Chapter 1:Out of the Stars
The First Imperial Fleet to Celest 2 / Executer-class Super Star Distroyer
One Executor-class Super Star Destroyer followed by twenty Imperial-class Star destroyers and an Interdictor-class Star Destroyer left hyperspace right outside the star system and the crew were figuring out how to get to the planet using the least fuel possible and the least time possible. Then the ships prepared to traverse through the dense asteroid belt at the edge of the star system, two probe droids were deployed to investigate the area plus a light fright was sent out to warn the Star Destroyers and the Super Star destroyer. Another precaution taken was to move the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer to fling asteroids away from the Imperial fleet. After about three hours of traversing through the asteroid belt and the fleet had gotten through unharmed the speed of the vessels were increased from 12% the speed of light to 67% the speed of light to save time and because it was now safe to go that speed
"Probe droid to central command evidence has been acquired to state that these satellites orbiting the class O Star are about 5.2 billion years old and are made from 54% oxygen 37% hydrogen 9% silicon 0.9% iron 0.09573% uranium 0.00412% gold 0.0011093% platinum 0.0000007% rubidium. Satellites are qualified as comets and they make up 0.0000028% of the star systems mass. Average temperature of the satellites are -248 degrees Fahrenheit," Reported the probe droid
"Sir we have a report from the probe droid that was sent out in the asteroid belt," Said Lieutenant Jerad to Commander Nita.
"Ok lieutenant I will give this information to the Admiral. Thank you for reporting the transmission," Replied Nita
With that the commander left and started walking toward Admiral Rax's quarters. Nita was recently promoted to commander and was stationed on the Super Star Destroyer, he had been on the ship for two weeks, so he usually got lost. He was walking towards the commanding quarter which was where the highest ranking officer on the vessel stayed because usually Admiral Rax was the highest ranking officer on the ship but, the only problem was that the Grand Admiral was on the Super Star Destroyer, and Thrawn was a higher ranking than the Admiral. Nita knocked on the door to the quarter, and then the distinctive voice of the Grand Admiral could be heard.
"Come in,"
"Yes sir, l am deeply sorry to disturb you sir," replied Commander Nita
"It is ok commander, who were you trying to contact?" Asked Grand Admiral Thrawn.
"Admiral Rax but, now I realized that you are the highest ranking officer on the ship and I need to inform you of this. The probe droid that was sent out in the asteroid belt has now reported back with information of the specific area," replied Nita.
Both the Grand Admiral and the Commander went up to the bridge soon after their conversation. As they passed through the expansive hallways of the Super Star Destroyer, in about five minutes they had both arrived at the bridge. There was chaos throughout the room, Imperial crew members typing commands into the main navigational computers and other computers with other functions, squads of stormtroopers surveyed the area, lieutenants gave out orders to the Imperial crew members and taking orders from Commanders such as Nita himself, several crew members were looking out of the huge windows at the front of the room watching for any immediate danger to the ship and the rest of the fleet, and to top it all off, everything got more chaotic when the Grand Admiral arrived. Then the Grand Admiral stode up to his viewing platform and the chaos started to die down.
"Sir we have gotten reports from the probe droid deployed in the asteroid belt, if you would like to see them here is the data log with that information, we have also gotten a detailed map of the star system by the group of Imperial crew members over there," Lieutenant Jared said as he pointed to a group of crew members.
"The map was generated by scanning the star system heavily by using our radar systems, then rendering what we got with the radar to make a holographic map. Here is the map there are a total of six planets in the star system, two of them seem to be gas giants the rest are terrestrial planets, one of the terrestrial planets is in the habitable zone and has a sufficiently large moon. As such I believe that it could harbor life and maybe a primitive civilization,"said Lieutenant Jerad.
"That is quite impressive lieutenant," replied Grand Admiral Thrawn.
"Yes, very impressive," replied Commander Nita.
"Thank you," responded Lieutenant Jerad.
