Kingly Adventures

Chapter 87: The Phantom Menace ( Part 2)

A FEW HOURS LATER, IN THE SEWERS OF THE THEED CITY:

Captain Panaka was worried for the queen and his people. The siege was not a simple attack of some powerful pirate group but a full blown invasion initiated by Nute Gunray. He was holding the people of Naboo hostage in order to force the Queen to sign some truly damaging treaties with him and in proxy, with the Trade Federation. Captain Panaka had every member of the enemy forces he had encounterd in their escape, killed as he knew that the monsters hiding inside people come out at these moments, he did not want the innocent people of Naboo to suffer. Captain Panaka watched as the Queen contacted her allies in the Senate and The Jedi High Council and asked for help. According to the conversion he had overheard, a Jedi Master and his Padawan were coming to negotiate peace.

Captain Panaka seriously doubted the usefulness of a single Jedi Master and his padawan in a  fight against an entire army composed of weaponized droids and mercenaries but he didn't voice his thoughts as the Queen had for the first time gained a shadow of hope after her conversation with her allies.  Captain Panaka ordered the guards with him to stand guard while he went to scout the surroundings. Captain Panaka balled his fists as he saw his people being herded like a cattle into the makeshift prisons. He could hear how the mercenaries jeered lewdly at the innocent daughters of Naboo and discussed less than pleasant things about them. It took all of his self control to not to attack these mercenaries but he was able to hold himself back.

Captain Panaka thought, " For the atrocities and grief you have brought down on the people of Naboo, I, Panaka Tregor, a son of Naboo, swear that none of you will leave from Naboo alive."  Captain Panaka returned back to their base and reported his findings to the Queen and secretly inducted the guards in his oath. Captain Panaka knew that he himself would not be able to finish the hundreds of mercenaries that were present on his homeworld but all the guards together, would be more than enough to deal with these scum. As Captain Panaka was busy making his revenge plans, THE MONARCH exited the hyperspace near the sun of Naboo.

ABOARD THE MONARCH, THE PERSONAL STARSHIP OF THE EMPEROR :

Alexander was going over the various reports of his kingdom. Alexander was quite surprised at the distortion of facts, the historians of his kingdom had done with the events concerning him. Alexander was portrayed as a kind and just king who had the well being of his subjects as his first priority. Alexander knew that he was not a bad fellow but he was not as kind as he was depicted by the historians. Alexander then turned his attention to the upgradation process of the Ballastians.

The upgradation process depended on the amount of midichlorians that were present in the cells of the Ballastians undergoing the upgradation. It was the midichlorians who helped in evolving the Ballastian. The Ballastians had prepared after much trials and errors, a chart which displayed the metals which a Ballastian could use for his upgradation, in accordance with the midichlorian count. The will of Ballastian to withstand the pain of upgradation was also a deciding factor. The amount of pain experienced during upgradation depended on the atomic number of the metal and it's density.

Out of 100,000,000, only one Ballastian had the necessary midichlorian count of 100,000 per cell, which was the base requirement for attempting the Phrik upgrade. The amount of pain exprienced during the upgrade, either killed or shattered the minds of the Ballastians but the gains were worth it. The Phrik Ballastians gained an immense boost in their bodily capabilities along with hundreds of thousands of years of lifespan. There were 100,000 Phrik Ballastians in the kingdom right   now. The magical technology of the kingdom had advanced enough to perform surgeries on the Phrik Ballastians also. The Ballastians adopted and improved the test tube baby method to fit their racial requirements. This caused a boom in their population as nearly all the female Ballastians wanted to experience the joys of motherhood as their carbon counterparts.