Chapter 7: The gaze from across the galaxy
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The Galactic Republic is a giant that has ruled thousands of worlds spread throughout the galaxy for more than 25,000 years. Since its founding, it has been governed by a legislative body known as the Galactic Senate and supported by the Jedi Order. 

  

Republic Era, 35 BBY. Coruscant, the capital of the Galactic Republic, is also the most developed and prosperous planet in the entire galaxy.  

  

The Jedi Temple is one of the most magnificent buildings on Coruscant, along with the Galactic Senate. Five towers rise above the enormous trapezoidal main building, more than a thousand meters high and 500 meters wide. This architectural structure also marks the supreme authority of the Jedi Order, the guardian of the Galactic Republic. 

  

A 70-year-old man with gray beard and hair, but energetic and dignified, stood in one of the high towers of the Jedi Temple. He reported in a cold tone. "Master Yoda, Senator Palpatine has agreed to ask the Galactic Council to provide support and pressure the judicial fleet to send troops directly to relieve the siege of the planet Niele." 

  

With his back next to the hallway window, was an old man with many wrinkles and green skin, less than a meter tall, with long ears. He was holding a staff and looking at all of Coruscant through the window. 

  

Master Yoda, the supreme leader of the Jedi Order, is also a highly respected elder. After listening to the visitor's report, he did not look back, but nodded and said, "Thank you, Master Dooku. Very important, Senator Palpatine's help is." 

  

The grammar of his speech is very strange. He always puts the subject at the end, making it a somewhat awkward inverted sentence.  

  

The old man named Master Dooku also responded very coldly. He just nodded slightly, turned around and left. When he came to the door, he turned sideways and said coldly: "If sending troops to rescue a planet besieged by pirates requires using personal relationships to push the bill through the parliament, then tell me the way forward for the Galactic Republic. And what place should the Jedi Order occupy in this path?" 

  

Master Yoda just turned his back to him. After a while, he slowly said: "Call me master, you should."  

  

Dooku's cheek twitched, he turned around suddenly and slammed the door.  

  

After a long time, Master Yoda took a deep breath, turned and looked in one direction, his eyes became deep, and he shook his head slightly.  

  

Outside the door, Master Dooku suppressed the anger in his heart and walked quickly down the corridor. A pair of masters and apprentices in coarse cloths walked towards him. They were a middle-aged man with disheveled hair and a young boy with a crew cut who looked very energetic.  

  

Seeing Dooku approaching, the middle-aged man quickly stepped aside, bowed very respectfully and said, "Master."  

  

Dooku was upset, but after seeing this middle-aged man, he nodded in response, and then walked out of the Jedi Temple.  

  

The middle-aged man kept bowing and waited for Dooku to go away, then led his young apprentice into the room where Dooku came out just now.  

  

“Master Yoda, are you looking for me?” The middle-aged man walked into the room and bowed deeply to Master Yoda who was standing by the window.  

  

"Fluctuations in the Force, I feel there are." Master Yoda said.  

  

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes sharpened, "Could it be that the power of the dark side has appeared again?"  

  

"The power of the dark side, this is not it. Chaos it is all I see." Master Yoda closed his eyes and felt the force.  

  

“Chaos? Where is it? Why does this happen?” The middle-aged man frowned.  

  

"To know, it is impossible." Master Yoda shook his head, "Getting stronger, the disturbance in the Force is. To see it, your own eyes you have to use. Go to the Moddell Sector, Master Qui-Gon Jinn." 

  

The middle-aged man asked again: "What am I looking for?"  

  

"I don't know. May the Force be with you." Master Yoda sighed and stopped talking.  

  

"May the Force be with you." Qui-Gon Jinn bowed deeply again, turned to the young man beside him and said: "Let's go, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Go to the Moddell Sector." 

 

“Yes, master.” The young man nodded and replied.  

  

…  

  

Master Dooku returned to his residence, turned on the communicator and the holoprojector showed the figure of a man of about 40 years old, dressed in a Senator's robe and somewhat bald. 

  

Dooku nodded slightly and said: "Thank you very much for your help this time, Senator Palpatine. Otherwise, tens of millions of residents on the planet Niele would have suffered heavy casualties under the siege of the Biskaran Pirates."  

  

Senator Palpatine smiled and said. "This is what I should do, Master Dooku. I am also very lucky to meet a Jedi like you who dares to break tradition and is full of justice in such a decadent era."  

  

"But this is not what I want." Dooku shook his head and said, "This matter should not be resolved like this."  

  

"The environment we find ourselves in is such that it will not change thanks to the efforts of one or two of us. Therefore, we must be grateful that this matter can be resolved. And other more serious matters, such as the recent dispute between the Planet Malastare and the Corporate Alliance is beyond our capabilities," Palpatine said. 

  

Dooku was convinced, "I agree with you, Mr. Senator, this is not a problem that one or two of us can solve. We need more comrades."  

  

Palpatine nodded happily, "This is exactly what I want to express. But I believe that as long as we stick to our original aspirations, the opportunity for change will eventually come."  

  

"I hope this day comes soon." Dooku's tone became colder.  

  

"Yes, it will come eventually." Palpatine said meaningfully, "By the way, I recently heard that there may be some problems in the Moddell Sector."  

  

"That's the barren area of the Outer Rim Region. It's full of abnormal hyperspace traps. As far as I know, there's also a giant black hole. It's beyond the control of the Galactic Republic. Are the problems that happen there important?" Count Dooku was a little strange.  

  

"It's not important, I just care a little. If you can help me and let someone, check it out, that would be the best." Palpatine said lightly.  

  

"I will send a few Jedi apprentices... Well, forget it, I will send a few bounty hunters directly from my home planet of Serenno." Count Dooku originally wanted to go through the Jedi Order, but he immediately gave up on this idea.  

  

“Thank you for your hard work, Master Dooku.” Palpatine showed that meaningful smile again, bowed slightly, and then ended the communication.  

  

"Why should Dooku be asked to deal with the Force disturbance that recently appeared in the Moddell Sector?" An extremely deep voice suddenly came from behind Palpatine.  

  

"It's like training a Siberian war dog. Only by using it little by little will it get used to your commands... The point is for it to receive orders." Palpatine replied with a smile.  

  

“Do you really have this idea?” the voice asked again.  

  

"Of course, my Lord." Palpatine bowed slightly, hiding his expression well.  

  

"Very good, in that case, the dispute on the Malastare planet still lacks some fire, so just go and light another fire." said the voice in the darkness.  

  

"As you wish, my lord." Palpatine still kept an impeccable smile on his face and left the office walking backwards. 

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