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Wizards in Space!

Harry had finally gotten his wish. Him, the wives and the non-school age kids off exploring the Galaxy. The school age kids stayed at the house with upgraded B4 nannies watching over them and their parents a holo away. The holo on the Marauder was nearly never off. The ship was also jammed full. Harry was as happy as he had ever been.

The Marauder had been massively magically expanded, at least all the cargo, stores and crew spaces. Its drives were upgraded and it was the fastest ship in the galaxy. Its weapons were also upgraded and it could theoretically take on an Imperial fleet, by itself, and survive. At least all the simulations said so. It of course had the best shields in the galaxy. It could probably fly through a supernova. Life was good. Republic One AI never told him she had included enough memory and processing power for her to ride along in the upgrades he had planned and ordered, or carried out himself over the years and the droids knew better that to rat her out. He was the Master. He knew, probably. She would melt your power core.

People of course had an opinion but the Potters were mostly Jedi and quite a few of them had come to the temple as toddlers. Their story was legend by now. Harry and the Earth wives had gone to boarding school. The royal children of Alderaan were across the yard as were their parents and they didn't want to spend time away from their friends. Plus there were the portals the public didn't know about. One in the manor house Harry had been given, so one of the mum's, as the group of women were known, was nearly always at the house solving some crisis. Harry was back at least once a week for some meeting and he always made a day of it. Leia never far from Uncle Harry. Breha and Bail had several conversations about it. Last but not least were the hover holo cams with two way holo links now. The children had had to fight to get the connection indicators on those. That way they at least knew when a parent was watching. Republic Ones AI was always watching. She kept quiet unless it was life threatening though. So everyone had an opinion and wondered if it applied to the Dread Lord, who could appear anywhere at any time, perhaps all places at once even. There were some rumors.

Dread Lord sightings were the UFO, Elvis, Celebrity sightings of the Republic. The tabloid Holo channels reported them continuously. Imperial intelligence had a current tracking section for Harry with updates every thirty seconds. They were where the rumors of his ability to be in more than one place came from.

What Harry and the wives, other than Luna, didn't know was that Sidious had gotten his fleet and armies to the point he wanted and was waiting for an opportunity to strike. He just needed the competing dark lord to stay still long enough. It was like trying to swat a fly with a sheet of duraplast. Darth Dread apparently had no concept of pageantry and the effect of showing up with a fleet and cowing your enemies. He was reported on, and seen in the holos on five worlds a day minimum. When he wasn't there he was on that decrepit Lucrehulk left over from the last war. No matter how shiny and clean it was it, was still a relic. It was a relic surrounded by the most modern fleet units in the galaxy though. The alternative was sending his greatest weapon to where the Dread Lords children were. Luna was infinitely amused. It was like a silent comedy from the early days of film watching the Sidiot. Those stones she had enchanted to attract people and get picked up and carried for a few hours before being given to someone else that cast subtle glamor's were actually working. Though transdoshians appearing with messy black hair and green eyes wasn't. How had that stone gotten all the way to there? She should have put a location tracking feature on them.

Mon and the Bothans had turned up some interesting intelligence and Bars was starting to be able to back them up with his contacts into the Empires banking systems. The result was a disturbing picture. The Empire had a large military with no active target. They had not shifted to a peacetime, or even a mixed economy. They were effectively stalemated against the Republic. The analyst were looking for likely courses of action and possible targets for those.

More and more it looked like Hutt space was going to be that target. The Jedi's warnings, and even Bars warnings to his former customers in Hutt space, were going unheeded. The Hutts would last maybe a month against the Empire.

Sabine Wren couldn't care less. She was being worked nearly to death and loving it. On the Marauder they did partner resisted exercise and ran on treadmills. On the planets they stopped at they wore glamours and worked out, or left them off and went and looked at things. Oh, and practiced the skills she had recently learned. Arden could be invisible without the Force. Like she was a hole in the Force even. If it weren't for the Master's being like randy Varna in the evenings it would be perfect. She had to be careful where she went once the children that were onboard for whatever reason were asleep. Open the wrong door and you get some training you weren't ready for yet. Walking around the ship after eight pm with your eyes closed though did improve your infiltration skills. She wasn't a young girl, anymore she was a woman now, and didn't need the distraction so close to her trials. After them? Well it wasn't a distraction then was it? Apailana had been married by this age, and had been in Harry's bed a year before that.

Apailana, Roganda, Tis'wedu and their group were learning a lot as well. These were the first Shadow missions they had had. Of course with the distraction the Dread Lord, the First among Equals, Aayla, and the Mages of Earth, caused everywhere they went, it wasn't hard but still, actual assigned missions! Poor Apailana had to wear glamours on the missions too, so did the doubles.

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Mace looked at Yoda "It's in contested space."

Yoda nodded "Jedi they are. Important she is. The Force agree with Master Lovegood it does."

Mace nodded and sent the message. "Killed it will get us, if something wrong it goes."

Yoda looked at him "Duel you need, see I do."

SSDV

Hermione was in the cockpit of the Marauder when the message came. Luna walked in and smiled "Time to get Luke's wife."

Hermione snorted "Fine, let's get the kids home, then we will go take the Emperors Hand off."

Daphne chuckled "These fun titles Dark Lords come up with. It's a gift. Do you think they get training in it in evil overlord primary?"

Aayla deadpanned "And have to take a test in order to get their Dark Lord qualification. They get fined for violating the Dark Lords Guild rules."

Hermione frowned "Do we have a copy of these rules?"

Nomis handed her a scroll and she unrolled it eagerly. Nomis scampered back out of reach as Hermione read

152 Rules for Being an Evil Overlord

Based on Peter Anspach's list

1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear visors, not face-concealing ones.

2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.

3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.

4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

5. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object that is my one weakness.

6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.

7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."

8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.

9. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labeled "Danger: Do Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of projectiles on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labeled as such.

10. I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum - a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well.

Hermione let the scroll snap closed after the tenth, not reading the remaining one hundred and forty two rules and glared at Nomis, who tucked in behind Harry. Gabrielle, sitting on the arm of her chair, poked her. She blushed and everyone chuckled. Hermione huffed "Go get the kids home and stop having a go at me. I know you did this Luna."

Luna smiled and pointed at Daphne who was trying her innocent face. It wasn't working well. Not a good look for her at all. Hermione growled and put the scroll in a pocket. The wives chuckled.

SSDV

Mara was doing her dancing girl routine. Since the Twi'leks had become so scarce, pretty young human females were in high demand. It made her life easier. A few drops of the drug and the idiots were very suggestable, and answered any question you asked. Worst case it was in her lip gloss. She took the antidote before applying it and only had to get the gloss on their skin. A Potter Pharmaceutical product obtained on the grey market, so of course it was safe and effective, it and the antidote.

She had done the minimum required seduction in the Academy since she found the drug. Or rather another female Hand had pointed it out to a few of them trying to build a clique. The Males never learned. It had to be the testosterone.

This one was handsome, well-built, and she was old enough. Maybe she wouldn't gloss him. "Your ship? Sure I'll just get my things. I am off now anyway."

"I should hope, the place is closing." Her mark smiled.

"Oh I hadn't noticed." His voice was nice too. She smiled and actually blushed. She really hadn't noticed it was closing time. She had been a bit busy showing him all of her that the law allowed. She trotted to the locker room put on more than the five square inches of synsilk and got her bag. She stepped out and he was there. She could sense the force in him. Powerful. He must be a Jedi. She smiled at him winningly, controlling herself rigidly. She took his arm and he led her to a ship of a type she had never seen, but had heard of. A Frigate of the Clone wars era, converted from a Consular Cruiser. An antique. But it looked like it had been hand built, all smooth and organically seamless like it was, but still it didn't conform to standard at all with those extra things on the hull. Was that a trackway? with a manipulator arm base? Never heard of tractor beams Rube? Had he converted it for asteroid mining or something? Also Red and Gold?

He led her up the ramp and into a lounge and she smiled and giggled "So a private dance then?"

Harry shrugged and flipped open a panel with a set of screens "If you want. The girls will be a minute cleaning up your tails."

Mara froze "What?"

Harry nodded "Your handlers and support. They are pretty good but we have been on you for a month and you have been wiggling your butt at me for two weeks in that club. Cute butt by the way."

"Who are you Jedi?" Mara reached in her bag and dropped it to clear her left hand, she was suddenly holding her light saber.

Harry grinned "Kinda Jedi. Well maybe, of a sort." He smiled at the snap hiss and then frowned at the red blade. "Sith crystal. Well, we can fix that."

"You will release me." Mara waved two fingers at him looking him in the eye.

"That won't work on me honey. Just sit tight, we'll have this wrapped up and be off world shortly. Daphne was feeling a bit mean, so some of your friends are getting turned into bombs so they will take down your former headquarters."

"I am the Emperors Hand."