With that the lieutenant left and started working on a navigational computer on the far side of the room. Out of the massive windows at the bridge of the Super Star Destroyer could be seen the rings of the largest planet in the star system. A variety of colors could be seen on the planetary surface large bands of tan, purple, pink, white, and blue wrapped around the planet. Two probe droids were sent out to figure out what the planet was composed of. After about three hours had passed before the probe droids delivered its message, and by that time both the commander and the Grand Admiral had left the bridge.
"Hey Fredrick I need you to go fetch the Grand Admiral, I need to tell him something important,"said Lieutenant Jared
"Oh come on why don't you get the Grand Admiral," replied Frederick
"Because I am your superior and you follow commands from me, YOU HERE THAT! MOVE,"exclaimed Lieutenant Jared
"Mememe.. mememe I am better than you, so you should do everything for me cause I am to lazy," muttered Frederick mockingly as he left to to get the Grand Admiral.
On the way to the Grand Admiral's quarters Frederick stumbled upon the very person who he was looking for the, Grand Admiral.
"If you could excuse me Grand Admiral, may I speak with you," said Fredrick
"Very well, what is it that you need to tell me," replied Thrawn
"It's Lieutenant Jerad, he said that he needs to tell you something important but, he did not specify what he had to talk about,"replied Fredrick.
Thrawn and Frederick started walking towards the bridge to see what the lieutenant had to say. As they both walked down the hallway towards the bridge a squad of stormtroopers marched down the hallway and tlhey gestured a salute to Thrawn. Everything seemed as it should be, when all of a sudden Lieutenant Jared ran up to Thrawn.
"We have gotten a transmission from the probe droid deployed in the gas giant, and have discovered that we could safely take our fleet through hyperspace, and get to the objective planet in about thirty seconds,”said the Lieutenant.
"Very well then, you may proceed to make your calculations to jump into hyperspace,”said Thrawn.
Admiral Rax was now with Thrawn at the bridge, multiple Imperial Crew Members were working diligently to get the proper calculations to safely jump into hyperspace and get to their location. Computer screens were displaying all the calculations being computed to then be sent to the main hyperdrive computers, there was also a progress bar showing what percentage of the calculations being computed and transferred to the main hyperdrive computers. After five minutes of calculating the safest trajectory through hyperspace, to get to the planet Celest 2, which was the objective planet, the distinctive hum of the the hyperdrives could be heard, the the ship jumped into hyperspace.
Celest 2 could be seen from the windows on the bridge of the Super Star Destroyer. It was like nothing anyone on the ship had ever seen before, there were lush green forests scattered throughout the entire planet, in contrast there were barren deserts almost completely devoid of life. The oceans sparked as they reflected the sunlight of its star, Celest, most of the personnel in the bridge just stood there, staring to the glorious planet before them, others said ooh and aahs surveying the planet, though thrawn seemed not be affected. In reality the Grand Admiral was carefully mapping out the planet from north to south pole, but no one expected that sapient versions of mythological creatures and normal creatures inhabited the planet.
Author's Note
Thank you for reading, Constructive criticism is welcome.
Ponyville
Twilight was preparing to start a stargazing session with Starlight, she had about an hour left before the stars were at their brightest, and Twilight was determined have everything done before then. She started to extend the telescope and place it on its stand, after she was done she started testing the telescope to get the perfect position. That was when one large triangle followed by twenty one smaller triangles appeared in a flash of light. Twilight estimated that the triangles in the sky where about 9 thousand miles away and that the largest triangle was about ten miles long, she could hardly believe her eyes, and Princess Luna had not stated that she would add anything to the night sky.
"Spike," called out Twilight
"Yea, what do you need," Spike replied
"I need you to write a letter to Princess Luna," said Twilight.
"Ok," replied a frustrated Spike
As Spike got a roll of parchment paper and a pen, then Twilight started orally stating what she wanted written on the letter
Here is what the letter entailed.
Dear Princess Luna,
I would like to inform you that I have discovered several unidentified objects in your night sky, there were actually twenty two of these objects in the sky and they are huge the largest of these objects is about ten miles long. Do you have any know how about the Origin of these objects, if you do please tell me, as I am very interested with this topic? These objects were discovered when I was adjusting my telescope to stargaze with my friend Starlight. I am afraid of what these objects could mean to the safety of Equestria, and our planet Equis. If you need me to come to canterlot with the rest of my friends please contact me.
