As I told you on Naboo, Anakin, he said finally, we will continue to follow your career with great interest. And assure that it culminates in the ruination of the Jedi Order and the reascendancy of th...
And of what possible use do you think a person of your nature would be to the Jedi Order? You’re heartless, ambitious, arrogant, insidious, and without shame or empathy. More, you’re a murderer.
A SAYING EMERGED during the early years of the Empire: Better to be spaced than based on Belderone. Some commentators traced the origin to the last of the original Kamino-grown soldiers who had served...
Your fugitive Jedi, my apprentice, Sidious said. They are traveling to Kashyyyk. He tipped his head to one side. Perhaps, Lord Vader, they hope to lay a trap for you. Vader clenched his hands. That wo...
You don’t mind that the war will go on and on? Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it’s up to people like you to end it. Tarkin nodded. And so we shall.
Wilhuff had had ample time to grow accustomed to the sight, scent, and taste of blood, but he had never seen so much human blood spilled in one place.
Under the rule of the ancient Sith, the future of the galaxy had been in the able hands of many dark sovereigns. Now responsibility for maintaining order rested only with Darth Sidious.
The only humans among the research group, they were a long way from the Core, and even farther from the conflict that had recently erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Syste...
The Jedi were certainly aware of the tremendous potential, but they restrained themselves.Precisely what they did with the Force, as some have said. If they had made use of their full powers, the war...
The Jedi thought of the cellular organelles as symbionts, but to Plagueis midi-chlorians were interlopers, running interference for the Force and standing in the way of a being’s ability to contact th...
The Force tries to resist the callings of ravenous spirits; therefore it must be broken and made a beast of burden. It must be made to answer to one’s will.
Teem showed him a bitter smile. Perhaps you had no direct hand in Kim’s death, but I suspect that you were complicit. He paused, then added, That little speech you gave in the Senate … I understand th...
Sometimes it’s more painful to know the truth than not to know it. -Han Solo
Seated in the copilot’s chair, Tarkin watched Vader expectantly as the Predator emerged from hyperspace. Full ahead, the Dark Lord said. Tarkin was glad to oblige, though he saw nothing through the vi...
Palpatine stared at the floor, then genuflected, uttering, It is my will to join my destiny forever with the Order of the Sith Lords. Plagueis extended his left hand to touch him on the crown of the h...
Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino’s planetwide ocean, which perhaps explained why they were no more reluctant about...
In the throne room, he had tried to puzzle out which among the Emperor's cabal of advisers, human or otherwise, were aware that Palpatine was a Sith Lord who had manipulated the entire war and eradica...
In a hushed but serious tone, she said: Galen, you know where these came from. Mygeeto, perhaps, Galen said, distracted and still fascinated by the colorless kyber. Possibly Ilum or Christophsis. Not...
If in the end Erso’s research moves us closer to engineering a weapon for the battle station, then you will have not only my gratitude, but also that of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Republic i...
How Plagueis would have mocked him for allowing himself to become personally involved in such a seemingly trivial matter; but then his Master had never foreseen that his onetime apprentice would becom...