Naruto: Privateer: A Lunar Eclipse Side Story

Blanket disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Star Wars

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Naruto: Privateer is a companion piece to my Naruto/Star Wars story Lunar Eclipse which I have been stalled on a long time. It is set in the Star Wars VII-VIII-IX time period and contains major spoilers for those movies. If you haven't seen Star War IX then you should probably go see it before reading further. That being said; this story could be read as a standalone but will make a ton more sense if you've read the story Lunar Eclipse. The main protagonist is an OC kunoichi from that story that is displaced in time through (for now) unknown means. There is influence in this story from all over the Star Wars Universe dating back to before the Jedi existed all the way up to the recent show; the Mandalorian. Here is Chapter 1. Enjoy!

AUTHOR'S NOTE II: Years are measured in BBY (Before Battle of Yavin) and ABY (After Battle of Yavin). The Battle of Yavin refers to the end of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope when the first Death Star was destroyed.

{ } signifies a foreign/alien language

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A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY….

Chapter 1

Year 15 ABY

Unknown Regions, Planet Exegol

It had been nine years since the death of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious (Also known as Emperor Sheev Palpatine) on the Second Death Star. Unknown to the galaxy; the Emperor wasn't dead at all. The secret cult known as the Sith Eternal*① had finally managed to resuscitate their fallen leader through the darkest of Sith Alchemy. The Sith cultists had many things on their agenda such as backing the First Order under Palpatine's puppet Supreme Leader Snoke and locating the missing son of Palpatine's in order to capture his newborn granddaughter Rey who they believed was destined to become the next Sith Empress….

….The Sith Eternal also found something they revered that they called the Sith Obelisk on the very day that Palpatine died. They located it deep underground in the very bowels of the planet Exegol itself after a cataclysmic earthquake that shook the dark desert world. The cultists took it as a sign. The Sith Obelisk's origins were a complete mystery to them but whatever the rectangular black crystal was; it contained an immense amount of power of the Dark Side of the Force that they used to revive Darth Sidious from his eternal slumber.

Their scientists were baffled even further because the Sith Obelisk faded into the Force the very same day that Emperor Palpatine awakened. It simply ceased to be and the Sith Eternal came to the conclusion that it had been left there by the ancients specifically to fuel the return of the Sith to power.

How little they knew….

….

Year 34 ABY

Core Worlds, Coruscant System, Planet Coruscant, Uscru Entertainment District

Nine years later, a hooded member of the Sith Eternal came into the underground area known as the Uscru Entertainment District on Coruscant with two guards and located the place they were looking for; the establishment known as the Outlander Club.*② The three Sith were looking for a bounty hunter that was exceptionally skilled by the name of Uzumaki. Rumor had it Uzumaki was a Mandalorian and was related to the famous bounty hunter Boba Fett but no one knew for certain. Apparently Uzumaki neither confirmed nor denied it….

Entering the Outlander Club, the Sith and his two guards spoke to a huge bouncer that sniggered at his request to meet up with Uzumaki. The bouncer grunted and growled in his own inhuman tongue that Uzumaki usually had a table back by the pod-racer betting tables. The Sith hissed to himself, "It cost a ridiculous fee even to find this Uzumaki. Then again he is supposed to be exceptionally skilled…."

The Three Sith looked about and saw a woman in a skintight armored mesh combat suit with grieves and Mandalorion asymmetrical armor made of beskar steel. To top it off she had a Mandalorion style helm. She was very petite but had a body that would rival any dancer or model. She sat down at a table and quickly drew a deck of sabaac cards. She artfully spun the deck in her hand and motioned the Sith Eternal and his guards to sit with her. The lead Sith sat down with his guards flanking him. He said, "I am Ewoon Tarr. You are…?"

"Uzumaki." She said in a quiet but sensual voice. She dealt the cards to herself and Ewoon before setting a rather large pile of chips on the table. The Sith was trying to probe her mind through the Force but her thoughts were like quicksilver. They were moving so fast and were so slippery that he couldn't comprehend what he was sensing. They quietly played sabaac and the stakes kept getting higher and higher until the frustrated Sith had been fleeced of several thousand credits.