Sincerely,
Twilight Sparkle
Canterlot Castle
Luna had just awaken thirty minutes ago and was was preparing to go dream walking. Or that was what she should have been doing, instead she was playing her favorite video game Call of Duty. All of a sudden there was a bright flash appear right in front of her causing Luna to lose concentration and get shot down by the enemy team.
"Darn it what the f#%$, what the f#%$ was that, s%#*!" Luna thought to herself as she picked up the letter.
Thoughts raced through here mind as she read the letter, she needed to tell her sister about this. Luna bolted out of the room straddling the guards protecting her room, by the time they had realized what was going on she was well away from them. The guards started pursuing the Princess as she ran for the throne room, the guards at the door let Luna through but Celestia was nowhere to be seen. She then ran towards her sister's room, as she was running she set her sights on one of the hundreds of windows that adorned the castle. A massive meteor shower could be seen, hundreds of objects were striking through the Equestrian sky.
Orbit around Equis
The Empire had been in search of a planet full of resources to supply the imperial army for at least ten years. Many expeditions were made to find such planet but, non were successful, or that was when a refortified Gozanti-class Carrier was sent out to a planter recently discovered by satellites in Kamino. The carrier had jumped into hyperspace and reached the planet, the planet was named by imperial scientists as Celest 2 and its home star Celest not only was this planet discovered to have enough resources to last the Empire ten years but, it could supply the Empire for a total of forty to fifty years. Now under the command of Grand Admiral Thrawn the Empire will take control of the planet.
"Sir we have now deployed 349 probe droids as of thirty seconds ago do you wish to continue deploying more probe droids," said Lieutenant Leopold.
"I believe that that is enough for now, also may you have some of these droids scan for any evidence of civilization on the planet I would like to visit the natives and study there forms of art," replied Thrawn.
"Yes sir, I will contact you if there are any intelligent life forms on this planet. I can also get a shuttle prepared for you and contact you when it's ready,"said Leopold.
"That won't be necessary lieutenant," said Thrawn.
With that Thrawn left the bridge and was walking back to his quarters.
Canterlot Castle
Celestia was at her room when Luna burst through her bedroom door panting, several royal guards had also flowed Luna to Celestia's room.
"What's wrong?"asked Celestia.
"We are big trouble tia, look out your window, a massive meteor shower is taking place, not only that, but Princes Twilight has also sent me a letter about strange objects in the sk..," was all Luna could say before a massive explosion cut her off.
BOOM, a massive shock wave rippled across Celestia's bedroom, knocking Celestia, Luna and the royal guards off their hooves. Both Princesses got up and looked out the open bedroom door to see the hallway leading up to the bedroom totally in ruins. The floor downstairs could be seen because of the explosion then the two sisters noticed a black object with things that could be assumed as legs or arms protruding from the body of the object, which was somewhat shaped as a squashed up sphere. The object started to move and make strange noise, so Celestia's assumed it was a living creature and tried to greet the strange object, little did she know that this was actually an imperial probe droid.
"Hello, can you hear me?"asked Celestia in almost a whisper.
Then BOOM, the probe droid had proceeded to commence a self destruct sequence, and it had exploded. Celestia was thrown back due to the shockwave that the explosion emitted. The floor around the Royal sisters and their guards started to crumble, Luna was able to teleport everypony out of the corridor before the floor collapsed.
“That was very close, don't you agree,”said Luna
“Yes very close indeed,”replied Celestia
A Royal Guard came running towards both Celestia and Luna.
“Princesses we must take you to safety,”said the Guard as he helped both Princess get up.
The guards took the princesses to the throne room where then Celestia’s horn started to get enveloped by a golden aura, then hologram of Grand Admiral Thrawn appeared in front of both Celestia and Luna. Celestia then started speaking to the hologram in front of her.
“Hello,”said Celestia.
