DARK FORCES (Thrawn x Reader)

1. The Ceremony

This is the day you have been waiting all your life. The moment when you will be someone in the galaxy. This is your chance to honor your family's last name: Assari. You know that this won't be enough and you are prepared to achieve much more.

You put one foot into the shower, and almost fell because of the stress. You have to relax, you can't act like this during the ceremony. The cubicle is small, but at least it's not a shared shower like in other military academies. You know how lucky you are to be there. Well, it's not about luck. You know that being the daughter of a family with great influences between senators and high military ranks has its advantages. Even if you don't like that at all, your father doesn't usually take a no for an answer. Because of your brother's decision to work in the family factory, almost all of your family's hopes of expansion were pinned on you. He dropped out of the Royal Imperial Academy just before graduation, putting not only him in a bad place, but your parents as well. But none of you can blame him, he doesn't belong there. Although he wasn't a mediocre student, he always had a vocation to design and build ships, from a young age. Training, studying ciphers, manipulating weapons (among other things) was no longer enough for him. Anyway, you have always been very proud of your brother. And he is proud of you too. Despite the age difference, eleven years, you understand each other perfectly.

You think about that, about age, about the passage of time. Cadets typically graduate from the academy as Ensign between the ages of eighteen and twenty. Depending on the skills of the cadet and the age at which they have started, usually thirteen. You could have graduated at eighteen too. However for the last year you have been preparing a specialization for the ISB. Instead of coming out with an Ensign title, they give you a Lieutenant one. In the case of the Imperial Security Bureau, the rank is called inspector. Despite the great opportunity, few colleagues decide to stay another year. Most of them are impatient, they get tired of the routine. And after constant exams, they don't want to face extra ISB training. The ISB coaches tend to be much less strict than those of the Royal Academy that trains you for the ISB(kinda ironic). After all, they want the students who leave there to give a good image of both their teachers and the academy.

You are aware that it hasn't been easy. Your parents have influences, but that can't help you at all in most cases. And even more when the parents of all your classmates have influences. There are the sons of the elite in here, no less than that. And even if your parents are humble and not very ostentatious, it doesn't mean that they don't take advantage of their position to ensure the best future for their children.

In your case it was simple. Ever since you could remember, you knew that you wanted to work fully on the operation of the empire. At that time you still didn't know how, but you would be in the middle of the action. Which better way than to work for the Empire's Security Bureau? Infiltrations in special missions, protection of Senators, threat control. And the great chances of being assigned to the major headquarters there on Coruscant. That way you could continue to see your family and there are usually great job opportunities. You didn't want to know much, but your father has already pulled his strings to make it real.

You touch your right shoulder, you must have a contracture that is bothering you a lot. Despite having the ceremony today, the coaches had you all training until the last day. And although the most advanced, even if nor the harder, training is usually given once inside the ISB, the temary to be studied is extremely broad. And that is something that those who enter as Junior Inspectors in the ISB, don't have to suffer. As they rise little by little, it is assumed that they acquire that knowledge progressively. The reality is that an ISB Inspector with the ISB degree could crush any ISB Ensing(Junior Inspector). That was proved last year. That's why the reward is greater, because the process is hard. You couldn't be more overwhelmed by the fact that no one can take that away from you anymore. Not the title, nor the fact that in a few weeks you will be working at the largest ISB headquarters in the center of the galaxy. Not just because of your father. Unofficially, you know that because of your academic grades, you are a great candidate for it. Also, most of your companions want to be assigned to a ship. You don't understand it, despite your love for them, you know that life is calmer on land. Of course not counting the lower sectors of this city, they live in a constant anarchy.