Harry shrugged "One of hundreds. So maybe a finger? Of course that makes him deformed, but well, you know."

"No I am his Hand."

Harry sighed "Your reeducation is going to take a long time with that attitude. Why would I lie? We pick up kids like you all the time. They all think they are his favorite and he loves them. He is a Sith. He doesn't know what love is. Aside from looking in the mirror maybe."

Mara attacked and gaped as the saber bounced off the man. "What are you?"

"Getting a bit angry really. That stings."

Mara gave it another try and found herself hanging upside down by her ankle "Fight like a man."

"Does that ever work? What, is that Evil Overlord minion rule thirty two or something? No, that one is don't shoot the messenger, I think."

Mara thrashed and screamed. Harry shook his head, sat and conjured a cuppa. She stopped when Jedi after Jedi, then two dark ladies boarded the ship. She recognized most of them from intelligence briefings.

Finally, Maria from the club walked up the ramp and a light went on in her eyes. Harry laughed and took his glamor off. "Darth Dread." Harry thunked his head on the table in front of him. Mara looked around "The Whore of Naboo."

Apailana chuckled "Sparring with you is going to be amusing."

Arden got a look "The traitor slut."

"Hey! I only bang him."

Sabine rolled her eyes "Lots, and wherever, it might count."

"Princess Leia Organa. The new headline dancer. Does the Queen of Alderaan know her daughter is a whore?" Mara recognized the clothes tumbling out of her bag on the table, that metal bikini with the scarves was unique.

Leia blushed but smiled. She had turned the punters to jelly. Gabrielle had been so proud of her. She wore less on the beaches too. Uncle Harry was not letting her out without armor over the vitals. That bottom was fully cut and more, so were those cups in the bra. Hmm that might not work with mother though, and really it was a bit different when your intent was to get something other than a tan. That club had become a font of information and they had collected it all, and only swooped in on Mara when it ran dry. Then she scowled. Whore eh? It wasn't only going to be Naboo who got a spar.

Luna sighed and hit Mara with a stinging hex. "Language young lady. Now give me that thing." She pulled the lightsaber away and crumbled it to fragments in her hand while it was still on. "There, now let's get you down and showered. Then we will run you through the med bay. No telling what's been in you. We don't want Luke catching anything."

The others watched as Mara was led away under a hail of stinging hexes and charms to control children. Ahsoka blinked "Holy Frack."

Gabrielle snorted "You should know by now. Luna is not to be played with. Poor Mara."

Daphne sighed "Yes, we will have to reign Luna in." She was holding Arden's arm. Shaak was scanning Arden.

Harry frowned "Is Arden hurt?"

"No but she is holding the Imperius on ten of those idiots while they load up their ships with thermal detonators and wire them together, then they are going to go crash them into various intelligence buildings on Coruscant. She will be fine in a day or so. Once she has them fully programmed." Daphne explained.

Aayla, Shaak and Maris finited their glamors. Tis'wedu did hers Nomis's and Maar Li's. Harry nodded. Hermione looked around "Are we ready then? Let's take little miss thing to Alderaan."

Apailana "Yes, she has a date in the dueling area with the Whore of Naboo." Leia nodded scowling and Harry winced. He had trouble with an angry Apailana. Leia was smooth and crafty and would surprise you with a saber blade to the crotch. Mara was going to get shredded.

Luna spent the week in hyperspace fully demonstrating how little power Mara really had. Sabine often found her furious in some out of the way corner of the ship. "You are mad at the wrong people."

"Oh? Really? I'm going to be a whore for Darth Dread and given to some boy who has pleased him but I shouldn't be mad at him? Or the insane bitch that is my jailor? I'm given these trousers and a shirt and a pair of underwear and that's it. All my things are taken. But I should be happy for that?" Mara glared at her.

Sabine chuckled "In the first place if you tried to get in bed with him he would blush, stumble, and fight you off if you forced the issue, and if he had to run away. Next Master Lovegood is a seer, and had a true vision of you marrying Luke Skywalker Organa. Do it in your own time, no one will force you, to tell you the truth he is a bit of an idiot, or well, a boy. You will need years training him. Powerful in the force though. A nice guy really, just a bit of a boy you know?

Oh, if you try to get in bed with Harry, Leia Skywalker Organa will do bad things to you. She fully intends to be the next on that. He will take her as a Padawan when we are back on Alderaan this time, we think, maybe, depends on her really. If he didn't already that is. I mean Queen Breha let her come on this mission, and we are pretty deep in Indian country. Gabrielle Potter Delacour is my Master and I am ready for my trials so Leia has it in her head the next Padawan around here will be her. She did get permission to come on this mission after all. More power to her, it's exhausting with all these masters. Fun, educational, but exhausting. This was her first outing with the group and she only got to come because her uncle is here, and well might have already taken her as a padawan. As she is a princess it could only really be him. Could you imagine the blathering the idiot tabloids would do otherwise?

The normal course of events seem to be, Padawan then Knight, then if you are interested, have time, and they all approve, the ones in and out of his bed now, they will coach you through taking a shot at him. Knights Nomis and Maar Li seem to be working up to it. Nobody really hurry's anything though. We have years. You'll see.

Hmmm you could be one of the others Padawans. You're a dark sider, so maybe Daphne. Or Hermione. She is the most balanced of them but is a super genius so you would have to be on your speeder. Hermione also has a bit of a temper. It takes a lot, but once she is set off, run. Luna needs another seer so not her. Hmmm, yes Hermione I think. She is done with babies for this go around. So she has a few years. Hmmm. She had to raise Harry too, so could give good advice about the other super powered boy."

"And if I stay the Emperor's Hand?" Mara asked.

Sabine shrugged "Lots less fun on a confinement hulk but it's up to you. They don't make anyone do anything. Oh you are going to take a beating over that Whore of Naboo comment. Just be ready. Arden likes being the Traitorous Slut, she took it as a challenge to maintain the title, so you have one pulling for you already. Leia is no joke with a saber. That whore comment will come back on you there too. Guard low with her. She loves burning your bush if you get my meaning."

Mara huffed "You cannot win against a Sith Lord."

Sabine shrugged "They have every time so far. If they don't it won't matter as they will destroy the Galaxy to keep him from having it. It isn't just dark lords who talk themselves into that. These grey ones just have it as their last option, not somewhere in the middle."

Mara thought about that for a minute "They all sleep with him."

Sabine nodded "Well, not Nomis or Maar Li yet, oh they sleep in his bed but they don't sleep with him sleep with him. You'll know when it happens. Its like someone stuffed a hyperspace motivator in them, for a week or so. Plus they can't shut up about it, once they crack and tell someone. Oh, or they drag him down in a passageway. You would think after four or five pregnancies they would stop, but oh no. My advice, after eight keep your eyes closed, and use the Force to move around. I do. My Master is the worst. Makes Zeltrons look frigid. Anyway, give it a while, they haven't lied to you. You'll see."

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Drayeen smirked. Mara Jade captured. Things were looking up. Especially as she was out working that banker when the suicide attacks happened. The Emperor had been pissed and the questioning intense but she was one of the senior Hands left now. Who could blame him really, nine buildings and a space station obliterated. The Headquarters, no great loss, but the data centers, apartment buildings and control center were a real loss. Upside, she would get some fresh meat from the academy and fleet to ride around for a while. She would get some juicier missions too. There were some senior Hutts that needed assassinating before the campaign kicked off. They were loaded, and well, things could fall in a girl's pocket, or onto her credchip during a mission.

SSDV

Sabine winced as Harry stood at the magnetic shield of the cargo bay and waved at the pirate vessel as it approached, then he shrunk it. After the crew of it appeared in space beside it. She summoned the now frozen or petrified bodies so they could collect the bounties. She brought them in, transfigured them to the little green plastic army men, and put them in the half full normal trunk with the others. Her dowry Harry said. Once Uncle Bars got through selling them for their bounties. Harry put the ship with the others on one of the shelves of this bay. They used all of these, or the Jedi and Aurors did. On lease of course, Uncle Bars whined otherwise, once the droids, Harry and whoever he, Aayla or any of the other Force Mage masters was teaching worked them over. They would be fast heavily armed and able to haul vast amounts of people or cargo.

He grinned at her "Be careful who surrenders to you."

Sabine huffed "Yes Master, but I don't think it would be this much of a problem, with any other vessel." Harry laughed. He had trained all their Padawans the same way. Admittedly in short jumps away from Republic One, but the method always worked. Travel along looking clueless with no guard up and some idiot would demand your surrender.

SSDV

Luna found Harry in the Manor "Get out there or I will bring her in here. You're in the bedroom so she can just mount right up."

"Luna!"

Luna rolled her eyes "Prime Princess ass. Beautiful, brilliant, powerful. Like another Mi really. You know, most boys would not have to be talked into this."

"I changed her diapers."

