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=Darth Vader=

Time with Tarkin
"Yup,Vader"

- Vader

Defending Cymoon 1
"He's here. The Rebel pilot who destroyed the Death Star. I can feel his presence. He will not escape me again."

- Darth Vader



Several weeks after the Battle of Yavin, Darth Vader was called to Weapons Factory Alpha, the Empire's largest and foremost weapons manufacturing facility, on Cymoon 1. His missions was to negotiate, or rather force, an arangement with an envoy for crime lord Jabba the Hutt about supplying raw materials from Hutt controlled space to the Empire, in order for them to produce more war machines, such as TIE fighters and All Terrain Armored Transport walkers. Vader arrived at the factory shortly after the envoy, and upon arrival was met on a landing platform by a group of stormtroopers who were to escort him to the "negotiations. However, Vader sensed danger through the Force, and rightly so, as the Rebel Alliance had hijacked Jabba's envoy and infiltrated the factory with intent to destroy it; and after being alerted to his presence, attempted to kill him. He ignited his lightsaber just in time to deflect a sniper's blaster bolt, and used the Force to pick up two stormtroopers to use them as human shields as the sniper fired upon the Dark Lord. Vader went unscathed, however his escorts had all been killed in the attack. He then located the assassin's position, which was in a metal structure overlooking the landing platform, and used to the Force to collapse the sniper's nest, but the assailant jumped from his perch amid the wreckage and survived. Vader recognized the assassin as a member of the Wookiee species and ordered the arriving stormtrooper reinforcements to hunt him down. One of the troopers informed Vader that Overseer Aggadeen was out of contact and the factory's main reactor was on meltdown. Vader conflated the two occurrences, deducing their true nature, and told the stormtrooper that the Rebels were attacking, and to put the entire moon on alert.

Vader felt the presence of the X-wing pilot who he had chased down the Death Star's equilateral trench, Vader realized that the pilot who had destroyed Darth Sidious' battle station was a part of the attack. The Dark Lord would not let the pilot escape his mechanical fingers again. Vader made his way into the factory and came face-to-face with the pilot within a corridor after locating his position through the Force.

The pilot was a young man, and wielded a blue lightsaber. Vader looked upon him as an "untrained child who had no right to the weapon of the Jedi. The young man in reality was Vader's long lost son&mdash;Luke Skywalker. Although this family relation was unknown to both father and son. But he Dark Lord could not believe that this "boy" could be the skilled pilot he was looking for. The pair Engaged in lightsaber combat, Vader toyed with the Rebel who wielded a lightsaber, all the while antagonizing his skill using the lightsaber. The boy exclaimed his grievances against the Dark Lord, stating that he had witnessed Vader slay Obi-Wan Kenobi, his master, aboard the Death Star, and that he had intended to get revenge for Kenobi's death. Using the Force, Vader took the boy's lightsaber; having deduced Vader's old master had given the boy the weapon. The Sith Master, now wielding two lightsabers, threatened the Jedi Apprentice to disclose all his knowledge of the Rebel Alliance&mdash;including the nature of the current attack and the identity of the Rebel pilot who destroyed the Death Star. The boy refused, and Vader raised the two sabers to deliver a killing blow when he recognized the boy's lightsaber: it was that of Anakin Skywalker's&mdash;Vader's former self&mdash;before falling to the dark side of the Force. Before he could sink further into distraction, the confrontation between the two was cut short when the foot of an AT-AT walker came hurdling down into the middle of the standoff; knocking the two apart. The Rebels had hijacked the walker, and were using it to wreak havoc as they made their escape from the doomed factory.

