Naboo – Sanctuary in Silence
After the second attempt on her life, the Jedi Council ordered Senator Amidala to leave Coruscant. The official reason was security.
The real reason was to separate her from politics… and from the coming storm.
Anakin Skywalker, ever more defiant, was assigned as her sole protector. It was not the first step toward danger. It was the last step away from restraint.
They traveled to Naboo, her home world, under the cover of diplomatic leave. Verdant fields, sunlit lakes, and familiar estates awaited them a stark contrast to the darkness rising across the galaxy.
Days passed.
Conversations turned personal.Laughter returned.But so did tension.
Anakin tried to bury it. To be a Jedi. To be cold.
But he was not.
Padmé tried to resist. To be loyal to duty.But her smiles lingered too long.Her gaze softened too easily.
Beneath the peace of Naboo, love bloomed in silence.
But it could not last.
Tatooine – Blood in the Dunes
Anakin's dreams turned to nightmares.
A voice. A scream.His mother.
Without hesitation, Anakin altered their route. Padmé went with him loyal, though she didn't yet understand how much rage lived in him.
On Tatooine, he sought out Watto, who had sold Shmi Skywalker years earlier. He tracked her to the Lars homestead, where Owen and Beru welcomed them cautiously.
But the truth shattered him.
"She was taken… weeks ago. Raiders."
Anakin rode into the Jund-land Wastes alone.His lightsaber burned in his hand.He found the camp.He found his mother.
Too late.
She died in his arms.
And then he killed them all.
Not just the warriors.
The women. The children.
When he returned, Padmé said nothing. Her heart broke for the innocents, and for the boy whose light was dimming fast.
Geonosis – The Rescue That Failed
A coded message from Obi-Wan reached the Jedi Temple. He had followed Jango Fett to Geonosis—and been captured.
Anakin, still burning from Tatooine, insisted on helping. Padmé refused to let him go alone.
They landed on Geonosis under stealth approach, sneaking into the droid foundries.
But it was a trap.
They were captured, brought before Count Dooku, and sentenced to death in the execution arena.
"You'll never win," Padmé said defiantly.
"We're more prepared than you think."
Dooku merely smiled.He knew they were right.
Kamino – The Meeting of Mysteries
Far away, Master Yoda arrived on Kamino to confirm the clone army's readiness.
He met with Lama Su, toured the training facilities, reviewed the regiments. The Kaminoans, cold and precise, were proud of their work.
But it wasn't Lama Su who caught Yoda's attention.
It was Shepard.
The Kaminoans introduced him as a scientist of great standing, one who had contributed heavily to stabilizing the clones and fine-tuning their combat protocols.
Yoda, cautious and wise, requested a private conversation.
They stood together in a quiet observation dome, watching thousands of troopers train.
"Much you have done. Useful, your contributions are," Yoda said slowly, his tone probing.
Shepard offered a small, unreadable smile.
"Everything I've done has been for the galaxy. Even if it doesn't realize it yet."
Yoda narrowed his eyes.
"Foreseen much, I have. But you… clouded you are."
"Good," Shepard said simply. "Let the galaxy believe it knows what's coming."
They said no more.
But after Yoda left, Shepard returned to his encrypted comms.
"Advance Project Leviathan. Begin construction of seven vessels—class Omega."
He looked out the viewport as the Abandoned floated in orbit, silent and cold.
"If the Jedi are deploying their army… so will I."
Overan – The New Flagships
Within the week, seven drydocks were activated under nanite command. Each was fed directly by Overan's mines and orbital resource processors.
The Omega-class warships would dwarf The Abandoned not in size, but in efficiency and adaptability.
Each was designed with:
Advanced dark hypermatter reactors
Optimized internal fabrication bays
Layered stealth plating
Auto-evolving targeting matrices—based on Shepard's nanite neural imprint
Modular fighter bays supporting four new starfighter variants
The fighters themselves were sleek, blade-like, with hybrid repulsorlift-sublight engines. Ultra-fast, nanite-reinforced hulls. Designed for swarm tactics and solo kill runs.
As the Jedi rushed toward war…
Shepard prepared for dominance.