"Which just makes it seem kinky. You aren't related to her in any way. Train her up. Otherwise she is going to be wasted on some douchebag."

Harry sighed and stood up.

Breha looked at Bail when they saw the two standing in the sparring area staring at each other as Apailana gave Mara Jade another painful lesson. "Finally. I thought he would let her run off with some idiot. Now in ten years or so we can get a few babies out of her."

Bail sighed. "And Luke?"

Breha looked at her son. "That is going to take a while. Apailana is through being a bitch though. Mara can get on with abusing him into shape, that will take a few years, he is good but he thinks he is good. I'm going to have to speak to Apailana. She can certainly carry a grudge. All those Nabooan girls really." Bail pinched the bridge of his nose. He shouldn't have asked.

SSDV

Sidious glared at the reports. Darth Dread had gone still. Alderaan. Damn. No sense repeating that lesson. Well, time to deal with the Hutt's then.

SSDV

Garm sat back in Corellia's Senate seat. The planet and system was back together, and back to being a power. He had them in with the right block and things were looking pretty good. The Sidiot, that was still funny, had made the expected move and pushed Hape straight into Daphne's open arms. Clynda would settle, and stop trying to get a granddaughter in the Potter family at some point. Or one of those seemingly millions of Potter boys would pick one of them. His sons and daughters seemed to be competing with the Potters in that particular area anyway. How many children could they support? Them? What about him and all this money Clynda was spending on grandchildren. Not only that, but if all of them kept on like this who would the thousands of Potter-bel Ilbises marry? His great grandchildren couldn't be marrying just any idiot.

SSDV

Captain Han Solo shuddered and his Wookie friend looked at him "No idea. Weird feeling. Come on let's find a buyer and then another cargo. You know with the Empire crushing the Hutt's and Jabba's misfortune our lives are looking up buddy." Chewbacca yowled. Han glared at him and led into the bar "Of course not slaves. Do I look like I have a death wish? Slaves. You'll be talking piracy next. I don't want to meet the pirate killers either. This place isn't the same all humid either, before it was a dry heat. Did you see that green as we flew in? All along that ravine where that temple of Jabba's waters the desert. Changed the whole place. Moisture farmers rolling in money now. That always brings in cops. It wont be long you watch. This place will have a real government and police."

Chewbacca wuffed and barked. "Laugh it up funny guy. Just you wait. I know its Hutt space but they aren't the only ones with money anymore." Han paused to let his eyes adjust to the interior of the seedy bar.

SSDV

Ta'a Chume looked at her reflection in the mirror of her stateroom aboard Star Home and nodded. This dress was the right choice. Bright red, deeply cut, clinging to her ripe hips. He would be hers. At least enough of him to get the part she needed done. She was beautiful.

Lady Daphne had convinced her the Potter clan was not Jedi. Shudderingly dark and powerful. No Jedi would tolerate that. What they were was still a bit open to debate. Force users certainly though. Pragmatic, much more so than the Jedi, however. The true power in this Galaxy as well. The core or rather Palpatine was dangerous, not as dangerous as these though. They or rather the Dread Lord was playing with him for some reason. Using him for some purpose. A dangerous game to step into but with his reputation he wouldn't let his progeny far out of his sight if at all. Her AI said his AI never took her eye off of any of them. There had been incidents. Fleets appearing from nowhere near Potter children out shopping or just being children running around on some world somewhere. Then there were the Nanny Droids. Completely merciless, never more than steps away from their charges.

The Empire was moving on the Hutt's. She would need some help with the defense of the cluster and perhaps another heir or two. The heir's staying with him just secured her line. Consortium forces had to lead the defense of the cluster and that could eat up a lot of troops and young leaders. Her sons would be at the front of that. Besides he was delicious the last times she had seen him, and hadn't aged a day on the holo's.

Leia stood behind her Master and watched The Hapes Queen Mother come through the receiving line. She fumed internally and smiled pleasantly at the cow nerf. Why didn't she just get her nerf udders out right here? A thought occurred, a Daphne like thought. She would have to get with Master Potter Greengrass. Harry owning this nerf cow and her begging and making an idiot of herself in public would be perfect.

Harry caught the leakage from Leia and nearly laughed. "Queen Mother. Words can do you no justice. Thank you for coming."

Ta'a Chume smiled as her hand was kissed lightly on the knuckles. She had made the perfect impression obviously.

Hermione smiled at him as they danced later "Your Padawan is mean."

Harry laughed "And perverted. I'm not sure anyone could even do half of those things."

Hermione nodded "So you have seen the light and are going to help Daphne's plan?"

Harry chuckled "Wouldn't that be seeing the dark? We'll see, she seems a pleasant enough lady. Nothing will interfere with us though, so everyone has to be on board, and we have to do something about Leia. On board for me erh-"

"Grudge fucking the nerf cow to death, up the arse, in the senate?" Hermione asked with sparkling eyes.

"Uh yes that. Well, she can't give Daphne her heirs to the throne if I do that, can she?"

Hermione nodded "Plus we have to keep the Empire out of Hapes, rather than start a war with them, and we haven't seen the empires new capabilities yet. The Hutts will give us good intelligence."

SSDV

Harry woke in the night and went to the CIC in the mansion, a holo tank in a bare room that had been a maintenance closet before. It had been another late night with Ta'a. Nice, funny, but long. He looked in the holo tank and saw immediately what disturbed him. He keyed himself in.

Yoda and Ackbar popped up in holograms "Doldur sector?" Harry arched a brow.

"Falleen Federation. Forget Sidious does not." Yoda nodded.

Harry nodded remembering the Black Sun himself now. "Admiral?"

"It's a feint, but in strength. He likes these operations where if he has success he has gained something, or if not he has achieved his objective, this one he got to combine a spoiling attack to distract us with resolving his grudge against the Black Sun so a win win for him. We can hold it. Meanwhile if you observe here and here, the scanning Lucrehulks and mines are picking up trails of disturbance. These are cloaked scouts headed into Hutt Space. We expect the main effort to follow shortly." Ackbar indicated as he talked.

Mon came up in the tank "Their cloak only works for their scouts and not very effectively unless they are stationary or not in powered flight. At least at the level of resolution we now have in Republic space and along the borders. They will disappear when they get to their targets in Hutt Space."

Bail came up "Warn the Hutts?"

Yoda nodded "Again, we must."

Mon shrugged "They will fight for a while, until they make deals. Have we lost anything in Hutt Space?

Bars appeared "No. most, if not all of the Force sensitives are already out of there. Their families too. The slaves left there now are mostly criminals of one sort or another in the Republic. The Hutt's have had a booming trade with us for a few years now. It mostly cleaned out their space as we made slaving difficult if not impossible everywhere else, and the empire seems to lack a sense of humor about human slaves as well. Palpatine having a base there is my only concern."

Harry smiled viciously "Unless they brought along enough material to start colonies it won't matter when we close both doors."

Garm appeared "So pound this incursion in Doldur with everything, and then wait, and when he has maximum forces committed to Hutt space cut them off."

Mon nodded "Be ready for him to try to relieve them, and them to attempt to break out. We think he is going to commit heavily in an attempt to terrorize us. The Hutts will, of course, go with where they think the money is."

Harry shrugged "Palpatine cutting down the numbers of pirates and mercenaries in Hutt space is welcome. I might have to send him something for Yule."

Mace came up from lurking "Something deadly I hope."

Harry chuckled "Does anyone sleep anymore?"

SSDV

Leia bounced and flipped. She knew better than to stay still. He would be on her in a second. They were in the cushion charmed basement sparring room as grappling often got highly charged, and very disruptive to clothing, and all she needed was her mother watching as she tried to use some of the dirtier tactics she learned on him. Not that they worked on him so far. Not like him getting a handful of bottom on her. Maybe if she slept with him it wouldn't be so distracting. Damnit! "No fondling the boobs, Master!"

Harry laughed and spun away from the knee to the groin. He continued into a hip throw and took her to the cushioning charm. She surprised him, locked her lips to his and then slipped from under him and into a rear naked choke. Harry got the thumb bar and slipped it and spun using his weight to pin her. Leia found herself with him between her legs pressing her into the floor and all his weight, or most of it, on her. She didn't want to slip this one and leaned up and kissed him again. He slipped her the tongue, she accepted willingly and he ground down on her. She ground back. Celeste blew the whistle and glared at both of them. They both blushed, drawing laughs.

Sabine snorted "You two need to get a room. You aren't going to be effective opponents until you work it out."

Mara grinned "She means until you shag like varna for a week."

Leia glared at the other two Padawans "Duh!" She realized what she had said and blushed furiously.

Harry, a little pink himself, laughed and hugged her. "We'll discuss it. Once Ta'a is out of the way."

Leia nodded "And you test clean for two weeks."

