[ WP ] Darth Vader 's imperial fleet encounters a new planet , 2015 A.D. Earth .

It is now 2095 by the Earth calendar, my grandfather was alive and only 21 almost 22 when the Galactic Empire came in contact with Earth. This what the story he told me: 
 
 When I was 21, just a few weeks shy of 22, the Empire had discovered Earth. This caused quite the stir as, we did n't know there was other life beyond our own planet or not. Since humans were the dominate species of earth, we were n't treated as `` harsh'' as some of the other planets in the Galactic Empire. Because of this contact, technology of Earth started to grow exponentially and allowed us to explore the Milky Way which is only 4000 light years from the galaxy that the Empire came from. With the hyper drive technology that the Empire had in on board the Executor, the personal Super Star destroyer of Lord Vader, it allowed us to commence galactic trade with the Empire. But then everything started to change. 
 
 After a few years, I just had my old student loan debts forgiven and I had just graduated the new Imperial Naval Officer school on Earth so I was about 25 or 26 at the time, I noticed that a few of my friends from my hometown had gone missing. I questioned my parent's about their disappearance and they told me that my friends had decided to join the rebels on the far side of our own galaxy to fight the so called `` oppression'' of the Empire. I could not believe what I had heard. Friends, I had since I was a child long before the Empire came in contact with Earth, had decided to side with the rebels. I no longer could call them my friends. I went before Lord Vader and asked his permission to track and hunt down the rebels as an off the record, that I once called my friends. He looked down at me, as I was on my knee, and he said `` That I may track them down and kill them, then I will start my new training.'' For he saw something in me that he did not notice before. 
 
 I then went to my own personal ship, which was given to me by the Empire for graduating in the top 10 of my class and in the record time that I had done so. The ship was named the Shi no Megami, a name I had selected from the Japanese I had learned while in my spare time, it meant Death Goddess. A goddess of death she was. She was outfitted with latest small craft hyper drive system that allowed for travel across the Milky way in a single week, four gun turrets all operable from the cockpit or by a person in the turrets, three missile bays to carry nuclear arms, 2 new generation heavy defense guns on each side only operable from the cockpit, and cloaking. When I got in the cockpit I noticed an old friend, from my time in the Naval Officer school, and lover sitting in the co-pilot seat, Megana Tami. I did n't even try and argue with the woman, she was as stubborn as I was. She only asked me what I was planning on doing as we were starting to do all the checks before leaving the Executors hangar. When I told her, all she could say was `` Oh. Well, good thing I'm still coming with. Who else would make sure you eat and keep your bed warm for you?'' I could n't tell if she was serious or joking about that last part, but I did n't care. 
 
 I replied with `` Do you have permission to go on leave?'' 
 
 `` Yes, I do. Lord Vader asked me personally to help you and I brought a fire team with me. From a new program between the Earth and the Empire to help create better storm troopers. You remember the video game series Halo and the backstory behind their spartan programs?'' said Tami. 
 
 `` Yeah, I do. Which version of the spartan program are we talking though? 2, 3, or 4?'' 
 
 `` Why else but 4. The cheapest and best way to make a super soldier, but still make sure they have humanity left in them.'' 
 
 `` So, we have a fire team for pseudo-Spartans on board. Three nukes, and a ship that was outfitted with the best tech that the Empire could make that was given to me as a graduation prize for being in the top 10. This will be a fun journey.'' We had just finished the final piece of the check, and had gotten permission to leave the Executor then we hit light speed to the last known location of a rebel outpost in the Milky Way. It took us about a week to get there and in that time I gotten to know the Storm Spartans, as I have taken to calling them and they seem to like the name as well. Their leader, was named Jackson Cameron, a black man who originally stood probably at 6 feet 4 inches, but now stood closer to 6 feet 9 inches thanks in part of the Spartan 4 like program he went through. Their second in command was someone I knew quite well and did n't know he had joined the Imperial army and went through the program, my cousin, Will. He originally was 6 feet 8 inches, now he stood at a height of 7 feet. Then there was Yamamoto, a Japanese fellow who probably stood at 5 feet 9 inches, is now 6 feet 2 inches. He does n't say too much, but he and I can carry a conversation in Japanese. Then the medic and sniper of the team, a member of the Galactic Empire since her birth, Jun Katren. She might have stood at 4 feet 10 inches before the Spartan 4esque program, but now she stood at my height of 6 feet. The biggest leap of all of them from what I gather, because her nickname is Runt. 
 