Seeing the Sith was at his wits end, Uzumaki raked in her winnings and said; "Consider that down payment for me to listen to this job offer."

Ewoon's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "Y-you're charging me for just showing up?!"

"That's correct." answered Uzumaki. "If this job is a waste of time I'll be taking my winnings and leaving."

Tarr's anger boiled over and he reached out to Force choke the bounty hunter. "Listen to me you arrogant little-!"

She raised her left index finger and said, "Your little parlor tricks won't work on me Sith Eternal. I know who you are, what you are and what you're capable of. You are wide open. Unless the three of you want to leave this place as smoking slabs of meat I'd advise you control your temper. Now let's talk business."

The Sith wondered exactly what this person was that he was dealing with was. 'Is she a Force user? Is she immune to Force influence? What is she?' Regaining his composure; Ewoon Tarr said, "We're looking for a girl called the scavenger. We don't know her real name. I have a DNA Tracker of her Father and the last known location of her parents as of fourteen years ago."

Uzumaki tapped her finger and asked; "And her parents…?"

"Executed." replied the Sith.

"You want her dead or alive?" asked the bounty hunter.

Ewoon answered, "We want her alive and intact. You will be compensated accordingly." He said showing her a chip card with an amount on it in the sum of several million credits.

She tapped her finger on the table and said, "That's enough to bring her in cold. If you want her warm and intact then it will cost you double. Shipping livestock is….troublesome."

The Sith was sweating heavily and said, "I don't have that kind of money with me…."

"Then we are done here." replied Uzumaki as she stood up to leave.

"I can give you half now and the remainder upon completion of the job." Tarr said in a desperate tone.

The bounty hunter sat back down. "I believe we have an accord then…."

….

Inner Rim, Jakku System, Planet Jakku, Niima Outpost

As far as the rest of the galaxy was concerned; Emperor's Papatine's Empire died out in the year 5 ABY in the Jakku System. A massive final battle took place between the New Republic Forces and the Galactic Empire which resulted in a decisive victory for the Republic. The battle was so fearsome that Imperial ships latched onto Republic vessels with tractor beams and actually dragged the ships down to crash on the surface of the desolate desert world which killed the vast majority of the ship's crews on both sides. Between the space and ground battles on Jakku; the wreckage of the fleets and masses of military hardware became known as the Graveyard of Ships. This led to the Niima Outpost being built.

Soon after the establishment of Niima Outpost by Niima the Hutt; an entire economy would be established based on the foraging of valuable technology in the Graveyard of Ships. Following the Niima the Hutt's death at the hands of a bounty hunter; the local junk boss Unkar Plutt controlled a monopoly over the business from his base at Niima Outpost. As a result, many stories would circulate over the origins of the wreckage and the battle that was fought, with many local residents falsely claiming to have been on the planet when the ships fell. It was here that scavengers braved the wilds of the treacherous desert….

One particularly talented scavenger was a young woman named Rey….

Rey made her home in a downed Imperial All Terrain Armored Transport, Hellhound Two, left over from the Battle of Jakku. Outside of the AT-AT walker was where she kept the speeder she built for herself, which gave her a degree of independence as she made her way back and forth from the starship graveyard. Inside the walker, Rey also had a computer display from an old BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber that she used to learn alien languages, study the schematics of Republic and Imperial starships, and run flight simulations in order to hone her skills as a pilot.

Her ability to understand alien languages, including the binary language of droids, helped the nineteen year old a great deal when offworlders came to Niima Outpost. Studying schematics to learn how ships worked was also an important part of her survival on Jakku. She recognized almost all of the Republic and Imperial vessels that could be found in the Graveyard, including what roles they played in combat, the types of weapons they were armed with, their models and classes, and how many crew members each one had. She learned this not just through studying schematics on her computer, but also by climbing through and exploring the ships and tinkering with their systems. This let her know what each part was, what it could do, whether it worked, and most importantly whether it would carry any value in Niima Outpost….

Rey had no idea that her whole world was about to turn upside down in the form of a little astromech droid named BB-8 that the First Order was desperately looking for….

