Chapter 665: After the Curtain Ends
"I must thank you, and the Darth I've never met. Preggs, he's my grandfather. Without you, I would not have been born. For this, I will give you a chance to surrender, give up resistance now, and hand over the empire. I'm just going to exile you and send you to a place where there's no Force to retire......"
Vader is telling the truth here, he will indeed give Palpatine a chance to live, but only because the expedition is interested in the mechanics of high-level Force users. And he knew that Palpatine would never agree to such a condition.
The expedition team knew very little about the operation of the Force, especially the operation of the body, and although Luke was able to confirm the existence of the fibriloplasma and the basic stimulation process through experiments, it was still impossible to determine why some people had the fibriloplasma in their bodies so active and strong, while others did not.
Even if this is not considered, the specific nature of the Force remains a mystery to them. At present, the expedition team has only confirmed through experiments that the source of the Force stored in the bodies of the Force warriors is cosmic background radiation, but it is not possible to define the basic nature of the Force into which it is transformed.
Because the essence of the Force is obviously something closer to the "primordial force" in high-energy physics, it is not within the scope of the four fundamental forces of classical physics. Only when released by the user will the Force transform into one or more of the four basic forces, affecting the real world.
When not released and collected, the Force is completely non-existent and completely undetectable by the instrument. Neither Luke nor Vader could determine whether they had the Force in their bodies through instruments after leaving the Star Wars position, and even the fibroplasma in their bodies would be less active due to detachment from the Force.
However, this did not mean that they could not study how the Force works, and a small number of fibroplasms appeared in some of the mutated alien biological samples collected by the Master Chief earlier, indicating that it is feasible to transplant the Force, or at least its carrier fibroplasma, into other organisms.
Although the expedition team is not very optimistic about the possibility of the Force reappearing in a plane other than the Star Wars plane, this is not something impossible to achieve after all, and the practicality of the Force does have value in continuing to study.
And Vida's aforementioned words of thanks are no joke. According to the information provided to him by the expedition, his own birth was a byproduct of a "failed" experiment by Palpatine and his mentor many years ago.
At that time, Palpatine's mentor, Preggs, concentrated all his power to create a Force wave of unprecedented proportion, indirectly affecting all living beings across the galaxy. The purpose of that experiment was to create a pure Force creature to serve as a vehicle for his own soul.
However, since neither of them was aware that anything had been created during the experiment, the experiment was deemed a failure. But in reality, the experiment was an unprecedented success, and the result was Anakin himself, a "Chosen Child" born entirely from the disturbance of the Force!
It's because of this experiment. His mother will be bizarrely conceived and give birth to him. In this causal sense, he does need to thank Palpatine and his master for the "failed" experiment many years ago.
Of course, as the prophesied savior, his actual experience is not as glamorous as that of the heroes in the legends. It was only now, when he confronted the emperor face to face, that he could be regarded as ushering in his chance to reach the top.
Of course, in the emperor's opinion, Vader's purpose in saying these words was not very simple. In his opinion. Vader was so open-minded just to capture herself alive. Since Vader had not understood the art of rebirth, he knew that he could not be completely defeated, so he would persuade him to surrender.
"That's right, I can't beat you alone, but surrender is really stupid!" If you can't change your skin, you will fight again, and see who can hold out to the end. The emperor complained in his heart. Of course, he wouldn't show weakness so easily. After thinking about this, he quickly decided what to do next.
"You think this will make it easy to take away my empire?" You're not qualified enough! The Emperor suddenly showed great confidence, and then casually unleashed a long chain of lightning bolts. The lightning bolt was very thick. The voltage is high enough to instantly burn an ordinary person into a ball of coke.
Vader raised his lightsaber as if he had expected it, using the Force to concentrate the lightning power on the lightsaber as much as possible and carefully transfer it to the ground beneath his feet. Because he is no longer dragged down by a mechanical limb. So he didn't have a hard time doing this, and he could still parry the emperor's big move while holding a lightsaber and moving forward steadily.