“Ah, It seems that you can talk Galactic Standard,"replied The Grand Admiral.
"Actually I am speaking Equish,"replied Celestia.
"May I ask what is your name, and what is your position of power in this planet?"asked Thrawn.
"I am Princess Celestia one of the two diarchs of Equestria, I am also responsible for raising the sun and lowering the moon, my sister is responsible for raising the moon and lowering the sun,"said Celestia.
“I am Princess Luna and like my sister said I controll the moon and I am also responsible for guarding ponies from nightmares. Your name is?”said Luna.
“My name is Grand Admiral Thrawn,”replied Thrawn.
“Are you a military figure, and why are you here?”asked Celestia.
"I am a military officer, and I am here to negotiate the terms of your planet joining the Galactic Empire,"said Thrawn.
"Why would I want to join your so called Galactic Empire,"replied Celestia.
"Because we will give you the most advance technology in the galaxy and in return you will give us control of 95% of your planet's resources,"replied Thrawn.
"You will still have to convince the Griffons, the Dragons, the Yacks, the Hippogryphs, the Minotaurs, and the Zebras to join you if you want 95% of the planet's resources,"said Celestia.
"Well then how about 95% of your territory's resources,"said Thrawn.
"Why don't we continue negotiating the joining of your country to Galactic Empire on your planetary surface,"suggested Thrawn.
"That wouldn't be to bad, deal, you can come down to Equestria under the condition that you will not harm any of my subjects. Here in Canterlot we can negotiate Equestria joining your empire,"said Celestia.
"No harm will come to your subjects,"said Thrawn.
"What exactly are we looking at when we try to find Canterlot?"asked Thrawn.
"Canterlot is basically a castle sticking out of a mountain,"said Celestia.
"Well I believe that we got this all figured out,"said Thrawn before the hologram closed and the magical aura dispersed.
Celestia thought about the conversation she had with Thrawn, reviewing all that was said during that conversation before mentally planning out the letter she was going to write to Twilight. She then went back into her room and got a quill and a roll of parchment paper, and started writing the letter.
This is the letter that Celestia wrote to Twilight
From the Desk of Her Royal Highness
Princess Celestia of The Kingdom of Equestria
Regnum solis
Ruler of the Kingdom of the Sun
Twelfth day of the first month
Four years After the Rule of Two
Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,
I have heard that you have written a letter to my sister warning her of strange objects in the sky, this letter is to tell you the reason why these objects are here. About two hours ago you might of noticed that a massive meteor shower was taking place but, it was not a normal meteor shower, instead hundreds of robots were falling to the Equestrian surface to study our planet. One of these robots crashed into the hallway leading to my room, thankfully no one got hurt, later because of a holographic spell we came in contact with the owners of these robots and the objects in the sky. The objects in the sky are actually ships of the Galactic Empire, and they are interested in Equestria and the rest of our planet join their Empire. The leaders of 'this expedition to our planet are Grand Admiral Thrawn and they say that if we join their Empire they will give us the most advanced technology in the galaxy, in return we will let them have control of 95% of Equestria's resources. They have also asked us if they could come down to Equestria to negotiate a better deal for Equestria to join the Galactic Empire, I need you and your friends to go find the Elements of harmony if anything goes wrong.
Sincerely,
Princess Celestia
Ponyville: 9:35 pm
Twilight was very nervous of what was to come of this so called Galactic Empire which Princess Celestia had told here about in a letter she had sent to Twilight seven minutes ago. Spike and Starlight were helping Twilight calm down, as she had started suffering from a major nervous breakdown. This was big, alien visitors had come to supposedly explore this planet.
"Spike can you go get the rest of the girls, I need to tell them something important,"asked Twilight.
"Yes Twilight I'll go get them,"replied Spike as he left to go get the rest of Twilight's friends
"Starlight, I need to tell you something about the letter the Princess sent me, and why we couldn't stargaze today, a few hours ago I was testing the new telescope I had purchased for this occasion but, that all got sidetracked when I discovered several strange objects in the sky, the letter the Princess sent me confirmed that these objects shouldn't be there, it also stated that these objects belong to an alien civilization much more advanced than us ponies. This is the why I am so nervous and why we couldn't go stargazing tonight, I'm sorry,"said Twilight.