In the ensuing chaos, Vader joined in trying to prevent the Rebel's escape. Vader wielded the two lightsabers as he casually mowed down the factory's runaway slaves and commanded that his stormtroopers execute both them and the Rebels, or face his wrath. As they pressed their attack, a trooper informed Vader that they had the Rebels trapped, but an Ion cannon would be required to bring down the AT-AT walker. As Vader lulled the trooper's suggestion, stating that he personally would see to the walker's defeat, the young Jedi rebel suddenly reappeared, having acquired a 74-Z speeder bike, and attacked the group. The laser fire missed Vader, but killed all of the troopers. The Dark Lord reconsidered his initial dismissal of the boy, and wondered exactly what Obi-Wan had been up to before his death at Vader's hands. The Rebels again struck back against Vader with the stolen walker&mdash;the Rebels tried to crush Vader using the walker's massive feet. Vader was lost in though and was nearly crushed. The Rebels made another pass, but Vader used the Force to hold the walker's descending foot several meters above his head&mdash;much to the Rebels dismay. Vader used the force to try to tear the walker apart, the Dark Lord was foiled however, when the AT-AT's quad laser cannons as the Rebels unleashed a barrage of laser fire upon him. Vader was flung backwards, causing him to lose possession of the his previous lightsaber. The blast also blew off his mask and helmet, leaving him wheezing and vulnerable buried under a pile or rubble.



While Vader was buried under the debris, the boy with the lightsaber retrieved his lightsaber and continued onward mounted on the speeder bike to meet up with the commandeered AT-AT. Shortly afterwards, Vader emerged, lifting the rubble into the air in his anger; in being defeated&mdash;in appearing vulnerable. A stormtrooper approached, and upon seeing Vader's scarred face tried to apologize for intruding upon his Lord. The Sith twisted the troopers head around using the Force&mdash;killing the trooper. Vader retrieved his helmet as Overseer Aggadeen, via comlink, informed him that the factory was doomed; the core reactor could not be defused. Aggadeen requested Vader's permission to flee the facility, but the Vader vetoed his request; telling him that "If this factory explodes, you had best explode with it." Vader threatened the remaining Imperial forces, stating that any further failure would be dealt with harshly. He again ordered that all the Rebel invaders were to die, except for the boy with the lightsaber, whom Vader had insisted that he would deal with personally.

Obi-Wan's last hope
"The boy. The boy is your last hope, isin't he Obi-Wan? He is what you died to protect. He may be strong in the Force, but he is untrained. And who is there left to train him now? No one but me. When I find him...And I will find him...He will be my weapon, not yours. The dark side always wins, Obi-Wan. You should know that by now."

- Vader to Obi-Wan after realizing his plan.

Darth Vader strode out of the factory while flanked by several stormtroopers riding 74-Z speeder bikes. His target was the stolen AT-AT, as he closed in on the lumbering walker Aggadeen called to inform him that they had been successful in defusing the core reactor after all, crisis had been averted. Vader let him know his life may be spared for his success. He then commanded the Overseer to send all troops&mdash;available or not, to his position. The Dark Lord ignited his lightsaber and began to cut through the back left leg of the walker. He took several strokes to cause the AT-AT to fall, but when it did, it was catastrophic. It crumbled, legs splayed outward, Vader ordered the Imperials to move in for the kill, for the walker had fallen.

Aggadeen's reinforcements arrived: stormtroopers, combat speeders, and assault tanks. Vader ordered his troops to ignore the slaves and focus their efforts on the Rebels. A trooper informed his Lord that the Rebels were fleeing into the trash fields. Another told him that a lone rebel appeared to be returning to the factory. The Sith Lord had decided that the boy with his old lightsaber was truly the Force sensitive pilot who had blown up the Death Star. And as such used the Force to throw a trooper out of a combat speeder so he could hurry and confront the boy. Vader soon caught up with him inside the factory, Vader considered the chase to be a rematch of the chase he failed through the Death Star's equilateral trench and fired on the boy. Although the boy evaded Vader's fire long enough to fire on the power core. The core was overheated and beyond saving this time. Vader continued to pursue the boy&mdash;nearly killing Aggadeen by running him over with the speeder in the process. Vader managed to hit the boy's speeder bike, but he flew from the exploding factory before Vader could land the killing shot. Vader remained trapped inside, using the Force Vader manged to survive as Weapons Factory Alpha exploded in a fireball all around him. Vader emerged from the carnage, using the Force to move debris and wreckage out of his path. He located the boy's speeder bike abandoned before seeing the Millennium Falcon&mdash;the same ship that had escaped the Death Star with Princess Leia Organa shortly before it was destroyed, blast free from Cymoon 1 with all its crew aboard.

