Bringing Jedi Out in the Open

Chapter 1: Darth Sidious' Dark Jedi Clone Project

It was quite a perfect plan by Darth Sidious himself, along with the newly established Grand Moff Tarkin and the newly established apprentice Darth Vader who had collected the DNA samples of the majority of the deceased Jedi Knight Council that once oversaw the Republic. DNA samples of the deceased Jedi Knights were easy to collect, even before their deaths. The particular choices that interested the Emperor were making clones of Plo Koon, Mace Windu, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and also Kit Fisto in particular.

"Why these Jedi, Master?" asked Lord Vader as they were walking through the row of selected Dark Jedi clones of the deceased Jedi.

"They are to bring out the other Jedi from hiding, they are Gray Jedi preferably speaking, but are more controllable" replied Emperor Palpatine.

"Hmm, interesting" continued Lord Vader, "but are these clones stable enough to venture out?"

"I will be sending the Jedi that I have decimated known as Mace Windu to the Outer Rim territories, there are reports that some rogue Jedi are camping out on some asteroid fields within the system" continued the Emperor.

"Kit Fisto?" asked Lord Vader.

"He'll be sent out to hunt down a Jedi fugitive known as Xavier who has outlasted the other Jedi in the core system" replied the Emperor.

"Plo Koon?" asked Lord Vader.

"Weed out your former apprentice Ashoka" laughed the Emperor, "she may think he's trust worthy enough to go with him, only to meet her end."

"And what about Ki-Adi-Mundi?" asked Lord Vader.

"There is a Jedi holocron that I am interested in" continued the Emperor, "Jedi Master Oxecca, a Wookie Jedi Master has been known to acquire it. He'll be right for that mission."

"I have some doubts that these Jedi clones will be able to do their jobs properly" continued Lord Vader, "what of Order 66?"

"Don't worry, they will be designated as Jedi anyway by any Imperial forces, I have already dispatched a the clones already we're speaking of" continued the Emperor.

As the two Dark Sith continued to conspire, a certain Dark Jedi clone version of Mace Windu was heading to an Outer Rim territory, well known to have plenty of asteroids littered throughout the system. Mace Windu's clone had been perfected by the cloning technology in a more stable form to pretend the clone would have amnesia of the obvious events that took place when the Emperor threw him off the balcony. Like the clone troopers whom killed his Jedi compatriots on the battlefield through via Order 66, the clone version of Mace Windu was well instructed to follow orders to head toward the asteroid field thought to house some escaped Jedi. Among those particular Jedi were a padawan known as Daxman, and his Master, a Rodian known as Orin. They escaped thanks to some clone troopers who refused to follow Order 66.

"Is everything secured?" asked Master Orin to the clone trooper commander.

"Nothing, no signs of any hostile forces" continued the clone commander, "that odd order didn't make any sense."

"Well, I hope we'll be able to get to a friendly system soon enough" continued Master Orin.

"I sure hope so, we're running low on supplies" continued the clone commander.

It was just then that the pseudo Jedi Starfighter steered by Mace Windu's clone was just in the neck of the area. Typically enough, a patrol of a small Imperial fleet of Star Destroyers were in the region as well and noticed an unidentified starcraft entering the area.

"Dispatch the Tie Fighters and demand the craft give some identification" said the captain on one of the Star Destroyers.

As the Tie Fighters zoomed toward where the clone of Mace Windu was steering his Jedi Starfighter, the clone was immediately just simply out of it in not recognizing what was really reality at all. A total memory blank was typical enough routine, and the right ruse for the Emperor to control this clone, so that it would make it seem like he was just simply shot down by Imperial forces. Indeed, the Emperor's plan worked, that the clone of Mace Windu's Starfighter was shot down by a squad of Tie Fighters. Oddly enough, the Tie Fighter pilots felt it was odd the strange craft didn't even respond.

"Doesn't that seem odd to you?" asked a Tie Pilot to his partner who was flying in his quad to you, "A Jedi who won't fight back?"

"I don't know, let's hope command sends in some more additional troops to find out where the Starfighter crashes" continued the other Tie Pilot as they were making their way back to the hangar.

Meanwhile, the Starfighter that the clone of Mace Windu aws on, was indeed heading down toward the large asteroid where the clone troopers and the two Jedi were located.

"Incoming!" roared the clone trooper commander as the Starfighter crashed landed right on the asteroid itself in a hidden area.

"Quickly, let's see who it is inside" said Daxman as he and some of the clones rushed to open the hatch of the Starfighter, only to realize that it was a big shocker, none other than the famous Mace Windu, who was quite weak.

"Get him out of that Starfighter, it's going to explode!" cried one of the clones.

As the Jedi padawan and the clones worked desperately to free Mace Windu, they were unaware that he was indeed a bait sent in by the Emperor to expose their location. It was just then that members of the Imperial forces whom were patrolling the area were already dispatching a shuttle filled with Stormtroopers and commanding officers leading the charge.

"Did you hear the talk about those Tie Fighter pilots that shot down that Jedi?" asked one of the Stormtroopers as they were in the shuttle heading down to the asteroid itself.

"Yeah, strange, the Jedi didn't even bother to fight back" continued one of the other Stormtroopers.

"Well, let's hope this Jedi will be otherwise for us" continued the first Stormtrooper.