….

Planet Jakku, near Cratertown

In the desert near one of the few settlements on Jakku of note, Cratertown, was a small vessel that belonged to the bounty hunter named Uzumaki. It was an old Incom UT-60D U-Wing Gunship*③ that had obviously seen better days. The ship had the name Katana painted on its side up by the cockpit. The female pilot was outside the ship looking skywards with a macro binocular viewplate on her Mandolorian helmet at the First Order Resurgent Class battlecruiser Finalizer in orbit over the planet Jakku. 'What the hell is the First Order doing here? This is basically the ass end of space.' she wondered. 'It would be best to stay on the ground and stay powered down to avoid being noticed.'

The hunter was also monitoring the space wave traffic. 'It sounds like they are attacking Niima Outpost….They've got two TIE fighters chasing a YT model freighter near the surface of Jakku from what I can tell.'

Hearing a bunch of cursing over the airwaves she thought aloud, "Hmmm….I guess the freighter either had a hot pilot or was well armed. The two TIEs have been destroyed and the freighter just escaped into space." She kept scanning and saw that the battlecruiser was staying put and wasn't launching any more fighters either. Then the hunter saw a telltale blip vanish on her screen. 'Looks like the YT just jumped out….I sensed a force user on that freighter. Could be the girl called the scavenger but I'm not positive.' she thought. 'There is one on the battlecruiser also. He or she seems to be having a tantrum….idiot.'

Adjusting her helmet slightly, Uzumaki scanned Cratertown in the distance. 'I guess I'll stay powered down and wait for the battlecruiser to leave before I make any overt moves. I can check out Cratertown in the meantime. It's not that far of a walk. It sounds like Niima Outpost may be occupied by the First Order so it's best to stay away for the time being….' The bounty hunter rapped on the side of the ship and a protocol droid poked its head into view. "Deter,*④ keep monitoring the airwaves and if anything even remotely unfriendly gets close eliminate it with extreme prejudice."

The droid saluted in a jaunty way and said, "I've got it covered Sheena.*⑤"

….

The Uzumaki hunter came into Cratertown looking for information on the force user she was looking for. The plain brown and rust colored structures showed heavy weathering from the sandstorms that frequented the area. It was obviously in poor upkeep and the denizens of the village were very poor also. Sheena saw the native reptilian race called the Teedo; the insectoid Melitto (a race that she'd met before) as well as other species but about half of the town looked to be occupied by humans. After wandering around a bit and asking about the local scavengers the hunter was told to head to Ergel's Bar.

Entering the bar Sheena removed her Mandolorian style helmet revealing she had long red hair and exotic golden eyes. The redhead still had her lower face shielded by a scarf when she came up to the bar proper with a sway in her hips. The bar was poorly lit within but her golden eyes reflected the low light causing them to glow slightly. The barkeep was a middle aged human that had tired eyes as if he'd seen too much. He looked into the young woman's gold eyes and thought, 'What a woman!'The barkeep blushed slightly and said, "You're new around here; what can I get you offworlder?"

'Must be obvious from my clothes.' thought the hunter. She motioned over to a table where several people were drinking and obviously having a good time. "What are they having?" Sheena asked in a quiet voice.

The barkeep glanced over at some of his regulars and said, "They're drinking Knockback Nectar, a local specialty."

"What's in it?" asked Uzumaki.

"You really don't want to know." said the barkeep. "It's pickled in fuel barrels in the south."

'Lovely.' thought the redhead. "I'll try one." she slid him two platinum coins on the counter and his eyes widened before he quickly snatched them of the counter as if they were the most precious thing he'd ever seen.

He scanned them with a metal detector and said in awe, "They are genuine; how many do you want?" 'This could buy the whole damn bar.' he thought.

Picking up on his thoughts she said, "One for now. What do you know about good scavengers?"

