself", answered Vader with sarcasm in his voice, mixed with disguest, "are an insignificiant nuisiance.

It should be obvious that in times of drastic changes there are persons whose situation improves and those who loose. The Alliance now was founded by a bunch of senators not willing to admit that they failed in governing the republic the way it should have been done, while others were sentinent and brave enough to do what was necessary to hold our worlds togheter.

Otherwise we would have had millions of independent worlds fighting each other for resources, power or simply to avenge old feuds after the Clone Wars."

"If they are just a bunch of incompetent senators as you said" asked Atlan, "then where do they get their support ?"

"Its difficult to ensure that every world in the empire benefits from the improvements of our reign. An improvement originating from a core world needs years if not decades until it reaches the rim territories.

Compared to the millenias of the reign of the Republic the Empire is still young.

More important, here in the outer rim we have much difficulties to project our power and to maintain law and order with the connected economic problems. So its easy for many rim-worlders to believe the lies of the rebel-propaganda, that we don´t care about their well-being, that we commited that and that cruelity on the other side of the galaxy, that the empire is only interested in exploiting them with high taxes and so on.

Add the tension of beings to glorify the past, in this case the "gold days" of the Republic, there are many who prefer to look backward instead to look to the future and to deal with the reality of the present."

/Not bad/ thought Vader to himself. Its always best to use the truth for a deception.

Then another thought crossed his mind. /Was it really a deception ?/ and then /are YOU ready to deal with the present, in this case Palpatine ?/

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The terrans used the opportunity to think about the things their visitor had told them.

Rhodan looked to Gucky who nodded his head slightly. So Vader had spocken the truth, at least from his point of view.

If Vader had lied to them or somehow managed to prevent the little telepath from discovering a deception they would find out sooner of later.

Atlan was in deep thought. The development Lord Vader had discribed to them wasn´t new for the immortal Arkonide. He had seen it happen countless times.

Takor Kasom and Ther Khein were silently musing about the tactical and strategical implications of an uprising to fight and how they would deal with a rebellion.

Icho Tolot used his second brain to search for any gaps in Vaders speech and decided finally that the facts they had been told might be true, but not enough to get a view at the total picture. They would need more information before they could plot their next steps.

Arno Kalup had reached the same conclusions, even without a computer-like second brain. For a short moment he thought about the information they would get from the cought Rebel-Pilot, but doubted that they would ge

 

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The Colliding of Empires - Part V

Meanwhile

Luke followed Leia towards her cabine aboard the Home One.
He wasn´t sure how to approach the subject he wanted to discuss with her, nor was he sure if it was the right time or the right place.

But since it was obvious that the attack on the Empires second Death Star couldn´t be done without the supplies from the failed raid on ORD Friggas and with this new powerful ally of the Empire somewhere out there, perhaps there would never be the right time or the right occasion.

And what he had to discuss with Leia would perhaps not only influence the fate of the galaxy, since the survival of the alliance was at stake, but the fate of his family as well.

The young Jedi hoped that his news wouldn´t upset the princess to much, as dramatic as they were.

"Leia", he shouted, making a short run to catch up with her.

"Yes, Luke ?", she looked up to him, questions in her eyes.

"Uhm, can i talk to you ? In private ?"

An eyebrow was raised in curious confusion.

"Luke you are one of my closest friends. You really don´t have to ask, if you want to talk to me. Even in private", she added half-mockingly.

"Yes of course. But this is really important."

Now Leias look changed from curious to concerned.

"Perhaps we should wait for Han. He should be back from the hangar every moment.
Some of the technicians have stated that the Falcon has to be moved towards anohter position where it doesn´t blockedes some of their access-hatches.
And you know that he would take the entire flagship apart before he would allow anybody else to pilot his baby."

Luke shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other.

"I don´t think that is wise", he said after a moment. "I think its better if you hear me out first, before you make your decision about telling Han."

Now Leia was clearly confused. Confused and a bit frightened.

"If you don´t want even Han to know about it ... . I´m not sure if i want to hear it."