 When we finally get our destination, the edge of the system where the outpost is, we start a scan to see if we can pick up any thing. Then we decide to head to the only planet in the system that we know had to have the outpost on it, Mandas 4. A planet that is in habitable zone for system. When we arrive we find that the rebels were on the planet but not for sometime. But we were able to find a record of where they might be heading. So we started our great chase across the galaxy hoping to nail my one time called friends. It took us 5 Earth months to find them, and the rebel base in the Milky Way. 
 
 The rebels were smart, they decided to set up their base in an asteroid field. I slowly navigated the asteroid field, and once able I put the Megami just outside of their sensor range and in a safe zone where no asteroids where noted to go into, even with our cloak it felt better to not run the risk of being detected. It took us four weeks to discover this zone. Between the four Spartans, Megana, and I we were able to finally able to find the best place to sit and watch the base for a while longer, and to wait for the opportune time to strike. The chance came when Megana and I were in bed, my cousin came and told me that he had found a perfect moment to strike. I told `` Okay, get everyone to the hologram projector.'' 
 
 When everyone was assembled, Will turned on the projector and showed us what he had found. `` A window, of only 3 minutes. This is how long their sensors are down for hourly repairs. We can use those three minutes, slip in and start destroying this base and *you*,'' pointing a finger at me `` can find your old'friends' and kill them.'' 
 
 `` Okay this is good. Once we are finished with killing all the personnel in the base, we can fire one of the three nukes we have at the base and thoroughly destroy it. Sound like a plan to everyone?'' 
 
 They all agreed. And at the next time the sensors went down, we slipped in. We able to slip in and start reeking havoc. I quickly found my old `` friends'' and then they tried to talk to me about why the joined the rebellion. I would n't have any of it, I quickly killed them all. Once finished we launched a nuke into the base. We went back to Earth, and found Lord Vader was still there in the Executor. When I reported back in, he asked me how it felt to kill my friends. I replied that I felt anger at them and at myself, because I had a fear that I would lose other because of what I had done. He turned around and said, then my training has just begun. What he meant by that was, I was to be trained as a force wielder. Trained by him, so that I could better serve the Empire and the Emperor. He used my fear of losing Megana against me, the women I had grown to love when I had gone off and done what I did. After my training was complete, Vader left the system leaving behind me and several star destroyers. 
 
 Not long after I learned that the Emperor was killed by Vader and Vader's son Luke Skywalker. I being in charge of the Milky Way galaxy while Vader was away, sent an envoy to the victorious rebels and told them I would surrender peacefully if I was allowed to keep my station at the Milky Way until things could get settled and a new republic would be built. They graciously allowed me to do so, and as soon as the New Republic was up and running I was asked to be the senator for the Earth. I graciously declined saying that a different person should be the senator, not someone who was an old Imperial Naval Officer. Your grandmother, Megana, and I, after the Earth had joined the New Republic, soon left Earth to find some distant planet to settle on and start our own family. What felt not too long after all that, you our eldest grandchild, came into our lives. I held onto the Shi no Megami, and maintained her until I gave her to your father, who will give it to you. 
 
 That is the story that my grandfather had told me almost every time I saw him. I was captivated by it, even when I grew older. I still have the Megami, I got it when my father passed unexpectedly from a problem that no one knew of until it was too late. I have updated her, and made sure she was keeping up with the times. She's still a good ship, even keeps up with my forced enhanced reflexes. I am thankful for Vader discovering Earth, because otherwise I would n't be from a family of force users like I am. 
 

