Thank you, Sheev, Tarkin said, with obvious sincerity, and using Palpatine’s given name. I will do what’s best for my homeworld, and for the Republic—in any manner you deem fit. Palpatine’s words abou...
Tenebrous had told him from the start that the Republic, with help from the Sith, would continue to descend into corruption and disorder, and that a time would come when it would have to rely on the s...
Tarkin had lost all sense of how long he had been standing in the viewport bay when Vader’s fury brought him back to the moment. This freighter is to be tractored aboard the Executrix for a thorough i...
Tarkin had long nursed suspicions about who Vader was beneath the black face mask and helmet, as well as how he had come to be, but he knew better than to give open voice to his thoughts.
Still, there was prosperity for a few; quick credits to be made in ore processing, local and deep-space transport, and usury. For the Tarkins, wealth came by providing security. Their climb to the top...
Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. Is this the point where I’m expected to ask why I’ve been abducted?
Sidious bowed his head in deference. In the annals of Sith history, you will be known as Plagueis the Wise. Plagueis quirked a cunning smile. You flatter me.
Remember why the Sith are more powerful than the Jedi, Sidious: because we are not afraid to feel. We embrace the spectrum of emotions, from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and...
Propelled by fear or hatred, even a Jedi can pass beyond the constraints of the Order’s teachings and discover power of a more profound sort. But no Jedi who arrives at that place, who has risen above...
Palpatine laughed without merriment. What could you possibly have to offer someone like me? Just this. She opened the soft shoulder bag to reveal a humanoid infant of less than a standard year in age....
On the landing field were two wind-blasted shuttles, along with Tarkin’s personal starship, the Carrion Spike.
Not yet, Shryne said, as if to himself Then you're his apprentice? His eyes darted right and left, searching for some means of escape. Is Sidious also in league with Emperor Palpatine? Vader fell sile...
No matter what, it was unlikely that he would ever have crossed paths with the Emperor—when he was still known as Palpatine. It was while Tarkin was attending the Sullust Sector Spacefarers Academy th...
It was Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself who had presented the schematic to the Strategic Advisory Cell at the second briefing. But in fact the battle station wasn’t a product of Republic research...
It is my will to join my destiny forever with the Order of the Sith Lords.
Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain.
For the moment it was enough that his advisers and minions respected him–for reestablishing peace, for eliminating the group that had posed the greatest threat to continued stability–but eventually th...
For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepowe...
Five standard years have passed since Darth Sidious proclaimed himself galactic Emperor. The brutal Clone Wars are a memory, and the Emperor’s apprentice, Darth Vader, has succeeded in hunting down mo...
Computer modeling showed the lasers’ twin collimating beams racing away from the Star Destroyer. Then, captured by gravity, the beams become one, changing vector and accelerating beyond lightspeed as...