While the expedition was busy organizing its own people to carry out an unprecedented raid, Vader's fleet was cautiously passing through one jump after another, little by little, approaching Coruscant, the heart of the Empire. The main goal of the expedition has been achieved, and the celebration can now be carried out, but Vader still has a short but torturous wait before his harvest day.

In order to relieve his mental stress and cheer up his subordinates, he would take a shuttle to board other warships in the fleet during his recuperation period, and communicate with ordinary soldiers to learn about the latest developments at the grassroots level.

He hadn't done anything like this in years, and the soldiers he commanded were so concerned about during the Clone Wars. So at the beginning, his way of communicating was a little rusty, but the many times he practiced these days has made a lot of progress.

Vader has even taken off his helmet during his last few rounds to show himself as he is, even directly revealing his identity before becoming Darth Vader. This is not for show, but so that his descendants can recognize their true colors under the mask.

After killing the emperor, he should be able to get rid of his mask soon, and since his previous image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, then he must make some preparations in advance, experiment with a small range of disclosure of his past, and see how everyone reacts.

To put it simply, he was taking the opportunity to experiment to see if people on the outside could accept him back to his former identity. After all, Anakin. There is a huge difference between the identities of Skywalker and Vader.

The outside world has long forgotten the heroes of the Clone Wars, Anakin and Skywalker, but the entire galaxy knows and fears Vader. By burying Vida's identity, he also threatens to lose the authority he has accumulated over the past 20 years.

But his concerns were dispelled by the encounters he had with the soldiers these days, who didn't seem to care who he used to be. For these people, he is just the black knight who always leads them to victory with clear rewards and punishments.

The reason why these soldiers were able to accept Vader to lead them to rebel so quickly was not that they were born rebels, and not that everyone hated the Emperor or even the Empire so much. After all, the media under the control of the empire portrayed the emperor as an image of diligence and love for the people.

The soldiers agreed to rebel for a number of deeper reasons, first of all, the corruption and inefficiency of the Galactic Empire was not only known and hated by those outside the system, but also by those at the bottom of the system.

Although the Emperor himself was not the object of their general hatred, there were high-ranking officials in each sector that were hated by the soldiers. Many of them are very corrupt and have no professional skills. This problem is especially acute within the military.

Because the emperor will only promote his own cronies to become high-ranking officials in the army. And because of the lack of ability and extreme greed of these cronies, the soldiers under their command always find themselves deprived of their salaries or the weapons and supplies they use have been hacked by their superiors.

Furthermore, many high-ranking officials even regarded the soldiers as their own private property, and arbitrarily instructed and discarded them. And the most unacceptable thing for the soldiers is that their own channels of ascent are deliberately blocked by these old and new nobles.

Originally, according to the laws of the empire and the system of the army, veterans of any rank and background could exchange their excellent performance in the army for further study in military academies and even military merits step by step, but the corrupt bureaucratic system made these regulations a dead letter.

Capable soldiers in the Imperial Army were systematically suppressed, and no matter how good their training results and even their combat achievements were, they would be replaced by their superiors' connections. This is very similar to a certain large country on the main plane.

Obviously. No one in any profession would like to let someone else claim the fruits of their work, so the professional soldiers of the major military regions have only two choices, either to retire from the army and leave this rotten army that has no place of their own, or to find a way to transfer to Vader's task force.

Although Vader's unkindness is widely known, his rewards and punishments are also known to all. Vader doesn't care about the origin, gender, or ethnicity of his subordinates, and only demands excellent work ability. As long as he works under him, he will be rewarded for his merit as long as he carries out the orders he has received. Did it fail? Naturally, I just resigned myself to fate and saw if the lord was in the mood to give you a Force neck.

For professional soldiers. This is not an unacceptable risk. On the contrary, the distinction between rewards and punishments is an opportunity for many professional soldiers to prove their worth. Many professional soldiers are counting on a few years of military merit here in Vida before being transferred to another place as an officer or honorably discharged. It is precisely because of this that Vader's fleet is filled with the best professional soldiers of the Empire.

This is also why some officers will calmly die after failing the mission, knowing that Vader will kill him. Because they know that no matter what Vader does with him, his honor and various pensions will reach his family safely, without worrying about being coveted like in other military regions. Sacrifice your life in vain.