Celeste stepped in the charmed area and gave Leia the come on signal "While your Master is indisposed." Leia blanched. Celeste was as good as Harry. Fighting her left bruises places that shouldn't be bruised. She also could not be distracted.

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Harry was sitting in the large space in the Royal Lodge everyone used to holo into the senate, with his microphone muted "What the hell has gotten into the senator from Doldur. He has never voted for anything or supported any proposal we made before."

Garm smiled from his chair near Harry. Everyone had a tendency to go to where Harry was when crisis occurred, at least the command council subset of the Senate. "The fight in his sector is pretty intense. Only the border sectors have had to go through this before. It has dawned on him that without us he, or his sector rather, doesn't stand a chance. No sector could afford the lease on enough force to fight off the empire by itself, even at your very reasonable rates. A B4 is worth a squad, and the lease for one cost a sergeants pay for a year. The Vulture Droid mod fours are worth a leader wingman pair and cost what one pilot would make per year."

Harry frowned "The border sectors have gone quiet. I think all that effort, fighting the picket fleet, has been transferred to Doldur as the Hutts are putting up a surprising resistance and sucking up resources. I know I didn't expect them to last six months."

Mon snorted "No one expected all those Chiss and Mandalorian mercenaries. We all thought they, the empire and the Chiss Ascendancy, had a détente."

Breha nodded "I would accuse him of running two wars again, if we hadn't checked every way possible."

Harry grinned "And that hissy fit he threw. Destroying half the imperial palace. Didn't know the little weasel had it in him."

Yoda nodded "Not attacked the Chiss Ascendancy why the question is."

Harry shrugged "The Hegemony has them pretty well sewn in but he could do a z axis attack. We can keep them sewn up though, and him too I think, plus that would just be another bubble to trap him in."

"Reported on several Republic worlds Drayeen has been." Yoda changed the subject, only slightly, like a left face in two axes at once slightly.

Mon nodded "Celeste, Daphne and Arden are closing the noose on her. If she stays out here they will have her soon."

Harry nodded "Not to wish anything bad on the Falleen, but I wish the Empire would press their attack close enough to seriously engage one of the planetary ward sets. I want to see what happens."

Garm chuckled "Pay back for all that resistance in the senate Dread Lord? You know there is the opportunity while he is engaged to attack him. Expand the Alderaan, Corellia pocket."

Mon shook her head "His strongest fleet is in the core still. Mostly hyperspace minutes away from that area."

Harry sighed "I wish the sponge on Byss had worked. Maybe we look for a thin spot somewhere else."

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Leia put her all into the saber duel. She finished in a draw with Aayla and swayed on her feet. Aayla stepped up to her "Leia?"

"Why won't the nerf cow leave?"

Aayla chuckled ruefully "She is due soon."

Leia growled "If I couldn't spar I would have killed her already. Parading around to be sure everyone knows she is pregnant, and by who. She should have just had the holo cams in her bedroom."

Aayla couldn't help it, she laughed. She hugged Leia to take the sting out. "Well, it at least confirmed Harry doesn't like casual sex."

Leia sighed "Or political. I can't believe he had to have stims though. I mean, she is good looking."

"For a nerf cow." Aayla grinned at her. Leia nodded and they both laughed. The stims issue was a tightly held secret. They knew the kind of insult to both that would be if it was known. Daphne had brewed them herself to keep it from any source.

Leia was already through most of her training before she became Harry's Padawan. This thing with the Queen Mother had tested both of their consular skill, all of theirs actually, to the utmost. As soon as Ta'a was gone Harry would finish Leia's training and her Knighthood trials would follow. Sabine and Mara at the same time, they had all started late as padawan and it had been full throttle for a while now.

Obi wan had taken Luke and he wasn't as far. Of course he didn't spar eight hours a day and study like a monk for another eight trying to burn out the rage, like his sister and Mara, or keep up with her roommates like Sabine, either. Or have the best fifteen masters in the order. Potter Padawans were busy girls, studying, dueling, teaching younglings, putting classes on holo, missions occasionally. The only thing they didn't have were padawan of their own. There were some candidates though and lately their had been a rush of padawans in the Naboo branch of the clan.

Both Skywalker Organa's were Guardian path but tended to Consular behavior and skills.

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Harry picked the nude Leia up out of the bed in the master suite and carried her to the Padawan room. Ta'a, eight and a half months along, had told him she wasn't comfortable having sex anymore. Harry had apparated to the medics from the hall outside her apartment. Then to the master suite, their first coupling was athletic, rough, and needful. By morning they had settled into a slow loving pace, and left each other mauled. The Potter women came in, kissed them both, did some healing, a lot of smiling, and left.

Over the next week Mara could only laugh, Sabine had been right. Maybe a reactor and a hyperspace motivator though. Leia was going to explode, or those braid buns were going to turn into turbines, or something. Her pack of youngling females had doubled as well. They all had packs traveling with them, but Leia's had exploded after she was mated to Harry. All females, past first blood. Hmmm. This should probably be documented and studied. Where was Shaak, erh Master Ti?

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Ta'a was delivered the same day Ackbar broke the back of the incursion in the Doldur sector. Twins, a boy and a girl. Harry was a doting parent to them like all his other children. Leia tolerated their mother. Some of the Potters actually got along quite well with her. Hermione as well as Daphne. Gabrielle as well, now that the disruption was over with. Gabrielle didn't like disruptions she didn't cause, and had a tendency to make people pay for them, pay a lot. Sabine got her mauling from Harry as well. Her youngling pack suddenly grew as well. Good thing, Sabine didn't have braid buns to turn into turbines. Mara laughed at them both, Sabine and Leia.

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Drayeen could only hope things settled, and someone remembered she was in a welded closed box, with a transparisteel front, on a prison ship, nude, with a toilet, table welded to the floor, and a chair welded at it. Meals appeared once a day with a jug of water on the confinement Lucrehulk. Once she had finished withdrawal from the legal and illegal drugs she indulged in, she had figured out exercising got her better food than a tasteless ration bar, so she did so religiously. The water jug stayed full. Talking got her a Holo on the wall behind a transparisteel window turned on. Supplying information got her more channels of the holonet under voice control. Once a day there was a shower of warm water, a sprinkle of soap, and another shower of warm water. She couldn't find a shower head or drain, just some marks scribed on the ceiling and floor. It would stay on as long as she stood on the marks, well for about thirty minutes. The B3 droid standing in front of the cell with the blaster rifle at port arms never said anything and its ocular sensors never left her. Her view consisted of other B3 droids in front of other cells. She got used to its staring and ignored it. She hoped whoever it was watching enjoyed watching her masturbate. The perverts. Yelling at them or writing snide comments back to the questions got no response.

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Harry was at his work table when the command council walked up. Leia cast the silencing dome over the group and looked at her brother when he looked offended at being excluded. The other padawan and Leia all arched brows at him. Bail led right in as he put down two padds which projected holograms of Ackbar and Bars. "The war in Hutt space is over or has turned into an occupation. Without withdrawing any forces he is sending a fleet heavy in clone transport ships, those super Acclimator class vessels."

Harry nodded "As soon as those get in Hutt space activate the mines and SoDs. Lock him in those two spaces. Admiral launch the fleet. When we activate the mines you may commence your bombardment. Follow that with terrain oriented offensive operations. Kalist VI is your goal, anything past that can be given back if we have too. Holding a line from Rakata Prime to Kalist VI then to Corellia is the mission. Push hard everywhere else to keep him occupied. All fleet units begin bombardment with mass drivers ahead of the fleet. The targets are prioritized and will be loaded by the AI. May the force be with us."

The Command council left as the B5s started executing commands. Harry's Aide De Camp B5 had the memory cores of his original Alpha One and that was still its designation.

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The Imperial General staff looked at the Holo tank as core world after core world stopped reporting. Diamal was, unfortunately, the first in line. A multi ton mass fired from a SoD in hyperspace, a week ago by a mass driver aimed by AI, slammed into its main communications center, which like most Imperial planets was in the center of its main military base. The base ceased to exist. So did a portion of the continent it was on. The outer core southern sector of the empire was suddenly leaderless, without forty percent of its support, and twenty percent of its forces. All the worlds in the Core got the same treatment and communications in the empire ceased for moments, then picked up again, severely degraded, and using obscure channels that limited them mainly to text, as every military target that could be identified in the empire got a five to fifteen round burst from automated mass drivers, at the appropriate time up to a week ago.

The ships in orbit were next, and were neutralized in seconds as SoD Vs fired on them through their unplottability charms, as they raced past the core worlds at near hyperspace insertion velocity. It was a disaster for the empire.

