Prelude to War

Palace Garden, Coruscant. Empress Padme POV.

The Imperial Palace thrived with senators, dignitaries, and honored guests. The Empress made it her personal delight to host parties and social gatherings to raise the prestige of her family. The galaxy could not have asked for a more fearsome power couple. An Emperor of the **** and the battlefield. An Empress of politics and diplomacy. Padme couldn’t help but smile at the party swarming around her. Luke and Leia are the center of attention, Padme’s friends and family are enjoying themselves, including Sache and Yane who were recently impregnated by her husband. Senators and other galactic politicians mingle around her.

One of the senators attending is Riyo Chuchi of Pantora, A close friend of Padme and Ahsoka. The Pantoran delegate had been leading a successful campaign providing retirement benefits for the Jango Fett clones who fought in the clone wars. The funding for said program was provided by the royal family and thus making Chuchi a close ally and supporter.

“You always manage to throw the most elegant festivities, your majesty.” Chuchi said to Padme.

“Thank you, but please call me Padme. You can drop the formalities outside the senate.” The Empress replied and the two raised glasses to one another. “How goes the colony project?”

“Slower than I would have preferred but you and the Emperors continued support has been a blessing. Speaking of, will he be attending this gathering?” asked the Pantoran.

“Anakin is preparing for a diplomatic meeting with the Hutts. But he will make an appearance, lest he forget I work hard to host these gatherings.” The Empress joked and Chuchi smiled.

Main POV.

“How could we let this happen!” yelled General Tagge. “We're supposed to be in command of the mightiest fleet the galaxy has ever known yet we can’t even protect simple border checkpoints?!?!”

You sat at the head of an emergency meeting of the Joint Chiefs of your Empire after receiving the news of the destruction of checkpoint stations bordering Hutt Space. At your sides but not in the view of the other holograms are Ahsoka and Bariss. You were all dressed up to attend the gathering in the palace gardens when the news reached you via Governor Tarkin. General Tagge’s earlier outburst has made the rest of the Joint Chiefs very agitated.

“General Tagge, perhaps instead of making baseless accusations about our navy’s efficiency, you instead hold your tongue and worry about your own departments.” commented Admiral Coburn. Earning some snickering from some of the other members.

Tagge looks like he’s about to burst but Tarkin speaks up. “Gentleman, instead of bickering and wasting the Emperor's time, let’s consider our options.” This resets the mood of the meeting and forces Tagge to bite his tongue. Most of the members now looked at you for your input. At the moment, you have been thinking over these events.

“This alliance with Jabba must come to an end. We’ve tolerated the Hutts for far too long.” Said Colonel Yularen.

“Here here.” Replied Captain Pellaeon.

After a minute of silence, you spoke up.

“I will take lead over the crisis.”

A few members looked at you in silence.

“Your majesty, this problem is beneath you,” said Yularen.

“Nothing is beneath me Colonel, I signed this treaty with the Hutts in hopes of cooperation. But instead I see that my kindness squandered. I plan on taking personal enjoyment in dismantling these slavers and backstabbers and ending this plague to the Galaxy.” You declare to the joint chiefs. Each look to one another and nod in agreement.

“We shall take your lead then, your majesty.” Tarkin agreed.

“Begin plans for war. You all have 24 hours. Long live the Empire!” You proclaim.

“LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE!” The holograms end one by one.

Ahsoka and Barriss approach you after the meeting ends.

“And so it’s war. One I did not expect we would have so soon.” Barriss commented.

“The Hutts really think they can take us on? They can’t be thinking straight.” said Ahsoka.

“That's because someone else is behind these attacks. And you both know who I speak of.”

“An alliance between the Hutts and Maul? Impossible.” Barriss said.

You got up from your chair and walked over to the window looking out into the courtyard. Your two acolytes follow behind you.

“This Empire has put a stranglehold on the galactic underworld. The hold becomes tighter with every policy, covert action, and military strike we deliver. When things get ****, unlikely alliances are formed. Who’s to say they aren't all in one grand alliance to tear apart the empire piece by piece. And there's only one man that can form this unholy pact.” You therize.

Ahsoka and Barriss look at each other and try to wrap their minds around your words. It’s a very disturbing thought. Maul, at the head of the biggest underworld alliance of the galaxy?