"Twilight it's ok you didn't have to do this for me, and hopefully these aliens are probably friendly, if wouldn't they have already sucked our brains out,"replied Starlight, trying to calm Twilight.
Just then Rainbow Dash followed by the rest of the crew stormed into the room where the cutie map was located.
"We came in as fast as we could after spike here told us that you had something important to tell us,"said Applejack
"Yes darling, would you care to tell us what is wrong,"said Rarity.
"Today I have gotten a letter from the princess, it said that we are not alone,"said Twilight
"What does that mean,"said Rainbow Dash confused.
"It means that there are aliens out in the universe, and that now they are right at our door step. Their space ships are just above our sky looking down upon us, the princess also said that the wanted to come down to the ground to negotiate the terms of Equestria joining a so called Galactic Empire,"said Twilight.
"Well then why don't we kick some alien but!"exclaimed Rainbow Dash.
"That's the problem Rainbow, the Princess asked us not to and to just get the elements if something goes wrong,"replied Twilight.
"Well then what are we waiting for let's go and find them,"said Applejack.
"Yea,"said the rest of the girls.
Everypony had packed up their saddle bags, and were now walking through the Everfree Forest. They were trying to get to the Tree of Harmony, when a gray object streaked across the sky followed by several smaller and faster black objects.
"What in tarnation was that,"said Applejack.
Imperial Shuttle
Imperial pilots were now communicating with center base on the Super Star Destroyer, they had already received the brief mission discription of getting the Grand Admiral and the Admiral safely to a city known by the locals as Canterlot. They were now receiving the description of what the city looked like to then arrive at their designated destination, it would of been better to have the coordinates of the city location but, center base did not have access to that information.
"This is center base, your destination will be built on the side of a mountain, and the city has a large castle on the far west side of the city,"said an Imperial Crew Member.
Both Imperial Pilots looked out of the windows in the cockpit of the Imperial Shuttle and saw just that city. The city of Canterlot reminded one of the pilots about his homeworld of Naboo as Canterlot shared a trait that Naboo's capital of Theed had, majestic waterfalls. By the city of Canterlot they noticed a modestly sized town with a tree shaped crystal castle which they would soon find out that it is called ponyville and they noticed the city of Cloudsdale floating within the clouds and boasting several beautiful rainbow colored waterfalls. After several minutes of flying towards their destination they have reached it, soon the Imperial Shuttle started descending toward the Royal Canterlot Gardens.
"Well we're here, can you go and Inform the Grand Admiral and the Admiral that we have arrived,"said one of the Imperial Pilots
"Will do,"replied the other Imperial Pilot as he was leaving to inform the Grand Admiral and the Admiral that they had arrived.
In the main cabin of the Imperial Shuttle Grand Admiral Thrawn and Admiral Piet were talking about how to best undertake the negotiations with the Equines and insure that Equestria join the Empire, when the Imperial Pilot interrupted their conversation.
"We have arrived,"said the pilot.
Author's Note
Thanks for reading, I am hopping to have the next chapter done by next week. Constructive criticism is always welcome.
Chapter 3: Negotiations and Tensions
Royal Canterlot Gardens
Both Thrawn and Rax looked up at the Imperial Pilot and got up from their chairs. Soon after the pilot took the Grand Admiral to the main troop hold an exit, then the Imperial pilot pushed a red button on the side of the ship to open the shuttle ramp-door hybrid. Outside stood the Royal Sisters, Shining Armor, and twenty heavily armed Royal Guards, All looked inside the the shuttle as dark troopers and storm troopers stormed out of the shuttle and into the garden to make way for Grand Admiral Thrawn and Admiral Galius Rax.
"It is a pleasure to finally meet you in person Princesses,"said Thrawn.
"It is a pleasure as well Grand Admiral,"replied Celestia.