The line of disaster advanced steadily north, Belgaroth, Dentaal, Abregado-rae, Eclipse in the east and Kokash in the west just added to the confusion. the alarms went out, the Imperial fleet began ponderously reorienting. Plexis, Gerrard, Botor, the fleet came fully about and got under way, just in time to run into a barrage of multi ton projectiles fired days, or by now an hour before. Dulvoyinn, Lialic and the projectiles from the east and west began impacting, and hitting some Imperial ships that maintained a steady course and speed. In the Imperial General Staff war room the emperor started killing people. It was unintentional. He was so enraged the lightning sprayed from him indiscriminately. The SoDs surrounding the core and locking the Imperial navy in tightened their grip by moving out of the mine belts toward the inner core. Firing all mass drivers as rapidly as they could cycle as they went. Super Lucrehulks dropped packages of masses still with their lightening and shrinking runes active in front of the SoDs, who picked up these caches with tractor beams on the way by. The mines headed into empire space on preprogramed courses at maximum thrust, until they were intercepted by their racks and scooped up for transition to hyperspace to get ahead of the fleet and into the new line. Vulture droid racks and vulture droids did the same.

The Emperor ordered the whole of the imperial fleet south and the return of the fleet in Hutt space. The first consequence of this was Coruscant immediately coming under sustained attack. Every Imperial facility on the planet was targeted. The next consequence was the fleets in Hutt space becoming decisively engaged as they headed up and down the z axis, and then the Hutt's reenergized their mercenaries.

The Republic fleet slowed as it closed the distance to the Kalist system and fought its way midway to Byss before the combination of the inner core and the Imperial home fleet brought it to a halt. It then grudgingly gave ground collapsing the corners and bulges, redeploying units, all the while continuing its bombardment and spewing mines.

To take pressure off the south and let the new line stabilize, Republic units to the east, west and north advanced and for a time Coruscant was cut off from the rest of the empire.

The Republic Navies having achieved a stunning success the Armies followed that up with conquering the worlds on the Republic side of the new line.

Harry fought on the ground, hopscotching to Kalist VI with Hermione, Luna, Daphne, and Gabrielle while the other Potter Masters, with their Padawans, and Knights fought in space in and near the system or systems Harry was in. Storm Trooper divisions were ground to dogmeat facing them, while their support in space was chopped into scrap.

Harry and the Earth Mages let it all out. The forces of the Republic were in awe. Not so much that they couldn't fight their own stunned, demoralized, opposition however.

Leia then Luke came face to face with their father. Leia being saved after she was locked in a stalemate with him by Harry, who mauled Vader, with blaster, saber, fist, and the Force in a display that dropped jaws. Vader fled, assisted by a banishing charm from Harry, when Leia had to take a knee, her wounds, none critical, caught up with her, and escaped to a nearby world. He fought Luke there then Obi Wan who managed to hold off the already wounded Vader. Harry had not been pleased his Padawan had been attacked. If Vader hadn't been mostly machine he would have been dead. As it was he looked like a broken terminator with a zombie head by the time he fought Luke.

Obi wan had not succeeded in driving him off before he dropped a bombshell on Luke. Harry sighed "Told you we should have told them. Luke I am your father! What the fuck? Was that supposed to be some kind of inducement to come to the dark side? Your sister mostly kicked the shit out of me. Her master turned me into a broken robot a salvage Lucrehulk wouldn't scoop up. I'm pretty much a dickless, broken robot, with bad breath control, and her Master blasted me over the horizon. I escaped in a fucking retarded looking ball with wings, and then you kicked my ass and your master nearly finished me putting the boot in, but it's all good over here in the dark?

What do you think Luke, want some dark side? I can have Daffy and Arden find one to dark you up. That Drayeen chick maybe."

Mara glared at Harry "Not and live you can't. I can do my own darking thank you very much. Master."

Leia wanted to be mad at him, them really, she really did. Instead she sat on a rock and howled with laughter. Obi wan huffed "Uncivilized!" Luke gaped at them.

Harry rolled his eyes "Oh we were supposed to be all angst ridden? You know what, I think I am going to go kill the Sidiot. Then we will shut off the food and starve these bastards out. They aren't worth any more Republic lives."

Yoda hobbled up and sighed "Prison planet this was. Political prisoners these people were. Condemn them that would."

"Fuck me." Harry sat next to Leia.

Gabrielle smiled "There is our angst ridden Dread Lord. I was wondering when you would show up." She reached over and grabbed him by an ear "Come on. Yes, right now. Killing idiots gives me antlers."

Sabine huffed "Makes you horny Master."

"Whatever. When my frigate is rocking don't come knocking." Gabrielle tossed back over her shoulder. The Potter women looked around, nodded, and quit the field in pursuit. The Marauder left the planet seconds later.

Luke looked after the ship thoughtfully for a moment then nodded. "He is right."

Obi wan sighed "Uncivilized, inexcusably coarse, but yes, most of the time they are right."

Yoda hopped on his carpet "Back to orbit and Command ship I go. Encirclement and conquest of these worlds complete we must. Wives and children, we have. More important things to do we have as well."

Luke sighed "Mara went with them."

Obi wan rolled his eyes "Do something about it then."

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The Republics side of the conflict was the only side heard from for four months after the month of high intensity fighting. The Empire was a shambles and Hutt space a free fire zone, again, as the Empire forces there took several resource rich worlds centered on a triangle formed by Gos Hutta, Mulatan and Bootana Shagplan and fortified them. Essentially the heart of Hutt space that they had fought so hard for already. They were under constant harassing and interdicting fire from the encircling SoD's and mines as was the rest of the Empire.

Harry started every look in the holo tank at Bootana Shagplan. It gave him a chuckle. The Masters Potter smiled and the Potter Padawans rolled their eyes. As long as he didn't do that hip thing anymore. That was just gross, and weird. And what the hell was 'Shagadelic Baby!' What did that even mean? He wasn't yelling that anymore either after Master Greengrass Potter got through with him. Boys were weird, and needed constant watching.

The droid lucrehulk salvage and trade/passenger ships plied their trade unmolested. Wearing the Potter crest proudly. Harry laughed every time he saw one and Daphne got a night with him by herself. The Crest was her idea. It was on the flimsy tickets, the B3s, upgraded with the latest hardware, software and firmware their systems could tolerate, that were guards and crew, the cargo lifters, the ships, everything Harry owned. The Ladies Potter rolled their eyes and smiled. It did make Harry happy.

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Sidious looked out his window from the top of his tower at the holes with the fires still burning in them, holes where imperial installations had been. The lightning arced to his desk and sparks flew again. He cursed and went to the landing pad. He needed time away. Dread had been stopped. The core was between Byss and his forces. Retaliation for attacking Doldur was what that had been. Perhaps he should have sent a note before he punished the Black Sun. No! He was the senior Darth! Yes some time alone to get his rage under control then he would begin again. At least he now had fortified worlds in Dreads rear. He also had one, no two, important things out in what was now Republic controlled space.

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Things settled into a rhythm as things would and Luna walked out to the work tables one morning laid a padd in front of Harry and said "I want these. They have enough power to finish my portal back to our reality. And make it two way."

Harry picked up the padd and looked at it over the half Togruta girl in his lap. "He actually built this thing? Hmmm is this power generation specification right? Holy cow. Yeah it does have enough. Endor. Hey wait a minute, that is in our space. Is this another Wayland? Damn, how does he hide these things everywhere? Oh, ass end of space really. Hmmm nobody saw this other one when we pressed the core though. I wonder where it is."

Hermione had linked her padd "It's slow. We will find it."

Luna nodded "You can mess it up, just don't blow up the reactor. The Sidiot will probably send it after you soon anyway. You just have to stay still long enough."

Aayla nodded "Or he will send it here. To Alderaan I mean. We did scuff him up pretty bad. He will have to gain face somehow. Can't have the upstart Dark Lord embarrass him like that. The empire press is even getting a bit snarky and it's state controlled."

Gabrielle tapped on the table "Or he will go after Darth Trade Bar." Bars watching on holo while working groaned. Harry grinned and chuckled. Gabrielle's network had turned that up from a Hand they had caught. Everyone had a good chuckle at Bars, not to much though. It was like laughing at the pay master, dangerous if taken to far.

Luxa walked up grinning "Unlike ours which is boob controlled." She had a dark red baby on her hip.

Sabine snorted "One pair of boobs anyway."

Harry worked and played with the children as things got sorted in his mind.

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Something was bothering Harry and everyone knew it. Aayla and Hermione talked and decided they had missed something and Harry was doing one of his put pieces together things.

That afternoon just as lunch finished Harry sat the latest Potter daughter with an issue on her feet and chuckled "You have your own Hun. Your sister has hers too. They are not quite the same." He stopped talking.

Julia, an older Potter daughter turned to him "Mum! Daddy is locked up like the holo net does when you get mushy!"

Hermione led her off to a seat "Just wait Julia he has remembered something. Good girl for prompting him to put it together."

Harry finally blinked "Its two of these death stars, one complete and one building at Endor. I really am going to kill the Sidiot this time. He is going to send it after terror type targets. The one at Endor is bait and if it gets completed then a weapon for him too. Same type of targets. Not military, mostly civilian."