“For now, we will make our plans. Enjoy one more day of peace. Then strike the next day. Inform our spy on Tatooine to prepare for our arrival.” You jester to Ahsoka.

"Yes, Master.” Ahsoka says before leaving. You turn towards Barriss.

“How has Celeste Morne been holding up?”

“She gets better every day and is more inquisitive. Her thirst for knowledge is unyielding.” Barriss said with a smirk. “She’s asked about you more than once.”

“And what have you told her?” You asked the Mirialan.

“Nothing that you won't reveal to her yourself.” Barriss replied. The two of you are very close now.

“All will be revealed to her in time, why don’t you let me use my new ****-powers over space to send you back to Byss quickly? That way you can check up on her. Then, once you are done, open yourself to me by beaming your devotion to your Emperor through the ****. I assure you that I will sense it and then I will bring you back in an instant so that you can join this long party when you're done.” You plant a kiss on her wanting lips and her body shivers and orgasms.

“Yes master.” Barriss bows and turns to leave.

She was flung halfway across the Deep Core that instant, however, because soon, she noticed that her Master was giving her a winning smirk.

“Tell you what though, as a reward for taking care of our time-displaced guest, I give you permission to use the little **** relic you discovered in that digsite on Byss,” you said in an amused tone. “Have fun!”

The former Jedi’s grin widened very quickly at that she found herself shivering in arousal on the spot once more, despite her recent orgasm.

“You are most generous, my Emperor,” She replied with reverence. “Thank you.”

And with that, she found herself back in her Master’s Palace back on the world of Byss the next time she blinked. She wasn’t phased by the incredible use of **** powers her one true Master had at his beck and call anymore. He was, after all, the Chosen One…chosen to be the one to rule this galaxy through the ****…and everyone in it.

Smirking in anticipation of what was to come, Barriss Offee hurried to gain access to their high security vault that contained the ****-empowered artifacts under the control of the Eternal Order.

And once she found what she was looking for, she placed it inside the room just beside the one Celeste Morne was staying.

Then she went to her private quarters to get a drink, despite her desire to get started. But she knew it would be better if she waited a bit longer. Her Emperor had given her express instructions to do her best not to inform the Mandalorian Wars era Jedi of recent historical and political developments, especially involving the end of the Clone Wars. And she knew that if she allowed her impatience to get the better of her this time, Celeste would have difficult questions for her that Barriss would have a hard time answering without triggering her **** senses about deception.

And so, she gulped down her first cup of Alderaanian wine. Before pouring the next one.

Guest Quarters of the Imperial Palace, Byss. Celeste Morne POV.

The formerly dormant Jedi groaned in frustration as she put the datapad down on the table beside her bed, finally giving up on reading.

She hadn’t seen Barriss since yesterday and was finding herself missing the female Mirialan more than she had expected. The modern Jedi had been very patient and understanding with her since waking up from hibernation to discover that nearly 4 millenia had passed her by, answering all her questions, sharing most of her meals with her and giving her time and space when she wanted to be alone with her thoughts. And before heading informing her that she will be too busy to check up on her for a day or two, she had left her with a data pad with more detailed historical information about the climactic conclusion of the New Sith Wars in the Seventh Battle of Ruusan and the political shakeups that took place in its aftermath, such as the Ruusan Reformation.

She still didn’t know what to think after Barriss had told her that the Brotherhood of Darkness in particular and the Sith order in general was completely destroyed at the end of that war during their last conversation, before cutting it off abruptly and leaving her with a datapad to continue her research. After all, the Sith were technically extinct in her own time before she was **** to go into stasis to contain the dark powers of the Muur talisman. Or at least, that was what her masters had told her when it came to the true Sith where the species were concerned. So, it wasn’t as if she didn’t know that they couldn’t be defeated, for all their dark powers.

On the other hand, her homeworld was devastated during her childhood near the end of the Great Sith Wars that began after the Sith Order managed to return through the traitor Exar Kun, their teachings enduring inside the Dark Jedi. And even though they also were defeated, the secretive order of Jedi Shadows started training operatives like herself to hunt down and destroy traces of the Dark side found in artifacts and holocrons so as to minimize the chances of another easily corruptible **** user getting seduced by the idea of rebuilding the Sith and plaguing the galaxy with carnage once more.

As such, she understood better than most Jedi from the Mandalorian Wars era that just because there weren’t any living Sith at the moment it didn’t mean they should lower their guard. After all, their dark legacy remained in the historical record if nothing else. And on any Dark sided artifacts that managed to escape their notice.

