Star Wars Invasion: Episode V, Prologue

PROLOGUE

From the Writings of the Watcher

   On the day the Builders arrived, none of the Sith had realized that the path to their future had been paved.

   The aliens arrived in vessels unfamiliar to them, slowly descending from the hazy sky. Sand blew in all directions as these strange objects came to a sluggish stop. The natives stared in awe and fear at the vessels until suddenly, on the largest of them all, a large metal panel hissed and detached from its frame, falling to the sandy ground with a dull thud.

   It was then that the Sith got their first look at the Builders. Tall, lanky bipedal beings, their eyes protruded from their conical heads on small stalks. Their thin arms ended with clawed, three-fingered hands and they stood slightly leaning forward because of their high heels.

   The gathered Sith stood before them in a mix of reverence and terror. Having not witnessed an event such as this before, the natives murmured amongst themselves. Were these beings here to harm them? Or were they here to help them somehow? Or were they here for different reasons altogether.

   The Sith immediately went silent however, when their god arrived. Clad in his signature ebony armor, cradling a large battle axe, the Sith'ari cautiously trudged through the sands and approached the mysterious newcomers, coming to a stop in front of the gathered crowd, standing no less than ten feet from the aliens.

   When the exalted king of Korriban spoke, his voice resonated through the air, becoming heard by even the lowliest of lifeforms on the planet.

   "Why are you here?"

   The Builders answered him. They spoke words of great power. They appeased him, lulling him into their confidence. Little did the Sith'ari knew, the Builders were in fact here not to bring gifts of power to the Sith.

   They were here to conquer them.

   Given time, the Sith'ari soon saw through their facade and led his forces against the impending invasion. Although the Sith would soon succeed in driving the Builders off of Korriban, they paid the ultimate price when the Sith'ari fell in battle. While his sacrifice indeed brought about the Sith's freedom, it also brought back the chaos of civil war that had wrought Korriban before the Unification. 

   Thus, Adas' death had brought the galaxy anything but peace.

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   Korriban was not the only world to be touched by the Builders. On the forest world of Kashyyyk, the native Wookiees were enslaved by the Builders and the planet itself became subject to "terraformation". However, like the Sith, the Wookiees likely rebelled and had a hand in bringing the Builders' empire to shambles. 

   A similar event occurred among the Selkath of Manaan, and soon all of the Builders' slaves- the Wookiees, the Selkath, the Caamasi, and several others- united together and brought an end to the Infinite Empire and its oppression. At the time, the now liberated people of the galaxy had thought that peace and harmony had finally been established.

   Oh, so wrong they thought.

   Following the Infinite Empire's collapse, the Hutts of Varl established an empire of their own that lasted for two centuries. Under their rule, a war broke out between them and the empire of Xim the Despot. Not long after the Hutt Empire ended, a conflict arose between various factions that had been formed by the Builders' former slaves. At the end of these Unification Wars, the Galactic Republic was formed by the Core Founders.

   And that is where things began to fall apart.

   The rise of the Jedi Order; the First Great Schism; the Tionese War; the Alsakan Conflicts; the Pius Dea Crusades; the Hundred-Year Darkness and the birth of the Sith Empire; the Great Hyperspace War and the Sith Wars that followed as a result; the Mandalorian Wars; the Dark Age of the Republic; the Clone Wars; the Galactic Civil War; and finally, the Imperial-Sith War.

   Would these events had happen if the Infinite Empire was still standing? Perhaps not. If the Builders had succeeded in conquering the Sith- perhaps even eradicating them- then a majority of these wars would never have had happened.

   Thus, it was quite clear that the galaxy had been injured by the very people who lived in it. It was also clear that the only way to heal the galaxy was to cure the disease that plagued it.

   The Reunification was that cure.

   And the disease could do nothing to stop it.

STAR WARS: INVASION

EPISODE V

TWILIGHT OF THE JEDI

   Note: this story takes place thirty-six years after the destruction of the first Death Star and takes place in an Alternate Universe after Return of the Jedi.