One People, One Empire, One Goal

[Davin Jusik]

Imperial SD Victory

Stormtrooper Private Vincent Jusik stood in front of a booming crowd of restless Imperial Citizens and Military. His dress uniform was neatly pressed, it's black profile smartly outlined with silver trim. The young man's Medal of Valor sat above his right breast pocket exactly 1/8th of an inch and opposite on his left sat a few ribbons similarly placed. He wore his cover as per regulation with the Imperial Cog sitting neatly in it's middle with a brilliant shine. The image of what a young trooper should appear like.

The difference was the eyes. Filled dually with hope and righteous anger. The Emperor had taken his decision to self demote and turned it into a propaganda slam. The Private was revered by his fellows for the action, which showed the moral character of Imperial men and women in uniform.

Vince approached the podium that had been sat up and begin loudly, microphone placed.

"Sons and Daughters of the Empire. It has been nearly a year since the Republic and their Jedi allies burned our systems and killed our fellows on a quest to create disorder in the galaxy. They burned our cities, razed our monuments, and destroyed our grand vessels in the skies above our worlds. They think they have taken our hope. Our unflinching commitment to Order. Peace. They think we are broken."

He allowed the words to sink over the silent masses. Allowing the emotions of the past months to build.

"They believe us beaten, allowing their stench to wash over the galaxy in a wave of corruption so foul that the stars are growing sour from their presence. You need only to look to their corrupted leaders to see the truth behind my words."

"BUT IS THIS TRUE? WILL WE LAY DOWN LIKE FRIGHTENED CHILDREN WHILE THEY FLAUNT THEIR IMMORALITY ACROSS THE COSMOS?"

The resounding no gave Jusik a bit of a jolt. It felt good.

"WILL WE NOT REBUILD? WILL OUR CAUSE NOT FLOW LIKE A RIGHTEOUS WAVE ACROSS THEIR LAND. THEIR PEOPLE?"

"My fellow Imperials! I stand before you a humble Stormtrooper, a man who fights for the order that will be necessary to facilitate galactic peace. Palpatine proved this and for nineteen years there was order. Until the Jedi returned and brought galactic instability yet again. Vader proved that our enemies are not invincible. As has our lineage time and time again. It is our destiny. We are the decedents of the line of Vader and Palpatine. We will have our justice as they did."

"No more will Graug diplomats be shot down while wearing a white flag, no more will villages burn at the hands of Jedi Masters who dare believe they have the authority to make such a decision for their chaos. No more will our noble cause be discriminated against by our lessors. NO MORE."

By now the crowd was fired up. Cheering during pauses and shouting motos.

"We shall bide our time. Then our enemies shall burn in a righteous light, many will die, but their deaths will not have been in vane. We shall prevail. There will be peace. We are the future of this galaxy!"

"One People, One Empire, One Emperor!"

Jusik gave a sharp Imperial salute before taking his place in a seat behind the podium. He wasn't the only one speaking today.

[member="Darth Vulcanus"]

 

[Darth Vulcanus]

The aura aboard the Star Destroyer was astounding, true nationalism and pride in the cause of the Sith was growing like a brewing storm that sweep across the galaxy in a holy wind that wipe clean the scourge of the Jedi Order from the face of the galaxy. The New Order was a cosmic wind and the factions that lay before them were but particles of dust that would be blown away to make room for a grander Empire…a stronger Empire and a stronger people.

As Jusik finished his speech, Vulcanus grinned with cynical satisfaction. The man knew how to speak to a crowd and Vulcanus had taken that queue from him and had begun reading Palpatine’s book on corruption and propaganda. It was no secret that Krag was not one to make speeches that danced around the issue like Republic senators did, but he could turn his aggression and hate into a speech that could rouse the dead to action.

Taking the podium, Vulcanus looked out over the crowd and slowly let the his darkside power wash over them as he began to speak.