"I would like to introduce both of you to Admiral Galius Rax, he is a very intelligent and has incredible leadership skills and is a pleasure to have him serving under me,"said Thrawn.
"Nice to meet you Admiral Rax,"said Celestia.
"Nice to meet you too,"said Luna.
"I believe we should return to the castle your majesty, the delegates are waiting,"said Shining Armor.
"Of course,"replied Celestia
"I believe that we should head back to the castle, some delegates from The Griffin Kingdom, The Dragon lands, Zebrica, The Unified Kingdoms of the Minotaurs, and Saddle Arabia have come to negotiate the terms of your integration within our planet," said Celestia
With that Thrawn and Galius Rax walked with the Royal Sisters into Canterlot Castle followed by their escort. Thrawn was inpresed by the beautiful interior decorations within the castle, marble floors, with walls of marble, the ceiling was painted purple and everything was complimented by golden trim. Paintings of the equines adorned the walls of the hallways, but when they turned the corner, large stained glass windows gave off a colorful stream of light. Soon they reached their destination, two large Wooden doors stood in front of them, two Royal Guards marched up to the doors and opened them then everyone went inside.
Royal Canterlot Castle: Confrence Room
Inside the room there was a large mahogany table were the delegates already sitting in their respective chairs. Both Celestia and Luna took their chairs, and Both Thrawn and Galius Rax took a seat soon after. In the middle of the table their was a tray filled with fruit, a mare then walked up to Thrawn and asked if he wanted some tea.
"What do you recommend?"asked Thrawn.
"I personally like gingsing tea, because of its sweet yet with a hint of bitterness, and its great aroma,"said Flower Petal
Flower Petal left and for the kitchen in which various other ponies were preparing the evening dinner and the tea for the delegates. She pined the orders of the delegates on to the order wall and waited for the tea to be ready. After about three minutes a tray full of cups of steaming hot tea was pushed out on to the ready desk, Flower Petal troted back to the conference room and served the delegates their tea.
"Should we start the negotiations?"asked Celestia.
Everone agreed so the long negotiations started.
"I would first like to ask what is the primary species in your nation?"asked Iornclaw.
"Well, the Galactic Empire is vast and its population is very diverse, but the ruling species are the the humans,"replied Thrawn.
"Are you a human?"asked Saddle Hoof.
"No l'm not a human, I am chist and the only high ranking imperial official that is not a human. My partner is actually a human,"said Thrawn.
"What is your nations intentions here on Equis?"asked Iornclaw.
"Well we want you all to join the Galactic Empire and we would also like to access to 95% of your planets, resources in return we will give you all of our latest technology,"said Thrawn.
"And how do we know you are not lying to us, and are really here to exterminate us,"replied Iornclaw.
"Well if we were here to exterminate you all we would have already exterminated all of you, and not set one imperial boot on your planet,"said Thrawn.
"Fine but 95% of our resources is a bit too much, how do you expect us to survive with only 5% of our planets resources,"replied Iorn Claw.
"There are tons of resources on this planet, sure you can survive with that many resources,"said Thrawn.
"Um I believe that we should start to talk about this Empire of yours, can we speak to your leader,"asked Celestia.
"Sure, I can contact him, just give me a minute,"replied Thrawn.
With that Thrawn got out his mobile holographic pad and imputed the number of the Imperial palace, derectly giving Thrawn Contact with the Emperor. The rest of the delegates and both Princess were curious about what Thrawn was doing with what seemed to be a golden cylinder. They were all shocked when they saw that the cylinder could display three dimensional pictures and could also transmit messages.
"Mylord I have have some news to tell you,"said Thrawn.
"Yes Grand Admiral,"replied the Emperor.
"Mylord I have made contact with the locals, the planet is inhabited by several intelligent creatures. These creatures have there own countries and cultures, the leaders of all the creatures have made a summit to learn more about us and to negotiate the terms of our plan to integrate the Empire into there planet to serve there needs and ours,"said Thrawn.
"Very well then let me speak with them,"replied the Emperor.
"Yes Mylord,"replied Thrawn.