He gave her an oil can that looked like it was full of hydraulic fluid with spongy, bobbling bits floating about in it. She took a whiff and it smelled like motor oil. The barkeep saw her tap one finger on the counter as if she was waiting for something and he quickly figured the woman was just there for information as she didn't look too impressed with the Knockback Nectar. He chuckled and figuring she paid for his retirement the barkeep said, "If you are looking for good scavengers then head about two hundred klicks west to a place called Niima Outpost; it's run by a Junk Boss. He's a big Crolute named Unkar Plutt. I doubt you'll have any problems getting what you need from him."

She raised an eyebrow. "What's an aquatic species like a Crolute doing on a desert planet like Jakku?"

The barkeep answered, "Making money with his thugs however he damn well pleases."

The redhead nodded and said, "Thanks for the drink." before she headed back to her ship without taking a sip of Knockback Nectar….

….

The hunter soon boarded the Katana and saw her droid Deter monitoring the local airwaves. "The battlecruiser is gone." she said. "We're going to Niima Outpost Deter. The guy we need to talk to is a Crolute named Unkar Plutt."

Deter pivoted around and said, "I picked up on him Sheena. They call him the 'Junk Boss.' He's some kind of crime lord I guess." Then the droid chuckled mechanically and added, "The locals call him the Blobfish. They really hate his guts."

Sheena grinned under her helmet and replied, "Most crime lords are pretty unpopular Deter. So are assassin droids and bounty hunters."

Deter held up a finger and said lightly, "Protocol droid." Then he tilted his head in thought and said seriously, "Niima Outpost was just raided by the First Order this morning. Even though they've left shouldn't we avoid the place? It's probably still in chaos."

"Chaos can be a good ally if you know how to use it right." said the redhead with a smile in her voice. "Let's check it out."

The Katana was soon airborne and headed to Niima Outpost….

….

Niima Outpost

The Outpost was a mess from being strafed by TIE fighters as well as Stormtroopers tearing up the place that morning. Now the First Order was gone leaving the locals to salvage what they could. Unkar Plutt was livid not only because his little junk empire was a mess but because his Corellian YT-1300 freighter, the Millennium Falcon was stolen by the little brat of a scavenger Rey, an offworlder and a droid the First Order wanted. Unkar's thugs were trying to enforce his will without much success. Plutt had plans to go after the Millennium Falcon and capture Rey but that was just about to get derailed. The last thing Plutt needed right now was trouble….

That was when a fiery redhead named Uzumaki Sheena blew into town….

Sheena was still in her desert gear minus her Mandolorian helm when she surveyed the wrecked outpost. She came up to a local woman and asked, "Do you know where I can find Unkar Plutt?"

The woman looked at Sheena and said, "He's in a really bad mood but if you need parts he's at his stall in the Concession Stand." Then she added, "Watch out for his thugs."

The redhead smiled mischievously under her scarf and thanked the woman before heading off to the so called Concession Stand.

Sheena came up to the Concession Stand with a sway in her hips and saw a big Crolute barking out orders from behind a screened off stall (for his own protection she presumed). Watching for a few moments she realized everything here was barter and that he traded in junk parts and seemed to pay people in food rations from who knows where. 'I wonder if those food rations aren't salvaged as well.' thought the redhead.

Getting quietly in line Sheena slowly advanced as the line got shorter. Plutt saw her and realized she was an offworlder. "Are you buying or selling?" he asked gruffly.

Sheena put her hand on her hip and she said, "I'm buying. I'm looking for information on the whereabouts of a scavenger girl that was on the freighter that blasted out of here this morning."

Unkar's deep set black eyes glared with anger and hatred. He said, "Rey took my ship! Why do you want to know? Are you a bounty hunter?"

'So the force user I detected on the freighter was her.' thought Sheena. "Was it a YT type?" asked Sheena. Plutt nodded angrily. "That's all I need to know. Thanks for your time; I'll be on my way now." said the redhead. She turned to walk away….

Plutt snapped his stubby fingers and said, "You aren't going anywhere bounty hunter, she's mine!" Four of Unkar's thugs came trotting up at the snap of his fingers.

Sheena wasn't sure whether to be amused or annoyed. She looked over her shoulder at Plutt and said, "You're assuming too much. Are you sure you want to do this? Good help is hard to find these days."