As Vader pondered his defeat, Captain Kronn of the Star Destroyer Adjudicator informed him that the Falcon had evaded their blockade and escaped into hyperspace. Before the captain could finish Vader applied a Force choke to the captain for failing him. Vader, having pieced together the puzzle of why Obi-Wan had returned, why he had let himself be killed by the Dark Lord and why his body had disappeared into nothingness. He had become one with the Cosmic Force as Master Yoda had explained to Anakin shortly before the end of the Clone Wars. SO Vader began to speak with his old master from beyond, telling him he now knew his plan&mdash;it was all for the boy. Though Vader reveled in the fact that he and Sidious had destroyed the Jedi, leaving Vader the only one left to train the boy. And when Vader succeeded in turning the boy to the dark side of the Force&mdash;and he would succeed, he would be Vader's weapon, not Obi-Wan's. Believing the dark side would triumph over all.

After Cymoon 1
"But you are the only one living to suffer my anger. You, an isolated survivor of the greatest military disaster in all my Empire's history? Oh, you are truly the Chosen One Lord Vader. Chosen to be the one responsible." "I will make it right. I will crush the Rebels." "No. I think not."

- Sidious and Vader discuss Vader's failings. After being defeated on Cymoon 1, Vader returned to the Imperial Palace on Coruscant to report to his master&mdash;Darth Sidious. Palpatine bid Vader to explain the events of Cymoon 1; Vader recounted how the Rebels had posed as the Hutt's envoy to infiltrate the factory. How they had rigged the facility's core reactor to explode&mdash;they had been successful. Sidious told him that the destruction of first the Death Star, then Weapons Factory Alpha, put the Emperor's Empire very near disaster. Vader brought the the facilty's Overseer with him to the palace. Vader considered Overseer Aggadeen to be responsible for the Rebel assault; and as such had him tortured to insure he was not withholding any information he could use to locate the boy who had wielded his old lightsaber&mdash;"...Overseer Aggadeen will not fail us again." Palpatine told Vader that because of Vader twenty years of planning had gone to waste; the Death Star was to hold the galaxy in order after the Emperor disbanded the Senate. But with Vader's failure at both Yavin and Cymoon, is what put Vader in the position he found himself in; and the Empire as weak as it had ever been. It had been Vader who had let the Rebels escape the Death Star, he who had failed to destroy the Alliance pilots at Yavin; he who had let the Rebels destroy Weapons Factory Alpha. Vader took responsibility for his action, although he pleaded that it was not his fault alone; Tarkin, Motti and the other officers who had believed in the Death Star should also suffer the blame; "the arrogance of the weapon courted disaster." Palpatine agreed, but reminded him that he was the sole survivor of the attack, the only one left to suffer the Emperor's anger. Vader had been "chosen" by Sidious to be the one responsible. Vader pleaded with the Emperor, he could correct his mistakes by obliterating the Rebel Alliance. Palapatine disagreed, telling Vader that he had proved himself to be a better tool than the mechanism directing the tool. In other words Admiral Tagge&mdash;who had left the Death Star before it was destroyed would be Vader's commanding officer for a time. Palpatine believed that Tagge alone had properly feared the Rebels; Tagge's philosophy would be dominant while the Second Death Star was constructed in secret. But before travelling to to the Death Star II, Sidious ordered Vader to take a "sentimental" trip to his homeworld of Tatoine to continue the negotiations that were supposed to to have taken place on Cymoon 1. Vader was ordered to "Make the Deal." Palpatine believed the Empire would rule the outer rim eventually, and working with Jabba, the Grand Warlord of the Outer Rim was one of the first steps in doing so. The Master and Apprentice returned to the Emperor's office. The Master greeted an Imperial agent who had arrived in their absence. Vader inquired the man's identity&mdash;but Sidious denied him that knowledge. Vader asked if Sidious was hiding anything from him, but again Palpatine denied his question. The Emperor asked Vader if he had anything else to report before his apprentice departed. Darth Vader thought back to Obi-Wan's return, to the Force sensitive X-wing pillot who destroyed the Death Star, to the boy who confronted the Dark Lord on Cymoon 1 with his old lightsaber. Vader, thinking that his Master was hiding things from him, chose not to tell Palpatine any of this; and left for General Veers' Star Destroyer in orbit over Coruscant.