This was all true even without knowing that some of the original Sith purebloods had survived in hiding within the distant unknown regions until Barriss informed her about them, millenia after their reconstituted Sith Empire was gone too. But since there was also that factor to consider, Celeste was skeptical. Could it really be that Sith went well and truly extinct and hadn’t caused trouble for almost a thousand years before she found herself awakened in this new and more modern galaxy?

It was that question that had spurred her to read on for hours on end, absorbing historical details like a sponge as she tried to look for clues about the Sith’s survival between the lines. But then, she couldn’t help it anymore and put the datapad down, her focus utterly ruined.

Inhaling sharply, she tried to calm herself down with some of her Jedi meditation techniques again but despite her best efforts, her arousal continued to grow, making her bit her lower lip in frustration.

“What is happening to me?” She couldn’t help but mutter.

She knew that she was feeling increasingly horny in the past few days, now that she was starting to feel physically better after her long hibernation. However, she had been able to push the lustful thoughts out of her mental exercises. That all started changing around an hour before though, and now, those meditation techniques weren’t working anymore.

Sighing, she decided she was going to need to take care of that if she wanted to get anything more done for the rest of the night. So, she removed her Jedi robes and placed her hand inside her panties before she could talk herself out of it again.

And it was at that moment that he screamed in unexpected bliss, the mere touch of her fingers on her outer lips sending her into an orgasm abruptly and crashing into her like a tidal wave of pleasure with full ****.

Celeste gaped, her open jaw frozen in shock as she felt her sudden climax drench her panties on the spot, taken completely off-guard by the thunderbolt of pleasure that had struck her nervous system.

She panted, her rapid breaths coming in and out as she tried to process what had happened. True, she had touched herself like that before, although she didn’t make a habit out of it in the past, usually preferring to use her meditation techniques when she felt her primal biological urges. And she had only had sex once in her life, and even then it was part of her undercover mission; knowing that it would be far easier to get the critical information she needed to find the location of the last known copy of the Epistle of Marka Ragnos if she could maintain her cover a bit longer to successfully seduce the daughter of the extremely wealthy and well guarded Black Market Collector before the auction where he intended to sell the Sith relic took place.

Still, while Celeste had realized that she had definitely enjoyed having intimate relations with a human woman a lot more than she had expected, she had remained committed to the Jedi Order in general and the secretive Jedi Covenant in particular, so she refused to allow herself to pursue more romantic relationships after that, unless it was for important undercover work.

That said, for all the orgasms she had the night she slept with her former lover, none of them could even remotely compare to the intense pleasure of what she had just felt.

Not even when the Jedi had discovered, much to her surprise, how much she enjoyed the taste of pussy…

Unable to stop herself from moving with ****-enhanced speed, she undressed in a couple of seconds, feeling a wild and feral intensity consuming the insides of her cunt with the flames of arousal and needing more to quench the fire between her legs immediately.

So, the Jedi out of time jumped on the bed, her now nude back colliding with the mattress and she wasted no time fingering her warm and dripping folds, her arms moving with almost animalistic instinct.

This, in turn made her eyes roll to the back of her head on the spot as an overabundance of pleasure made her see spiral galaxies before she could blink, a high-pitch moan of pleasure jumping from her lungs.

She must have become dazed by the second remarkably powerful and quick climax, however, because she almost didn’t realize the door to her room had opened before a familiar voice spoke.

“Oh…” Barriss said simply, her tone awkward.

Celeste’s eyes snapped open, a look of mortified embarrassment haunting her flushed features as she turned her naked body to look at her new Mirialan friend.

“I-Barriss…I…''She cut off, not knowing what to say, as she felt completely stumped and utterly surprised by what had just happened.

“It’s fine,” Barriss said, her tone more understanding and empathetic than Celeste had expected. “And…actually, it makes sense.”

The ancient Jedi frowned at her sudden reply. “What do you mean?”

“Errr…” Mirialan said, pausing for a moment as she stared at her naked body up and down.

Celeste shivered at that, unable to stop herself from thinking back on that distant night of with her lesbian lover, so long ago. Right then, she thought he could recognize a similar look of desire on Mirialan's face.

Also…has her new friend always looked so attracted and she was just noticing it now or has she put on some makeup that contrasts with her green skin really nicely?