“Imperial Comrades! For 400 years the Jedi Order has gradually built their power, not through peace and freedom of choice as they claim, no they welded together their Republic solely by force! Since the foundations of the Republic were laid, war has followed war. One system after another was robbed of its freedom. One government after another was shattered so that the structure which calls itself the Galactic Republic might arise. DEMOCRACY WAS NOTHING BUT A MASK COVERING OPPRESSION AND SUBJUGATION OF PLANETS AND PEOPLE BY WEAK JEDI FILTH!” As the Dark Lord spoke he slammed his fist on the podium and he began to choke the heat from the room with the force and call it unto himself. In this way, the room seemed to get all its heat from the direction in which Vulcanus was standing…he was the Lord giving heat unto his faithful comrades.

“This so-called Republic claims to stand for democracy, for peace and for freedom. To the contrary, they conquered and oppressed countless systems. Neigh every planet this false Republic now controls was brought to heel by military force! When they conquered the Graug homeworld it was by force! They claimed to bring Gratos democracy and when they sent a representative to Coruscant, HE WAS SHOT DOWN! THE REPUBLIC CANNOT ALLOW THESE CONQUERED SYSTEMS TO VOTE, FOR THEN THE TRUTH OF THEIR OPPRESSION WOULD BE KNOWN!” Vulcanus threw his hands up in the air as he spoke

“They then sent a fleet to wipe out and brutally slaughter my people on Sabarene, after we attempted to defend ourselves from their aggression. Through these means they contrive to break the backbones of all governments, to remove their resistance, to wear them down and make them prepared at last to submit to this Jedi joke of democracy.”

“In the process of creating an oppressive state, the Jedi’s formidable weapon was that of lying, propaganda! They allowed systems a false sense of control but as you can see, more and more Jedi have taken power in the their so-called Senate! Now their plan is complete and at the end of a blood-stained path of the past 400 years of Jedi history stands the fact that billons of people throughout the galaxy are under the control of a handful of individuals on the Jedi Council and their puppets in the senate!

“IT IS IMPORTANT, MY STRONG IMPERIAL COMRADES, THAT WE SHOUT THIS TO THE GALAXY, FOR THEY ARE WEAK DEMOCRACTIC LIERS WHO ASSERT THAT THE SITH RULE SO-CALLED AUTHORITARIAN STATES WHEN THE TRUE CONQUERORS AND BRINGERS OF HATE, DISCONTINET AND CHAOS ARE OUR OLD ENEMIES! THE JEDI!”

Vulcanus’s hands lowered to the edges of the podium and looked over the faces in the crowd, “But do not be deceived, imperials, the Jedi’s oppressive nature is not a new creation of the past 400 years. Millennia ago, when the Sith and Jedi were one, the ancestors of the Jedi exiled the Sith and murdered them in cold blood merely for not submitting to their will! THE SITH WOULD NOT ALLOW FOR THIS OPPRESSION AND WE MET THE JEDI OPPRESSORS IN MORTAL COMBAT TO ALLOW ORDER AND STABILLITY TO RULE! Yet, the Jedi were many and we were few. We did not go silently into the void to die, we were not going to let the Jedi spread their oppression across the galaxy without resistance!”

“The Sith were forced to flee to the edges of the galaxy and there destiny interlaced them with a strong people, the pureblooded Sith. Together, the ancestors of the Sith Order cooperated with the purebloods to create a government not based on greed and oppression as the Jedi have now forged in the Republic. No, they created a government that was based on laws, order and balance so that war would one day be abolished from the galaxy! They tried to liberate the galaxy from the tyranny of the Jedi, but they were defeated. The Jedi then punished the Sith for their resistance to the lying Republic by attempting to hunt them to extinction. DOES THIS NOT SOUND FAMILIAR! HISTORY HAS REPEATED ITSELF AND JUST UNDER A YEAR AGO, THE JEDI PUNISHED THE SITH FOR REFUSING TO BOW THEIR HEADS TO AN OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT! HOMES WERE BOMBED AND BURNED WITH FAMILES STILL INSIDE! SITH WERE EXECUTED AND LEFT TO ROT IN MASS GRAVES!”

