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"I am Ambassador Crandall," the woman said, hesitating a moment as she looked at the little girl, whose eyes had remained fixed on Harry since the moment he revealed his powers before turning away to look at Fay and the locals a small sneer on her face. "And this attack would've seen me murdered! I was on the comlink with our embassy as the battle began to escalate and I have no doubt that by this time my government's response is on the way."
One of the Baron's hangers-on was a man wearing a helmet communicator, and he paled as something came through it. "She's right Your Highness, system security reports two Hapan Heruc-class battlecruisers and four squads of starfighters, unknown type, just jumped out of hyperspace. They are demanding to know if their ambassador is all right, and threatening to bombard the planet if they don't speak to her within the next 15 minutes!"
While Vena was a rich planet it didn't have the planetary shields that most Core worlds took for granted. Those installations were massive, expensive and time-consuming, the work of decades which consumed large portions of the most planets GDP. Outside of the Core Worlds they were somewhat rare because of this. That meant of course, that Vena was susceptible to orbital bombardment. And worse, two Hapan battlecruisers with four squadrons of starfighters outnumbered the local defenders two to one in terms of firepower and possibly in quality as well.
"Enough!" Master Fay said, gesturing to the woman. "Tell them you are well, we will escort you back to your embassy. From there we will continue our discussions."
Those discussions ended with both the Baron and Baroness being removed from power in order to stave off civil war, and shipped off-world to pay for crimes against humanity. It turned out that the crackdown on their opposition had been worse than had ever reached the Republic's ears, and with a Jedi on hand and with aid from Hapes in orbit, dozens of people came forward with evidence of that fact.
Master Fay spent three months on planet cleaning up afterwards, helping to install a new government that wouldn't be seen as a Republic puppet, which had some legitimacy in the local's eyes. Other Jedi might not have stayed to help that process along, but Master Fay was not another Jedi, she would only leave if the Force called her away or if she felt the job was done.
It would be some time before Harry learned that that little girl was not as he had thought at the time, and continued to think for years later, the ambassador's daughter. No, she was the daughter of far more august and powerful ally.
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Darth Sidious leaned back in his hidden throne room, his eyes closed as he subtly probed the Force, feeling out what was going on in the Temple and in the distant Yinchorri system. Thanks to Plagueis the Veil had been slowly taking shape for months now, aiding him in reaching out and feeling what was going on further away than he had previously been able to, while also blocking the Jedi from doing the same. The effect would grow in time, and Plagueis was elsewhere even now, continuing his work on it, leaving Sidious to watch over their work here in Coruscant.
This included their latest effort to both remove a variable and cut down on the Jedi's numbers. The first objective was going well, their Yinchorri tools had no more idea they were dancing to the Sith's tune than any other their other pawns. The second however had only marginal success thus far.
The order had lost the two Jedi they had sent to investigate the Yinchorri raid. Sidious had even felt at least two deaths since Windu, that unbending, inflexible, dangerous man had taken a team to see if they could find the Yinchorri ruling caste and force them to stop their assaults. But the two deaths had not been anyone of consequence, and Sidious had hoped for more from the Yinchorri.
Both in their home systems and here on Coruscant, the moronic lizards have not lived up to Plagueis' calculations. I suppose it serves me well as a abject lesson to not underestimate the Jedi, but I did not subtly convince that Devaronian that an assault on the Temple was a good idea to only kill a bare handful. While the fact they arrived on planet with none the wiser is something I can easily turn to my advantage in the Senate and in the local planetary control center, it does not make up for so few Jedi… wait… what is that?
Sidious subtly probed the feel of the Force around the temple, not allowing any of his own thoughts to be felt with a mastery of Force Cloak that no Jedi even knew existed, his thoughts hidden among the eddies of the Unifying Force. That was so automatic he didn't even think about it now, his whole intellect bearing down on the feel of the odd sensation he had just glimpsed.
It felt as if someone had somehow molded the Force into a physical presence, a shield of Force energy. Sidious could feel it was made up of several different Jedi in one of their irritating gestalts, but even so, it was a technique he had never heard of.
The feel of it sparked the memory of the rumors Sidious had heard a few years ago about some old Force techniques being rediscovered by Master Yoda. Perhaps there is more to those rumors than I thought. I must find out more. Hmm, if they are connected to that force of Light from several years ago which affected myself and my master so much, these new skills might offset The Plan.
With that concern paramount in his mind Sidious continued to probe gently around the Temple, but found nothing concrete. Something niggled at his senses, something that told him there was more here that he should be sensing, but that was all.
But after a moment, as the technique he had initially sensed faded away, his attention faded back to the physical world. No, there was nothing else there save the shield technique.
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