Time Skip

2 years Later (8 years until clone wars)

Its been two years for John and his Empire and since then he has expanded into the outer rim conquering most of the planets. His empire has earned a reputation in the Galaxy and has established itself as a superpower in the eyes of the other factions.

When John established his Empire two years ago he only had a couple hundred thousand soldiers a million droids and a small fleet of 200+ ships while now he has 45 million droids, 7.3 million clones, a fleet of over 10k ships which were mostly the Harrower class dreadnoughts, a small number of Lucerhulks used to carry large amounts of droids, and the rest were The Mando Warship which was modeled after the Republic Venator.

The Harrower dreadnought was produced through the use of the Star Forge which was built a year ago. But before they were built John had the engineers and scientists come up with a way to decrease energy consumption and make any changes or design flaws that could make it the perfect warship.

After 2 months of failed designs and experiments, a model was produced which decreased energy consumption and increased the size of the ship from 800 meters to 1000 meters which allow it to carry more fighters, shuttles, bombers, droids, crew, and soldiers. So John produced more than 7k Harrower dreadnought while also making other ships so his fleets can be versatile.

John also had stopped production of clones for now because the cloning labs were running into problems with some clones becoming defective. The cause of this was that the DNA samples were getting old and needed to be replaced by new Samples so John put the production of clones on hold for now until the problem gets fixed.

New Armor was also made that improved durability and protection while also allowing flexibility in combat. The suit was black with purple lining all over the suit. (Image in paragraph comments)

The number of planets under John's control increased how many people were in his empire which numbered in the billions making him a true contender to any other faction although the Republic had about 2 trillion people in all which was a crazy amount.

John had also told Padme about a possible marriage between them making her shocked but also happy because lately she has been having dreams and thoughts of her and John together and now that it was actually going to happen she was happy so she accepted the proposal and would get married soon.

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Lately conflict with the Hutt clan has increased as most bounty hunters that went after John was defeated and never seen again which made other bounty hunters wary and stop going after John though there were a few who were stupid enough to still try and ended up regretting it.

So in response, Jabba and the other members of the Grand Hutt Council had all agreed to view the New Order as an enemy and have paid many pirates and smugglers to cause problems in New Order Planets.

Although the smugglers and pirates failed many times causing John to dismiss them as a threat they had succeeded after two years in capturing some civilians, destroying imperial property, and acts of terrorism on an outer rim planet.

In response, John had already planned to wage a war against The Hutt clan in response to their actions. He had some of his fleet admirals who were clones to start by disrupting trade routes in Hutt territory, then in a few months, they would start to invade Hutt controlled planets and rid them of slavery and corruption and establish order.

Word of tensions rising between the newly established New Order and the Hutt clan had reached the Galaxy and the Republic. So the republic sent some Jedi to negotiate and try to ease tensions but the Jedi were unsuccessful in convincing John to withdraw his forces.

Palpatine then came up with an idea to increase tensions between the two so that when he takes over the Republic and establishes his Empire he can conquer those systems with ease.

But what he didn't know was that John had spies planted all over the Republic and in the Senate which was easy due to all the corruption. He even managed to convince some planets to withdraw from the republic and Join him. The planets had refused but John knew that would all change once the Clone wars kicked off.

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The Dragon Guard that John was training was coming along well as most of the students had learned to balance the force while a few were still learning to control their emotions but instead of casting them out, John would give them some time to control their emotions and sometimes help them.

From the original 15 students, John now had 200 students which was a lot and caused him to send all of his force guards to train the students. But what surprised him the most was the number of Force-Sensitive students that were hidden in the outer rim territories.

Since the Force Guards were preoccupied with training younglings John made a Royal Guard unit which was made up of clones who proved to be the best of the best. They were equipped with a new experimental armor that was Dark in color and had a personal shield and a handheld shield that could be activated. (For Image look at paragraph comment)

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John was sitting in his base looking over some reports of the Empire's financial situation which was pretty good, and the food situation was enough for billions of people so he can feed his troops when they go to war.

He was also looking at the many construction projects he had going on which would allow him to defend his territory while his space stations can fend off any attacks and if they break through most planets already had planetary assault guns that would shoot any ships in orbit. He also would leave 2k ships for defense so he wasn't worried about his planet's safety.