Coming close to the end of his speech, Vulcanus began to raise his hands slowly in the air, “IF THE JEDI ARE NOT STOPPED, THE GALAXY WILL BE PLUNGED INTO AN AGE OF OPPRESSION AND DARKNESS! THE SITH EMPIRE WAS PLAUGED BY WEAK MINDS THAT ALLOWED THE EMPIRE TO BE ROBBED AND DISECTED BY THE JEDI! THOSE WEAK MINDS HAVE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE GALAXY TO FORM CLONES OF WHAT BROUGHT DOWN OUR GREAT PEOPLE TO BEGIN WITH! WHAT WE NEED IS NOT A REPEAT! WHAT WE NEED IS A NEW SYSTEM! A NEW GOVERNMENT! A NEW ORDER THAT WILL INSTILL PEACE AND ORDER AND CREATE A SAFE AND SECURE SOCIETY!”

Bringing his arms back down hard on the podium, Vulcanus breathed and moved aside for the next speaker.

 

[Darth Narakada]

Taking the podium after his master, the Dathomir looked out at the crowd. "The new age has arrived. The new dawn. The new era. This era, this age, there is one reason why this isn't possible," he let the silence linger, let them try to guess at the answer, knowing many of them would think of grand ideas and big ships. But no, "You." He said this quietly.

"YOU ARE THE ONES WHO WILL LEAD US INTO THE DAWN. We are a unit, not a mass of indiviudals, we are TOGETHER. Fighting for PEACE. OF. THE. GALAXY!" His voice boomed loud throughout the crowed as they yelled louder and louder with each word. "We are the harbingers of the of the demise of ones who call themselves peaceful when all they do, is screw the entire galaxy and shower themselves in riches, riches horded from all the ones they think inferior to them. Let's get those riches back, and after we have rewarded ourselves for destroying those fools, let's let the mass of the galaxy who supports us share in them."

"When I rose from slumber over a year ago, I found myself in a new world. One of many different powers, powers that called themselves great, but they really aren't," the crowd was now shushed again, waiting for what was to come. "We. Are Great," He said each word with slow power. "We. Are Great. We Are Great. WE ARE GREAT!" The crowd joined him in the last roar. As they cheered loudly, he gazed the crowd. "When we go home tonight, to rest for another day of destroying the unworthy, remember, who is it that is leading us to a brighter, better galaxy? It is you! It is myself! It is Lord Vulcanus! IT. IS. US! WE ARE THE TOMORROW!"

 

[Onrai]

Slowly, the former Supreme Commander of the Imperial Navy stepped up to the podium. Bosch had been waiting for months as the Imperial Remnants deteriorated into piles of scrap metal, corpses, and other abominable things. It was time for reunification in a most spectacular manner.

"Citizens of the Empire... For the past forty years, I have loyally served you as a naval commander. I have participated in campaigns, wars, and battles, all to keep you safe from the various threats the galaxy has thrown at us. I have led starships, squadrons, and entire fleets to battle against the Republic, CIS, and Mandalorians. I have broken no laws, crushed no statutes - and yet the enemies of ours fervently struggle in an attempt to annihilate us all, including breaking their own laws through execution and incarceration of Imperial citizens without due process, mass murdering of noncombatants, and the destruction of the Imperial capital, reducing it to an inhabitable ball of rock."

"The time has come for us to rearm. We will regather our weapons, regain our territory, and fight back against the oppressive Republic, Mandalorian, and CIS forces who have poisoned and tainted our land. They force our citizens to obey their laws, to pay them taxes as an occupying force. We will retaliate against them with full vigor."

"Imperial prototypes are now being brought back into service, and soon we shall have all the firepower required to deal with Republic fleets. It's all that matters - liberation for restoration. For the Empire!"