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Vader: No. The entire control room goes silent as the Dark Lord raises his head up and looks at Tarkin. The governor’s face wrinkles in surprise, but his staff dare not take any further action while the Dark Lord is there. Leia mirrors his expression, but there is a hint of relief in her gaze. With that, the walls she has built up begin to crack. Vader is the first to notice that, and to his surprise, he senses something familiar about Leia. It is more than her appearance or demeanor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/KyGtXxhQCQQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After some time, the Senate district's maximum security holding facility buzzes as Anakin Skywalker paces outside the detention cells like a caged predator. His normally controlled demeanor cracks...his mechanical hand opening and closing repeatedly, his blue eyes burning. Through the reinforced transparisteel, he can see the man who murdered his master. Rako Hardeen sits calmly in his cell, a scarred, weathered bounty hunter whose face will be burned into Anakin's nightmares forever. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/7yIQg3uZRqk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The halls of the Senate building are unusually quiet at this time, something that serves the Jedi strike team well as they march through the corridors. Their purpose is clear: to arrest Chancellor Palpatine and expose him for the Sith he is. While they are certain of what must be done, it does not stop doubt and uncertainty from creeping into the minds of their fellow masters. To arrest the chancellor is a bold move, especially when they do not have the rest of the Jedi Council to support them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/KvvZK3tVIQc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Obi-Wan wakes in the medbay as his vision goes from blurry to clear. The last thing he remembered was watching Master Yoda confront Count Dooku before blacking out. His mind immediately goes to Anakin. The young padawan had his hand severed and was moaning in agony. He can’t help but think of everything that went on, Genosis, dooku;s betrayal, the war on the horizon, his mind is a swirling whirlwind until a voice cuts through like a lighthouse in the fog Satine: Hello My dear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/i7XuscRl-bg ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Firelight flickers off the jagged remains of ruined buildings, casting long, shifting shadows. Smoke coils through the air, thick and suffocating. The boy runs. His breath burns in his throat, his heart pounding an erratic rhythm against his ribs. His legs ache, but he forces himself forward. Behind him, something hunts. He doesn’t know what it is. He doesn’t want to know. He only knows what it has done. The memory burns as vividly as the flames consuming the settlement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/W1mLTMwn49g ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ahsoka stares at the Padawan braid in her master's hand. She sees his smiling face as he offers it to her. Mace: We understand that the Force works in mysterious ways, and because of this trial, you have become a greater Jedi than you would have otherwise. Yoda: Back into the Order you may come. Anakin: They're asking you back, Ahsoka. I'm asking you back. Ahsoka looks at the braid that she’s worn on her head for almost three years now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/l0BuSpUJBLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Palpatine closes his eyes and gasps as Mace raises his lightsaber. But then after a moment, the final blow does not come. When he opens his eyes he finds Mace glaring down at him, before grabbing the chancellor by his collar and shoving him to the ground, Mace: Very well, he lives. But know this…whatever happens, is on your head. Palpatine blinks, looking over at Mace who roughly leads him away. Things didn't go how Palpatine had planned. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/Pu5_eSVPglA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anakin and Obi-Wan sprint through the Halls of the Invisible Hand, lightsabers ready for the battle to come. R2 has given them a good idea of where the prisoner is thanks to accessing the ship's logs. However, the strange thing is neither of them can sense him. Once they arrive at the detention block, it becomes clear as to why. The chancellor is dead. He lays slumped over his chair, a burning hole right through his heart where a lightsaber impaled him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/wTxLPD1Pi5I ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Father: You must see it now. I am dying and you must replace me. Anakin: Replace you? I can’t stay here. Father: But this is yours. It has been foretold. The Chosen One will remain to keep my children in balance. Anakin: No. Father: I cannot force you to do this. The choice must be yours. But to bring balance to the Force, you must first bring balance here. Anakin looks away from him, his mind still racing after everything that happened. A few minutes ago he didn’t even know he was chosen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/ShZn1rtc_tU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anakin climbs into bed and moves close to Padme as he falls asleep, smiling to himself. The battle finally ended and he was given some much-needed downtime with his wife. More importantly, he’s now expecting a child. While part of him is worried about her health, she assures him there isn’t much to fear. She is a senator and has access to the best medical care in the galaxy. But as he sleeps, darkness tugs at his dreams. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/Gzg8kzSg_5A ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rex: Ahsoka, we need to talk. Ahsoka looks at the clone commander, frowning at the grim expression on his face. This sounded serious. She excuses himself from her meeting with Obi-Wan as she gives her report and heads out with him. Ahsoka: What is it, Rex? Rex: I don’t know if it's a good time to tell you, but something has been bothering me. With all this talk of Sith Lords and hidden plans, I thought it might be best to tell you about something Fives learned a while ago. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/gfQ8LSWLqRE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dooku wakes up to the sound of birds chirping and children laughing. His eyes immediately narrow suspiciously as he rises to his feet. To his surprise, his body moves with a vigor he had not felt in years. He begins to rise and wipe the sweat from his brow. And then something feels off he blinked and stared at his hands, which are attached to his body once again. Dooku’s body shakes as his mind races. Something is not adding up, and he tries to make sense of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/5rCEK5dt2Zg ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Even from his childhood, Anakin showed signs of being the chosen one. It was why Jedi like Qui-Gon-Jin took such an interest in him. But while the evidence was there, the Jedi failed to take the right action and it took Qui-Gon dying before they allowed Anakin to join the order. Even then, they placed Anakin under the watch of Obi-Wan, an inexperienced Jedi instead of someone more accomplished. This raises the question, of what would have happened if Yoda took the responsibility for himself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/NUjWfi4MKwg ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anakin’s eyes widen as he spots Obi-Wan descending Padme’s ship. A spark of betrayal crosses his face, followed by anger as his mind thinks of all the possibilities. He turns to Padme and feels the Force reaching out and urging him to lash out and strike them. But as he stares at their faces, his anger fades and he instantly feels ashamed. Padme was his wife and the mother of his kids. The kids she’s carrying right now. How could he possibly hurt her? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/14P6TLkO2Os ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The clones soon come back with the transport unit. Palpatine has him loaded up and brought back to his ship. But just what he is to do with his young apprentice is another matter. This was a failure, and there is no denying that. And in the Sith, failure is normally only punishable by death. He considers leaving him here to die or perhaps constructing a suit to punish him, forcing him to live with his weakness for the rest of his life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE - Original video: https://youtu.be/W3V_Xp4uZok ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW 📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48 📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.