Her newfound primal thoughts were interrupted when Barriss seemed to find her voice again.

“Umm…as you know, the doctors that took samples of your blood were going to run some medical tests to see if you had any virus or some other contagious disease from the distant past that may be more rare or even extinct in our own era,” The Mirialan Jedi began, her face starting to look flustered and her cheeks redder.”That’s why we were instructed to leave you quarantine in Byss until we knew more. And well, while we can now confirm you lack any pathogens like that, we did find something…interesting in the tests.”

“What?” Celeste asked, somehow sensing that the answer was big.

Her new friend gulped suddenly as she stared at her form before opening her mouth again.

“It seems the stasis pod has produced an…unusual reaction to your body’s natural libido,” She explained. “I am not sure I understand the science involved that well but to put a long story short…it’s as if your normal sex drive was held back by a dam due to the hibernation trance for almost 4 thousand years. But now you are awake again, which means the dam was broken. And with it, comes millenia worth of primal arousal flooding your senses up and down.”

Celeste’s jaw dropped down by that revelation, feeling shocked and aroused in equal measures. But she supposed it made sense in a way. She was in hibernation, not dead. That meant her body was still working to a degree, even if it could no longer age while she was under. Plus, it would also explain why the sexual pleasure she was experiencing seemed so powerful all of a sudden. She had basically been unable to touch herself to satisfy her urges for literal ages. No wonder her climax was so wild just then and she was able to recharge so quickly for another go.

.

And…it would also explain why Celeste couldn’t get the image of her attractive Mirialan friend opening her naked legs to her salivating tongue out of her head…

“What…what can be done then?” The ancient Jedi asked. “Is there a cure of some sort?”

“No,” Barriss said simply, but firmly. “Human life expectancy is never anywhere near as long as the time you were asleep. There is no **** potent enough to cure you of this condition. The lingering effects of the metaphorical dam I just mentioned are just too big cure without also killing you in the process. But based on what the Doctor said…he will be extremely surprised if you will be able to focus on work or anything other than sex without needing to orgasm at least 3 times a day for the rest of your natural life.”

Celeste paled at that, shivers going down her spine as she felt embarrassed at it all despite her growing attraction to her friend still fighting for attention in her waking thoughts.

“But…but…” She mumbled, struggling to come up with a response. “I…I am a Jedi,” She said weakly.

“I know,” Bariss replied, her tone soft with sympathy. “And Anakin Skywalker was quite understanding of all this when I showed him the medical test report. So…he has decided to use his authority as Grand Master of the Order to give you an official exemption from the normal romantic attachment norms. It seems he understands that you will be needing the fuck before long and that this need will never really go away because of your new medical condition. As such, he understands that it would be next to impossible for you to stop yourself from forming attachmentss with those you grow to like and trust enough to make love to.”

There was a long pause after that, and Celeste could now feel the sexual tension in the air through the **** locked her eyes with her very pretty friend.

“I know this is sudden and I wouldn’t want to presume but…well, speaking for myself, I have definitely grown to like you these past few days so, if you need someone to help you find relief in this trying situation, I would be happy to…”

Barriss was suddenly cut off when Celeste’s restraint well and truly snapped, the sex-starved ancient Jedi pulling her closer with her mind. The Mirialan yelped on reflex at the sudden move but soon, she found herself embracing the naked, sweaty and flushed form of time-displaced **** user.

“I think I like you that way too,” Morne admitted. “And thank you so much for offering. It has been a LONG time since I last slept with another woman, in more ways than one, and I have never missed it as much as I do now.”

Barriss perked up at the news, looking surprised and interested. “You mean you have…”

But she couldn’t continue because her mouth was engulfed by a passionate kiss right then and there. Celeste moaned into the act, loving the taste and how locking her lips with the Mirialan made her feel.

Then she broke away to breath and saw that her new friend was gasping, flushing as well now. Barriss stared at her up and down with desire and hunger evident in her gaze and Celeste was sure her own expression was similar.

So, she couldn’t stop herself from growling next as she tugged at the Mirialan’s clothing.

“Off. Now!” She demanded, her core brimming with the need to fuck.

Barriss smiled at her like a predator that had caught a very delicious prey but it barely registered in Celeste’s thoughts, because soon, the female Jedi before her was standing in the nude as well.

And she found her form very appealing right then and there…

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