Later aboard the Star Destroyer, Veers informed Vader that the Destroyer would need to travel across the Outer Rim gathering goods to be used in the negotiations. However Vader overruled the General and ordered them to first stop at Tatooine first, before collecting the goods. This would strain the Star Destroyer's crew and engines in order to meet the deadline. But Vader threatened the Destroyer's crew; Veers told Vader they would meet the deadline. Vader was pleased and told Veers who was going to meditate.

Return to Jabba's Palace
"Hmmm. I see you know how enough to tread carefully. But tell me...are you brave or foolish." "That is not the question Hutt. The question is: Are you?" "Oh Jedi...always making everything so difficult."

- Jabba and Vader, just before Vader kills several of Jabba's thugs during the negotiations.



Darth Vader arrived at Jabba the Hutt's palace where upon entering he killed two of Jabba's Gammorean guards who would not allow him passage. Bib Fortuna, Jabba's Major-domo, would not let Vader pass either&mdash;but was intimidated by the Dark Lord's lightsaber and woke his master. Jabba rebuked the Sith for arriving a day early of the planned meeting&mdash;and for the loss of his two guards. Vader stated that he was being generous in only killing to of the crime lord's guards. Jabba refrained from arguing and asked what he could do for the Empire. Vader ordered the Hutt to dismiss the audience of thugs, musicians, bounty hunters and other criminals that crowded Jabba's chamber. The Hutt did so as Vader reveled that on this day he was not there on behalf of the Empire&mdash;but on a personal issue that would end to the Dark Lord's satisfaction. Jabba knowing that Vader had a connection to the Force, reminded him that Jedi mind tricks would not work on the great Hutt. Vader assured him he would not&mdash;mind tricks were the way of the Jedi&mdash;not of the dark side of the Force. Jabba considered collecting a bounty that the Rebel Alliance had placed on him by dropping him through a trap door to his pet Rancor that was held below. Although he did not, upon the realization that the Dark Lord was aware of the trap and "stepped carefully". They continued to negotiate when Jabba misidentified Vader as a Jedi; this angered Vader who ignited his lightsaber. Several of Jabba's cronies arrived to protect their master&mdash;but they were the Dark Lord killed them all using his lightsaber and the Force. As the bodies lay heaped on the floor, Vader began to Force choke Jabba. As the Hutt struggled, Vader let him know his mistake&mdash;Darth Vader was a Dark Lord of the Sith, not a Jedi; at least not any longer. The Sith preferred force to achieve their ends, unlike the Jedi, who preferred peace. Vader released Jabba, who admitted he found it hard not to respect the Dark Lord. As Vader's anger subsided the Sith Lord and the Crime lord came to an agreement; Vader needed to hire two of Jabba's best bounty hunters. Jabba complied and sent the pair to meet Vader in the desert.

Vader left the Hutt's palace and encountered a Tusken Raider camp. He mercilessly slaughtered his old enemies&mdash;men, women amd children alike. Vader basked in their deaths when he was approached by the two bounty hunters. He asked if the truly were Jabba's best. Boba Fett assured him they were up to the challenge of Vader's mission. Vader told Fett that his bounty was on an X-wing pilot who was associated with the smuggling vessel the Millennium Falcon, Vader needed the boy alive; Fett agreed. The other hunter, the wookiee Black Krrsantan would be hunting the Imperial Agent whom Sidious had hidden from Vader, Krssantan was to capture him so Vader could question him. Fett assured him that Vader's will would be done. Vader told them to start immediately, thinking that he had spent too much time on Tatooine already. Vader returned to the Tusken camp once more before departing Tatooine for the Second Death Star.

Servitude unto Tagge
{{Quote| Darth Vader met the Grand General on his Super Star Destroyer, the Annihilator. Soon after, word came from a Lambda-class shuttle under the Imperial designation CZ-246, that it was under attack from pirates. Vader boarded his TIE advanced and went to their aid. He arrived just as the crew of the shuttle killed themselves, rather than let their cargo of Imperial weapons fall to the hands of the pirates. Vader fired on the pirate CR90 corvette, he succeeded in destroying a torpedo before ordering two TIEs to follow his lead to prevent the corvette from escaping. Both the TIEs were destroyed quickly while Vader managed to evade the laser fire using the Force. He soon was able to move into range and disable the corvette's engine block, preventing the ship from fleeing. He then called the Annihilator to let them know his mission had been successful.