Luna smiled "Yay then we can make the portal two way right away! Oh and big! We can fly ships through it rather than send parts and droids. Wow that makes this whole thing easier, better, and faster. Good. Some of these kids need to meet their relatives." She picked up her padd and started modifying her plans.

The others sat at the tables stunned.

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The command council were as stunned as the Potters later. Breha collected herself first "So one of these things is complete and running around in our space? With millions of troops and a weapon we think can destroy a planet?"

Mon gasped. Gial nodded "I'll need the sensor specifications."

Hermione nodded "We put them in the command net holo tank. We didn't want to start a panic."

"Strike where will Palpatine?" Yoda looked thoughtful.

Mace sighed "He is so unhinged, no one could know."

Harry shrugged "Dark Lord, They are fairly predictable, at least in the general sense. They all follow the same overarching pattern. I think it's because they want to rule, so let's see, where are we in the Sidiot's careen through existence? He has clones, so immortality, of a kind. He has a bunch of worlds that follow his orders. He has lots of chaos and problems to create intrigue and drama. A new toy. They like to test them out on targets that are not crucial but are significant. Hmm any place where a blow against the light could prove a significant demoralizing blow? Oh or the Force worshippers. They are good for that crap too. Striking symbolically, religions are great symbols. These things rate of fire and movement are hideously slow compared to a SoD VI. Of course, we don't accommodate air breathing troops who have low G tolerance on ours. Got rid of hundreds of systems that way. Ours are, leaner? Fit to purpose better, maybe."

"Jedha, or Jedha City" Daphne replied looking up from her padd. "The weapon uses giant Kyber crystals Grievous acquired for Palpatine from Utapau. Drayeen has been laying out the history she knows of this thing in dribs and drabs for privileges. Arden and I will interrogate her."

Gabrielle laughed "It has a ward set this Jedha. So charged it glows white. There has been some discussion of removing it as it might overload but it doesn't. They built rooms or chapels around the stones."

Luna shook her head. "We have to find it before Jedha kills it, and take it. We need that power plant or we will have to build one. That would take years and Harry needs to swing by Earth soon. This other one too or we won't be able to get back here and we need to be here as well. We still aren't finished with Palpy. We could have these up and running in a year or so."

Bars nodded "Not to mention the cost of building that reactor would be significant, even for the Dread Lord."

Mon nodded "Finding it seems the main issue. Then you Potters can go do what you do."

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Harry padded in the CIC barefoot in pajama pants with the fussy Princess of Naboo on his hip "Since you won't sleep, let's look at the galaxy for a while."

Padme Potter giggled and yanked on his arm. He keyed himself into the holo tank and immediately had his eye drawn to the flashing red circle in space with a course vector line pointed toward Jedha. He thought a minute and didn't notice Gial coming up in the tank "We'll never get there in time with ships Padme. Daddy is going to have to shine a light on the emperor's toy."

Gial cleared his throat "Master Lovegood will be unhappy."

Harry looked over at the holo of Gial "Don't you ever sleep Gial?"

Gial chuckled "As much as you do apparently Harry. We have some forces in the area, we can slow the thing down."

Harry nodded "Let's call it DS One. I'll talk to the Ladies and we will come back with our part of the plan at say seven. It looks like we have a few days before it could be in range to take a shot and have those wards vaporize it."

Gial nodded "More probably, as he would want to test the full range of its capabilities, including assault, he will try to take the planet then blow it up."

Harry nodded "That will be interesting. Test whether clones have intent or are just doing what they are programmed to do. The ultimate test of the Nurnberg defense eh Padme?" Padme smacked her daddy in the mouth. Gial laughed.

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Orson Krennic nodded as they closed on Jedha. He would show all the doubters. The bridge lights flashed off and then came up red and a warning blared. One of the bridge crew turned to him "We have been boarded sir."

Orson scowled "In hyperspace? That's impossible!"

The officer turned to a monitor and waved her hand then punched a few buttons. The main screen showed what was unmistakably the Dread Lord scything through Storm Troopers with a lightsaber in one hand and the Force coming from the other. Troops in mirror polished armor behind him walked through a portal and immediately lit sabers and attacked. Droids intermixed with them placed other portals on the bulkhead and a group activated them one after the other. More Jedi, Rangers, Republic Marines and Army troops and Droids poured from the opened portals. Some of them took one step and disappeared. Lights all over the bridge lit indicating intruders spreading like the plague.

Orson gave the orders to alert the crew and troops to repel borders and the bridge crew went to work.

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Harry strode onto the bridge sixty three hours later and cut Orson in half "So you can surrender or die. I don't really care. But this is my boat now." He looked around at the remaining bridge crew.

Daphne meanwhile led a force to the forest moon of Endor and took first the ground station and then the under-construction DS Two. Arden and Celeste had joined her, the fight through the planetary crust clearing out the storm troopers who were to eventually man the thing was magnificent. The girls let their hair down so to speak. Their troops were in love. Even the Droids.

The fight in space in and around the system was spectacular as well. Gial was sharpening up some junior officers by taking the empire fleet guarding their future home base to pieces.

Luna immediately got to work with thousands of droids modifying the things to power a worm hole to their home reality. Before the fight was even over, while she had them both moved to the position she had calculated. Slightly above the core just clear of the last rouge stars and centered on the mass of the Galaxy. That was fairly easy to find. The black hole eating the galaxy gave it away a bit.

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Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader watched as the Emperor shrugged the loss of two stations and millions of troops along with hundreds of fleet units off. "Once we lost control of them out in space I didn't expect they would succeed. They were in another Dark Lords back yard after all. Darth Vader, prepare for the invasion and subjugation of the Chiss. Take your reinforcements with you all in one movement. Moff Tarkin, prepare the Fleet to clear his route. After that Hapes, and we will have three, no four places to attack him from."

Vader and Tarkin bowed and backed away.

Tarkin and Vader finally decided to go galactic down this time as the building fleet of Republic ships sitting centered on Galactic up was a bit more than they wanted to fight through. Down was covered by mines and a few ships of the line. Almost like the normal picket at the core boundary. Certainly not as heavily patrolled as the new picket line to the galactic south.

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Life had settled in the Republic. Oh there were border skirmishes and the occasional serious battle but it had been nearly a year since the death stars were seized. Bars had stopped the Potter concerns from accepting the empires fiat currency period, then had them take the value of precious metals or just metals instead. Some core worlds paid for food and sewage haulage in fuel. Deuterium wasn't that hard to produce after all. Well for worlds that had a running reactor of the appropriate type and water no matter how polluted.

Luna was getting close to finishing her project by applying every droid Bars could find to it. Most of the highest intelligence people in the Republic too. Harry stayed far away from that set of holo tanks. The Potter ladies spent considerable time there. Harry worked on thorny problems they brought him that runes might help, and teaching healing. Well playing with kids and the occasional mission with his Padawan or one of the padawans. Leia was a Knight now after all. As was Sabine. Mara was close. Herding Padawan Skywalker slowed her a bit. Leia and Sabine were helping with that though so it was good. Really she was ready for trials.

When he wasn't doing any of that Harry instead sat in the Senate with Aayla. One fine day Mon looked at Harry apologetically before she pushed the button to turn on her signal light. Bail sighed and recognized her. "Thank you Chancellor. The government of Chandrilla has asked what the Dread Lord intends with the millions of humans he has captured in his latest exploits."

Harry grinned "Having them with fava beans and a nice Chianti? Ow! Dang it Aayla, we said no pinching."

The Senate was frozen in terror. Aayla rolled her eyes "They haven't seen that movie Harry and Mon isn't named Clarice."

Harry pouted a moment, then rose "Most of them are clones. Living machines that have one purpose and a finite lifespan. We have folded them into the military where they will fit after examining them and removing some control devices the Sidiot had installed. The devices that led to their mutinies. Or rather the original clone's mutinies. These new ones, the Clone troopers that we have gathered over the years who have survived, have started training but they are, I am told, of inferior stock and will never be as capable as the original clones. They have been briefed and seemed accepting of their parole. Despite some of the things I have seen some of our more ill-educated mouthpieces, erh, propagandist, ow! Reporters write, they have not been conditioned by us in any way except to make them better at their chosen profession. If they prefer they are found other work.

The prison is currently full of their officers and technicians, those that can be rehabilitated are and then take the oaths and join our military. Their services are included in the bill the Senate receives for leasing the military as are the Storm Troopers. The ones that wish other employment are found other work after giving their oaths and being briefed on the monitoring they will be under.

The few we cannot rehabilitate will remain in the prison. They are maintained in strict compliance with the laws of warfare, Senate bill 03A, as enemy prisoners of war. You can see them anytime. I know the ladies aid societies spend a lot of time with the storm trooper units and former empire officers and technicians ensuring they are comfortable and have a good life."