Luke didn´t liked it eighter, but he was sure that it had to be done.

"I know how you feel. But please trust me on this."

Leia sighed.

"If you insist on it."

She took a look around, noticing that they were standing in front of Lukes quaters.

"We can as well talk about that in your cabine. Mine is still a few corridors away."

Togehter they left the corridor and entered the cabine.

 

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Excellent story! I'm looking forward to more!

 

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hey, just read this! Really good, tho I don't think it was very Vader-ish to say something aloud like that well, not in a meeting like that

 

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The Colliding of Empires - Part IV

Emperor Palpatine was sitting in his throne-room aboard the Death Star enjoing a feeling of pleasure, while he watched the stars flowing outside the huge window.

Tiny peaks of light embedded in darkness. The analogy made him smile. After all, what had the light of the Jedis been compared to the darkness that had whipped them out ?

Or nearly whipped them out. He snorted in diguest by the thought of Luke Skywalker, but then the expression on his wrickled face changed into a smile.

All things were going as he had foreseen them, with a little motivation by Vader Moff Jerrjerod had managed to bring the work-crews of the Death Star back to shedule, this insignificiant Rebel-Alliance would soon be destroyed inside the trap he had prepared for them and the young Skywalker would be his servant like his father.

His servant or dead.

Of course Vader wouldn´t like that second option, but if the young Jedi-brat couldn´t be turned Palpatine wouldn´t risk to let him stay alive.

The Emperor sighed.

Perhaps the death of his son would allow his supreme henchman finally after two decades to achive his full potential, when the last link to his former live was erased.

For Palpatines taste Darth Vader carried still to much of Anakin Skywalker inside him, preventing his apprentice to become once and for all one with the Dark Side.

To the Emperor as a Sith-Master such a waste of talent and power was ridiciulous and even seemed to be a failure as Mentor. His apprentice should have been able to challenge him long ago as it was the way of the Sith.

He grinned evilly.

It would be an awesome fight, the first real challenge for him for a long time.

He didn´t fear the outcome, if Vader would loose he simply would seek a new apprentice and if Vader killed him the stronger one of them would be the Sith-Master.

Either way the Dark Side and the Sith-Order would win.

But until now Vader was holding back.

Palpatine admitted to himself that this was partly his fault. He hadn´t dared to risk the final decision between him and Vader during the time, when they had consolidated the power of the Sith through the Empire. Now no one was able to resist them, with the destruction of this pathetic rebellion and the destruction of the Jedi soon to occur.

Not that Vader lacked the intellect, his apprentice could be as cunning as him if he wanted to, but there was no denying that Vader preffered the direct approach whenever possible to reach his goal.

No doubt a habit thanks to his technical background.

Of course there was nothing wrong with the direct approach, after all they could afford it now at the top of galactic power.

But eliminating a problem wasn´t the same as to turn it into an asset if possible, not to mention the damage connected to it and Palpatine had been trained by his own Master a long time ago to think that way.

Over twothousand years the Sith had been in hiding, waited patiently for the right moment to strike, prepared for their time to show themself, to claim the place that was rightfully theirs.

And now, after two millenias the Sith-Order seemed to have fullfilled its destiny.

Palpatines knew that the Sith-Order had reached a turning point. Over two millenias the Sith had defined themself by their goals: Eliminating the Jedi-Knights and conquer the galaxy.

It was really an irony: As conquerers hidden in the dark all those pathetic struggles and fights and little wars had been an advantage in the shemes of the Dark Side Users. Now as ruler over a galactic domain, they were a disturbance and had to be surpressed.

Palpatine looked out towards the Stars, HIS stars, all HIS by his own hand, by his OWN doing. Sitting over the biggest cannon ever buildt and watching his domain he felt like a god.

Biggest cannon ... .

He snorted with contempt, remembering the now dead Grand Moff Tarkin praising the Death Star as the ultimate power of the universe.

For a Master of the Dark Side like himself the power to destroy a planet was insigni