Vader was widely embraced by his soldiers for his only merit, and some of his soldiers had long wondered what it would be like if he had ruled the empire instead of Palpatine, and now their wait seemed to have paid off.

The lord claimed to lead them to overthrow the corrupt rule of the emperor. Build a stronger, fairer empire. Abolish existing bad rules and injustices. This goal, or slogan, hits the heart of most people.

As the saying goes, a soldier who is unwilling to be a general is not a good soldier. This fleet, which has the best soldiers in the empire, naturally has many people who want to stay in the army for the rest of their lives. Now they have such an opportunity to realize their dreams and rise to prominence in the process. This naturally sparked their interest and competitiveness.

Some of them are just expecting the reward promised by Vader, many more see it as a channel for their own ascension, and some people really believe that the Lord can completely change the existing unjust society, and only a few are pessimistic about their actions.

This also shows how little the average military of the Empire knows about the Force Warriors, and if they knew how powerful the Emperor himself was about the Force Secret Arts, then many of them would probably not be so optimistic.

Of course, for whatever reason, after making sure that his soldiers were reliable, the largest stone in Vida's line was lowered. Although the attitude of some of the officers has always been very fluctuating, as long as there are no major problems in the morale of the military at the grassroots level, the great is confident that everyone will act according to the plan, except for one person!

"It's time to discuss our cooperation plan, at the current rate, in 5 to 7 days, the fleet will reach the imperial capital." Vader said to Marek, who had just walked out the door, outside his sterile cabin.

Marek spends most of the day waiting for his wife and children, and although he agrees to follow him all the way to the end after being persuaded by his senior sister, he still takes a uncooperative attitude towards Vader.

In the past few days, Vader had approached him several times to ask for cooperation training, so that the two could cooperate to the greatest extent possible when assassinating the emperor. But Marek did not agree to his request, and only asked mockingly, "Can't you deal with him yourself?" ”

This has a double meaning, 2 years ago he had defeated the then Vader and the Emperor respectively on the unfinished Death Star One, Vader lost the duel because he was dragged down by the mechanical limbs, but the Emperor was defeated by him in a full state with a dozen moves.

Therefore, Marek believes that the Emperor is no match for Vader or even himself in terms of Force reserves and martial arts alone. Judging from Vader's current state, it is almost easy to overturn the emperor, and it makes little difference whether he cooperates or not.

Of course, he didn't know that the emperor had released water in that fight with him, and he pretended to be defeated by him just to better see his inner nature. If he had chosen not to fight the Emperor immediately, but to hesitate and then reflexively slash him, then he would have been killed by the Emperor with a big move from the Emperor who had just defeated Vader and whose Force reserves were at a low point.

Of course, those are only ifs after all, and the reality is that his body would have died in that battle a long time ago. As a clone, he feared a repeat of the last time he was in the same room with Vader and the Emperor.

Vader's change is only superficial to him, and in his heart, he still suspects that Vader is just a different story to pit himself. That's why he's so resistant to training with Vader. Once the training is carried out, his strengths and weaknesses will be revealed in front of Vader.

And Marek, who has suffered many losses, has already learned to hide clumsy, and he has been tricked by Vader several times, he understands that he can never leak all his strength, especially in front of Vader, he still has his own plans for this rebellion......

"It's your choice, I'm not going to force you. But I must warn you that the Emperor is much more powerful than he seems, and that the last time you defeated him was just an illusion. If you want to save your life in this showdown with him, you'll have to be prepared. Vader gave this warning after seeing that Marek was still so stubbornly refusing him, and then he left the other party's sight and went to the training room alone to contact him with peace of mind.

Ever since he had been healed by the expedition, he had felt the Force around him come alive again, especially the Force on the bright side. As the son of the prophesied Force, his physique was originally very suitable for the combined cultivation of the Light and Dark Force.

But before that, due to the restrictions of the Jedi Order, he had not been exposed to the Dark Force when he was a child, and later after becoming Vader, due to the torture of illness, he could only abandon the cultivation of the light side and focus on using the Dark Force to suppress the pain of the whole body. (To be continued......)