The Senate chuckled for a moment. There were some interesting stories coming out of that development. Human's, especially human males of a certain age were a bit thin in the Republic. Mon nodded "Thank you Dread Lord. That was mainly to get this on the public record as we have your briefing."

Harry frowned "You know that isn't an official title."

The Wookie Senator leapt up and growled and wuffed for a while. Harry put his head in his hands. Aayla smirked at him and half the Senate laughed while the other looked horrified.

Daphne caught him heading for his table outside as the weather was good and laughed at his thunderous scowl "I've told you again and again to think about things and not just blurt them out. Now you are officially the Dread Lord." He growled and Leia poked him.

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Luna finally got the press to shift to something else and Harry gave her a planet full of the strangest animals he could find in thanks later. She shifted the Galaxies attention by firing up DS One, opening a wormhole and sending DS Two completely loaded for exploitation with every surplus droid and lucrehulk, reduced to toy scale, in the Force galaxy that would fit aboard. It was armed with every weapon that could be found besides its giant, planet killing, turbo laser and all the weapons the empire had been building for it. Five hundred droid scouts chased it through followed by a seemingly endless stream of Lucrehulk exploitation hulls and ancillary ships of every description. There was nothing space worthy in the Force galaxy that wasn't actively engaged. DS Two, like DS One, was still being actively worked on as it went. It had a twin of Republic One AI aboard and in control.

The Galaxy was agog. She followed that up with DS One, still being being worked on, and bristling with every other weapon the salvage ships had turned up over the years. It probably didn't need the fleet of, no longer hyperspace capable, salvaged ships she had turned to weapons platforms, she had drug out, armed to the hilt and set to guarding it. Another twin of Republic One AI ran that. Everyone wanted to know what the large caliber tube that glowed an ominous green in testing was. It was a closely guarded secret. Hermione had to have a lie down the first time she saw it. Later she would give Luna a glare over the one on DS two. Luna just smiled. She had her AK cannon. In the worst case Palpy wasn't getting near her worm hole. And if it killed most of the core, well they were all going to die eventually anyway. Luna frowned, she might need to go lay on a sponge.

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Over the next few weeks a constant flow of scouts and lucrehulk collection and processing ships followed as they came off the ways on planets dedicated to producing them for the Milky Way. One Lucrehulk and five scouts an hour.

Harry looked at Luna a month into this and arched a brow. She smiled "The scouts are mapping out our galaxy. They will become the perimeter mines eventually, once the Milky Way is mapped. The collection ships and processing ships are preparing raw materials they find and exploitation hulls turn up and get filled with raw materials, one for every five collector processors. When we find Earth, and after we rebuild it, we will seed the Milky Way with the races and species of earth. The time thing looks to be a one off. Like I said, it was anchored to you somehow, and us. Still not quite sure. The arithmancy got a little complicated."

Yoda frowned "Other races in your Galaxy there must be?"

Luna nodded "Hopefully, but we already have Veela, Humans, Centaurs, Goblins, Unicorns, Merepeople, Dolphins, Whales, Dragons, Pixies, Giants, Vampires, Weres although do they count? Dwarves, Yeti. Lots of other races. There are bound to be empty planets. Harry can Dread Lord those too."

Harry sighed "And if I don't want to?"

Luna waved him off "You won't let them die. We can spread the races from here too. The ones from there to here. Lots of baskets for many eggs. We might need a bigger Senate boat though."

Harry thumped his head on the table. Julia force pushed a rubber pad under his head. Hermione beamed at her.

Bail was a bit pale "Uh, Lady Lovegood that wormhole won't stay open."

Luna waved him off "Deuterium. It's free. Well next to. Harry's runes have been dumping heat to Hoth and Jebble, all kinds of ice planets. Turned them into water worlds with big polar ice caps. I put facilities with portals on them, collect the deuterium to run the reactors, the portals can be, and for DS One and Two, were tied to them. You can summon hydrogen and oxygen from space, burn them together in a gas turbine for electricity and the by product is water. Provides power for the grid and keeps the weight of the planet the same. The astromechs were getting a bit upset about orbital mechanics. There are water and ice worlds in our galaxy as well. Occasionally Earth is one. Thank God for global warming eh? We did some work on those reactors as well. Much more efficient now. About like a Imperial super dreadnought in fuel consumption. There is some work being done that will get us, maybe, one more order of magnitude of efficiency, but then I think we have reached the theoretical limit.

We'll go through once the scouts find Earth and we'll set Fred, Angelina, Neville and Susan up. They are the ones in charge now, well with some others. They have a council like the command council. Send them a few factory ships, some technicians, and an army to start them and they can build more and explore the galaxy. Earth is way out on an arm of our spiral Galaxy. If there is a big galactic civilization we can go, Harry can Dread Lord, and it will be fine."

Mace sighed "Dread Lord." Harry held his hands up palm out.

Yaddie nodded "Master Lovegood is right. More baskets for our eggs we need. I only have a thousand years of fertility left." Yoda blanched and Obi wan fell over laughing. The others chuckled. Yaddie had litters every seven months all with just different enough genetics to safely, uh, do whatever it is her and Yoda's species did. The geneticist were having a field day.

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Fred was at Hogwarts working through the latest problem when the report came in. Thousands of gigantic donuts from space landing near every city and town, disgorging hundreds of robots and starting to rebuild those cities and towns. He went outside and watched one descend on Hogsmeade. He was still gaping when what could only be a UFO landed on the front lawn and a ramp opened as steam obscured his view, then Harry fucking Potter stepped from the steam, Fred's eyes rolled up in his head and he collapsed.

Neville laughed as one of the girls with Harry slapped him on the arm and said "Great work Uncle Harry." Neville looked at Hermione, Harry, Daphne, Luna and Gabrielle and tears streamed down his face as he strode up and hugged them all. Luxa had hover droids running, streaming the Dread Lord going home live to the Republic Holo's. There was hardly a dry eye in the Republic and very little work was getting done.

Lavender Brown stepped out of Hogwarts with a baby on her hip and nodded "About fucking time Potter. I told these idiots you were immortal. No way could the King of a hell plane have killed you. You are a God after all. They wanted to put up a statue."

Harry beamed at her and lifted her and her baby up as more and more beings flowed off the ship and out of the castle. Harry spun them both around and did the same to Seamus, Ron and Anthony. Tears were streaming down his face like Neville. Harry said something, Lavender rolled her eyes and said "English Harry. I know it's been years, but you can do it."

Harry's first audible words on the planet were "I love you guys."

Mon shook her head in the Senate, watching amazed as the transcription to basic scrolled across the bottom of the screen "How the frack does he say the right thing every fracking time."

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Tarkin watched the Republic holo feeds and was silent, waiting on the Emperor to speak. Palpatine nodded. "I never considered he was the Dark Lord from another galaxy. We will have to watch and see what else he comes up with. Tarkin clear the path, Vader launch your attack while Darth Dread is distracted with his home galaxy. Prepare for the attack on Hapes as well."

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Harry was awake in the apartment he had been given in Hogwarts and heard a baby crying. He went to the Nursery and arrived to a smiling Winky diapering a half Zeltron baby boy. She levitated him to Harry and watched as he padded away with his son in his arms.

Harry as was his habit went to the room with the holo tanks and looked at the Away galaxy first. He saw the red highlighted activity in the Chiss Ascendency and nothing but the normal ever growing definition in the Home Galaxy tank. He keyed himself into the Away Galaxy. Gial came up immediately "Day here. Or at least where I am. Vader is leading the attack on the Chiss. Tarkin cleared his exit path sacrificing hundreds of dated ships and tractoring them or the main body of them away before the salvage Lucrehulks could even get close. They are learning. We had some casualties, none among organics, the portkeys as always, but he used a very lightly defended area with no fixed defenses as there are no suitable bodies in the area. Another Z axis attack. Down this time."

Harry nodded and Bail appeared "Harry! I'd ask how you are but every second of your day is transmitted live. Well before you go in that door. Private apartments I gather. Beautiful castle you have there. The Jedi have another channel and their work with Earth is being transmitted too. You need to be careful, well too late now. Did you lose you mind and let Luxa fill one of your trunks with hover droids? She must have ten million of the things up on Earth. The devastation of the demon war is now well known and people and planets are putting together supply and relief ships for Earth. Every planet that has one is sending their Lucrehulk loaded to the gunnels with relief supplies, equipment, beings and droids. You may yet be elected Emperor of the Republic.

Stunningly beautiful planet besides the Demon devastation. We all wish we could have seen it before.

The scouts have not found other evidence of life. Do you think the demons got loose in that galaxy?"

Harry blinked "I don't see how. We didn't have intra galactic travel."

