V.2-C.62│The Great Clone Vanishing II│

What Anakin wanted to do with the clones were to have them come back with him to the Empyrean, further destabilizing the Republic. At this point there was no turning back and Anakin needed or more like wanted to make sure that Palpatine wasn't going to have an easy time.

It would take some time, and would take some careful planning as well, but they should be able to siphon their manpower away.

Sidious would no doubt be upset, but it would be something Anakin would do within the shadows, to make sure he doesn't expose himself too early. He has many plans, and he knows for sure some massive splintering will happen within the Republic as a result of his shenanigan's.

Anakin knew all too well the aftereffects of an empire or republic, or any government type burning and collapsing. He had played alot of CK2 after all.

Besides that, there was a point to be made and Anakin wanted to make sure the people throughout the galaxy knew of this point. He may not be the best person in the world, the galaxy, whatever or wherever else he may be at any point of time, but he knows he isn't the absolute worst either.

Which is a good thing.

Who said flaws are actually flaws when they could very well be what makes something perfect, or beautiful. Without the existence of flaws, there would be no concept of perfection, without light there would be no dark.

It is as simple as that.

"Emperor, here are the reports." Someone handed him some papers, documents that shouldn't be uploaded to the cloud of the Empyrean's virtual network.

There are just some things that would be best left to his eyes, and his eyes alone. Of course if there was something that was uploaded that was somehow dangerous or in someway compromised the security of the Empyrean, obviously it would be deleted.

"Good. You may leave." The agent left back to do his work as Anakin looked over these documents. Documents that were for the project he was working on, specifically the project of taking away the clones from the Republic.

Thinking about many of the aspects within the current Empyrean, and many of the aspects of various other organizations and galactic powerhouses, Anakin needs to be careful about what he does.

He worries about the health of his citizens, the well being of people even outside of the Empyrean once he starts to rock the boat even more than he already has. How many people would die because he wanted to make sure no one would die.

You heard that right.

In an effort to save people, one could inadvertently also be the cause of their deaths as well. There is consequences to ones actions, and with his great power, there are also responsibilities that he would have to assume as a result.

Dathomir was already beginning its first phases of becoming a part of the Empyrean, where some people have decided to move themselves to there. It was a quick and easy process because Anakin had set up a Stargate connecting Dathomir to the various Stargates on every system that was a part of the Empyrean.

Talzin, well, what would he do with Talzin? She didn't seem to be doing anything other than governing her people well. In fact, it was great for Anakin as he had one less thing to worry about.

There are many, many things that Anakin was interested in, but having to also look after the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers of Dathomir would surely be a hassle. He may have made an impact there, but that didn't mean anything in the long, long run.

Their society would most likely follow that same idea of a female being on top of their society. No, he had checked and used whatever connections he had to see right into the future.

They would continue this trend, even after having more respect for the males of their species and even males of other species as well. If was not something he could just wish away.

He did however have someone here, that while he knows wont become a lover of his in the future, she could be used in another aspect. It may seem strange, but Anakin was going to have Merrin, now that she was betrothed to him and make her become the new leader of the people on Dathomir.

Why not? There are many factors as to why, as this would make it easier on his conscious for having the poor girl around him. He didn't want her, even if she would grow to become interested, simply because he knew that she wouldn't form a Dyad with him.

Age mattered as well, but with time age passes, as just with Ahsoka, he would probably crumble to the fate of also making her his. Not Merrin however, even with him knowing it was a slim possibility or chance of happening.

Another thing to think about was what Anakin would do to balance him trying to take away the clones from the Republic and the only thing he could think about on this topic is he would have to do two things.

The first thing was to initiate a trade deal between the Empyrean and the Republic so he would start sending them droids, which would in turn allow him to get an in on Palpatine. It was basically doing an UNO reverse card, by instead having the clones turn on the Jedi, he would instead have the droids turn on Sidious.

Doing so would be a great way to see him crumble, but obviously Sidious would foresee something like this, not because he would actually see it coming, but because he was a very conniving and scheming individual.

There was no way he would let the Empyrean made droids get close enough to him like that, even if he got a personal one from one of the Empyrean's or more specifically from Skywalker Industries designs, he would still be against it.

He is way too well aware of his position, and how tedious it is to fend off against assassination attempts, even ones forged by himself to go against himself.

That is right, Sidious is crazy enough to have trained professionals even go after his own life. He is obviously playing the long game and it was paying off.

Anyway, Anakin needed to do something against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. If he didn't then it wouldn't be, even with Anakin wanting to supply them with droids, whilst taking the Republic for everything its got, fair.

It would not align itself with the idea of balance, something that he was constantly trying to maintain himself, not that it isn't his normal state of being. No, the way he worked was that he would spiritually and physically be resist to neutral, or a balanced state and would sway from side to side alot of the time.

It was a biological and spiritual thing that he had done to himself.

That is the consequence of messing with his mind, body and soul, kind of making sure that he is kind of done for. Not that he is. It is just that it is something extremely annoying to deal with, because he needed to keep these two sides of himself balanced.

Anakin had no idea what he could do to even the playing field, if only as a temporary solution before be is able to take away all of the clones, and simultaneously after that supply the Republic with droids of his own.