"Take her!" roared Unkar to his thugs. One of them drew a vibroblade only for Sheena to scissor kick him in the face and send blood flying from his shattered nose. He and his vibroblade both went flying as the redhead landed. She spun into a foot sweep and tripped up a second thug that was on her opposite side. The third thug managed to draw his blaster and Sheena body switched with the fourth thug causing him to blast his friend in the chest at point blank range. She then throat jabbed the thug with the blaster before he could react and he fell over choking and grasping his throat.

The thug that she tripped up was back on his feet with his blaster drawn and said, "Female die now!" Sheena held up her hand and effortlessly deflected the blaster bolts using chakra which coated her hand. She then pulled the blaster out of his grip using the Force and spun it like a gunfighter before shooting out the thug's kneecaps causing him to bellow in pain and collapse.

Sheena then turned back to the terrified Unkar Plutt with her gold eyes flashing in anger. "You aren't too smart are you?" she asked the shivering Crolute. Seeing Plutt stop shivering; Sheena shot the last thug with the broken nose over her shoulder without looking. He'd retrieved his vibroblade and was attempting to sneak up on her.

Plutt's terror returned full force and he tried to pull down an armored blind to protect himself from blaster fire. Instead he saw Sheena holding out her hand in a gripping motion and felt himself in a brutal Force choke. "J-jedi!" Unkar gasped out.

Sheena said, "You wish Blobfish." She made a motion with her free hand and thousands of food rations exploded through the roof of the Concession Stand and rained down all over Niima Outpost like mana from heaven. People started eagerly scooping them up as fast as they fell.

"N-no!" choked out the big Colute.

The redhead said, "Looks like you are out of luck." She choked the terrified Unkar Plutt unconscious and as he passed out he heard her say, "Next time I won't be so merciful."

….

Sheena left Niima Outpost and pulled her communications link. "Have the ship ready for takeoff. Things just got complicated. Our girl's name is Rey and she was on that YT freighter."

Her comm crackled with Deter's voice. "Understood Sheena. See you in a few minutes."

The Katana was spaceborne twenty minutes later….

….

Mid Rim, Takodana System, Planet Takodana

Flying low over the lush green world of Takodana; Naruto's daughter Sheena was following a lead. It had taken a few days to catch up with the YT freighter that she had positively identified as the (in)famous YT-1300 Millennium Falcon. Her droid D2R was tracking the Falcon easily because the old freighter had a tracking beacon on it that half the criminal gangs in the galaxy knew of. Monitoring illegal airwaves meant the Katana could tail the Millennium Falcon anywhere it went from a distance. Unfortunately that led directly to the Planet Takodana where the Pirate Queen Maz Kanata had lived in her castle for over 1,000 years….

"Damn!" growled the redhead. "Not only is Maz Kanata's Castle a no fighting zone; I owe the old woman one for helping me translate Rakatan script."

"It's rare for you to let scruples such as no fighting get in your way Sheena." said D2R humorously.

Sheena's gold eyes narrowed as she turned to her mechanical friend and the kunoichi replied, "Deter, we are supposed to take this girl Rey in alive, remember? ...Besides, do you know how few scholars there are the know Rakatan script? Maz Kanata is a wealth of archaic knowledge."

Deter chuckled in his usual mechanical way. "If you weren't so interested in collecting ancient artifacts we'd have a lot better ship you know?"

The redhead got a flat look on her face. "Katana's got it where it counts." said Sheena as she patted the ship's instrument cowling. "Besides; you know I have my reasons Deter. I promise I'll explain it all to you….someday."

….

Planet Takodana, Maz Kanata's Castle

Sheena entered the massive cantina that was at the base floor of Maz Kanata's Castle and was (mistakenly) recognized by several of Maz's regulars there as a Mandalorian by her helmet and armor. The redhead smirked under her helm at the frightful, imposing image everyone had of her as a Mandalorian warrior….Then Maz ruined everything by hopping down and embracing the kunoichi and saying happily, "Sheena-chan! It's so good to see you child!"

Sheena sweat-dropped and said in her usual quiet voice, "….I do have an image to uphold you know."

The short orange alien Maz gave Sheena a big smile and said, "Not with me Sheena-chan. Come and sit with me."

