Dark Lord: Bride of Vader

Chapter 9: Fallen Angels

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"The dark is generous. Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others. The dark protects us from what we dare not know." - An excerpt from the Revenge of the Sith Novelization by Matthew Woodring Stover.

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A week passed after the Battle of Rimbor and its integration into the Empire. The planet, once a hive of piracy and scum, was now under construction and planning to be an Imperial mining world for its vast amounts of raw minerals and precious metals it has under its rocky surface, which the previous government neglected over for their steady stream of revenue from corruption and crime.

After Rimbor was secured, an Imperial task force attached to a diplomatic team was sent to Talcyion Omega to incorporate the world under Imperial rule. No guns were raised or casualties taken, the Talcyioners were reported to greet and welcome the Imperials. But after the diplomatic teams stated why the Empire was there, the cat-like peoples got hesitant.

They didn't resist or attack; the cats only questioned and maybe politely declined, saying that their people's society had no need to be under the Empire and their world was peaceful as it was. But the diplomats made counterarguments as well. They mentioned the Talcyioners were having some problems with pirates and stated that their society would've been pillaged and enslaved if it weren't for the Empire. They also said how the species could benefit under rule; roads, cities, power plants, houses, hospitals, and space ports can be built with medicines and schooling provided.

The Talcyioners, while not very technologically advanced, appreciated the Empire solving their problems. Though reluctantly, and some days passed after their arrival, they accepted the proposal. Out of thinking their race would prosper, out of fear if they said no, sadness for those who died ridding of said pirates, or a mixture of all of them. All of that was besides the point; what mattered was that Talcyion Omega was under the Empire and its resources for the New Galactic Order.

The Gordanian cruiser the Imperial fleet captured during the battle of Rimbor is being picked apart and studied by the Imperial corps of engineers, searching for any weaknesses for a future war with the reptiles. The Imperial fleet has been baptized in fire; their first victory was achieved, and Vader was satisfied with the outcome. Pirates and bandits around their section of space have become afraid of the Imperial Navy, and raids of any sort from criminals have decreased dramatically.

The Sith Lord returned to his dark fortress sanctuary in the forbidden jungle, or 'Thusla's Doom' called by some Imperials. Deep within the castle was a chamber with one lone tank filled with liquid that acted as amniotic medical gel, very similar to Bacta fluid. Within this purple liquid was Vader, naked, his white damaged skin bare, his cybernetic prosthetics gone, and his armor off so that the servant girls could clean it. A rebreather wrapped around his face as his body bobbed slowly up and down in the thick medical liquid.

The medical gel that Vader is able to have in this new realm is slightly better than Bacta, but ultimately, it cannot repair his body. The practice of solely using technology to return his limbs and normal self, however, has been long abandoned. Technology and the dark side

alone couldn't fully heal his body. The combination of dark side techniques and science could only achieve the task of rejuvenating his well-being.

Speaking of which, Vader's new assistant entered his chamber, and the sliding doors opened to reveal a multi-armed medical droid in the designation of 11-4E. The droid shuffled into the round, dark chamber as the doors closed behind it. The droid spoke in an electronic voice with a masculine, whimsical voice, "Greetings, my master, I have many things to report."

While Vader created 11-4E in his droid workshop within his castle, he simply copied the design from one droid model he usually encountered in Sidious's palace on Coruscant, 11-4D. Not much was known about 11-4D; the model wasn't found anywhere when Vader tried to look it up. The droid was only seen in Palpatine's own medical suite in his palace. Though Vader could have shrugged it off as just some special droid, something drew him to the droid—that the droid was somehow part of something great and grand in the past but was completely a mystery.