Geonosis.
The name will remain forever seared in the memory of the Republic.
The blaster shots and lightsaber hums have been heard around the galaxy, and the battle that has just taken place will be known as one that launched a million ships carrying droids and clones and Jedi, all the expendable pawns of the cruel and endless game of war.
Padmé Amidala knows all of this, and yet at the moment she does not care.
She has felt the rumblings of war, perturbing the galaxy for years. This sense of quiet unease has plagued her since before she was elected Queen. It was inevitable, unavoidable that it could come to this, she thinks as she s
There was a strange presence in the Jedi Temple. The initiates felt it during their morning meditation, a power that was like the Force but which they were unable to touch. Even the Masters guiding them through the exercise seemed unsettled by it: Depa Billaba's eyes snapped open, Ali-Alann shifted uncomfortably, and Master Yoda's ears twitched. Then, after a moment, he smiled.
"Returned, I think, the Doctor has."
Eleven year old Obi-Wan Kenobi was late for his lesson, and so he took a short cut through the Room of a Thousand Fountains, where all thoug