'Maybe something would show up soon to tell me what I should do. For now, patience would be key to what happens next, as Sidious is able to play the long game, then I too should play it as well.' Anakin thought to himself as he went back to looking over somethings.

He really wouldn't be here if anyone else was available.

he would much rather spend some time with loved ones then just sitting around all day, on this throne... Thankfully he doesn't have to always spend his time here and could go and do something else with anyone else that wanted to do something.

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Rex didn't know what to say or feel as of this moment, except he was feeling...

Well, he was feeling really, really good as the clones, his brothers that were in arms, now living peacefully were brought to the Empyrean safely. He was given a rather important task, and so was the rest of the 501st legion, that couldn't really at this point be considered warriors anymore as they had gotten used to sedentary life.

Rex means, how could they not?

This place was amazing no matter how critical he wanted to be or somehow compare it to the Republic. There was just too much going for it, making him see the Jedi and the Republic, not exactly in a negative light but perhaps in a manner that suggested there was more that what meets the eye.

Anakin had been trying to guide him down a path that suited his skills, which surprisingly enough had him being a leader. Ok, maybe that isn't all that surprising because he is a leader and has already shown these talents to others that made him be promoted to his current position.

'Wait... Do I even have the position of commander anymore?' It was questionable if Rex did still hold that position, as officially he really doesn't. His 'supposed' death coming in to mess things up, not that it really got in the way of anything he did or got in the way of any of the other clones as well.

While Rex was thinking of many other things, the clones that were being introduced to their new situation was being addressed throughout the facility.

Anakin had put in the work and had been secretly brining over clones, as much of them as he could to ensure the maximum amount of life is saved, while at the same time making sure the clones also get rid of their chips within their heads.

They were brought to the 501st legion in particular so that they could explain to them what was going on. A familiar face, one that is in fact their own staring back at them would do well in this situation and that was why Anakin wanted Rex to be the main face for what he wanted to do.

There was no way they would trust the words of a stranger, meaning himself so readily, and would instead be much more at home and feel safer once knowing that there are others like them that believe in and trust in him.

The only reason he was able to pull his heist off with the 501st was because he knew of their positioning in the battle that he had gotten them from. Taking that into account along with his ability to see a bit into the future basically enabled him no flaws in his planning here.

He could have also always just brainwashed them all and it wouldn't have been for negative purposes and instead just make them more malleable to his words. Anakin believed this was a dark path however and should be treaded lightly and instead he believed in his own ability to convince or charm others into believing him.

It worked on alot of other people, how could it also not work here as well?

"Excuse me sir, but, um..." A voice was heard as Rex turned around to face someone he had meet recently and got along quite well with this clone trooper from another squadron.

"Don't mind me. We are all brother here, and in fact we were all brothers out there as well." Rex says the last past with some reminisce, because Anakin wasn't able to save everyone after all.

There was only so much he could do to prevent death, but that was just it. He wasn't a god, at least not yet he wasn't.

"R-right." The other clone rubs the back of his head nervously. "By the way sir, I think you can just call me fives." The now identified person known as Fives said.

"Fives? Five is a number isn't it?" Rex questioned.

"No, not five. Fives." Fives said.

"Oh! How stupid of me. My apologizes. So your name is Fives, eh?" Rex should of seen that coming, what with the rather unique and strange bunch of people he was surrounded with. He was practically surrounded by himself, his face, his eyes, his nose...

Sometimes Rex wondered what it would have been like to look different what how he did now, not that he wanted to, but it would have been something to compare himself and the clones to.

"Yeah." Fives was no longer nervously rubbing the back of his head and instead wanting to ask another question. "By the way..."

"You want to know more about what is going on here, dont you?" Rex had heard of people requesting him to speak more to them multiple times already. He was used to it now, because he would always give a big announcement so that the others had an idea of what was going on or happening.

What Rex was truly surprised about was how no one wanted to actually leave, as he assumed there would be at least one person willing go once the option was given.

What Rex didn't know was this was the trap.

Psychologically, Anakin gave people the option to leave so that they would hesitate to go immediately. In fact it even worked better for the droids because they had no command or someone to go towards for instructions.

They were made that way after all and if he gave them the two options they would be hesitant in taking the one that seemed like the most dangerous. Especially when they were told it could end in the end of their lives.

While they may be clones, supposedly afraid of death, Anakin knew otherwise and that every creature, all of them living had a subconscious desire to still breath.

Clones were being brought in, first within the 10's then that started to escalate into the hundreds and sooner or later, Anakin would start to try and up this scale to the thousands. By that point he should have made enough progress in crippling Sidious from being able to make able moves at all, in regards to the clones.

"Yeah, I kind of do want to know." Fives said.

"You and everyone else here. But dont worry as I will be explaining everything shortly." Rex replied.

"What does that mean? So you do know what is going on?"

"Yes and no. Just wait for the explanation and for everyone else to be ready, ok? You are a bit impatient, aren't you." Rex said in jest and Fives just laughed along with him. It was like they were good old friends already.

Clones had that sort of connection.

It was something strange but it made sense to Anakin why it was like this. They are clones after all and come from the same person, basically making them all brothers and all near genetically the same as well.

"Come on, I'll take you to get some grub." Rex said, leading the way.

"I could make some use of some food right now." Fives replied as he followed after Rex.