The redhead shook her head and followed Maz over to the head table where she sat down beside the one and only Han Solo. Han looked at the petite redhead and asked, "Aren't you kind of short for a Mandalorian?"

"There's an old saying that you shouldn't poke a sleeping krayt dragon with a stick Mister Solo." replied Sheena in a surly tone. "I'm not after you anyway."

Han chuckled and held up his hands in surrender. "Didn't mean to make you mad little lady."

Sheena saw the ex-Stormtrooper Finn speaking to Rey at the door. They seemed to be arguing. The redhead sighed and turned to Maz. The kunoichi said in a hushed tone to the Pirate Queen, "The Sith Eternal want that force sensitive girl Rey and they want her alive. "

Both Han and Maz's eyes widened in alarm. "The First Order wants Rey…?" asked Han worriedly.

Sheena tapped her finger on the table and Han shrugged before sliding several credits to the kunoichi. Sheena checked the credits before pocketing them and said, "The Sith Eternal pull the strings behind the First Order. They want the girl. The First Order wants something else. The First Order will be here soon. The battlecruiser Finalizer is lurking in the area. They are probably tracking the Millennium Falcon like I did."

"An untrained force sensitive of her power in the hands of the Sith?!" asked Maz with wide eyes. "That could have catastrophic results!"

"I know." said Sheena. "It wasn't until I got in close proximity of her that I could feel it. This is one bounty I can't afford to deliver."

Maz said, "Let me talk to the girl."

….

A little while later the Uzumaki hunter felt Rey's connection to the force start to awaken. 'So Maz got her to take the first step….' Then Sheena felt something else from Rey….Fear. Rey dashed by and left the Castle without looking back….

...Sheena was ruminating on what to do next when a beam of light appeared in the sky and streaked across it. Everyone stepped outside and saw the beam break up into smaller beams and explosions in the sky. The redhead heard Finn talking loudly to Han about the First Order destroying the Republic….Sheena felt trillions of lives destroyed in an instant as planets were destroyed one after the other….She whispered, "Hosnian….System….d-dead." The Je'daii Ranger nearly blacked out from the mental strain of such a huge part of the living force being torn asunder….

The visions of destruction….the Starkiller Base….Supreme Leader Snoke….the past….the future….All passed before her mind's eye before she was hit with the present like a thermonuclear detonator….

Sheena's golden eyes clicked open like a targeting computer activating and took in her surroundings. TIE fighters filled the sky and were strafing the area. Stormtroopers were everywhere pouring out of landing craft. She saw Finn, Han and Chewbacca surrounded by Stormtroopers with blasters drawn.

"DON'T MOVE!" said one of the Stormtroopers. He radioed, "TK-338; we have targets in custody."

Han, Chewbacca and Finn were quickly stripped of their weapons….

….And within a heartbeat; Uzumaki Sheena was among them with two orange lightsabers drawn….

Like a maelstrom surrounding the three prisoners, Sheena seemed to be a blur of orange blades that harvested up the First Order's ground assault troops like a scythe through wheat. There were thirty troopers and in a flash there was one….He turned and ran only for her to whisper, "Futon Rasengan!" and hurl the lethal star shaped jutsu past the Stormtrooper and into the transport he was running towards which was blown into a million flaming pieces. The lone surviving trooper looked back at the kunoichi in terror as she motioned towards him with her empty hand. "You will not resist." she commanded.

"….I will not resist…." said the Stormtrooper in a daze.

Then Sheena ordered, "Tell me who led this assault and where he is."

The stunned Stormtrooper replied, "….Lord Kylo Ren led this assault….he headed west after the droid….with a girl…."

The Je'daii made a gripping motion with her hand and twisted it ninety degrees which snapped the Stormtrooper's neck and ended his life in an instant. "May you find peace in the next life." she whispered.

She motioned to Han and the others. "Pick up your weapons. We need to find Rey and your droid."

"You're a Jedi?" asked Han.

Sheena shook her head; "No, I'm something else."

Finn was looking around wild eyed at all the destruction Sheena left in her wake and said, "You're something else all right!"