Mace Windu came up "It is odd though. A whole galaxy devoid of sentient life except one planet which had twelve sentient species at least. All wildly different. Some fully aquatic. We will keep working. Master Plo I see you are on. What do you make of the empires operation in Chiss space?" Plo Koon, over his strenuous objections, had been left in charge of the Order in the Force Galaxy, with Depa as his second.

Plo Koon appeared in a holo "Complete disaster for both sides. We've sent, or rather Bars has sent, ships loaded with relief supplies to the Chiss and we are recovering, treating, and rehabilitating empire officers and clones but it is… there are no words really. Gial and the Queen Mothers officers are preparing for the attack on Hapes and the Hutts have reinvigorated their efforts to dislodge the empire forces in their space.

Jocasta is bringing a ship full of archivist to save the learning of Earth. I think she hopes to leave some driods in the major Libraries. The beings running the relief ships hope to use her efforts to rebuild the areas they have picked to the level that they were before the demons.

She said the scouts had seen evidence of former occupation on some planets, so something happened in the Milky Way to eliminate most life. She wants to get to the bottom of it."

Mace nodded "Keep working with the Senate. Stay on top of the Empire. I wouldn't put it past Palpatine to try something with the Dread Lord here. It would take us days to get back."

Bars came up and smiled "Give us six months and the Milky Way fleet would be coming back as well. Worlds everywhere, ore lying on top of the ground. Nearly pure carbon ore everywhere. So much deuterium and rare metals it's astonishing. Now we have a bolt hole from The Force Galaxy if we need it."

Staas Alli appeared "That leads into our new theory. There is so little of the force in the Milky Way galaxy, and tied to the planets as it is, an academician has theorized there was a Force user war that got out of control and both killed most of the population of that galaxy and used up the force in it. The Earth is, according to his theory, an ark, so to speak, the last hope of a dying galaxy."

Harry blinked "We called it coal Bars. Is that even possible Staas?"

Yoda appeared "Much we have to learn about the Force and some of it will be learned in the Milky Way. Fix Earth, the Home of Man, we will and then see to the rest."

Harry snorted "I still don't agree with that theory that man came from this galaxy. It would have taken them thousands of years to travel to the Force galaxy. Ancient Han being so close to ancient Basic notwithstanding. I think that's parallel development."

Yaddie appeared with Yoda "Early morning it is here. To bed your child needs to go Dread Lord. Tomorrow we will have theoretical discussions."

They all smiled bowed and keyed out of the holo tanks. Yaddie was not very forgiving when it came to children and their welfare.

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Hermione looked out at the two hundred and fifty two representatives in the virtual senate space "So it is agreed. The Milky Way will be divided into two hundred and fifty two equal pie shaped slices from the safety zone around the black hole at the center to the edges of the galaxy and a station will be built on the Z axis, galactic up, near the wormhole entrance, within its defenses, to house the Governing body. Each of those sectors will send a representative to the Republic Senate along with a diplomatic mission to include as many consulates as they like and each Republic sector will send a mission and consulates here.

All members of this body are requesting membership in the Republic and any newly found friendly races will be accommodated by shrinking everyone's sectors an equal amount, systems and planets will be held in escrow, unexploited and colonized, to accommodate this until the scouting is complete. The slices will be of equal value as determined by appraisers from the banking clans and the goblins."

The Ragnorok leapt up "And the Milky Way thinking stone!" Hermione acknowledged the Chief of the Clan Chiefs of the Goblin Nation with a nod.

The Republic Senate watched the monitors attentively, language memory crystals were a headache inducing necessity on both sides of the worm hole now, as the light on the Milky Way Chancellors virtual platform lit for a vote and the green bar headed for the right side of its path while the red stayed unlit. It was unanimous and the Milky Way joined the Republic.

The celebration went on for quite some time. Hermione finally called for order and announced, "The Milky Way joining the Republic, I believe it is time to elect a Chancellor for this body."

Natalia Romanovna, Hero of Russia and the Demon war, Mage level magical, second only to Harry Potter in power stood "Harry Potter!"

Harry rose smiling "Nat! Come on, just because I had to run out in Vladivostok! It was a tier two and a full hoard near Pyongyang you know." The Milky Way Senate chuckled. Harry chuckled at the bird he got from Natalia "I respectfully decline. There is in fact a Dark Lord in the Force Galaxy and I will have to finish him. While I might accept a role here, like defender, as I fulfill there, I would have little time between the Sidiot, his minions, and my children to serve. I nominate the Planetary Hero Natalia Romanovna in my stead."

Natalia glared at him as she was elected.

Zara Phillips the surviving Royal Magical in the UK rose "While Nat is trying to kill Harry, I elect him as the Protector of the Milky Way!"

Harry groaned and face palmed while his women laughed at him. He was, of course, elected unanimously. Nat beamed at him and both senates chortled.

Nat took her place, and the Milky Way Senate got down to business hypnotizing, the Force Galaxy Senate. The first order of business was standardizing Galactic Basic and English as the official languages. The Bothans were horrified, along with many others, at the speed with which the Milky Way section of the Senate got business done. There hadn't been a moment of time to even propose the idea of a supreme chancellor. The coalition the Bothans were a main player of had felt this was a chance to get Harry Potter involved more deeply and further tie him to them.

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Afterward Harry sat in a virtual meeting of the combined command council and an officer of the Republic military briefed the operations of the empire and Chiss.

Nat turned to him "You are going soft my Dragon. Why haven't you killed this Dark Lord? Are you going to wait for this one to discover demons too?"

Hermione sat up "We emptied that plane, or galaxy, whichever it was."

Nat huffed "Do you assume that was the only terrible place in the Universe Hermione? The next one could be worse. We should kill this dark Lord and have done. His minions can be rehabilitated and sworn, or rot in prison."

Bars chimed in "A point I have made before Harry."

Yoda sighed "So many humans will die in the attempt, even if successful, we do not know what plans he put in place for his demise. Orders that will be executed by his most loyal."

Chester Gibbs, the American senator and Mage level wizard shook his head "No matter what they won't be worse than what we suffered, and will kill less. There is no way we could evacuate everyone through the worm hole, even with it running one way and minimal spacing between ships. The wards and guard fleets are already taking off his spy vessels.

You all are in a race to find and destroy dark objects and get sponges in place while he races to find the same objects. Nat is right. It's only a matter of time Harry. Let's get a group together, get them trained and we'll take the minions while you take him. We'll get the gang back together and all of us go if nothing else. Twenty eight Mage level witches and Wizards should be enough even for a tier one. Or you know, you make like Major Kong again.

Using him to kill off or lead all the evil humans to their deaths is convenient and all, since we don't have any more demons, but let's not chance it."

The command council looked at Harry with the light finally breaking on a few of them. Mon looked around at the few surprised faces "Really, you should all keep up, and do your reading. It's as plain as the nose on your faces. If Palpatine had been a real threat Harry would never have stayed with us. He would have moved to wherever Palpatine was, destroyed him, and probably the planet he was on. I thought for sure after Harry teleported onto DS One with it in hyperspace you all would have figured it out."

Bannon the senator from Durros who had been brought into the command council chuckled "Not a big percentage hadn't figured it out, but we, that is this group, know Harry best. Imagine how many in the senate, as a whole, have yet to figure it out. What I want to know is the number you are waiting on Harry?"

Harry sighed "I was going to go visit him after Chiss. I worry about the Rakatan though."

Bannon snorted "And that isn't a number. I know you have one."

Harry shrugged "We don't actually, well an estimate, about ten percent of any population cannot be reached by any means, in our experience. Education and useful work, plus strict laws rigorously enforced, will cut it down to that. Well, along with some social engineering that should be baring fruit with the new generations. We are still working through how to get those too young to know better away from him. Gabbi, Arden and Celeste, oh the Jedi and Bothans as well, have put marks on some of the ten percenters they have found, and we are watching or were watching for them to be chewed up. Meanwhile we have several psyop campaigns running in the empire and we have never stopped transporting all comers. As we are the passenger lines it makes it a bit easier to do individual evaluations, and look for the personality markers. The AIs keep up with it all. I guess we could get a number out of them if we had too."

The Ragnorok, Bone Crusher nodded "Give the Stone Brains the markers we know of. Especially the evil magics. Put the star forge back together and put a sponge on it. It will work or the sponge will destroy it. It can build vessels and equipment for the teams. Yes, I think we should go ahead as well. Who knows what a dark lord could find, or create. I think the teams should be made of a member of each Republic species. Let everyone take credit for ending this Dark Lord."

Harry smiled "I like that idea. I have apprentices to train and babies to raise."

Leia snorted "Like the Sidiot has slowed you down any." Roganda looked pointedly at her flat stomach and the others laughed while Leia blushed.

Nat nodded "And you have some more to make Harry."

Hermione rolled her eyes at his groan. Aayla poked him.

AN; The 152 rules in case you have never read them. Google 'Based on Peter Anspach's list'.