The Emperor also frowned and increased the output of lightning, shouting "power" to release bucket-thick lightning bolts to Vader's side, showing a posture of fighting to the end. However, just as the Great approached about 10 meters beside him, ready to fight back with his own amplified moves, the emperor suddenly accepted the move without hesitation, and with the help of Vader's amplified moves, he dragged his body with the Force to speed up and escape.
It turned out that the look he showed just now was just a show. In fact, he was luring Vader into using the same ultimate, so that he could give himself a chance to escape. As long as he dragged Vader for a few seconds, he had a chance to escape.
Advanced Force skills usually take a few seconds to prepare before they can be released, so overall he was right. However, he and Vader were not the only ones at the scene, when the Emperor tried to escape. Marek dutifully rushed up to stop him.
"You don't have a place to run today, either face me or face him!" Marek taunted the Emperor while holding his lightsaber, and before the Emperor could come up with anything to coerce him into getting out of the way, Vader's ultimate was ready.
Seeing Vader's gesture, Marek hurriedly dodged to get out of the way, and then a dense burst of huge lightning balls rushed towards the emperor's head as if they had eyes, and they really exploded like five thunderbolts.
The sound and light effects of the explosion were so great that the shaking was as violent as an earthquake, and in a few blows it flattened the sturdy hall several stories high. A group of large holes more than ten meters deep were also blown out of the floor of the explosion center.
Although the emperor at the center of the explosion was not killed by the lightning ball or crushed by the collapsed building materials, his clothes were widely damaged, and people were also injured by the explosion, and he was lying on a pile of rubble vomiting blood.
"It's not Force Lightning. The Emperor said as he vomited blood, as if accusing Vader of cheating.
"That's right, it's not the kind you use, this lightning uses the Force of the Light Side, and it's perfect for your final battle!" Vader said as he walked over unhurriedly, with obvious caution.
He knew that the emperor still had the strength to fight, and it was likely that he was just pretending to be exhausted by lying on the ground like this. It was this trick that the Emperor had the opportunity to fight back, and he would not make the same mistake.
Sure enough, after Vader got close enough, the emperor reluctantly climbed up from the rubble. He wanted to show weakness and let Vader rush straight over, so that he still had a slight chance of counterattacking and winning, but now it seems that Vader's preparation is too good for his own tricks to deceive him.
"You have to think about what you're doing, my apprentice, killing me doesn't mean it's over. The governors of the major districts will not simply surrender to you, especially after my resurrection! I'm the only person in this galaxy who knows how to resurrect, and you can't beat me. ”
The Emperor held his lightsaber and carefully warned Vader not to keep closer, because he didn't have much of the Force he had left, and it was absolutely impossible to win if he continued to fight like this.
"I don't need the allegiance of the governors, all I need is the shell of this empire. And this battle is your end, and you might as well take this opportunity to think about your last words. Vader was not intimidated by him and rushed up to continue the attack, and the Emperor could only parry his attack with all his might.
However, just as the Emperor himself had expected, his Force reserves were quickly depleted by Vader's depletion, and Vader still had the strength to continue to strengthen the offensive! Finally, he couldn't hold it anymore and was knocked away by Vader's move and fell to the ground.
This time, he was really out of strength, and he completely gave up the idea of winning this duel or running away. He took one last look at the sky before Vader approached to deliver the final blow, wanting to make a memory, after all, God knows when he will return to Coruscant when he is resurrected.
However, when he looked closely at the sky, he saw a huge battleship that he had not expected. If you take a closer look, it's your secret weapon, the Eclipse! "What's going on...?" The emperor barely managed to prop up his weakened body, as if he had something else to say.
But Vader didn't give him a chance to ask any more questions, and as soon as he approached, he swung his sword and cut off the emperor's head in a flash. It's as neat as it has been rehearsed thousands of times. In this way, the Emperor's ghost broke away from his body in a moment of confusion and automatically transferred to a body in a clone factory on his planetary base.
And where he had just severed his head, Vader put away his lightsaber and sighed. "It's over, the emperor is dead, now you can decide!" He said with his back to Marek, as if there was some special pact between them.
But Marek was stopped by his question, and froze in place, still holding his two lightsabers in his hands, looking nervous, as if he was about to raise his sword and slash at Vader in the next moment. (To be continued......)
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