….A second later they all heard a Stormtrooper in the distance call out to his comrades, "We have incoming at 28 point 6!"

"It's the Resistance." said Han. 'Ben….he's here.' thought the smuggler despairingly….

….

A furious dogfight was swirling in the skies between Resistance X-wings and First Order TIE Fighters. Amidst the mass of destruction in the sky above, Kylo Ren ordered his men to withdraw having captured Rey personally. If the Leader of the Knights of Ren*⑥ sensed his Father Han Solo's presence or Finn running after him calling out for Rey then he made no sign of it. The dark clad warrior walked up the loading ramp to his massive personal transport carrying Rey bridal style. Then he paused as a bone chilling presence washed over him….

Through the Force he heard a woman's voice say quietly, "Run away like the cowardly cur you are Kylo Ren….Run back to your ship and hide like a frightened child. You have made a terrible enemy this day…."

As the loading ramp closed Ren's transport took off and left planet Takodana behind. Snoke's protégé was both shaken and confused at the woman's presence which had revealed itself. 'There is another….I must speak to my Master.' thought the masked apprentice to the dark side….

….

POSTSCRIPT:

*①: Sith Eternal: The Sith Eternal is a secret cult that seeks to resurrect the Galactic Empire and the Sith Order. During the New Republic Era the Sith cultists established their lair on the planet Exegol located in the Unknown Regions of the Galaxy. There they use the Sith Citadel as their base where Darth Sidious was gradually revived.

*②: Outlander Club: The Outlander Club is a gambling establishment and nightclub situated in the lowest levels of the planet Coruscant's Uscru Entertainment District. It is a popular and busy location for both the higher echelons of Coruscant society and those engaged in more sinister activities.

*③: UT-60D Gunship: The UT-60D starfighter/support craft (Also known simply as the U-Wing) is a transport/gunship manufactured by the Incom Corporation and was used by the Rebel Alliance against the Empire during the Galactic Civil War. They were used to transport and drop troops into battle as well as provide cover for them. A standard crew was two with the option of two gunners and up to eight passengers.

*④: Deter (D2R): D2R is an assassin droid modified to look and behave like a standard humanoid protocol droid. He resembles L3-37 (From the *cringe* movie Star Wars: Solo) physically. Thanks to modifications by Uzumaki Kushina. D2R is unique in that he has a gregarious personality and behaviors as well as free will. Combat wise, D2R is comparable to an IG series assassin droid though he does not possess the same amount of armor. D2R prefers stealth to open combat unlike an IG series as well. He would be addressed as "Dee-two-are" normally but Sheena shortened this to the nickname "Deter."

*⑤: Uzumaki Sheena: Uzumaki Sheena is the adopted daughter of Uzumaki Naruto and his wife Uzumaki Hyūga Hinata. She is currently seventeen years of age and is the equivalent of an Elite Jonin kunoichi. She also is trained to the level of a Je'daii Ranger/bordering on Master and uses a unique style known as the Iaido stance which she developed herself with the aid of her Masters at the tender age of eight. Sheena's exact location in time is a mystery at this point in the story as she was born on the Planet Pristiq thousands of years before in the Old Republic Era and bred to be a Jedi hunter/killer by the Isis branch of the mysterious Shamshir Clan of Force users.

*⑥: Knights of Ren: The Knights of Ren are a group of Dark Side Warriors who serve Kylo Ren and worship the Dark Side of the Force as their Deity. Though they are Force sensitive their connection with the Force is stunted and unrefined due to lack of proper Force training.

Well, that's chapter 1. It seems a bit choppy to me but I think that is because my writing is traditionally slow paced and the Star Wars movies are generally very fast paced. Once Star Wars VII is over and done I'll be able to write stuff that's a little more even paced and I won't have to import quotes and scenes directly from the movies. I've actually had the idea of a Lunar Eclipse sequel for years but after running it by several readers it seemed like a bad idea to not finish the original first. A side story on the other hand (Like Rogue One) could work. Sheena's presence in the current timeline will be explained eventually but for now it's in the background. See you next time. Blue out. 2/11/20