The Emperor sat in his quarters on coruscant, looking over the recent reports of the rebellion with annoyance. There was a considerable rise of rebel attacks on key imperial locations across the outer rim.

He set up the empire's bureaucracy so that he could rule without dealing with such tiresome labors and focus on delving deep into the Lore of the Dark Side, and yet with the death of tarkin after the disaster of Yavin 4, he had yet to appoint a new Grand Moff of the outer rim to handle these affairs. now things were going downhill for the empire completely. The death stars destruction had cost the empire a considerable amount of resources and credits as well as time and effort. And to make matters even worse,the rebellion was gaining more momentum, more planets were joining their cause and tarkin's destruction of alderaan had only caused more harm to the empire than the rebellion. The number of defections has increased and the empire had lost considerable ground in the outer rim.

He then thought of Tarkin.

His decaying teeth clenched at the thought of him. Tarkin was fortunate indeed he didn't have the sense to flee the death star like Tagge wisely did during the battle over yavin. Had he done so, his demise would have been slow and egregious in every conceivable sense of both words. But either way, whether he succeeded or not, his time was approaching anyway. He was too ambitious for his own good and would need to be eradicated before he could turn against him and take over as the new emperor.

And then there was his apprentice.

His hands squeezed the arms of his seat with small crackles of electricity pulsing across his boney,pale fingers

Though Vader had survived, he failed to stop a single starfighter from striking the most devastating blow to the empire in its history. This was inadmissible, if Vader loses his effectiveness he'll have no choice but to replace him with one the the scientists creations.

he wanted to make sure that Vader would never forget his failure and humiliation and that he understood what another failure of such magnitude would spell that for him

Maybe a few painful doses of Force Lighting would be sufficient enough of an admonition.

But lately his apprentice seemed distracted. As though something was dominating his focus, something that was important to him. But that was a mystery for another time.

He gazed at the reports sent by grand general Tagge of recent developments at the front of the outer rim conflicts. Assigning Vader under the command of Tagge WAS one of his punishments for his failure, but it also served as the first step of a long and arduous crusade against the unrest that pervaded across the outer rim. He needed Tagges Analytical mind and Impressive foresight as well as his apprentices might in order to reclaim the empires waning grip on the outer rim. had Thrawn not vanished during the skirmish on Lothal, he would have placed the task to him. Perhaps Tagge Had Thrawn's Disappearance in part to thank for his New position and title as Grand General.

But it mattered not.

It wouldn't be long before the Empire Strikes Back against the Rebellion and soon all would-

…..

He then suddenly felt an intense feeling of unease….

….A Disturbance in the Force…

…..at…..

…..Dromund Kaas…..

Hey guys i FINALLY found time to write this chapter and I hope it was to your liking.

I know it wasn't quite as long as the last one but chapter 2 was more of a cram of words instead of a chapter. The chapters are gonna vary in length due to various reasons including the fact that i am trying in this chapter a much more organized, cleaner format of writing.

on other subjects I hope I wrote Palpa-I mean, The Senate correctly and well enough. So I don't know when the next chapter will be released but I hope it will be soon as i will have plenty of time during the Christmas break. So expect the next chapter as well as edits to necessary and/or Grammatical edits to previous ones to come during the beginning of 2020 at the latest. And who knows? Maybe if we're lucky, we'll have it before then.

Ta-Ta for now!

Tanor Kalomyr